| 单词 | not half |
| 释义 | > as lemmasnot half Phrases P1. half…half…: used correlatively to couple two contrasting expressions.The components so coupled may be noun phrases, adjectives, adverbial phrases, or verbs.Sometimes hyphenated to the following word.See also half man, half beast at man n.1 1d.In quot. eOE2 probably still to be interpreted as postposed adjective; cf. discussion in etymology section. ΚΠ eOE tr. Orosius Hist. (BL Add.) (1980) i. ix. 28 Þonne heton hi hie Centauri—þæt sindon healf hors, healf men—for þon hie on horse hie feohtan ne gesawen ær þa. eOE Bounds (Sawyer 495) in W. de G. Birch Cartularium Saxonicum (1887) II. 541 Ðonne is þæt land æt Snocescumbe healf þæs cinges, healf uncer Brentinges. 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 211 Huo þet bit god wyþ-oute deuocion of herte: he spekþ to god patroyllart, ase þe ilke þet spekþ half englis and half urenss. a1450 in T. Austin Two 15th-cent. Cookery-bks. (1888) 25 (MED) Take Elys or Gurnard, & parte hem half in Wyne, & half in watere, in-to a potte. a1500 (?c1425) Speculum Sacerdotale (1936) 173 (MED) He..hadde fallen in-to a slomerynge, scilicet, half slepyng, half wakyng. 1559 W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse 86 The Sonne..halfe above the Horizont, and half under. 1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (1586) i. 23 I ment not that they are halfe good, and halfe evill. 1614 Bp. J. Hall Recoll. Treat. ii. 60 An euill man is halfe a beast, and halfe a Diuell. 1708 P. A. Motteux Wks. F. Rabelais (1737) iv. lxvii. 274 With..one of his Stockins, half on half off, about his Heel. 1783 Amer. Wanderer viii. 97 The..swain..urges to the unhallowed bower, the half-willing, half-affrighted maid. 1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake i. 42 Half shewing, half concealing all The uncouth trophies of the hall. 1858 A. Lincoln Speech 16 June in J. G. Nicolay & J. Hay Life Lincoln (1890) II. viii. 137 I believe this Government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. 1910 J. A. Symonds in Bk. of Christmas 109 The shepherds kneel, rustically chanting a carol half in Latin, half in English. 2008 C. Calder Paper Alice vii. 157 I was half-laughing, half-annoyed. P2. not half. a. (a) A long way from the proper or expected amount; to a very slight extent; hardly. Hence hyperbolically (colloquial): not at all, the reverse of, nothing like; e.g. I don't half like it ‘I don't like it much’, not half long enough ‘not nearly long enough’.In quot. 1481 not hawlfe insamyde = ‘not nearly cleansed of superfluous fat’ (cf. enseam v.1 1a). ΘΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > [adverb] > to a small extent or slightly lightlyeOE liteOE littleOE a litec1290 smallc1300 softc1390 smally?a1425 slenderlya1513 hoverly1549 remissly1557 slender1581 not half1583 faintly1590 slightly1594 lankly1611 lowly1655 slight1671 nicely1698 weakly1775 sparingly1796 jimply1816 feebly1830 slightually1859 marginally1960 1481 R. Cely Let. 22 Nov. in Cely Lett. (1975) 125 I hawe sowlde hyr for vij nobullys, byt whone nobyll ys pwt on yowr wyll at yowr comyng. Sche whos not hawlfe insamyde. ?1530 Dialoges Creatures Moralysed xvii. sig. F.iiv He was Idell, and not half occupyed. 1583 T. Stocker tr. Tragicall Hist. Ciuile Warres Lowe Countries ii. f. 66v Thei were not halfe well prouided to goe awaie vpon the spurre. 1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue ii. i. iii. 30 He thought this was hard teaching, he did not halfe like it. a1649 W. Drummond Wks. (1711) 225 Sir William Alexander was not half kinde unto him, and neglected him. 1678 T. D'Urfey Fool turn'd Critick iii. ii. 27 The Buttons are not half big enough neither. 1842 F. Marryat Percival Keene (1877) xiv. 9/3 Medea's wise in her own conceit, and you're a regular old fool... One too knowing, and the other not half knowing enough. 