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高中CET4CET6

英[hɑ?f]
美[h?f]

基本釋義

n.
一半; 半場; 半品脫; 半(價)票
adv.
部分地; 一半; 及其
det.
pron

詞性變化

實用例句

Two halves of bitter, please.

請來兩份半品脫的苦啤酒。

牛津詞典

No goals were scored in the first half.

上半場沒有得分。

牛津詞典

We'll need to reduce the weight by half .

我們得把重量減輕一半。

牛津詞典

I've divided the money in half .

我把錢平均分成了兩半。

牛津詞典

The second half of the book is more exciting.

書的后半部分比較刺激有趣。

牛津詞典

An hour and a half is allowed for the exam.

考試時間為一個半小時。

牛津詞典

One and a half hours are allowed for the exam.

考試時間為一個半小時。

牛津詞典

two and a half kilos (2?)

兩公斤半

牛津詞典

He's constantly on the phone to his girlfriend. We have to go halves on the phone bill which drives me mad.

他總和女友煲電話粥。令我抓狂的是電話費可是我們倆平攤的。

In Italy they rarely do things by halves. Designers work thoroughly, producing the world's most wearable clothes in the most beautiful fabrics.

在意大利,人們很少馬虎從事。設(shè)計師們精益求精,用最美麗的布料制造出世界上最適合穿著的衣服。

Cutting food intake by half is an incredibly difficult thing for anyone to do.

將進食量減半對任何人來說都是件非常難的事。

The number of 7 year olds who read poorly has increased by half over the past 5 years...

不識字的7歲兒童的人數(shù)在過去5年里增加了一半。

I was worried that my career, my children and my other half might become too much to cope with.

我擔(dān)心我的事業(yè)、我的孩子們和我的那口子可能會讓我應(yīng)付不過來。

It becomes clear that Montgomerie has a job and half on his hands.

很顯然,蒙哥馬利手頭有一大堆事情要做。

Poor old Henry, and not half as clever as he'd thought.

可憐的老亨利,以為自己多聰明。

You're not half the man you think you are...

你根本不是你自己想象的那種人。

I didn't half get into trouble...

我遇到了大麻煩。

You don't half sound confident...

你聽起來非常有信心。

All this time I've been half sick about you and why you wouldn't write.

我一直非常擔(dān)心你,一直在想你為什么不來信。

He felt half dead with tiredness...

他已經(jīng)累得半死不活了。

They are supposed to be here at about half four.

他們應(yīng)該在4點半左右到達這里。

I think I got there about four and left about half past.

我想我是4點鐘左右到達那里,大約半個小時后離開的。

'What time were you planning lunch?'—'Half past twelve, if that's convenient.'...

“你打算什么時候吃午飯?”“如果方便的話,12點半?!?/p>

She was half Italian and half English.

她是半意大利半英國血統(tǒng)。

...a half of lager and a sandwich.

半品脫淡啤酒和一份三明

The only goal was scored by Jakobsen early in the second half.

唯一的一粒進球是由雅各布森在下半場剛開始時打進的。

His refrigerator frequently looked half empty...

他的冰箱里經(jīng)常半空著。

His eyes were half closed...

他雙眼半閉。

More than half of all households report incomes above £35,000...

半數(shù)以上的家庭申報收入超過35,000英鎊。

They need an extra two and a half thousand pounds to complete the project...

他們還需要2,500英鎊才能完成該項目。

真題例句

The millennials who will soon make up half the workforce in rich countries were raised from nursery school onwards to work in groups.

出自-2017年6月閱讀原文

Almost half of those surveyed said their companies were either in the middle of restructuring or about to embark on it; and for the most part, restructuring meant putting more emphasis on teams.

出自-2017年6月閱讀原文

The result is falling water tables in countries with half the world's people, including the three big grain producers—China, India and the U.S.

出自-2016年6月閱讀原文

During the second half of the 20th century, grain prices rose dramatically several times.

出自-2016年6月閱讀原文

Two and a half centuries on, most countries impose some sort of tax on alcohol and tobacco.

