We've already told the customer we'll be late with this drawing we might as well ask for a few more days so we can be sure there will be no more delays this time.

我们已经告诉客户这图纸我们要迟交了，不如多要几天，可以保证不会再延误了。

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Huck jumped for a hiding-place, for he had no mind to be connected even remotely with the late event.

哈克跳起来找个藏身的地方，因为他根本不想和最近发生的事情扯上一点儿关系。

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Sometimes he would sneak out of his house late at night to be with me.

有时候他会在深夜偷偷溜出他的家来陪伴我。

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It was already eight o'clock and Sylvie wondered if her grandmother would be angry with her for being so late.

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Perhaps we want to write like Shakespeare, maybe we want to be a writer like the great Old Testament prophet Isaiah. But the last thing we should be burdened with, Milton's suggesting here, is the fear of being late.

也许我们想向莎士比亚一样，也许想成为,伟大的旧约先知以赛亚,但弥尔顿说我们最不应该被，担心迟到所困。

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Now, out of all of this, again to repeat, we are not making the argument that the Thirty Years' War itself led to absolute rule, that the growth of state structures can be seen in the beginning and the late medieval period with the consolidation of these territorial monarchies.

综上所述,我再重复一遍,我们并不能推断说,三十年战争本身导致了绝对主义的发展,国家的构建在中世纪的早期,以及晚期的领土兼并中就已经初见端倪

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They squealed, they pressed close with their microphones, they stayed up late to be with him in his hotel and they got up early the next morning to jog alongside him at dawn.

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There were a lot of tactical moves to be made late last week, with lots of patterns triggering on Off the Charts and the Price Point Sheet.

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With players such as Michael and Brian Laudrup in midfield and Preben Elkjaer Larsen in attack, the side were a force to be reckoned with in the late 1980s.

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