Rotating 16 birds through the positions in a four-duck row, the researchers found outer birds half-asleep during some 32 percent of dozing time versus about 12 percent for birds in internal spots.
研究人员把16只鸟按顺序4只排成一排，发现外面的鸟在32%的时间里处于半睡眠状态，而内部的鸟只有12%的时间处于半睡眠状态。
That could explain why our sleep-deprived selves are so cognitively challenged: We are, if not precisely half-asleep, partially asleep.
这解释了为什么我们缺少睡眠时，认知能力会下降：这时的我们即使不是半睡状态，也是部分睡眠。
The old man's cough grew better and he sat in the sun by the southern wall of the house, always half-asleep and warm and content.
老人的咳嗽好多了，成天半醒半睡地坐在南墙根儿晒太阳，暖洋洋的，心满意足。
He's half asleep and a bit boozed.
他半醒半睡，还有点微醉。
You're not alone. More than half of IT workers say they've fallen asleep at work, according to a new online survey.
并非只你自己如此，根据一项在线调查，半数it工人承认在工作期间睡觉。
Houses on either side of the harbor were still half asleep amid the morning mist.
海港两边的屋子，还在早晨烟霞中半睡着哩。
Presently, while half asleep and half awake, he murmured, "Sir William!"
过了一会儿，他半睡半醒地低声说：“威廉爵士！”
"Good," he growled, still half asleep, "this is where I get out."
“好，”他喃喃地说，人还在半睡状态，“我得在此地下车。”
It was as if, I sometimes felt, I had lived my life half asleep. But now, now, I was wide awake.
有些时候，感觉就像我在一半的人生里都是沉睡的，而现在，此刻，我已经完全醒来。
Give him a good shake; hes half asleep.
摇醒他，他已经半睡了。
Because we are asleep half the time.
因为我们有一半的时间都在睡觉。
Sometimes I half fall asleep when I am sitting alone and fancy things that have never happened.
有时候我独个儿坐着便朦朦胧胧地睡过去了，梦见了从来没有发生过的事情。
It took me half an hour to fall asleep last night.
昨天夜里我花了半个小时才入睡。
Men said it took them 20 minutes to fall asleep, and women said it took them half an hour.
男人说他们入睡用了20分钟，妇女说她们花了半小时。
Even though a nightcap may help you relax and fall asleep faster, it'll make the second half of your sleep cycle restless and unsatisfying.
睡前喝酒或许会帮你身心放松，更快入睡，但也会让你在睡眠周期的后半程感到焦躁不安，睡眠质量难以令人满意。
Most people are not aware that caffeine has a half life of up to eight hours and can affect not only your ability to fall asleep, but also the quality of sleep you are getting.
大多数人都不知道，咖啡因有一个长达八小时的半衰期，不仅会影响你的入睡能力，而且还会影响你的睡眠质量。
Gutted I fell asleep half way through the golf.
我哩个去，看着高尔夫竟然睡着了！
I fell asleep half way through it.
我半途就睡着了。
And while I was, half consciously, worrying my brain to guess what Jabes Branderham would make of his subject, I sank back in bed, and fell asleep.
在我糊里糊涂地绞尽脑汁猜想杰别斯·伯兰德罕牧师将如何发挥他这个题目的 时候， 我却倒在床上睡着了。
No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of our knowledge.
没有人能够向你昭示什么，除了在我们知识的拂晓里半睡半醒的冥思。
Birds that are literally half asleep—with one brain hemisphere alert and the other sleeping—control which side of the brain remains awake, according to a new study of sleeping ducks.
根据一项关于睡觉的鸭子的新研究来看，半睡半醒的鸟儿——大脑的一个半球处于警觉状态，另一个半球处于睡眠状态——控制着大脑的哪一边保持清醒。
Still half asleep, I reminded him that I had taken his wife's inflamed appendix out a couple of years before.
在半睡半醒中，我记起了这个人——几年前我曾经帮他妻子做过一次阑尾炎手术。
He was even more startled, night after night, to hear them walk down to the river slowly, half asleep, and bathe in the water.
更令他惊奇的是，夜复一夜，他都听见他们半睡半醒地缓步走向河边，趟到河里洗起澡来。
How does one describe the experience of reverie: one is awake, but half asleep, thinking, but not in an instrumental, calculative or ordered way, simply letting the thoughts happen, as they will.
我们要怎么形容这种遐想呢？一个人半睡半醒着，漫无目的的思考，毫无理性缜密可言。
He was rude, I was half asleep.
他很粗鲁，我半睡半醒的。
For some reason I had it in my head that there was a frog in the bath. I think that was because I was half asleep.
不知为何我脑海中闪过的是-浴室可能有青蛙，也许因为我半睡半醒的原因吧。
In the armchair lay a cat, half asleep.
一只猫躺在椅子上，半睡半醒。
You think you'll just be able to turn over and fall back asleep, but before you know it a half hour passes.
你以为，转个身就能再次入睡，但不知不觉中半个小时过去了。
More than half of all fatal fires occur between 10 p. m. and 6 a. m. when everyone in the home is usually asleep.
所有致命火灾中的一半以上发生在下午10时到上午6时之间，这个时间段内通常大家都在家里睡着了。
I was in that half-and-half land where you are not completely asleep nor completely awake.
我当时半睡半醒。
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