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基本解釋

The government's budget surplus, before debt payments, beat its first-half target this year.
政府的財政收入在還貸前呈現(xiàn)盈余，超過了今年上半年的計劃。
Industrial &Commercial Bank of China Ltd., the world’s largest lender by market value, last month posted a 27 percent gain in first-half profit.
世界上市值最大的商業(yè)銀行——工商銀行——在上個月發(fā)布了財報，財報顯示工行在今年上半年的盈利增長了27%。

Helen was their first child. Until she was a year-and-one-half old, Helen Keller was just like any other child.
In the second half of the twentieth century and up now into the twenty-first century, writers were thinking very hard about what to do stylistically with all the innovations that come in that powerful period known as modernism.
自二十世紀(jì)下半葉,直至現(xiàn)今二十一世紀(jì),作家都在努力思考在現(xiàn)代主義影響,深遠(yuǎn)的這個時期里該怎樣進(jìn)行文體上的創(chuàng)新。
耶魯公開課 - 1945年后的美國小說課程節(jié)選
Just as I foreshadowed, if you look at the difference between the first and third quartile in the bond market -these are active returns over a ten-year period again ending June 30,2005 -and the fixed income market, the difference between first and third quartile is a half a percent per annum.
如我之前所示,如果觀察,債券市場中的第一和第三個四分位數(shù),四分位數(shù)即統(tǒng)計學(xué)中,把所有數(shù)值由小到大排列并分成四等份三個分割點位置分別就是三個四分位數(shù) 考慮十年期的主動型的收益,截止于2005年6月30日,在債券這個固定收益市場,第一和第三個四分位數(shù),每年只差0.5%
耶魯公開課 - 金融市場課程節(jié)選

Chris Bosh crashed to the court clutching his right knee after a first-half collision.
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