4,000 workers have been idle for 12 of the first 27 weeks of this year.

4千名工人在今年最初的27个星期中有12个星期无事可干。

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The workers have been idle for the last six months.

在过去的六个月，这些工人们都闲着没事干。

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A signal thread handles alarms and forces timeouts on connections that have been idle too long.

一个信号线程处理警报并在闲置时间过长的连接上强制执行超时。

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Slow steaming has created work for a lot of ships that would otherwise have been idle, explains Vincent Clerc, a Maersk executive.

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Clark said that unemployment had risen sharply under Bush, particularly for African-Americans and Hispanics, and that unemployed workers have been idle for longer periods of time than in previous years.

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As the attempted Christmas mass murder of passengers flying from Amsterdam to Detroit demonstrates, our adversaries have not been idle.

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