Do you like to be asked to stay late at work by your boss? Why?

你喜欢被老板要求推迟下班吗？为什么？

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Although my girlfriend didn't want to stay the night, we stayed up late because neither of us was at work the next day.

尽管女朋友没打算在我那里过夜，我们还是玩到很晚，因为第二天我们俩都不用工作。

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I often had to prepare my lectures late in the evening before the day I delivered them. To stay awake, I did a lot of my work at the Elm Street Diner, about a block away from our house.

我经常得在上课的前一天晚上备课，为了不打瞌睡，我的很多工作都是距离我们房子一个街区的埃尔姆街餐馆里完成的。

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Are husbands washing and folding the clothes while their wives stay at work late to finish a project?

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So what can you do to avoid the stay-late work pattern or at least avoid its negative consequences?

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Look at our parents who catch the first bus to work, and our students who stay up late to earn a degree.

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