英和和英

成句

half again

1. One and a half times, 150%.

   Coordinate terms: quarter (25%), third (~33%), half (50%); double (200%), triple (300%), quadruple (400%)

   half again as long ― one and a half times as long

   • 1965, Robert Riley Crutcher, “What's Buggin' Hazel”, in William D. Russell, director, Hazel, season 4, episode 22, spoken by Dorothy Baxter (Whitney Blake):

     George just talked to a friend of his downtown; he has a new job for Gus! And, it pays half again as much as he's been making.

   • 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Maji planet description:

     Maji orbits the Vamshi binary giant stars. Vamshi-A is a blue star of spectral class A4III which burns at half again the temperature of Sol. Vamshi-B is an aging red giant of class M5III, over 220 times the size of Sol.