Wade was going to be paid a salary, instead of by the hour, whether he put in forty hours or not.

韦德将领月薪，而不是小时工资，无论他是否干够40个小时。

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The telephones are manned 24 hours a day by volunteers.

每天24小时都有志愿者接听电话。

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They have extended the deadline by twenty-four hours.

他们已经将最后期限延长了24小时。

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She could stand for hours making her way little by little toward the desired object that was selling below cost.

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So, I make a pledge. You give me seven hours a week, you will pass this class, not just by the skin of your teeth. You will pass it.

我保证，你们要是一周学习7个小时，肯定可以通过这门课，一点都不惊险，你们会通过的。

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You could come by during my office hours, which are on the syllabus, and you could send me e-mail and set up an appointment.

你们可以在我的办公时间来找我,教学大纲上有写我的办公时间,你们也可以通过电子邮件跟我预约

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Two, these companies were shocked by the hours we were estimating to give them the answers or the resolutions they sought.

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Then, too, the sort of people who torch cars and smash plate-glass windows to get at the jewelry and televisions inside are not, we suspect, highly correlated with those most put out by the reduced hours at the local library.

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Having secured the business district by the early hours of Monday, the police said officers were searching for protesters hiding in nearby buildings.

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