Yet there is a dark side to this picture: despite our progress, half of the world's population still suffers, with water services inferior to those available to the ancient Greeks and Romans.
然而，这种情况也有其黑暗的一面：尽管我们取得了进步，世界上仍有一半的人口在受苦，供水服务还不如古希腊和古罗马人。
Just rub the cut side of half a lemon all over them and buff with a soft cloth.
只需用半个柠檬的切面擦拭它们全部，然后用软布擦亮即可。
Esme was at my side in half a heartbeat, swinging me up easily into her arms, and dashing up the stairs before I could gasp in shock.
只是心跳半拍的瞬间，艾思梅就已经站到了我身旁。她轻轻松松地把我抱在怀里，跃上了楼梯，我甚至来不及因为震惊而大口大口地喘气。
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。
Under the law, these warnings will have to appear on both the front and back of cigarette packs, taking up half the real estate on each side of the label.
根据法律，警告必须出现在香烟包装的正反面，并在标签的每一面占到一半的面积。
Half a mile before the lighthouse itself, there's a car park, and the rest of the route is over a single-track country lane, with a low stone wall on the side closest to the sea.
离灯塔半英里的地方有一个停车场，再接下来的路是一条单行的乡间小道，靠着海的那边有一道低矮的石头墙。
From their colony at Java they sent out a small vessel, the Duyfhen, or Dove, which sailed into the Gulf of Carpentaria, and passed half-way down along its eastern side.
他们从殖民地爪哇派出了一只小船，称作杜伊芬号或者德芙号，驶入卡奔塔利亚湾，沿着海湾东部航行了海湾的一半。
But I think Marseille are a good side and sometimes they made it quite difficult, especially at the start of the first half.
但是马赛确实是一只让人肃然起敬的强队，他们给我们制造了很多麻烦，尤其是在上半场刚开始的那一段时间。
And if the wind is really blowing, then you hang on to the side of the boat, promising that if you ever step on land again, you will donate half your earnings to paving the oceans.
如果刮大风，那你就会抓着小船的边，决心要是能够再次踏上陆地，将捐献出一半的收入把海洋填平。
On the other side of the ledger, China's surplus is on course to fall by half from its 2007 peak, of 11% of GDP, by 2010.
在账目的另一侧，到2010年，中国的经常项目盈余预计要比2007年顶峰时减少一半，占到GDP的11%。
At 40 degrees Fahrenheit, champagne poured traditionally quickly lost a quarter of its carbon dioxide. But pouring down the side caused only half the gas loss.
气温在华氏40度时，传统方式在刚开始就损失了四分之一的二氧化碳，但沿杯壁倾倒的方式总共只减少了一半的二氧化碳。
Others, such as PS 20 on the Lower East Side, have opted for dual-language programs, where half of the class is fluent in English and the other half is fluent in Mandarin.
而位于下东区的PS20等其他学校则选择了双语课程，班上一半的学生英文流利，另一半则精通普通话。
As I walked out of my apartment, I worried that I had too much cash in my purse and I stashed half in the side pocket of my suitcase.
那天，我走出公寓，担心当时身上带的现金太多了，于是就在西装的内兜里藏了一半。
SLUM tourism has a long history - during the late 1800s, lines of wealthy New Yorkers snaked along the Bowery and through the Lower East Side to see "how the other half lives."
贫民窟旅游有着“悠久”的历史-在十九世纪末期，一队队的纽约富人就曾偷偷摸摸的沿着包厘街穿过下东区去观摩“另外一半是怎么生活的”。
A hockey fanatic from Chicago's far North Side wouldn't receive a deal for half-price yoga lessons in the city's South Side Hyde Park neighborhood.
芝加哥北郊的曲棍球迷将收不到来自于该城南边海德公园旁边的一张半价的瑜伽课门票。
The study had a high dropout rate, with almost half of the participants (59 people) leaving the study before it finished, often because of side effects or because the treatment wasn't helping them.
此项研究，中途退出的比率很高，差不多有一半的参与者(59人)在研究完成之前离开，通常是因为副作用，或因为治疗对他们没有帮助。
Researchers found more than half of these studies displayed no side effects from fish oil supplements.
研究人员发现，一半以上的实验显示使用鱼油补充剂无副作用。
Half were then given magnetic stimulation on the right side of their prefrontal cortex, half on the left.
一半的志愿者的右侧前额叶皮层受到磁铁刺激，另一半左侧受到刺激。
Today, really good cameras fit in your pocket. And now, researchers at Cornell have developed a camera that’s just a half-millimeter on each side and a hundredth of a millimeter thick.
但是现在，一个好的摄像机可以放在你的口袋里，而且，美国康奈尔大学的研究人员发明了一种只有仅有半毫米见方、百分之一毫米厚度的摄像机。
And now, researchers at Cornell have developed a camera that’s just a half-millimeter on each side and a hundredth of a millimeter thick.
最近，康奈尔大学的研究人员已经发明一种长宽只有半毫米，厚度仅百分之一毫米的照相机。
Four horned cows stand side by side upon fertile land. And indeed they've been grazing on their little patch of grass for about five and a half thousand years.
这四只带角的牛肩并肩站成在肥沃的土地上，它们就在那块小草地上吃草，渡过了五千五百年的漫长岁月。
That trend was apparent when Capello's side struck the woodwork once more, with a 35-yard free-kick from Lampard seven minutes into the second half.
这种趋势十分明显——下半时第七分钟，兰帕德35码外开出任意球，卡佩罗的球队再度收获一次门柱。
These two and a half tribes have received their inheritance on the east side of the Jordan of Jericho, toward the sunrise.
这两个半支派已经在耶利哥对面，约旦河东，向日出之地受了产业。
I had moved down the side of the pitch after covering the Barca attack for the second-half.
在跟踪了巴萨下半时的攻势后，我沿着边线移到另一边。
But let me just tell you immediately to the side, which side it's pointing to it's always pointing towards higher values of a function OK, and we'll see in that maybe about half an hour.
现在我可以告诉你，它总是，指向更大的函数值的方向，可能半个小时后就会知道为何了。
But let me just tell you immediately to the side, which side it's pointing to it's always pointing towards higher values of a function OK, and we'll see in that maybe about half an hour.
现在我可以告诉你，它总是，指向更大的函数值的方向，可能半个小时后就会知道为何了。
应用推荐