She says being a mom is hard. "Because you have to get up every two hours in the middle of the night, and you can't go out and say 'I am going to buy this for myself.'

VOA: special.2010.05.13

Day and night I begged my mother and father to take the bag away shaking with terror because no one saw them but me.

我无时无刻不乞求我的父母,指着那些袋子，让他们带走,我怕的发抖,由于除了我再也没人能看到。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

who is on the streets in New York and she got mugged because she was walking alone at late at night,

她正在纽约的大街上走着。有一次她在夜间独自一人在街上走，遭遇了抢劫。

have to 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Because bars, restaurants and night clubs have been closed by the state government as a precautionary measure, people who have money have few places to spend it.

VOA: standard.2009.04.30

You can explain to the secretary that you woke up late and you had a terrible night because you fought with your wife.

你可以向你的秘书解释，你早上起晚了，昨晚你跟太太大吵一架，一整夜都没睡好。

I didn't 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

"North Korea fed its version of the story to the people, saying the reason Kim looks this way is not because he's lost his health, but because he works day and night for the people, visiting work sites and so on,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.30