But finer materials such as compost should only be two and a half to seven and a half centimeters high.

VOA: special.2009.06.23

Cause there, you're only dividing the problem in half and half, and half and half, we are doing that here.

因为在那个例子中，只需一次又一次地,对问题进行划分，在这儿我们也是这样做的。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Even if you worked in a small shop, they only had eight workers and you were related to half of them.

如果你在一个小商店工作,你需要和八个员工的一半人协调工作

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

The I.M.F.predicts developing economies will continue to grow for the year, but only by about one and one-half percent.

VOA: special.2009.04.24

So, sometimes people get confused when they're solving problems and call the amplitude this distance all the way from the max to the min but it's only half of that because we're only going back to the average level.

解题的时候会弄错，把这个从,最大值到最小值的距离,叫做幅值，但实际上,只有它的一半,只是它和平均值的差距。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Yet up at about five-thousand-four hundred meters the air pressure is only about half of what it is on the ground.

VOA: special.2011.04.06

Has only half of the diploid chromosomal content that most of the cells, which are called somatic cells in our body have.

卵子中只含有我们机体一半的染色体,二倍体基因组中一半的染色体,这些二倍体细胞称为体细胞

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

American schools provided aid to almost half of foreign graduate students during the last academic year, but only ten percent of undergraduates.

VOA: special.2009.02.05

If one chord holds twice as long or only half as long, then we have an irregular harmonic change--irregular rate of harmonic change.

如果某一个和弦持续的时间是其他和弦的两倍或者只有一半，这就是不规则的和声改变。

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

However,the cooling of about one and one-half to three degrees Celsius is only about half as strong as a real La Nina.

VOA: special.2009.09.29

In fact, in part, because of this, we are only reading approximately half the book, the first five books, to be more specific.

事实上，也部份归因于此，我们大约只能读,其一半的篇幅，更确切的说是前五部。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

She was only half-listening as she prepared a list of things to do the next day,on Halloween.

VOA: special.2010.10.30

God whips out the old soul, destroys it, puts in a new one with maybe souls only last for a minute and a half.

上帝拿走旧的灵魂，毁掉，注入新的灵魂,那个灵魂可能只产生了一分半钟。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

The directions also advise people to limit caffeine products and to drink only half the bottle if they want a moderate amount of energy.

VOA: special.2009.07.22

You wonder why would it be that the whole western half of the U.S. gets only or the western third of the U.S.

你也许会质疑，为什么,美国整个的西部一半只有一个,或者说美国西部的三分之一。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

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

VOA: special.2010.03.23

Sort the left half and that left half was only of size 1.

对左半部分排序，其大小是。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

But that is only about half the share of the Chinese search engine Baidu.

VOA: special.2010.01.15

You know, one of the things that I say and only half ingest, is that I know of no more selfish act and a benevolent act.

我说到的一件事，只说了一半意思，即最自私的所为就是善举。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

These are also only half as strong as a real El Nino.

VOA: special.2009.09.29

Now, what happens is half of the participants in the experiment who have listened to each of these tapes-- You only get to listen to one tape.

这时，发生了一件事儿,他们要求半数的受访者,听过这些磁带的人-,只能听磁带。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Only eight and one half percent of Finns said that was true.

VOA: special.2009.11.17

That's what I've thought, only about half of the class.

不出所料，只有大概一半的学生看过。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

All the land together measured only one and one half hectares.

VOA: special.2009.10.06

The MRIs per capita is about half of that of United States, in Britain, which also has a government health program, there is only about a fourth in the United States.

加拿大核磁共振医疗设备,的人均使用量,只有美国的一半，在英国，也有一个政府医疗体系，只有美国的四分之一资金。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

Only half returned. The battle of Gettysburg was over.

VOA: special.2009.11.05

There's only sort of two half-finished portraits of me.

所以我的肖像画都只有一些半成品

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

The operation took only a half hour.

VOA: special.2010.06.24

At the margin, I'm reaping, I'm bearing the cost for the extra unit of effort I contribute, but I'm only reaping half of the induced profits of the firm, because of profit sharing.

从边际角度分析,我承担了多付出的全部边际成本,但我却只能得到一半的边际收益,因为利润是均分的

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

What makes the law surprising is that if I only gave you half the law, namely every body will remain at rest if it's not acted upon by a force, you will say, "That's fine. I accept that, because here's something, you leave it there, it doesn't move.

这条定律妙就妙在,如果只看定律的前半段,即,如果物体不受外力作用,将保持静止状态,你肯定会觉得,"这没什么,我能理解,因为你把一个物体放在那里,自己肯定不会动

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选