Or you think of Birmingham in the midlands.

或者你们想到中部地区的伯明翰。

He was from the midlands, went to a good school, but in those days if you were to be taken seriously, as a writer you normally had to go to university.

他生于英格兰中部， 在一所不错的学校读过中学，但那个时候你要想成为真正的作家，一般都得去读大学。

Over time, four major dialects of Old English gradually emerged: Northumbrian in the north of England, Mercian in the midlands, West Saxon in the south and west, and Kentish in the southeast.

随着时间的推移，逐渐出现了四种主要的古英语方言：英格兰北部的诺森伯兰语、中部地区的默西亚语、南部和西部的西撒克逊语以及东南部的肯特语。

But fifteen years is a long time to stand still in the midland country, even for a house, and this one was lightly made, though the Adamses had not realized how flimsily until they had lived in it for some time.

但是十五年在中部地区静止不动是很长的时间，即使对于一所房子来说也是如此，而这所房子是轻巧的，尽管亚当斯一家直到他们在里面住了一段时间才意识到它有多脆弱。