betwixt

英 [bɪˈtwɪkst]

美 [bɪˈtwɪkst]

adv./prep.  在…之间(或中间)

BNC.36026 / COCA.32687

习惯用语

prep.

betwixt and between
• 居中；非此非彼
  in a middle position; neither one thing nor the other

牛津词典

adv.

prep.

• 在…之间（或中间）
  between

英英释义

adv

• in the interval
  1. dancing all the dances with little rest between
  Synonym:between

双语例句

• We can't decide whether to go to France or Austria for our holiday this year. we're still a bit betwixt and between.
  我们决定不下今年度假去法国还是奥地利，仍有点犹豫不定。
• It's difficult buying clothes for ten year olds, at that age they're betwixt and between.
  很难给十岁的孩子买衣服，这种年龄说大不大，说小又不小。
• The difference betwixt these consists in the degrees of force and liveliness, with which they strike upon the mind, and make their way into our thought or consciousness.
  二者的区别在于：它们撞击我们的心灵，进入我们的思想或意识时，它们的强烈程度和活力程度不同。
• My beloved is unto me [ as] a bundle of myrrh, That lieth betwixt my breasts.
  我以我的良人为一袋没药、常在我怀中。
• He is neither a dove nor a hawk, but betwixt and between.
  他既不是鸽派，也不是鹰派，而是中间派。
• The good-looking buxom woman, betwixt forty and fifty, was now a fat, red-faced, old dam of seventy, or thereabouts.
  她原是个好看的丰满的妇女，四十来岁；现在却是个七十上下年纪，肥胖的，红脸的老太婆了。
• And, in betwixt the languid ringlets, blown; A life-breath, till the forehead hopefully.
  又在我披垂的鬓发间吹入了一股；生气，好让我的前额又亮光光地。
• She answered his letter in such wise that she seemed more of less betwixt and between.
  她给他的复信写的多少似乎带有摸棱两可的笔调。
• What we are left with is a world betwixt and between.
  911留给我们的是一个模棱两可的世界。
• We have often times the honour to entertain your gentlemen in their travelling backwards and forwards betwixt London and Paris, sir.
  贵行人员在伦敦和巴黎之间公干时我们常有幸接待，先生。