For most of the book Achilles, a prototype of the talented jerk, is on strike.

在这本书里，恃才傲物者的原型阿喀琉斯大部分间都处于罢状态。

Workers at Boeing have been on strike for more than two weeks.

波音公司的已经罢两周多了。

Speaking of machines, the workers who operate Boeings are on strike.

说到机器，操作波音飞机的正在罢。

Autoworkers are on strike. Energy prices have been rising pretty steadily.

汽正在罢。能源价格一直在稳步上涨。

The construction workers are on strike again.

建筑再次罢。

Train drivers and postal workers were on strike, and so were nurses, teachers and public defence lawyers.

火司机和邮政罢了，护士、教师和公设辩护律师也罢了。

Yeah, for the first time since the 1960's — both Hollywood actors and writers are on strike.

是的，这是自上世纪 60 年代后，好莱坞演员和编剧们第一次罢。

Actors who were on strike did not sit for interviews or talk about their movies and television shows.

参加罢的演员不接受采访，也不会谈论他们的电影和电视剧。

The writers have to to be on strike when this episode was written.

- 写这一集，编剧们必须罢。

Not all production will stop immediately, and not all automakers are on strike.

并不是所有的生产都将立即停止，也不是所有的汽制造商都罢。

That was when the refs were on strike.

那是裁判罢的候。

That hit one of the picketers who was on strike.

这击中了一名正在罢的纠察员。

Full disclosure - we are members of the SAG-AFTRA union, part of which is on strike.

全面披露 - 我们是 SAG-AFTRA 会的成员，该会的一部分正在进行罢。

Obviously, the people who were on strike were not very happy, and they got even more violent.

很明显， 罢的不是很高兴，而且更加暴力了。

You're a member of the Screen Actors Guild and are on strike and shouldn't be talking about that.

你是演员会的成员，正在罢，不应该谈论这个。

Now, because the writers are on strike, TV networks are having to show the same programmes again — they've already shown them.

现在，由于编剧们罢，电视网络不得不重新播放同样的节目——他们已经播放过的节目。

To cross the picket line means to go and work for the company even though the workers are on strike.

越过纠察线意味着即使罢也要去为公司作。

Tulika Bose: Yeah, for the first time since the 1960's — both Hollywood actors and writers are on strike.

Tulika Bose：是的，这是自 20 世纪 60 年代以来的第一次——好莱坞演员和作家都在罢。

Because of the heat, even screenwriters who have been on strike for weeks have limited the number of hours they spend outside picketing.

由于天气炎热，就连已经罢数周的编剧们也减少了在户外抗议的间。

The 500 UK motors workers who had been on strike in High Town for the past three weeks went back to work this morning.

过去的三周，有500名英国汽在高城罢，今早已返回作岗位。