剧场只坐了一半观众。
Our uncle's backpack was half empty.
我们叔叔的背包有一半是空的。
His refrigerator frequently looked half empty.
他的冰箱经常看上去有点儿空。
The cinema was half empty because the movie was so boring.
电影太无聊了，所以电影院半空着。
Is the glass half empty or half full?
玻璃杯是半满的还是半空的呢？
Is the glass half empty or half full?
你的杯子一半是空的还是一半是满的？
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。
Look at the picture closely: Is the glass half full or half empty?
仔细看图：杯子是半满呢还是半空呢？
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”。
"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。”
In Shanghai, the figure was down 35 percent as many hotels stand half empty.
该项数字是反映酒店运营情况的重要指标。上海的该项指标也下降了35%，很多酒店的入住率只有五成。
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。
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。
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。
It's like saying the glass is half full instead of half empty. They mean the same; one just sounds better.
它们的意思是相同的，只是另一个听起来更好。
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。
Perhaps it just comes down to how you see the candy dish-half empty or half full. Or at least as a parent, that's what I'll keep telling myself.
或许，问你有孩子幸福还是没孩子幸福，归根结底就是在问你看到的是糖果盘的哪一部分——是空的那一半还是满的那一半，至少我这个当娘的是这么看的。
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。
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。
半空就是半满。
说它半满还是半空好？
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！
Even cheap restaurants are half-empty.
甚至廉价餐厅也是半空的。
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。
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。”
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。
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。
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。
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