HALF WAY

Traducere în limba română

half way I. adjectiv

la jumătate de drum; aşezat Ia jumătatea drumului, care se găseşte la jumătate de drum.

half way II. adverb

la jumătate de drum;

to meet smb. half way a) a merge / a veni / a ieşi în întâmpinarea cuiva; b) (fig.) a veni în întâmpinarea propunerii cuiva, a face un compromis cu cineva.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

A group of islands in the South Pacific Ocean, about half way between Hawaii and New Zealand.

(American Samoa, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

As the wind still freshened the yard was lowered half way down the mast in the morning.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But before she was half way upstairs she heard the parlour door open, and, turning round, was astonished to see Edward himself come out.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

We had crossed Oxford Street and were half way down Harley Street before I could get a word from my companion.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She continued to look back, but in vain; and soon, with what appeared unusual speed, they were half way down the hill, and every thing left far behind.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

Being something of a cragsman, I did manage to get half way to the top of that.

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"One goin' each way. Well, she—" His hand rose toward the blankets but stopped half way and fell to his side, "—she ran out there an' the one comin' from N'York knock right into her goin' thirty or forty miles an hour."

(The Great Gatsby, de F. Scott Fitzgerald)

His fierce hawk-like face was clean shaven like that of a priest, save for a long thin wisp of white moustache which drooped down half way to his shoulder.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He is half way to Windsor by this time.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

The six horses were so close together that a carpet could have covered them, but half way up the yellow of the Mapleton stable showed to the front.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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