between

英 [b?'twi?n] 美[b?'twin]

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between 在中間

前綴be-, 強調。tween, 二，詞源同two.

between: between: [OE] The second syllable of between is related to two and twin; the word as a whole seems to represent an original phrase meaning something like ‘by two each’. Old English betwēonum reflects a Germanic *twēon, reduced from an earlier *twikhnai; this represents the base *twīkh- (from which we get two) plus an -n suffix with apparently some sort of distributive function. The related betwixt comes ultimately from Germanic *twa ‘two’ and the element *-isk- ‘-ish’.
=> twin, two
between (prep.): Old English betweonum "between, among, by turns," Mercian betwinum, from bi- "by" (see be-) + tweonum dative plural of *tweon "two each" (compare Gothic tweih-nai "two each"). Between a rock and a hard place is from 1940s, originally cowboy slang. Between-whiles is from 1670s.

1. The difference between who you are and who you want to be is what you do.: 你是什么樣的人和你想成為什么樣的之間的差距就是，你做了什么。

2. What will be the effect of the alliance between IBM and Apple?: 若IBM公司和蘋果公司聯手將會有什么效果呢？

3. The ideological divisions between the parties aren't always obvious.: 政黨之間的意識形態界線并不總是涇渭分明的。

4. There has always been a difference between community radio and commercial radio.: 社區廣播電臺和商業廣播電臺一直是有區別的。

5. I drain the pasta, then I share it out between two plates.: 我將意大利面濾干，然后平分到兩個盤子里。