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？

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Is the glass half full or half empty?

杯子是半满还是半空的呢？

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When he was in college, he said, his class endlessly discussed the question: is the glass half full or half empty?

他说，在他上大学的时候，班里总是在讨论这样一个问题：杯子是半满的还是半空的？

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After a half-century,the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence, or SETI, has pretty much come up empty.

VOA: standard.2010.04.16

(SAYING) On the southern coast - known as the Costa del Sol - block after block of apartments lie empty or half finished, many of them designed for foreign buyers who have long since abandoned the idea of investing in Spain.

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It depends on whether you see the glass half full or half empty.

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So is the euro glass half full or half empty?

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But is the glass half full or half empty?

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