为了确保不发生这种情况，他开始拼命工作，在接亲戚参加他儿子的受洗仪式时还在给客户打电话，还在一次家庭烤肉聚餐时中途离开去和客户谈生意。

To ensure that doesn't happen, he shifts into overdrive, calling clients while ferrying relatives to his son's christening, and breaking away from a family barbecue to contact a customer about a deal.

youdao

在美国许多生意都是通过电话谈的。一般的生意人都花很多时间打电话，接洽生意。

Much business in the United States is conducted on the telephone. The average businessman spends much of his time on the telephone making business contacts.

youdao

所以，要是要跟我谈生意，最好在晚上十点到清早两点之间打电话给我。

So if you want to talk business with me, the best time to phone is from 10 at night until two in the morning.

youdao