The bus was only half full. Even so, a young man asked Nina if the seat next to her was taken.
公共汽车上只坐满了一半，即便如此，一个小伙子还问尼娜她旁边的座位有没有人坐。
Running it only half full can waste up to 1, 000 gallons of water a month.
如果洗碗机只有一半东西时就运作，每个月会浪费1000加仑水。
The good news is that awareness rarely shatters the illusion. The glass remains half full.
好消息是，这种警醒很少会打破幻像，玻璃杯仍是半满的。
One more reason to keep your glass half full: Optimists might be less likely to have a stroke.
又有一个原因来让你保持乐观。那就是乐观的人不容易患中风。
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。
Rotarians do not ask is the glass half empty or half full, Rotarians ask who needs a glass of clean water.
扶轮社员不会问杯子里的水是半满或半空，扶轮社员会问谁需要一杯干净的水。
On the trip, water slowly spilled from the cracked pot. So when it arrived at the house, it was only half full.
而另外一只罐子却有个裂缝，一路上水会慢慢从缝隙里露出来，所以当它到了主人家里时，只剩下了半罐水。
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。
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。
Hotels are less than half full: almost every week a business conference or international sporting event is cancelled.
酒店入住率不到一半：几乎每个星期都有一场商务会议或者国际赛事活动被取消。
If you are the kind of person who always sees your glass as half full, you are likely to have a healthier heart, a study has found.
据英国《每日邮报》7月5日报道，研究发现，那些认为杯子半满（而非半空）的人，即乐观的人，他们的心脏有可能更健康。
It doesn't really matter if your glass is half empty or half full. Be thankful that you have a glass and that there's something in it.
不管你的杯子是半空还是半满，要心存感激，至少你还有半杯。
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。
But the other pot had a crack in it. On the trip, water slowly spilled from the cracked pot. So when it arrived at the house, it was only half full.
而另外一只罐子却有个裂缝，一路上水会慢慢从缝隙里露出来，所以当它到了主人家里时，只剩下了半罐水。
It seems that for some of us, seeing the glass as half full is hardwired into our genetic make-up, helping us shrug off the miseries of life and enjoy the positives.
对我们中的一些人来说，认为杯子是半满的想法或许是与我们的基因组成固定相连的，帮助我们摆脱生活的痛苦，享受积极的人生。
His shoes were black leather, and they were polished to such a shine that they looked like dark mirrors: you could see the moon reflected in them, tiny and half full.
他的鞋是用黑色皮革做的，擦得光可鉴人，看起来就像两块黑油油的镜面：你可以看见倒映在上面的那轮小巧的半弦月。
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。
We've all heard the 'glass half full' mentality - resilient people tend to see stressful events or crises as temporary or even as opportunities to learn and grow, rather than as unbearable problems.
我们都听过“半杯满”的心态——坚韧的人们往往认为压力事件或危机是临时的，甚至是学习和成长的机会，而不是无法承受的问题。
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！
Dogs that saw the bowl as half-full were calmer when left alone, sure their owners would return, while pessimistic dogs were more likely to worry, bark and misbehave.
看到碗“半满”的狗独处时表现得更为冷静，肯定主人会回来，而悲观的狗更容易焦虑，狂吠，行为失常。
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。”
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。
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。
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。
A mere handful of direct flights each week connect the world's second and sixth most populous countries; and even these planes are only half-full.
这两个人口世界第二和第六人口大国仅仅以每周屈指可数的直通航班相连，然而甚至这些航班都只有一半的上座率。
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”。
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”。
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