Many runners, from beginners to advanced, run a half marathon during their marathon training as a confidence booster and a way to figure out their marathon goal time.

许多跑步者，无论是新手还是老手，会在马拉松训练的时候跑半程，以此来增强自信并确定马拉松的目标时间。

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On weekends, I would sleep in way too late so that half the day was gone, then run a few errands, and then watch some more TV until I went to bed.

周末的时候我通常睡到很晚才起来，这么一来半天就过去了，接着做些差事又再去看电视直到晚上睡觉。

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If I could bag the miles I have run in my sleep, then I would have reached New York a long time ago and be half way back to Los Angeles by now.

假如能把梦中跑过的路也算进去，我早就到了纽约了，哪怕跑回洛杉矶，也已经跑了一半路了。

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Perhaps not much sign of focus there, but this is a slimmed-down bank half way through its run-off programme, and half way through the time limit it set itself for turnaround.

BBC: Crash diet for the Royal Bank of Scotland

At its Gogarburn headquarters, the lender has announced that it's just passed the half-way point of its sale and run-off of those assets it doesn't want or need.

BBC: Crash diet for the Royal Bank of Scotland

They range from a simple ger (a felt tent) that acts as a half-way house, to the well-organised home for 130 children run by Father Gilbert.

ECONOMIST: The street children are the symptom of a bigger problem