He's not half as bad as he looks, for all he's so crabbed.
他并不像看上去的那么坏，尽管他脾气暴躁。
Admittedly, my life is not half as colorful or exciting as other people's but at least it gives me a sense of security.
无可讳言地，我的生活不及其他人一半的多采多姿和刺激，但是至少它使我有安全感。
Admittedly, my life is not half as colorful or exciting as other people's, but at least it gives me a sense of security.
不可否认地，我的生活虽不及别人生活一半的多彩多姿或刺激，但至少它能带给我安全感。
On a trip to Hainan, one fish I was sold for 10 times the price of a regular one was not half as tasty as the lesser option.
有一次在海南，我以10倍于普通价的价格买了条鱼，之后发现还没有普通价的鱼一半好吃。
"That's something," Jonathan said rolling to glide inverted for a while. "That's not half as bad as being ahead of our time."
“说得有点道理，”乔纳森说着，打了个滚地，倒着身子滑翔了一会儿，“这比说跑在时代前面好一些。”
True, the glasses, silver and finger bowls bore the Astor initials or the Astor crest, but it was not half as obvious as the “H” on Leona's plastic soap-compacts.
确切的来说，在眼镜、银器和洗指碗(注：餐桌上盛水供餐后洗指头用的碗)上刻有阿斯特尔的缩写或者纹饰。尽管如此，这些标记还没有莱昂娜的塑料肥皂盒上的“H”一半大。
"Not at first, perhaps," said the Hatter, "but you could keep it to half-past one as long as you liked."
“也许一开始没有，”帽商说，“不过你想要多久就可以把时间保持到一点半。”
More than half of book sales in America take place not in bookshops but at big retailers such as Wal-Mart and Target, which compete to peddle bestsellers at ever steeper discounts.
美国有超过半数的图书销售不是发生在书店，而是在大的零售卖场，像沃尔玛和塔吉特超市，这些商家竞相以不断加大的折扣来兜售畅销书。
And we formed it, not to give the blessings of liberty, but to secure them; not to the half of ourselves and the half of our posterity, but to the whole people - women as well as men.
我们组成联邦，不是为了祝福自由，而是为了确保自由；不是为了确保我们以及后代中一半人口的自由，而是为了确保全体人民——男性与女性——的自由。
The Italian insurers’ association (ANIA) admits that its figures, which show fraudulence in about 2% of claims in Italy—half as bad as in France—are just not credible.
数据显示意大利的汽车理赔有2%具有欺诈性，这一数字是法国的一半。意大利保险公司协会承认这个数据有点难以相信。
It is not at all clear that it costs half as much to create a game of half the size, since these start-up costs are so significant.
人们完全不清楚，开发一半大小的游戏的费用是否仅会便宜一半，因为这些初始成本非常高昂。
For the second half of the year, the situation will not change much as the export market can't recover any time soon.
对于今年下半年，由于出口市场无法在短期内得以恢复，情况不会有所改变。
But not proportionately more: if we increase the number of glass balls eight times, the subject takes only half as large a percentage of the total.
但取多少并不是按比例增多的：如果我们把玻璃球的总数增加到8倍，被测试者也只从玻璃球的总数量的某个百分数中取走一半。
The phones are not going to hit the market as quickly as Bloomberg is suggesting: the first half of 2011.
手机没有Bloomberg报道的那样会在2011年上半年上市。
Not to grieve a kind master, I learned to be less touchy; and, for the space of half a year, the gunpowder lay as harmless as sand, because no fire came near to explode it.
我不要让一位仁慈的主人难过，我就得学着克制些。而且，有半年时间，这火药像沙土一样地摆在那儿并没引爆，因为没有火凑近来使它爆炸。
That may explain why in that new Harvard study, those drinking decaf coffee but not tea beverages also showed a reduced diabetes risk, though it was half as much as those drinking caffeinated coffee.
这或许可以解释哈佛的那项新研究，那些饮用的脱咖啡因的咖啡但不是茶茶饮料的人为什么也会减少的患糖尿病风险，即使它与普通咖啡是如此相似。
Now, results from a study of aging Dutch men have shown that cocoa consumers were half as likely to die from disease than those who did not eat the sweet treat.
目前，一位上了年纪的荷兰人的研究结果表明，由于疾病引起的死亡中，可可粉消费者死亡率是那些没有吃甜食的人的死亡率的一半。
Almost half of the it people surveyed said they're not ready to support a more mobile workforce, citing security as the biggest concern.
受访的IT人士中几乎一半表示，他们对如何支持移动性更强的工作者还没准备好，安全是最大的隐患。
Even more alarming, well over half of these cases were resistant to multiple drugs right from the start, and not as a direct result of substandard treatment.
甚至更令人震惊的是，这些病例有一半以上一开始即具有耐多药性，并不是因不规范治疗而造成的直接结果。
Indeed, the real problem with both Mr Obama's budget and the Republicans' proposals is not so much the half-truths and fibs within them, as all the things they both left out.
实际上，奥巴马先生的预算以及共和党人的提议的真正问题与其说是半真半假以及其中参杂着谎言，还不如说是他们双方都遗漏了一些东西。
Various studies have estimated that a third to half of prescription drugs are not taken as prescribed-or at all.
各项研究预计，三分之一至半数的处方药未能根据处方服用，甚至根本没有服用。
And we formed it not to give theblessings of liberty but to secure them; not to the half of ourselves and thehalf of our posterity but to the whole people — women as well as men.
我们组成了我们的国家，不仅为了自由而祈祷而要践行它。 不仅仅为了一半的人民和一半的后代-女人和男人应该一样。
Libra is known as "the relationship sign", not because it's driven by matters of the heart. It's an air sign, fairly detached, and never feels comfortable without another half to make it feel whole.
天秤座是有名的“伴侣星座”，但这不是因为他们对另一半的需求源于内心，而是因为它是风象星座，他们超凡脱俗，而且如果没有另一半让他们觉得完整的话，他们始终感觉不自在。
But not nearly as raw as they did half a century ago, when even in Europe some women did not have the vote, discrimination was rife, women's jobs were second-class and the pay gap was huge.
但是相比于过去的半个世纪———那个时候，即使是在欧洲，女性都没有投票权，广泛受到歧视，女性的工作都是第二档，报酬差距悬殊- - -要好一些。
The picture Mr Isaacson paints, particularly in the first half of this book, is not flattering. Mr Jobs emerges as a controlling and often unsympathetic character.
艾萨克森在书中刻画的乔布斯形象，特别是在此书的前半部，绝非谄媚，而一个控制欲极强、常常无同情之心的形象。
The picture Mr Isaacson paints, particularly in the first half of this book, is not flattering. Mr Jobs emerges as a controlling and often unsympathetic character.
艾萨克森在书中刻画的乔布斯形象，特别是在此书的前半部，绝非谄媚，而一个控制欲极强、常常无同情之心的形象。
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