medium

adj. 中间的，中等的；半生熟的

n. 方法；媒体；媒介；中间物

adj.

中等的，中级的；普通的；平均的；五分熟的

n.

媒介物，媒质；中间，中庸，[生]培养基，培养液，颜料溶解液，[数]中数，平均，[逻]中名辞；手段，方法；中间物

变形

复数：mediamediums

双语释义

[C]媒介,手段,方法,工具 means by which sth is expressed or communicated

[C]折中,中间物 sth that is in the middle between two extremes

[C]生活条件,环境 substance or surroundings in which sth exists or moves or is transmitted

[C]通灵的人,关亡人 person who claims to be able to communicate with the spirits of the deed

[A]中等的,适中的 in the middle between two amounts, extremes, etc.

英英释义

medium[ 'mi:diəm, -djəm ]

n.

a means or instrumentality for storing or communicating information

the surrounding environment

"fish require an aqueous medium"

an intervening substance through which signals can travel as a means for communication

(bacteriology) a nutrient substance (solid or liquid) that is used to cultivate micro-organisms

同义词：culture medium

an intervening substance through which something is achieved

"the dissolving medium is called a solvent"

a liquid with which pigment is mixed by a painter

(biology) a substance in which specimens are preserved or displayed

a state that is intermediate between extremes; a middle position

"a happy medium"

someone who serves as an intermediary between the living and the dead

"he consulted several mediums"

同义词：spiritualistsensitive

(usually plural) transmissions that are disseminated widely to the public

同义词：mass medium

an occupation for which you are especially well suited

同义词：metier

adj.

around the middle of a scale of evaluation of physical measures

"medium bombers"

同义词：averageintermediate

(meat) cooked until there is just a little pink meat inside

词汇搭配

用作名词 (n.)

动词+～

find the medium发现方法

strike a medium采取折中办法

形容词+～

best medium最好的手段

favorite medium喜欢的方式

the natural medium自然环境

介词+～

by the medium of通过…手段

in medium在…环境中

～+介词

medium between折中的方法

medium for为…的介质

用作形容词 (adj.)

～+名词

medium height中等身材

medium temperature适中的温度

词组短语

medium sized adj. 中等大小的

culture medium培养基（培养微生物的养料）

medium size中号，中码；中号尺码

porous medium多孔介质；疏松介质

medium plate中板；中厚钢板

medium term（未来数星期或数月的）中期

medium frequency中频（略作MF，mf）

medium temperature介质温度，中间温度

medium pressure中压；中等压力

happy medium折衷办法

working medium工作介质；使用介质

liquid medium液体；液体介质

medium scale平均比例尺；中等规模（的）；中间尺度

medium voltage中压

transmission medium传送介质

storage medium存储介质；[计]存储媒体

medium speed中速

cooling medium冷却介质

filter medium滤介质；滤材；滤器填料

medium model中模式

同近义词辨析

measure结论，步骤

means方法

method方法

medium媒介，阶段

这组词都有“中等的，平均的，适中的”的意思，其区别是：

mediam指中间位置的，统计学上指处于中间位置的一个数的。

average通常用来形容优劣难分的平庸或折衷情况，也指理论上的平均标准。

medium指按照某种标准来说是适中或中等的。这种标准可以是通过仪器测量而来，也可能是凭经验而得出。

methods指做某事的具体步骤或程序

measure手段，策略，为达到目的采取的行动

means标示借以成就某事达到某目的的某人或物

medium（标示或传播）的媒介

双语例句

用作形容词(adj.)

The blue cap is a medium size.
那顶蓝色的帽子就是中号的。

The clothes should be washed at medium temperature.
这衣服需以适中温度洗涤。

用作名词(n.)

