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。
"I went to [a store] and we spent half an hour in the toy section looking for a big box of Legos and spent the rest of the night building that thing," he says.
他说：“我们去了一家商场，在玩具部花了半个小时，寻找大盒乐高拼装玩具，然后整夜都在拼拼装装。”
The top half of the rocket is a dummy version, combining its upper stage and the Orion crew capsule, designed and weighted to mimic the real thing.
火箭的上半部分是个仿造品，把第一级和“猎户座”(Orion)乘员舱结合在一起，使其设计及重量与实际情况相若。
The couple left with the cheapest thing they could find: half a kilogram of ground pork for about $2.
这对夫妇买了他们能找到的最便宜的，大约2美元半公斤（1市斤）的猪肉馅。
But the thing is at least half done, as you have one out of two votes.
但这事至少已成功一半了，因为在两张投票之中，你已经得到了一标。
"It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information," quipped Oscar Wilde in 1894. He did not know the half of it.
“这是一件很悲哀的事——如今几乎没有无用的信息，”奥斯卡·王尔德在1894年俏语道。他并不知道其中另外一半的意思。
A half an hour later, I saw the headlights of our car and heard the weirdest thing: loud, loud music.
半个小时后，我看到了我们家那辆车的车灯，最奇怪的是还听到了震耳欲聋的音乐声。
Funny thing about the knife — in each film it gets bigger and bigger until in the last Rambo he tosses it and makes a homemade machete half the size of my leg.
有意思的是，在这一系列的每一部电影中，那把军刀的尺寸都越来越大，最后兰博投出的那把都有我半个大腿那么大了。
It is the sort of thing people constantly use which means that its not quite the same as doing a crossword, where you spend half an hour on it and it is finished.
这是人们经常使用的东西，这不像做填字游戏，你花费了半个小时，然后就完成了。
So one thing that readers lost, when they lost the second half of this book, is the sense that maturing, the process of maturing, was more than just the process of leaving the South.
因此没了书的后半部分，读者就读不到，其比远离南方的旅程，还要意味深长的，成长过程中的感想。
For any website I work with, it's the one thing I make sure is present, since the performance impact is huge (many times with response times half of what they are without an opcode cache).
对于我使用的任何网站，它是我确保存在的一项内容，因为性能影响很大（很多时候有了操作码缓存，响应时间可减少一半）。
Then we watched the second five minutes, same thing … but a half-hour into it, I’m saying, ‘Jesus, I didn’t know that.’
然后，我们又看了五分钟，还是一样的东西...不过半小时后，我说，'上帝啊，原来是这么回事啊。'
Anyway, put the other half of the body over the wings and arms (the bit that is sticking up on the top of the PIC) and turn the whole thing around and hold it tight under the arms and wings.
不管怎样，把一半的身体盖在手臂和翅膀上(图片顶部翘起的部分)，然后整个翻转过来，抓牢臂下和翅膀。
For one thing, preparations for AIA's listing are under way based on results as of May 31, the end of its last fiscal half-year.
首先，友邦保险的上市筹备工作是以截至5月31日、即其最近一个半财年结束之日的业绩为基础的。
"Friendship is a sacred thing, " said Kimmel (who looked like he was only half-kidding), "and I believe Facebook is ruining it."
“友谊是神圣的，”Kimmel表示（他半开玩笑的说），“我相信Facebook正在毁了它。”
Overhearing one-sided conversations really is more annoying because the brain finds it more taxing, and therefore more distracting, to listen to only half of a conversation versus the whole thing.
旁听通话一方的讲话实际上更加烦人，因为你的大脑会觉得只听一半通话比倾听完整的通话更加费脑筋，也就更容易分散注意力。
The most jaw-dropping thing about the CMB results is that the cosmologists' model, which has only a half-dozen adjustable parameters, fits the data at all.
而CMB研究最让人惊讶的结果是宇宙学家创造的模型，这个模型只有6个可变参数，但却解释了一切。
For one thing, more than half (54%) of companies that froze salaries in 2009 are planning a thaw over the next few months, according to a poll by compensation consultants Watson Wyatt.
首先是，由薪酬咨询顾问公司Watson Wyatt做出的一份民意调查结果显示，有超过一半的公司(占54%)计划在接下来的几个月内解冻2009年冻结的薪资。
The other half have at least one thing in common: the letters opening with the recipients name and address and the closing with your name.
在另一半的信函中，至少有一样东西是相同的：先前信函中收件人的名称、住址以及您的签名。
I'm a bit disappointed, comparing to my old samsung P400, this thing has half of the color gamut.
我有点失望，比老三星p400，不知这台东西有一半的色域。
Now take half an hour off from assisting others, and spend those 30 minutes working on the thing you supposedly never have time for.
现在花半小时不去帮助别人，然后用这30分钟进行自己认为永远没有时间去做的事情。
So, the thing is to make as few mistakes as possible, that is, do not try to play half by memory and half not… you must play everything right, if possible.
因此，第二件事就是要尽可能少地犯错误，不要试着去弹奏自己记忆中似是而非不能确定的乐句，一定要尽可能地演奏正确。
For half a century liquor companies have voluntarily kept their ads off the air for the simple reason that it was the right thing to do.
半个世纪以来，烈性酒公司都自愿不在广播中播送他们的广告，简单的理由就是因为这是一种正确的做法。
The strangest thing was that, almost before he had looked about him, Digory had half forgotten how he had come there.
最奇怪的是，还来不及东张西望，迪格雷便差不多忘了他是如何到那里的。
A: I always approach things very enthusiastically. When I begin something, I don't like to leave it half done. I can't concentrate on something new until the first thing is finished.
我总是满怀热情的去做事情。当我开始做某件事后，我不喜欢半途而废。如果一件事没有做完，我无法专心做另一件事。
After half an hour, you wake up to realize the pages have turned, but you have been daydreaming and don't remember a thing you read.
半小时过去，你清醒过来，意识到翻页了，但是完全不记得刚刚的白日梦中读到了什么。
After half an hour, you wake up to realize the pages have turned, but you have been daydreaming and don't remember a thing you read.
半小时过去，你清醒过来，意识到翻页了，但是完全不记得刚刚的白日梦中读到了什么。
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