An LDP loss in the general election would interrupt and possibly end its half century of dominance in Japanese politics.

VOA: standard.2009.07.13

There had been a half century that had passed since any great modern epic or romance epic had even been produced.

在过去的半个世纪中,没有任何伟大的现代史诗或浪漫史诗出现。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

And this is one of the major revolutions in evolutionary biology over the last half century.

这是过去半个世纪,进化生物学的重大进步之一。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

But it is no fortune. While waiting outside the city's National Museum for the tourists to emerge, he talks about the changes in his half century of pedaling people around Phnom Penh.

VOA: standard.2010.06.14

That might not have been true a half century ago.

这在半个世纪前本无法实现。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Today we tell about Charles M.Schulz who wrote and drew the newspaper comic strip "Peanuts" for half a century.

VOA: special.2009.10.25

My goal in this course is to allow you or to invite you to read someof the most compelling novels written in the last little over a half century.

我上这门课的目的,就是让你或者说是邀请你,来读一些刚过去的半个多世纪里,最引人注目的小说。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

During the second half of the nineteenth century, the United States was not concerned much with events in other countries.

VOA: special.2010.07.08

Although this has been enormously influential over the centuries at least over the last century and a half : you have to ask yourself: ? is this the reading that Plato intended?

虽然这在过去几个世纪,以来一直影响深远,至少在过去一个半世纪以来是如此,你们仍应自问：,这是柏拉图预期的解读吗？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

During the first half of the nineteenth century, leaders of the United States could find no answer to the question of slavery.

VOA: special.2009.03.26

The role of Paris in French life is unique and that has been accentuated over the centuries, particularly the last century and a half, by some of the things that I want to talk about.

巴黎在法国人的生活中的地位是独特的,过去几百年中,这种状况引人瞩目,尤其在近一百五十年里,我想讲的正是关于这方面的内容

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

A half-century ago,for example, producing genetic copies of animals was only a dream of scientists.

VOA: special.2010.03.23

This refers--this actually goes back to B.F. Skinner, a psychologist who flourished in the first half of this century.

这要追溯到B.F.斯金纳,一位活跃在上世纪前期的心理学家

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The Dead Sea lost thirty-three percent of its surface area during the last half-century.

VOA: special.2009.05.18

A half century before that, Ben Franklin helped to build a hall in Philadelphia and said the top of this hall would be open to a Muslim preacher from Constant and Obal This is the early 18th century in America.

再有半个世纪前，本·富兰克林帮助在费城建立了一座会堂,他说会堂的顶层将向,一位来自Constant和Obal的穆斯林布道者开放,这些都发生在18世纪的美国。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

The numbers of basking sharks have been decreasing for the past half-century.

VOA: special.2009.06.16

But the later, the second half the 20th century, it had a new Palestinian political movement established by the Palestine Liberation Organization, PLO the PLO.

而之后，20世纪后半叶，有新的巴勒斯坦政治运动,是由巴解组织开始的，也就是。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

For half a century now, no one has touched those bones.

VOA: special.2009.02.07

In the second half of the twentieth century and up now into the twenty-first century, writers were thinking very hard about what to do stylistically with all the innovations that come in that powerful period known as modernism.

自二十世纪下半叶,直至现今二十一世纪,作家都在努力思考在现代主义影响,深远的这个时期里该怎样进行文体上的创新。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

"We are fighting a war a half a century later that we lost for similar reasons a half a century earlier.

VOA: standard.2009.09.09

Kingsley was fascinated by how the story explores mental health care from half-a-century ago when techniques now viewed as barbaric were commonplace.

VOA: standard.2010.02.27

(Sound) Astrix' half-century birthday is being celebrated around France with special exhibits and other commemorations.

VOA: standard.2009.10.22

After a half-century,the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence, or SETI, has pretty much come up empty.

VOA: standard.2010.04.16

When the search began, a half-century ago, it seemed sensible to assume that as technological civilization increased on a planet, more and more signals would be broadcast into space.

VOA: standard.2010.04.16

More than 90 South Koreans passed through checkpoints Saturday to cross the heavily armed border between North and South Korea, on their way to bittersweet reunions half a century in the making.

VOA: standard.2009.09.26

The Liberal Democratic Party suffered an embarrassing defeat in the Tokyo Metropolitan Election a few weeks ago, and it is expected to lose its half-century hold on Japanese politics in the August 30 general election.

VOA: standard.2009.07.27