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。
He collapsed on to the grass like a half-empty flour sack.
他倒瘫到草地上，像一只空了一半的面袋子。
They are optimists who see the glass as half-full rather then half-empty.
他们是乐观主义者，他们看到的杯子是满了一半，而不是空了一半。
Whether a glass is half-full or half-empty depends on the attitude of the person looking it.
半杯水是半满还是半空，完全取决于你报怎样的态度去看待。
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。
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。
Other research has shown that whether people think themselves fortunate depends less on objective success than on having a "glass half-full" or "half-empty" approach to life.
其他的研究显示，人们认为自己是否幸运并不主要取决于客观的成功，更多的在于自己对生活的态度是“半瓶水满”还是“半瓶水空”。
Thee neighbor dropped in on a friendand found her sitting at the kitchen table, staring blankly ata half-empty cup of coffee, her three kids squabbling loudly in the other room.
一个邻居顺道去拜访自己的一位朋友，发现她正呆坐在厨房的桌子旁，眼睛茫然地盯着已经喝了一半的咖啡，她的三个孩子正在隔壁的房间里大声地喧哗。
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。
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。
People describe optimists as people who see a glass as half full rather than half empty.
人们描述乐观者就是那些看到半杯水看不到半杯空的人。
"The boats are coming back half empty, so we hope to take advantage of that," said Mr Mora.
穆桥石表示：“这些船回来的时候有一半是空的，所以我们希望利用这一点。”
Is the glass half empty or full? Life works better when the glass if half full regardless of your life status.
你的杯子有一半是空的呢，还是满的呢？不管你的生活状况如何，生活可以更美好，即使你的杯子只装满了一半。
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。
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。
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。
By the end of this Valentines week you realise that your glass is indeed half full and not half empty anymore.
到这个情人节周末，你意识到你的杯子是半满而不再是半空。
Is the glass half empty or full? Life works better when the glass is half full regardless of your life status.
不管你的生活状况如何，生活可以更美好，即使你的杯子只装满了一半。
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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