half measure

英 [hɑːf ˈmeʒə(r)]

美 [hæf ˈmeʒər]

n.   折衷办法; [经] 权宜办法

经济

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 折中政策;不彻底的行动
  If someone refers to policies or actions ashalf measures, they are critical of them because they think that they are not forceful enough and are therefore of little value.
  1. They have already declared their intention to fight on rather than settle for half-measures.
     他们已经宣布要继续战斗，而不是半途而废。

双语例句

• Sleeping pills are a half measure.
  安眠药丸是一个折衷方法。
• A year after roughly half the patients had the surgery, all completed a detailed questionnaire designed to measure quality of life, symptoms, functional ability, and emotional and intellectual status.
  一年后，约一半的患者接受了手术，他们全部完成了详细的调查问卷，旨在衡量其生活质量，疾病症状，行为能力，情绪和智力状况。
• The past year and a half have seen a lot of DB2 for LUW activity on the standard TPC-C benchmark, the benchmark commonly used to measure performance in the on line transaction processing environment.
  在过去一年半的时间里，在标准TPC-C基准方面有很多DB2forLUW活动，这个基准常用于测试在线事务处理环境中的性能。
• When you spend half your life in hotel rooms all around the world, the familiar sounds of ESPN or the Discovery Channel can provide some small measure of comfort.
  如果你一年里有一半时间都在世界各地的宾馆里睡觉，ESPN和探索频道熟悉的声音多少会能给你一些慰藉吧！
• Study on Half Envelop Sensor of Glide Measure Temperature and It's Fault Diagnosis
  半铠装滑动测温传感器及其故障诊断的研究
• A unit is equal to half a pint of regular strength beer or lager, one small glass of wine or a small ( pub measure) of spirits.
  一单位等于半品脱的啤酒或者度数高的啤酒，一小杯葡萄酒或者小型的（酒吧衡量）酒类。
• In case of plane strain problem, the effects of viscoelastic infinite half plane foundation on the earthquake response of concrete gravity dams have been investigated. An interaction influence factor is used in this paper as a measure of degree of interaction effect.
  本文在平面应变问题范围内，讨论粘弹性均匀半平面地基对重力坝地震反应（主要指地震荷载）的影响，定义了相互作用影响系数。
• From the latter half of 1998, Chinese government carried out the Expanding Financial Policy taking infrastructure investment as its focus and with a main measure of issuing state bonds.
  从1998年下半年开始，为了刺激经济增长，我国实行了以基础设施投资为重点的扩张性财政政策，主要手段是发行国债。
• More than half of the Texas House of Representatives have signed a measure allowing concealed handguns at universities.
  超过一半的德克萨斯州众议院代表已经签署了允许在学院中非公开携带枪支的议案。
• Newton's half ring is rayed by laser to demonstrate the equivalent thickness interference phenomenon of film step and measure film thickness.
  用激光照射牛顿半环来演示薄膜台阶的等厚干涉现象和测定薄膜厚度。