英文美句D151：相信你自己能做到（你就已经成功一半了）

Believe you can and you"re halfway there.

相信你自己能做到，你就已经成功一半了。

——西奥多·罗斯福（Theodore Roosevelt）

【相关单词短语讲解】

halfway

adv.

（1）在……中间；在中途；到一半：at an equal distance between two points; in the middle of a period of time

It"s about halfway between London and Bristol.

它大约位于伦敦和布里斯托尔的中间。

He left halfway through the ceremony.

他在仪式进行到一半时离开了。

I"m afraid we"re not even halfway there yet.

恐怕我们连一半的路都还没走完。

（2）~ to/towards sth

~ to/towards doing sth

部分地做到（或达到）……：part of the way towards doing or achieving sth

This only goes halfway to explaining what really happened.

这只是部分地解释了实际发生的事。

——《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》

Jim is halfway to attaining his pilot"s licence.

吉姆就快要拿到飞行员执照了。

——《柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典》

On the basis that recognising the problem is halfway to a solution, Mulcahy"s comments yesterday should be well received.

鉴于认识到问题的存在就相当于把它解决了一半，马尔卡希昨天的那番话应该会受到欢迎。

——《柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典》

（3）~ decent

还不错的；过得去的：fairly, but not very, good

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。

——《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》

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。

——《柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典》

【拓展】meet sb halfway

和某人妥协；对某人作出让步：to reach an agreement with sb by giving them part of what they want

Don"t argue with them. let"s meet them halfway.

不要跟他们争论了。我们和他们妥协吧！

She agreed to meet him halfway.

她同意向他妥协。

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