单词 | and half |
释义 | > as lemmas—— and half b. After a cardinal numeral or the indefinite article with a noun (or with noun implied), in —— and a(n) half (formerly also †—— and half).For an earlier mode of expressing this by means of an ordinal numeral, see half adj. 2. extracted from halfn. (a) Following a noun premodified by a numeral (e.g. two hours and a(n) half, two hours and half); now chiefly where the noun is premodified by the indefinite article (e.g. an hour and a half).See also Phrases 2g.Quot. OE is perhaps to be interpreted as showing elliptical use of the neuter accusative singular of the adjective.Some early Middle English uses (e.g. quot. a1225) could alternatively show one adj. rather than the indefinite article; cf. sense 4c. Π OE Byrhtferð Enchiridion (Ashm.) (1995) ii. iii. 103 Feower momenta gefyllað minutum, and twegen minuta and healf gewyrcað anne prican [L. duo minuta & dimidium punctum faciunt]. a1225 (c1200) Vices & Virtues (1888) 51 Crist..was her on ðese liue wuniȝende þrie and þrihti wintre and an half mang senfulle mannen. c1300 St. Thomas Becket (Laud) l. 14 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 107 (MED) To ȝeres and an half. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xi. cxxviii. 1373 Concula conteyneþ a dragme and an half. 1420 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 46 A bolle pece þat weyyth vij ouunsus & halfe, and halfe a quarter. 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry ii. f. 76 They must be sette a foote & a halfe a sunder. 1583 C. Hollyband Campo di Fior 157 An houre and a halfe after we are up. 1673 J. Ray Observ. Journey Low-countries 3 We took places in the Passage-Boat for Bruges, and at a League and halfs end came to a Lock. 1792 J. Woodforde Diary 6 July (1927) III. 361 All my Hay carried to day, 9 bargains of it from 3 Acres and half, about 7. Ton upon the whole. 1796 tr. A. von Kotzebue Negro Slaves i. vi. 31 Why out of nine millions of slaves which the new world received, are seven and an half dead? 1858 F. F. Dally Channel Islands v. iv. 235 The Guernsey vergée is forty perches, and two vergées and a half are rather more than the English acre. 1937 Advertiser (Adelaide) 11 June 31/2 Leo followed a fox on foot for a mile and a half. 1991 N. Amer. Rev. June 33/2 Inside the walls of the time-out room, where for two hours and a half he had been confined, Jamie felt a distinct wiggle. (b) Following the numeral, the whole phrase preceding the noun (e.g. two and a half years); now also with one (e.g. one and a half years). Π 1643 H. Hexham 3rd Part Princ. Art Mil. (ed. 2) ii. 4 The two side peeces 15, or 16 foote long, 17 inches broad, and six and a half inches thick. 1725 H. Sloane Voy. Islands II. 281 It had a forked Tail, two and a half Inches long. 1817 J. McLeod Narr. Voy. Alceste (1820) ii. 45 One of his attendants..received..about a dozen and a half blows with a flat bamboo. 1833 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Cottage Archit. §296 The ridge pieces, hips, and valleys, to be seven inches by one and a half inches. 1928 ‘Brent of Bin Bin’ Up Country xxii. 356 She arose to her full height of five-feet-one-and-a-half. 2014 Vanity Fair July 85 Alyokhina and Tolokonnikova..were unmasked and arrested two and a half years ago. < as lemmas |
随便看 |
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。