I was hoping to get there not too late but it was already half past midnight.

我期待着不要太晚才到达那里，但是，当时已经是半夜十二点半了。

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The clock on his dashboard told him it was half past noon, but Fred Gonzales thought it might as well be midnight.

仪表板上的提示已是下午十二点半了，但是Fred Gonzales想好像是午夜。

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The show was on every Friday evening from half past ten till midnight.

这个比赛在每个星期五晚上十点半至午夜上演。

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"We finished taking a steam in this sauna last night at half past midnight to have a proper warm-up for today, " he said.

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It arrived by the 9.30pm delivery that night, was corrected, caught the last collection at the Highgate post office at half-past midnight, and the printers had a revised galley on the desk by 9.30am.

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