Calling Banks or insurance companies, buying tickets and booking restaurant tables were included in the conversations used to calculate the time spent on the phone. Work calls, however, were not.

这份调查不包括涉及工作的电话，但是包括了与银行或保险公司通话，或是买票和餐馆订座等电话。

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After blowing past my deadline to turn in all the files to my employer, I'd been ducking calls from Sully's office, buying time to finish up.

在超出把所有文件上交给我的雇主的最后期限后，我就一直在回避来自苏利办公室的电话，拖延时间来完成编辑。

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Calling Banks or insurance companies, buying tickets and booking restaurant tables were included in the conversations used to calculate the time spent on the phone. Work calls, however, were not.

这份调查不包括牵扯到工作的电话，但是包括了与银行或保险公司通话，或是买票和餐馆订座等电话。

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The tariff has spurred a wave of anti-American Internet postings in China, with calls for Beijing to stop buying U.S.bonds.

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