amid, among, between

Amid is used in uncountable things. Among is used in more than two countable things or people. Between is used in two countable things or people.

TBBT.906:
Leonard: It says right here on Wikipedia. A Mexican standoff is a confrontation between at least three parties.
Sheldon (scornfully): How can you trust Wikipedia if they use "between" to refer to three parties?
Helium dealer: They should've used "among," right?

An standoff is a situation in which neither side in a fight or battle can gain an advantage.

A Mexican standoff is a confrontation in which no strategy exists that allows any party to achieve victory. Any party initiating aggression [攻击] might trigger its own demise [death]. At the same time, the parties are unable to extricate [解脱] themselves from the situation without suffering a loss – effectively, a situation of mutual zugzwang. As a result, all participants need to maintain the strategic tension, which remains unresolved until some outside event makes it possible to resolve it. In chess, A player is said to be "in zugzwang" when any possible move will worsen their position.

The term Mexican standoff was originally used in the context of using firearms and it still commonly implies a situation in which the parties face some form of threat from the other parties. The Mexican standoff is a recurring trope in cinema, in which several armed characters hold each other at gunpoint. There is no definitive requirement that the confrontation involve at least three parties. Tropes are words, phrases, images etc that are used for an unusual or interesting effect.

六级/考研单词: amid, confront, scorn, situate, initiate, trigger, mutual, tense, resolve, chess, implicit, recur