They found that one half of the brain "remains more awake" than the other half when people are trying to sleep in a new place.

他们发现，当人们试图在一个新的地方睡觉时，大脑的一半比另一半“更清醒”。

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They said one of their planes spotted the Cubans more than half way through their journey and the coast guards could not believe their eyes when they saw the vessel.

他们说，旅途过半时，他们在其中一架飞机上发现了古巴人。当海岸警卫队看到这艘船时，他们简直不敢相信自己的眼睛。

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The most amazing one was when they had to exchange things worth thousands of yuan with only a piece of paper in half an hour.

最让人吃惊的是，他们不得不在半小时内用一张纸兑换价值几千元的东西。

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However you like them, for best results, beets should be picked when the roots are two and one-half centimeters around.

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So one thing that readers lost, when they lost the second half of this book, is the sense that maturing, the process of maturing, was more than just the process of leaving the South.

因此没了书的后半部分，读者就读不到，其比远离南方的旅程，还要意味深长的，成长过程中的感想。

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It's kind of like the average price of a share adjusted for splits because you don't want the--obviously when they do a two-for-one split, the price falls in half and that's meaningless, so you want to correct for splits.

有点像经过分割调整的股票平均价格,因为你不想,当一股分割成两股,价格下跌一半,这是没意义的,所以要修正分割

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Morecambe's afternoon went from bad to worse when, one minute after half-time, captain Jim Bentley upended Green in the box.

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Why lend money to build a shopping center when the one down the street is half empty?

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"Current rules mandate that investors must begin to sell off their IRAs and 401(k)s when they reach age 70 and one half, " McCain told a crowd at a campaign event in La Crosse, Wisconsin.

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