You say: "About a year and a half back, I booked a last-minute flight to a business meeting."
你说：“大约一年半以前，我预定了飞往一个商务会议的紧急航班。”
He then walked the mile and a half back to the cottage and sought help from his cousin and a lawyer who was joint host.
接着，他走了一英里半路回到别墅，寻求他的表亲及派对的联合主办人，一位律师的帮助。
Your massage therapist knows that your back muscles are tighter than the strings on a ukulele; your shrink knows that half your tension comes from stress.
你的按摩师知道你的背部肌肉比女高音尤克里里琴弦还紧；你的心理医生会说你的紧张有一半来自于压力。
In half the cases, the experimenters patted the students lightly on the back of the shoulder for about one second while providing verbal instructions about the study.
在一半的案例中，实验者在提供关于研究的口头说明的同时，会轻轻拍拍学生的肩膀，持续了大约一秒钟的时间。
Instead of giving the wig back, Pinocchio put it on his own head, which was half swallowed up in it.
皮诺乔并没有把假发还给他，而是把它放在自己的头上，半个脑袋都被套进去了。
I looked back, half expecting to see someone following me.
我回过头去，想着可能看到有人跟着我。
If we replaced half of our administrative staff with classroom teachers, we might actually get a majority of our classes back to 20 or fewer students per teacher.
如果我们用课堂教师替换一半的行政人员，我们可能会让大多数班级回到每位教师管理20名或更少的学生的情况。
With half an inch of rain per year, the beetle can only survive by consuming the dew it collects on the hydrophilic skin of its back in the early mornings.
在每年只有半英尺降雨量的环境下，这种甲虫只能通过它背部亲水性皮肤在早晨收集的水露存活下来。
She went slowly half-way to the door in the wall and then she stopped and went back.
她慢慢地走向墙边的门口，走到一半，然后停了下来，往回走。
I had to leave the game at half time and rush back so you wouldn't get angry with me.
为了不让你生我的气，我不得不在中场休息时离开，然后赶回来。
When he comes back two and a half hours later, they're still staying in the same place, continuing the same conversation on the same topic.
当他两个半小时后回来时，他们还在同一个地方，继续就同一个话题进行着同样的谈话。
About half an hour later, I found that he lost a shoe while he was sleeping, I took him off my back and put him down.
大约半小时后，我发现他在睡觉时掉了一只鞋，我把他从背上放下来。
It takes half an hour to go on foot from my home to my school and back.
从我家到学校来回要走半小时。
The bleaching had killed all the coral on the lagoon floor, but almost half appeared to be growing back-the fastest recovery any of us had ever seen.
白化现象原本杀死了环礁湖海床上的所有珊瑚，但现在几乎一半的珊瑚又再度生长了起来——这样的恢复速度着实罕见。
He carried 18 kg of food, water and gear on his back, and kept pace - barely - with Marines half his age.
他背负着18公斤的食物，水和衣服，实在跟不上比自己小一半年龄的海军陆战队队员的步伐。
Astronomers believe that only 50% of the mass of the dilapidated star gets swallowed by the black hole; the other half gets "burped" back out into space before it reaches the point of no return.
天文学家们认为被黑洞吸入的恒星只有50%的质量会被它吞掉；而剩下的一半会因黑洞“打嗝”而在万劫不复之前返回外界。
Recognizing Greece cannot pay it all back, they have said they will forgive half of the debt.
当意识到希腊不能偿还的时候，他们纷纷表示会减记一半的债务。
Half of the volunteers were given their charm back before the test started; the other half were told there was a problem with the camera equipment and they would get it back later.
一半的志愿者在实验前拿回了他们的幸运符；另一半志愿者则被告知因相机故障稍后才能取回他们的幸运符。
The doctor can play the sound back at half speed to diagnose a problem more confidently, save the file to the patient’s chart, and e-mail it all to a cardiologist to confirm the diagnosis.
医生可以将心音回放到半速从而加以详细诊断、也可以将其保存到患者的就医卡、还可以全部打包发邮件给心脏病学家以确认诊断结果。
The rules under which the competition directorate operates, which date back nearly half a century, are grossly inadequate for the hugely enhanced role it plays today.
竞争理事会的运作所依托的规则已有将近半个世纪的历史，对于支撑理事会如今大幅度提升的作用只能是捉襟见肘。
Today, Japan can look back half a century with nostalgia and pride, yet look ahead with concern.
今天，日本骄傲地怀念这半个世纪，并关切地注视着未来。
This collection contains amazing historic photos of NYC that date back to the first half of the 20th century.
这里收集了令人吃惊的纽约城追溯到20世纪前半页的历史照片。
England had withdrawn into their shell with the luxury of an early lead, allowing the Americans to pin them back in their own half.
早早领先的英格兰龟缩防守，拱手将美国人引入本方半场。
In fact, Groupon immediately remits half of those "revenues" back to the local merchant - they were never Groupon revenues in any meaningful sense of the word.
事实上，Groupon会马上将这些“收入”的一半返还给本地商家。从本质上讲，这根本不是Groupon的收入。
She had no idea why Hong was so bad and why her husband had not appeared who had promised her to come back in half a month.
她不明白这个洪小玲怎么会这么坏？而且老公叶城说好半个月就回来，现在都这么久了，还是不见影？
The 787 alone has netted 261 orders and firm commitments since its launch at the end of 2003: within a few years Boeing may have won back over half the market from Airbus.
仅波音787一种从其在2003年年底投放市场至今就网罗了261架的订单和订货承诺：在几年之内，波音可能会重新从空客手中赢回半壁江山。
He stayed there for six years, moved to Beijing for two and half years and is now back in Kunming.
起初，他来到云南昆明的一所大学学中文，在那里生活了六年，后来去北京呆了两年半，现在又回到昆明。
In just three decades' childhood 'has been cut back by a year and a half as youngsters develop earlier.
在过去的短短三十年里，童年期由于青少年的过早发育被缩短了一年半。
In just three decades' childhood 'has been cut back by a year and a half as youngsters develop earlier.
在过去的短短三十年里，童年期由于青少年的过早发育被缩短了一年半。
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