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amid

/uh-mid/US // əˈmɪd //UK // (əˈmɪd) //

在其中,在其中的,处于

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Definitions

prep.介词 preposition
  1. 1
    • : in the middle of; surrounded by; among: to stand weeping amid the ruins.
    • : during; in or throughout the course of.

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Examples

  • Even those Christians who do want to minister amid the rancor of race and policing are missing the mark.

  • Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione asked residents to remain calm, amid fears of unrest.

  • His deficiencies and self-doubts, amid his epochal mission of liberation, are precisely what make him interesting.

  • It may be that some hagiographer yet to come will find the stained sheets of fact and memory amid his papers.

  • A white police officer standing amid the crowd inside the barricade got his laughs a moment later.

  • The night passed amid various excursions on the part of Aristide and alarms on the part of Jean.

  • In the aperture of the window, amid piles of paper, stood a rickety old table, covered with dust.

  • His steps led him now not to the beach, but to the Cemetery of Rocklington, amid the potato-fields.

  • Dressed in full uniform, amid cries of "Long live our King Joachim," the unfortunate man landed with twenty-six followers.

  • There, amid the deep silence of the listening centuries, he would find peace; forgetting himself a moment, he might find—strength.