She makes a halfhearted attempt to send queries to some other companies and immediately receives automated rejections.(她不抱什么希望地試著向其它公司發(fā)出了應征問詢，立即就收到了系統(tǒng)自動回復的拒絕信。)

"Hey, Mike," I called, waving back, unable to be halfhearted on a morning like this.(“嗨，邁克。”我喊著，向他揮手。我不能在這樣一個早晨表現(xiàn)得毫無興致。)

Some will resort to veiling their own opinions in a halfhearted attempt to direct the decision.(一些醫(yī)生會隱藏自己意見，以一種隱隱約約的方式指導病人做決定。)

Such apologies as they make are deemed halfhearted and insincere.(他們?yōu)榇俗鞒龅霓q護，被看作心不在焉而且毫無誠意。)

The Europeans still cling to it, though, with the return of "liberal interventionism" in Libya, but it is anxious and halfhearted.(而歐洲人還樂此不疲，雖然有“自由干涉主義”在利比亞的回歸，但后者也是令人憂慮和漠視的。)

"It will be really fun." Her attempt to convince me was halfhearted. I suspected that Jessica enjoyed my inexplicable popularity more than my actual company.(“舞會是很有意思的。”她半心半意地試圖說服我。我有時覺得，杰西卡跟我做朋友更多是因為我莫名其妙的超高人氣，而不是真的喜歡和我待在一起。)

You should ignore any result - good or bad - that comes after you put in only a halfhearted effort.(如果只是三心二意地付出了，那么你應該忽略由此帶來的任何結果—無論是好是壞。)

The truth is, many things are worth doing only in the most slovenly, halfhearted fashion possible, and many other things are not worth doing at all.(事實是，許多事情值得做的最邋遢不僅是，半心半意的方式可能的，很多事情是不值得做的一切。)

A halfhearted attempt at writing a novel.(并不熱心的試圖寫一部小說。)