Commercial television is an effective medium for advertising.
商业电视是有效的广告宣传工具。

Sound travels through the medium of air.
声音通过空气这一媒介传播。

Television is a very efficient medium for spreading information.
电视是传播信息的很有效的媒体。

权威例句

medium

medium: [16] Latin medius meant ‘middle’ (it came from an Indo-European source that also produced English mid and middle). Its neuter form, used as a noun, has given English medium, but it has made several other contributions to the language, including mean ‘average’, medial [16], median [16], mediate [16] (and its derivatives immediate [16] – etymologically ‘acting directly, without any mediation’ – and intermediate [17]), medieval [19] (literally ‘of the Middle Ages’), mediocre, meridian, mitten, and moiety.Its Italian descendant is mezzo ‘half’, which has given English intermezzo [19], mezzanine [18], mezzosoprano [18], and mezzotint [18].=> immediate, intermezzo, mean, median, mediate, middle, mitten

medium (n.)

1580s, "a middle ground, quality, or degree," from Latin medium "the middle, midst, center; interval," noun use of neuter of adjective medius (see medial (adj.)). Meaning "intermediate agency, channel of communication" is from c. 1600. That of "person who conveys spiritual messages" first recorded 1853, from notion of "substance through which something is conveyed." Artistic sense (oil, watercolors, etc.) is from 1854. Happy medium is the "golden mean," Horace's aurea mediocritas.

medium (adj.)

1660s, "average," from medium (n.). The Latin adjective was medius. Meaning "intermediate" is from 1796. As a size designation from 1711. as a designation of cooked meat, it is attested from 1931, short for medium-rare (1881).

1. Money is a medium for buying and selling.

钱是用来买卖的一种媒介。

2. Through the medium of the Syrians Greek culture penetrated Persia.

通过叙利亚人作媒介，希腊文化渗透到波斯。

《新英汉大辞典》

3. The store sells big ones, small ones, medium ones, or what have you.

那家商店卖大号的、小号的、中号的，应有尽有。

《新英汉大辞典》

4. Well, it would be in any other medium.

当然，在其它任何媒介中也不会不同。

5. Does it only list the medium of your work, or does it convey the message?

它是否仅仅列出了你的工作媒介，还是传递了你的讯息？

6. It will take time to get it back there, but we will do that in the medium term.

让它回到目标水平需要时间，但我们会在中等时期里让它回到目标水平的。

7. Hancock then worked out the number of lies per conversation for each medium.

汉考克从而计算出各种媒介下每次谈话中的说谎数量。

8. This is new medium of art.

这是一种新的艺术媒介。

9. So what happens when you put the medium before the message?

因此，要是你把媒介放到了讯息之上会怎么样呢？

10. Talking about growing medium, like so many, I have come through significant changes over the years.

一谈到生长介质，我就像很多人一样，这些年经历了一些重大的变化。

11. With the idea of working with them as my canvas or building block, I transform the books into sculptures that explore and redefine the book as familiar object, medium, and archetypal form.

带着这种把它们当作我的画布或建筑砌块来工作的念头，我把书籍变成了雕塑，探索并将书籍重新定义为熟知的物体、媒介和原始形状。

12. With all due respect, I think this is the wrong medium for this sort of soul searching.

虽然没有冒犯之意，但我想说这是一个错误的媒体用来做这种心路探索。

13. Consider the following: every society which we know operates within the medium of belief or faith of some kind.

考虑下例所提：每一个社会,已知的社会，运作的媒介,多少都含有一些信念或信仰。

14. That is highly risky if they take their entire client base away from one medium.

如果他们把整个客户群从某个媒介带走那将是非常危险的。

15. The site shows how people are using the medium and what their expectations are.

这个网站能展示了人们使用媒体的方式，以及他们的期望所在。

16. His mother, Angela, was an angular beauty who doted on him, and the medium of her love was food.

比较好。）他的母亲安杰拉是一位瘦削的美人，她宠爱他，食物是她传达爱意的媒介。

17. In fulfilling its role as the medium of exchange, money just facilitates the flow of goods and services.

货币在实现其作为交换媒介的功能的时候，只是促进了商品和服务的流动。

18. The "message" is the information contained within that medium, whether it be music, a film, software, or some other information.

“讯息”是包含在该媒介上信息，无论是音乐、电影、软件，还是其它一些资料。

19. Films are not only passive, but also a medium of the last century: why should we trust them to tell a story about modern conflicts, which are so delocalised, so inhumane, so digital?

