One major lender lost more than a billion and a half dollars in the second quarter.

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All of those slave societies had a population of slaves that was from one-quarter to one-half, and sometimes more, of the total population.

这些奴隶社会的奴隶人口都占总人口,的三分之一到一半,有时甚至更多

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So that a half circle, instead of calling it 180 degrees, And a quarter circle, instead of 90, It's good to know certain famous angles.

半圆,不说它是180°,四分之一圆,不叫90°,知道一些常用的角度很有必要

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It adds fifty percent or a half to that and that means instead of two quarter notes that we now have three and we can do the same thing to any one of these other values here and that's how we get our triple relationships.

加上了百分之五十或者说一半的原音符值,这意味着除了有两个四分音符,我们现在有三个了,我们也可以在其他这些音符值后加上附点,这就是我们如何做到三倍形式的安排的

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