出自-2016年12月閱讀原文

They found that the majority of both kids and adults opted for a half-sized portion when combined with a prize.

出自-2016年12月閱讀原文

Or maybe the reward of a half-sized portion could be a half-sized dessert to be claimed only on a future date.

出自-2016年12月閱讀原文

Most kids and adults don't actually feel hungry when they eat half of their meal.

出自-2016年12月閱讀原文

If we replaced half of our administrative staff with classroom teachers, we might actually get a majority of our classes back to 20 or fewer students per teacher.

出自-2016年12月閱讀原文

Both kids and adults felt satisfied with only half of their meal portions.

出自-2016年12月閱讀原文

There have been half-hearted but well-publicized efforts by some food companies to reduce calories in their processed foods, but the Standard American Diet is still the polar opposite of the healthy, mostly plant-based diet that just about every expert says we should be eating.

出自-2015年12月閱讀原文

That was nothing though, compared to Germans, Italians, and the French, who stayed up around an hour and a half later on various days throughout the summer to watch the Cup.

出自-2015年12月閱讀原文

Since fewer than half of Americans say they cook at an intermediate level and only 20% describe their cooking skills as advanced, the crisis is one of confidence.

出自-2015年12月閱讀原文

Russians, for example, began to wake up about a half-hour later each day after President Vladimir Putin shifted the country permanently to winter time starting on October 26.

出自-2015年12月閱讀原文

Isn't it a bit weird that spending it should happen in half a blink of an eye? Doesn't a wallet—that time-honoured Friday-night feeling of pleasing, promising fatness—represent something that matters? But I'll leave the economics to the experts.

出自-2015年12月閱讀原文

Brits stayed up a half-hour later to watch it, and then they woke up earlier than usual the next morning thanks to summer nights, the phenomenon in which the sun barely sets in northern countries in the summertime.

出自-2015年12月閱讀原文

Central heating was present in every upper-and middle-class home by the second half of the 19th century.

出自-2014年6月閱讀原文

Sales in 2009 could be barely half of that.

出自-2013年6月閱讀原文

Half a century later GM is a typical example of poor management

出自-2013年6月閱讀原文

their production capacity has shrunk to less than half of the previous year

出自-2013年6月閱讀原文

They are subdivided into half a dozen sections

出自-2013年6月閱讀原文

More than half of their time is spent directing traffic and writing parking tickets.

出自-2012年6月閱讀原文

But at the same time, nearly half of U.S. carbon emissions come from heating, cooling and powering our homes, offices and other buildings.

出自-2010年6月閱讀原文

The closest that Herpin came to resting was to sit in a rocking chair and read a half dozen newspapers.

出自-2014年6月聽力原文

Over half teenagers interviewed said they read more than ten books a year.

出自-2013年6月聽力原文

well, I contacted his office half an hour ago, and his secretary said he was out for lunch until 2:

出自-2012年12月聽力原文

And in the first part of the lesson, the first half hour, the man who runs the class will go though some particular part of the car, and we'll learn about it

出自-2012年12月聽力原文

Partly as a consequence of this limited time, over half of all American homes now have microwave ovens

出自-2012年12月聽力原文

It's only 799, half the usual price and it's very tasty.

出自-2012年6月聽力原文

Half of our managers are women.

出自-2010年6月聽力原文

According to data released in January 2017, 56 percent of bills are paid online, which means that just under half of payments still rely on delivery services to be completed.

2019年12月四級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section B

All had the same number of calories over the day, but half had breakfast, while the other half did not.

2019年12月四級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section B

Almost half of those surveyed said their companies were either in the middle of restructuring or about to embark on 開始 it; and for the most part, restructuring meant putting more emphasis on teams.

2017年6月四級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section B

Around half of ocean heat intake since 1865 has taken place since 1997, researchers report online in Nature Climate Change.

2016年12月四級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section A

Female applicants to postdoctoral positions in geosciences were nearly half as likely to receive excellent letters of recommendation, compared with their male counterparts.

2017年12月四級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section C

He was trapped under a beam about 10 feet below the surface for nearly an hour and a half.

