And that is a problem since there are only twenty-four hours in a day.

VOA: special.2010.06.04

Or perhaps Chinese on Monday, Wednesdays, and Fridays and Thai on Saturdays and Sundays and spending two hours in the afternoon doing math and three hours in the morning doing philosophy.

或周一三五吃中餐,周六日吃泰国菜,下午花两小时研究数学,上午三小时思考哲学，统统没有用。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

and the last quarter is a seminar in which you only go once a week for three hours

最后一个季度是研讨会，每周只需要参加三个小时，

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The two sides struggled for hours in the hot summer sun.

VOA: special.2009.09.24

This monumental novel about 20 hours in the life of an average man can be read and appreciated like any other great novel once its framework and form are visualized, just as we can enjoy Hamlet without solving all the problems which agitate the critics and scholars."

这部不朽的小说是关于一个,平常人生命中的二十个小时,在它的框架和形式显现出来的时候,它就能像其他伟大小说一样被阅读和欣赏，就像我们欣赏《哈姆雷特》那样,不用解决那些激发批评家和学者讨论的问题“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

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

So the so-called lounge what you'll be able to find in just a week or so is timed with the first of the office hours if you so choose to join us for them.

一周左右的时间或者第一次上机的时候,你们就能看到这个所谓的休息室,你们到时候可以选择是否加入。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Secretary Gates spent his final hours in Iraqi Kurdistan, meeting with the President of the semi-autonomous region, Massoud Barzani.

VOA: standard.2009.07.29

The idea of working in an office, pushing papers 70 to 80 hours a week, although as lucrative as it might be, wasn't something I felt I will be really using my own personal skill set to benefit people on a mass level.

在办公室里一周做，70到80小时的琐碎工作，虽然会很赚钱，但是这并不是,我能真正用自己的能力,去造福大众的工作。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Voter turnout was 77 percent with many voters standing in line for hours in cool weather to cast their ballots.

VOA: standard.2009.04.25

So how do these musicians generate two hours of music with no music in front of them?

那这些音乐家是如何持续演出两个小时的呢,在没有乐谱的情况下

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

President Obama and 18 members of his national security team spent about three hours in the White House Situation Room Wednesday, assessing their Afghanistan policy.

VOA: standard.2009.10.01

And also, keep in mind that I have office hours today from 3 to 5.

还有一件事就是,要记住我的答疑时间是今天下午三点到五点。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

plays the title character in "Jonah Hex." Brolin says it took three hours in the make-up chair every day to give the character his disfigured look.

VOA: standard.2010.06.20

What does that mean? Well, it means that, you know, there's maybe, let's say, that in the next 24 hours it will break down.

这意味着什么 好的,这意味着,就是说,有可能,这个原子会在未来的二十四小时内分裂

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Museum staffer Nancy Greig had to spend several hours in the smelly room.

VOA: standard.2010.07.30

He said, I'm trying to remember where I got the idea and, he said, I think it probably came from some of our coffee hours at The London School of Economics in the 1920s.

他写到,我尽我所能,追忆当初如何得到的这个概念,也许是20年代,在伦敦政治经济学院,这个概念源于一次咖啡时间

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

You have to get there hours and hours in advance."

VOA: standard.2010.07.23

In William James, maybe the case-- because the elevator-- it does take two hours to get there for the door to close.

在William，James大厅也许会遇到这种事-,因为那部电梯-,运作得太慢。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

They describe their grueling hours in poor, makeshift facilities.

VOA: standard.2010.06.29

in her office hours and stuff like that. So she's, that's, that's a really exciting class.

当然是在她的工作时间。所以这真的是个令人兴奋的课。

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"Now we have what we would call rush hour conditions or peak travel conditions for as much as eight hours during the day - about three to four hours in the morning and similar time in the evening."

VOA: standard.2010.07.26

And 72 hours by train he found himself on a huge cotton plantation, near Pickensville, Alabama, on the in west central Alabama, on the Mississippi border, at 14-years-old.

在搭乘了七十二小时的火车后,他发现自己身处亚拉巴马的皮肯斯维尔附近,一个巨大的棉花种植园中,在亚拉巴马西部的中心,密西西比的边界,那年他仅仅十四岁

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

It was a different era. But General Myers spent many hours in the White House Situation Room, working with Bush administration officials on strategy for the two conflicts, just as current top officers are working with President Barack Obama and his team now on how to move forward in Afghanistan.

VOA: standard.2009.10.16

Two hours,you can be on a damn train to New York City and you'll be lucky if you get eighty miles in two hours, or an hour and fifty minutes.

要知道,两个小时都可以做火车去纽约了,但如果是步行,八十公里你一个小时五十分钟,到两个小时内走到就算不错了

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

"Spending a number of hours together in that kind of environment,I think, can only help improve the chances of bipartisan cooperation.

VOA: special.2011.06.18

So the strategy choices, we're not going to do it in hours, let's just normalize and regard these choices as living in 0 to 4, and you can choose any number of hours between 0 and 4.

我们用小时数来表示策略吧,用0到4的数字来标记这些策略,你可以从0到4中任选工作的小时数

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

The older kind of submarine used in World War Two could stay under water for only about forty-eight hours.

VOA: special.2010.06.11

One is called the twenty-four hour recall and that's either done by a computer, or done by a trained interviewer who would sit down with you and say, 'Let's reconstruct everything you've eaten in the last twenty-four hours.' And so then you have to recollect everything you ate in the last twenty-four hours.

其中之一被称为24小时回顾法,可由计算机完成,也可以由专业测试人员,坐在你面前并对你说,"让我们记录所有,最近24小时你所吃的东西",然后你需要回忆,最近24小时内吃了什么

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Like in high school, every day I would be in school for like six and half hours.

我在高中的时候，每天都会在学校学习六个半小时。

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