1. Smashing half your best crockery and cutting himself in the process.
    将家中最好的陶瓷餐具半数摔碎，同时也弄伤了他自己。

2. More than half of the home computers sold in the United States in recent years will become essential to home life in the West. Future tasks computers already do at home include:
    近年来在美国售出的家庭电脑有半数以上将成为西方家庭生活的必需品。电脑已经在家庭中发挥的未来功能有：

3. More than half the kids in a national survey are.
    一项全国性调查发现，有一半以上的孩子考试作弊。

4. Mr. Abdy, a 27-year-old businessman, acquired the bulk of the properties for about half a million pounds, obtaining bank loans and striking deals with various people to pay only a part of what they are owed by Mr. Williams.
    27岁的商人阿布迪先生，通过获取银行贷款和与各种人做交易，只支付威廉斯先生所欠他们的一部分，最后以大约50万英镑的价格，买下了绝大部分房产。

5. “We have a wait of half an hour, I think.”
    "我想我们要等半个小时。"

6. But I don't feel much warmth in their half-embarrassed embrace.
    但是我们并没有在他们有点局促不安的拥抱中感到多少温暖。

7. (The only exceptions are egg and sperm cells, each of which contains half the genes to grow a new individual.)
    （惟一的例外是卵子和精子细胞，它们的每个细胞分别含有长成新个体的一半基因。）

8. "If poor Hans is in trouble I shall give him half my porridge, and show him my white rabbits."
    “如果可怜的汉斯处境困难，我会把我的粥分一半给他，还让他看 看我的小白兔。”

9. One hour and seventeen minutes passed and we had not even covered half the distance.
    1小时17分过去了，走了还不到一半路程。

10. Our next obstacle was a shallow pool of water about half a mile across.
    下一个障碍是一片约半英里宽的浅水塘。