英语词汇“half-bent”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

a. With adjectives and pa. pples. Already in Old English: see above. Very common in later use, esp. with pa. pples., to which half- may be prefixed whenever the sense suits: e.g. half-afraid, half-awake, half-blind, half-crazy, half-deaf, half-drunk, half-full, half-human, half-learned, half-mad, half-open, half-raw, half-ripe, half-savage, half-true; half-armed, half-ashamed, half-bent, half-buried, half-cured, half-disposed, half-done, half-dressed, half-eaten, half-educated, half-finished, half-formed, half-hidden, half-opened, half-roasted, half-ruined, etc., etc. With adjs. expressing shape, it implies the form of half the figure, as half-cordate, half-sagittate, half-terete.

The two elements are often written separately when the adj. is in the predicate (see half adv. 1); the use of the hyphen mostly implies a feeling of closer unity of notion in the compound attribute, as in half-blind, half-dressed, half-raw, viewed as definite states; but it is often merely for greater syntactical perspicuity, on which ground it is regularly used when the adjective is attributive, thus I am half dead (or half-dead) with cold; a half-dead dog.

(a) in the predicate.

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c893 tr. Orosius Hist. iii. ix. §4 & funde hiene..healf~cucne.

OE Cynewulf Elene 133 Sume healfcwice flugon on fæsten ond feore burgon æfter stanclifum, stede weardedon ymb Danubie. Sume drenc fornamon lagostreame lifes ætende.

c1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 163/7 Subalbus, healfhwit.

c1475 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 710/3 Semicecus, halfblynd.

a1626 Bacon Advice to G. Villiers in Wks. (1861) XIII. 53 The officers of the kings houshold..must look both ways, else they are but half-sighted.

1704 Swift Tale of Tub i. 45 As if they were half ashamed to own Us.

1712 Pope Rape of Locke ii, in Misc. Poems 367 Her Eyes half languishing, half drown'd in Tears.

1723 B. Mandeville Ess. Charity in Fable Bees (ed. 2) i. 340 A Rascal Half-drunk.

1725 Pope tr. Homer Odyssey I. iii. 144 Leave half-heard the melancholy tale.

1741 S. Richardson Pamela III. xxi. 124 Being half-vex'd, and half-afraid of his Raillery.

1826 Scott Jrnl. 29 Dec. (1939) 296 Either half educated or cock-brained by nature.

1844 J. R. Lowell Poems 12 A youth half-smiling.

1845 J. Lindley School Bot. (1858) v. 58 Stipules ovate, half-cordate.

1846 ‘A Lady’ Jewish Man. ii. v. 216 Dresses made half high are..unbecoming; they should either be cut close up to the throat or low.

1849 H. D. Thoreau Week Concord & Merrimack Rivers 399 They are half forgotten ere we have learned the language.

1855 C. Kingsley Heroes (1868) ii. iv. 123 Stories of it, some false and some half-true.

1858 W. Bagehot Coll. Wks. (1965) II. 55 Half-crazed as she [Meg Merrilies] is described to be.

1863–5 J. Thomson Sunday at Hampstead v, The meat half-done, they tore it and devoured.

1868 Darwin in Life & Lett. (1887) III. 80 Half-sterile, i.e. produce half the full number of offspring.

1880 A. Gray Struct. Bot. vi. §8. 279 Amphitropous, also termed..Half-anatropous.

1880 Contemp. Rev. Feb. 196, I am more than half-disposed to go along with you in what you say.

1881 ‘M. Twain’ Prince & Pauper 162 He was half-minded to resign.

1893 ‘M. Twain’ Man that corrupted Hadleyburg (1900) 269 The station-master..became pleasant and even half-apologetic.

1904 W. de la Mare Henry Brocken 76, I glanced at the shock-haired creature, alert, half-human, beside me.

1910 J. Morley Cromwell (ed. 2) iii. 54 Never more were fish caught there, and the neighbouring town was half ruined.

1923 D. H. Lawrence Birds, Beasts & Flowers 41 The dim light of full, healthy life That is always half-dark.

1936 Mind 45 252 What were the views concealed or half-concealed, expressed or half-expressed?

1937 Brit. Birds 30 240 We have two records of single adults spending one day in the nest when their young were half-fledged.

1961 M. W. Barley Eng. Farmhouse & Cottage iv. ii. 196 Roofs gabled and half-hipped.

(b) as attribute.

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1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie i. viii. 67 Certaine halfwaking men.

a1616 Shakespeare King John (1623) ii. ii. 54 The halfe-blowne Rose.

