Retail stores usually count on the Christmas season to make up to half of their annual profits.
零售商店通常指望圣诞节期间来赚取一半的年利润。
The Cunard shipping line came up with a clever slogan: "Getting there is half the fun..."
冠达海运公司想出了一个聪明的口号：“一半的乐趣来自于到达目的地…”
We'll pay you half up front and the other half when you've finished the job.
我们先付一半给你，工作完成后再付另一半。
Colin half sat up, turning toward her, leaning on his elbows.
科林半坐起来，转向她，用胳膊肘支撑身体。
The "millennials" who will soon make up half the workforce in rich countries were raised from nursery school onwards to work in groups.
在发达国家，千禧一代即将占据市场上一半的劳动力，他们从幼儿园时起就开始分组工作了。
It pays laid off workers up to half of their previous wages while they look for work.
失业的人们在找工作期间可以领取相当于原来一半工资的失业保险金。
The flight up which can otherwise be a torturous half hour of self doubt is a sightseeing pleasure.
这次也可能是折磨人的半小时自我质疑的飞行，是一次愉悦观光机会。
Although women make up the majority of undergraduates in our universities, just under half of academic staff are female.
虽然我们大学本科生中有大部分是女性，但教职人员中女性却占不到半数。
Less than half of the money that students receive is in the form of grants, and loans have made up the difference.
学生们获得的有不到一半的钱是助学金形式的，贷款补上了不足的部分。
United were 3–1 up at half-time.
半场结束时，联队以3:1领先。
The game didn't liven up till the second half.
那场比赛直到下半场才精彩起来。
Exposing historians tacit and intentional sexism, herstorians set out to correct the record—to show that women had held up half the historical sky.
“她史”揭露了历史学家心照不派和有意的性别歧视，开始纠正记录，表明妇女曾撑起了历史的半边天。
Up in the little garret there stands, half-dressed, a little Dancer.
小阁楼里站着一个半裸的小舞蹈家。
Susan came to the party yesterday, but it was already half past eight when she turned up.
苏珊昨天来参加聚会了，但她来的时候已经八点半了。
You start by running 5 km, move up to a 10 km, then a half marathon.
你先跑5公里，再跑10公里，然后跑半程马拉松。
Prices went up an extra 3p on a pint of milk, 15p on a quarter of a pound of butter and 15p on a half pound of cheese.
一品脱牛奶的价格上涨了3便士，四分之一磅黄油上涨了15便士，半磅奶酪上涨了15便士。
Russians, for example, began to wake up about a half-hour later each day after President Vladimir Putin shifted the country permanently to "winter time" starting on October 26.
例如，自俄罗斯总统弗拉基米尔·普京从10月26日起在该国永久性地实行“冬令时”后，俄罗斯人开始每天晚半小时起床。
Equally unsurprisingly, only about half end up with professorships for which they entered graduate school.
同样不足为奇的是，尽管人们考研究生院是为了教授职位，但最终只有一半的人能够梦想成真。
Instead of giving the wig back, Pinocchio put it on his own head, which was half swallowed up in it.
皮诺乔并没有把假发还给他，而是把它放在自己的头上，半个脑袋都被套进去了。
Not surprisingly, up to half of all doctoral students in English drop out before getting their degrees.
在所有英语专业的博士生中，多达一半的人在获得学位之前就辍学了，这不足为奇。
The move to renewables is picking up momentum around the world: they now account for more than half of new power sources going on line.
世界各地向可再生能源转移的势头正在加快：目前，可再生能源在已上线新能源中已经超过一半。
Tobacco kills up to half of its users.
烟草导致其多达半数使用者死亡。
That was nothing though, compared to German, Italians, and the French, who stayed up around an hour and a half later on various days throughout the summer to watch the Cup.
与德国人、意大利人和法国人相比，这算不了什么。整个夏天，他们在不同的日子里晚睡一个半小时，就是为了看世界杯。
That was nothing, though, compared to German, Italians, and the French, who stayed up around an hour and a half later on various days throughout the summer to watch the Cup.
与德国人、意大利人和法国人相比，这算不了什么。整个夏天，他们在不同的日子里熬夜一个半小时，就是为了看世界杯。
It pays laid-off workers up to half of their previous wages while they look for work.
失业的人们在找工作期间可以领取相当于原来一半工资的失业保险金。
Almost half of that winds up in landfills，and up to 12 million tons pollute the oceans.
其中近一半垃圾被填埋，多达1200万吨对海洋造成了污染。
Just up the road, at Edwards Air Force Base, is the runway where nearly half of all shuttle flights touched down.
就在爱德华兹空军基地的这条路上，有一条跑道，几乎一半的航天飞机都在这里降落。
They can be up to one and a half meters long, and these tubes are attached to the ocean floor, pretty weird looking, huh?
它们最多可以有1.5米长，而且这些管子连接在海底，看起来很奇怪，是吧？
In more recent times the Gypsies were caught up in Nazi ethnic hysteria, and perhaps half a million perished in the Holocaust.
在近代，吉普赛人卷入了歇斯底里的纳粹民族主义，大约有50万吉普赛人死于大屠杀。
Sure enough, these amphibious species show up on the triangular graph approximately half way between the "wet cluster" of sea turtles and the "dry cluster" of land tortoises.
可以肯定的是，这些水陆两栖物种的数据出现在接近三角坐标中间的位置，位于水栖海龟和陆栖乌龟的坐标点之间。
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