2018年12月四級真題(第二套)聽力 Section A

Isn't it a bit weird that spending it should happen in half a blink of an eye?

2015年12月四級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section C

Mail delivery service is still responsible for the completion of almost half of payments.

2019年12月四級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section B

One of the press operators arrived an hour and a half late.

2016年12月四級真題(第一套)聽力 Section B

One study recruited 200 obese adults to take part in a 16-week-long diet, where half added dessert to their breakfast, and half didn't.

2019年12月四級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section B

Roughly half of all federally-convicted animal fighters only get probation(緩刑).

2016年12月四級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section A

She also knew from previous work conducted on birds and dolphins that these animals put half of their brains to sleep at a time so that they can rest while remaining alert enough to avoid predators.

2017年12月四級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section C

since fewer than half of Americans say they cook at an intermediate level and only 20% describe their cooking skills as advanced, the crisis is one of confidence.

2015年12月四級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section B

The "millennials" who will soon make up half the workforce in rich countries were raised from nursery school on wards to work in groups.

2017年6月四級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section B

They found that female applicants were only half as likely to get outstanding letters, compared with their male counterparts.

2017年12月四級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section C

When he was about half a mile out from the dark, he felt a bit tired.

2019年12月四級真題(第二套)聽力 Section A

While bullying is parents' greatest concern over all, nearly half of low-income parents worry their child will get shot, compared with one-fifth of high-income parents.

出自-2017年6月閱讀原文

Nearly half of high-earning, college-graduate parents enrolled their children in arts classes before they were 5, compared with one-fifth of low-income, lesseducated parents.

出自-2017年6月閱讀原文

Coal prices also are low, owing to over-supply and the scaling-down of demand, especially from China, which burns half of the world's coal.

出自-2017年6月閱讀原文

Within just the past five years, I have noticed parents returning to a belief that teenagers need the guidance of elders rather than the liberal, anything goes mode of child-rearing that became popular in the second half of the 20th century.

出自-2016年6月閱讀原文

The average Norwegian is better off than the average US citizen, but contributes about half as much to climate change.

出自-2016年6月閱讀原文

Spending fell by 10% in the first half of the year.

出自-2016年6月閱讀原文

Full-time employees who do have paid vacation days only use half of them on average.

出自-2016年12月閱讀原文

Fewer than 4% of countries are responsible for more than half of the world's greenhouse gas emissions.

出自-2016年12月閱讀原文

Almost half of graduates--those who go on to earn less--will have a portion of their debt written off.

出自-2016年12月閱讀原文

There is a lot of support at Yale, to an extent, after a while, there is too much support, he said, half-joking about the countless resources available at the school.

出自-2015年12月閱讀原文

The other half will have to wait, as authorities of America's Federal Aviation Administration and National Transportation Safety Board work out what went wrong.

出自-2015年12月閱讀原文

Just half a dozen holiday-makers have reached orbit since then, for similarly astronomical price tags.

出自-2015年12月閱讀原文

It has sent half a dozen passengers into space.

出自-2015年12月閱讀原文

In July, a sister craft of the crashed spaceplane was reported to be about half-finished.

出自-2015年12月閱讀原文

For all their troubles, the United States’ 3,500 institutions were flooded with more than half a million students from 193 countries last year.

出自-2015年12月聽力原文

You know: half French, half American.

出自-2013年12月閱讀原文

Declaring that one country is better than another in the way that it treats more than half its citizens means relying on broad strokes and generalities.

出自-2013年12月閱讀原文

Consumers in developed countries throw away nearly half of their food purchases because they tend to buy in excessive quantities

出自-2013年12月閱讀原文

survey, about half the teens polled said that their cell phone hadimproved their communication with friends.

出自-2013年12月閱讀原文

Researchers in one study in Tokyo found that more than half of junior high school students used their phones to exchange e-mails with schoolmates more than 10 times a day

出自-2013年12月閱讀原文

Each burning season in the Amazon, fires deliberately set by frontier settlers and developers hurl up almost half a billion metric tons of carbon a year, placing Brazil among the top five contributors to greenhouse gases in the world.

