1. In the first half, the company earned 75 million francs, mainly from investment income and sale of construction rights on its site.
    在前半年里，公司共赢利7,500法郎，主要是投资收入和出售公司地盘上的建筑权所得。

2. When more than half of marriages end in divorce,
    当半数以上的婚姻以离婚收场，

3. For nearly three and a half centuries she lay at the bottom of Stockholm harbour until her discovery in 1956.
    这艘大船在斯德哥尔摩港口的海底躺了将近几年来个世纪之后，直到1956年才被发现。

4. Franz Bussman, found a brother who was thought to have been killed twenty years before.
    巴斯曼如何找到了据信已在20年前死去的兄弟的事。

5. Franz poured scorn on the idea, pointing out that his brother had been killed in action during the war.
    弗朗兹对此不屑一顾，指出他兄弟已经在战争中阵亡了。

6. For what, I sometimes wonder; so that she can struggle to breathe through most of her life feeling half her strength, and then die of self-poisoning, as her grandfather did?
    有时我纳闷：自己这样做到底是为了什么? 难道是为了她今后大半辈子有气无力地挣扎着呼吸，然后再像她外公那样自己把自己毒死？

7. For years Sundback lay awake half the night trying to solve the problem. In 1913 he designed a hookless fastener that worked.
    一连几年，森德贝克夜不能寐，试图解决这一问题。1913年，他设计了一种性能理想的无钩扣件。

8. For more than half an hour 38 respectable Brooklyn, New York citizens watched a man attack and stab (刺杀) a woman three separate times.
    在半个多小时的时间里，纽约布鲁克林区38名体面的居民旁观了一名男子三次袭击并最终刺死一名女子的过程。