1629 G. Chapman tr. Juvenal Fifth Satyre in Iustification Nero 293 That half-eat hare will fall..to our shares.

a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1954) VII. 59 The halfe-present man, he, whose body is here, and minde away.

1682 N. O. tr. N. Boileau-Despréaux Lutrin ii. 16 And clos'd her speech with an half-dying swoon.

1687 Dryden Hind & Panther iii. 96 The clown unread, and half-read gentleman.

a1711 T. Ken Hymnotheo in Wks. (1721) III. 333 Half-form'd Words.

1726 Pope tr. Homer Odyssey V. xxii. 196 The half-shut door conceal'd his lurking foes.

1772 Hunter in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 62 453 Half-digested food.

1786 S. Henley tr. W. Beckford Arabian Tale 18 The learned; the half learned; and those who were neither.

1817 S. T. Coleridge Biogr. Lit. 223 In one of his half-earnest, half-joking moods.

1827 R. Southey Hist. Peninsular War II. 679 The half-armed, half-clothed, half-hungered Arragonese.

c1827 J. S. Mill in Adelphi (1924) I. 689 A half-cultivated taste is always caught by gaudy, affected, and meretricious ornament.

1833 J. S. Mill Lett. (1910) i. 41 It looks like the production of some half-fledged pupil of yours.

1837 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe I. viii. 602 Some half-informed critics.

1838 E. Bulwer-Lytton Alice I. i. iii. 22 Her half-childish, half-womanly grief.

1843 J. S. Mill Syst. Logic II. v. ii. 345 It is in those steps of the reasoning which are made in this tacit and half-conscious, or even wholly unconscious manner, that the error oftenest lurks.

1847 M. M. Sherwood Life xii. 220 A little half-coloured child..from India.

1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick xvii. 91 Their half crazy conceits on these subjects.

1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick l. 257 Some sort of a half-hinted influence.

1853–4 J. S. Mill Draft Autobiogr. (1961) 116, I had a half formed intention of writing a History of the French Revolution.

1854 H. D. Thoreau Walden 286 Thus, with half-shut eyes, looking out from the land of dreams.

1858 W. Bagehot Coll. Wks. (1965) II. 72 The undefined, half-expressed..feelings.

1869 D. G. Rossetti Let. 27 June (1965) II. 704 A half-crazed charwoman.

1874 J. Sully Sensation & Intuition 95 Vague and half-thought out recollections.

1877 W. Whitman Specimen Days 104 Some good people may think it a feeble or half-cracked way of spending one's time and thinking.

1887 E. Berdoe St. Bernard's 168 Every half-educated..young man.

1895 W. Robinson Eng. Flower Garden (ed. 4) viii. 118 Shade is not essential, though we think the best effects are attained in half-shady spots.

1897 Essex Antiquarian I. 27 When neither stones nor timber were plenty the half-high wall..was early used, and is still common.

1904 W. H. Hudson Green Mansions xv. 208 Leaving her half-human child to play her malicious pranks in the wood.

1907 Daily Chron. 6 Feb. 4/6 Is he really a half-sexed personage?

1908 Westm. Gaz. 23 Jan. 2/3 Some trivial gossip in the half-lit hall.

1908 Westm. Gaz. 29 July 3/2 The forces of Free Trade may be confidently reckoned on to squash the half-believed-in promises of Tariff Reform.

1910 W. de la Mare Three Mulla-mulgars 120 Her half-blind whitening eyes.

1923 D. H. Lawrence Birds, Beasts & Flowers 37 Wavering men of old Etruria..Going with insidious, half-smiling quietness.

1923 D. H. Lawrence Birds, Beasts & Flowers 41 The half-secret gleam of a passion-flower hanging from the rock.

1925 T. Dreiser Amer. Trag. I. ii. xi. 234 He achieved a..half-apologetic smile.

1927 Daily Tel. 15 Nov. 11/7 Most of the ploughing is done with a pair of horses of the half-legged class.

1929 V. Woolf Room of one's Own 127 Those unsaid or half-said words.

a1930 D. H. Lawrence Last Poems (1932) 307 Invisible Between the half-visible hordes.

1931 W. Ripman Eng. Phonetics 30 Intermediate positions give half-open and half-close vowels.

1932 D. Jones Outl. Eng. Phonetics (ed. 3) viii. 38 Half-close vowels are those in which the tongue occupies a position about one-third of the distance from ‘close’ to ‘open’.

