One way to picture it: you are standing in the middle of a crowd — things are not beside you or behind you, they are all around you on every side, and you are inside that mass rather than looking at it from outside.
From the word’s history
Old English on middan — literally 'on the middle' — a- (on) plus mid (middle); the modern word still carries that 'in the middle of, surrounded' picture.
這個字拆開來就是 a-(on,在…上)+ mid(middle,中間),古英語 on middan 字面就是「在中間」。所以現代 amid 一路帶著「在正中央、被圍住」的畫面,並不是後來才有的比喻——它從一開始講的就是位置上的「在…當中」。
Middle English amidde, Old English on middan (a- + mid), as given in the entry's attested origin note.
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原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
amidprep詞源 1/əˈmɪd/
- 1
In the middle of; in the center of; surrounded by.
- a small lake amid the hills
- I sat down amid roars of laughter.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:
- amide
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary,已精簡格式;依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用,改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。