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Trad. 參半
- half
- half and half
- both ... and ...
- just as much ... as ...
- equally
- 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
- half-cooked; (of vegetables) parboiled; (of steak) medium; (of eggs) soft-boiled
Trad. 半馬
- half-marathon (abbr. for 半程馬拉松|半程马拉松[ban4 cheng2 ma3 la1 song1])
- semi-manufactured goods
- semifinished articles
- semifinished products
- (coll.) (of one's skills, knowledge etc) limited
- superficial
- half-baked
- sb with a smattering of knowledge (of sth)
- dabbler
Trad. 半條命
- half a life
- only half alive
- barely alive
- (scared, beaten etc) half to death
- Hemiptera (suborder of order Homoptera, insects including cicadas and aphids)
- lower half of one's body
- Lower Body (Chinese poetry movement of the early 21st century)
Trad. 半脫產
- partly released from productive labor
- partly released from one's regular work
- semitendinosus, one of the hamstring muscles in the thigh
Trad. 半蹼鷸
- (bird species of China) Asian dowitcher (Limnodromus semipalmatus)
- local anesthetic
- anesthesia to half the body (as for a C-section birth)
- (music) a half-beat behind
- (fig.) rather slow (in performing a task, comprehending etc)
Trad. 罰半蹲
- to punish a student by having him stand in a half-squatting position with arms extended forward
- (idiom) half believing, half doubting; not quite convinced; skeptical
Trad. 半勞動力
- one able to do light manual labor only
- semi-able-bodied or part time (farm) worker
Trad. 半坡遺址
- Banpo neolithic Yangshao culture archaeological site east of Xi'an 西安
- half of the country (esp. when half the country has fallen into enemy hands)
- vast swathe of territory
- (idiom) in the depth of the night; very late at night
Trad. 半履帶車
- half-track (vehicle with wheels at the front and continuous tracks in the rear)
Trad. 半工半讀
- part work, part study
- work-study program
Trad. 頭半天兒
- erhua variant of 頭半天|头半天[tou2 ban4 tian1]
- to not fully understand
- to only partly understand
Trad. 印支半島
- Indochina (abbr. for colonial term 印度支那半島|印度支那半岛[Yin4 du4 zhi1 na4 Ban4 dao3])
- (now written 中南半島|中南半岛[Zhong1 nan2 Ban4 dao3])
- half willing and half unwilling (idiom); to yield after making a show of resistance
Trad. 半斤八兩
- not much to choose between the two
- tweedledum and tweedledee
- 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
- weekend spouse
- relationship involving a sugar-daddy
- middle-aged but still attractive woman
- lady of a certain age
- middle-aged but still attractive woman
- lady of a certain age
- cysteine (Cys), an amino acid
- mercaptoethyl amine
Trad. 半自耕農
- semi-tenant peasant
- semi-owner peasant
Trad. 半表半裡
- half outside, half inside
- half interior, half exterior
- lit. to enter monastic life at a mature age (idiom)
- fig. to change one's career; to take up a new line of work or specialization; to enter a profession from a different background