Since 1934, better than half a billion dollars has gone into that Fund to purchase more than 5 million acres of habitat.
自1934年以来，该基金已经投入了超过5亿美元，用于购买500多万英亩的栖息地。
Justin: Absolutely. You're … probably already better than half the guys on my team.
绝对真的。你…比我们队了半成的队员还要棒。
But a fundamental law of optics known as the diffraction limit states that the resolution can never be better than half the wavelength of light being looked at.
但是，一条被称为衍射极限的光学基本定律指出，显微镜的分辨率不会小于观察所用光源波长的一半。
Declaring that one country is better than another in the way that it treats more than half its citizens means relying on broad strokes and generalities.
在对待大多数公民的方式上，当宣称一个国家比另外一个做得更好，意味着要依赖于广义的举措和概述。
The average Norwegian is better off than the average US citizen, but contributes about half as much to climate change.
挪威人的平均生活水平高于美国人，但对气候变化的贡献仅为美国人的一半。
In each of these respects, Bangladesh does better than India, despite having only half of India's per capita income.
尽管孟加拉国人均收入只有印度的一半，但是在这些方面，每一条孟加拉国都比印度做得好。
Half a loaf is better than no bread.
半条面包总比没面包好；聊胜于无。
Frequent short breaks are better than less-frequent, long breaks. Set your software timer to stop you every half hour or so.
经常性的短暂休息比非经常性的长时间休息要好。所以设置你的计时软件大约每半小时提醒你一次。
These bankrupt women are better educated than their male counterparts: most have some college education, and more than half own their own homes.
相对于同龄男性，这些濒临破产的女性接受过更好的教育。其中，大部分人都上过大学，超过一半的女性拥有自己的住所。
According to the math, same with half a dozen people, you've got a very good chance the average will be better than the majority of the people's guesses.
根据数学，一半十几人一样，你已经有了一个非常好的机会，平均会比人们猜测大多数更好。
And a study carried out earlier this year found that critically ill children whose red blood-cell counts had dropped by half fared no better after a transfusion than those who did not receive one.
一项早些年的研究表明血细胞值仅为正常一半的垂危儿童接受输血后并未比未接受者有所好转。
“On a scale of 1 to 10, I’d say we were negative during the first half of the year, ” he said. “Now, we’re at 0.5 or 1 — not huge, but better, and definitely stronger than in the Americas and Europe.”
“如果从1至10分来衡量，我会说上半年我们是负数，”他说，“现在，我们在0.5或1的位置——不多，但好转了，而且肯定比美国和欧洲要强。”
RAFAEL NADAL: no, my serve is not much better than the last year and a half.
RAFAELNADAL：不对，我的发球与一年半以前相比没多大起色。
"Our view is it's better to have twice as much hardware that's not as reliable than half as much that's more reliable," Dean said.
Dean说：“我们的观点是，不可靠的硬件数量最好是可靠机型的两倍。”
However, half a year passed and the old man felt better than before.
然而，半年过去了，老人不但没死，反而感觉身体比以前好了。
The kitchen features a large bakery, where the ancient solons prepared half loaves that were better than none, pies in the sky and cake that they could have and eat too.
厨房里最显眼的是一个大烤箱，古老的议员准备了聊胜于无的半个面包、空中的馅饼和他们能有以及也吃的蛋糕。
But these days, less than half of Americans think their children's living standards will be better than theirs.
然而近些日子，认为孩子们能够生活得比自己好的美国人还不到半数。
Better half an egg than empty shell.
半只蛋也比空壳好。
While both groups did better than chance would predict, nearly half the participants in each group made the wrong choice two or more times.
虽然两组做的猜测都比随机猜测的准确度高，但每组中都有近一半的参加者做出了两次或更多的错误选择。
For a quick, instant immersion course in the life and culture of a place, there's nothing better than a half-hour spent pushing a cart, puzzling over unfamiliar junk food.
初到一处，想要快速了解本地文化乃至民生百态，没有什么比花上半个钟头，推着超市手推车到里面探究下新奇的垃圾食品更好的方式了。
But it takes no longer to prepare well for one interview than to wander in half-prepared for five. And your prospects for success will be many times better.
但认真准备一次面试的时间不会多于马马虎虎准备五次面试的时间，而你成功的可能性要多得多。
Since then, yields on Irish bonds have fallen nearly half after two quarters of better-than expected export growth.
自那以来，随着有两个季度爱尔兰的出口增速都好于预期，爱尔兰债券的收益率已下降近半。
We still believe the recovery will continue, but the optimism for a better-than-half-speed recovery is waning.
尽管我们依然相信复苏会持续，但是高于均速的复苏看起来是不可能的了。
Not only did the world's biggest AD agency report a 47 per cent fall in first-half profits; revenues next year are expected to be no better than this year's.
这家全球最大的广告公司不仅上半年利润下滑47%，而且预计明年的收入也不会好于今年。
While all of these indicators might perform better in the second half of 2008 than in the first, they are likely to remain in contraction or register subpar growth.
到2008(原文如此，疑为2009年)年下半年，可能所有这些指标或许都好于上半年，但仍然会保持收缩或是表现出低于标准以下的增长。
2, Eight countries achieved coverage of 80% or better and 21 others covered more than half of those in need.
有8个国家接受治疗的人达到了80%或这更多，另外21个国家也覆盖了需要治疗人数的一半以上。
Half a loaf is better than none means that getting part of what you want is better than getting nothing at all.
半条面包总比没有好，意思是说，得到你想要的一部分比一无所获要好。
A good beginning is half of success, but if you do not have a good start, we try a bad start, because of a bad start to start a lot better than never.
好的开始是成功的一半，但是如果没有好的开始，我们不妨试试一个坏的开始，因为一个坏的开始要比永远没有开始好多了。
A good beginning is half of success, but if you do not have a good start, we try a bad start, because of a bad start to start a lot better than never.
好的开始是成功的一半，但是如果没有好的开始，我们不妨试试一个坏的开始，因为一个坏的开始要比永远没有开始好多了。
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