1. "People like me may be making a difference in a small way," Jan McCourt, a onetime investment banker now running his own 40-hectare spread in the English Midlands stocked with rare breeds. “像我这样的人可能正在以一种很小的方式产生影响。”简·麦考特曾经是一名投资银行家，现在在英国中部地区经营着自己的40公顷土地，囤积着一些稀有品种。
2. I live in a sedate little village in the Midlands. 我住在英格兰中部一个宁静的小村庄里。
3. The disturbance threatened the midlands and the north. 骚动不安威胁着中部和北部地区。
4. He comes to his school from the Midlands because his family had split up. 由于家庭破裂，他从内陆来到他的学校。
5. The West Midlands was the hardest hit region, with joblessness jumping to 10.3%. 在西米德兰兹是受影响最严重的地区，失业率上升至10.3%。
