单词 | midstream |
释义 | mid·stream /ˌmɪdˈstriːm◂/ noun [uncountable] 1 in midstream when something has started and is still happening 在进行中,在中途 They had to drop the experiment in midstream. 他们不得不中途放弃实验。 He interrupted the official in midstream (=while the official was still speaking). 他中途打断了官员的话。2 the middle part of a river 中流,河流中心in midstream The boat had anchored in midstream. 船在河中心抛锚了。 —midstream adverbExamples from the Corpusmidstream• From midstream he sent her a sweet, desperate smile.• He took Deianira on his back and in midstream insulted her.• The paper claimed that most businessmen believed that it was a bad idea to change horses in midstream.• Another group felt that it was inadvisable to change horses in midstream.• Why not use some of that money to get started with a low dam-and then switch horses in midstream?• With a shriek from her whistle, the little craft swung out into midstream and shot into the rapids under the bridge.mid·stream nounChineseSyllable when Corpus is started something happening still has and |
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