Lifestyle can really throw a monkey-wrench in the process, no matter how dedicated the sleeper wants to be: no amount of iron will can compensate for a hectic work-schedule, or kids, etc.

生活方式总是会让这个过程进行得不那么顺利，不管实践者怎样努力，再多铁一般的意志也弥补不了一个繁忙的工作日程或者照顾孩子等等。

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Despite his hectic work schedule, Benny has rarely suffered poor health.

尽管工作安排很紧张，班尼却少有健康不佳的时候。

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Ms. Carey appeared to blame her breakdown on EMI's punishing work schedule.

凯丽女士看来是将自己的崩溃归咎于百代公司紧张的工作安排。

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He manages to juggle these commitments with a fiercely punishing work schedule -- by the time he plays at Cream nightclub's closing event in Ibiza in late September he will have played 71 gigs in 2008 at venues as far apart as Puerto Rico and Japan.

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Achieving his ambition of being a billionaire at 40--which he turned in January--hasn't changed Shah's lifestyle or fast-paced work schedule much.

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First Solar plans to idle half of its German factory and has applied for a government assistance program to put about 1, 200 employees there on a part-time work schedule, the company said Thursday.

FORBES: First Solar To Idle Half Of Its Germany Factory