In the middle a shepherd was standing, leaning on his crook.

中间站着一个牧羊人，靠在他的拐杖上。

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The skill is in steering a middle course between the two extremes.

本领就在于避开这两个极端，走中间路线。

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He came from a perfectly respectable middle-class family.

他来自一个非常体面的中产阶级家庭。

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Rosa Parks and three other black people were seated in the middle area of the bus when a white person got on the bus and wanted a seat.

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In the Middle Ages and to some extent in the Early Modern period, we live in a theocentric world.

在中世纪甚至是现在早期，我们生活在以上帝为中心的世界里。

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which I don't know if you guys are familiar with. It's like a rural state in the middle of America,

我不知道你们对那里熟不熟悉。
这是在美国中部的一个以乡村为主的州。

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But will Obama and his top aides dig in and refuse to move to the middle a bit?

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By that logic, the Spending Review is regressive in the broad sense (worse for the bottom half than the top half) but when it comes down to specifics, is actually going to squeeze the middle a little bit more than the absolute poor.

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After a decade of hardship for middle class families, and a recession that wiped away millions of jobs, we are in the middle of a tough fight to rebuild this economy and put folks back to work.

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