单词 | half-worker |
释义 | > as lemmashalf-worker 5. In uses of agent nouns corresponding to uses of half adv. 1 with verbs: to the extent or amount of half, as in half-partner, half partaker, half-sharer, half-worker. Now rare. Π 1586 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. I. 509 That which..maketh the will of his half-partner to be wholy his owne. 1603 T. Dekker 1603: Wonderfull Yeare sig. E4 Downe she lightes (this half-sharer) opening the wicket, but not shutting him out of the wicket; but conueys him into a by-roome. a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) ii. v. 2 Is there no way for Men to be, but Women Must be halfe-workers? 1848 J. S. Mill Princ. Polit. Econ. ii. viii. §2 The metayer is at least his landlord's partner, and a half-sharer in their joint gains. 1886 Christian Reg. 4 Feb. 73/3 So long as profligacy walks only half-abashed before a world that by cowardly silence is half partaker of its sin. 1981 Observer 15 Feb. 10/6 His well-rehearsed role as..peacemaker, half sharer of the Nobel Peace Prize with Mr Begin, showed signs of giving way. < as lemmas |
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