| 单词 | half-make |
| 释义 | > as lemmashalf-make (a) With verbs, as half-believe, half-deify, half-fill, half-laugh, half-make, half-murder, half-poison. Cf. half adv. 1c. ΚΠ 1674 A. Wood Life & Times (1892) II. 281 Men that half-hanged themselves to try how it was. 1730 J. Thomson Summer in Seasons 112 Locks That half-embrac'd them in a humid veil. 1823 J. Badcock Domest. Amusem. 60 Half-filling a bottle with water. 1834 H. Martineau Farrers of Budge-Row ii. 25 Two out of the remaining four halfstarted from their chair. 1848 Thackeray Vanity Fair xlv. 405 He half-murdered a ferret. 1849 H. D. Thoreau Week Concord & Merrimack Rivers 192, I half believed that I should get above it. a1850 M. Fuller Jrnl. in Woman in 19th Cent. (1855) iii. 343 Madame Recamier is half-reclining on a sofa. 1860 E. B. Pusey Minor Prophets 60 The mind which before was..half-deified. 1878 J. N. Lockyer Stargazing 125 We shall not only halve, but half-halve, or quarter the aberration. 1879 J. A. Froude Cæsar xxvii. 477 In Cicero Nature half-made a great man. 1924 J. M. Murry Voy. viii. 152 ‘I can't help it,’ she said, half-laughing at her own confession. 1952 C. P. Blacker Eugenics: Galton & After 293 The problem family is half-believed to be the product of the capitalistic system. < as lemmas |
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