But thanks to the growth in the first half of the year, GDP still grew in 2008 as a whole, by 0.8% for the euro area and 0.9% for the entire eu.
但由于上半年的增长，2008年GDP整体还是增长的，欧元区增长0.8%而整个欧盟为0.9%。
She has been on the company's flight list for the last year but, in a wider sense, she has been waiting to make this trip for half a century.
她的名字已在VG的飞行名单上呆了一年时间，但也可以说，她已为这次旅行等了半个世纪。
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。
Her equestrian career didn't last (she says she rode for a year-and-a-half), but her cooking stuck.
只是她的马术生涯并没有持续多久（她说她只骑了一年半的马），不过她对烹饪的热情却一直没有中断。
But during the second half of last year the economy still managed to lose more than a million jobs.
但在去年的下半年，虽然美国经济努力争取复苏，但是一百万人还是失去了工作。
On average men treated their partners to three surprise gifts every year but a quarter of men say they never buy unexpected gifts for their other half.
平均谁来，男性会在一年当中给爱人送上三次意外惊喜的礼物，但有近四分之一的男士们表示自己从来不会给另一半买意想不到的礼物。
That might not seem a big increase, but the indicator has rarely risen or fallen by more than half a day a year.
这也许不是很大的增加，但是这个指数一年上升或者下降的波动很少超过半天。
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。
Nearly three-quarters of five-year-old girls (74%) could write a simple shopping list, or a letter to Father Christmas, but only half of boys (54%) could do so at the same age.
有将近四分之三的5岁女孩(74%)能写出简单的购物清单，或者是给圣诞老人的一封信，但只有一半的同岁男孩(54%)可以做到。
A few months later I heard she'd ended her relationship. But I waited at least half a year to ask for a date.
几个月后我听说她已经和男友分手了，但是我至少又等了半年才向她提出约会。
But private economists are forecasting a pick-up in the second half of the year, which would be a big improvement on what happened after Lehman (see chart).
但是民间经济学家预计今年下半年将有回升，这将是自莱曼兄弟破产后一个重大的改善(见图表)。
But in the past year half a dozen new tyrannosaur species have been described, and during the past decade the known diversity of tyrannosaurs has more than doubled.
过去的一年里，发现了六个新霸王龙物种。而在过去的十年里所知道的霸王龙种类是之前的两倍多。
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。
More than 60 percent of individuals on antidepressants have been taking their medication for at least two years, but less than half have seen a mental health professional in the prior year.
超过60%的抑郁症患者服用抗抑郁药至少两年以上，但是在上一年看过精神健康专家的人还不到一半。
For a year and a half she worked 11-hour days checking hard drive casings - no music, no chat permitted; but spotting hairline cracks and other errors was satisfying.
在整整一年半的时间里，她每天工作11个小时检查硬盘外壳——既没有音乐陪伴，也不能聊天解闷；但查出细微的裂痕或其他问题让她觉得满足。
You may get lost - last year I spent an hour and a half trying to escape an overgrown copse right next to the M25 - but you probably won't die.
你可能会迷路——去年我花了一个半小时才从紧挨着M 25高速公路的小灌木丛走出来——但是肯定死不了。
It took me a long time and a lot of hard work but I finally returned to the University of Texas in the fall of 1983 - a year and a half after almost dying.
在经历了一年半垂死挣扎的生活后，在漫长的等待和艰辛的付出后，终于在1983年的秋天，我返回了德克萨斯大学。
'it [a Shanghai listing] is something that we haven't ruled out, but it would be logistically impossible for at least a year and a half anyway,' he said.
他说，我们尚未排除在上海上市的可能，不过理论上讲至少在一年半内是不可能的。
In the year and a half since then, Liu has had to return to work, but he visits an Internet cafe every night to spend several hours online looking for his son and making posts about the case.
在此后的一年半里，刘先生每天下班后都去网吧，花几个小时上网寻找自己的儿子并就这个案子发帖求助。
“On a scale of 1 to 10, I’d say we were negative during the first half of the year, ” he said. “Now, we’re at 0.5 or 1 — not huge, but better, and definitely stronger than in the Americas and Europe.”
“如果从1至10分来衡量，我会说上半年我们是负数，”他说，“现在，我们在0.5或1的位置——不多，但好转了，而且肯定比美国和欧洲要强。”
But on August 3rd new data showed that in the first half of the year, energy intensity nudged up by a mere 0.09% compared with the same period a year ago.
不过，8月3日发布的新数据显示，比一年前同期相比，今年上半年的能源密度只微弱上升了0.09%。
"It was an endurance struggle for me," Law says. "But in a year, I went from the couch to a half marathon."
太考验耐力了不过在一年之内，我从沙发上开始，变成半程马拉松选手。
Of the 135, 000 completed but unsold new homes at the end of May, nearly half had been sitting for a year or more.
在五月底，除了未售出的新房，有135000套已经完成销售，将近一半已经放置了一年或一年以上。
Around 100 health books were sold every month in the first half of the year, but now they just sit on bookshelves, said a bookstore.
某书店表示，今年上半年，养生书籍一个月能卖约百本，如今有些书一本都卖不出去。
But again in Eritrea it's worked well as of the 800,000 odd bed nets, at least half a million of them are being re-treated every year.
但厄立特里亚在这方面做得相当好，80多万套蚊帐中，每年至少有50万套被重新处理。
But it is hardly unexpected; the 81-year-old Mr. Castro has not been seen in public for more than a year and a half, and he recently wrote that he would not "cling to power."
但这是可以预计到的，81岁的卡斯特罗已经一年多没有在公众场合露面，他最近写信说，他不会再紧握大权。
But it is hardly unexpected; the 81-year-old Mr. Castro has not been seen in public for more than a year and a half, and he recently wrote that he would not "cling to power."
但这是可以预计到的，81岁的卡斯特罗已经一年多没有在公众场合露面，他最近写信说，他不会再紧握大权。
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