In Britain millions of commuters now take at least an hour to get to work and the number of commuters travelling for more than an hour has risen by 22 per cent in the past decade.

在英国，数百万的乘车上下班者现在至少要花一个小时才能到达工作地点，而且在过去十年内，在上下班路程上花费超过一小时的上班族人数增加了22%。

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In a work by the hour society it is easy to see how the saying time equals money came about.

在一个按小时工作的社会中，很容易明白时间等于金钱的说法是怎么来的。

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Look, it's the eleventh hour for getting this contract signed! If we don't deliver it to the customer by ten am tomorrow, we lose the whole deal, so we'll work all night if we have to.

看，现在已经到了签订这份合同的最后时刻了。如果我们不能在明天早上十点以前把合同发送给顾客的话，这笔生意就全丢了，所以必要的话我们开夜车也得把合同赶写出来。

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By exporting jobs, the U.S. has outsourced the less scalable and more linear components of production, assigning them to the citizens of more mathematical and culturally rigid states, who are happy to be paid by the hour to work on other people's ideas.

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Others, sensing the limitation of being paid by the hour, are trying to develop new ways to capture the value their work can create.

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The European Union, by contrast, forbids employers to pay less per hour for the same work when it is done part time than when it is done full time.

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