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Definition
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half
她家宝宝已经半岁了。Her baby is already 6 months old.
- (after a number) and a half
Compounds (15)
Related words (172)
half dead (of torment, hunger, tiredness etc); (tired) to death; (terrified) out of one's wits; (beaten) to within an inch of one's life; (knock) the daylights out of sb
(coll.) (of one's skills, knowledge etc) limited; superficial; half-baked; sb with a smattering of knowledge (of sth); dabbler
one able to do light manual labor only; semi-able-bodied or part time (farm) worker
half of the country (esp. when half the country has fallen into enemy hands); vast swathe of territory
part-time work in which one works each day for a half-day, typically a morning or an afternoon
underripe; half-cooked; (fig.) not mastered (of a technique); clumsy; halting
semi-feudal and semi-colonial (the official Marxist description of China in the late Qing and under the Guomindang)
to punish a student by having him stand in a half-squatting position with arms extended forward
Idioms (12)
half willing and half unwilling (idiom); to yield after making a show of resistance
to give up halfway (idiom); to leave something unfinished; to do a thing by halves; to stop midway
(lit.) if you tap a half-empty bottle it makes a sound (idiom); (fig.) empty vessels make the most noise; one who has a little knowledge likes to show off, but one who is truly knowledgeable is modest
(lit.) to know one and understand half (idiom); a smattering of knowledge; dilettante; amateur
half the work, twice the effect (idiom); the right approach saves effort and leads to better results; a stitch in time saves nine
(lit.) ninety li is merely a half of a hundred li journey (idiom); (fig.) the closer one is to completing a task, the tougher it gets; a task is not done until it's done
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