There was a machine in the kitchen which could extract the juice of two hundred oranges in half an hour if a little button was pressed two hundred times by a butler's thumb.

厨房里有一台机器，只要管家用拇指按下小按钮两百次，半小时就能榨出两百个橙子的汁。

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And so we grow up to be in busy mode most of the week, and if we're lucky we get a day or two, maybe only an hour or two of relaxed mode.

所以当我们长大的时候，我们会在一周的大部分时间里处于忙碌的状态，如果我们够幸运的话，或许会有一两天，或者一两个小时的放松时间。

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Seattle is only a two and a half hour drive south and San Francisco is a two-hour flight away.

西雅图在这儿往南仅两小时半车程的地方，圣弗朗西斯科距此则是两小时飞机的路程。

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This year there are some two-hour plays. There used to be just an hour play and a lot of monologues."

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They are very aggressive to be type-A people who just simply made two extra hours out of their 24-hour day.

他们渴望成为上等人,甚至希望每天,能多过两个小时。

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But then next time it will be a two-hour movie, Citizen Kane so that the course is very compressed.

下次课会是一部两小时的电影，《公民凯恩》,所以上课时间很紧。

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Second week: two 12-hour days, three days off, followed by two 12-hour days.

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We never feel that anyone involved in making this multimillion-dollar, two-hour-and-twenty-one-minute spectacle had any real affection for the story.

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Paired with the two-a-day yoga classes and a two-hour hike in the Hither Hills, it was a recipe perfectly poised to shred your body in short order.

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