There was a column directly in my line of sight, so I could only see half the stage.

有一根柱子正挡着我的视线，所以我只能看见舞台的一半。

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The answer, in the magazine’s Franz Kafka’s Garage column, is: “Long ago, half-ton pickups could haul half a ton.” But competition led to more capable trucks, though the name did not change.

答案在一本叫<弗兰茨卡夫卡>的杂志上的一个车库专栏中作出了解答:"很久以前 半吨的小型卡车能拖拉半吨的货物."

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In figure 1, you will find a column displaying a solid circle, a half-solid circle, and an empty circle for each received message.

在图1中，您将发现其中一列对于接收的每条消息显示实心圆圈、半实心圆圈或空心圆圈。

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In this case, the basic column of air is twelve and a half feet long and there are something called "Partials" or the "Harmonic series" That happens in anything, on a string instrument or whatever, but on the horn it's very distinct and that's what makes the different notes.

像这样,基本空气柱有十二个,每个半英尺长,圆号能发出分音,或泛音列,弦乐器或是,其他别的乐器中都有,但在圆号上,效果相当不同,这就是它能奏出不同音符的原因

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National Hurricane Center data show a dramatic decline in major hurricanes striking the United States during the past half century (see my recent column on this here).

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Abelson began writing Up and Down Wall Street in 1966 and the column became a weekly mainstay of the publication for nearly half a century.

WSJ: Longtime Barron's writer Alan Abelson dies at 87