Take the challenge of climate change. In just eight years, we’ve halved our dependence on foreign oil, we doubled our renewable energy, we led the world to an agreement that has the promise to save this planet.

说说气候变化。不足八年间，我们对外国石油的依赖减半，可再生能源翻倍，我们领导世界达成协议，承诺拯救这个行星。

Things done by halves are never done right.

半途而废的来就做不成的。

A problem shared is a problem halved, but Eve can't always help.

将烦恼与别分享，烦恼就少了一半。不过伊芙并不总能解决问题。

Every Friday five crates of oranges and lemons arrived from a fruiterer in New York—every Monday these same oranges and lemons left his back door in a pyramid of pulpless halves.

每星期五，五箱橙子和柠檬纽约一家水果行送到。每星期一，这些橙子和柠檬变成了没有果肉的皮，半拉半拉地被扔在后门外，堆成一座小金字塔。

On December the 1st 1990, construction workers from Britain and France drilled through the last section of rock separating the two halves of the service tunnel,  linking Britain to mainland Europe for the first time since the last ice age.

1990年12月1日，英、法两国的建筑工钻穿了最后一阻隔隧道的岩石，使英国与欧洲大陆实现了自上一个冰河时代以来的首次连接。

So characteristically, Leonardo never does anything by halves.

以他的性格，达芬奇来不会半途而废。

His bond with Ao Bing, rooted in their shared destiny as two halves of the Chaos Pearl, is both heartwarming and heartbreaking.

他与敖丙的联系源于他们作为混沌珠的两半的共同命运，既温暖心碎。

'That's just what I said to myself when I woke up this morning, but when I looked on the floor, there was me veil, torn in two halves! '

“这也是早晨醒来时我对自己说的，可我看地上的时候，那儿真有面纱，而且撕成了两半！”

So you can say, right, is halved, was halved, were halved, are halved.

所以你可以说 is halved，was halved，were halved，are halved。

In fact, his handling of the paint strengthens the contrast between the picture’s two halves.

实上，他对颜料的处理，强化了画面上下两部分的对比。

The River Liffey separates the city into two neat halves.

利菲河恰好将这座城市一分为二。

And of course, it literally halves the cost of the fence.

当然，这能削减围栏一半的成本。

Paris is attempting to take those sustainability efforts to another level by halving the carbon emissions of its Summer Games predecessors, which have emitted an average of 3.5 million tonnes of carbon dioxide.

巴黎正试图将这些可持续发展的努力提升到另一个水平，将往届夏季奥运会的碳排放量减半。往届夏季奥运会的平均二氧化碳排放量为350万吨。

And this jar I've done halves, and I just wanted you to see the difference for the quarters, I just cut 'em like that and put 'em in the jar.

这个罐子里是一个切两半，我想让你们看看切成四份有什么不同，现在我把它们都切好放进罐子里。

After just five days out of the ground, that pungent truffle smell will have halved.

离开土壤仅仅5天后，那股冲鼻的松露味就会减半。

Essentially divided into two halves, the light and the dark.

年轮基本上分为两部分，光明和黑暗。

In some long-fished areas, it has halved again since then.

在一些长期捕鱼的区域，这个数量自那以后减少了一半。

The price of Brent crude halved between March 5th and 18th, to $25 a barrel.

3月5日到18日之间，布伦特原油价格下跌了一半，至每桶25美元。

He has sold 78 businesses and almost halved the bank's exposure to America.

他已经出售了78项业务，并将对美业务规模收缩近50%。

The sentence would have been 87 years, but was halved because she pleaded guilty.

刑期本应是87年，但由于她认罪刑期被减了一半。