出自-2013年6月閱讀原文

The average American spends at least eight and a half hours a day in front of a screen.

出自-2012年12月閱讀原文

Former George Washington University president Stephen Trachtenberg estimates that a typical college uses its facilities for academic purposes a little more than half the calendar year.

出自-2012年6月閱讀原文

So far, Google has scanned more than 10 million titles from libraries in?America and Europe?-?including half a million volumes held by the Bodleian in Oxford.

出自-2011年12月閱讀原文

By 2025 at the latest, about half the voters in America and most of those in western European countries will be over 50—and older people turn out to vote in much greater number than younger ones.

出自-2010年12月閱讀原文

More than half of them were involved in inheritance disputes.

出自-2014年6月聽力原文

In the process he uncovered numerous lost works, almost half of which were written by African-American women.

出自-2013年12月聽力原文

The illness is dangerous, because it is involved in half of all automobile accidents.

出自-2013年6月聽力原文

Half of the methane in the atmosphere is from animals

出自-2013年6月聽力原文

A scientific team is studying the thinking ability of eleven and half months old children.

出自-2012年12月聽力原文

About half of them are unavailable on the market.

出自-2011年12月聽力原文

Cut the fee by half for this year

出自-2011年12月聽力原文

Researchers at Cambridge University have found that nearly half of the social networking sites don't immediately delete pictures when a user requests they be removed.

出自-2010年12月聽力原文

"And yet that happens every day in the video game world," Farley told reporters during a press conference Friday. "I was a main character in Fallout 4, a character by the name of Kellogg, and I never knew that I was doing vocal recording for that game thr

2019年6月六級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section C

A wandering mind! By one estimate, people daydream through nearly half of their waking hours?

2019年12月六級真題(第一套)聽力 Section B

About half of all pregnancies globally are unintended.

2017年6月六級真題(第二套)聽力 Section C

Almost half of graduates—those who go on to earn less—will have a portion of their debt written off.

2016年12月六級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section C

Almost half of the sites didn't get a passing grade and only 18 percent got an A or B.

2019年6月六級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section B

As one person ironically put it in the comments section of Schwartz's online article, "As I was reading this very excellent article, I stopped at least half a dozen times to check my email.

2017年12月六級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section B

But now a systematic review and analysis of studies by Canadian researchers found that not only does pasta not cause weight gain, but three meals a week can help people drop more than half a kilogram over four months.

2019年6月六級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section A

But the other half of the name represents another ingredient, less infamous (名聲不好的), perhaps, but also strangely potent: the kola nut.

2017年12月六級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section C

But the steel shells of hundreds of the ships cracked in the icy north Atlantic, and 12 broke in half and sank.

2019年6月六級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section A

Compared with other groups, I think the numbers in this group, at those 65 schools, are something like just barely more than half of the black male athletes graduate at all.

2017年6月六級真題(第一套)聽力 Section A

Fewer than 4% of countries are responsible for more than half of the world's greenhouse gas emissions.

2016年12月六級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section C

Half of your brain stays alert and prepared for danger when you sleep in a new place, a study has revealed.

2017年6月六級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section A

Half were instructed to repeat out loud what they were looking for and the other half kept their lips 30 sealed.

2017年6月六級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section A

They have painted half of the cows with eyes and left the other half as normal.

2018年12月六級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section A

It looks like it一after all, 2012 was the tipping point when more than half of Americans began owning smartphones.

2019年12月六級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section B

It pays laid-off workers up to half of their previous wages while they look for work.

2016年6月六級真題(第一套)聽力 Section C

It's hardly surprising that over half a million workers suffer from work related mental health conditions.

2019年12月六級真題(第二套)聽力 Section C

It's no surprise, then, that more than half of American adults don't get the 7 to 9 hours of shut-eye every night as recommended by sleep experts.

2015年12月六級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section A

More of them, though, will skip those calculations altogether and just power through the holidays into 2017: More than half of American workers don't use up all of their allotted vacation days each year.

2017年12月六級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section C

Nearly half of high-earning, college-graduate parents enrolled their children in arts classes before they were 5, compared with one-fifth of low-income, less-educated parents.

