Why did the chief conductor go off duty without approval?

列车长怎么不经批准就擅自休班了？

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Those women would be up at 5.30, making breakfast for their men, packed lunches for their children and then they'd go off and work on these heavy-duty pieces of equipment.

那些女人通常得在5点半起床、准备丈夫的早餐、孩子的便当，然后出门，从事繁重的工厂作业。

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Every employee must go to work on time and fulfill his obligations and absence, late-coming or early off-duty is not accepted if there is no prior approval of the supervisor.

为确保业务活动顺利有效地开展，所有员工必须准时报到工作，按时履行职责，未经员工所在部门主管同意，员工不得缺勤、迟到或早退。

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Several hours later two of us managed to get off duty to go over and see our room.

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