American children now spend an average of seven and a half hours a day watching television or playing with electronic devices.

VOA: special.2010.06.07

There had been a half century that had passed since any great modern epic or romance epic had even been produced.

在过去的半个世纪中,没有任何伟大的现代史诗或浪漫史诗出现。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

you would probably spend at least an hour or an hour and a half on each floor.

每层楼你大概要看一个或者一个半小时。

大都会艺术博物馆 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

After three and a half years of fighting, hundreds of thousands of Union and Confederate soldiers had been killed or wounded.

VOA: special.2009.12.03

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

It also found that every additional friend can decrease loneliness by about five percent, or two and a half fewer lonely days.

VOA: special.2009.12.22

It's this line, "And with forc'd fingers rude" - this is called a broken line or a half-line, and this broken line has been read, I think, rightly as Milton's indication to his reader that he's not even up to the task of writing a sonnet at this point.

是这句，“我不得已伸出我这粗鲁的手指“,-这叫做断裂句，或者半句，将这句理解为,弥尔顿向读者暗示他此时甚至,还不能写好十四行诗是正确的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Professor Murray says the average farm in Haiti measures about one or one and a half hectares.

VOA: special.2010.04.13

Again, this probably should be cleaned up and in a couple of weeks we'll spend a day or half period trying, to clean it up and make it somewhat more precise.

以上内容还有待梳理,未来两周我们将会花上一天半左右的时间,试着梳理这些内容,使其更加精确

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Ms.Gardiner said the delay between the arrival of the smell at each nostril could be as little as a half second or less.

VOA: special.2010.08.03

Okay. Now that's a lot of people in the class, maybe a third, a quarter, or half, something like that, a lot of people in the class.

好,班里很多同学,也许是三分之一,四分之一,或一半,班里很多人这样认为

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

But every additional friend can decrease loneliness by about five percent, or two and a half days.

VOA: special.2010.01.06

In this case, the basic column of air is twelve and a half feet long and there are something called "Partials" or the "Harmonic series" That happens in anything, on a string instrument or whatever, but on the horn it's very distinct and that's what makes the different notes.

像这样,基本空气柱有十二个,每个半英尺长,圆号能发出分音,或泛音列,弦乐器或是,其他别的乐器中都有,但在圆号上,效果相当不同,这就是它能奏出不同音符的原因

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

About forty percent of all eighteen to twenty-four-year-olds or almost eleven and a half million were in school in October of last year.

VOA: special.2009.11.19

but I feel like more than half of the school is on some type of a financial aid whether it's like partial or full.

但是我觉得一半以上的学生拿到了各种类型的奖学金，
不管是半奖还是全奖。

斯坦福的奖学金 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Arches are formations that look like half a circle above an opening or hole in a rock.

VOA: special.2009.04.15

And you'll find in the end that recursion is a feature of a language, it allows you to map some very obvious concepts like the phonebook tearing in half and half and half and half to actual code without it using some arbitrary human contrived framework like a for loop or a while loop which are much more stilted mechanisms.

最后你会发现递归是某种语言的一种特征,你可以用它将一些非常明显的思想,比如将电话簿划分为一半又一半,映射为实际代码，而不必使用那些人为框架,像for循环，while循环之类的,那是很呆板的机制。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Last year,more than six hundred twenty thousand, or three and a half percent, were international students.

VOA: special.2009.02.05

My goal in this course is to allow you or to invite you to read someof the most compelling novels written in the last little over a half century.

我上这门课的目的,就是让你或者说是邀请你,来读一些刚过去的半个多世纪里,最引人注目的小说。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Cleaning up and repairing that city may cost a billion and a half dollars or more.

VOA: special.2010.05.17

The number of infected men, women and children is estimated at more than five and a half million -- or eleven percent of the population.

VOA: special.2010.04.28

Half received the vaccine. The other half received a placebo, or harmless substance.

VOA: special.2009.10.13

This is a very very different product. This is in the French European tradition, is its very very small just about the size of a half dollar or so.

VOA: special.2010.04.12

After a half-century,the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence, or SETI, has pretty much come up empty.

VOA: standard.2010.04.16

Some studies have warned that half-a-million people - or about 10% of the population - will be living with HIV and AIDS by the year 2025.

VOA: standard.2009.04.04

in the past decade and a half. He also says more than half of all Americans working in the private sector are either employed by a small business or own one.

VOA: standard.2009.10.21

"Every day I meet people or I hear from people who talk about sending out resume after resume, and they have been on the job hunt for a year or year and a half and still cannot find anything and are desperate.

VOA: standard.2009.12.04

But there should not be war." One thing nearly all South Koreans agree on is the devastating human toll that all-out war would take on the peninsula,recalling - from direct experience or their education - that one and a half million civilians died during the three-year Korean War.

VOA: standard.2010.05.27

"More alarmingly,WHO estimates if the combined effect of decreased financial and political commitment were to be sustained or continued, this could result to a return of a half a million measles deaths each year by 2012, wiping out the gains made over the past 18 years."

VOA: standard.2010.05.21