| 单词 | halfway |
| 释义 | halfway (once / 1032 pages) 1advadj 2adj When you're halfway, you're at the middle point of something. If you pause to catch your breath halfway up a hill, you still have half the hill left to climb. You can make it halfway along a marathon route, or 13 miles, and you can also make it halfway through your book before you fall asleep. You might only make it halfway through an enormous slice of cake, or halfway through math class before you start to nod off. A halfway house, originally an inn between two cities, but today it's a place where released criminals or recovered addicts can live while they get back on their feet. WORD FAMILYhalfway: halfways USAGE EXAMPLESHalfway through his first season at City, the 45-year-old former Barcelona and Bayern Munich coach said: “It might be one of my last teams.” Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) Halfway through his term, the Indian prime minister’s popularity is still enormous, measured at 81% by a Pew poll in September. The Guardian(Jan 01, 2017) In 2002, halfway through his second term as prime minister, Guterres abruptly resigned after the Socialists suffered a drubbing in local elections. The Guardian(Jan 01, 2017) 1 1adv at half the distance; at the middle he was halfway down the ladder when he fell Syn midway 2adj equally distant from the extremes Syn center, middle, midway central in or near a center or constituting a center; the inner area 3adj at a point midway between two extremes 2at the halfway mark Syn intermediate lying between two extremes in time or space or state adj including only half or a portion halfway measures Syn fractional constituting or comprising a part or fraction of a possible whole or entirety |
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