1859 T. Hughes Scouring of White Horse vi. 133 I didn't half like the way in which Miss Lucy was running on. 1955 E. Bowen World of Love ii. 19 He had no plans: he in fact would not be half sorry if someone said to him he was back for good. 2010 Irish Independent (Nexis) 11 Dec. The judge said the maximum sentence he could impose was not half long enough. (b) not half bad: not at all bad, rather good. ΘΠ the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > quality of being satisfactory > [adjective] wellOE sufferablea1340 worthy1340 sufficient1489 paregala1500 competent1535 something like?1556 right1567 sweet1577 fairish1611 all right1652 fair1656 comfortable1658 decent1711 respectable1750 unrepulsive1787 decentisha1814 fair-to-middling1822 fine1828 christena1838 OK1839 tidy1844 not (or none) so dusty?1856 sweet1898 oke1928 okey-doke1934 okey-dokey1936 tickety-boo1939 cool1951 aight1993 1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) (at cited word) ‘He's nut hauf a bad an’, i.e. he is a fair, respectable person. 1853 Bentley's Misc. Jan. 107 Rather jolly; the cathedral—not half bad, is it? 1886 J. K. Jerome Idle Thoughts Pref. One or two friends to whom I showed these papers in MS. observed that they were not half bad. 1919 V. Woolf Night & Day xv. 195 I could live on fifteen shillings a week... It wouldn't be half bad. 2006 M. Pollan Omnivore's Dilemma iv. 74 It wasn't half bad—not as crisp as a Kellogg's flake, but with a cornier flavor. b. colloquial (chiefly British). Much more than half; completely, really; prodigiously, copiously; e.g. I don't half like her ‘I really like her’, he didn't half swear ‘he swore a lot’. Frequently as an exclamation, expressing enthusiastic agreement: ‘absolutely’, ‘you bet’. Π 1901 Football Chat & Athletic World 1 Oct. 9/2 And what about Watford? Truly, I am proud of Pangbourne, Lyon, and Chalmers. This useful trio didn't half worry the Bristol Rovers' defenders. 1902 A. N. Lyons Hookey v. 33 Whotcher! 'Oo's got the perlice in their shop? 'Ookey Walker? Not 'arf! 1917 Londoner (1/25th Battalion, London Regiment) May 5/1 Led poor ole Pip a nell of a life he did, but my word, let anyone else try to come the acid on Pip and wasn't there a schemozzle, not half! 1940 N. Streatfeild Winter is Past (2018) i She won't half look sweet in it. Wouldn't half like to take her out walking when she's got it on. 1953 L. P. Hartley Go-between xiv. 165 And we didn't half enjoy your songs. 1998 A. Wood EastEnders (BBC TV script) (O.E.D. Archive) Episode 602. 20 Barry: I worked really hard to sell it to him, and he finally caves in. Then his wife says she'll have the Fiesta as a runaround. A double whammy. Can you believe it? Roy: Bit of luck eh? Barry: Not half. 2010 J. O'Connor Ghost Light (2011) ii. 31 ‘Good morning, Mr Ballantine’. ‘Lumme, Miss O'Neill. Didn't half give me a start’. P3. Modifying full or empty in various phrases relating to a vessel or container and referring to a person's optimism or pessimism (an optimistic person being said to see the degree to which a container is full of liquid, while the pessimistic person sees the degree to which it is empty). Now chiefly in the glass is half full and the glass is half empty at glass n.1 Additions. Π 1929 Belleville (Illinois) Daily News-Democrat 16 Apr. 4/3 If he says his gas tank is half-full he's an optimist. If he says it's half-empty he's a pessimist. 1941 Current Sauce (Natchitoches, Louisiana) 4 Dec. 5/2 An optimist sees a pitcher half full of milk, whereas a pessimist sees a pitcher half empty. 1994 L. Chawla In First Country of Places 135 I am in some very deep way optimistic. Every bottle is half full. 2003 Daily Oklahoman (Oklahoma City) (Nexis) 20 Sept. 1 d Sometimes, God shows us things through adversity, she said. Is your cup half empty or half full? < as lemmas |
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