The delegates in Rome promised to continue efforts to reduce by half the number of hungry people by two thousand fifteen.

VOA: special.2009.11.23

In the last five years, the stock in Dow Jones Company has fallen by half.

在过去的五年间,道琼斯公司,一流的商业财经信息提供商旗下有以对商业财经领域的深度分析报道见长的《华尔街日报》报系

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

And in the even case, I'd square, divide by half, call this again: in the odd case, I go b minus 1 and then multiply by a.

就直接求a的平方的二分之b次方，如果是奇数的话，就去求a的b-1次方乘以a，以此递归下去。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

One of the Millennium Development Goals is to reduce by half the number of people living in extreme poverty by twenty fifteen.

VOA: special.2010.04.26

But the later, the second half the 20th century, it had a new Palestinian political movement established by the Palestine Liberation Organization, PLO the PLO.

而之后，20世纪后半叶，有新的巴勒斯坦政治运动,是由巴解组织开始的，也就是。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

The World Health Organization aims to reduce by half the number of people who die from tuberculosis by the year 2015.

VOA: standard.2010.07.12

And by the time I'm a million and a half, I no longer remember what was happening in oh, back, back.

等我活到150万年，我不记得,很久以前做过什么。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

The farmers themselves pay to keep it running. Their new irrigation method has cut water usage by half.

VOA: standard.2009.12.10

So NewsCorp, whose price doubled when The Wall Street Journal's fell in half, eats up and The Wall Street Journal is gobbled up by the bigger company.

当新闻集团的股价翻倍时,《华尔街日报》的股价却减半,因而《华尔街日报》被报业大鳄吞并

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Malhotra says the number of customers is down by half, compared to last year, as surging gold prices and the global economic recession scare away people.

VOA: standard.2009.09.19

See the merry limbs in hot Highland fling Because some wizard vermin Charmed from the quiet this revel When our ears were half lulled By the dark music Blown from Sleep's trumpet.

看那在苏格兰高地舞欢快的四肢,因为一些男巫,神往陶醉于这狂欢中,当我们的耳朵半听着,在黑暗音乐边的是小号的声音。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

This year's report focuses on how well countries are doing in reaching eight-stated Millennium Development Goals, including cutting poverty by half and reducing child and maternal mortality.

VOA: standard.2009.05.21

But by entering she has a half chance of winning the election.

但是通过参选她赢得了一半获胜的机会

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

"Just a back-of-the-envelope calculation shows that in the Philippines, if we in a year can be reaching just five thousand farmers and their fields can be increasing the yield by half a ton per hectare, we could be looking at profitabilities for those farmers in the range of half a million dollars."

VOA: standard.2010.07.28

It was about four feet by two-and-a-half feet.

长约四英尺宽约两点五英尺。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

The I.M.F.predicts developing economies will continue to grow for the year, but only by about one and one-half percent.

VOA: special.2009.04.24

Now we learn, of course, by the second half of this line ; that it has to be the uncouth swain who rose and twitched his mantle blue; but for a moment the "he" in line 192 seems to be able to refer to either the poet or the sun.

现在我们要学习这句话的第二部分,这里的太阳指代的是那个年轻人;,但是某一刻，在192行的“他“,似乎指的是诗人自己亦或是太阳本身。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

This is compared to half of students who had looked for a job by this time two years ago.

VOA: special.2009.06.25

The role of Paris in French life is unique and that has been accentuated over the centuries, particularly the last century and a half, by some of the things that I want to talk about.

巴黎在法国人的生活中的地位是独特的,过去几百年中,这种状况引人瞩目,尤其在近一百五十年里,我想讲的正是关于这方面的内容

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

The union collected the notes on a board twenty-three meters wide by almost two and a half meters tall.

VOA: special.2010.04.30

What makes the law surprising is that if I only gave you half the law, namely every body will remain at rest if it's not acted upon by a force, you will say, "That's fine. I accept that, because here's something, you leave it there, it doesn't move.

这条定律妙就妙在,如果只看定律的前半段,即,如果物体不受外力作用,将保持静止状态,你肯定会觉得,"这没什么,我能理解,因为你把一个物体放在那里,自己肯定不会动

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

It also found that every additional friend can decrease loneliness by about five percent, or two and a half fewer lonely days.

VOA: special.2009.12.22

If you have a bond with an interest rate of 4.375% -that's not an easy one to divide by two but you would get half of that every six months until maturity.

如果你持有一种利率为4.375%的债券,这个数除以2有点难算,而在债券到期前,每半年你能得到4.375%一半的券息

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

By eighty five or ninety, half of all people are found to have some signs of the disease.

VOA: special.2009.09.15

The friends immediately bought Lotus shares and then -that was June 2--by June 5, twenty-five people had bought -had spent a half a million dollars to buy on this tip.

他的朋友们立刻购买了莲花公司的股票,那天是6月2号,截至6月5号,一共有25个人,因为小道消息购买了股票,资金达到50万

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

But every additional friend can decrease loneliness by about five percent, or two and a half days.

VOA: special.2010.01.06

And then of course, the point of the skit is he presses the down button on the elevator and a minute and a half goes by while he's waiting for the elevator to come.

当然，这个滑稽短剧的笑点是,他按下了电梯按钮,花了一分半,等电梯。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

By the spring of nineteen forty-one, Europe had been at war for a year and a half.

VOA: special.2009.05.17

In fact, it took the same number of steps as it did in the other case, because each time I'm cutting it down by a half.

因为每次我都把问题的规模,缩小一半，这很棒，好，接下来让我们这么做。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

If x was even, x divided by two is going to be actually the half of x, right?

如果x是偶数的话，x除以2当然,就等于x的一半了，对不对？

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选