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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Faith, Monsieur Fix, I assure you I know nothing about it, nor would I give half a crown to find out."
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Chapter 2 The state of Winnemac is bounded by Michigan, Ohio, Illinois, and Indiana, and like them it is half Eastern, half Midwestern.
-- He lolled in a brown- corduroy Morris chair, being quietly humorous for the benefit of Martin and half a dozen other fanatical young chemists, and baiting Dr. Norman Brumfit, the instructor in English.
-- Zenith, with its saloons, was fifteen miles from Mohalis and the University of Winnemac; half an hour by the huge, roaring, steel interurban trolleys, and to Zenith the medical students went for their forays.
-- He could often get through half a page of it before he bogged down in chemical formulae.
-- He thrust the syringe into the tube, he withdrew the piston dextrously with his index finger, and lectured: "Take one half c.c.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Raskolnikov, a student, I came here a month ago,' the young man made haste to mutter, with a half bow, remem-bering that he ought to be more polite.
-- 'Here, sir: as we say ten copecks the rouble a month, so I must take fifteen copecks from a rouble and a half for the month in advance.
-- But even so, I could not please her; and then I lost my place too, and that through no fault of mine but through changes in the office; and then I did touch it!芒聙娄 It will be a year and a half ago soon since we found ourselves at last after many wanderings and numerous calamities in this magnificent capital, adorned with innumerable monuments.
-- The door leading to the other rooms, or rather cupboards, into which Amalia Lippevechsel's flat was divided stood half open, and there was shouting, uproar and laughter within.
-- A big clumsy sofa occupied almost the whole of one wall and half the floor space of the room; it was once covered with chintz, but was now in rags and served Ras-kolnikov as a bed.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Consequently theadvertisement was withdrawn at a dead loss- for as to sherry, mypoor dear mother's own sherry was in the market then- and tenyears afterwards the caul was put up in a raffle down in our part ofthe country, to fifty members at half a crown a head, the winner tospend five shillings.
-- He might have offered him one gently, or half a one, or afragment of one; for he spoke as slowly as he walked; but hewouldn't have been rude to him, and he couldn't have been quickwith him, for any earthly consideration.
-- There is nothing half so green that I know anywhere, as the grassof that churchyard; nothing half so shady as its trees; nothing halfso quiet as its tombstones.
-- I look at the sunlight coming in at theopen door through the porch, and there I see a stray sheep- I don'tmean a sinner, but mutton- half making up his mind to come intothe church.
-- When I half awoke from this uncomfortable doze, I found Peggotty and my mother both in tears, and both talking.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- How was she to bear the change? It was true that her friend was going only half a mile from them; but Emma was aware that great must be the difference between a Mrs. Weston, only half a mile from them, and a Miss Tay-lor in the house; and with all her advantages, natural and domestic, she was now in great danger of suffering from in-tellectual solitude.
-- She had many acquaintance in the place, for her father was universally civ-il, but not one among them who could be accepted in lieu of Miss Taylor for even half a day.
-- I could not walk half so far.'
-- It rained dreadfully hard for half an hour while we were at breakfast.
-- Oh no; we all felt that we were going to be only half a mile apart, and were sure of meeting every day.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Gabriel had not beheld the sight for more than half a minute, when the vehicle was brought to a standstill just beneath his eyes.
-- He returned to the hut, bringing in his arms a new-born lamb, consisting of four legs large enough for a full-grown sheep, united by a seemingly inconsiderable membrane about half the substance of the legs collectively, which constituted the animal's entire body just at present.
-- A rather hard couch, formed of a few corn sacks thrown carelessly down, covered half the floor of this little habitation, and here the young man stretched himself along, loosened his woollen cravat, and closed his eyes.
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