An order came down from on high that lunchbreaks were to be half an hour and no longer.

上头指示说午餐休息时间不得超过半小时。

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Hang on. I'll be ready in half a minute.

等一下。我马上就准备好了。

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Around one-third of our meals should be based on carbohydrates, with roughly one half of these grains being whole.

我们的食物中差不多有三分之一是碳水化合物，大概有一半谷物食品为全麦的。

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"Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" will be shown in normal theaters as well as on the huge screens of IMAX theaters.

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If you can figure out why fails on three letters instead of 12, you'll be more than half way to solving the problem.

如果你能明白为什么程序,在输入三个字母的单词的时候没法运行,你就已经解决了问题的一半了。

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Now, on this screen is going to be instructions but I want to give the instructions to this half of the class.

现在，屏幕上将会显示出指导语,但我希望只有右边的同学看到这些指导语。

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So, for example, at the announcement where I talked about offshore drilling, I did so in front of an F-18, a fighter jet, that is actually going to be run half on biomass.

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The system had to be funded entirely by a payroll tax levied half on employers and half on workers, so that it could be presented to the nation as a sort of contributory insurance plan.

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The judge told all the players they would be released on licence half way through their sentences if they behaved.

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