英语释义

1. to divide into two equal parts

2. to reduce to one half
halving the present cost

3. to share equally

4. to play (a hole, round, or match) in the same number of strokes as one's opponent
I lost the next two holes to pars, then halved the fourth by missing an easy putt.
— David Owen

5. to divide (something) into two equal parts to divide (something) into halves

6. to reduce (something) to one half of the original amount or size

7. to divide into two equal parts
I halved an apple.

8. to reduce to one half
He halved the recipe.

片语

halving saw劈猪电锯

beveled halving斜面接头

additive halving半相加

oblique halving斜对接

corner halving[建]

halving line半像线

lean halving贫矿

halving model半分模型

bisecting（术语）对半分，平分（bisect 的现在分词）

halving ustment对分调整

英汉例句

• there is an alternative, for which this newspaper has long argued: an orderly restructuring of greece’s debts, halving their value to around 80% of gdp.

  还有种可供选择方法，也正是本刊一直以来所说的方法，那就是希腊债务的有序重组，将其价值折半至gdp的约80%。

• last fall, you stated that the world was off-target for meeting the millennium development goal of halving hunger by the year 2015.

  去年秋季，你指出在实现到2015年将饑饿人数减半这一千年发展目标方面世界未能达到指标。

• you found that halving your salary cut your enthusiasm.

  你发现，薪水减半降低了你的工作热情。

• she says the problem poses a major challenge to economic growth and the achievement of global development goals, such as halving extreme poverty by 2015.

  她说，这个问题是经济增长和实现全球发展目标（如在2015年之前将赤贫人口减少一半）所面临的主要挑战。

• he calls for refreshing change: deregulation, decentralisation and—crucially for a country with too many paws on the levers of power—a halving of the number in the diet (parliament).

  舛添是自民党内为数不多的人才，既有雄心壮志又有思想信念，他呼吁面目一新的改革： 即撤销管制规定，向地方放权，议会人数减半（在日本，权利杠桿之上的觊觎之手过多，所以最后一点尤为重要。）

• this algorithm is commonly referred to as recursive halving and doubling and is the underlying mechanism behind the class of reduce function calls in mpi, which we discuss next.

  这种算法通常就称为递归二分和倍增（recursivehalvingand doubling）法，它就是在mpi 中reduce函数调用的类背后所采用的机制，稍后我们就要讨论。

• the goals call for halving the proportion of people who live on less than a dollar a day, compared to 1990, and substantially improving health and education in developing countries by 2015.

  千年发展目标要求在1990年的基础上将每天生活费不足一美元的人口数目减少一半，并在2015年之前大幅度改善发展中国家的卫生和教育状况。

• in addition it is not clear at this stage whether the mdg related targets of halving prevalence and deaths due to tb will be achieved by 2015.

  此外，在现阶段我们还不清楚到2015年能否实现千年发展目标中将结核病发病率和死亡率减半的相关具体目标。

• but the word is that next month the european commission will propose halving this number.

  但是，有消息称在下个月欧盟将会提议减半这个数字。

• mr darling accuses the current chancellor of cutting spending too deeply and fast (in office mr darling proposed halving the budget deficit by 2015, a strategy he still defends).

  但在削减预算方面，他还是觉得奥斯本的计划规模过大、进度过快（达林在任时，曾提出要在2015年前将赤字削减一半，而如今他仍坚持这个计划。）

• but that alone will not get him to his goal of halving the budget deficit in four years, nor will the other cost cutting he discussed tuesday night.

  但仅仅如此还不能达到他所期望的四年内财政赤字减半的目标---即使加上周二晚他所讨论的其他成本削减措施。

• he also stated that the cost of an integrated circuit would stay the same, a halving of the cost per transistor with every doubling of the number.

  他接着指出由于每个晶体管的成本减半和能集成的晶体管数量翻一番，集成电路的成本将保持不变。

• even if we observed a certain level of performance at a given configuration, a performance improvement is not always guaranteed when doubling or halving a specification (unfortunately).

  即使我们在给定配置下实现了一定程度的性能改善，也不能保证当某种规格翻倍或减半之后还能获得性能改善（很遗憾）。

• with the deficit numbers higher, we would have to cut more to reach my goal of halving the deficit in four years.

  由于赤字增加了，如果要在四年内实现削减一半赤字的目标，就需要削减更多的预算。

• the best news is that the share of people living on less than $1.25 a day seems on track to meet the goal of halving the extreme poverty rate.

  我们听到的最好的消息就是人均每日消费低于1.25美元的人口数量正朝着将季度贫困人口减去一半的目标挺进。

• thirteen years ago, world leaders gathered in rome and made the solemn pledge of ensuring food security for all and halving the number of the world’s hungry people by 2015.

  13年前，各国领导人齐聚罗马，共同作出了人人享有粮食安全，在2015年前将全球饑饿人口减半的庄严承诺。

• none will reach the more ambitious world food summit goal of halving the number of hungry people,” diouf said.

  没有任何地区会达到世界粮食首脑会议关于将饑饿人数减半的更宏伟目标。

• finally, the united nations’ millennium summit in september will review progress toward halving the world poverty by 2015 as intended in the eight millennium development goals.

  最后，将于九月举行的联合国千年峰会将审查八个千年发展目标计划的到2015年减半贫困行动的进展情况。

• the white house said that at the meeting, mr.obama underscored his commitment to halving the u.s. budget deficit once the economic recovery is established.

  白宫说，奥巴马在会晤中强调说，一旦美国经济复苏势头稳定下来，他会兑现承诺将美国的预算赤字削减一半；

• halving the share of people who live on less than a dollar a day is, for example, the first of the millennium development goals to which 189 countries subscribed in september 2000.

  例如，将每天生活费不足一美元的人口减少一半便成了「千年发展目标」的首要目标。2000年9月，有189个国家在千年发展目标上签字。