Even cheap restaurants are half-empty.
甚至廉价餐厅也是半空的。
In Baghdad the streets are half-empty and shops close early.
巴格达市街道人烟稀少，商店极早便歇业。
They'll take a look at this bottle and they'll say "this bottle is half-empty, not half-full."
他们看到一个瓶子会说，“这瓶子是一半空的，而不是一半满的。”
If someone tells you if a glass is filled to the half with water, is it half-empty or half-full?
假如有人告诉你一个瓶子里装半瓶水，那么你是说：它是半满还是半空？请告诉他：它是半满的！
The 'glass half-empty' view is that there is still much we have ignored and much we do not know.
“悲观”(glass half - empty)的观点则认为，现在还有大量未曾注意到的内容，还大量未知的内容。
He sums up the ambivalence of many who oscillate between seeing modern South Africa as a glass half-empty or a glass half-full.
他总结了人们的矛盾心理——他们看现代南非时总在“半杯空”和“半杯满”两种看法之间摇摆。
Today, half-empty warehouses dot the seven-and-a-half-acre yard of Terrapin Recycling, an industrial scrapyard just north of Sparrows Point.
麻雀角附近的TerrapinRecycling工业废料场，占地7.5英亩，目前半数库房闲置。
Half of his belongings are lying on the floor. The valises are crammed full and there is nowhere to put the paintings and the books and the bottles that are half empty.
他的东西有一半仍摊在地板上，箱子都已塞满，没有地方可装绘画、书和半空的瓶子了。
"I see," said the pessimist with a heavy sigh, "a glass that is half empty."
“我看见，”悲观者深深地叹息着说，“一杯空了一半的水。”
The optimist says the glass is half full, the pessimist says the glass is half empty, the engineer says that glass is twice as large as it needs to hold the fluid it contains.
乐观者说，有半杯水，悲观者说，杯子的一半是空的，工程师说，杯子太大了，它是它所盛装的，液体体积的两倍。
This hardly qualifies as unusual: Detroit's population has cratered from around 2m in 1950 to below half that today; the city abounds in empty homes and vacant lots.
这可算不上什么稀罕事：底特律1950年的人口为约二百万，如今的人口还不到这个数字的一半；今天，在这个城市里，空屋、空地随处可见。
The shelves are half empty, and the bottles of cleaning fluidare covered with dust.
店里的架子一半都空了，装清洗液的瓶子落满了灰尘。
He painted on half of it, and the other half was always empty.
他只画一半，另一半总是空着的。
Optimists always say the glass is half full, not half empty.
乐观主义者总是说，杯子有一半是满的，而不是说杯子有一半是空的。
Is the glass half empty or half full?
你的杯子一半是空的还是一半是满的？
The other half discovered the container was empty—and realized the tester had fooled them.
另外一半（孩子）发现容器是空的，并意识到测试员欺骗了他们。
I can either say "the glass is half empty" or "the glass is half full."
我可以说“杯子里只有一半水”或“杯子里还有半杯水”。
Is the glass half empty or half full?
玻璃杯是半满的还是半空的呢？
Pessimists say that the glass is half empty, but I am an optimist and say that it is half full.
悲观主义者说那个杯子是半空的，但是我是乐观主义者，我说那个杯子是半满的。
For optimists the glass is always half full. For pessimists it is always half empty.
对于乐观主义者，玻璃杯总是半满的。对于悲观主义者，它总是半空的。
If you say half full, you might be an optimist. If you say, half empty, you might be the opposite — a pessimist.
如果你说它是半满的，你可能就是一位乐观主义者。如果你说它是半空的，你可能就相反是一位悲观主义者。
剧场只坐了一半观众。
说它半满还是半空好？
半空就是半满。
Better half an egg than empty shell.
半只蛋也比空壳好。
The heaviest damage so far came near the town of Columbia, N.C., near the Virginia border, where “tornadic activity” blew apart half a dozen empty mobile homes and knocked out a sewer station.
目前为止最严重的灾害发生在北卡罗来纳州哥伦比亚镇附近，靠近与弗吉尼亚的交界处。 龙卷风破坏了半打空置的移动房屋以及一个污水泵站。
In practice, many of the silos for these grains have not yet been built, and those that have been built are empty or half-full.
实际上，许多用来储存这些谷物的筒仓却还没有建好，而那些已经建好的粮仓却又空着或储存了一半。
In practice, many of the silos for these grains have not yet been built, and those that have been built are empty or half-full.
实际上，许多用来储存这些谷物的筒仓却还没有建好，而那些已经建好的粮仓却又空着或储存了一半。
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