Nine decades ago, leading economists predicted that technological advances and rising productivity would mean that would be working a 15-hour week.
90年前,知名经济学家曾预测,技术进步和生产率提高意味着每周工作时间将达到15小时。
After that, when the scavengers came to him with grievances one week, he decided to try their work, scraping out latrines for nine hours a day.
之后,有一天当清除污物者带着他们冤情来到他这里时,他决定去尝试一下他们的工作,每天清扫厕所九个小时。
“Licht”, which proposed an opera for every day of the week, needed five orchestras, nine choirs and seven concert halls.
“光明”是被提议每天都用歌剧表演的作品,这部作品需要五个交响乐团、九个唱诗班与七个音乐厅。
And I pray that you will use the nine steps we've covered this week to make the rest of your life the best years of your life.
我也祈祷我们这个星期所涉及的九个步骤能使你活出最精彩的余生。
Seventy-nine years ago this week, the New York Stock Exchange experienced the worst financial panic the country had ever seen.
七十九年前的这个星期,纽约股市正在经历一场前所未有的金融恐慌。
Nine-year-old Nujood al-Ahdal, whose marriage was terminated by a court last week, attends a news conference with her lawyer Shatha Nasser in Sanaa, Yemen, April 21, 2008.
9岁的努鸠德 阿尔阿德尔,上周刚被法庭解除婚姻,此时在也门的萨那,同他的律师萨舍 那瑟列席一场新闻发布会(2008年4月21日)。
Japan is continuing its attempts to cool damaged reactors and exposed fuel rods at the crippled coastal nuclear power plant hit by the tsunami following the magnitude nine earthquake a week ago.
一个星期前发生的9级强震引发的海啸袭击了日本沿海的一座核电站,使其陷于瘫痪。日本正在继续努力冷却该核电站损毁的反应堆和曝露的燃料棒。
Brain scans showed those who played for more than nine hours a week produced more of the "feel-good" chemical dopamine.
脑部扫描显示,那些一周玩游戏超过九个小时的青少年大脑中会产生更多的“感觉良好”多巴胺。
When Ms Estemirova's colleagues walked into her flat last week they saw this photograph: five small bodies lying in a row, from five years down to nine months.
爱斯蒂米洛娃女士的同事们上周来到她的公寓,见到了这张照片:五个孩子的小小的尸体排成一排,最小的九个月,最大的也不过五岁。
Overall, 201 high school students completed sleep habit surveys before and after the nine-week experiment last year.
总的来说,有201名中学生在去年历时九周的试验前后完成了关于睡眠习惯的调查。
The ashes of the last survivor, a child of just nine weeks when the giant vessel went down, were scattered at sea last week after her death at 97.
上周泰坦尼克事件最后的幸存者逝世,享年97岁,死后其骨灰洒落海中;而当这艘巨轮沉没时,她还是出生仅9个星期的婴儿。
About nine in 10 Americans say they will share a Thanksgiving meal next week with family, sitting at a table with 12 people on average.
十个美国人中就有九个说他们将于下周跟家人一起共进感恩节晚餐,平均12个人围成一桌。
Last week a study of one hundred ninety-nine countries and territories confirmed what many people may have already noticed. People around the world are getting fatter.
上周,一份对199个国家和地区的研究证实了许多人可能早已注意到的一个问题——世界各地的人们正越来越胖。
Those who work a five day week may work hours other than the typical "nine to five."
而那些每周5天工作日的上班制度也不是通常所说的朝九晚五。
Yet, before this week, there were signs of promise of better time ahead for its nine million people.
然而,本周前,对于它的九百万人民来说已经有迹象表明美好的时光已在前方。
Across the UK, 82 deaths have been linked to the virus, with 70 in England (up three in the last week), nine in Scotland, one in Wales and two in Northern Ireland.
全英国,有82有例死亡与流感病毒有关。英格兰有70例(上周增加了3例),苏格兰9例,威尔斯1例以及北爱尔兰2例。
Currently he works nine hours a day, five days a week as a waiter making 1, 000 yen an hour, and on his days off he secludes himself in his studio apartment.
目前,他做服务员,每天工作9个小时,每周工作五天,一个小时挣1000日元。休息时间他隐居在自己的公寓套房。
The giant 30-year-old Houston Rockets centre is expected to announce his retirement a week tomorrow in his home city of Shanghai, after nine seasons in the NBA.
30岁的火箭队的巨人中锋预计将在一周后的明天在他的家乡上海宣布退役,他已经在NBA度过了9个赛季。
The agency presented 36 possible warnings in November and, after weeding through 1,700 comments, issued nine new warnings this week.
该机构于当年11月提出了36种备选标志,通过1700条评论对其进行淘汰,于本周发布了9种新警告标志。
The agency presented 36 possible warnings in November and, after weeding through 1, 700 comments, issued nine new warnings this week.
该机构于当年11月提出了36种备选标志,通过1700条评论对其进行淘汰,于本周发布了9种新警告标志。
Even nine-week old puppies found the food, suggesting the skill is there before training.
甚至是9周大的小狗都能找到食物,说明这种能力并非后天受训。
The Dow Jones Industrial Average has risen more than 8 percent during its nine-week rally.
道琼斯工业平均指数在此前9周的时间里已经上涨8%。
In the United States, "Vision of Love" entered the Billboard Hot 100 at number 73 in the week of June 2, 1990, and it reached number 1 nine weeks later.
在美国,《爱的视线》在1990年7月2日进入公示牌单曲榜排名73;9周后到达榜首。
Jackie: Certainly. By the way, our office hours are nine to five, Monday through Friday. I will call you in a week if you got the job.
杰克:当然。顺便说一下,我们的工作时间是周一到周五,每天早九点到下午五点。如果你一经录用,我一周之内会电话联系你。
He's eight months old. He'll be nine months next week. He's really growing fast.
他八个月大。他下星期就九个月了。他真的长得很快。
Billy: I had five suits, nine shirts and two pairs of shorts made in one week.
比利:我做了五套西装、九件衬衫和两条短裤,花了一个星期。
I think it is easy to get the idea from the media that, except in unusual cases, everyone works from nine in the morning to five in the evening, five days a week, in an office or plant of some kind.
我认为很容易从媒体得出观点,除了特殊情况下,每个人在办公室或工厂都应该从早上九点工作到晚上五点,一星期工作五天。
I think it is easy to get the idea from the media that, except in unusual cases, everyone works from nine in the morning to five in the evening, five days a week, in an office or plant of some kind.
我认为很容易从媒体得出观点,除了特殊情况下,每个人在办公室或工厂都应该从早上九点工作到晚上五点,一星期工作五天。
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