How can one be alive as opposed to half alive?

一个人怎样能活出自己的全部？，而不是只活了一半呢？

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These reasons have nothing to do with the man you're marrying, and they bode for an unhappy future, a future where you'll be only half alive.

这些原因都和你要嫁的那个男人毫无关系，而且它们预示的是一个快乐打折、鲜活减半的未来。

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Here he had studied and written; here, gone through fast and vigil, and come forth half alive; here striven to pray; here, borne a hundred thousand agonies!

他曾在这里研读和写作；他曾在这里斋戒和夜祷，以致弄得半死不活；他曾在这里尽心尽意地祈祷；他曾在这里忍受过成千上万种折磨！

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The researchers say all ten patients remain alive two and a half years after the treatment, and the disease has disappeared in nine of them.

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Less than half are alive and kicking today.

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About half of them alive, many will die or be euthanized after they are washed.

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The winger broke through in each half to keep alive Bath's hopes of reaching the knock-out phase.

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