"About half of our business is done in the last quarter of the year, in the last three months.

VOA: special.2009.12.25

And this is one of the major revolutions in evolutionary biology over the last half century.

这是过去半个世纪,进化生物学的重大进步之一。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Now one of the new technologies that's evolving, that we're going to talk about in the last half of the course, is taking cells that have been propagated in this way outside the body and encouraging them to form new tissues.

现在,与此相关的新技术正在蓬勃发展,我们将在这学期的后半部分讨论到它,这项技术,让细胞在体外增殖,并促使它们形成新的组织

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

That was down from last year, when more than three thousand walkers raised almost seven and a half million dollars.

VOA: special.2009.11.02

So look,what I've just been talking about for the last half hour or so is the fact that we've got to get clear, in thinking about the nature of death, as to whether or not the crucial moment is the moment when the personality functioning stops or the moment when the bodily functioning stops.

过去的半个小时,我一直在说我们要搞清，死亡的本质，是人格功能还是生理功能的停止,定义了死亡。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

American schools provided aid to almost half of foreign graduate students during the last academic year, but only ten percent of undergraduates.

VOA: special.2009.02.05

So, today we find ourselves in a very different novelistic world than we've been in for the last week and a half: On the Road.

今天我们将置身于一个完全不同于上周的,小说的世界：《在路上》

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

The Census Bureau says more than forty-six million Americans, about fifteen and a half percent, did not have health insurance last year.

VOA: special.2009.09.12

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

BeadforLife reported sales in its last budget year of more than three and a half million dollars.

VOA: special.2010.06.28

Although this has been enormously influential over the centuries at least over the last century and a half : you have to ask yourself: ? is this the reading that Plato intended?

虽然这在过去几个世纪,以来一直影响深远,至少在过去一个半世纪以来是如此,你们仍应自问：,这是柏拉图预期的解读吗？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

About forty percent of all eighteen to twenty-four-year-olds or almost eleven and a half million were in school in October of last year.

VOA: special.2009.11.19

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

Last year,more than six hundred twenty thousand, or three and a half percent, were international students.

VOA: special.2009.02.05

And the last one in the major pattern is a half step from B to C.

大调模式的最后,是一个从B到C的半音级

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

Last year,the United States spent two and a half trillion dollars on health care.

VOA: special.2010.03.26

Grading - 30% of the grade is for the mid-term, 30% for the final, and the final is not cumulative, the final covers only things for the last half of the course, so it's really just like a - covers half the course but it's given during the final exam period.

关于分数,总分的百分之三十来自于期中考试,百分之三十来自期末考试,期末考试并不包括学期的全部内容,只涵盖后半学期的课程,这真的像中期考,但在期末考试时间段里进行

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

But about half of those jobs have been lost in the last three months.

VOA: special.2009.02.28

What I'm going to talk about today is to continue our discussion about what is Biomedical Engineering and go a little bit further and we'll spend about half the class doing that, and then I want to spend the last half of the class talking about some biological structures that are very important and that you might not be familiar with.

今天我们要继续讨论,有关生物医学工程的话题,并且更深入些,这需要花上大约半节课时间,后半节课会讨论,一些非常重要的生物构造,有些你们可能不是太熟悉

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

The Center for Venture Research at the University of New Hampshire says angel investing fell more than six percent nationwide in the first half of last year.

VOA: special.2011.01.14

The discussion from last lecture and for about half of this lecture is going to be social psychology.

上节课讨论的内容,以及今天半节课的内容,都是社会心理学。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

A tension headache can last from a half hour to a whole week.

VOA: special.2010.03.30

God whips out the old soul, destroys it, puts in a new one with maybe souls only last for a minute and a half.

上帝拿走旧的灵魂，毁掉，注入新的灵魂,那个灵魂可能只产生了一分半钟。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

A market research company reported an early estimate of fifteen and a half billion dollars in sales of all games content in the United States last year.

VOA: special.2011.02.23

My goal in this course is to allow you or to invite you to read someof the most compelling novels written in the last little over a half century.

我上这门课的目的,就是让你或者说是邀请你,来读一些刚过去的半个多世纪里,最引人注目的小说。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Americans bought an estimated eighteen and a half million bicycles last year.

VOA: special.2009.11.16

We've spent the last week and a half or so, maybe a bit more, two weeks, talking about arguments for the existence of the soul.

我们已经花了一周半,也许还多点,两周吧,来讨论证明灵魂存在的论证

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Armstrong finished third last Sunday after a three-and-a-half year retirement.

VOA: special.2009.08.01

As of last December almost half had completed their fellowships.

VOA: special.2009.09.24

Harvard research shows that more than half of the 450,000 people who died from breast cancer last year lived in developing countries.

VOA: standard.2010.02.02