half the time

基本解释

The downside: It rains half the time.
不利方面：有一半时间都在下雨。
Half the time I lived in a world of imagination – I still do.
我一半的时间都住在想象的世界里——我现在也还是这样。
Half the time, the participants were told that their partner had chosen to shock them.
在一半时间中，被试者们被告知他们的搭档选择电击他们。

"Half the time I wander around looking for something I can't remember what it is.
It's a time of technological innovation, tremendous technological innovation, so much technological change that half the time it frightened people.
这还是个技术革新的时代,空前的技术革新,如此多的技术涌现,以至于人们有时候是对其感到恐惧的
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Machiavelli said in that famous chapter 25, that the prince, if he is lucky, will master fortuna about half the time, only about 50% of the time.
马基雅维利在有名的第25章里说，君主，如果他幸运的话，可以在一半的时间里掌握命运，仅仅是50%的时间。
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In 2008 the target ship managed to beat off a pirate assault half the time.
ECONOMIST: Piracy