Are you going to the pub tonight?
你今晚去酒吧嗎?
I'm afraid I cannot.The company is going public,and I have to pull some extra hours.
span style="color:#006400">恐怕我不能去了,公司馬上要上市了,我得加班。
Are you done with your copies?
你的廣告文案寫完了嗎?
No.I have to pull some extra hours tonight.
還沒呢。我今晚上得加班了。
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I have to work late.
I have to pull some extra hours.
這里的pull extra hours相當于pull extra hours to work,字面意思是“調用額外的時間(來工作)”,這里要注意對extra的強調。當然,沒有人是喜歡加班的,所以,說這句話的時候一般都充滿了抱怨的語氣。