Hours of feverish activity lay ahead. The tents had to be erected, the stalls set up.

长达数小时紧张忙乱的活动就在前面，帐篷要支起来，摊位要搭起来。

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It took me about two hours to pluck up the courage to call.

大约两小时后我才鼓起勇气打了电话。

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See if you can rework your schedule and come up with practical ways to reduce the number of hours you're on call.

看看你能否修改你的时间表，想出切实可行的方法来减少你待命的时间。

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This speeded up the spacecraft to reach Earth nine hours sooner.

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Another value for community learning we set up to have office hours, synchronized office hours, with the students and the professor.

学习社群的另一个价值,在于给学生和教授，制定办公时间，有规律的办公时间。

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where you show up about 2 hours before the show,

演出开场前两小时你到场，

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The situation became fraught, and in the hours leading up to the family vote Mr. Cox Jr. was briefly admitted to a hospital in Massachusetts for diabetic shock.

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At Bar e Lanchonete dos Esportes, a bar on the street outside the stadium, English and Brazilian fans posed for photos and fraternized together in the hours leading up to the game.

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Asked about reports the couple had been arguing in the hours leading up to the crash, the police said they were treating the incident as a traffic accident, not a domestic issue.

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