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

2. They were unanimous in asking for a pay rise.
    他们一致要求加薪。

3. 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。

4. There was a time when the owners of shops and businesses in Chicago had to pay large sums of money to gangsters in return for ´protection.´
    曾经有一个时期,芝加哥的店主和商行的老板们不得不拿出大笔的钱给歹徒以换取´保护´。

5. They offered to pay $10 a pound for the biggest biscuit baked by a listener.
    他们愿意以每磅10美元的价钱买下由听众烘制的最大的饼干。

6. The manufacturers had to pay more money than they had anticipated, for they bought the biscuit from the student for $24,000.
    饼干公司不得不付出比他们预计多得多的钱,因为为买下那学生烘制的饼干他们支付了24,000美元。

7. The price we pay for cheap food may be already too high:
    为了廉价食物我们付出代价已经太高了:

8. 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。

9. 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。

10. They did not pay any attention.
    他们却毫不理会。