"What time were you planning lunch?"—"Half past twelve, if that's convenient."

“你打算什么时间吃午饭？”—“12:30，如果方便的话。”

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

The bus was only half full. Even so, a young man asked Nina if the seat next to her was taken.

公共汽车上只坐满了一半，即便如此，一个小伙子还问尼娜她旁边的座位有没有人坐。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

He's too clever by half , if you ask me.

恕我直言，他未免聪明过头了。

《牛津词典》

If you plant inside, fill a seven and one-half centimeter pot with soil.

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She's a flower, she's perishable, she's half hidden, - and she's ultimately dead and in the ground-- whereas a star would seem to be something that she just can't be mapped onto if she is this half-hidden thing.

她是一朵花，是易腐烂的，有一半深埋在土里，最终凋谢回归土地-,如果她一般在土里,她就不可能是星星。

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"Everyone is half-dead. It does not matter if you shell them because you are shelling a dead body."

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No one would really blame those in the glass-is-half-full camp if they decided to take a wait-and-see approach to this market.

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And why did they publish a two-and-a-half-year-old story as if it happened two days ago?

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He will serve a default prison sentence of two-and-a-half years if he fails to pay the amount back.

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