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单词 half-moan
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half-moan
c. With nouns denoting actions, bodily states, gestures, utterances, etc., as in half-dream, half frown, half-hint, half-laugh, half-look, half-moan, half-sleep, half-whisper.Recorded earliest in half-smile n. See also half-wave n. 2.
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1653 F. G. tr. ‘G. de Scudéry’ Artamenes I. iv. ii. 269 Let him enjoy that rest in his death.., and think (said she with a half smile) [Fr. en sous-riant à demy] that the jealousie of Otanus has not been my only punishment.
1677 J. Brown Christ the Way sig. O5 Or if it cannot do so much as look, yet it may give an half-look, and lie before Him, who waiteth to be gracious.
1730 M. Concanen Speculatist 130 He..tipp'd me the half Whisper, and with a wise Aspect pronounced, that we lived in a damned Atheistical Age.
1746 E. Haywood Female Spectator IV. xx. 206 But certainly there was nothing so very difficult in acquainting an Aunt with the Sentiments you are possessed of for her Niece;—provided, continued she, with a half Frown, they are of a nature you are not ashamed to avow.
1816 J. Scott Paris Revisited viii. 237 A kind of stupified half-sleep.
1862 G. Borrow Wild Wales II. xxxii. 370 ‘In truth I am,’ said she, with a half laugh.
1898 R. Kipling Day's Work 392 Leading him on to see, more by half-hints than by any direct word, how boys and men are all of a piece.
1928 D. H. Lawrence Lady Chatterley's Lover xvi. 278 She could still see on Connie's face..the half-dream of passion.
1950 A. Koestler in R. Crossman God that Failed 31 Once or twice she spoke on the telephone to comrades of hers—always in half-words and half-hints.
1990 S. S. Tepper Raising Stones i. iii. 86 Spiggy pulled himself together, barely,..and said in a half-moan, ‘Settlement One had a thirty percent shortfall on projections.’
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