So, we're talking about England, or more specifically, the region known as 'The Midlands', and we need to go back, mainly to the eighteenth century and, briefly, even earlier, to put it in a global context.

我们说的是英格，更具体说，是中部区，我们需回顾一下，主是 18 世纪，甚至更早，把它放在全球背景下。

He was from the midlands, went to a good school, but in those days if you were to be taken seriously, as a writer you normally had to go to university.

他生于英格中部， 在一所不错的学校读过中学，但那个时候成为真正的作家，一般都得去读大学。

Or you think of Birmingham in the midlands.

或者们到中部区的伯明翰。

They've got the lowest truancy record in the Midlands.

他们有英格中部区最低的旷课记录。

In the Midlands, it would be a bap, or we'd probably call it a roll. - A roll. A barm. A butty. - A cob.

在英格中部中，它会叫做软面包，或者我们可能会叫它圆面包。- 圆面包。酵母面包。三明治面包。- 圆面包。

Floodwaters that overtook two dams and forced the evacuation of thousands of residents remain a threat to the city of midland in central Michigan.

洪水淹没了两座大坝，迫使数千名居民撤离，这对密歇根州中部的米德市构成威胁。

Regular contact, in regular contact with the firm's suppliers around the Midlands.

定期与中米德区公司的供应商保持联系。

Best wishes, Catherine in Wimbledon, but originally from the Midlands.

最好的祝愿，来自温布尔登的凯瑟琳，但最初来自米德。

Geographical region also played a part, with the King strongest in the north of England, the Midlands and much of the south and west, while the Parliamentarians were strongest in London and the east of England.

理区域也起到了作用，国王在英格北部、中部以及大部分南部和西部区最为强大，而议会派则在伦敦和英格东部最为强势。

Over time, four major dialects of Old English gradually emerged: Northumbrian in the north of England, Mercian in the midlands, West Saxon in the south and west, and Kentish in the southeast.

随着时间的推移，逐渐出现了四种主的古英语方言：英格北部的诺森伯语、中部区的默西亚语、南部和西部的西撒克逊语以及东南部的肯特语。

Sturluson continues, quote, King Harold learned that the Vikings, who in the winter were in the westlands, which means Britain and Ireland, were harrying in the midlands, which means Norway.

斯图鲁松继续写道，引述道，国王哈罗德得知维京人——他们在冬季驻扎在西边的领，即指不列颠和爱尔——正在挪威的中部区进行劫掠。

Not quite to the Jurassic, at least not yet, but to January 21, 2021, when I received an email about a curious discovery made in Rutland in the Midlands.

虽然还没到侏罗纪，至少目前还没有，但时间是2021年1月21日，当时我收到了一封关于在中英格的拉特发现的奇怪化石的电子邮件。

And certainly, for all her fair words, she had bitterly grudged the little factory hand from the Midlands her staggering, and as it seemed too easy, achievement.

当然，尽管她说了那么多漂亮的话，但她对来自米德的工厂工人却怀恨在心，因为她取得了惊人的成就，因为这似乎太容易了。

And so, lacking the raw numbers that they needed to subdue the North, the Normans focused their settlement activity on the South and the Midlands.

因此， 由于缺乏足够的兵力来征服北方，诺曼人将他们的定居活动集中在南方和中土区。

Alright, next up we have a slang word which is found in other parts of the UK but mainly in the Midlands.

好的，接下来我们有一个俚语，它在英国其他区（但主在中部区）也有使用。

" We'll be fine, " I promise her in a whisper." Third-years have only been sent to midland posts as reinforcements, never the front." I'd kept my ears open around my mother enough to know that much.

“我们会没事的， ” 我轻声向她保证。 “三年级学生只被派往中部据点作为增援，从未派往前线。 ” 我经常在母亲身边留心听她说话， 所以对此有所了解。

Her humour has shown itself broad enough to cover a wide range of fools and failures, mothers and children, dogs and flourishing midland fields, farmers, sagacious or fuddled over their ale, horse-dealers, inn-keepers, curates, and carpenters.

她的幽默表现得足够广泛，涵盖了各种各样的傻瓜和失败者、母亲和孩子、狗和茂盛的中部田野、农民、精明或喝醉酒的人、马贩、旅馆老板、牧师和木匠。

He didn't even go to the Midlands.

他甚至都没去米德。