2017年6月六級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section B

Once we recognize that these things happen to us, we are half way to doing something about them.

2019年6月六級真題(第一套)聽力 Section B

Over the next year and a half investigators will test the various strains of salt-tolerant rice they've bred.

2018年6月六級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section C

Overall, the study found half the films and TV shows had no Asian speaking characters and more than one-fifth of them had no black characters with dialogue.

2017年12月六級真題(第二套)聽力? Section B?

Spurred on by funding policies, half of European research articles had international co-authors in 2007.

2019年6月六級真題(第二套)聽力 Section C

The other half will have to wait, as authorities of America's Federal Aviation Administration FA and National Transportation Safety Board work out what went wrong.

2015年12月六級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section C

They lost around half a kilogram over an average follow-up of 12 weeks.

2019年6月六級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section A

Those involved in the clinical trails on average ate 3.3 servings of pasta a week instead of other carbohydrates, one serving equaling around half a cup.

2019年6月六級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section A

We can make a very good estimate from the fossil record that humans probably evolved naked skin around a million and a half years ago and meanwhile they mostly lost their coat of fur.

2019年6月六級真題(第一套)聽力 Section C

We're still in the exploratory stages of this project, although what's noteworthy is that East Asians on average sleep about an hour and half less each night than North Americans do.

2019年6月六級真題(第二套)聽力 Section C

within just the past five years, I have noticed parents returning to a belief that teenagers need the guidance of elders rather than the liberal, "anything goes" mode of child-rearing that became popular in the second half of the 20th century.

2016年6月六級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section B

After running hundreds of tests, the researchers noted that the monkeys would go for the higher values more than half the time, indicating that they were performing a calculation, not just memorizing the value of each combination.

2019年高考英語全國卷3 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文

Almost half of that winds up in landfills, and up to 12 million tons pollute the oceans.

2018年高考英語北京卷 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文

At last they had seen a half-written letter in the pile in which my husband had given his new telephone number to a friend.

2014年高考英語全國卷2 閱讀理解 閱讀A 原文

But during the next week, set a goal of at least a mile and a half per run.

2015年高考英語全國卷2 閱讀理解 七選五 原文

But I haven't finished even half of it.

2015年高考英語湖北卷 聽力 原文

But the amount of time spent in reading each session has declined, from closer to an hour or more to closer to a half hour per session.

2018年高考英語全國卷2 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文

But unlike school friends, 16-year-old Sarah is not spending half-term resting.

2017年高考英語全國卷3 語法填空 原文

By next year, half of the calls we receive will be scams (欺詐).

2019年高考英語北京卷 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文

California has lost half its big trees since the 1930s, according to a study to be published Tuesday and climate change seems to be a major factor (因素).

2019年高考英語浙江卷 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文

Dinner ended only after we had a clear understanding of at least half a dozen such facts.

2015年高考英語福建卷 閱讀理解 閱讀B 原文

Fares for the senior /disabled customers senior citizens 65 and older and disabled customers may ride for half the regular fare.

2014年高考英語全國卷2 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文

Gin spent five months in early 2015 exploring the most remote corners of this area, which sits on the edge of the Amazon rainforest, with half its population of only 250, 000 living in its capital, Cayenne.

2016年高考英語四川卷 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文

Half of all college students change their major at some point.

2015年高考英語湖南卷 閱讀表達 原文

Half of the workers say their boss doesn't accept it, and only 35 percent say it's tolerated.

2016年高考英語浙江卷(10月) 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文

He wrote many children' s books, nearly half of which were published in the 1990s.

2015年高考英語重慶卷 單項填空 原文

I don't think I want to spend a year and a half out there on my own.

2017年高考英語全國卷1 聽力 原文

I have read half of the english novel, and I'll try to finish it at the weekend.

2016年高考英語北京卷 單項選擇 原文

If you are time poor, you need run for only half the time to get the same benefits as other sports, so perhaps we should all give it/running a try.

2018年高考英語全國卷I 語法填空 原文

In fact, half of the 6, 000-7, 000 languages spoken around the world today will likely die out by the next century, according to the united nations educational, scientific and cultural organization UNESCO.

