英:[ˌhɑːfˈweɪ]
美:[ˌhæfˈweɪ]
英:[ˌhɑːfˈweɪ]
美:[ˌhæfˈweɪ]
half·way
haef weI
词根:half
adj.half 一半的;不完全的;半途的
halftime 正常时间一半的
adv.half 一半地;部分地
n.half 一半;半场;半学年
halftime 中场休息;半日工作
Adjective
1. equally distant from the extremes
2. at a point midway between two extremes;
"at the halfway mark"
3. including only half or a portion;
"halfway measures"
Adverb
1. at half the distance; at the middle;
"he was halfway down the ladder when he fell"
give up halfway半途而废;中途放弃
halfway housen. 路程之中途地点;小客栈
meet halfway让步;妥协
也称为 half-way,古英语为 healfweg; 参见 half 和 way(名词)。Halfway house 最初是指位于城市或阶段中间的旅馆的普遍名称。
Adverb Middle English half wey, from half half >entry 2 + wey way >entry 1 Adjective derivative of halfway >entry 1
The first known use of halfway was in the 14th century
hallucinateverb
to have hallucinations or experience as a hallucination
hallucinateverb
to have hallucinations or experience as a hallucination
hallowverb
to make holy or set apart for holy use : consecrate
to respect greatly : venerate
hallmarknoun
an official mark stamped on gold and silver articles in England to certify their purity
a distinguishing characteristic or feature
bears the hallmarks of genius
hallelujah1 of 2interjection
—used to express praise, joy, or thanks
hallelujah2 of 2noun
a shout or song of praise or thanksgiving
halibutnoun
either of two marine food fishes of the Atlantic or Pacific oceans that are the largest flatfishes reaching several hundred pounds
halfwayadjective
midway between two points
stop at the halfway mark
partial sense 3
halfway measures
1 Kaede kept her eyes on them, and she had just crossed the halfway point when Taisin’s head went underneath and did not come up again.
2 Two days later, halfway through the service, it seemed as though Ruth was going to be the lone member of the bereaved family there.
3 He was halfway home before he realized that the twisted tennis shirt was still in his hand.
4 She could hear him talking to Daddy who was only halfway downstairs, still in his pajamas.
5 Thomas turned to look at Newt: limping along as well as he could, he’d only made it halfway to Thomas.
6 I was about halfway through when she must have spotted me from the kitchen window.
7 The blare of the horns is so loud that Aurora comes to an abrupt stop halfway across the road and covers her ears.
8 It’s only when I’m halfway there that I realize I haven’t gone to see the dragonflies.
9 One was from a halfway house intake coordinator who testified that, in his experience treating crack addicts, whites and blacks dealt and used the drugs in similar proportions.
10 I notice that halfway through every party, Tim always pairs off with Penny.
我注意到每次联欢会举行到一半, 蒂姆总是与彭尼结伴而去.
11 But they come to school and many of them try to be halfway respectful while they’re here.
12 As if on cue, there’s a series of bumps from the other side of the closet door, and Henry, halfway into Alex’s boxers, comes literally tumbling out of the closet.
13 He wished they were looking at it from the beach on Long Island rather than from halfway around the world, sailing toward almost certain death.
14 The storm blew itself out, the surge waters receded, and there, sticking halfway above the surface, was the lost crab boat.
15 They had been halfway through their three-week voyage home when they sailed into the path of a wicked storm.
16 By the halfway mark, Washington had open water on both boats.
17 Jimmy took a broom handle and smacked one of the cats hard, skidding it halfway across the yard.
18 In this manner they covered the distance to the pylon line, halfway to the foot of the down.
19 There’s a faulty signal on this line, about halfway through my journey.
20 This only goes halfway to explaining what really happened.
这只是部分地解释了实际发生的事。
1 半途
2 中期的
3 将近
4 中间的
middle intermediate median midway medial in-between centre mean mid neutral mediate intermediary mesne mesial AC/DC internuncial osculant medium gray mezzanine transitive
5 还可以
7 部分
brush-fire part partial sectional segmental sectoral segmentary half locally partly partially fractionally partway sectionally share page section piece region division portion segment slice proportion quantum moiety cantle partage way aspect sector strand reel constituent some end side percentage patch dimension
8 过得去的
10 不完全
half partial incomplete lame imperfect deficient inchoate partially ill lamely brokenly imperfection incompletion under- by halves crude defective unfinished inchoative hardly deficiency half-pie part bad sketchy bobtail infelicitous stickit inexhaustive partway
11 在途中
12 中期
13 在中间
14 大致上
16 不彻底地
17 几乎
most much almost half near nearly virtually practically well-nigh anear by a turn of a hair by the turn of a hair next to as much as pretty well just on next door to nothing short of come near within an inch of little short of quasi wellnigh like feckly nigh by a hair near as damn it had like to have done
18 不完全的
half partial incomplete lame imperfect deficient inchoate part bad sketchy bobtail infelicitous stickit inexhaustive
22 中间
middle intermediate median midway medial in-between mid- centre medium midst mean mid neutral mediate intermediary mesne mesial between meantime meso- AC/DC internuncial osculant gray mezzanine transitive mes- intermediacy
24 不彻底的
26 一定程度上
30 在中途
31 相当地