We had discovered that the Taj was going to reopen that afternoon. Somehow, we managed to get an invitation.

12月21日星期天是我们在孟买的最后一天，我们发现泰姬酒店在那个下午就要重新开张了，我们设法拿到了请柬。

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Harry Potter is an orphan who has been raised in a stifling suburban house. At the age of 11 he is surprised to get an invitation to attend Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

哈利·波特在城郊一个让人窒息的家庭长大，11岁那年收到霍格·沃兹魔法学校的入学通知，倍感惊奇。

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How can he get an invitation to the girl's upcoming birthday party?

他怎么才能被邀请去那个小姑娘即将到来的生日派对呢？

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But on his only mission to the region, earlier this month, he did not get an invitation to visit Pyongyang.

VOA: standard.2009.03.25

Secretary Clinton said Wednesday that Bosworth had been prepared to travel to North Korea "at a moment's notice" during his first mission to the region last week, but said he regrettably did not get an invitation to do so.

VOA: standard.2009.03.12

Back in 2000, they considered launching legal action against the race organisers after they failed to get an invitation.

BBC: Jean Delatour

Mr Bush recently noted that Mr Chirac was unlikely to get an early invitation to his Crawford ranch.

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It used to be that if you wanted to get access to cutting-edge ideas in technology, you needed an invitation to an exclusive conference like TED, or to attend a university like MIT.

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