The next day, when I was about to go off work, the man came.

第二天下午快到下班的时候，那男人来了。

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He could not get time off work to go on holiday.

他难以从工作中抽出时间去休假。

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Every year thousands of young people in England finish school and then take a year off before they start work or go to university.

在英国，每年都有成千上万的年轻人完成学业，然后在开始工作或上大学之前休息一年。

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"You see families function in a normal way, where the parents go off to work, the kids go off to school, " she said.

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" As he wound down, he noted that many members of his graduating class would go off to work for "banks, banking markets, market houses and stocking marts.

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One mother said it was "not fair that only well off people are able to choose how long they can spend off work while poorer people have to go back to work".

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