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A one-hour flight is now billed as a two-hour flight.

一小时的航班现在被标为两小时的航班。

First two hours, now three hours — this is how far in advance authorities are recommending people show up to catch a domestic flight, at least at some major U.S. airports with increasingly massive security lines.

先是两小时，现在是三小时——这是当局建议人们为赶国内航班提前到达机场的时间，至少在一些安检队伍越来越长的美国大型机场是这样。

First two hours, now three hours — this is how far in advance authorities are recommending people show up to catch a domestic flight, at least at some major U.S. airports with increasingly massive security lines.

先是两小时，现在是三小时——这是当局建议人们为赶国内航班提前到达机场的时间，至少在一些安检队伍越来越长的美国大型机场是这样。

Runners range from four years old to grandparents; their times range from Andrew Baddeley’s world record 13 minutes 48 seconds up to an hour.

跑步者从四岁孩童到祖父母辈都有；他们的用时从安德鲁·巴德利创下的13分48秒的世界纪录到一个小时不等。

The opposition claims primary school pupils doing at least two hours of sport a week have nearly halved.

反对党称，每周至少进行两小时体育运动的小学生人数几乎减少了一半。

Mr. Roth has three community-college students enrolled in a work-placement program, with a starting wage of $13 an hour that rises to $17 after two years.

罗斯先生招收了三名社区大学的学生参加一个实习项目，起薪为每小时13美元，两年后涨到17美元。

While their parents were content to work long hours, young people value flexibility.

他们的父母满足于长时间工作，而年轻人则看重灵活性。

“The future comes at us like empty bottles along an unstoppable and nearly infinite conveyor belt,” writes Gary Eberle in his book Sacred Time, and “we feel a pressure to fill these different-sized bottles (days, hours, minutes) as they pass, for if they get by without being filled, we will have wasted them.”

加里·埃伯利在他的《神圣时间》一书中写道：“未来像一个个空瓶子沿着一条无法停止、几乎无限长的传送带向我们涌来”，并且“我们感到一种压力，要在这些大小不一的瓶子（日、时、分）经过时将其装满，因为如果它们未被装满就溜走了，我们就浪费了它们。”

The bargain is very pure: Employee puts in hours of physical or mental labor and employee draws out life-sustaining moola.

这种交易非常纯粹：雇员投入若干小时的体力或脑力劳动，然后领取维持生计的钱。

But the article is actually quite optimistic, as it outlines a potential solution to this problem, suggesting that an approach (which involves a one-hour, next-to-no-cost program) can close 63 percent of the achievement gap (measured by such factors as grades) between first-generation and other students.

但这篇文章实际上相当乐观，因为它概述了解决这一问题的一个可能方案，提出一种方法（包括一个时长一小时、几乎零成本的项目）可以将第一代大学生与其他学生之间的成就差距（以成绩等因素衡量）缩小63%。

The survey used by the Labor Department asks people if they worked less than 35 hours in the reference week.

劳工部所用的调查会询问人们在参考周内的工作时间是否少于35小时。

The survey then asks whether they worked less than 35 hours in that week because they wanted to work less than full time or because they had no choice.

调查接着会问，他们那一周工作不足35小时，是因为他们想做非全职工作，还是因为别无选择。

They are only classified as voluntary part-time workers if they tell the survey taker they chose to work less than 35 hours a week.

只有当他们告诉调查人员自己是主动选择每周工作不足35小时时，才会被归为自愿兼职者。