在自然灾害期间，绝大多数人都过着半饥半饱的生活。

　　[误] During the natural calamity, most people were half hungry, half full.

　　[正] During the natural calamity, most people were underfed.

　　注：under- 是一个英语前缀，表示“......不足的”，如：underdeveloped(经济发展不充分的)，underage(未

　　到法定年龄的)等。所以，underfeed 表示“未喂饱的，食物不足的”。汉语中“半......半......”的结构可以翻译成 half...half...，例如：As for this matter, I am half-believing, half-doubting(对于这件事我是半信半疑的);This composition is half literary, half vernacular(这篇文章写得半文不白的)。