I'd been coming to Cuba for nearly 20 years, but what I kept thinking of was an exchange I'd had with Susan Chira, then the Foreign Desk editor, back in 2006 when Fidel first fell ill.

近20年里我经常来古巴，但那时我一直在想的却是2006年菲德尔第一次生病时，我和时任国际新闻部编辑苏珊·希拉（Susan Chira）的一次交谈。

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When I was features editor on a daily paper, I had lunch away from my desk once in five years.

当我作一家日报的特写编辑时，五年中只有一天午餐不是在办公桌上吃的。

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"You'd be able to buy a desk that charged any gadget placed on it, or power any PC you put on top," said James Holland, editor of gadgets website Electricpig.co.uk.

“买一张桌子你就可以给上面任何的小玩意儿进行充电，或者给放在上面的任何一台PC供电”，小器件网站Electricpig . co . uk的编辑James Holland说。

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The worst moment for him came when he had to comment on an internal NoW email in which a news desk editor asks a star reporter to "call in those bottles of champagne" by getting Mr Yates to spill the beans about a terrorism plot.

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Rather like my news editor, the desk sergeant would probably have shrugged and suggested the complainant worried about proper crime.

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He has also been an editor at the markets desk of Forbes.com and a reporter at Forbes magazine.

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