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mid-victorian

/mid-vik-tawr-ee-uhn, -tohr-/US // ˈmɪd vɪkˈtɔr i ən, -ˈtoʊr- //

维多利亚时代中期,中维多利亚时代,维多利亚中期,中世纪

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of, relating to, or characteristic of the middle portion of the reign of Queen Victoria in England: mid-Victorian writers.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person, as a writer, belonging to the mid-Victorian time.
    • : a person of mid-Victorian tastes, standards, ideas, etc.

Examples

  • In the mid-afternoon, Ramos and Liu were parked on Tomkins Avenue on a meal break.

  • But with the outbreak of hostilities in mid-2011, all festivities were thrust into the deep freeze.

  • Think of the embarrassing subway platform or mid-office “adjustment” debacles you could avoid!

  • The Industrial Revolution and Victorian practically erased the holiday in England.

  • And Asians also showed a shift toward the GOP in the mid-terms.

  • We had now approached closely to the foot of the mountain-ranges, and their lofty summits were high above us in mid-air.

  • So they often occured mid-paragraph; here they have been moved to a more appropriate place.

  • Monsieur Farival thought that Victor should have been taken out in mid-ocean in his earliest youth and drowned.

  • While she flitted into the next room to fetch a stamp, Mrs. Haughstone, her needles arrested in mid-air, looked steadily at Tom.

  • It was a room without beauty, merely walls, repapered once every twenty years, and furniture of the mid-Victorian era.