It was half past five in the afternoon.

当时是下午五点半。

If you travel on Tuesday, you can go back at half past five.

如果你星期二旅行，你可以在五点半回去。

From half past four to half past five in the afternoon is our favorite time.

下午四点半到五点是我们最喜欢的时间。

It is half past five now.

现在是五点半了。

I get home at about half past five.

我大约五点半到家。

I get home at about half past five.

我得到在过去五年半左右回家。

I got up at half past five yesterday.

我昨天五点半起床。

At half past five, he leaves the office.

五点半他离开办公室。

Every day I awake of myself at half past five.

每天早上我都是五点半就自己醒来。 这如何解释！

I was at school until almost half past five yesterday.

我昨天差不多在五点钟以前一直都在学校里。

Fangfang: My mother goes to work at half past five every morning.

芳芳：我妈妈每天早上五点半去工作。

Mr Smith closed 3 his shop at half past five, went out into the street and walked to the bus. He was very fat.

史密斯先生下午五点半就将商店关闭，来到大街上，向公共汽车走去。

Manager: (looks at his watch) Half past five. (to himself) : Who will be left? Xiao Zhang? No. Xiao Li? No. Xiao Wang? It's impossible. (shaking head) Ah, I've got an idea! (Opens the door.)

经理：(看手表)五点半。(自言自语)：谁留下呢？小张？不行，小李？不行。小王？不可能！(摇头)啊！我有主意了。(开门)。

Humanity's greatest accomplishment of the past five decades, declared Bill Gates this week, is the reduction in the number of deaths among young children by half, to 10m a year in 2007.

本周，比尔·盖茨宣布，2007年全球儿童死亡人数为1000万人，较半个世纪前减少了一半，这不愧为人类在过去50年当中所取得的最伟大的成就。

Over the past five years, Downs and his team have identified the Raman patterns of about half the Earth's 4,000 minerals.

在过去的五年中，Downs和他的团队已经确定了地球4000种矿物中大约一半矿物的拉曼模式。

Over the past five years, Downs and his team have identified the Raman patterns of about half the Earth's 4, 000 minerals.

在过去的五年中，Downs和他的团队已经确定了地球4000种矿物中大约一半矿物的拉曼模式。

Yet the audience galloped past the reviews to give Mr. Berg the highest ticket sales of his directing career in just five and a half days.

但是观众们越过了这些评论，影片上映5天半内，他们就给了伯格导演其执导生涯中的最高票房记录。

A recent study by Pew Research shows the average age at which men and women first marry is now 28, the highest ever recorded, having risen by roughly five years in the past half-century.

近期皮尤研究开展的研究表明男人和女人第一次结婚的平均年龄如今是28岁，是迄今为止记录最高的，在过去50年里上升了大约5年。

They consume over half of the world's energy and have accounted for four-fifths of the growth in oil demand in the past five years. They also hold 70% of the world's foreign-exchange reserves.

他们占世界出口总额的比重从1970年的20％跃升到了43％，而在过去5年中，他们消费的能源占全球能源消费的一半以上，以及新增原油需求的4/5，并且持有了世界70％以上的外汇储备。

Half past four is an awkward time for me to attend a meeting, as I don't finish work until five, but I will try and beg off for half an hour.

要我四点半去开会很尴尬，因为我要五点才下班，但我打算想办法请半小时假。

They consume over half of the world's energy and have accounted for four-fifths of the growth in oil demand in the past five years.

他们消耗了一半以上的世界能源。过去的五年里，在石油需求增长方面，他们占了五分之四。

He looked at the post office clock; it showed half-past five.

他看见邮局的时钟，指着五点半。

HUMANITY's greatest accomplishment of the past five decades, declared Bill Gates this week, is the reduction in the number of deaths among young children by half, to 10m a year in 2007.

本周比尔·盖茨表示，人类在过去五十年里的最大成就是儿童死亡人数的减少，2007年儿童死亡人数是一千万，比五十年前减少了一半。

China's vehicle exports tripled in the past five years to about half a million last year.

中国的车辆输出品去年在过去五年中三倍之数至大约五十万了。

His work starts at half past eight, and finishes at a quarter to five.

他八点半开始工作，五点差一刻结束工作。