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《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was evident that the balloon could no longer support itself!Several times already had the crests of the enormous billows licked the bottom of the net, making it still heavier, and the balloon o nly half rose, like a bird with a wounded wing.
-- Half an hour later the land was not more than a mile off, but the balloon, exhausted, flabby, hanging in great folds, had gas in its upper part alone.
-- The voyagers, clinging to the net, were still too heavy for it, and soon, half plunged into the sea, they were beaten by the furious waves.
-- The engineer had disappeared to the north of the shore, and nearly half a mile from the place where the castaways had landed.
-- The islet and the coast were separated by a channel about half a mile in breadth, through which rushed an extremely rapid current.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Covent Garden Market at sunrise too, in the spring or summer, when the fragrance of sweet flowers is in the air, over-powering even the unwholesome streams of last night's debauchery, and driving the dusky thrush, whose cage has hung outside a garret window all night long, half mad with joy!Poor bird!the only neighbouring thing at all akin to the other little captives, some of whom, shrinking from the hot hands of drunken purchasers, lie drooping on the path already, while others, soddened by close contact, await the time when they shall be watered and freshened up to please more sober company, and make old clerks who pass them on their road to business, wonder what has filled their breasts with visions of the country.
-- 'You needn't act the chairman here,' said his friend, half aside.
-- The jolly old grandfather says to the wild young grandson, "I have brought you up and educated you, Fred; I have put you in the way of getting on in life; you have bolted a little out of course, as young fellows often do; and you shall never have another chance, nor the ghost of half a one."
-- Will you allow me to whisper half a syllable, sir?'
-- The noise was at its height, and half the company had elevated their voices into a perfect shriek in order to drown the voices of the other half, when Mrs Jiniwin was seen to change colour and shake her forefinger stealthily, as if exhorting them to silence.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Under such conditions the girl grew up half servant, half lady.
-- Half rising, he slipped his smooth, white feet into the slippers, threw a silk morning gown over his broad shoulders, and with quick and heavy stride, walked into the adjoining dressing-room, which was permeated with the artificial odors of elixirs, perfumes, cosmetics.
-- At this point the assistant public prosecutor half rose from his seat, uncomfortably resting on one elbow.
-- The mouth was half open.
-- Above, on the gallery, were other convicts with heads half shaven, whose presence was manifested by a clanking of chains.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had half a mind to follow, till I remembered how he detested any fuss about himself.
-- I stood looking at it for a little space half a minute, perhaps, or half an hour.
-- I resolved to mount to the summit of a crest, perhaps a mile and a half away, from which I could get a wider view of this our planet in the year Eight Hundred and Two Thousand Seven Hundred and One, A.D. For that, I should explain, was the date the little dials of my machine recorded.
-- "There I found a seat of some yellow metal that I did not recognise, corroded in places with a kind of pinkish rust and half smothered in soft moss, the arm-rests cast and filed into the resemblance of griffins' heads.
-- (Afterwards I found I had got only a half truth or only a glimpse of one facet of the truth.)
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the black kitten had been finished with earlier in the afternoon, and so, while Alice was sitting curled up in a corner of the great arm-chair, half talking to herself and half asleep, the kitten had been having a grand game of romps with the ball of worsted Alice had been trying to wind up, and had been rolling it up and down till it had all come undone again; and there it was, spread over the hearth-rug, all knots and tangles, with the kitten running after its own tail in the middle.
-- Kitty, dear, let's pretend ' And here I wish I could tell you half the things Alice used to say, beginning with her favourite phrase 'Let's pretend.'
-- She had indeed: when Alice first found her in the ashes, she had been only three inches high and here she was, half a head taller than Alice herself!
-- "If seven maids with seven mopsSwept it for half a year,Do you suppose," the Walrus said,"That they could get it clear?
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