That could mean firing the laser 10 times a second, at fuel pellets that are shot mid air as they are dropped into the fusion chamber.

这也许意味着，激光器每秒就可以发射10次，而且可以在半空击中落入聚变室的氢同位素靶丸。

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Changes to international accounting rules in mid-October now mean that many more Banks can reclassify assets so they are not subject to mark-to-market accounting.

十月中旬的国际会计规则的变更可能意味着更多的银行将重新给其资产分类，不在紧盯调至市价的会计方法。

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There don't seem to be too many examples of words other than midwife that retain an old meaning of mid but what it is believed to have mean was "with."

这里mid并不是中间的意思。似乎并没有特别多的例子与midwife这个词一样，沿用了mid古义，被认为有with的含义。

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