| 词汇 | in medias res |
| 词源 | in medias res. Latin for “in the middle of things,” a term often used as a euphemism for “in the midst of sexual intercourse.” There is an old story, for example, about the poet son of an Ara- bian prince who was “caught in medias res with the wife of a court officer, who skewered them on the same sword.” |
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