The workers were not better organized, otherwise they would have accomplished the task in half the time.
没有更好地把工人们组织起来，否则他们用一半的时间就能完成任务。
Declaring that one country is better than another in the way that it treats more than half its citizens means relying on broad strokes and generalities.
在对待大多数公民的方式上，当宣称一个国家比另外一个做得更好，意味着要依赖于广义的举措和概述。
Tis not much, your Majesty, yet perchance it may beguile a short half-hour for want of a better.
不多，陛下，不过，也许因为找不到更好的话题，就花短短的半个钟头讲讲。
The average Norwegian is better off than the average US citizen, but contributes about half as much to climate change.
挪威人的平均生活水平高于美国人，但对气候变化的贡献仅为美国人的一半。
Since 1934, better than half a billion dollars has gone into that Fund to purchase more than 5 million acres of habitat.
自1934年以来，该基金已经投入了超过5亿美元，用于购买500多万英亩的栖息地。
In each of these respects, Bangladesh does better than India, despite having only half of India's per capita income.
尽管孟加拉国人均收入只有印度的一半，但是在这些方面，每一条孟加拉国都比印度做得好。
But up to half of those people might not feel any better after they start taking the medication, she said.
但是超过半数的患者在开始药物治疗后并没有觉得有任何改善，她说。
That way, Nestle can better monitor the quality of the coffee beans – half of which are exported to Nestle factories worldwide and the other half goes to its factories in Dongguan.
通过这方式，雀巢能够更好掌控咖啡豆的质量，这些咖啡豆一半出口到雀巢世界各地的工厂，另一半供给东莞的工厂。
Frequent short breaks are better than less-frequent, long breaks. Set your software timer to stop you every half hour or so.
经常性的短暂休息比非经常性的长时间休息要好。所以设置你的计时软件大约每半小时提醒你一次。
But these days, less than half of Americans think their children's living standards will be better than theirs.
然而近些日子，认为孩子们能够生活得比自己好的美国人还不到半数。
Mr Greenspan was half right. Financial engineering can indeed spread risk and help the system work better.
格林斯潘先生说对了一半，金融工程的确可以分散风险而且帮助整个系统更好的工作。
Better still, he said, take a friend along, to sit with you for half an hour of minor bliss.
他说，如果能叫上一个朋友陪你一起蹲上半个小时，那就更好了。
The kitchen features a large bakery, where the ancient solons prepared half loaves that were better than none, pies in the sky and cake that they could have and eat too.
厨房里最显眼的是一个大烤箱，古老的议员准备了聊胜于无的半个面包、空中的馅饼和他们能有以及也吃的蛋糕。
"Offensively, we played better (in the second half), but defensively, we didn't really play any better so it really didn't change," Rockets coach Jeff Van Gundy said.
主教练范甘迪无奈地说：“很明显，下半场我们打得不错，但在防守方面却没有得到真正的改善，因此我们没能挽回局面。”
And a study carried out earlier this year found that critically ill children whose red blood-cell counts had dropped by half fared no better after a transfusion than those who did not receive one.
一项早些年的研究表明血细胞值仅为正常一半的垂危儿童接受输血后并未比未接受者有所好转。
In the first half we were able to play better and we weren't able to maintain that rhythm in the second half.
上半场我们本可以踢得更好，而下半场我们却失去了先前比赛的节奏。
When the same children entered school at age four and a half, those from higher-income families had better vocabulary scores on standardized tests.
当这些孩子到了四岁半开始上学时，高收入家庭的孩子在标准化考试中的词汇得分较高。
It's like saying the glass is half full instead of half empty. They mean the same; one just sounds better.
它们的意思是相同的，只是另一个听起来更好。
"They were saying, 'If you want to get better, here's the route,'" says Art Garfunkel, 25, half of the folk-rock duo, Simon and Garfunkel.
“他们说过‘如果你想变得更好，眼前就有最好路。’”25岁的ArtGarfunkel,Simon and Garfunkel半民谣摇滚二重唱组合的一员说。
RAFAEL NADAL: no, my serve is not much better than the last year and a half.
RAFAELNADAL：不对，我的发球与一年半以前相比没多大起色。
Trying or learning something new is often half the battle. Defer your criticism until later, or better yet, learn to answer your inner critic with an objective voice.
尝试学习新的事物已经是半只脚迈入了成功。让你的抱怨稍稍停歇一会儿或者进一步从客观的角度来回应你的自我批评。
As you get better at this, start allowing yourself to be free for longer periods — half a day or a whole day or several days.
当你变得越来越在行的时候，就可以开始更长时间的这样生活——半天，一天或者几天。
Insiders reckon VP8 USES only half the bandwidth of H.264 while delivering an even better picture.
内部人士认为VP8只使用了H . 264一半的频宽，却播放出更优质的画面。
While both groups did better than chance would predict, nearly half the participants in each group made the wrong choice two or more times.
虽然两组做的猜测都比随机猜测的准确度高，但每组中都有近一半的参加者做出了两次或更多的错误选择。
For a quick, instant immersion course in the life and culture of a place, there's nothing better than a half-hour spent pushing a cart, puzzling over unfamiliar junk food.
初到一处，想要快速了解本地文化乃至民生百态，没有什么比花上半个钟头，推着超市手推车到里面探究下新奇的垃圾食品更好的方式了。
So, if you slice these things by a vertical plane, or actually even better, a vertical half plane, something to delete one half of the picture.
如果你画个切面是垂直的，或者是更好的垂直半平面，我们擦掉这半边。
He pulled me aside and sat me down in his office where he told me stories and jokes for the better part of half an hour.
他把我拉到一旁并一起到他办公室小坐，在那里我们聊了大半个小时。
The finding suggests that new ideas for promoting better university teaching may be addressing only half the problem.
研究结果表明，通过找出提升大学教学的新方法，只能解决部分问题。
We still believe the recovery will continue, but the optimism for a better-than-half-speed recovery is waning.
尽管我们依然相信复苏会持续，但是高于均速的复苏看起来是不可能的了。
We still believe the recovery will continue, but the optimism for a better-than-half-speed recovery is waning.
尽管我们依然相信复苏会持续，但是高于均速的复苏看起来是不可能的了。
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