A halfhearted attempt at writing a novel.

并不热心的试图写一部小说。

Such apologies as they make are deemed halfhearted and insincere.

他们为此作出的辩护，被看作心不在焉而且毫无诚意。

"Hey, Mike," I called, waving back, unable to be halfhearted on a morning like this.

“嗨，迈克。”我喊着，向他挥手。我不能在这样一个早晨表现得毫无兴致。

Some will resort to veiling their own opinions in a halfhearted attempt to direct the decision.

一些医生会隐藏自己意见，以一种隐隐约约的方式指导病人做决定。

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，那么你应该忽略由此带来的任何结果—无论是好是坏。

She makes a halfhearted attempt to send queries to some other companies and immediately receives automated rejections.

她不抱什么希望地试着向其它公司发出了应征问询，立即就收到了系统自动回复的拒绝信。

The Europeans still cling to it, though, with the return of "liberal interventionism" in Libya, but it is anxious and halfhearted.

而欧洲人还乐此不疲，虽然有“自由干涉主义”在利比亚的回归，但后者也是令人忧虑和漠视的。

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.

事实是，许多事情值得做的最邋遢不仅是，半心半意的方式可能的，很多事情是不值得做的一切。

"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.

“舞会是很有意思的。”她半心半意地试图说服我。我有时觉得，杰西卡跟我做朋友更多是因为我莫名其妙的超高人气，而不是真的喜欢和我待在一起。