He couldn't expect to hold a decent job when he may be incapacitated for forty-eight hours.

当他可能会失去工作能力四十八小时时， 他无法指望找到一份体面的工作。

So far as the question of a future abode was concerned both of them were incapacitated for a week.

就未来住所的问题而言，他们两人都被剥夺了一个星期的生活能力。