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Even more surprising is that more than half of “unretires” — those who plan to work in retirement or went back to work after retiring — said they would be employed in their later years even if they had enough money to settle down, the survey showed.

调查显示，更令人惊讶的是，超过一半的“不退休者”——那些计划在退休后工作或退休后重返工作岗位的人——表示，即使他们有足够的钱安顿下来，晚年也还会去工作。

over half of the retirees are physically fit for work.

超过一半的退休人员身体状况适合工作

Half of the students in four large philosophy classes read an article on the ethics of factory-farmed meat, optionally watched an 11-minute video on the topic and joined a 50-minute discussion.

在四个大型哲学班中，一半学生阅读了一篇关于工厂化养殖肉类伦理问题的文章，可选择性地观看了一段关于该话题的11分钟视频，并参加了50分钟的讨论。

The other half focused on charitable giving instead.

另一半学生则重点讨论慈善捐赠。

If you were walking 3 miles a day, playing 18 holes of golf three times a week, or lifting 10-pound dumbbells for three sets of 10 reps, reduce activity to half a mile every other day, or nine holes of golf once a week with short walks on other days, or use 5-pound dumbbells for one set of 10 reps.

如果你以前每天步行3英里，每周打三次18洞高尔夫，或者举10磅哑铃做三组、每组10次，那么现在就把运动量减少到隔天走半英里，或者每周打一次9洞高尔夫、其他日子短距离散步，或者用5磅哑铃做一组10次。

More than half of all British scientific research is now published under open access terms: either freely available from the moment of publication, or paywalled for a year or more so that the publishers can make a profit before being placed on general release.

现在，英国一半以上的科学研究都是按开放获取条款发表的：要么从发表之时起就免费提供，要么先付费阅读一年或更长时间，让出版商赚取利润后再公开发布。

Haddad and Lewis are concerned that more than half the state-government boards are less than 40 percent female.

哈达德和刘易斯担心，州政府一半以上的委员会中女性比例不到40%。

That's only a small share of the total acreage that could benefit, about half a million acres in all, so it will be vital to prioritize areas at greatest risk of fire or drought.

这仅占可受益总面积（总计约50万英亩）的一小部分，因此优先处理火灾或干旱风险最大的地区将至关重要。

Perhaps half of U.S. farm laborers are undocumented immigrants.

美国农场劳工中或许有一半是无证移民。

Now, more than half are.

现在，这一比例已超过一半。

Scientists have found that exposure [to] this hormone puts us in a trusting [mood]: In a Swiss study, researchers sprayed oxytocin into the noses of half the subjects; those subjects were ready to lend significantly higher amounts of money to strangers than were their [counterparts] who inhaled something else.

科学家发现，接触{{8}}这种激素会让我们处于一种信任的{{9}}之中：在瑞士的一项研究中，研究人员将催产素喷入一半受试者的鼻腔；与吸入其他物质的{{10}}相比，这些受试者愿意借给陌生人的钱要多得多。

Half of them found a toy; the other half [discovered] the container was empty — and realized the tester had [fooled] them.

其中一半找到了一个玩具；另一半则{{16}}容器是空的——并意识到测试员{{17}}了他们。

Half of them found a toy; the other half [discovered] the container was empty — and realized the tester had [fooled] them.

其中一半找到了一个玩具；另一半则{{16}}容器是空的——并意识到测试员{{17}}了他们。

About half of U.S. jobs are at high risk of being automated, according to a University of Oxford study, with the middle class disproportionately squeezed.

根据牛津大学的一项研究，美国约有一半的工作面临被自动化取代的高风险，而中产阶级受到的挤压格外严重。

Half of the pens would [deliver] an electric shock when clicked.

其中一半的笔在按动时会释放电击。

The move to renewables is picking up momentum around the world: They now account for more than half of new power sources going on line.

向可再生能源的转变正在全球范围内加速：它们目前占新投入使用电力来源的一半以上。

The question of GDP and its usefulness has annoyed policymakers for over half a century.

GDP及其有用性的问题已经困扰了政策制定者半个多世纪。

In 2015, the US Forest Service for the first time spent more than half of its $5.5 billion annual budget fighting fires — nearly double the percentage it spent on such efforts 20 years ago.

2015年，美国林务局首次将其55亿美元年度预算的一半以上用于扑灭火灾——这一比例几乎是20年前用于此类工作的比例的两倍。

Formerly it lasted three days, [but] by the 1980s it more commonly lasted a day and a half.

过去婚礼要持续三天，但到了20世纪80年代，更常见的是持续一天半。

The London agents Stirling Ackroyd recently identified enough sites for half a million houses in the London area alone, with no intrusion on green belt.

伦敦房产中介斯特林·阿克罗伊德最近仅在伦敦地区就找到了足以建造50万套住房的地块，且不侵占绿化带。

Half a century of town and country planning has enabled it to retain an enviable rural coherence, while still permitting low-density urban living.

