And the other part about it is if feathers were twice as heavy, or half as strong, then birds couldn't fly."

VOA: special.2010.06.01

Part of it is, it takes me an hour and half to settle myself down enough, that I'm actually paying attention and, be more aware of what happening.

每一次，都需要一个半小时,来让我的头脑镇静下来，然后我才能真正地集中注意，感受身边发生的事情。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Now you might say, wait a minute. Thing's ordered, if I stop part way through and I throw away half the list, doesn't that help me? And the answer is yes, but it doesn't change the complexity.

如果我在半路上停下来,然后不去遍历剩下的数组了,这会有帮助么？答案是有帮助，但这没法改变算法的复杂度，因为我们之前怎么说来着？

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

They promised to do their part to cut the growth rate in health spending by one and a half percentage points a year.

VOA: special.2009.05.15

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

A half-million women took part in the Women's Strike for Equality on August twenty-sixth, nineteen seventy.

VOA: special.2009.10.18

The fascinating part about this layer is that it solves the problem for phospholipids about how to exist in water when half of you wants to be in oil, and that the water soluble part of the top leaflet here, of the top points up into the water, and the fatty acid chains point down.

这层膜的迷人之处在于,它解决了磷脂,如何存在于水中和油脂中的问题,水溶性的顶端部分,向上插入水中,而脂肪链则指向下

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

More than half of the cancer patients in the U.S. receive radiation as part of their treatment.

VOA: standard.2010.01.30

So, if you were to lose half your brain, the other half can actually do a lot but some things are more prevalent and more powerful in one part of the brain than the other And I want to show you a brief film clip from "Scientific American" that illustrates the differences between the hemispheres, but before doing that,I want to provide some introductory facts.

如果你失去了半个大脑,另外一半其实也可以完成很多功能,但是某些功能是存在单侧化优势的,我给你们播放一段短片,来自于《科学美国人》,它解释了大脑两半球的功能差异,但在此之前,我想先做一些介绍

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

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

The Old City with its Jewish, Christian and Muslim holy places is part of the eastern half of Jerusalem that Israel captured from Jordan during the 1967 war.

VOA: standard.2010.04.01