An order came down from on high that lunchbreaks were to be half an hour and no longer.
上头指示说午餐休息时间不得超过半小时。
When the cloth was measured, it was found to be half a chi longer than expected.
把布一量，涨出了半尺。
They need to be half a size smaller than your usual size.
它们需要比你通常的尺寸小一半。
"If you divide that into eight parts there will be half a crown for each of, you," he said.
“如果你把它分成八份，每个人就能得到半克朗。”他说。
We've contrived various justifications that turn out to be half-truths, prejudices or myths.
我们想出了各种各样的解释，结果它们要么半真半假，要么只是偏见或传说。
The glass we were not expecting to see will be half full.
惊喜的是，我们会看到半满的玻璃杯。
When the alarm goes off, you'll already be half awake.
当闹钟响起的时候，你已经半醒了。
"We have a city that ought to be half its size," says Mr Bing.
“我们拥有一个本应是其本身一半大小的城市，”宾先生说。
FOR some people in this world, the glass always seems to be half-full.
对世上有些人来说，玻璃杯总是看起来半满的。
Israel on the 1967 lines would be half the width of the Washington Beltway.
1967年边界的以色列就是华盛顿环城公路的一半宽度。
Mr Hyatt, the chief executive, thinks it will eventually be half or more.
公司总裁海厄特先生认为以后会占到一半或者更多。
Taking into consideration trend growth, the negative growth would be half as much.
考虑到增长趋势，出现负增长的概率将达到一半。
Due to insufficient rainfall, harvest yields were already expected to be half of normal levels.
由于降雨不足，业已预计收成只有正常产量的一半。
And first I'm going to slam these two onto each other, and so when they collide, I expect the speed to be half.
我先使这两个碰撞，它们两个相碰，当它们碰撞的时候，我期待速度是一半。
A more sensible rule is to configure the paging space to be half the size of RAM plus 4gb with an upper limit of 32gb.
比较合理的规则是，把分页空间配置为RAM大小的一半加上4gb，上限为32gb。
It states that the recommended initial setting for paging space be half the size of RAM plus 4gb with an upper limit of 32gb.
其中说明了，分页空间的推荐初始设置为ram大小的一半加上4gb，但是上限为32gb。
Then the spring force on each one of them — - if I call that the spring force — will only have to be half to counter this force.
它们各自受到的弹力-，如果我称之为弹力-，将只会是，这个力的一半。
They would be half right: That is not how time travel might work, but time travel in some other form is not necessarily off the table.
他们的话可能对了一半：问题不在于时间穿梭车是怎样工作的，而是时间穿梭的一些形式没有必要不合情理。
If I could bag the miles I have run in my sleep, then I would have reached New York a long time ago and be half way back to Los Angeles by now.
假如能把梦中跑过的路也算进去，我早就到了纽约了，哪怕跑回洛杉矶，也已经跑了一半路了。
Popularity will be half the number of friends plus twice the number of followers (though the formula can certainly be adjusted depending on the goal).
受欢迎度的计算方式为好友数的一半加上关注者人数的两倍（但是可以根据具体目标调整计算公式）。
If Alice is smart, and Bob's even smarter, working together they would a be twice as smart, b be half as smart or c form a task force and get nothing done.
假设，爱丽斯很聪明，而鲍勃又更胜一筹，他们合作的结果可能会是：A整体智慧将增大一部；b双方的智能都削减一半；c面对一项任务，什么也做不了。
A discount item may be half off, but if it ends up among the unused gadgets in your kitchen cabinet; that's still money you spent on clutter instead of basic necessities.
也许打折的物品时半价的，但是如果最后它的结果只是闲置在你的厨柜里，那你仍旧是将钱花在杂物上而不是花在基本所需上。
The academics justify the shift by arguing that the UK is an ageing society: by 2020 there will be half a million fewer 18 - to 24-year-olds, but almost 4.35 million more over-50s.
学者们以英国已经进入老龄化社会作为资金调整的理据：到2020年，英国18至24岁的年轻人将会减少50万。相反，50岁以上的老年人则几乎增加435万。
The growth of the Internet means that by the next election there may be half a million scientists, sceptics and rationalists writing to their MPs about their record and their intentions.
网上的增长意味着在下次选举前可能有50万科学家、怀疑论者和理性主义者告诉他们的议员自己的意向。
About half the subjects considered themselves to be telepathic.
大约有一半的实验对象认为自己有心灵感应能力。
The flight up which can otherwise be a torturous half hour of self doubt is a sightseeing pleasure.
这次也可能是折磨人的半小时自我质疑的飞行，是一次愉悦观光机会。
The flight up which can otherwise be a torturous half hour of self doubt is a sightseeing pleasure.
这次也可能是折磨人的半小时自我质疑的飞行，是一次愉悦观光机会。
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