2014年高考英語全國卷1 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文

Indeed, they made only half as many errors as those wearing their own clothes on the stroop test one way of measuring attention.

2017年高考英語浙江卷(11月) 閱讀理解 閱讀B 原文

More than half (53 percent) have breakfast alone and nearly half (46 percent) have lunch by themselves.

2019年高考英語全國卷2 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文

Nasa is worried about two things: recovery time once astronauts return home, and, more importantly, how to maintain strength and fitness for the two and a half years or more that it would take to make a round-trip to mars.

2015年高考英語湖北卷 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文

Not more than a half-hour walk, I thought.

2016年高考英語浙江卷(10月) 語法填空 原文

Over a third of mums felt they needed more training and around half said they missed going out with friends.

2015年高考英語四川卷 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文

Plus, having the doctor tell us to get two and a half hours of exercise a week doesn't really help our motivation much.

2019年高考英語全國卷I 聽力 原文

She still had to run more than half a mile and had only a few minutes left.

2016年高考英語浙江卷(10月) 閱讀理解 閱讀A 原文

She was giving me an odd look-half puzzled, half intent.

2015年高考英語上海卷 語法填空 A 原文

Some 60, 000 novels were published during the victorian age, from 1837 to 1901; today a casual reader might be able to name a half-dozen of them.

2018年高考英語浙江卷 閱讀理解 閱讀A 原文

The battle lasts little more than half an hour, in which time around 50, 000 kilograms of tomatoes have been thrown at anyone or anything that moves, runs, or fights back.

2015年高考英語福建卷 閱讀理解 閱讀A 原文

The median number(中位數(shù)) of speakers is a mere 6000, which means that half the world's languages are spoken by fewer people than that.

2018年高考英語全國卷I 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文

The workers were not better organized, otherwise they would have accomplished the task in half the time.

2019年高考英語天津卷 單項填空 原文

The world is full of half-filled stamp albums and unfinished models, each standing as a monument to someone's passing interest.

2014年高考英語全國卷1 完形填空 原文

Then, after two and a half years, the mother drove the young panda away.

2016年高考英語四川卷 語法填空 原文

They conduct between 30 and 40 workshops annually, focusing on half a dozen different plays, mostly for corporations, but also for government agencies.

2015年高考英語上海卷 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文

This is compared to half of students who had looked for a job by this time two years ago.

2016年高考英語全國卷1 聽力 原文

This is how much temperatures would rise by 2100 even if nations live up to the initial Paris promises to reduce carbon emissions; this rise could still put coastal cities under water and drive over half of all species to extinction.

2016年高考英語上海卷 閱讀理解 閱讀B 原文

We choose this hotel because the price for a night here is down to $20, half of what it used to charge.

2017年高考英語江蘇卷 單項填空 原文

With each day, increase the distance by a half mile.

2015年高考英語全國卷2 閱讀理解 七選五 選項

Within two years it had topped out at almost fourteen hundred feet and was more than half a mile across.

2019年高考英語江蘇卷 閱讀理解 閱讀B 原文

At puberty, however, the brain shuts down half of that capacity, preserving only those modes of thought that have seemed most valuable during the first decade or so of life.

出自-2009年考研閱讀原文

The growth in public money for academic research has speeded the process: federal research grants rose fourfold between 1960 and 1990, but faculty teaching hours fell by half as research took its toll.

出自-2011年考研閱讀原文

Not surprisingly, up to half of all doctoral students in English drop out before getting their degrees.

出自-2011年考研閱讀原文

Equally unsurprisingly, only about half end up with professorships for which they entered graduate school.

出自-2011年考研閱讀原文

Although more than half of Harvard undergraduates end up in law, medicine or business, future doctors and lawyers must study a non- specialist liberal-arts degree before embarking on a professional qualification.

出自-2011年考研閱讀原文

The second half of the 20th century saw a collection of geniuses, warriors, entrepreneurs and visionaries labour to create a fabulous machine that could function as a typewriter and printing press, studio and theatre, paintbrush and gallery, piano and radio, the mail as well as the mail carrier.

