if something happens half the time, especially something annoying, it happens quite often 经常〔尤指恼人的事〕
Half the time you don’t even notice what I’m wearing.
你常常连我穿什么都没注意。
Examples from the Corpus
half the time• AutoFix worked about half the time on both computers.• About half the time, I went down with a buddy, half the time alone.• The new mainframeoperating system I have personally approved is going haywire; the computer is down half the time.• Just not in touch with it half the time.• Drunk and maudlinhalf the time.• Alice was thinking: Jim's so big and strong, Philip isn't; together they'd need half the time.• Poor thing, he could barely keep his eyes open half the time, and now he had this skincondition.• It's madness your having to live with them half the time.