1·We must do it whole-heartedly, not half-heartedly.
我们要全心全意地做这件事，而不是半心半意。
—— 《新英汉大辞典》
2·With the feeling that my luck had really run out, I half-heartedly studied for six more hours.
我觉得自己肯定要倒霉了，带着这种想法，我又心不在焉地看了六个小时书。
3·I was half-heartedly looking for a new job, but now I'm stepping up my search.
我以前一直在漫不经心地寻找新工作，但现在我下定决心要换工作了。
4·Two of them half-heartedly tried to hide around a corner.
其中两个人无精打采的，企图躲在一个角落里。
5·You need to set goals in the right way - setting yourself up for success, rather than half-heartedly aiming for a vague dream.
你需要以正确的方式设置目标-让自己成功，而不是三心两意的一个模糊梦想。
6·By contrast, when compliance is performed manually, the effort is typically left to the last minute and performed half-heartedly.
相反，当手工执行法规遵循时，一般会将此工作留到最后一刻，并且不认真的执行。
7·Even seceding half-heartedly, it seems, can have benefits.
由此看来，即便是半心半意的分离也会带来好处。
8·As Siemens half-heartedly clamped down on corruption, managers took ever more eccentric steps to avoid getting caught. When authorising payments, many of them signed on removable sticky notes.
很多“脏活”已经被查证，西门子也开始做贼心虚，为了避免被拘捕，经理们采取了更加离奇的方法----付款批行时，经理们一般都在易事贴上签字。
9·When you don’t feel like working, it’s easy to tackle everything half-heartedly, doing the bare minimum to scrape by.
当你没有心情工作的时候，很容易就三心二意地处理事情，只是草草了事。
10·Hostile bloggers half-heartedly accuse her of being a Stepford wife or make snide cracks about the fortune she inherited and her past addiction to painkillers.
不怀好意的博客们对她只是敷衍了事地指责一番，说她是一位对丈夫惟命是从的花瓶太太，抑或讽刺挖苦她继承的庞大财产以及过去服用止痛药成瘾的经历。