我的父亲做传道人五十多年，大半在乡间的小教会服事。
My father was a minister for over fifty years, serving mostly in small, rural churches.
其中的一大半在今年即将用罄，这就意味着不得不缩减2011年的预算。
More than half is to be spent this year, meaning that the budget will have to be cut in 2011.
但是仍然有大约9亿的文盲，其中一大半在印度，印度的十亿人口只有一半能够读写。
But that still left some 900m illiterates, more than half of them in India, only about half of whose billion people can read or write.
他在默默无闻的工作中度过了大半生。
在大半个世纪里，大多数生物学家都不愿使用这些词，因为他们牢记着一条进化论的原则，即“进化不能倒退”。
For the better part of a century, most biologists have been reluctant to use those words, mindful of a principle of evolution that says "evolution cannot run backwards".
这只绿海龟的大半生都是在海洋里度过的。
在本集节目的开端，我介绍了公元1066左右，被大半个地球上人民见证过的那颗恒星爆炸时的声音。
I started this programme with the sound of a star whose explosion was seen across half the world around 1066.
他们同时承诺预防重要的挑战——在几乎大半的婚姻里显然不会碰到以分手所为结局的挑战。
They're also promises that provide significant challenges - challenges that apparently can't be met in the almost half of all marriages as they end in divorce.
你得让那些家伙们明白，他们在大蛋糕上分得的一小部分也比那到大半快的小蛋糕要强。
You have to make these guys understand that they are better off with a smaller slice of a really big pie than owning most of a tiny business.
大半的化石保存非常完好，甚至连软组织都毫发无损。这些动物在死后被细菌保护着。
More than half of the fossils remain intact completely intact, including soft tissues, that were protected by bacteria that sealed off the animals’ bodies after they died.
Simmons本计划完成他的经济学博士学位后就到他父亲在美国犹他州的银行工作，而他在完成了大半学分后竟然（这是译者自己加的观点，不可取）中途辍学，之后他为加利福尼亚州一新建近海石油钻井的 工人们(哪里有工人？？)
He was two-thirds of the way through a doctorate in economics and had planned to join his father’s bank in Utah when he finished.
尽管所有的人际关系都会要是有困难的时候，但在婚姻的关系中出现问题的时间占了一大半，那这个婚姻关系就很危险了。 事实上，就像梅奥诊所指出的，在婚姻关系中，障碍和困境出现以后，大约有半数最终都离婚了。
While all relationships can experience difficult times, a marriage that has more problems than positive moments may likely deteriorate.
后来我在一家杂志换了一份不确定的工作，薪水少了一大半。
I swapped this for an uncertain job on a magazine on less than half the salary.
在大半个世纪，第一次获得真正的权利并不是一间华而不实的事情。
Real power for the first time in the better part of a century is no small bauble.
对很多人来说，不借房贷而是租房度过其大半生也是一件难事。在某些地区，如果没有好的信用纪录，就连租房也成困难(我住的地方没有这种问题)。
It's also hard for many people to rent for most of their lives, instead of getting a mortgage. And in some areas it's hard to even rent without a good credit history (it's not an issue where I live).
只是气氛有点沉闷，实际上我在那住了大半个学期都没出什么事情，只是在期末考试前两周的时候出了点麻烦。
The atmosphere was dull at best and I actually inhabited the room for the better part of the semester without incident until two weeks before finals.
呃~，首先两人都是在30几岁时移居罗马且在那里度过了大半岁月。
Well, both moved to Rome at 30 or so, and spent most of their lives there.
依靠这个群体，在大半夜里，能得到如此不同的结果。
That as a group, in the middle of the night, you can make such a difference.
即使在最混乱的时刻，我们的社会关系仍旧保持大半地完整。
Even in the most chaotic moments, our social relationships remain largely intact.
经历的很多困难后，他们在地道里走了大半程。
With great difficulty, they walk through the tunnels more than halfway to their destination.
当司机在边远的流村镇(音译)停下时，当地人告诉我们他们已经在烟雾中生活了大半生了。
When the driver stopped in the outlying village of Liucunzhen, locals told us they lived most of their lives in smog.
要是猫费时费力的一直在园子里面奔跑，我想它大半会抓不到猎物并且累得全身发软。
If our cat had just spent all her time running around the garden, I think she would have gone without her snack and ended up very tired.
在大半个世纪以来辐照食品的技术变得愈加突出。
The technology to irradiate food has been around for the better part of a century.
小宫山英树是日本人，他的职业生涯大半都在索尼的海外公司度过，包括在美国任职20余年。
Mr. Komiyama, a native of Japan, has spent much of his career with Sony abroad, including more than 20 years in the U.S..
在接下来的大半个世纪中，南方的白人不遗余力地背弃内战修正法案给出的承诺，制定了种族隔离政策，即有名的吉姆·克劳法。
For most of the next hundred years, white southerners ardently subverted the promises of the civil-war amendments by enacting the segregationist policies that came to be known as Jim Crow laws.
在接下来的大半个世纪中，南方的白人不遗余力地背弃内战修正法案给出的承诺，制定了种族隔离政策，即有名的吉姆·克劳法。
For most of the next hundred years, white southerners ardently subverted the promises of the civil-war amendments by enacting the segregationist policies that came to be known as Jim Crow laws.
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