medium

将“medium”与“me”连接，想象一个“me”（就是我）处于中间（medium），象征着这个物体或概念位于某个范围或领域的中间位置。这样的形象化记忆可以帮助你记住单词“medium”的含义，即中间的、适中的。

medium 中间的，媒体，媒介

来自拉丁语medius,中间的，词源同middle,-um,表中性。引申词义中间物，媒介，媒体等。

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. Choose a soft, medium or firm mattress to suit their individual needs.

针对他们各人不同的需要挑选柔软、软硬适中或者坚硬的床垫。

2. With a nice dark colour, the wine is medium to full bodied.

这种葡萄酒色泽深暗悦目，是中等浓郁至浓香型的。

3. I would class my garden as medium in size.

我的花园只能算是中等大小。

4. But Artaud was increasingly dissatisfied with film as a medium.

但是阿尔托对电影这种表现方式越来越不满。

5. Sift the flour and baking powder into a medium-sized mixing bowl.

将面粉和发酵粉筛入中等大小的搅拌碗中。

【measure, means, method, medium】
measure: 结论，步骤
means: 方法
method: 方法
medium: 媒介，阶段

【methods, measure, means, medium】
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

【medium, median, average】
这些形容词均含“中等的，平均的，适中的”之意。
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。
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。

【mediam, average, medium】
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。