An old saying has it that half all advertising budgets are wasted—the trouble is, no one knows which half.
有句老话说，一半的广告预算都浪费了——问题是，没人知道是哪一半。
The number of IFC projects rose 18 percent to 440, of which half were in IDA countries.
国际金融公司的项目数增加了18%，增至440个，其中半数在IDA借款国。
Work only a half a day; it makes no difference which half -it can be either the first 12 hours or the last 12 hours.
每天只工作半天，前12小时与后12小时并无太大差别。
Reps will say dumb things like, "half your advertising works and half doesn't — and you'll never know which half." Rubbish.
销售代表只会讲那些毫无作用的话，譬如，“你一半的广告收到了成效，还有一半没什么效果——但你无法知道到底是哪一半。”真是废话。
They worked on the land with much difficulty and were beset by a devastating plague in which half of the Pilgrim died in the long winter of 1620.
1620年那个寒冷而漫长的冬天，他们在这块土地上费尽千辛万苦地劳作着，困难重重，还遭遇了一场灾难性的瘟疫，一半人在这场瘟疫中死去。
As with radioactivity, stories have a half-life-in other words a period by which half of newly promoted stories are relegated to a nether page.
与放射性一样，故事有一个半衰期-换言之，就是新推荐的故事从首页到被下放的周期。
That is the cognitive training studies in which half the people are put into one cognitive training group and maybe another half into the control group.
在认知训练研究中，人们被分成两组，一半人组成认知能力训练组，另一半人组成对照组。
This is also the point at which half of the testing frameworks fail, because they don't actually allow you to add UIComponent to the display list for testing.
这里也是一半测试框架做不到的地方，因为它们实际上不允许把UIComponent增加到显示列表进行测试。
One client had to be in the top five scores on a Web site at which half a million people were playing," Hyken said. "They're using it as a way to escape reality."
我有一位病人就非得让自己在某网站有50万玩家的游戏中排名前五，”海依肯说，“这是他们逃避现实的一种方式。”
In an intervention, executives can be asked to imagine an all-company meeting in which half the attendees spend most of the meeting on their smartphones, lost in cyber-space.
高层们应该可以想象，在一次全公司的会议中，如果其中一半的人都在摆弄自己的智能手机，那会时什么样的结果。
The authors carried out an experiment on 32 men and women, in which half were given a powder containing 0.8 grams of TRP, and the others were given a harmless placebo powder.
作者对32名男女进行了实验，其中一半人服用一种含有0.8克的色氨酸粉末，另一半人则食用了无害的安慰剂粉末。
The two struck a deal in which Rendell took half of what a manager would.
这两个人达成一项协议，伦德尔拿一名经理将能得到的一半。
The crowd, which had been thin for the first half of the race, had now grown considerably.
上半场比赛时观众稀稀拉拉的，现在则大大增多了。
According to data released in January 2017, 56 percent of bills are paid online, which means that just under half of payments still rely on delivery services to be completed.
2017年1月发布的数据显示，56%的账单是通过网络支付的，这意味着只有不到一半的账单是通过快递服务完成的。
Half of these are behavioural disorders, while one third are emotional disorders such as stress, anxiety and depression, which often become outwardly apparent through self-harm.
行为障碍占了其中的一半，而精神压力、焦虑和抑郁等情绪障碍占了三分之一，这些情绪障碍往往以自残的形式表现出来。
Instead of giving the wig back, Pinocchio put it on his own head, which was half swallowed up in it.
皮诺乔并没有把假发还给他，而是把它放在自己的头上，半个脑袋都被套进去了。
Coal prices also are low, owing to over-supply and the scaling-down of demand, especially from China, which burns half of the world's coal.
因为供应过剩和需求下降，煤炭价格也很低，尤其是消耗了全球一半煤炭的中国的需求下降。
He wrote many children's books, nearly half of which were published in the 1990s.
他写了许多儿童读物，其中近一半是在20世纪90年代出版的。
Equally unsurprisingly, only about half end up with professorships for which they entered graduate school.
同样不足为奇的是，尽管人们考研究生院是为了教授职位，但最终只有一半的人能够梦想成真。
There was a machine in the kitchen which could extract the juice of two hundred oranges in half an hour if a little button was pressed two hundred times by a butler's thumb.
厨房里有一台机器，只要管家用拇指按下小按钮两百次，半小时就能榨出两百个橙子的汁。
We walk for about an hour and a half, and then if we can resist the siren sound of the pub—which we usually can't—we come home.
我们走一个半小时，然后，如果我们能够忍受得了酒吧的警报声——通常我们忍受不了——我们就回家。
At the speed and height at which he was moving, he was never more than half a second from disaster.
以这样的速度在这么高的地方移动，他离灾难永远只有半步之遥。
In the process he uncovered numerous lost works, almost half of which were written by African-American women.
在这个过程中，他发现了许多丢失的作品，其中几乎一半是由非裔美国妇女写的。
A cup of Colombo blueberry yogurt contains 36 grams (g) of sugar, only about half of which is found naturally in the yogurt and fruit.
一杯科伦坡蓝莓酸奶含有36克糖，其中只有一半是天然存在于酸奶和水果中。
In little more than a decade, Argentina has become the world's leading exporter of honey, with nearly 90,000 tons a year sold to foreign markets, almost half of which is going to the United States.
在10年多的时间里，阿根廷已经成为世界上最大的蜂蜜出口国，每年有近9万吨蜂蜜销往国外市场，其中近一半销往美国。
The full railway, which includes 72-kilometers section through Beijing, will be completed in four and a half years.
京沪高铁将在四年半内建成，其中经过北京的部分长达72公里。
It lies high upon the hill, between the large oak-trees, one of which is half decayed.
它坐落在高高的山丘上，夹在几棵大橡树之间，其中一棵已经枯萎一半了。
It lies high upon the hill, between the large oak-trees, one of which is half decayed.
它坐落在高高的山丘上，夹在几棵大橡树之间，其中一棵已经枯萎一半了。
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