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《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'That you have frequently mentioned in the course of the agreeable and interesting conversations we have had together, walking up and down on these stones,' said the other, with a half smile breaking through the gravity of his dark face.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'You don't have half such a hard time as I do,' said Jo.
-- asked Meg, as she and Jo ran down to thank her for their gifts, half an hour later.
-- This was Jo's fa-vorite refuge, and here she loved to retire with half a dozen russets and a nice book, to enjoy the quiet and the society of a pet rat who lived near by and didn't mind her a particle.
-- Half a dozen jovial lads were talking about skates in another part of the room, and she longed to go and join them, for skat-ing was one of the joys of her life.
-- 'We shouldn't enjoy ourselves half so much as we do now.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I told him that I never liked to sleep two in a bed; that if I should ever do so, it would depend upon who the harpooneer might be, and that if he (the landlord) really had no other place for me, and the harpooneer was not decidedly objectionable, why rather than wander further about a strange town on so bitter a night, I would put up with the half of any decent man's blanket.
-- We were fain to button up our monkey jackets, and hold to our lips cups of scalding tea with our half frozen fingers.
-- I come to your house and want a bed; you tell me you can only give me half a one; that the other half belongs to a certain harpooneer.
-- But beginning to feel very cold now, half undressed as I was, and remembering what the landlord said about the harpooneer's not coming home at all that night, it being so very late, I made no more ado, but jumped out of my pantaloons and boots, and then blowing out the light tumbled into bed, and commended myself to the care of heaven.
-- I now screwed my eyes hard towards the half hidden image, feeling but ill at ease meantime to see what was next to follow.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Unfortunately for, the experimental philosophy of the female to whose protecting care Oliver Twist was delivered over, a similar result usually attended the operation of her system; for at the very moment when the child had contrived to exist upon the smallest possible portion of the weakest possible food, it did perversely happen in eight and a half cases out of ten, either that it sickened from want and cold, or fell into the fire from neglect, or got half-smothered by accident; in any one of which cases, the miserable little being was usually summoned into another world, and there gathered to the fathers it had never known in this.
-- 'I--I drink your health with cheerfulness, Mrs. Mann'; and he swallowed half of it.
-- With this view, they contracted with the water-works to lay on an unlimited supply of water; and with a corn-factor to supply periodically small quantities of oatmeal; and issued three meals of thin gruel a day, with an onion twice a week, and half a roll of Sundays.
-- There the boy remained, with a palpitating heart, for half an hour.
-- But the magistrate was half blind and half childish, so he couldn't reasonably be expected to discern what other people did.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Lizzy is not a bit better than the others; and I am sure she is not half so handsome as Jane, nor half so good-humoured as Lydia.
-- The gentlemen pronounced him to be a fine figure of a man, the ladies declared he was much handsomer than Mr. Bingley, and he was looked at with great admiration for about half the evening, till his man-ners gave a disgust which turned the tide of his popularity; for he was discovered to be proud; to be above his company, and above being pleased; and not all his large estate in Der-byshire could then save him from having a most forbidding, disagreeable countenance, and being unworthy to be com-pared with his friend.
-- Then the two third he danced with Miss King, and the two fourth with Maria Lucas, and the two fifth with Jane again, and the two sixth with Lizzy, and the BOULANGER ' 'If he had had any compassion for ME,' cried her hus-band impatiently, 'he would not have danced half so much!
-- Eliza-beth, easy and unaffected, had been listened to with much more pleasure, though not playing half so well; and Mary, at the end of a long concerto, was glad to purchase praise and gratitude by Scotch and Irish airs, at the request of her younger sisters, who, with some of the Lucases, and two or three officers, joined eagerly in dancing at one end of the room.
-- 'I am afraid, Mr. Darcy,' observed Miss Bingley in a half whisper, 'that this adventure has rather affected your admi-ration of her fine eyes.'
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To make short this sad part of my story, we went the way of all sailors; the punch was made and I was made half drunk with it: and in that one night's wickedness I drowned all my repentance, all my reflections upon my past conduct, all my resolutions for the future.
-- It happened one time, that going a-fishing in a calm morning, a fog rose so thick that, though we were not half a league from the shore, we lost sight of it; and rowing we knew not whither or which way, we laboured all day, and all the next night; and when the morning came we found we had pulled off to sea instead of pulling in for the shore; and that we were at least two leagues from the shore.
-- I conveyed also a great lump of beeswax into the boat, which weighed about half a hundred-weight, with a parcel of twine or thread, a hatchet, a saw, and a hammer, all of which were of great use to us afterwards, especially the wax, to make candles.
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