If we take the Rents of good Lands in England, at a Medium, to be about 10 Shillings per Acre, and the Rents of bad Lands, at a Medium, to be about two Shillings and Sixpence per Acre, and that their Quantities are near equal, then the Rents of Lands will be about 6 Shillings per Acre now at a Medium; and as far as I can learn 6 or 7 Shillings per Acre at Medium, is as much as the Lands of England are now worth; and I believe I may be bold to say, the Lands of England, at a Medium, have not let for less than one Shilling and Six-pence per Acre for four hundred Years backwards.英文原著 · 《Money Answers All Things》
Huttle, we will meet you half-way - that is, till you get half-way through your cigar. That, at all events, will be the happy medium."
I shall never forget the effect the words, "happy medium," had upon him. He was brilliant and most daring in his interpretation of the words. He positively alarmed me. He said something like the following: "Happy medium, indeed. Do you know 'happy medium' are two words which mean 'miserable mediocrity'? I say, go first class or third; marry a duchess or her kitchenmaid. The happy medium means respectability, and respectability means insipidness.英文原著 · 《The Diary of a Nobody》
There is close relation, says Havelock Ellis, between crimes against the person and the price of alcohol, between crimes against property and the price of wheat. He quotes Quetelet and Lacassagne, the former looking upon society as the preparer of crime, and the criminals as instruments that execute them. The latter find that "the social environment is the cultivation medium of criminality; that the criminal is the microbe, an element which only becomes important when it finds the medium which causes it to ferment; EVERY SOCIETY HAS THE CRIMINALS IT DESERVES."*英文原著 · 《Anarchism and Other Essays》
What other medium could express, with such dramatic force, the responsibility of the Church for crimes committed by its deluded victims; what other medium could, in consequence, rouse the indignation of man's conscience?英文原著 · 《Anarchism and Other Essays》
As he left us, the sergeant leaned over and whispered to the medium, who next addressed himself to me. ``Sister Euphemia,'' he said, indicating the lady with large eyes, ``will act as your medium. I am unable to do more. These things exhaust my nervous system.''英文原著 · 《The Autobiography of a Quack》
The medium sat with her arms folded, looking steadily at the center of the table. For a few moments there was silence. Then a series of irregular knocks began. ``Are you present?'' said the medium.英文原著 · 《The Autobiography of a Quack》
Club sandwich, burger, medium, and a shrimp salad for the gamblin' man.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
I thank God every day I grew up medium- poor.美剧 · 《Billions》
Diane, the whole point of television is it's a collaborative medium, - where one person gets all the credit. - No, it's not about that.美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》