The number of students taken to hospitals increased one and a half times from nineteen ninety-seven to two thousand seven.

VOA: special.2009.08.13

If souls can't split,it can only follow one half of the brain, and that's why we'll get somebody that's got one half, sometimes the other half,but never both halves.

如果灵魂不能分割，只跟随一半大脑，才能有只有其中一个得到半个大脑的人存活，而没有两人同时存活的状况。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

We actually threw half of the list away and we kept dividing it down, until ultimately we got something of size one to search.

我们实际上将另一半的列表给抛弃了,我们接着不断的如此分解下去,直接最终我们搜索到了唯一的一个元素。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

The study says mangrove trees provide more than one and a half billion dollars worth of services to ecological systems worldwide.

VOA: special.2010.04.20

All of those slave societies had a population of slaves that was from one-quarter to one-half, and sometimes more, of the total population.

这些奴隶社会的奴隶人口都占总人口,的三分之一到一半,有时甚至更多

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

One and a half million Palestinians live in the narrow strip of land where most people depend on aid.

VOA: special.2010.06.05

If there's a tie, half the voters at that position go for one of the candidates and half of them go for the other.

如果是平均,一半的选票划给其中一个候选人,另一半给另一个候选人

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

The bill,known as the Sherman Silver Purchase Act, would have the government buy four-and-one-half-million ounces of silver each month.

VOA: special.2010.06.03

And this is one of the major revolutions in evolutionary biology over the last half century.

这是过去半个世纪,进化生物学的重大进步之一。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

It was responsible for more than four and one-half percent of all the years people lived with disability.

VOA: special.2009.09.08

Half of Americans have at least one, so it's affecting a lot of the population.

半数美国人至少患有一项慢性疾病,可见其影响之广

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

For every increase of five degrees Celsius in air temperature, the patients had a seven and one-half percent higher risk of migraine.

VOA: special.2009.03.18

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

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

So one thing that readers lost, when they lost the second half of this book, is the sense that maturing, the process of maturing, was more than just the process of leaving the South.

因此没了书的后半部分，读者就读不到，其比远离南方的旅程，还要意味深长的，成长过程中的感想。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

One of the Millennium Development Goals is to reduce by half the number of people living in extreme poverty by twenty fifteen.

VOA: special.2010.04.26

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

The scientists say that ice formed less than one year earlier covered almost half of the extent.

VOA: special.2009.10.27

Let me just call this top one-- Jones' torso with the left half of Shelly Kagan's brain-- let's call him Lefty.

让我叫上面的这个-,带有Shelly，Kagan左脑的Jones的躯体-,我们叫他小左。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

By the spring of nineteen forty-one, Europe had been at war for a year and a half.

VOA: special.2009.05.17

So, our two glitches we see when we go from the 2 p, or from 2 s to start filling the 2 p, and then we also get another glitch when we've half-filled the 2 p, and now we're adding and having to double up in one of those p orbitals.

因此，我们的看到的两个小偏差，一个是在开始进入，2，p，轨道，或者说在填满，2，s，轨道之后,开始填，2，p，轨道的时候出现的，另一个则是在，2，p，轨道半满之后,开始继续加电子，使得其中一个，p，轨道上的。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Banks hold one and a half of the three and a half trillion dollars in debt that supports the commercial real estate market.

VOA: special.2009.09.04

This is going to have one-half mv squared where this is the mass of the electron.

有了电子的质量,就可以用1/2mv^2算出其动能。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

After one year, the risk of heart disease for a non-smoker is half that of a smoker.

VOA: special.2010.03.09

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

About seventy-six centimeters of dry snow equals the water in two and one-half centimeters of rain.

VOA: special.2011.01.11

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

A BTU is the amount of heat energy needed to raise the temperature of about one-half kilogram of a substance by one degree Fahrenheit.

VOA: special.2010.11.23

Yeah. Log. It's a good think, but why do you think it's log? Ah-ha. It's not a bad instinct, the length is getting shorter each time, but what's one of the characteristics of a log algorithm? It drops in half each time.

对了，对数，这是个好想法,但是你们为什么认为是对数呢？,啊哈，这样的本能不错，每次长度都会缩小些,但是对数算法的特性是什么。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

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