I'd left a message for him hours earlier; I was already annoyed when I picked up the phone, and my impatience spilled into our conversation.

好几个小时之前我就给他的电话留了言。当我拿起电话的时候已经很生气了，这种不耐烦情绪终于影响到了我们的谈话。

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She had left the boundary of polite conversation hours ago and was now bound to make Shawn pay for all of the hours of pointless brainstorming sessions he had forced her into for this stupid idea.

几个小时前，她就已经离开礼貌谈话的边界了，现在她一定要肖恩为几个小时的毫无意义的献策付出代价，为了这个愚蠢的想法，他硬逼着她想办法。

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Once my parents engage you in conversation, you're stuck with them for hours.

一旦跟我父母谈起话来，就得耗上好几个小时。

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' and then the conversation can go on for hours.

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At least in prison, she could sit with him at a table for a few hours instead of having to settle for a few minutes of conversation behind a thick glass partition at the county jail, she said.

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As police monitored the conversation from another room, Baker tried for two hours to get Littleton to confess by insisting that the couple had no chance of reconciling unless he told her the "big secret" he had alluded to during their marriage.

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