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That whispered message, half invitation and half forcing, is what most of us think of when we hear the words peer pressure.

那种低声细语的信息，一半是邀请，一半是强迫，就是我们大多数人听到‘同伴压力’这个词时所想到的内容。

That whispered message, half invitation and half forcing, is what most of us think of when we hear the words peer pressure.

那种低声细语的信息，一半是邀请，一半是强迫，就是我们大多数人听到‘同伴压力’这个词时所想到的内容。

In Britain, more than half of public-sector workers but only about 15% of private-sector ones are unionized.

在英国，超过一半的公共部门工作人员加入了工会，而私人部门中只有大约15%的人加入了工会。

But with homework counting for no more than 10% of their grades, students can easily skip half their homework and see very little difference on their report cards.

但由于家庭作业在成绩中所占比例不超过10%，学生完全可以跳过一半的作业，而成绩单上的变化却微乎其微。

An old saying has it that half of all advertising budgets are wasted - the trouble is, no one knows which half.

有一句老话说，所有广告预算的一半都是浪费的——问题是，没人知道到底是哪一半。