Shifts were allegedly routinely over 12 hours long, seven days a week, with no days off for many months, plus mandatory 19 - and 23-hour shifts at busy times such as the pre-Christmas rush.

据称，工人轮班工作时间通常超过12小时，每周要工作7天，常常好几个月都没有休息日，而到了圣诞前期这类繁忙时节，轮班时间更是强制性地增加到19到23小时。

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Andy left early for the airport to arrive two hours before take-off. He hated to rush.

安迪很早就去机场啦以便于提早两小时抵达，(由于)他厌恶赶时间。

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During a rush hours of going off work on a rainy day, a girl student of high school squashed in a city bus, with a box of milk in her hand. Then packed into a crowd of people soon.

一个阴雨天的下班高峰期，一女中学生手拿一盒牛奶上了公共汽车，很快又上来许多人，车内骤然拥挤起来。

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Buses will perform better if more people get off of them in favor of bikes, especially for short-term trips during rush hours, Papandreou said.

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Officials in Washington didn't want a repeat of 2011, when a rush-hour snowstorm stranded commuters for hours, so they told people to stay off the roads and gave workers the day off.

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Brown said the water would be delayed for no more than two hours, just enough time to take the pressure off the power supply during "rush" hour, but that move would not affect residents.

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