查询词典 half-desert

FOR some people in this world, the glass always seems to be half-full. For others it is half-empty.

面对一只装了水的杯子，这个世界上总有一部分人看到的是半满的杯子，也总会有另一些人看到的是半空的杯子。

When my glass is empty, I just let it empty; but when it is half full, I hate it half-full.

当我的酒杯空了的时候，我就让它空着；但当它半满的时候，我却恨它半满。

It's really more a dispute over whether the glass is half-empty or half-full.

其实，这种争论更多的是有关看问题的角度。生活有热情

Instead of viewing the glass as half-empty, you can see it as a half-full.

不是玻璃观看半空，你可以把它看作是一个半满。

Do you see the glass as half-full rather than half empty?

你所看到的是半杯水，还是杯中空的一半呢？

Do you see the glass as half-full rather than half-empty?

你看就被是装了半杯酒而不是半杯没装酒吗？

And presently, little by little, the joy has gone out of our world, and now all we can see when we look at the half-full water glass is that it is half empty.

不久，渐渐地，欢乐在我们的世界消失，在我们看到一杯半满的水时，我们只会认为它是一杯已经空了一半的水。

The glass is neither half-full nor half-empty: it's twice as big as it needs to be.-Unknown

这个杯子既不是半满也不是半空，而是做成了原定体积的两倍。

Do you see the glass as half-full rather than half empty?

你是看见杯中有半杯酒，还是看见有一半空着？

Whether a glass if half-full or half-empty, depends on the attitude of the person looking at it.

一个杯子是否装满水，取决于人们看它的态度。

We have no common name for a mime of Sophron or Xenarchus and a Socratic Conversation; and we should still be without one even if the imitation in the two instances were in trimeters or elegiacs or some other kind of verse--though it is the way with people to tack on 'poet' to the name of a metre, and talk of elegiac-poets and epic-poets, thinking that they call them poets not by reason of the imitative nature of their work, but indiscriminately by reason of the metre they write in.

索夫农 、森那库斯和苏格拉底式的对话采用的模仿没有一个公共的名称；三音步诗、挽歌体或其他类型的诗的模仿也没有——人们把&诗人&这一名词和格律名称结合到一起，称之为挽歌体诗人或者史诗诗人，他们被称为诗人，似乎只是因为遵守格律写作，而非他们作品的模仿本质。

The relationship between communicative competence and grammar teaching should be that of the ends and the means.

交际能力和语法的关系应该是目标与途径的关系。