She looked up at the shop girl. "Do you think there are any size eights-and-a-half among these?"

VOA: special.2009.09.05

Elliott Gorn, a wonderful historian up at Brown, wrote a brilliant, fascinating, half-crazy essay once about eye-gouging and Southern fighting.

艾略特·龚是布朗时期一个伟大的历史家,他写了一本很有趣,很引人入胜,口味很重的一本小说,是关于南方式打架和挖眼珠的

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Yeah, yeah. I mean I've... One of my best friends growing up was half-Japanese.

是的，我是说，我有一个从小一起长大的好朋友是日本混血儿。

最喜欢的一门课 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

It can grow up to four meters tall. With about one and one-half meters of rainfall each year, plants and trees never stop growing in the Everglades.

VOA: special.2009.06.30

And, in any arbitrary crucible full of molten silver, half of them are going to be spin-up and half of them are going to be spin-down.

并且，在任一个浇满了熔银的坩埚中，银原子中的电子一半是向上转,另一半是向下转。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

The Interlife partnership is now able to offer a kidney transplant and follow-up treatment for around $4,550 - about half of what it used to be.

VOA: standard.2010.05.30

If it goes on for ten years that means that the -it'll double in seven years, so it'd be going up like two and a half fold.

如果按照此速度过上十年就意味着,七年内价格将会翻倍,所以价格应该会上涨到两倍半

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

To represent that chain of events, a long line of oversized, brightly painted dominoes has been set up running for one-and-a-half kilometers in an area where the Wall once stood.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

Suppose that as a kind of back-up security whenever revolution has done is-- produced so much redundancy in the brain that either half of the brain was sufficed.

假设我们有理论支撑,未来的进化-,会使大脑产生很多多余的部分,我们只需要一半大脑就足够了。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

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

Up--just D. Now, we need, according to our pattern, to go up just a half step.

是D,接下来,根据小调的模式,只要上升半音级

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

In the second half of the twentieth century and up now into the twenty-first century, writers were thinking very hard about what to do stylistically with all the innovations that come in that powerful period known as modernism.

自二十世纪下半叶,直至现今二十一世纪,作家都在努力思考在现代主义影响,深远的这个时期里该怎样进行文体上的创新。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

So this one is spin-up plus a half, this is spin-down minus a half.

所以自旋向上是正二分之一，而自旋向下是负二分之一。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选