| 单词 | half-raw | 
| 释义 | > as lemmashalf-raw  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.extracted from half-comb. form  (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. < as lemmas | 
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