Only half the people here are in paid employment.

这儿只有一半的人有拿工资的工作。

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Five hundred francs is only worth about 60 cents at the new exchange rate—but that is nearly half a day’s wage for the average person here.

按新汇率，500法郎大约只值60美分，但对这儿的普通人来说已经是近半天的工资了。

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But here in Jordan, where only 300 of as many as half-a-million refugees have returned home, Iraqis are still trickling across the border.

但在约旦的近五十万难民中，只有三百人返回了伊拉克，而更多伊拉克人仍在陆陆续续的越过边境进入约旦。

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Cause there, you're only dividing the problem in half and half, and half and half, we are doing that here.

因为在那个例子中，只需一次又一次地,对问题进行划分，在这儿我们也是这样做的。

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