Spending a few years abroad, largely on the company dime, sounds almost as good as a paid vacation. Almost.

在海外工作几年时间，而且大部分时候是公司出钱，这听起来几乎就跟公费度假一样完美。

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Nancy Schimkat, an American who lives in Weinheim, Germany, said her German husband, an engineer, gets six weeks of paid vacation a year, plus national holidays -- the norm.

南希.施米卡特是一名住在德国魏因海姆的美国人，她谈到她的德国丈夫是一名工程师，每年有6周的有薪假期，另外还有标准国际节假日。

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When I joined the workforce after college, taking my first job in a factory in the north of France, the company simply shut down in July and everyone took paid vacation.

当我大学毕业后就业，在法国北部的一家工厂开始我的第一份工作。 这家公司一到七月时就关门，大家都去享受带薪休假。

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You got four full weeks of vacation - twice the usual paid time away - and editors got a week of company-paid educational travel to anyplace they wanted to go in the country.

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Unlike the NFL, where teams can break their end of the deal by releasing a player, in baseball getting released is akin to a paid vacation.

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Their contracts obliged them to stay in Afghanistan for six-month periods, after which they received a month of paid vacation.

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The U.S. is the only industrialized nation in the world that does not legally require workers to be provided a set number of paid vacation days.

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