No one wanted to work on Christmas Eve, so the shift went to me. I kissed my family goodbye and went off to spend the night in the hospital.

实习期一过，我就迁到加州的伍德兰希尔斯，到小社区医院的急救室上班，作为新人，只有值圣诞节前夕的夜班，我与家人告别，来到了单调冷清的医院。

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Twenty percent of workers doze off during night shift. People aren't machines.

百分之二十的工作者在夜班工作的时候都困，人又不是机器。

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At 8 a.m. in Shenzhen, the young women on the night shift got up from the assembly line, took off the hats and hairnets they had been wearing, and shook out their dark hair.

8点钟的深圳。上夜班的年轻女工们从装配线上起来，摘下一直戴着的帽子和发罩，然后甩开她们的黑发。

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The line was long with residents in scrubs coming off the night shift, looking as bleary as I did.

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Dr Roger Duckitt, a specialist registrar in acute medicine in Worthing, Sussex was knocked off his motorbike on the way home from a night shift by a car pulling out from parked traffic.

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So fresh off an all-day shift, he barreled down the highway and battled the blaze all night with thousands of others.

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