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。
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Certain it is, his voice The Legend of Sleepy Hollowresounded far above all the rest of the congregation; and there are peculiar quavers still to be heard in that church, and which may even be heard half a mile off, quite to the opposite side of the mill-pond, on a still Sunday morning, which are said to be legitimately descended from the nose of Ichabod Crane.
-- He would delight them equally by his anecdotes of witchcraft, and of the direful omens and portentous sights and sounds in the air, which prevailed in the earlier times of Connecticut; and would frighten them woefully with speculations upon com-ets and shooting stars; and with the alarming fact that the world did absolutely turn round, and that they were half the time topsy-turvy!
-- The scholars were hurried through their lessons without stopping at trifles; those who were nimble skipped over half with impunity, and those who were tardy had a smart application now and then in the rear, to quicken their speed or help them over a tall word.
-- The gallant Ichabod now spent at least an extra half hour at his toilet, brushing and furbishing up his best, and indeed only suit of rusty black, and arranging his locks by a bit of broken looking-glass that hung up in the schoolhouse.
-- The musician was an old gray-headed negro, who had been the itinerant orchestra of the neighborhood for more than half a century.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She tried to talk to him, partly by signs, partly in pidgin French, which, for some reason, she thought would be more comprehensible to him, and she had half a dozen phrases of English.
-- In half an hour the Dutchman, looking at his watch, announced that he must go.
-- "You look half starved."
-- "I am half starved."
-- I had a rapid glimpse of a tiny apartment, half room, half studio, in which was nothing but a bed, canvases with their faces to the wall, an easel, a table, and a chair.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was already half prepared by the sounds I had heard for what I saw.
-- The captain came half round, and regarded him with the dull and solemn eyes of a drunken man.
-- The dingey of the 'Lady Vain' had been towing behind; it was half full of water, had no oars, and was quite unvict-ualled.
-- Then I realized that I was in that little hell of mine again, now half swamped; and looking back over the gunwale, I saw the schooner standing away from me, with the red-haired captain mocking at me over the taff-rail, and turning towards the island saw the launch growing smaller as she approached the beach.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now to Baloo's word I will add one bull, and a fat one, newly killed, not half a mile from here, if ye will accept the man's cub according to the Law.
-- Bagheera stretched himself at full length and half shut his eyes.
-- The big panther turned his head away in half a minute.
-- Then more than half the Pack yelled: 'A man!A man!
-- 'What was the use of half slaying him with blows if thou didst not warn him?'
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The lengthened sheet of the Champlain stretched from the fron-tiers of Canada, deep within the borders of the neighboring province of New York, forming a natural passage across half the distance that the French were compelled to master in order to strike their enemies.
-- At this spot were gathered some half dozen horses, caparisoned in a manner which showed that two, at least, were destined to bear the persons of females, of a rank that it was not usu-al to meet so far in the wilds of the country.
-- 'If you journey to the lake, you have mistaken your route,' said Heyward, haughtily; 'the highway thither is at least half a mile behind you.'
-- 'I am as ready to do the one as the other; but to fight the Iroquois 'tis necessary to find the skulkers; and to eat, 'tis necessary to get the game talk of the devil and he will come; there is a pair of the biggest antlers I have seen this season, moving the bushes below the hill!Now, Uncas,' he continued, in a half whisper, and laughing with a kind of inward sound, like one who had learned to be watchful, 'I will bet my charger three times full of powder, against a foot of wampum, that I take him atwixt the eyes, and nearer to the right than to the left.'
-- Would to God, that he who holds the honor of our royal master in his guardianship, would show but half her firmness'!'
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