1·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。”
2·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。
3·That's how life works: two steps forward, followed by one-and-a-half back as those who lost their power try to reverse the process.
生活就是这样:向前迈两步,接着后退一步半,而失去权势的人努力想要逆转这个顺序。
4·Asian players in the position of half back are apparently inferior to the world class team's players, especially Asian players lack the ability to shoot.
在前卫这个位置上球员的能力亚洲球队明显落后与世界强队,尤其缺乏射门能分的能力;
5·He kept back half the money for himself.
他把那笔钱扣下了一半。
—— 《牛津词典》
6·The straight white parting in her ebony hair seemed to divide the back of her head in half.
她乌黑头发中笔直的白色分发线似乎把她的后脑勺分成了两半。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
7·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。
8·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。
9·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。
10·They pulled back a goal just before half-time.
在上半场临结束时,他们扳回一球。
—— 《牛津词典》