Half

(noun.) one of two divisions into which some games or performances are divided: the two divisions are separated by an interval.

(adj.) (of siblings) related through one parent only; 'a half brother'; 'half sister' .

(adj.) consisting of one of two equivalent parts in value or quantity; 'a half chicken'; 'lasted a half hour' .

(adj.) partial; 'gave me a half smile'; 'he did only a half job' .

(adv.) partially or to the extent of a half; 'he was half hidden by the bushes'.

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• Dose, teaspoonful to one-half wineglassful, as needed. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• The lad only answered by turning his cynical young face, half-arch, half-truculent, towards the paternal chair. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• The first half-hour was lost, for Fanny and Lady Bertram were together, and unless she had Fanny to herself she could hope for nothing. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• The two other were open boats of half that tonnage. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Why, I am a boy, sir, to half a dozen old codgers here! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• Tell my servant to bring me up some hot water at half-past eight in the morning, and that I shall not want him any more to-night. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• In less than half an hour I knew as much as the Sergeant himself. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• None can imagine her ferocious cruelty who has not witnessed her daily acts for over half a year. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• Dorothea spoke in a full cordial tone, half caressing, half explanatory. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Neither had read it, but they knew it was a love story, and each privately wondered if it was half as interesting as their own. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Some short time after my sister Sophia's marriage she received from Lord Deerhurst, half a year of the annuity he had made her. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• He walked into the dining-room as we sat after dinner, and announced his intention in the thick voice of a half-drunken man. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• For no one cares for what one cannot half do. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• She had gone to bed at half-past ten. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• I believe you were glad we danced no longer; but I would have given worldsall the worlds one ever has to givefor another half-hour. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• As the Roman world was divided into the eastern and western halves, so was the Chinese world into the southern and the northern. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Let us do nothing by halves. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• You only go halves, said Laurie consolingly. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• It was felt at once that the mouth did not come over from Sleswig with a band of Saxon pirates whose lips met like the two halves of a muffin. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• That, the question then arose when 'Halves! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• I never do things by halves, as you know, and I mean to have the house clear of a pack of useless people by this time to-morrow. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• The cue is then sawed across into halves. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• If, said Mr Wegg by way of peroration, he had erred in saying only 'Halves! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Only one half of the string is bowed, but both halves vibrate. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Marianne could never love by halves; and her whole heart became, in time, as much devoted to her husband, as it had once been to Willoughby. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• The van der Luydens do nothing by halves. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• It is built in two halves for flexibility and either half may be replaced during repairs. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• That, he considered it plain that such price was stateable in a single expressive word, and that the word was, 'Halves! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• These gifted Latin monks never do any thing by halves. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Don't we always go halves in everything? 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.

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