【amongst】 - AEAS备考词汇

amongst

UK:  [ə'mʌŋst]

US:  [ə'mʌŋst]

prep.

1.在...之中

1 . Body piercing is something of a modern fad amongst youngsters (and some oldsters).
身体穿孔艺术在年轻人中间（甚至对个别年长人来说）都是时尚前卫的流行元素。

2 . Sheep Head, Morocco. After it has been sitting in the open amongst the flies all day, bring it home and boil it up into a soup.
产自摩洛哥，把放在外面一整天、围满苍蝇的羊头带回家煮汤，然后……

3 . The bum first led me to a table and asked me to sit down and wait for a moment while he looked for something special amongst the shelves.
老流浪汉先领我走到一张桌子前，请我坐下稍等片刻，他则到一排排的书架上去翻找那些特别的东西。

4 . Needless to say, the mortality rate amongst derro children is quite high with only one out of every three children surviving to adulthood.
不用说，迪洛矮人小孩的死亡率非常高，每三个只有一个有幸活到成年。

5 . Once upon a time there was a frog called Mr. Jeremy Fisher; he lived in a little damp house amongst the buttercups at the edge of a pond.
从前有位青蛙先生，他叫杰里米·费希尔，住在池塘边毛茛之间一个潮湿的小房子里。