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。
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the 5th of November, which was the beginning of summer in those parts, the weather being very hazy, the seamen spied a rock within half a cable's length of the ship; but the wind was so strong, that we were driven directly upon it, and im-mediately split.
-- We therefore trusted ourselves to the mercy of the waves, and in about half an hour the boat was overset by a sudden flurry from the north.
-- I then advanced forward near half a mile, but could not discover any sign of houses or inhabitants; at least I was in so weak a condition, that I did not observe them.
-- I was extremely tired, and with that, and the heat of the weather, and about half a pint of brandy that I drank as I left the ship, I found myself much inclined to sleep.
-- When the people observed I was quiet, they discharged no more ar-rows; but, by the noise I heard, I knew their numbers increased; and about four yards from me, over against my right ear, I heard a knocking for above an hour, like that of people at work; when turning my head that way, as well as the pegs and strings would permit me, I saw a stage erected about a foot and a half from the ground, capable of holding four of the inhabitants, with two or three ladders to mount it: from whence one of them, who seemed to be a person of quality, made me a long speech, whereof I understood not one syllable.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After a pause, one half of the children cried in chorus, 'Yes, sir!'
-- With my head in its present state, I couldn't remember the mere names of half the facts you have got to attend to.'
-- When she was half a dozen years younger, Louisa had been overheard to begin a conversation with her brother one day, by saying 'Tom, I wonder' upon which Mr. Gradgrind, who was the person overhearing, stepped forth into the light and said, 'Louisa, never wonder!'
-- Mr. Bounderby thinks as father thinks, and is a great deal rougher, and not half so kind.'
-- 'You don't know,' said Sissy, half crying, 'what a stupid girl I am.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Though lying in the centre of a town, it was perfectly rural in its aspect--half wood, half bricks, with old-fashioned gables--one of the few old houses spared by the great fire of 1842.
-- He admired its binding, the clearness of its characters, the ease with which it opened in his hand, and repeated aloud, half a dozen times, that it was very, very old.
-- At length, however, we went on board, and at half past ten were steaming down the Great Belt.
-- A centigrade thermometer of Eigel, counting up to 150 degrees, which to me did not appear half enough--or too much.
-- At five o'clock in the morning I was awakened from the only real half hour's sleep of the night by the loud neighing of horses under my window.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then he was pronounced a cure, and could return to life again, with the lower half of his body, from the hips down, paralysed for ever.
-- Time went on as the clock does, half past eight instead of half past seven.
-- You, for example, May, you squander half your force with women.
-- Connie only half heard this piece of novel, masculine in-formation.
-- All the great words, it seemed to Connie, were cancelled for her generation: love, joy, happiness, home, mother, father, husband, all these great, dynamic words were half dead now, and dying from day to day.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Upon it, one of the two men lolled, half sitting and half lying, with his knees drawn up, and his feet and shoulders planted against the opposite sides of the aperture.
-- The child put all these things between the bars into the soft, Smooth, well-shaped hand, with evident dread more than once drawing back her own and looking at the man with her fair brow roughened into an expression half of fright and half of anger.
-- It was mere swagger and challenge; but in this particular, as in many others, blustering assertion goes for proof, half over the world.
-- He spoke to a handsome girl with lustrous dark hair and eyes, and very neatly dressed, who replied with a half curtsey as she passed off in the train of Mrs Meagles and Pet.
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