出自-2012年考研閱讀原文

That whispered message, half invitation and half forcing, is what most of us think of when we hear the words peer pressure.

出自-2012年考研閱讀原文

One reason for the persistence of this pyramid of production is that for the past half-century, much of the world's media culture has been defined by a single medium - television - and television is defined by downloading.

出自-2012年考研閱讀原文

In Britain, more than half of public-sector workers but only about 15% of private-sector ones are unionized.

出自-2012年考研閱讀原文

As of 2005, there were almost half a million professional social scientists from all fields in the world, working both inside and outside academia.

出自-2013年考研閱讀原文

An old saying has it that half of all advertising budgets are wasted-the trouble is, no one knows which half.

出自-2013年考研閱讀原文

The London agents Stirling Ackroyd recently identified enough sites for half a million houses in the London area alone,with no intrusion on green belt.

出自-2016年考研閱讀原文

Half a century of town and country planning has enabled it to retain an enviable rural coherence, while still permitting low-density urban living.

出自-2016年考研閱讀原文

The question of GDP and its usefulness has annoyed policymakers for over half a century.

出自-2017年考研閱讀原文

At the end of adolescence, however, the brain shuts down half of that capacity, preserving only those modes of thought that have seemed most valuable during the first decade or so of life.

2009年考研真題(英語一)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

But with homework counting for no more than 10% of their grades, students can easily skip half their homework and see very little difference on their report cards.

2012年考研真題(英語二)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

Formerly it lasted three days, but by the 1980s it more commonly lasted a day and a half.

2016年考研真題(英語一)完形填空 Section Ⅰ

Haddad and Lewis are concerned that more than half the state-government boards are less than 40 percent female.

2020年考研真題(英語一)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

Half of the pens would deliver an electric shock when clicked.

2018年考研真題(英語二)完形填空 Section Ⅰ

Half of them found a toy; the other half discovered the container was empty一and realized the tester had fooled them.

2018年考研真題(英語一)完形填空 Section Ⅰ

In 2015, the US Forest Service for the first time spent more than half of its $5.5 billion annual budget fighting fires——nearly double the percentage it spent on such efforts 20 years ago.

2017年考研真題(英語二)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

In a Swiss study, researchers sprayed oxytocin into the noses of half the subjects; those subjects were ready to lend significantly higher amounts of money to strangers than were their counterparts who inhaled something else.

2018年考研真題(英語一)完形填空 Section Ⅰ

More than half of all British scientific research is now published under open access terms: either freely available from the moment of publication, or paywalled for a year or more so that the publishers can make a profit before being placed on general rel

2020年考研真題(英語一)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

That's only a small share of the total acreage that could benefit, about half a million acres in all, so it will be vital to prioritize areas at greatest risk of fire or drought.

2019年考研真題(英語二)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

The London agents Stirling Ackroyd recently identified enough sites for half a million houses in the London area alone, with no intrusion on green belt.

2016年考研真題(英語一)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

The move to renewables is picking up momentum around the world: They now account for more than half of new power sources going on line.

2018年考研真題(英語二)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

The second half of the 20th century saw a collection of geniuses, warriors, entrepreneurs and visionaries labour to create a fabulous machine that could function as a typewriter and printing press, studio and theatre, paintbrush and gallery, piano and rad

2012年考研真題(英語一)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

英英釋義

Noun
  • 1. one of two equal parts of a divisible whole;

    "half a loaf"

    "half an hour"

    "a century and one half"

  • 2. in various games or performances: either of two periods of play separated by an interval

Adjective
  • 1. consisting of one of two equivalent parts in value or quantity;

    "a half chicken"

    "lasted a half hour"

  • 2. partial;

    "gave me a half smile"

    "he did only a half job"

  • 3. (of siblings) related through one parent only;

    "a half brother"

    "half sister"

Adverb
  • 1. partially or to the extent of a half;

    "he was half hidden by the bushes"

同義詞

反義詞

adj.一半的;不完整的

whole

其他釋義

whole

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