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halve [hɑ:v]

vt. 二等分, 对半分享, 把...减半

Let's halve the work between the two of us.
让我俩平均分担这份工作吧。
The latest planes have halve the time needed for cross the atlantic.
最新型号的飞机把飞越大西洋所需的时间减少了一半。
The twins halve everything.
这对双胞胎把任何东西都对半分享

halve

[ verb ]
divide by two; divide into halves
<verb.cognition>
Halve the cake

Halve \Hal"ve\ (h[aum]l"ve), n.
A half. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

Halve \Halve\ (h[aum]v), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Halved}
(h[aum]vd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Halving}.] [From {Half}.]
1. To divide into two equal parts; as, to halve an apple; to
be or form half of.

So far apart their lives are thrown
From the twin soul that halves their own. --M.
Arnold.

2. (Arch.) To join, as two pieces of timber, by cutting away
each for half its thickness at the joining place, and
fitting together.

3. Of a hole, match, etc., to reach or play in the same
number of strokes as an opponent.

After all, the Nikkei is still swinging wildly; some people say it could halve again.
The two countries have signed an agreement to halve trans-boundary air pollution, measured by 1980 levels, in the next five years.
It will also halve the number of air bases there.
Mr Thompson says: 'When American Airlines started a daily service to New York - as BA already offered - BA was afraid it would halve the cake. 'What has it done?
They also disputed the president's contention that his budget would halve the deficit, to $63.1 billion, saying its economic assumptions were too optimistic.
Seibu Department Store, a leading retailer, plans to halve its recruiting next year from about 439 in fiscal 1993.
The government's ambition is to halve the inflation rate to 2 per cent or 3 per cent and keep it falling towards zero.
Nevertheless the price of the doghouse has doubled, but selling it doesn't make sense, he says, because the government will halve the profit through taxes.
Bridgestone, Asia's largest tyre manufacturer, is to halve its domestic capital expenditure because of poor demand in Japan. The company intends to spend Y22bn (Dollars 203m) during 1994, compared with Y44bn last year and a peak of Y65bn in 1992.
Utilities had been uncertain how the EPA would handle power-plant changes that will be necessary to halve the nation's emissions of sulfur dioxide, which is blamed for acid rain, by the year 2000.
The snag is that high stocks and cheap exports, notably from the Commonwealth of Independent States, leave metals markets with plenty of slack. Past experience suggests stocks in aluminium and nickel will have to halve before prices show real recovery.
'But silver has also been known to halve in price in a year,' says Mr Smith. Mr Milling-Stanley points out that, whereas the funds' attack on the gold price came when there was record demand for the physical metal, this is not the case with silver.
Also Thursday, the two Germanys pledged to nearly halve the troop strengths of a united Germany.
President Carlos Menem of Argentina managed to halve annual inflation, which was running at more than 3,600 percent when he took office last year.
Bush called the spending plan an "investment in the future." But Democratic leaders in Congress pounced on it as a "standpat budget" and challenged its claim to halve the federal deficit, to $63.1 billion.
Disputes over the ABM treaty are among the stumbling blocks toward reaching agreement on an accord that would halve the superpowers' arsenals of strategic nuclear weapons.
These coals, available on the international market, typically have a sulphur content of about 0.8 per cent, about half that of UK coals, so their use would only halve SO emissions.
Mr Lagardere's direct and indirect stakes in the holding group will nearly halve from 19 per cent to around 10 per cent as a result of the deal.
The company also said it plans to about halve its capital spending in 1991 to a range of $350 million to $400 million.
France has already agreed to cancel its remaining debt from low-income member countries and to halve outstanding debt from middle-income countries.
Drain well. When the peppers are cool enough to handle, peel and halve them.
Last Friday, the Ministry of Industry agreed to halve the cost of energy charged to Alumix, Efim's aluminium subsidiary. Alumix has been the biggest single burden on Efim, largely due to high energy costs.
Similarly, there was an ideological division in support for the medium-range treaty and for a treaty, if one can be reached, to halve the long-range arsenals.
Congress voted in October to halve U.S. military aid to El Salvador, originally set at $85 million for the year.
This would slow down the group's efforts to increase profitability. It said that General Tire, its loss-making subsidiary in the US, had managed to halve its losses during the first nine months, as planned.
At one level, falls of some 3 to 5 per cent in leading clearing bank shares yesterday were a strange reaction to Abbey National's decision to halve its current account overdraft rate.
The council also voted to halve the number of helicopters from 12 to six, sending home nearly all of a 130-member Canadian air unit.
He said in the next five years Avon will attempt to halve its debt _ which should total less than $1 billion at the end of 1989 and noted that cost-cutting measures will be offset somewhat by severance payments to employees.
So far, slackening demand from the United States was cited as a major factor behind Hong Kong's decision to halve its projected economic growth rate for this year to 2.5 percent.
Continental now expects its U.S. operation to halve its loss in 1992.

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