英语中间结构的研究焦点往往集中在探讨它的生成机制方面。
Researches in English middle construction tend to focus on its mechanism of production.
英语中间结构因涉及复杂的句法、语义及词汇关系，为检验某些语法理论原则提供了非常难得的素材。
Middle constructions in English involve a complex interplay between syntax, semantics, and the lexicon, thus providing a rich source of data with which theories of grammar can be tested.
它中间的b从来就没有发过音，并且b在古英语的形式中，及其它同源词如荷兰语duim和德语Daumen里都没有。
No one has ever pronounced b in it, and it is absent from the word’s Old English form and from its cognates, such as Dutch duim and German Daumen.
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