她下星期要参加考试,所以在开夜车。
She takes her exams next week, so she's burning the midnight oil.
他好几个晚上开夜车学习。
你要是平时努力学习,考前就不用整晚开夜车了。
If you work hard at other times you won't have to sit up all night before the exam.
我的朋友尼娜常常开夜车工作,天亮了才上床睡觉。她是个夜猫子。
My friend Nina often burns the midnight oil and goes to bed at daybreak. She's a night owl.
大多数人在半夜时都在睡觉,但如果我开夜车的话,我那时正在工作。
Most people are sleeping by midnight, but if I am burning the midnight oil, I am working at that time.
有时候,我为了最后期限前完成工作,无可避免地开夜车、放弃周末加班。
Inevitably sometimes I'll end up working evenings and weekends to meet deadline.
不过﹐有时任务压得很紧﹐得开夜车的时候﹐抽烟可以提神﹐给我灵感。
However, sometimes when stress from my workload is overwhelming, and I have to stay up all night, smoking can refresh oneself, and provide me with inspiration.
我不需要开夜车,因为我整个一学期都在学习。你要开夜车,因为你平时不学习。
You wouldn't have to pull an all-nighter because you have been studying all semester, I haven't been.
考试前开夜车,那也许能考个好分数,但从长远来看,平时用功才能真正取的学业成功。
You may score good marks by burning the midnight oil before the exams, but in the long run you have to study hard every day to achieve academic excellence.
我的新年决心是戒掉时常外出就餐的习惯,放弃每天都开夜车的习惯,并减少我在电脑前面坐着的时间。
My resolution this year is to quit eating out so often, to give up on sleeping so late all the time, and to cut back on my hours in front of the computer.
但如果置之不理直到最后一分种的话就好象建立一个超大的库存,然后企图用开夜车的方式度过最后的阶段。
But leaving it until the last minute would be analogous to building up an enormous inventory and then attempting to burn the midnight oil to get it through the final stage.
我为了英语考试开夜车,一直开到早上四点,抓紧最后一分钟来学习。等到我最后躺下睡觉,我一点都睡不着。
I stayed up till four am for the last minute study for the English exam, and when I finally did lie down, I couldn't sleep a wink.
接着我开启了我的公路之旅,独自一人开夜车让我觉得好过些,我大声讲话,让情绪发泄,这样不至于在白天失控爆发。
So I left, and took a road trip. Driving always helped me get better for the night. I drive alone and talk out loud and let it all out so I don't burst up and explode during the day.
看,现在已经到了签订这份合同的最后时刻了。如果我们不能在明天早上十点以前把合同发送给顾客的话,这笔生意就全丢了,所以必要的话我们开夜车也得把合同赶写出来。
Look, it's the eleventh hour for getting this contract signed! If we don't deliver it to the customer by ten am tomorrow, we lose the whole deal, so we'll work all night if we have to.
看,现在已经到了签订这份合同的最后时刻了。如果我们不能在明天早上十点以前把合同发送给顾客的话,这笔生意就全丢了,所以必要的话我们开夜车也得把合同赶写出来。
Look, it's the eleventh hour for getting this contract signed! If we don't deliver it to the customer by ten am tomorrow, we lose the whole deal, so we'll work all night if we have to.
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