Delays must be made up by adjusting future work, rather than asking for more time.

延迟必须通过调整未来工作进行弥补，而不是要求更多时间。

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She is not asking for more time off (she works twelve hours a day and rarely takes a vacation).

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The three parties in the government are asking for more time to make the cuts, but its international creditors have lost patience.

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That skepticism is even deeper for Belgium, which is asking for more time after cutting its structural deficit by just 0.4 percentage point of GDP over three years.

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