| 单词 | half |
| 释义 | quantifier, adjective | noun, pronoun | adverb halfhalf1 /hæf/ ●●● S1 W1 quantifier, adjective [only before noun] 150% of an amount, time, distance, number, etc.: a half a bottle of beer Only half the audience stayed.half the cost/size/amount etc. It costs the same but it’s half the size.half an hour/a mile/a pound etc. The farm is half a mile down the road.a half hour/mile/pound etc. I’ll wait for another half hour.2if someone or something is half one thing and half something else, it is a combination of those two things: Lacey’s mother is half Chinese and half Portuguese.3half a chance a small opportunity to do something, especially one which someone would take eagerly: I’d leave tomorrow if I had half a chance.4half a dozen a)six: half a dozen eggs b)several or many: He had rewritten the story half a dozen times.5half a minute/second spoken a very short time: This will only take half a minute.6be half the battle spoken used to say that when you have done the most difficult part of an activity, everything else is easier: Getting Jeff to listen to me is half the battle.7half the... used to emphasize that you mean a very large part of an amount, time, group, etc.: She seems to be asleep half the time. For kids, getting dirty is half the fun.8half the story an explanation that is not complete, used especially to say that someone is trying to keep something secret: How could you side with them after hearing only half the story?9have half a mind to do something spoken used to say, often in a threatening way, that you would like to do something but you probably will not do it: I have half a mind to tell her I don’t want her at my house. → see also half-measures quantifier, adjective | noun, pronoun | adverb halfhalf2 ●●● S1 W1 noun, pronoun (plural halves /hævz/) [countable] 150% 1/2; one of two equal parts of something: Cut it down the middle, and we’ll each have a half.half of something the second half of the chapter two halves of an orangea week/month/year etc. and a half I talked to Susan about a week and a half ago.top/bottom/northern etc. half the southern half of the country She tore the piece of paper in half (=into two pieces).cut/reduce something by half (=make something 50% smaller)2SPORTS EVENT either of the two parts into which a sports event is divided: the first/second half Johnson scored 15 points in the second half.3NUMBER math the number ½: Four halves make 2.one/two/three etc. and a half The insect is two and a half inches long. Rachel is four and a half years old.4go halves (on something) to share something, especially the cost of something, equally between two people: Do you want to go halves on a pizza?5half past one/two/three etc. British thirty minutes after the hour mentioned: It’s already half past twelve!6and a half spoken used to emphasize that someone has a quality very strongly: He’s a flirt and a half, isn’t he?7not do something by halves old-fashioned to do something very eagerly and using a lot of care and effort8your better/other half humorous your husband, wife or partner in a relationship9you don’t know the half of it spoken used to emphasize that a situation is more difficult, more complicated, or worse than people realize: “It sounds like it was horrible.” “Oh, you don’t know the half of it.”10how the other half lives how people who are much richer or much poorer than you manage their lives, work, money, etc.: Try taking the bus, and see how the other half lives. quantifier, adjective | noun, pronoun | adverb halfhalf3 ●●● S2 W3 adverb 1partly, but not completely: Her first album is now half finished. The door was only half closed. I half hoped they wouldn’t come. I said it half jokingly (=I wasn’t completely serious).half-filled/half-empty etc. A half-filled wine glass stood on the table.half awake/asleep It was ten o’clock and I was half asleep.2used to emphasize something, especially when a situation is extremely bad: The kitten looked half starved. I was half out of my mind with worry.3not half as good/interesting etc. (as) much less good, less interesting, etc. than someone or something else: The movie wasn’t half as entertaining as the book.4half as much/big etc. half the size, amount, etc. of something else: The new computer has all the same functions, but is only half as large.5not half bad an expression meaning “good,” used especially when you are surprised that something is good: The pizza here isn’t half bad.6half and half partly one thing and partly another: It looked like the crowd was about half and half, men and women. |
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