ADJ (of a vessel, place, etc) holding or containing half its capacity (船只、场所等)半空的
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。”
After a half-century,the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence, or SETI, has pretty much come up empty.
VOA: standard.2010.04.16
Community colleges' honors programs, usually half-empty,have, in the Post's words,exploded.
VOA: standard.2009.12.14
Community colleges' honors programs, usually half-empty, have,in the Post's words,exploded.
VOA: standard.2009.12.10
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