They found that one half of the brain "remains more awake" than the other half when people are trying to sleep in a new place.
他们发现，当人们试图在一个新的地方睡觉时，大脑的一半比另一半“更清醒”。
In one recent US survey, about half the teens polled said that their cell phone had improved their communication with friends.
在美国最近的一项调查中，接受调查的青少年中约有一半表示，他们的手机改善了他们与朋友的交流。
An old saying has it that half all advertising budgets are wasted—the trouble is, no one knows which half.
有句老话说，一半的广告预算都浪费了——问题是，没人知道是哪一半。
"Together, ma'am," Ben gulped down half of his new mug at one gulp.
“在一起啊，夫人。”本一口气就喝完了新的半杯。
One is not offered a beautiful princess and half a kingdom every day of one's life!
一位美丽的公主和半个王国，这真是千载难逢的机会！
If one chord holds twice as long or only half as long, then we have an irregular harmonic change--irregular rate of harmonic change.
如果某一个和弦持续的时间是两倍或者只有一半，那我们就有了不规则的和声改变——和声改变的不规则比率。
In half the cases, the experimenters patted the students lightly on the back of the shoulder for about one second while providing verbal instructions about the study.
在一半的案例中，实验者在提供关于研究的口头说明的同时，会轻轻拍拍学生的肩膀，持续了大约一秒钟的时间。
Overall, the study found half the films and TV shows had no Asian speaking characters and more than one-fifth of them had no black characters with dialogue.
总的来说，研究发现一半的电影和电视节目中没有设置有台词的亚洲角色，超过五分之一没有设置有对话的黑人角色。
Holloway was beaten in a one-on-one with Miklosko just before half-time.
比赛进行到快一半时，霍洛韦在跟米克洛什科一对一的较量中告负。
The main demand of the Indians is for the return of one-and-a-half-million acres of forest to their communities.
印第安人的主要要求是把150万英亩的森林归还给他们的族群。
Gabriel's family soon helped him open his first barbershop in San Isidro, Peru, which he worked at for one and a half years.
加布里埃尔的家人很快帮他在秘鲁的圣伊西德罗开了第一家理发店，他在那里工作了一年半。
Seven is unique in one detail of its construction; it brings the killer onscreen with half an hour to go and gives him a speaking role.
《七宗罪》在其结构的一个细节上是独特的；它在结束前半个小时才把杀手带到荧屏上，并给了他一个富有深意的角色。
Birds that are literally half asleep—with one brain hemisphere alert and the other sleeping—control which side of the brain remains awake, according to a new study of sleeping ducks.
根据一项关于睡觉的鸭子的新研究来看，半睡半醒的鸟儿——大脑的一个半球处于警觉状态，另一个半球处于睡眠状态——控制着大脑的哪一边保持清醒。
Production of British cotton goods increased sixtyfold, and cotton cloth became Great Britain's most important product, accounting for one-half of all exports.
英国的棉织品产量增加了60倍，棉布成为英国最重要的产品，占出口产品总数的一半。
Roughly one-half of the world's population, including virtually all of East and Southeast Asia also, is wholly dependent on rice to be its staple food.
世界上大约一半的人口，包括几乎所有的东亚和东南亚国家，都完全以大米作为主食。
The most amazing one was when they had to exchange things worth thousands of yuan with only a piece of paper in half an hour.
最让人吃惊的是，他们不得不在半小时内用一张纸兑换价值几千元的东西。
The scientists found that people who sip one to three drinks a day are about half as likely to suffer heart attacks as nondrinkers are.
科学家们发现，每天喝一到三杯酒的人患心脏病的几率是不饮酒者的一半。
They said one of their planes spotted the Cubans more than half way through their journey and the coast guards could not believe their eyes when they saw the vessel.
他们说，旅途过半时，他们在其中一架飞机上发现了古巴人。当海岸警卫队看到这艘船时，他们简直不敢相信自己的眼睛。
One study recruited 200 obese adults to take part in a 16-week-long diet, where half added dessert to their breakfast, and half didn't.
一项研究招募了200名肥胖的成年人，让他们参加一项为期16周的节食计划，这项计划中一半人的早餐中添加了甜点，而另一半没有。
Last year, however, one candidate produced a half-hour-long advertisement.
然而，去年，一位候选人制作了一个半小时的广告。
It lies high upon the hill, between the large oak-trees, one of which is half decayed.
它坐落在高高的山丘上，夹在几棵大橡树之间，其中一棵已经枯萎一半了。
By one estimate, people daydream through nearly half of their waking hours.
据估计，人们在醒着的时候，有近一半的时间都在做白日梦。
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