It's hard to believe that half the class couldn't complete the three-thousand-meter race, isn't it?

很难相信班上有一半人都不能完成三千米赛跑，不是吗？

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Hard-boil a half-dozen eggs and grab one each morning along with some fruit and an English muffin for a portable breakfast.

把半打鸡蛋煮熟，每天早晨抓一个鸡蛋，再放一些水果和一个英式松饼作为便携式早餐。

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We just make some half hard resolution and it evaporates after a week or two.

我们只是下定了一些说难不难的决心，而一两周之后这种决心就人间蒸发了。

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In the second half of the twentieth century and up now into the twenty-first century, writers were thinking very hard about what to do stylistically with all the innovations that come in that powerful period known as modernism.

自二十世纪下半叶,直至现今二十一世纪,作家都在努力思考在现代主义影响,深远的这个时期里该怎样进行文体上的创新。

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