影片不仅是被动的，也是上个世纪的媒介：为什么我们要相信他们讲一个关于现代冲突的，如此异于寻常，如此残忍，如此数字化的故事？

20. For example, in our department table below, we use one XML document per department (medium granularity).

例如，在下面的部门表中，我们为每个部门使用一个XML文档（中等粒度）。

21. For example, in most cases your job title represents the medium of your career.

例如，在多数情况下，你的职业头衔就代表了你的事业媒介。

22. To make the red-wine vinaigrette, whisk together the oil, vinegar and mustard in a medium bowl until well combined.

制作红酒醋油沙司，将油、醋和芥末放在一个中等大小的碗里一起搅拌，直到混合均匀。

23. To make the red-wine vinaigrette, whisk together the oil, vinegar and mustard in a medium bowl until well combined.

制作红酒醋油沙司，将油、醋和芥末放在一个中等大小的碗里一起搅拌，直到混合均匀。

24. This ability to represent the computer’s functioning independent of its true actions is far more pronounced in software than in any other medium. It allows a clever designer to hide some of the more unsavory facts of how the software is really getting the job done.

与其他媒介相比，软件的这种独立于计算机的真实行为来表现其功能的能力，在软件世界里更加明显——它允许聪明的设计者隐藏关于软件如何真正完成工作的细节。

-- 来源 -- About Face 3交互设计精髓

25. However, while both must be skilled and knowledgeable about that medium, their work serves different ends.

这两类人都必须了解和掌握这种媒介，但其工作所服务的对象不同。

-- 来源 -- About Face 3交互设计精髓

26. Communication Medium裈his field specifies the communication medium type.

Communication medium -- 该字段指定通信介质类型。

-- 来源 -- science - 汉英

27. Designers also need a clear understanding of the technical limitations of the medium and what can reasonably be accomplished on time and budget by the development organization.

设计者有时也需要清楚地了解媒介在技术上的约束和限制，以及在开发部门有限的时间和预算的情况下到底可实现哪些内容。

-- 来源 -- About Face 3交互设计精髓

28. Graphic design is a discipline that has, until the last 20 years or so, been dominated by the medium of printed ink, as applied to packaging, advertising, and environmental and document design.

大约20年前，图形设计这门学科还只是用于包装、广告和文档设计等，被这些印刷媒体所统治。

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29. Practitioners of fine art and practitioners of visual design share a visual medium.

美术和视觉设计从业者都运用同样的媒介，即视觉。

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30. We limit ourselves in terms of capabilities possible in an information medium, without reaping any of the benefits of the original mechanical medium.

这样我们既局限于信息媒介的能力，又没有从原始的机械方式中获得任何好处。

-- 来源 -- About Face 3交互设计精髓

31. The biggest challenges involved working around the tight constraints of the medium (originally created to share scientific papers and attached diagrams) to produce a user experience with even a rudimentary level of interactivity and visual organization.

他们试图用这种新的交互视觉表达形式来创造吸引人的交流方式，试图用网页这种局限性很大的媒介（最早网页是用来共享科技文章和附图的）和仅仅具备初级水平的交互和视觉设计产业来制作出优良的用户体验，这是当时最大的问题。

-- 来源 -- About Face 3交互设计精髓

32. Real-world mechanical systems have the strengths and weaknesses of their medium, such as pen and paper.

现实世界的机械系统，比如钢笔和纸，有着其各自的优点和缺点，软件则有完全不同的优缺点。

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33. Traditional graphic designers are not always accustomed to dealing with the demands of pixel-based output. However, a new breed of graphic designer has been trained in digital or “new” media and is more comfortable applying the concepts of traditional graphic design to the new medium.

传统图形设计者不习惯处理像素级的图像，但是新培养出的一代图形设计者在数字的“新”媒体方面得到了训练，能较为成功地将传统图形设计的概念应用到这种新的媒体中。

-- 来源 -- About Face 3交互设计精髓