The government, which has stepped back from its traditional role as a regulator of work time should take steps to make shorter hours possible.
政府已经从其传统的工作时间调节器的角色上退休了，并应该采取措施，使更短的工作时间成为可能。
For this scheme to work, the government must provide wage subsidies to compensate for lost pay due to the shorter hours.
为了此方案有效运转，政府必须提供工资津贴以补偿工时减少而造成的工资损失。
With shorter hours, I won't be able to do any studies.
午休时间若缩短，我就无法进行任何思考。
The company turned down the suggestion of shorter hours.
公司拒绝了要求缩短工作时间的建议。
Shorter hours might encourage some of these skilled women into the workforce.
较短的工作时间可鼓励一些有工作技能的妇女投入职场。
They receive light workloads, shorter hours and perks like coaching and training facilities.
他们的工作量不大，工作时间更短还可以获得培训和训练设施等额外津贴。
Winter's harsh weather, shorter hours of daylight and family demands can all aggravate feelings of stress.
冬日恶劣的天气、白昼时间的缩短和家庭的需求等都可能加剧人的压力感。
However, many nurses can be paid really well but work shorter hours than the traditional 40 hour work week.
然而许多护士们收入不菲，工作时间却短于一般的每周40个小时。
Many baby-boomers say they never want to bow out altogether, though they would often prefer to put in shorter hours.
许多在婴儿潮世代出生的老人们都表示他们从来都不想在家里每天等人拜访然后恭送别人离开，尽管他们乐于花少量时间在互相串门上。
Shorter hours might encourage some of these skilled women into the workforce. So might a change in attitudes to schooling.
更短的工作时间可能鼓励这些有技能的女性参加工作，从而改变对学校教育的态度。
They are going into fields that require less paperwork and shorter hours than the 60 per week that have become the norm in many fields.
他们正加入到那些需要做更少的文书工作，比在许多领域中已成标准的60小时更少的工作时间的领域当中去。
It is wise to prove yourself on the job for at least six months and ask a mentor for advice before exploring shorter hours, Ms. Cohen says.
科恩说，明智的做法是，至少在六个月中证明自己胜任这份工作，并在希望缩短工作时间之前征求导师的建议。
In other words, we either raise our standard of living above that necessary for comfort and happiness or we leave it at this level and work shorter hours.
换句话说，要么我们把生活标准再提高一步，使之超越已足够舒适和愉快的档次，要么我们把标准停留在这一档次而把时间缩短。
I shall take it as axiomatic that mankind has, by that time, chosen the latter alternative. Men will be working shorter and shorter hours in their paid employment.
我觉得，届时人们会选择后一种，这是不言自明的。人们在他们取酬的职务岗位上的工作时间将越来越短。
Cynics, in questioning this belief, have imagined that the multiplication of officials must have left some of them idle or all of them able to work for shorter hours.
而那些愤世的人则会质疑这种说法，他们想象着公务员一多，有些人就要无所事事，或者每个人的工作时间就要缩短。
Too many entrepreneurial wannabes of all ages (not just new grads) are "looking to get rich, escape the corporate grind, and work shorter hours with more free time," she observes.
她发现，在所有想要创业的人当中(不仅仅是应届毕业生)，太多人的目的是“希望能赚大钱，摆脱公司的压榨，或者能有更少的工作时间，和更多的自由时间。”
Do you agree or disagree with the following statement: it is more enjoyable to have a job that requires working long hours for three days in one week than to work shorter hours for five days a week.
你是否同意以下声明：拥有一份每周工作三天但每天工时很长的工作比一周工作五天但每天工时很短的工作快乐。
Staying late at the office to discuss shorter working hours rather defeats the object of the exercise !
迟迟待在办公室讨论缩短工作时间恰恰是在阻挠这一目标的实现！
A shorter working week would enable us to redistribute hours from the overworked to the underworked.
一个更短的工作周将使我们能够重新分配工作时间，把工作从过度工作的人身上转移到工作不足的人身上。
It may be unfair, but by working shorter paid hours, women are managing to achieve a reasonable balance in their lives.
这也许不公平，但由于工作的时间较短，妇女可以成功地把握好工作和家庭的平衡。
If they have a cycle shorter than 24 hours, they need evening light to sync up, and if it's longer than 24 hours, they need light in the mornings.
如果他们的自身节律比24小时短，就需要在夜晚接受光照以和自然节律同步；如果他们的自身节律超过24小时，就要在早晨对他们进行光照，以加速其自身节律。
If there are more mails to be archived, or the time window available for archiving much shorter than the 20 hours assumed above, the following work-around can help parallelize the archiving.
如果有更多的邮件需要归档，或者每天用于归档的时间窗口少于前面假设的20小时，那么下面的变通办法可以帮助将归档并行化。
The ILO maintains that shorter working hours benefit workers' health and family lives, reduce accidents at the workplace and generally make workers more productive.
国际劳工组织提出，缩短工作时间有益于人们的健康和家庭生活，可以减少工作场所的事故发生率，总体来说能够提高员工的工作效率。
Are you working longer hours, attending more meetings, taking shorter vacations, answering more emails and eating lunch at your desk, if you eat lunch at all?
午饭时，你是否仍在加班，开会，短期旅行，回邮件，在办公桌边吃午饭？
The ceremony was shorter than in years past, clockingin at about three hours and 12 minutes.
今年的颁奖典礼比往年的要短，锁定在大约3小时12分钟。
The ceremony was shorter than in years past, clockingin at about three hours and 12 minutes.
今年的颁奖典礼比往年的要短，锁定在大约3小时12分钟。
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