35% of staff time was being spent on repeating work, about the average for a service industry.

员工35%的时间花费在重复劳动上，大约是服务业的一般水平。

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The government, which has stepped back from its traditional role as a regulator of work time should take steps to make shorter hours possible.

政府已经从其传统的工作时间调节器的角色上退休了，并应该采取措施，使更短的工作时间成为可能。

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He began to work on one of his long-time dreams - opening a sports center for the young people of San Juan.

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Just it gives me a time to adjust between home and work and back again, that allows for appreciation of those things.

这给了我时间来调整每天从家里到学校,两点一线的重复生活，让我,来欣赏这些事物。

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But there seems to be as much, if not maybe a bit more work in terms of part-time and short-term jobs.

但是就兼职和短期工而言，工作似乎没变少，可能还更多了。

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Even making relatively small changes can take a lot of work, a long time, and a lot of money.

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The one thing we do know, however, is that once a reputation is marred, it takes a lot of hard work, and a long period of time, to regain its luster.

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The sketch, a preparatory drawing for one of the vertical box assemblages that were a frequent theme of Judd's work at the time, could easily be mistaken for a floor plan of the building, a series of stacked volumes one atop the other.

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