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。

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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。

《牛津词典》

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。

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Yet up at about five-thousand-four hundred meters the air pressure is only about half of what it is on the ground.

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Elliott Gorn, a wonderful historian up at Brown, wrote a brilliant, fascinating, half-crazy essay once about eye-gouging and Southern fighting.

艾略特·龚是布朗时期一个伟大的历史家,他写了一本很有趣,很引人入胜,口味很重的一本小说,是关于南方式打架和挖眼珠的

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And, in any arbitrary crucible full of molten silver, half of them are going to be spin-up and half of them are going to be spin-down.

并且，在任一个浇满了熔银的坩埚中，银原子中的电子一半是向上转,另一半是向下转。

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The Highways Agency and councils have cut their use of salt for gritting roads by half - up from the 25% agreed last week - to protect supplies.

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Meanwhile, the Highways Agency and councils have cut their use of salt for gritting roads by half - up from the 25% cut agreed last week - to protect supplies.

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And a major first-half dust-up involving almost all 26 players eventually saw forwards from either side sinbinned, Giants' Keith Mason and Stuart Fielden, who was upset at having his ankle raked in a tackle.

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