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单词 half-left
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half-left
b. With adverbs, as half-angrily, half-apologetically, half-ashamedly, half-blindly, half-consciously, half-divinely, half-jokingly, half-learnedly, half-questioningly, etc.; half-left, half-right, half-round, etc. Cf. half adv. 1d.
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c1700 I. Watts To Mitio in Horæ Lyricæ Pt. iii. ii, in Wks. (1813) IX. 200 Damon is half-divinely blest.
1807 S. T. Coleridge Notebks. (1962) II. 2998, I still half-consciously expect to awake from the night-mair.
1841 T. Carlyle On Heroes v. 304 Struggling half-blindly, as in bitterness of death, against that!
1863 A. D. T. Whitney Faith Gartney's Girlhood i. 10 Holding the bank-note half-ashamedly in her hand.
1883 Harper's Mag. June 141/2 The..little trot..lisped, half-coaxingly, half-questioningly.
1913 J. London Let. 17 Oct. (1966) 408 He..is..half-apologetically explaining that it is the first time.
1923 J. M. Murry Pencillings 271, I was, half-consciously, anxious to be reassured.
1949 M. Mead Male & Female ii. 22 It is often said half-jokingly.
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