Intermediate

(noun.) a substance formed during a chemical process before the desired product is obtained.

(adj.) lying between two extremes in time or space or state; 'going from sitting to standing without intermediate pushes with the hands'; 'intermediate stages in a process'; 'intermediate stops on the route'; 'an intermediate range plane' .

录入:斯蒂芬妮

• The result was an intermediate substance, neither glass nor whinstone--a sort of slag. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• In the words of Dalton, oxygen may combine with a certain portion of nitrous gas [as he called nitric oxide], or with twice that po rtion, but with no intermediate portion. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• I have met with striking instances of the rule in the case of varieties intermediate between well-marked varieties in the genus Balanus. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• It is a thick skull, thicker than that of any living race of men, and it has a brain capacity intermediate between that of Pithecanthropus and man. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The intermediate month was the one fixed on, as far as they dared, by Emma and Mr. Knightley. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• Then the intermediate state of rest will be pleasure and will also be pain? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Then you would infer that opinion is intermediate? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Just as we come to know them better, intermediate forms flow in, and doubts as to specific limits augment. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Any activity with an aim implies a distinction between an earlier incomplete phase and later completing phase; it implies also intermediate steps. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• The low pressure cylinders are 106 inches in diameter, the intermediate cylinders are 73. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Still, works of art have a permanent element; they idealize and detain the passing thought, and are the intermediates between sense and ideas. 柏拉图. 理想国.

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