For all their troubles, the United States' 3,500 institutions were flooded with more than half a million students from 193 countries last year.
去年，来自193个国家的50多万名学生涌入了美国3500所大学，造成了很大的麻烦。
A survey of entrepreneurs who started companies last year shows that while virtually all did substantial preparatory research and planning, only half used that work to produce a formal business plan.
一项对去年创办公司的企业家的调查显示，尽管几乎所有人都做了大量的准备研究和计划，但只有一半人利用这些工作制定了正式的商业计划。
Data shows childhood obesity in Australia is rising at the rate of one percent a year, a trend which suggests half of all young Australians will be overweight by 2025.
资料显示澳洲肥胖儿童的比例正以每年1个百分点的速度上升，这意味着到2025年澳洲儿童将有一半体重超标。
In the last year and a half, I feel like I have seen and done more than in all of my previous 26 years put together.
在过去的一年半时间里，我觉得我看到的东西和做过的事情比我前26年时间加在一起的还要多。
When VAT went up a year ago only about half of the increase was passed on to prices. This time virtually all of it is expected to go through to prices.
当一年前增值税增加的时候，只有大约一半转移到价格上，现在几乎全部的影响将转移到物价上。
Late last year came a significant but little-noticed announcement: probably for the first time, half of all Hispanic children in America were born out of wedlock.
去年年底，更有一份事关重大却未引起注意的公告首次显示，在美国出生的西班牙婴儿中，有一半是私生子。
One year on and more than half of all graduates who left university last year are still looking for their first graduate job, a report reveals.
英国最新公布的一项调查显示，在去年夏天英国各大学的毕业生中，有超过一半的人至今仍在苦苦寻觅他们毕业后的第一份工作。
For 30 years her husband did all the cooking, so she had forgotten how - after a year and a half she fell ill with anaemia.
30年来他丈夫包办伙食，所以她都忘了该怎么烹调了——一年半后她患贫血症病倒了。
Oil prices have more than doubled from the low point they hit in the spring, but are still around half the all-time high of nearly $150 a barrel they reached in early summer last year.
比起今春的价格低谷，油价如今已涨了一倍多，但这仍只是去年初夏创纪录的每桶近150美元价格的一半左右。
Carter scored 21 points, all of them in the first half, and provided the attacking presence Magic officials dreamed of when they acquired him in a draft-day deal last year.
卡特在上半场就拿下了全部的21分，魔术制服组去年选秀夜的交易就是想要达到这种效果。
It's very gratifying, though, to see that level of interest after all the hard work we put into the project for the year and a half of development leading up to the paper submissions in late 2009.
不过，这样的关注让我们深感欣慰，因为在过去一年半里我们付出了艰辛的劳动并在2009年底提交了相应的论文。
saw income from book sales fall to 60% of total revenue in 2009. Sales of other goods jumped 230% from a year earlier, but still account for less than half of all revenue.
2009年书籍销售收入跌至只占其总收入的60%，与此同时其他商品收入则增长了230%，但是仍然不到其营业总收入的一半。
By the second half of the year all the world's big economies had stopped shrinking, and optimists hope this will build into a sharp v-shaped bounceback.
截止到今年下半年以来，所有世界大的经济体已经停止了衰退，并且乐观的预期似乎将建立在一个剧烈的V型经济反转图之上。
All this growth has led to a pretty substantial increase in revenues. Skype pulled in $406.2 million in the first six months of this year, up 25 percent from $324.8 million in the first half of 2009.
所有这些数字的增长都实实在在提高了公司的收益，在今年的前6个月里Skype有4.062亿美元入帐，相对于2009年上半年的收入3.248亿美元增长了25个百分点。
Vincent Selleck, whose Sydney-based 888 U.S. Real Estate started finding foreclosed U.S. homes a year ago for Australian investors, received almost half of all inquiries in the last two months.
VincentSelleck所在的一家总部位于悉尼的888美国房地产公司，一年前开始为美国抵债房屋寻找澳洲投资者，在过去的2个月内咨询量猛增，几乎为全年的一半。
Half a million baseball fans paid $120 last year to watch live video of pro baseball games on the Web, according to MLB.com, a company owned by all 30 pro teams.
COM这家公司为30支专业球队所有，去年，约50万球迷在MLB.COM上观看付费的棒球比赛视频直播，费用为120美元。
A year after roughly half the patients had the surgery, all completed a detailed questionnaire designed to measure quality of life, symptoms, functional ability, and emotional and intellectual status.
一年后，约一半的患者接受了手术，他们全部完成了详细的调查问卷，旨在衡量其生活质量，疾病症状，行为能力，情绪和智力状况。
For the past year and a half, Taiwan's export-oriented economy managed to surpass nearly all expectations, most recently marking 6.2 per cent growth in the first quarter of this year.
在过去的一年半时间里，台湾的出口导向型经济成功地超越了几乎所有预期，最近的数据是今年一季度增长6.2%。
Half of all women who have graduated from a four-year institution say it was money well spent, while just 37 percent of male graduates would agree.
有一半从四年制院校毕业的女性们说，读书的费用是物有所值，而只有37%的男性有此看法。
Things are on the up for US billionaires with more than half of them adding to their net worth in a year which once again saw bill Gates as the richest of them all, Forbes magazine said on Wednesday.
《福布斯》杂志周三称，美国亿万富翁们的财政情况正在好转，超过半数的富豪在过去一年中净资产有所上升，而比尔·盖茨则再次成为美国首富。
Nearly half of all 18-24 year-olds admitted to text ing as they drove, a separate survey by the RAC Foundation discovered.
“英国皇家飞行俱乐部基金会”开展的另一项调查显示，在18岁至24岁的受访者中，近一半的人承认自己在开车时发过短信。
However, a dream was a dream. Half a year later, both my husband and I lost all we gained.
但是梦想终归是梦想，半年之后，我和我丈夫把我们赚的钱都赔进去了。
Christmass lunch is fast becoming another SCIE tradition which is a nice way to end first half of the year and by which the management express its thanks to all employees for their hard work.
圣诞聚餐已经成为了SCIE的另一项传统，通过这个方式大家愉快地结束第一学期的工作，学校管理层也借此机会感谢所有教职工的工作。
Christmass lunch is fast becoming another SCIE tradition which is a nice way to end first half of the year and by which the management express its thanks to all employees for their hard work.
圣诞聚餐已经成为了SCIE的另一项传统，通过这个方式大家愉快地结束第一学期的工作，学校管理层也借此机会感谢所有教职工的工作。
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