Housing for the ground and half underground, a square or circular.

房屋为地面和半地下式的，呈方形或圆形。

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This paper reports the new technology of using wheat as raw material, adopting half-underground ferment pool and solid state fermentation to produce good quality vinegar.

本文报导了以小麦为主料，采用半地下发酵池，进行固态发酵生产优质食醋新工艺的研究。

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Some are still being treated for the emotional trauma of being trapped more than half a kilometer underground.

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Having just spent half the movie trapped underground, between mounds of rubble, they are in no mood to be messed with.

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The underground economy is nearly half as large as the legal one, reckons Mr Kar.

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