Since Mr. Bennett was going to need some time off work, he asked for a sick note.

因为本内特先生需要请假一段时间，所以他要求开一张病假条。

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The doctor gave me a sick note for stress.

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GPs tend to give their own patients the benefit of the doubt, and a worker who feigns illness and gets a sick-note to wave under the boss's nose is harder to manage than one who has been tackled at an earlier stage.

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This began three years ago, when the old "sick note" became a "fit note".

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