The World Health Organization estimates about two million people die prematurely every year due to air pollution, more than half in developing countries.

VOA: standard.2009.03.23

I need you tear not the page out; I need you to tear this phone book in half in front of 500 of your peers.

我不是要你仅仅撕下来那一页;,我要你当着500位同学的面,把整个电话薄撕成两半。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

so I actually was like almost falling asleep in the second half, so you know.

我后半程几乎都快睡着了。

来伦敦旅游的 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Civil war cut the nation in half in 2002, after rebels attempting to overthrow President Gbagbo took control of the northern part of the country.

VOA: standard.2009.09.29

So you know I say half in jest but it's actually really sad.

这话虽然是半开玩笑，但其实很可悲。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

The group's most recent complete study shows enrollment in computer sciences increased five and a half percent in two thousand nine.

VOA: special.2011.03.22

They're not bad, bad, they're not nightmares, but most dreams are from a scale of one to ten with five and a half in the middle they're on the negative side.

说它们不好，并不是说它们是噩梦，如果用1到10来评分,5。5为中间分值,大部份梦都是在5。5分以下。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

The World Health Organization estimates that cardiovascular disease killed seventeen and a half million people in two thousand five.

VOA: special.2009.07.15

But I was not worried because I still have more than half of the cash in my bank account.

但我并不担心,因为公司的银行账户上还有60多万美元。

斯坦福公开课 - 百度CEO李彦宏演讲：全球最大搜索引擎的发展课程节选

Portugal's borrowing costs rose sharply Wednesday as it sold almost one and a half billion dollars in short-term securities.

VOA: special.2011.04.08

and the question that I've been asking They are The Tadzhiks in Afghnastan constitutes what about half of the entire population?

我一直在问的一个问题就是,塔吉克斯坦能占到多少，一半的整个阿富汗人口？

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

So far it has proven effective at preventing the disease in half of those vaccinated which is more than ever before.

VOA: special.2009.12.07

Like Milton's Sin, Spenser's Errour is half woman, half serpent, and in a lot of ways she embodies the very problem of religious error.

像弥尔顿笔下的罪恶之神，斯潘塞笔下的“错误“是一位，一半女人一半毒蛇的怪物，她从各个方面具体化了宗教错误。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

In a half-hour news conference, he admitted making what he called "some incredibly bad decisions" that "hurt so many people."

VOA: special.2010.04.10

No. I have an article here that appeared in the Boston Globe, dated Sep. 15, 1995, which says Almost Half Adult in states don't read well.

不，我这里有一篇,1995年9月15日，刊登在《波士顿环球报》上的文章，文章指出，在美国，差不多一半的成年人。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

Millions of years later these would become the giant rocks called Half Dome and El Capitan in Yosemite Park.

VOA: special.2009.01.07

And now it is quite a regular experiment you can take any view you can hop to the scanner in half an hour.

如今，这是一个较为常见的试验,任何东西，只要你可以放进扫描仪，在在半小时之内便可以得到其视图。

斯坦福公开课 - 7个颠覆你思想的演讲课程节选

"About half of our business is done in the last quarter of the year, in the last three months.

VOA: special.2009.12.25

I cut it in half, I'll use some protractors and dividers and compasses, you can split the meter into any fraction you like.

把它切成两半,我用量角器,两脚规,还有圆规,你想把一米分成任意份数

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

Even though West Virginia had remained in the Union, about half of the people in the state supported the South.

VOA: special.2009.07.20

Even in peacetime, military expenditures take up almost half of the budget of any European state, and in times of war, eighty percent.

即使在和平时期,欧洲任一国家的军费开支,也几乎占据了其预算的一半,在战时,更是达到了80%

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

Growth in the United States is expected to reach about two and a half percent in two thousand ten.

VOA: special.2010.01.01

Dive in straight to the half again and so now we end up on what letter?

直接翻到剩下的一半的中间,是哪个字母呢？

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

The vaccine has already proven effective at preventing the disease in half of those vaccinated which is more than ever before.

VOA: special.2009.12.22

Because I'm cutting down the problem in half at each time. You're right, but there's something we have to do to add to that, and that's the last thing I want to pick up on.

但是我们还需要强调一点,这是我最后想讲的一点,让我们来看看代码-实际上，让我们先来测试测试吧。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

In half of the groups, a person could chose to punish another individual who did not donate to the public project.

VOA: special.2009.03.03

So NewsCorp, whose price doubled when The Wall Street Journal's fell in half, eats up and The Wall Street Journal is gobbled up by the bigger company.

当新闻集团的股价翻倍时,《华尔街日报》的股价却减半,因而《华尔街日报》被报业大鳄吞并

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Most of the forty-five business economists questioned said they expect the recession to end in the second half of the year.

VOA: special.2009.05.29

There are three of these in the first half.

前半部分有三个集合。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Suppose that as a kind of back-up security whenever revolution has done is-- produced so much redundancy in the brain that either half of the brain was sufficed.

假设我们有理论支撑,未来的进化-,会使大脑产生很多多余的部分,我们只需要一半大脑就足够了。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选