"at the halfway mark"
"halfway measures"
"he was halfway down the ladder when he fell"
1.（空间上）在中间，在中途
halfway means in the middle of a place or between two points, at an equal distance from each of them.
e.g. Half-way across the car-park, he noticed she was walking with her eyes closed...
走到停车场中间时，他看到她在闭着眼走路。
e.g. He washalfway up the ladder...
他正爬到梯子一半。
2.（时间）到一半;（事情）进行到中途
halfway means in the middle of a period of time or of an event.
e.g. By then, it was October and we were more thanhalfway through our tour.
那时已是10月，我们已经完成了行程的一大半了。
3.对…作部分让步;与…妥协
If youmeet someonehalfway, you accept some of the points they are making so that you can come to an agreement with them.
halfway什么意思
e.g. The Democrats are willing to meet the presidenthalfway.
民主党人愿意向总统作部分让步。
4.过得去地;大致上
halfway means reasonably.
e.g. You need hard currency to get anythinghalfway decent...
你得有硬通货才能买到还算不错的东西。
e.g. All I had to do was behalfway cool.
我要做的只是保持适度的冷静。
1. 中途的：halfway house 小客栈 |halfway 中途的 | halibut 大比目鱼
2. 中途的, 部分的, 不彻底的,半路地：half-round file 半圆锉 |halfway 中途的, 部分的, 不彻底的,半路地, | handling 处理(技术,方法)
中间点 / 阶段
Any halfway decent map will give you that information.任何一张还算像样的地图都能提供那些信息。
This only goes halfway to explaining what really happened.这只是部分地解释了实际发生的事。
I'm afraid we're not even halfway there yet.恐怕我们连一半的路都还没走完。
He left halfway through the ceremony.他在仪式进行到一半时离开了。
It's about halfway between London and Bristol.它大约位于伦敦和布里斯托尔的中间。
All I had to do was be halfway cool.我要做的只是保持适度的冷静。
You need hard currency to get anything halfway decent...你得有硬通货才能买到还算不错的东西。
The Democrats are willing to meet the president halfway.民主党人愿意向总统作部分让步。
By then, it was October and we were more than halfway through our tour.那时已是10月，我们已经完成了行程的一大半了。
He was halfway up the ladder...他正爬到梯子一半。
Half-way across the car-park, he noticed she was walking with her eyes closed...走到停车场中间时，他看到她在闭着眼走路。
Education's purpose to replace an empty mind with open one.教育的目的在于,以开放的心灵代替空虚的心灵.
He who wills success is halfway to it.热切争取成功等于成功了一半.
The performing group began well, but seemed to run out of steam halfway through the year.演出小组开始时很好, 可是一年还没到头似乎就有些泄气了.
A house is halfway up the hill.山的半中腰有一座房子.
halfway across the field , the farmer ploughed out some very large stones which nearly broke his machine.这个农民在地里犁地犁到半路的时候, 犁出一些很大的石头,几乎弄坏了他的机器.
We had got only halfway when it began to get dark.走到半路,天就黑了.
The car broke down on the halfway.车在半路坏了.
They wouldn't stop halfway however great the difficulties might be.不管困难多大,他们也不会半途而废.
Before the politician was halfway through his speech, the crowd cried him down.这个政治家讲了还不到一半, 听众便把他轰了下去.
When a man sets about going the big figure , halfway measures won't answer at all.当一个人着手彻底干时, 不彻底的措施是完全不顶事的.
He lost his way halfway to the shop.他在去商店的半道儿迷路了.
halfway up the hill , the engine packed up.走到半山腰, 发动机熄火了.
We really wanted to build a completely new hospital, but we didn't have the money, so this extension is a kind of halfway house.我们非常想新建一所医院, 但是没钱, 扩建算是折中方案吧.
In study the worst danger is give up halfway.在学习上,最忌讳的是有始无终.
We must carry the experiment through to the end, not give up halfway.这项试验一定要搞到底, 不能半途而废.
In science, there are fields which are a gift for any half-way decent PR Officer.
出自：Times Higher Education SupplementBahram stopped only when he was halfway to his own house.
出自：A. Ghosh电影演员
A：Who’s your favorite actor?
你最喜欢哪位演员？
B：Tom Cruise, of course!
当然是汤姆克鲁兹了。
A：You’ve got to be kidding me! He’s horrible!
不是开玩笑吧，他很讨厌。
B：He may be a strange person in real life, but he’s a talented actor.
也许在现实生活中，他是个怪人，但他是个天才演员。
A：He used to be. He was good in Rain Man, Jerry McGuire, and Cocktail. But the films he’s done recently aren’t worth seeing.
他过去是这样。他在《雨人》《征服情海》《花心情圣》中都有上佳表演。但他最近的片子却不值得一看。
B：Do you mean that you didn’t like Mission Impossible III?
你的意思是你不喜欢看《碟中谍3》吗？
A：That’s exactly what I mean. I actually left the theaterhalfway through the film!
就是这个意思，这场电影我只看了一半就离开了电影院。
halfway的反义词
B：Who’s your favorite actor?
你最喜欢哪位演员？
A：I like John Cusack.
我喜欢约翰库萨克。
B：What’s your favorite John Cusack’s film?
你最喜欢他演的哪部电影？
A：I like one of his older ones, Say Anything. Have you seen it?
我喜欢他演的一部老电影《情到深处》。你看过吗？
B：Sure, that’s a good film.
当然，这是部不错的电影。
A：Some people say that he always plays the same role. Do you think that makes him a bad actor?
一些人说他总是演相同的角色，你觉得这有损他的名声吗？
halfway的解释
B：Not necessarily. Maybe he just knows what he does well and sticks withthat.
那倒不会，也许是因为他知道自己擅长演哪类角色才专注于此。
A：Regardless, I think he’s great.
不管怎样，我都觉得他是个好演员。
