Is there really anything wrong with multitasking and taking the occasional call during dinner, or checking E-mail while you are in a meeting?

当你进行多重任务，晚餐时接听一通偶然的电话或是在会上查看你的电邮。真的有什么不妥么？

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To those disturbances in my home life was added the occasional presence of my older brother, an off-shore worker whose visits home I dreaded like a call from the Stasi.

家庭生活中的扰乱在加上我作为离岸作业工人的弟弟的偶而回家，我就像接到从东德打过来的一个电话一样可怕。

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It's true that the occasional sodium-filled microwave dinner or slice of double-cheese pizza is nothing to call the EMTs about, especially if you're generally healthy.

事实上偶尔的食用富含钠的微波食品或者双层芝士披萨是不会严重到需要救护人员的帮助，尤其是如果你大体健康的时候。

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For the occasional phone call, we found classic red British telephone booths and assembled three of them along one wall.

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