The second half of the game was dull by comparison with the first.

与上半场相比，比赛的下半场有些沉闷。

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There was to be a first prize of five shillings, and a second prize of a half crown, for the best collection of wild flowers, with their names upon them.

第一名是五先令，第二名是半顶王冠，奖励他们收集了最好的野花，上面还写着他们的名字。

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When shooting video, we noted that audio recording starts slightly later than the video, leaving the first half second or so without sound.

可是，当拍摄影片的时候，我们发现有轻微的影音不同步，因而在影片播放的头半秒左右会出现有画面没声音的情况出现，这可以在我们的影片样本中看到。

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In the second half of class, I will introduce to you and start telling the first story of the term, and that's about Richard Wright's Black boy which is our first reading of the term.

下面我将把这堂课的，第一个故事介绍并讲述给你们,理查，怀特的《黑孩子》,这是我们这学期要读的第一本书。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

First half of the class, metaphysics; second half of the class, value theory.

前半学期，形而上学;,后半学期，价值理论。

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In the second half of the twentieth century and up now into the twenty-first century, writers were thinking very hard about what to do stylistically with all the innovations that come in that powerful period known as modernism.

自二十世纪下半叶,直至现今二十一世纪,作家都在努力思考在现代主义影响,深远的这个时期里该怎样进行文体上的创新。

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Here is how these hotly criticized and much hated China financials performed in the first quarter, second quarter, first half, since the start of the second half and year to date.

FORBES: How The China Shorts Have Performed

This suggests the market (for now) expects cocoa prices to be flat in both the first and second half of 2010.

FORBES: Soft Commodities

The consensus is for it to grow by all of 0.4%, but there's going to be a big difference between the first and second half of the year.

BBC: Reasons to be cheerful (part 1)