半个世纪

Four years ago they were luxuriating in the lowest interest rates for almost half a century.

四年前，借户们沉迷于几乎半个世纪以来的最低利率。

Four years ago they were luxuriating in the lowest interest r at es for almost half a century.

四年前，借户们沉迷于几乎半个世纪以来的最低利率。

People can examine the fifty years' existence of the European Union from various perspectives, for example, from the perspective of chronology with great events being the clues; or people also can make evaluations on the success and failures of the European Union on the basis of a series of significant internal changes within the EU; using interesting theories as the mainlines of discussion, some other experts may explore certain important issues related to sovereign states and supra-sovereignty, the democracy in the international organizations and so on.

内容提要：人们可以从多种角度考察欧盟存在50年，例如以50年间发生的一些大事为线索，把它写成编年史，或者发展阶段史；以欧盟内部发生的一系列重大变化及其结果，论述其成败得失；以若干人们感兴趣的理论问题作为讨论的主线，研究主权国家与超越主权、国际组织中的民主问题等等；而本文则把主题确定为阐明欧盟在其存在与发展的半个世纪里，它在全球生活中所起的三项主要作用，即欧盟作为一股积极的力量、平衡的力量和&榜样&的力量对外部世界发生的影响。

This is one of the original cases of multiple colonic adenomas with multiple osteomas first diagnosed radiographically by Dr. Henry Plenk a half century ago.

多发性结肠腺瘤合并多发性骨瘤病例，第一次通过影像学诊断是HENRY PLENK在半个世纪前进行的。

It's rather ironic that this, the first active element, which predated the tube, was a semiconductor, but that nearly another half century was required to "discover" semiconductors.

具有讽刺意义的是，第一只有源元件—早于电子管—是半导体，但是，几乎又花了半个世纪的时间，科学家才宣称&发现&半导体。

In one sense, the growing importance of foreign cash represents the triumph of a half-century of U.S. proselytizing for a global financial system in which money flows from those who have it to those who need it, regardless of borders. But it is also an unmistakable sign of U.S. economic decline. The global financial system the U.S.

一方面，外资重要性的增强宣告了美国的胜利──美国在长达半个世纪的时间里主张塑造一个能冲破国界藩篱、保证资本从所有国流向需求国的全球金融系统的努力终告成功；而另一方面，这也是一个明确无误的信号──美国经济正在走向衰败。

One has only to note how in the last half-century the movements for women's rights and civil rights have reformulated and renewed American history.

人们只需注意在前半个世纪里，女权和人权运动是怎样重塑和更新了美国历史，就能明白现实不断地在重塑过去。

In the 1970s,influenced by the feminis t movement,the new social history,post-modernism and other academic t rends,researchers focussed their a ttention on the study of theshe historyand crowned it with quick success.

美国西部妇女史近半个世纪的探索与妇女研究发展轨迹相当。70年代受女性主义运动及新社会史、后现代主义等学术思潮的影响，研究者们致力于&她史&，使得该研究得到了迅速的发展。80年代以后，女性研究的焦点转入社会性别理论，西部妇女史的研究中也广泛采用这一分析范畴，同时强调西部妇女多元文化的历史背景。90年代以来，随着理论的不断深化和史料的丰富，该研究从微观上强调西部妇女的族裔、文化、阶级、职业等的差异，从宏观上强调全新意义上的&两性史&，即要求在一个新的历史基准体系之下对各种妇女群体作出价值评估，并将妇女的历史编入西部历史之中。

In its short life of half a century, the computer has revolutionized the way we communicate.

在其半个世纪的短短时间里，计算机彻底改变了我们沟通的方式。

This was true half a century ago in the segregated South. But today, it is nonsense.

半个世纪前在种族隔离的南方这确实发生了，但在今天，这些全是废话。

She gently rebuff ed him, but agreed that they could be friends

她婉言拒绝了，但同意作为朋友相处。

If in the penal farm, you were sure to be criticized.

要是在劳改农场，你等着挨绳子吧！