Well, I thought, I've already lost half my job, I might as well go the whole hog and lose it completely.
嗯，我想，我已经丢了一半的工作了，我还不如彻底放弃算了。
The illness is dangerous, because it is involved in half of all automobile accidents.
这种病很危险，因为在所有的交通事故中，有一半都与它有关。
Edward had heard the sentence pronounced, but he had not realised the half that it meant.
爱德华听到了这句话，但他没有意识到这句话的一半含义。
So, the first thing is, you normally write it during the first half of the academic year.
所以首先，你通常在学年的前半段写好它。
France's tax on overnight stays was introduced to assist thermal spa towns to develop, and around half of the French local authorities use it today.
法国的热温泉城镇引入了过夜税以助力其发展。如今，大约一半的法国地方政府都实施了过夜税政策。
Usually, if the tea is made in a teacup, boiling water should be added into the cup when half of the tea in it has been consumed; and thus the cup is kept filled and the tea retains the same bouquet.
通常，若是用茶杯泡的茶，在茶喝完一半之后就应该加开水，这样，茶杯就一直都是满的，茶的芳香也得以保留。
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。
It took the musicians two and a half days to record their soundtrack for the film.
音乐家们花了两天半的时间录制电影的配乐。
Declaring that one country is better than another in the way that it treats more than half its citizens means relying on broad strokes and generalities.
在对待大多数公民的方式上，当宣称一个国家比另外一个做得更好，意味着要依赖于广义的举措和概述。
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。
This policy is far from being ideal, but it is at least an acknowledgement of the inadequacy of our language in treating half of human race equally.
这一政策并不理想，但至少承认了一个事实，即在平等对待他人方面，我们的语言仍有不足。
A pint and a half of beer can produce the effect and in men it may last 24 hours.
一品脱半的啤酒就可以产生这种效果，对男性来说，这种效果可以持续24小时。
Beside it, half-buried in the dirt, was a discarded banner.
在它旁边，一条丢弃的横幅半埋于污泥中。
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。
It looks like it—after all, 2012 was the tipping point when more than half of Americans began owning smartphones.
看起来是这样的——毕竟，2012年是一个转折点，超过一半的美国人开始拥有智能手机。
Buffington says he found a soda bottle half buried in the sand that "looked like it had been there since the beginning of time."
布芬顿说，他发现了一个半埋在沙子里的汽水瓶，“看起来就像是从一开始就在那里一样。”
It's hard to believe that half the class couldn't complete the three-thousand-meter race, isn't it?
很难相信班上有一半人都不能完成三千米赛跑，不是吗？
With half an inch of rain per year, the beetle can only survive by consuming the dew it collects on the hydrophilic skin of its back in the early mornings.
在每年只有半英尺降雨量的环境下，这种甲虫只能通过它背部亲水性皮肤在早晨收集的水露存活下来。
I have read half of the English novel, and I'll try to finish it at the weekend.
这本英文小说我已经读了一半了，这周打算把它读完。
In 2015, the US Forest Service for the first time spent more than half of its $5.5 billion annual budget fighting fires—nearly double the percentage it spent on such efforts 20 years ago.
2015年，美国林务局首次使用55亿美元年度预算的一半以上用于灭火——这几乎是20年前火灾支出所占比例的两倍。
That's nearly two and a half times around Earth! For the first time, Coca Cola has shown that it uses 3,000,000 tons of plastic bottles each year.
这差不多是地球的2.5倍！这是第一次可口可乐公司表示它每年使用300万吨塑料瓶。
It shares, with Canada, the second longest river system in North America and has over half the coastline of the United States.
它与加拿大共享北美第二长的河流系统，拥有美国一半以上的海岸线。
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。
When it was nearly morning, some fishermen lit a fire on the shore about half a mile away.
快到早晨的时候，一些渔民在半英里外的岸边生火。
This is the uterus down here, sort of half of it is shown with the uterine wall, the fallopian tubes, and the ovaries.
下面这个是子宫，大概有一半是子宫壁、输卵管和卵巢。
I've just put our lunch in the oven and it won't be ready for at least half an hour.
我刚把午餐放进烤箱，至少半小时后才能好。
It was decided to make the replica half-scale for reasons of cost and time, and synthetic materials were used for the stitching.
由于成本和时间的原因，我们决定将复制品缩小一半，并使用合成材料来缝合。
In early period, there were no half-measures: usage was either right or wrong, and it was the task of the grammarian not simply to record alternatives, but to pronounce judgement upon them.
在早期，没有折中办法：（语法）用法不是对就是错，并且语法学家的任务不是简单地记录备选词，而是对它们作出判断。
Buffington says he found a soda bottle half buried in the sand that looked like it had been there since the beginning of time.
布芬顿说，他发现了一个半埋在沙子里的汽水瓶，看起来好像从一开始它就在那里。
A portion of Tom's half of the cake was left; they divided and ate it.
汤姆那一半蛋糕还剩下一些，他们分了吃。
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