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整个工作只需要半个小时。 The whole job only takes half an hour.
表演正好进行到一半时停电了。 The light went out bang in the middle of the performance.
劳驾, 买去市中心的两张全票和两张半票. Two and two halves to the city centre, please.
你讲到一半就停下来不讲，太没意思了。 It's not nice of you to stop in the middle of what you are saying.
费了半天劲才划到岸边. It was a long pull to the shore.
他花了半个小时做完这项工作。 It took him half an hour to finish the work.
他收拾行李，让我们等了好半天。 He kept us waiting for ages while he packed his luggage.
开往北京的火车将于半小时后从三站台开出。 The train to Beijing will depart from platform 3 in half an hour.
车子毁了一半。 Half the car was damaged.
我们能用半径计算出圆的面积。 We can compute the circular area with radius.
那人用斧头把一块木头劈成两半。 The man cleft a block of wood in two with an axe.
他的答覆看来是半开玩笑半认真的. His reply was taken half seriously, half in jest.
这个百万富翁已把他一半的股票移交给他的长子。 The millionaire has handed over 50 percent of his stock to his first son.
我们（各处）找了半天, 却找不到那本书. We searched (around) for hours, but couldn't find the book.
现在想必是四点半左右。 It must be about four thirty.
记住, 火车半夜离开。 Please bear in mind that the train leaves at midnight.
到半夜时分他已喝了近两瓶酒。 By midnight he had put back nearly two bottles of wine.
这一章我看到一半才意识到我根本没看懂。 Half-way through the chapter I realized I hadn't taken anything in.
土豆可先煮至半熟再烤. Potatoes can be parboiled before roasting.
现在付一半, 剩下的以后再付。 Pay half now and the rest later.
半导体在自动化和信号上面即将起着重要作用。 Semiconductors are going to play an important part in automation and signalling.
半导体二极管主要作为整流器使用的一个有两端的半导体设备 A two-terminal semiconductor device used chiefly as a rectifier.
中间色，半调色在光线最强处与黑色暗影之间的一种色调或明暗的配合 A tone or value halfway between a highlight and a dark shadow.
蜡烛已烧去一半。 Half the candle had burnt away.
这列火车半夜出轨了。 The train wrecked at midnight.
她穿着半透明丝质长袍。 She wears a translucent silk gown.
把路上的耽搁算进去, 你要用半小时才能到车站. It will take you half an hour to get to the station, allowing for traffic delays.
回针缝在先前缝的一针中间加缝的一针，以便使针脚的交错重叠为原来长度的一半 A stitch made by inserting the needle at the midpoint of a preceding stitch so that the stitches overlap by half lengths.
往往日本人以自创的方法改良我们的机器。就像所有其他半导体公司一样，我们也陷于困境。 And often the Japanese have added proprietary engineering to improve our machines. Like all the other semiconductor firms, we are in a box.
我大约6点半来接你。 I'll pick you up about 6:30.
她一斧头把木块劈成两半。 She chopped the block of wood in two with a single blow.
一直向前走过了教堂，约莫半英里就是体育场。 Keep on past the church; the stadium is about half a mile further on.
九点半到这儿报到。你开始周薪200美元，在三天培训期间享受全额工资。 Report here at9: 30, and you'll get on the floor at$200 a week and receive full pay during your three day of training.
这座房子有半英亩草坪. The house has half an acre of lawn.
半夜三更的，你起来干什么？ Why are you getting up in the middle of the night?
【谚】良好的开端，是成功的一半。 Well begun is half done.
约翰和利兹二人把奖金分了--约翰用他分到的那一半奖金购买了文字处理机. John and Liz shared the prize money between them John used his half to buy a word processor.
他们多半坐汽车来。 They'll very likely come by car.
我对地理只是一知半解. I have only a sketchy knowledge of geography.
我们这里的天气多半是暖和的。 Our weather has been mostly warm.
那里就是他度过大半生的地方。 That's (the place) where he spent most of his life.
这条河河水的深度是那条河河水深度的一半。 The depth of water in this river is half that in that river.
在北半球，春季是三月和四月。 In the northern hemisphere, spring is in March and April.
不到半小时后，他开始有点忍耐不住了。 After half an hour, his patience began to wear out.
他总是对园艺工作发号施令，其实他只是一知半解。 He's always laying down the law about gardening but he really doesn't know much about it.
山的半中腰有一座亭子。 A pavilion is halfway up the hill.
愚蠢的尝试多半是要失败的。 A feeble attempt is liable to fail.
这个学生用半小时草草拼凑了一篇文章. The student cobbled together an essay in half an hour.
请挪过去一点，你占了大半张凳子啦。 Move up, please; you are taking up more than half the bench.
他把所得利润的一半交给歹徒作为保护费。 He was paying out half his profits as protection.
我们的前半生为父母所糟蹋，而后半生又复为儿女所糟蹋。 The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
阿克巴湾红海的一个海湾，在西奈半岛及沙特阿拉伯西北部之间。它长期以来在中东具有重要的战略性 An arm of the Red Sea between the Sinai Peninsula and northwest Saudi Arabia. It has long been of strategic importance in the Middle East.
请挪过去点，你占了大半张凳子啦！ Move over, please: you are taking up more than half the bench!
可是我在一家迪斯科舞会上亲眼看到他，千真万确，他在和一个年龄只他一半大的姑娘跳舞。 But I saw him myself in a disco as large as life, dancing with a girl half his age.
卢西塔尼亚古代一个地区，是古罗马帝国在伊伯利亚半岛的一个省份，大致相当于今天的葡萄牙 An ancient region and Roman province of the Iberian Peninsula. It corresponded roughly to modern-day Portugal.
