More than half of the people in a recent survey on the Internet answered these questions incorrectly: How many countries make up Great Britain? What is the world's largest desert?

最近在互联网上进行的一项调查中，超过一半的人错误地回答了以下问题：大不列颠由多少个国家组成？世界上最大的沙漠是什么？

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If the kids break down and stomp and scream on the airplane, remember that half of the people there have been in your shoes.

如果孩子在飞机上失控、跺脚、大声尖叫，记住半数人会站在你的立场上。

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Half of the people die within fifteen months.

一半的人在15个月内死亡。

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Even though West Virginia had remained in the Union, about half of the people in the state supported the South.

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It's a time of technological innovation, tremendous technological innovation, so much technological change that half the time it frightened people.

这还是个技术革新的时代,空前的技术革新,如此多的技术涌现,以至于人们有时候是对其感到恐惧的

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But what Milgram found that was particularly interesting was that in about half of the cases these packages went through two people.

但米尔格林姆一个特别有趣的发现是,有一半包裹经过了两个人。

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In other words, half of the people who might want to try college, should not.

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Many of the countries that you represent, half of the people are under 30.

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And, in another few weeks, half of the people left will have forgotten all about it as well.

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