1. 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。

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

3. 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。

4. (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。）

5. "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。”

6. 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。

7. 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。

8. One and a half teaspoonfuls, please.
    请放一勺儿半。

9. One half of the world´s population are Asians.
    世界人口的一半是亚洲人。

10. Latham made another attempt a week later and got within half a mile of Dover, but he was unlucky again.
    莱瑟姆一周以后也作了一次尝试，飞到离多佛不到半英里的地方。这次他又遭厄运，