There's no research that says if you fire half the faculty you're going to get good results.

VOA: special.2010.03.18

May no fate willfully misunderstand me And half grant what I wish and snatch me away not to return.

别来个命运之神，故意曲解我,只成全我愿望的一半，把我卷了走。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

And by the time I'm a million and a half, I no longer remember what was happening in oh, back, back.

等我活到150万年，我不记得,很久以前做过什么。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

When she entered,her appearance created no surprise or concern, as she had half feared it might.

VOA: special.2009.09.05

For joy, apparently, it was all Franny could do to hold the phone even with both hands. For a foolish half minute or so there was no other words, no further speech, then "I can't talk anymore, buddy."

为了欢愉，明显是弗兰尼拿着电话,或者用双手能做的，在大约半分钟里,没有其他的话了，也没有讲话了，然后说，我不能谈论任何人，巴蒂“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

"About half of my soaps have no added essential oils, it's for people with very sensitive skin who want to avoid essential oils for any reason.

VOA: special.2011.03.09

Now I didn't use--no hands-- that was just the notes that are naturally on the twelve and a half-foot length of vibrating air.

我没有用手控制,都是十二个半英尺高的震动空气柱,自然产生的音符

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

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

VOA: special.2009.02.07

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

If no candidate receives more than half of the total votes a run-off between the two top contenders is to be held in early October.

VOA: standard.2009.08.23

So one way to think about it is, is the expected distance from her of the winning candidates, is: with probability of a half it's herself so that's nothing, No distance, and with probability of a half it's two places away.

所以一种考虑的方法是,预期她与获胜者的距离是,由于她有一半获胜的机会所以没有成本,没有距离,且,距她两个位置远的人有另一半获胜的机会

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

For example,in most sub-Saharan African countries, the U.N.Children's Fund says more than half the deliveries take place at home, with no skilled birth attendant present.

VOA: standard.2010.05.11

With this, if I can assume that accessing the i'th element of a list is constant, then you can't see that the rest of that analysis looks just like the log analysis I did before, and each step, no matter which branch I'm taking, I'm cutting the problem down in half.

读取数组中的第i个元素,是个常量时间的操作的话，我也就能像以前那样得到,这个算法是对数级复杂度的分析,并且每一步不管我选择哪个区间，我都可以把问题的规模缩小一半。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

More than half its billion plus people still have no electricity.

VOA: standard.2009.11.27