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。
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。
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。
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。
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。
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。
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。
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。
Tobacco kills up to half of its users.
烟草导致其多达半数使用者死亡。
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。
Start the day by filling up a half-gallon jug with water (or any combination of smaller bottles that equals 64 ounces).
在半加仑的罐子里装满水（或者任何等于64盎司的小瓶子的组合）以开始新的一天。
Before they started to pick up the marbles, half the people had to keep their hands in water for half an hour.
在他们开始捡弹珠之前，一半的人必须把他们的手浸在水中半小时。
Situated half-way up the Alm, the cottage was luckily protected from the mighty winds.
这间小屋坐落在高山牧场的半山腰，幸运的是它没有被强风吹坏。
China together with the United States, the top two countries, make up half of the Internet users in the top 15.
在前15大互联网国家中，中国和美国这两大互联网国家的互联网用户总数占据了近半数。
Iron ore has always been the most important part of Vale's business, sucking up half of its capital spending.
铁矿一直是淡水河谷公司最重要的业务，吸收了该公司资本投入的一半。
The constant pool can easily make up half or more of the binary class size, though the average proportion is probably less.
常量池往往占到二进制类大小的一半或更多，但平均下来可能要少一些。
Then you come in here complaining about your knees hurting, your back is killing you, your feet ache, and you can't breathe when you walk up half a flight of stairs.
可是你来我这里抱怨你的膝盖疼，你的背痛的要死，你的脚也酸痛，你还没上了半截楼梯你就喘不上气来了。
Sometimes "larger" animals, such as tadpoles or worms, wind up half in and half out of the trap, gruesomely losing part of their body to the plant's hunger.
有时候，一些“大”点的动物，比如，蝌蚪或者蠕虫，身体的半部分陷进阀门的里面，而半部分露在外面，残忍地将一段身体留给了饥饿的植物。
The Shriver Report’s most stunning finding is that women now make up half of the American workforce, and are the primary breadwinner or co-breadwinner in 2/3 of American families.
《施莱弗报告》中最令人震惊的发现是，女性占据了美国工作人口的一半，还是2/3美国家庭中的主要或共同的养家糊口者。
Bill Bobbitt, a county inspector, dips a ladle into the water and brings up half a dozen wriggling larvae.
郡观察员比尔•博比特用一把长长的勺子从池水中捞出半打孑孓。
Bill Bobbitt, a county inspector, dips a ladle into the water and brings up half a dozen wriggling larvae.
郡观察员比尔•博比特用一把长长的勺子从池水中捞出半打孑孓。
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