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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I have a nice snug little farm," said Gabriel, with half a degree less assurance than when he had seized her hand.
-- "What I meant to tell you was only this," she said eagerly, and yet half conscious of the absurdity of the position she had made for herself "that nobody has got me yet as a sweetheart, instead of my having a dozen, as my aunt said; I hate to be thought men's property in that way, though possibly I shall be had some day.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Vauquer said half banteringly to him, "So those daughters of yours don't come to see you any more, eh?"
-- Tell Madame la Comtesse that I waited more than half an hour for her."
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is impossible to communicate to you a conception of the trembling sensation, half plea-surable and half fearful, with which I am preparing to depart.
-- We perceived a low carriage, fixed on a sledge and drawn by dogs, pass on towards the north, at the distance of half a mile; a being which had the shape of a man, but ap-parently of gigantic stature, sat in the sledge and guided the dogs.
-- 'I agree with you,' replied the stranger; 'we are unfash-ioned creatures, but half made up, if one wiser, better, dearer than ourselves such a friend ought to be do not 20 Frankensteinlend his aid to perfectionate our weak and faulty natures.
-- It was completely dark when I arrived in the environs of Geneva; the gates of the town were already shut; and I was obliged to pass the night at Secheron, a village at the distance of half a league from the city.
-- How sweet is the affection of others to such a wretch as I am!It removes more than half my misfortune, and I feel as if I could die in peace now that my innocence is acknowl-edged by you, dear lady, and your cousin.'
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If Gerald caught herclimbing a fence instead of walking half a mile to a gate, or sitting too late on the front steps with a beau, he castigatedher personally and with vehemence, but he did not mention the fact to Ellen or to Mammy.
-- And don't be forgetting that you are half Irish, Miss!Andto anyone with a drop of Irish blood in them the land they live on is like their mother.
-- His five brothers and their father stood six feet and over and broad in proportion, but little Gerald, at twenty-one,knew that five feet four and a half inches was as much as the Lord in His wisdom was going to allow him.
-- For half an hour, the girls would chatter and laugh, and then servants would pull theshutters and in the warm half-gloom the talk would die to whispers and finally expire in silence broken only by softregular breathing.
-- Besides, half the house now belonged to her, through Charles' will.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To five little stone lozenges, each about a foot and a half long, which were arranged in a neat row beside their grave, and were sacred to the memory of five little brothers of mine,--who gave up trying to get a living, exceedingly early in that universal struggle,--I am indebted for a belief I religiously entertained that they had all been born on their backs with their hands in their trousers-pockets, and had never taken them out in this state of existence.
-- "Darn me if I couldn't eat em," said the man, with a threatening shake of his head, "and if I han't half a mind to't!"
-- Joe got off with half a pint; but was made to swallow that (much to his disturbance, as he sat slowly munching and meditating before the fire), "because he had had a turn."
-- In the pantry, which was far more abundantly supplied than usual, owing to the season, I was very much alarmed by a hare hanging up by the heels, whom I rather thought I caught, when my back was half turned, winking.
-- I stole some bread, some rind of cheese, about half a jar of mincemeat (which I tied up in my pocket-handkerchief with my last night's slice), some brandy from a stone bottle (which I decanted into a glass bottle I had secretly used for making that intoxicating fluid, Spanish-liquorice-water, up in my room: diluting the stone bottle from a jug in the kitchen cupboard), a meat bone with very little on it, and a beautiful round compact pork pie.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The sun was setting fast, and already half of its circle had sunk behind the hill: Jorindel on a sudden looked behind him, and saw through the bushes that they had, without knowing it, sat down close under the old walls of the castle.
-- With that they went into the castle togeth-er, and found a great many servants there, and the rooms all richly furnished, and full of golden chairs and tables; and behind the castle was a garden, and around it was a park half a mile long, full of sheep, and goats, and hares, and deer; and in the courtyard were stables and cow-houses.
-- The fisherman was half asleep, but the thought frightened him so much that he started and fell out of bed.
-- The good mouse consented, but the cat crept behind the town walls to the church, and devoured half the pot of fat.
-- said Chanticleer; 'no, that will never do; I had rather by half walk home; I'll sit on the box and be coachman, if you like, but I'll not draw.'
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