In his first years of high school, Gabriel would look pityingly at the music students, struggling across the campus with their heavy instrument cases, turning up at school for practice hours before anyone else had to be there.

在高中的头几年，加布里埃尔会可怜地看着那些学音乐的学生，他们带着沉重的乐器箱在校园里艰难地穿行，比其他人都早几个小时来到学校练习。

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Consider the grandmother who easily gets up from the floor after playing with her grandchildren for hours. Is this who you want to be?

想一下和小孙子玩了好几个小时还能从地上轻松地站起来的祖母，这是不是你想成为的样子？

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Insisting that he was not "soft on crime" he said that offenders would be given tougher community service punishments involving doing unpaid work for up eight hours a day.

他强调自己并不是对犯罪心慈手软，而是认为罪犯应该被给予社区服务上更严厉的处罚，比如义务劳动每天八小时。

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It can be left at room temperature for up to 12 hours if you like a stronger taste.

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Every available spot of land is taken by a tent, and the usually quiet single road in and out of town can be backed up for hours before, during and after the holiday.

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The team will be trekking for up to 12 hours a day for about 100 days.

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At risk are the elderly, frail and sick whose devotion to their religion means they will be fasting for up to 18 hours a day.

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