1932 D. Jones Outl. Eng. Phonetics (ed. 3) viii. 38 Half-open vowels are those in which the tongue occupies a position about two-thirds of the distance from ‘close’ to ‘open’.

1934 E. Linklater Magnus Merriman 270 In the country of the blind the half-canned man is king.

1937 Burlington Mag. Nov. 234/2 Such half-forgotten artists.

1937 Mind 46 83 There is a scale of ‘standing-outness’ (Abhebung) which reaches from intense experiential clarity to half-conscious habituation.

1941 Mind 50 10 Some [statements] which would usually be called ‘half-joking’ or ‘not serious’, as when the father says, ‘The wolves are gaining.’

1949 K. S. Woods Rural Crafts Eng. iv. xiii. 200 The delightfully plump and comfortable curves of old Devon roofs are partly due to the ‘hipped’ or ‘half-hipped’ form of the supporting timbers.

1951 W. F. Leopold in S. Saporta & J. R. Bastian Psycholinguistics (1961) 355/1 The half-open fricatives were satisfactory as terminal consonants.

(c) Hence derivatives, as half-dressedness.

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1887 Daily News 29 June 5/4 That delicious condition of half-dressedness.

单词	half-bent
释义	> as lemmas half-bent † half-bent n. Obsolete (a) (in a firearm) the position of the hammer when raised only halfway and held by the catch, from which it cannot be moved by pulling the trigger; (also) the catch by which the hammer of a gun is so placed (cf. half-cock n. 1); (b) the condition (e.g. of the knee) of being half-bent. ΘΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > parts and fittings of firearms > [noun] > breech > other parts of breech base1626 bridge pin1686 breech-pin1727 finger-piece1767 tang1805 hut1848 breech-lever1862 breech-screw1862 plunger1866 shoe1866 breech-block1881 breech-plug1881 console1882 crossbar1884 obturator1891 tray1909 1683 True Narr. Proc. Old-Bayly 24 May 2 The deceased having a Pistol loaden in his hand; and being about to deliver it to the Prisoner, er'e he well had it in his hand, the Cock at half bent went down, and the Pistol thereupon going off, the Bullet struck the deceased on the Head, of which wound the next day he died. 1694 tr. G. P. Marana Lett. Turkish Spy VI. viii. 41 The Nimble Prince catch'd him upon the Half-Bent, and setting his Hands on the Old Monsieur's Shoulders, whipt over again the second Time. 1774 O. Goldsmith Grecian Hist. II. i. 11 With one leg put forward, and the knee upon the half-bent. 1881 W. W. Greener Gun & its Devel. 259 A half-bent in the tumbler that prevents the hammer being accidentally pushed down. 1921 Amer. Rifleman 15 May 6/2 I could drop the hammer into the half bent, and very often split the end of the sear nose in doing it. extracted from halfadj. half-bent half-bent n. (a) the condition of being half-bent; (b) the catch by which the hammer of a gun is placed at half-cock. ΚΠ 1774 O. Goldsmith Grecian Hist. II. i. 11 With one leg put forward, and the knee upon the half-bent. 1881 W. W. Greener Gun & its Devel. 259 A half-bent in the tumbler that prevents the hammer being accidentally pushed down. extracted from half-comb. form half-bent a. With adjectives and pa. pples. Already in Old English: see above. Very common in later use, esp. with pa. pples., to which half- may be prefixed whenever the sense suits: e.g. half-afraid, half-awake, half-blind, half-crazy, half-deaf, half-drunk, half-full, half-human, half-learned, half-mad, half-open, half-raw, half-ripe, half-savage, half-true; half-armed, half-ashamed, half-bent, half-buried, half-cured, half-disposed, half-done, half-dressed, half-eaten, half-educated, half-finished, half-formed, half-hidden, half-opened, half-roasted, half-ruined, etc., etc. With adjs. expressing shape, it implies the form of half the figure, as half-cordate, half-sagittate, half-terete. The two elements are often written separately when the adj. is in the predicate (see half adv. 1); the use of the hyphen mostly implies a feeling of closer unity of notion in the compound attribute, as in half-blind, half-dressed, half-raw, viewed as definite states; but it is often merely for greater syntactical perspicuity, on which ground it is regularly used when the adjective