I just-l just need to buy a few hours, that's all.

我只是想拖延几小时 仅此而已。

So, simply by sacrificing coffee for two weeks, they could each afford to buy about one hour of housecleaning through TaskRabbit.

因此，只需牺牲两周的咖啡时间，他们每个人就可以通过 TaskRabbit 购买大约一小时的房屋清洁时间。

With money I buy for cheerful use the hours which otherwise would not in any sense be mine; nay, which would make me their miserable bondsman.

我用金钱买来愉快地使用时间， 否则这些时间在任何意义上都不会属于我； 不，这会让我成为他们可悲的奴隶。

The meter is smart enough to know if you car has had its allowed sixty minutes, so you can't feed the meter and buy another hour.

计价器足够智能，可以知道您的汽车是否已经用完了允许的 60 分钟，因此您不能通过给计价器喂食来再买一个小时。

The vehicle's base price is 500 dollars, which maybe sounds like a lot of money until you consider that, in this neighborhood, that buys you about 20 hours of babysitting.

玩具车的基本价是500美元，听起来可能有点昂贵。不过你想想看，这个价钱等于这里 20 个小时的保母费。