Mrs. Ma: half is sea water, half is flame.

马：一半是海水，一半是火焰。

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Against a starry sky a flame shaped like a candle flare was rising from a black tanker shape half-enveloped in a red ball of darker fire .

衬着布满星星的夜空，一片烈火如同高烧的巨烛，正从半掩没在色泽更深的一团火球中的黑色油船上熊熊燃起。

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The stoves use less than one-half of the firewood that conventional open-flame cooking methods require.

这种火炉用不到一半的明焰烧木柴到传统的烹调方法的要求。

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Recession has favoured McDonald's over BK, whose share price has fallen by half since the economy was flame-grilled in the summer of 2008.

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These are usually one day affairs and are typically based on a running race of 3-12 miles, but those miles are fraught with hazards not found on any normal marathon or half-marathon course, from mud pits to vertical walls, fiery flame barriers to electric shocks, ice plunges to crawls under barbwire.

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