We routinely answer email in the hours after dinner (remember the old idea of "personal time"?) because there's no way to get through it during the business day.

我们日复一日地每日晚餐后回复邮件，因为白天工作时间内根本没有空闲来处理。 嗨，还记得“个人时间”的老观念么？

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Miss Sophy Jackson has just been here. She brought word that her brother would come in after dinner: she couldn't say very much, because he forbade her to: he wishes to give all the details himself.

索菲·杰克逊小姐刚才来过，捎话说她哥哥晚饭后要来我们家；她不能多讲，因为他不许她讲，他要亲自告诉我们全部细节。

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Evelyn's seven-year-old son complained that he hated it when she talked on the phone after dinner because he wanted her to be available for help when he did his homework.

伊夫林7岁的儿子抱怨说他讨厌她时，他妈妈晚饭后给他打电话让他倾诉，他想要妈妈在他做家庭作业的时候帮助他。

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Lee said the two often wanted to have McDonalds because they were still hungry after dinner, which on a recent night was meager portions of rice, vegetables and meat.

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She told me that after a recent blind date, the guy demanded she reimburse him for half the price of dinner because she declined to go out with him again.

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