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halves [hɑ:vz]

pl. 半, 一半, (球赛的)半场, (英)半学年, 学期, (美)(非正式)(足球)中卫

Never do things by halves.
【谚】凡事不可半途而废。
Let me go halves with you in the taxi fare.
让我和你平均负担车费。
A child must never do anything by halves.
小孩做事不可半途而废。

Halves \Halves\ (h[aum]vz), n.,
pl. of {Half}.

{By halves}, by one half at once; halfway; fragmentarily;
partially; incompletely.

I can not believe by halves; either I have faith, or
I have it not. --J. H.
Newman.

{To go halves}. See under {Go}.

Half \Half\ (h[aum]f), n.; pl. {Halves} (h[aum]vz). [AS. healf.
See {Half}, a.]
1. Part; side; behalf. [Obs.] --Wyclif.

The four halves of the house. --Chaucer.

2. One of two equal parts into which anything may be divided,
or considered as divided; -- sometimes followed by of; as,
a half of an apple.

Not half his riches known, and yet despised.
--Milton.

A friendship so complete
Portioned in halves between us. --Tennyson.

{Better half}. See under {Better}.

{In half}, in two; an expression sometimes used improperly
instead of {in halves} or {into halves}; as, to cut in
half. [Colloq.] --Dickens.

{In one's half} or {On one's half}, in one's behalf; on one's
part. [Obs.]

{To cry halves}, to claim an equal share with another.

{To go halves}, to share equally between two.

And a year ago, Morgan Stanley laid off more than 50 investment bankers and made several internal changes, including merging the stock and bond halves of its capital markets operation.
"And half of it to creating a new mathematics to explain how six halves equal one whole." It's a harmless political pastime right now, because there isn't any peace dividend to pay for other things or cut the deficit this year.
The Soviet legislature approved a 1990 budget yesterday that halves its huge deficit with cuts in defense spending and capital outlays while striving to improve supplies to frustrated consumers.
She herself sews the backseams between the two halves of the blouses.
The two halves, moreover, have been put together in a convincingly atmospheric acoustic. Purcell's The Fairy Queen is also a Midsummer Night's Dream entertainment, though in this case music and play remain pretty well separate.
Tuckett is just starting to make his way as a choreographer with creations for both halves of the Royal Ballet.
The temptation to tell them how to interpret it is scrupulously resisted. Although the Wilton Diptych has the inevitability of a dream, its two halves make for a distinctly odd couple.
This antibody is fused with a potent toxin known as ricin A, prepared from the castor bean. Together, the two halves of CD5 Plus are designed to target and kill the destructive cells, sparing surrounding healthy tissue.
Mr. Linen is a former American Express official who joined Shearson this week to head the firm's brokerage and money-management businesses, as part of a planned reorganization of Shearson into separate brokerage and investment banking halves.
As a result, he transplanted the halves of a 23-year-old man's liver into a 2-year-old boy and a 63-year-old woman.
While the two halves of Solidarity represented by Lech Walesa and Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki were trying to bury each other in an acrimonious battle for the presidency, a fresh-faced unknown from abroad slipped in and nearly stole the electorate.
He was, with Jacko Page, one of the two best scrum halves in the country. In the 1970s, Page played when England beat Scotland 7-6 - but he was not selected for the Australian tour of 1975.
'It will be a year of two halves' is the common refrain. In the first six months, many expect worries about rising interest rates to keep equity markets depressed.
Productivity gains moderated as the rate of job losses slowed sharply between the first halves of 1991 and 1992.
Mr. Linen's appointment anticipates the planned split-up of Shearson into two halves: its brokerage network and money-management businesses that he will head, and its investment banking and trading operations.
He left the modest ranch home he bought last year to sleep on a cot in a tent pieced together with ponchos, shelter halves and plywood boards.
Vincent Lathbury, the Convertible Holdings portfolio manager, says the discount is only about 17% if both halves of the fund are considered together.
Herbert Krejci, general secretary of the conservative Federation of Industrialists, said Austria could use its historical experience to function as a "transmission belt" between the two halves of Europe.
Few Americans recall the history of the first national tournament in 1922 when Bud McQuade's shooter broke one marble in half, causing officials to rule that the ole Bud had to hit the halves out of the ring.
It forbids layoffs for any reasons except slow sales, halves the rate of attrition and makes it more difficult for the company to move work to outside companies or foreign countries.
(Good Orton must hover on the brink of camp.) Wittily, Kate Owen has located the two plays next door to each other, in two halves of one semi-detached house on the same revolving stage.
Accompanying him were two large canvas sacks - the separate halves of the sea kayak he assembled wherever the whim took him.
The strike started Sunday evening in Berlin, halting inter-city rail traffic from the main stations in the eastern and western halves of the city, and it spread to 26 other cities in eastern Germany this morning, union spokesmen said.
Newtonian theory says the two halves should have been pulled toward the cliff equally if only gravity was working.
A proposed final of 2.25p halves the total to 4p.
The contract prevents further plant closings and layoffs for any reason other than slow sales, halves the attrition rate and restricts the automaker's ability to transfer work to outside suppliers or foreign countries.
The U.S. president repeated a suggestion that the Olympic Games be held in both halves of divided Berlin.

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