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《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was covered with snow, and scarcely distinguishable from the surrounding rocks; but Wilson and Mulrady succeeded in digging it out and clearing the opening after half an hour's hard work, to the great joy of the whole party, who eagerly took possession of it.
-- Besides, he set the example himself, and said:"Laugh away, my friends, laugh as loud as you like; you can't laugh at me half as much as I laugh at myself!"
-- They got back to the camp in less than half an hour, and were hailed with acclamations by the whole party or rather the provisions and horses were.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'On the contrary, I have half a sovereign for you if you will give me a clear answer to my questions.'
-- Poor Sir Charles's head was of a very rare type, half Gaelic, half Iver-nian in its characteristics.
-- Our driver half turned in his seat.
-- The lodge was a ruin of black granite and bared ribs of rafters, but facing it was a new building, half constructed, the first fruit of Sir Charles's South African gold.
-- A half moon broke through the rifts of racing clouds.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- observed the clerk, while his face assumed an expression of great deference and servil-ity if not of absolute alarm: 'what, a son of that very Semen Rogojin hereditary honourable citizen who died a month or so ago and left two million and a half of roubles?'
-- 'And how do YOU know that he left two million and a half of roubles?'
-- But HERE I should imagine the most terrible part of the whole punishment is, not the bodily pain at all but the certain knowledge that in an hour, then in ten minutes, then in half a minute, then now this very IN-STANT your soul must quit your body and that you will no longer be a man and that this is certain, CERTAIN!
-- 'Oh, I'll write you a new one in half a minute,' said the prince, 'if you like!'
-- It fell from a great height, but it looked quite low, and it was half a mile away, though it did not seem fifty paces.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had left a wife behind him in Phylace to tear her cheeks in sor-row, and his house was only half finished, for he was slain by a Dardanian warrior while leaping foremost of the Achae-ans upon the soil of Troy.
-- I am in half a mind to thrash you, in which case you will be the first to reap the fruits of your scurvy knavery.
-- Therefore turn, and charge at the foe, to stand or fall as is the game of war; whoever shall bring Patroclus, dead though he be, into the hands of the Trojans, and shall make Ajax give way before him, I will give him one half of the spoils while I keep the other.
-- About the other city there lay encamped two hosts in gleaming armour, and they were divided whether to sack it, or to spare it and accept the half of what it contained.
-- What is the use of our bandying hard like women who when they fall foul of one another go out and wrangle in the streets, one half true and the other lies, as rage in-spires them?
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The chemist's shop in Bramblehurst could not boast half so many.
-- Then he half turned his head and immediately turned it away again.
-- They heard the chink of money, and realised that the robber had found the housekeeping reserve of gold two pounds ten in half sovereigns altogether.
-- For half a minute, perhaps, they stood gaping, then Mrs. Bunting went across the room and looked behind the screen, while Mr. Bunting, by a kindred impulse, peered under the desk.
-- I half guessed I might ha' known.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had paused half way through the hatchway, looking back, still astonished beyond measure at the grotesque ug-liness of this black-faced creature.
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