We had so much to do, such as preparing for the dinner, setting the tables, and organizing the kids to come in, that we had no time to have a rest.

我们有很多事情要做，比如准备晚餐，摆桌子，组织孩子们进场，以至于我们没有时间休息。

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No, we had important business before dinner.

不，我们晚饭前还有重要的事。

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She resolved to give her the information herself, and therefore charged Mr. Collins, when he returned to Longbourn to dinner, to drop no hint of what had passed before any of the family.

于是她决定亲自把这件事告诉她，嘱咐柯林斯先生回到浪博恩吃饭的时候，不要在班纳特家里任何人面前透露一点风声。

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Unexpectedly, the young civil-rights lawyer with whom there had been a sensed mutual attraction, taken no further than dinner and a cinema date, also offered himself perhaps a move toward the love affair that was coming anyway.

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No one had told me I could not go out for dinner.

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The landlord of a pub where Stone sometimes drinks wanted to remain anonymous but said the singer made "no fuss" when she once had to be turned away having failed to book a table for dinner.

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