is attributive, thus I am half dead (or half-dead) with cold; a half-dead dog. (a) in the predicate. ΚΠ c893 tr. Orosius Hist. iii. ix. §4 & funde hiene..healf~cucne. OE Cynewulf Elene 133 Sume healfcwice flugon on fæsten ond feore burgon æfter stanclifum, stede weardedon ymb Danubie. Sume drenc fornamon lagostreame lifes ætende. c1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 163/7 Subalbus, healfhwit. c1475 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 710/3 Semicecus, halfblynd. a1626 Bacon Advice to G. Villiers in Wks. (1861) XIII. 53 The officers of the kings houshold..must look both ways, else they are but half-sighted. 1704 Swift Tale of Tub i. 45 As if they were half ashamed to own Us. 1712 Pope Rape of Locke ii, in Misc. Poems 367 Her Eyes half languishing, half drown'd in Tears. 1723 B. Mandeville Ess. Charity in Fable Bees (ed. 2) i. 340 A Rascal Half-drunk. 1725 Pope tr. Homer Odyssey I. iii. 144 Leave half-heard the melancholy tale. 1741 S. Richardson Pamela III. xxi. 124 Being half-vex'd, and half-afraid of his Raillery. 1826 Scott Jrnl. 29 Dec. (1939) 296 Either half educated or cock-brained by nature. 1844 J. R. Lowell Poems 12 A youth half-smiling. 1845 J. Lindley School Bot. (1858) v. 58 Stipules ovate, half-cordate. 1846 ‘A Lady’ Jewish Man. ii. v. 216 Dresses made half high are..unbecoming; they should either be cut close up to the throat or low. 1849 H. D. Thoreau Week Concord & Merrimack Rivers 399 They are half forgotten ere we have learned the language. 1855 C. Kingsley Heroes (1868) ii. iv. 123 Stories of it, some false and some half-true. 1858 W. Bagehot Coll. Wks. (1965) II. 55 Half-crazed as she [Meg Merrilies] is described to be. 1863–5 J. Thomson Sunday at Hampstead v, The meat half-done, they tore it and devoured. 1868 Darwin in Life & Lett. (1887) III. 80 Half-sterile, i.e. produce half the full number of offspring. 1880 A. Gray Struct. Bot. vi. §8. 279 Amphitropous, also termed..Half-anatropous. 1880 Contemp. Rev. Feb. 196, I am more than half-disposed to go along with you in what you say. 1881 ‘M. Twain’ Prince & Pauper 162 He was half-minded to resign. 1893 ‘M. Twain’ Man that corrupted Hadleyburg (1900) 269 The station-master..became pleasant and even half-apologetic. 1904 W. de la Mare Henry Brocken 76, I glanced at the shock-haired creature, alert, half-human, beside me. 1910 J. Morley Cromwell (ed. 2) iii. 54 Never more were fish caught there, and the neighbouring town was half ruined. 1923 D. H. Lawrence Birds, Beasts & Flowers 41 The dim light of full, healthy life That is always half-dark. 1936 Mind 45 252 What were the views concealed or half-concealed, expressed or half-expressed? 1937 Brit. Birds 30 240 We have two records of single adults spending one day in the nest when their young were half-fledged. 1961 M. W. Barley Eng. Farmhouse & Cottage iv. ii. 196 Roofs gabled and half-hipped. (b) as attribute. ΚΠ 1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie i. viii. 67 Certaine halfwaking men. a1616 Shakespeare King John (1623) ii. ii. 54 The halfe-blowne Rose. View more context for this quotation 1629 G. Chapman tr. Juvenal Fifth Satyre in Iustification Nero 293 That half-eat hare will fall..to our shares. a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1954) VII. 59 The halfe-present man, he, whose body is here, and minde away. 1682 N. O. tr. N. Boileau-Despréaux Lutrin ii. 16 And clos'd her speech with an half-dying swoon. 1687 Dryden Hind & Panther iii. 96 The clown unread, and half-read gentleman. a1711 T. Ken Hymnotheo in Wks. (1721) III. 333 Half-form'd Words. 1726 Pope tr. Homer Odyssey V. xxii. 196 The half-shut door conceal'd his lurking foes. 1772 Hunter in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 62 453 Half-digested food. 1786 S. Henley tr. W. Beckford Arabian Tale 18 The learned; the half learned; and those who were neither. 1817 S. T. Coleridge Biogr. Lit. 223 In one of his half-earnest, half-joking moods. 1827 R. Southey Hist. Peninsular War II. 679 The half-armed, half-clothed, half-hungered Arragonese. c1827 J. S. Mill in Adelphi (1924) I. 689 A half-cultivated taste is always caught by gaudy, affected, and meretricious ornament. 