I have another friend who took his future wife to their favorite Thai food restaurant and arranged for the waiter to present the ring on top of her dinner plate.

我的另一位朋友把他未来的妻子带到他们最爱的泰国餐厅，安排侍者把求婚戒指放在餐厅托盘上捧出。

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Poverty is an abnormality to rich people. It is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.

对于富人来说，贫穷是不可理解的异常现象：他们怎么也弄不明白，那些想要吃饭的人，为什么不摇铃让人送来呢？

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As I was sitting down to dinner, the telephone must ring.

我正要坐下吃晚饭时，偏偏电话响了。

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Those who do use them to call colleagues to arrange work meetings, phone and text friends to set up dinner dates and ring home to check in on their babies.

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They could sit in their rooms watching TV while the phones ring off their hooks, the dirty dishes pile up in the sink, dinner burns on the stove and the babies scream their lungs out.

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