人体模型如真人大小的、全身或半身的人体模型，用于量试衣服是否合适或展示服装；人体模型 A life-size full or partial representation of the human body, used for the fitting or displaying of clothes; a dummy.
吉隆坡马来西亚的首都和最大城市，位于马来半岛的西南部、新加坡西北。于1857年由锡矿工人建立，现为该国的商业和工业中心。人口937，817 The capital and largest city of Malaysia, on the southwest Malay Peninsula northwest of Singapore. Founded by tin miners in1857, it is the commercial and industrial hub of the country. Population, 937,817.
印度支那半岛东南亚的一个半岛，包括越南、老挝、柬埔寨、泰国、缅甸和马来西亚的大陆部分。历史上这一片地区曾受印度（尤其是印度教文化）和中国的影响 A peninsula of southeast Asia comprising Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Burma, and the mainland territory of Malaysia. The area was influenced in early times by India(particularly the Hindu culture) and China.
我只需要半数. I only need half.
他在半路走丢了。 He was lost on the way.
操练了好半天之后，他让这个班解散了。 After a long drill he told the squad to fall out.
我父亲刚出去散步，但半个钟点后就要回来。 My father has just gone for a walk, but he'll be back in half an hour.
理事们花了大半个钟头反复认真讨论了这个问题。 The trustees spent the best part of an hour chewing the matter over.
半数的李子腐烂了. Half of the plums are rotten.
上半场结束时比分为2比2. The score at half-time was 2-2.
半条命也比全无气息强。 Half a life is better than no breath.
我队已有资格进入半决赛. Our team has qualified for the semi-final.
登山队员在半山腰扎营. The climbers made camp half-way up the peak.
主考者评定半数应试者不及格. The examiners failed half the candidates.
半小时之后，我又启程赶路了。 Half an hour later I set out again on my journey.
我用这张通行证坐火车半价. This pass enables me to travel half-price on trains.
人们挖开半个路面以铺设新的煤气管道。 Half the road surface is being taken up to lay new gas pipes.
半场某些体育比赛被划分成两个阶段，其中之一被称为半场 One of the two playing periods into which certain games are divided.
房子半截被埋在雪里。 The house was half buried under snow.
现在，田径项目的半决赛正在进行。 Now, the semifinal of the track and field event is underway.
政府停发研究经费让他们的计画半途而废. The government put the skids under the plan by stopping their research grant.
颤音两个相距一个音或半个音的音的迅速交替 The rapid alternation of two tones either a whole or a half tone apart.
警察搜查了半径两英里范围内所有的田野和森林。 The police searched all the fields and woods within a radius of two miles.
聚会进行到一半，我太太发病了，我们只好赶紧离开。 Halfway through the party my wife become ill and we have to leave in short order.
他在比赛中坚持跑完了全程，不像大部分选手那样半途而废。 He managed to finish the race, unlike more than half of the competitors.
半神半人的女神神与人的女性子孙，她拥有一部分但并不是全部神的力量 A female being, often the offspring of a god and a mortal, who has some but not all of the powers of a goddess.
半真半假常是弥天大谎。 Half the truth is often a great lie.
我把巧克力掰成两半--这一半给你. I broke the chocolate into halves here's your half.
住在离城中心半径25英里的范围内的家庭 Every family within a radius of25 miles of the city center.
如果是女人，在她走向刑场的半路上，也可能会要求一点时间来化妆。 If a woman were on her way to her execution, she will demand a little time to put on make- up.
提灯一种可经常携带的装置，带有透明或半透明的侧面以装入和保护灯 An often portable case with transparent or translucent sides for holding and protecting a light.
日本公司有能力在发展与生产方面，较美国公司投资为多，是他们在半导体方面占上风的一个主要原因。现在，英泰尔计划在经济不景气时大量投资以压倒弱小竞争者。 The ability to outspend American companies on development and production has been a big reason Japanese companies have made gains in the semi-conductor business. Now Intel plans to borrow a page from the Japanese by spending heavily through a recession to gain ground on weaker competitors.
有半数卫戍部队在执勤. Half the garrison is/are on duty.
【谚】凡事不可半途而废。 Never do things by halves.
我上当了! 这些番茄一半是坏的! I've been diddled! Half of these tomatoes are bad!
这些酒杯半价出售，因为玉上有瑕疵。 These wine glasses were sold at half price because of blemishes in the jade.
（曲轴的）半径曲柄、凸轮或类似机器部件形成的圆的半径 The radius of a circle described by a crank, cam, or similar machine part.
莱思角加拿大纽芬兰省东南部一海角，位于亚法隆半岛沿岸 A promontory of southeast Newfoundland, Canada, on the coast of the Avalon Peninsula.
用多半尺度衡量，1988年对波音公司来说都是极好的一年。这一规模庞大的航空公司不但在销售方面创下记录，并积压了大量订单。 By most measures,1988 has been an excellent year for the Boeing Company. The giant aerospace concern has racked up record sales and has a huge backlog of orders.
将近一万名西方平民（多半是英国人和美国人）躲藏在被占领的科威特城。如果萨达姆能如愿，使他们落在他手里，他们将被指定为活靶，难逃浩劫。 Nearly10, 000 Western civilians, mostly British and American, are holed up in captured Kuwait City. If Saddam gets his hands on them, as he intends to, they are to be designated human targets and doomed.
经过特别警告巴格达不得在伊拉克任何地方使用毒气和作战飞机（这些警告鼓励了少数民族叛变）以后，当伊拉克继续用作战直升机对付叛军时，布什却半途而废未加制止。 After having pointedly warned Baghdad not to use poison gas or combat aircraft anywhere in Iraq, warnings that had encouraged the rebellion, Mr.Bush pulled up short when Iraq continued to fly combat helicopters against the insurgents.