プログレッシブ和英中辞典(第4版)の解説
なかば【半ば】
❶〔半分〕
半ば冗談にそう言ったのだ
He said so half in jest.
仕事は半ばすんだ
The work is half done.
彼の話の半ばはうそだった
Half of his story was false.
この棚の本の半ばは辞典だ
Half the books on this shelf are dictionaries.
❷〔ある程度〕
彼女の病気は半ば神経から来ている
Her illness is due partly [in part] to nervous strain.
この作品は半ば小説で半ば詩だ
This work is part novel and part poetry.
半ばあきらめていた
He had half [nearly] given up.
❸〔真ん中あたり〕
橋の半ばに立つ
stand in the middle of the bridge
５月の半ばから
since mid-May
60代の半ばに
in one's mid-sixties
９月の半ばごろ
about the middle of September
彼は夕食会の半ばに意識を失った
He fell unconscious in the middle of the dinner.
半ばで引き返す
go back halfway
僕は学業半ばで退学した
I left when I was halfway through my college course.