nine-to-five
九到五,九至五,朝九晚五,九至五岁
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Informal.
- : of, relating to, or during the workday, especially the hours from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. when offices are characteristically open for business: the nine-to-five grind.
- : of, reflecting, or exhibiting a lack of willingness to work beyond the required amount of time or with more than minimal effort: With your nine-to-five mentality, you'll never get a promotion.
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“It was Stephen Hawking and five other Nobel laureates,” Krauss recalled.
The Big Five banks dubbed too big to fail, are 35 percent bigger than they were when the meltdown was triggered.
The judges who handle arraignments at criminal court in all five boroughs have a small fraction of their usual caseloads.
What 15 months in a federal correction institution will be like, according to a man who counsels to-be inmates.
After four or five months of casual interaction, they realized they both had lost a young parent to cancer.
Each day she resolved, "To-morrow I will tell Felipe;" and when to-morrow came, she put it off again.
I presume the twenty-five or thirty miles at this end is unhealthy, even for natives, but it surely need not be so.
In nine days he returned, bringing us the thanks of congress, and fresh orders.
All the operations of her brain related themselves somehow to to-morrow afternoon.
Five of the number had studied with Liszt before, and the young men are artists already before the public.