单词 | half-speed |
释义 | > as lemmashalf-speed b. With abstract nouns, as in half-belief, half-conformity, half-consciousness, half-darkness, half-education, half-knowledge, half-lie, half-principle, half-quotation, half-reason, half rueing, half-speed, half-view. Π a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 27341 He lede penant to half-reuing. 1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. lxxxi. 258 They iudge conclusions by dimipremises & halfe principles. 1690 J. Locke Two Treat. Govt. i. ii. 8 'Tis no Injury to call an half Quotation an half Reason. 1736 Bp. J. Butler Analogy of Relig. ii. viii. 276 Half-views, which shew but Part of an Object. 1810 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1959) III. 278 Roaming abroad..for proselytes to confirm them in their own half-belief. 1827 H. Hallam Constit. Hist. Eng. I. viii. 514 To admit of no half conformity in religion. 1858 C. Hunt in Mercantile Marine Mag. 5 84 Steam should be shut off to half speed. 1870 J. R. Lowell My Study Windows 349 That half-knowledge which is more mischievous in an editor than down-right ignorance. 1881 ‘M. Twain’ Prince & Pauper 208 His senses struggled to a half-consciousness. 1904 W. B. Yeats Tables of Law 9 The formalisms of half-education. 1927 A. Clarke Son of Learning ii. 44 In the half-darkness his cowled figure suggests demonic possession. a1930 D. H. Lawrence Last Poems (1932) 257 A half-lie causes the immediate contradiction of the half-lie. 2015 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 27 May a8/6 This incident proves that not only the Chinese government has a blacklist on Hong Kong activists, but other half-democracies or authoritarian countries also do. < as lemmas |
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