An old ivy vine, going bad at the roots, climbed half way up the wall.

VOA: special.2009.08.01

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

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

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

So, in a way we are the solvers of this problem for him; ; we are the other half that completes the aesthetic experience; we are there to participate in it with him.

所以，我们某种程度上也是他的问题的解决者;,我们是使美学体验完整的另一方;,我们和他一起参与。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

The Spanish picked up the pressure in the second half, but were unable to find their way through the U.S.defense, which was bolstered by the return of captain Carlos Bocanegra, who was missing from first round matches with a hamstring injury.

VOA: standard.2009.06.24

We'll get to oxidation number in the second half of this course, but it's not in any way the same idea as formal charge.

我们会在课程的后半部分讲到氧化数，但它和形式电荷完全不是同一个概念。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

We take the right half of Johns' brain, put it into Smith's torsel, hook up all the wires the right way, ? the thing wakes up, who is it?

把约翰斯的右半脑，放进史密斯的躯干，按原样连接各个部位，醒来的是谁？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

So you can imagine that adds real excitement and energy to the class and puts a little bit pressure on the professors to make sure that we have something worth coming half way around the world for.

可以想象,为课堂带去的兴奋和活力,也给教授施加了压力，我们要确保,能传授值得绕半个地球赶来学习的知识。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Now one of the new technologies that's evolving, that we're going to talk about in the last half of the course, is taking cells that have been propagated in this way outside the body and encouraging them to form new tissues.

现在,与此相关的新技术正在蓬勃发展,我们将在这学期的后半部分讨论到它,这项技术,让细胞在体外增殖,并促使它们形成新的组织

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

For example, I don't have more space to write, if this is time and this is earnings-- if your earnings were,say, flat and suddenly increased like that, they wouldn't believe this increase at first, so the board would decide to adjust only, say, half way up.

例如,没地方写了,横轴是时间,纵轴是收益,如果你的收益,一直平稳,突然间提高,他们刚开始不敢相信这种增长,董事们决定只小幅增加,如增到一半

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

A to B is one distance, which is a large one, and B to C is only half that distance, and that's because of the way the Greeks laid this thing out with their two to one ratios, three to two ratios and so on.

到B是一个距离,比较大,而B到C只有半个距离,因为希腊人,用诸如二比一,三比二,之类的频率比来安排音阶

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

If you can figure out why fails on three letters instead of 12, you'll be more than half way to solving the problem.

如果你能明白为什么程序,在输入三个字母的单词的时候没法运行,你就已经解决了问题的一半了。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

That piece of it, which is gone when the second half disappears, that piece of it is what he tries to communicate in a very condensed way.

这段后来消失了，他是想通过简洁明了,的方式来讲述。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选