That brave little animal, the Snail, had taken exactly nine hours to go from the fourth floor to the street.

这只勇敢的小动物，蜗牛，从四楼走到街上花了整整九个小时。

With roughly 48 hours to do the job, Santa only has a little over 0.2 milliseconds to scamper between households.

圣诞老人有大约48个小时来完成这项工作，因此他只有超过0.2毫秒少许的时间在每个住户间疾走。

I sleep less than six hours a night and the job provides no vacations and little money, but the happiness and satisfaction I feel is rewarding enough.

我每晚睡不到6个小时，这份工作没有假期，也没有多少钱，但我感到的快乐和满足已经足够值得了。

James pushed forward, making it to Alcatraz Island and back in a little more than 2 hours.

詹姆斯继续前进，2个多小时内就往返恶魔岛。

The ship sunk in a little under 3 hours.

轮船在3小时不到的时间里沉没了。

From this survey, one can estimate that fewer than one in five children have some contact with a hospital teacher—and that contact may be as little as two hours a day.

从这个调查中，我们可以估计不到五分之一的孩子和医院的老师有过接触——这种接触可能每天只有两个小时。

The children have worked busily but happily for many hours, making the little baskets for the birds.

孩子们忙碌而快乐地工作了好几个小时，为鸟儿做了小篮子。

The little clock tinkled out the hours.

那只小钟丁当丁当地报时。

With little over 24 hours to go, some of the key elements have fallen into place.

在会议仅剩下最后24小时多一点之际，一些关键元素已经到位。

I had little more than three hours of sleep every night because I was just so determined to capture as much as I could.

每天晚上我睡眠的时间不超过三个小时，因为我决心要尽可能地捕捉到更多神奇、壮观的场面。

Short-term stress lasting as little as a few hours can impair brain-cell communication in areas associated with learning and memory, University of California, Irvine researchers have found.

加州大学欧文分校研究人员发现，即使只是几小时的短期压力也扰乱脑细胞间的正常运作，而这些运作正关系到学习和记忆。

Don't over-design this little package! Don't spend hours working on your letterhead and picking special papers for your envelopes and letters.

不要过多的把时间花费在你的信笺抬头设计，和为你的信封和信件选择特别的信纸上面。

In just a few hours our little camp would be descended upon by dozens, perhaps hundreds, of locals coming to join our celebrations at the opening of the project.

再过几个小时，几十上百的当地人就会来到我们小小的营地，参加我们部落开张的庆祝。

At one point, this meant keeping one week worth of inventory on hand, and later as little as two hours' worth of supplies [source: Holzner].

从某个角度来说，这意味着手头只保有一个星期出货量的库存，然后甚至缩减到工厂库存量只相当于两个小时的出货量。

Algae can reproduce rapidly, doubling in as little as a few hours.

藻类可以快速繁殖，仅仅几个小时就能翻倍。

The little girl passed away a few hours later.

小女孩在几小时后逝去。

The big surprise was how taking shelter for as little as several hours made a huge difference in survival rates.

最令人意外的是，仅仅只需躲避几个小时，幸存率就会大为改观。

The train has the world's fastest average speed, traversing 664 miles in a little over three hours.

火车平均时速位居世界第一，三小时内可走完全程664公里。

The outage occurred in one of S3's three geographical sites and lasted a little over two hours.

最近S3经历了一次严重的故障。故障发生在S3分处不同地理位置的三个据点中的一个，持续时间超过两小时。

The dull Settings make the long movie (2 hours and 12 minutes) a little dreary.

沉闷的剧情设置使这部时长2小时12分的电影略显乏味。

The team to finish first -- consisting of three researchers from security firm iDefense -- completed the contest in a little over five hours.

先完成第一个样本的是来自iDefence公司的三个研究人员，花了五小时多一点儿完成比赛。

They multiply rapidly—some species double their biomass in as little as five hours.

硅藻繁殖迅速，有些硅藻物类仅5个小时就能让其生物量翻一番。

All that aside, with the iPad 2 release happening in a little over 24 hours at your local Apple Store, there are two questions that remain.

除此之外，随着iPad 2在各地苹果店的销售时间已经超过24个小时，仍然有两个问题有待解决。

The entire eclipse willlast a little over 5 1/2 hours.

整个月食将会持续5小时30分钟多。

The store I targeted opened at 8 a.m. A little more than two hours early should do the trick.

这家店每天早上8点开门，我想稍微提早个2小时应该足够了。

In regard to time, 30,000 seconds is actually only a little over eight hours.

而以时间的角度，30000秒实际上只有8个多小时。

Surprisingly, less sleep, even as little as four hours a night, didn't significantly increase deaths for men and only lowered survival for women if they averaged less than four hours.

令人惊讶的是，如果睡眠的时间更少，甚至每晚只睡4小时，男性的死亡率并没有明显上升。 而如果女性的平均睡眠小于4小时，她们的寿命则会缩短。