| 单词 | halfway through |
| 释义 | > as lemmashalfway through 1. In the middle of a period of time; at the midpoint of an action or process; midway. In later use esp. in halfway through.In early use frequently with noun or noun phrase as complement, as in halfway prime, halfway midmorrow, etc. Sometimes also in constructions following a preposition, as in till halfway prime, till halfway to prime, etc. Π a1275 St. Margaret (Trin. Cambr.) l. 76 in A. S. M. Clark Seint Maregrete & Body & Soul (Ph.D. diss., Univ. of Michigan) (1972) 25 Ho scal leuen o mine godes, er halfuey to none. c1330 Seven Sages (Auch.) (1933) l. 1492 Þe stiward made moche sorewe, Til hit were half wai midmorewe. c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Reeve's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) Prol. l. 52 Lo Depeford and it is half wey pryme. c1436 Domesday Ipswich (BL Add. 25011) in T. Twiss Black Bk. Admiralty (1873) II. 103 (MED) No fysshe for to sellyn afore certayn tyme..that is to wetyn, til half weye to prime. a1475 Sidrak & Bokkus (Lansd.) (1998) I. l. 5318 Men mowen see somtyme A dewe ligginge till halfwey prime. 1630 I. C. Handkercher for Parents Wet Eyes 3 He was Solidus Adolescens, A growne Man, arriued halfe way to the Solstice of his Age. 1697 J. Stevens tr. F. de Quevedo Fortune in her Wits 14 Upon the turn of the Hour he had gone halfway through his Jargon. 1762 J. Langhorne Solyman & Almena v. 41 I was heard half way through my story. 1831 Blackwood's Mag. Aug. 210/1 Little girls just halfway through their teens. 1886 W. Besant Children of Gibeon II. ii. vi. 46 The morning service was halfway through. 1903 P. G. Wodehouse Tales of St. Austin's 35 Half-way through the over I carted a half-volley into the pav. 1994 H. Thurston Early Astron. iii. 75 The instant halfway between the start and finish of the eclipse is the precise time of full moon. 2006 G. Malkani Londonstani xv. 178 He interrupts me halfway to say,—Nice garms, man, where'd u get em? < as lemmas |
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