For a business appointment, it is considered proper to be five minutes early, but never late.

对于一个商务约会，提早五分钟到是很合适的，但一定不要迟到。

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I have a meeting to attend. It's a business appointment. It's very important for my company.

我有会议要参加。那是商务约会。那对我的公司非常重要。

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I have a business appointment for next week.

下星期我有个公事约会。

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Part of Tobias' business is running a mobile clinic, where for your dental appointment, the surgery - and the dentist - turns up on your doorstep.

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"People have been allowed to have a business outside their academic appointment, and I think that has been outstanding for the U.S.--a big advantage over Europe, " says Novartis Chief Executive Dr. Daniel Vasella .

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But no President has ever tried to make a recess appointment when the Senate itself is holding that it is in session available for business, and not in a recess, as Obama tried to do.

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