We've contrived various justifications that turn out to be half-truths, prejudices or myths.

我们想出了各种各样的解释，结果它们要么半真半假，要么只是偏见或传说。

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The final half turn?

最后半个转变呢？

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Nor I half turn to go, yet Turing stay.

我不会转身走去，而又半途转身停留。

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Turn-outs in local elections, which even in good years were never much more than half the turn-out at general-election time, have fallen to as low as 22% of the electorate since 1997.

ECONOMIST: Local elections (2)

Blackwell's 54-ball half-century threatened to turn the tide but the visitors remained favourites when Hoggard had the left-hander caught behind for 64, prodding at a good length ball.

BBC: Yorks beat Somerset to move top

They were guilty of "a half-baked U-turn".

BBC: Waiting for the Chancellor.