1. We all know the importance of laying a solid foundation in everything we do, and in language study perhaps more than in anything else, a good beginning is half the battle.
    我们都知道，无论做什么事，重要的是要打下坚实的基础。语言学习尤其如此。俗说话：好的开端是成功的一半。

2. When the south pole is towards the sun, the southern half of the world (or the Southern Hemisphere) is warmer, and it has its summer (December, January and February).
    当南极斜向太阳时，地球的南半部（南半球）就比较温暖，处于夏季（十二、一、二月）。

3. Women now form more than half the workers; the percentage is rising as they start up small businesses of their own, often working from home.
    如今妇女占劳动者数量的一半以上；随着她们建立起了自己的小公司，且常常在家上班，这一比例还在上升。

4. We found a table close to the stage. He ordered half a liter of beer and I ordered a grape soda.
    我们找了一张靠近舞台的桌子，他要了半升啤酒，我则要了一杯葡萄汽水。

5. The cock was dead.
    公鸡死了.

6. The vicar preached to the congregation for half an hour.
    那位教区牧师向会众讲道半个小时.

7. The cruel man half starved his horses.
    那残忍的人使他的马饿得半死。

8. There are even stories of half-trained elephant calves who have refused to feed and pined to death when by some unavoidable circumstance they have been deprived of their own trainer.
    甚至有这样的故事：训练了一半的小象，由于不可避免的情况与他们的主人分离后，竟拒绝吃食，消瘦至死。

9. The guest who arrives half an hour too soon is the greatest nuisance.
    客人提前半小时到达是令人讨厌的。

10. The only thing to do was ask them to come half an hour later than the other guests.
    唯一的办法就是请他们比别的客人晚来半小时。