half是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 半， 一半a. 一半的， 不完全的ad. 一半地，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Half a dozen gas-lamps out of the street wouldn't have light-ed the entry too well, so you may suppose that it was pretty dark with Scrooge's dip.
-- This might have lasted half a minute, or a minute, but it seemed an hour.
-- 'Half past,' said Scrooge.
-- Away they all went, twenty couples at once; hands half round and back again the other way; down the middle and up again; round and round in various stages of affectionate grouping; old top couple always turning up in the wrong place; new top couple starting off again, as soon as they got there; all top couples at last, and not a bottom one to help them.
-- 46 Sons and Lovers 'You may the memory of what is past half makes me hope you will have pain in this.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He remained on the step, half in the coach and half out of; they re-mained in the road below him.
-- Jerry, left alone in the mist and darkness, dismounted meanwhile, not only to ease his spent horse, but to wipe the mud from his face, and shake the wet out of his hat-brim, which might be capable of holding about half a gallon.
-- No direct answer could have been half so forcible.
-- To exclude the cold, one half of this door was fast closed, and the other was opened but a very lit-tle way.
-- For the rest, the Old Bailey was famous as a kind of deadly inn-yard, from which pale travellers set out continually, in carts and coaches, on a violent passage into the other world: traversing some two miles and a half of public street and road, and shaming few good citizens, if any.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One half of the company was already seated at the card-table, the other half awaited the result of the stereotype preliminary observation of the lady of the house: 'Now let us see what we can do to amuse ourselves.'
-- I have half a mind to go back again, and say what I suffer.
-- Lieu-tenant, love, and lack of money that is a symbolic triangle, or much the same as the half of the shattered die of Fortune.
-- The doors were fastened with a loop of string; the floor of the rooms presented a stone paving half torn up; bats fluttered wildly about the ceiling; and as to the smell therein no that was beyond description.
-- In the evening, when little Kay was at home, and half undressed, he climbed up on the chair by the window, and peeped out of the little hole.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Half Moscow and Petersburg were friends and relations of Stepan Arkadyevitch.
-- "If they knew," he thought, bending his head with a significant air as he listened to the report, "what a guilty little boy their president was half an hour ago."
-- Strange as it may appear, it was with the household, the family, that Konstantin Levin was in love, especially with the feminine half of the household.
-- Levin half smiled.
-- He had only just left the Countess Bonina, with whom he had danced the first half of the waltz, and, scanning his kingdom--that is to say, a few couples who had started dancing--he caught sight of Kitty, entering, and flew up to her with that peculiar, easy amble which is confined to directors of balls.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Half an hour later several members of the Reform came in and drew up to the fireplace, where a coal fire was steadily burning.
-- He took it up, scrutinised it, passed it to his neighbour, he to the next man, and so on until the ingot, going from hand to hand, was transferred to the end of a dark entry; nor did it return to its place for half an hour.
-- He certainly did not bet to win, and had only staked the twenty thousand pounds, half of his fortune, because he foresaw that he might have to expend the other half to carry out this difficult, not to say unattainable, project.
-- The Mongolia plied regularly between Brindisi and Bombay via the Suez Canal, and was one of the fastest steamers belonging to the company, always making more than ten knots an hour between Brindisi and Suez, and nine and a half between Suez and Bombay.
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