1833 J. S. Mill Lett. (1910) i. 41 It looks like the production of some half-fledged pupil of yours. 1837 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe I. viii. 602 Some half-informed critics. 1838 E. Bulwer-Lytton Alice I. i. iii. 22 Her half-childish, half-womanly grief. 1843 J. S. Mill Syst. Logic II. v. ii. 345 It is in those steps of the reasoning which are made in this tacit and half-conscious, or even wholly unconscious manner, that the error oftenest lurks. 1847 M. M. Sherwood Life xii. 220 A little half-coloured child..from India. 1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick xvii. 91 Their half crazy conceits on these subjects. 1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick l. 257 Some sort of a half-hinted influence. 1853–4 J. S. Mill Draft Autobiogr. (1961) 116, I had a half formed intention of writing a History of the French Revolution. 1854 H. D. Thoreau Walden 286 Thus, with half-shut eyes, looking out from the land of dreams. 1858 W. Bagehot Coll. Wks. (1965) II. 72 The undefined, half-expressed..feelings. 1869 D. G. Rossetti Let. 27 June (1965) II. 704 A half-crazed charwoman. 1874 J. Sully Sensation & Intuition 95 Vague and half-thought out recollections. 1877 W. Whitman Specimen Days 104 Some good people may think it a feeble or half-cracked way of spending one's time and thinking. 1887 E. Berdoe St. Bernard's 168 Every half-educated..young man. 1895 W. Robinson Eng. Flower Garden (ed. 4) viii. 118 Shade is not essential, though we think the best effects are attained in half-shady spots. 1897 Essex Antiquarian I. 27 When neither stones nor timber were plenty the half-high wall..was early used, and is still common. 1904 W. H. Hudson Green Mansions xv. 208 Leaving her half-human child to play her malicious pranks in the wood. 1907 Daily Chron. 6 Feb. 4/6 Is he really a half-sexed personage? 1908 Westm. Gaz. 23 Jan. 2/3 Some trivial gossip in the half-lit hall. 1908 Westm. Gaz. 29 July 3/2 The forces of Free Trade may be confidently reckoned on to squash the half-believed-in promises of Tariff Reform. 1910 W. de la Mare Three Mulla-mulgars 120 Her half-blind whitening eyes. 1923 D. H. Lawrence Birds, Beasts & Flowers 37 Wavering men of old Etruria..Going with insidious, half-smiling quietness. 1923 D. H. Lawrence Birds, Beasts & Flowers 41 The half-secret gleam of a passion-flower hanging from the rock. 1925 T. Dreiser Amer. Trag. I. ii. xi. 234 He achieved a..half-apologetic smile. 1927 Daily Tel. 15 Nov. 11/7 Most of the ploughing is done with a pair of horses of the half-legged class. 1929 V. Woolf Room of one's Own 127 Those unsaid or half-said words. a1930 D. H. Lawrence Last Poems (1932) 307 Invisible Between the half-visible hordes. 1931 W. Ripman Eng. Phonetics 30 Intermediate positions give half-open and half-close vowels. 1932 D. Jones Outl. Eng. Phonetics (ed. 3) viii. 38 Half-close vowels are those in which the tongue occupies a position about one-third of the distance from ‘close’ to ‘open’. 1932 D. Jones Outl. Eng. Phonetics (ed. 3) viii. 38 Half-open vowels are those in which the tongue occupies a position about two-thirds of the distance from ‘close’ to ‘open’. 1934 E. Linklater Magnus Merriman 270 In the country of the blind the half-canned man is king. 1937 Burlington Mag. Nov. 234/2 Such half-forgotten artists. 1937 Mind 46 83 There is a scale of ‘standing-outness’ (Abhebung) which reaches from intense experiential clarity to half-conscious habituation. 1941 Mind 50 10 Some [statements] which would usually be called ‘half-joking’ or ‘not serious’, as when the father says, ‘The wolves are gaining.’ 1949 K. S. Woods Rural Crafts Eng. iv. xiii. 200 The delightfully plump and comfortable curves of old Devon roofs are partly due to the ‘hipped’ or ‘half-hipped’ form of the supporting timbers. 1951 W. F. Leopold in S. Saporta & J. R. Bastian Psycholinguistics (1961) 355/1 The half-open fricatives were satisfactory as terminal consonants. (c) Hence derivatives, as half-dressedness. ΚΠ 1887 Daily News 29 June 5/4 That delicious condition of half-dressedness. extracted from half-comb. form < as lemmas
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