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    Please translate this...and who is it referring to?

    спать хотят все время. THANKS

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    хотеть спать - to want to sleep
    хотят - they want
    всё время - all the time (mostly written without the trema ¨ on the e )

    They want to sleep all the time.

    Context would be needed to assume any more meaning than that.
    "В тёмные времена хорошо видно светлых людей."
    - A quote, that only exists in Russian. Erich Maria Remarque

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