半个世纪的城乡规划使英国保持了令人羡慕的乡村整体风貌，同时仍允许低密度的城市生活。

An old saying has it that half of all advertising budgets are wasted — the trouble is, no one knows which half.

有句老话说，所有广告预算中有一半被浪费了——问题是，没人知道是哪一半。

An old saying has it that half of all advertising budgets are wasted — the trouble is, no one knows which half.

有句老话说，所有广告预算中有一半被浪费了——问题是，没人知道是哪一半。

As of 2005, there were almost half a million professional social scientists from all fields in the world, working both inside and outside academia.

截至2005年，全世界各领域的专业社会科学家已近50万人，他们既在学术界内也在学术界外工作。

That whispered message, half invitation and half forcing, is what most of us think of when we hear the words peer pressure.

这句低声耳语半是邀请、半是强迫，是我们大多数人听到“同伴压力”一词时首先想到的。

That whispered message, half invitation and half forcing, is what most of us think of when we hear the words peer pressure.

这句低声耳语半是邀请、半是强迫，是我们大多数人听到“同伴压力”一词时首先想到的。

In Britain, more than half of public-sector workers but only about 15% of private-sector ones are unionized.

在英国，超过一半的公共部门雇员加入了工会，而私营部门雇员中只有约15%加入工会。

The second half of the 20th century saw a collection of geniuses, warriors, entrepreneurs and visionaries labour to create a fabulous machine that could function as a typewriter and printing press, studio and theatre, paintbrush and gallery, piano and radio, the mail as well as the mail carrier.

20世纪下半叶，一批天才、斗士、企业家和远见卓识者努力创造出一台神奇的机器，它可以充当打字机和印刷机、工作室和剧院、画笔和画廊、钢琴和收音机，既是邮件，也是邮递员。

One reason for the persistence of this pyramid of production is that for the past half-century, much of the world's media culture has been defined by a single medium — television — and television is defined by downloading.

这种生产金字塔之所以持续存在，原因之一是在过去半个世纪里，世界上大部分媒体文化都由单一媒介——电视——所定义，而电视的本质就是下载。

But with homework counting for no more than 10% of their grades, students can easily skip half their homework and see very little difference on their report cards.

但由于作业在成绩中占比不超过10%，学生可以轻易地少做一半作业，而成绩单上几乎看不出差别。

The growth in public money for academic research has speeded the process: federal research grants rose fourfold between 1960 and 1990, but faculty teaching hours fell by half as research took its toll.

用于学术研究的公共资金的增长加速了这一进程：1960年至1990年间，联邦研究经费增长了三倍，而由于研究占用了大量精力，教师的授课时间却减少了一半。

No disciplines have seized on professionalism with as much enthusiasm as the humanities. You can, Mr. Menand points out, become a lawyer in three years and a medical doctor in four. But the regular time it takes to get a doctoral degree in the humanities is nine years. Not surprisingly, up to half of all doctoral students in English drop out before getting their degrees.

没有哪个学科像人文学科这样热衷于专业化。梅南先生指出，你可以用三年成为律师，用四年成为医生。但在人文学科获得博士学位的正常时间却是九年。毫不奇怪，多达一半的英语专业博士生在获得学位前就退学了。

Equally unsurprisingly, only about half end up with professorships for which they entered graduate school. There are simply too few posts. This is partly because universities continue to produce ever more PhDs. But fewer students want to study humanities subjects: English departments awarded more bachelor's degrees in 1970-71 than they did 20 years later. Fewer students require fewer teachers. So, at the end of a decade of thesis-writing, many humanities students leave the profession to do something for which they have not been trained.

同样不足为奇的是，最终只有大约一半的人得到了他们当初读研究生时所追求的教授职位。职位实在太少了。部分原因是大学不断培养出越来越多的博士。但想学习人文学科的学生却越来越少：英语系在1970—1971学年授予的学士学位比20年后还要多。学生越少，所需的教师也就越少。因此，在花了十年时间撰写论文之后，许多人文学科的学生离开了这一行，去做他们没有受过训练的工作。

One reason why it is hard to design and teach such courses is that they cut across the insistence by top American universities that liberal-arts education and professional education should be kept separate, taught in different schools. Many students experience both varieties. Although more than half of Harvard undergraduates end up in law, medicine or business, future doctors and lawyers must study a non-specialist liberal-arts degree before embarking on a professional qualification.

此类课程难以设计和讲授的原因之一在于，它们与美国顶尖大学的一贯主张相抵触，即博雅教育和职业教育应当分开，由不同的学院讲授。许多学生两种教育都会经历。虽然超过一半的哈佛本科生最终从事法律、医学或商业，但未来的医生和律师在攻读职业资格之前，必须先读一个非专业性的文科学位。