It's a pain having to go all that way for just one meeting.

就为了见一次面，要跑那么远的路，真烦死人了。

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And his date was to go with him to a community meeting.

他的约会是和他一起去开一个社区会议。

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Miller says. "I don't believe it's appropriate to require people to fly coach for 15 hours and then go to a meeting."

米勒先生说，“我认为要求人们坐普通舱飞行15个小时然后参加一个会议是不恰当的。”

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