经常，很多时候：非正式用语：表示经常发生或很多时候。
... give or take (...years) 加减个...年 (或加减个几岁左右) half the time 经常; 一半的时间 happy hour 饮料便宜的时段 ...
... gain time 走得快, 赢得时间 half the time 一半时间, 经常 do time 服徒刑 ...
... Till Tomorrow 明天才收到 Half the Time 玩一半时间 An Alarmist 危言耸听 ...
... half one's time [口]大部分时间, 经常 half the time 一半时间 长时间地; 经常 hard times 艰难时代 ...
一半时间；经常
They spent half the time looking for a parking space.
他们花了一半的时间寻找停车位。
Journeys between major cities will take half the time they take today.
在大城市之间旅行将只要花费他们如今所花时间的一半。
The workers were not better organized, otherwise they would have accomplished the task in half the time.
没有更好地把工人们组织起来，否则他们用一半的时间就能完成任务。
"Half the time I wander around looking for something I can't remember what it is.
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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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Half the time, fellows perform in concerts around the city.
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"In the major time-share developments, the major fractional developments or full ownership, more than half of those purchases are from Americans."
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In 2008 the target ship managed to beat off a pirate assault half the time.
And its battery is capable of recharging in about half the time of the first-generation LEAF.
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Of the 40 quarters Butters considered, Alcoa beat the Street exactly half the time.
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