1·Flags fluttered at half staff.
国旗半降，随风飘动。
2·Following the placement of the wreath, the marines will lower the flag to half staff.
在敬献花圈后，美国海军陆战队员将降半旗志哀。
3·The national flag of Poland was at half staff in front of the Polish embassy in The Hague, the Netherlands.
在荷兰的海牙的波兰大使馆前降下半旗的波兰国旗。
4·It's high time they got rid of half of the staff here if you ask me.
如果你问我的话，我觉得他们早该解雇这里一半的员工了。
5·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。
6·More than half the staff are temporary.
半数以上的职员是临时雇员。
—— 《牛津词典》
7·Although women make up the majority of undergraduates in our universities, just under half of academic staff are female.
虽然我们大学本科生中有大部分是女性，但教职人员中女性却占不到半数。
8·I also request the people of the United States to display the flag at half-staff from their homes for the customary forenoon period.
我也要求美国人民在自己的住所依上午传统降半旗。
9·In her short time in office, more than half a dozen members of her staff have quit.
在她入职的短短时间里，她的职员中有超过一半的人辞职。
10·A senior western diplomat in unhealthy Delhi told methat at any given time, half his staff is ill with serious maladies.
一个在德里的年长的西方外交官告诉我，无论是什么时候，他总是有一半职员患着重病。