The meeting got off to an inauspicious start when he was late.

他迟到了，此次会议一开始就不顺。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

I wanted to bounce some ideas off you before the meeting.

我想在开会前把这个想法告诉你，征求一下你的意见。

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The meeting went off well.

会议进行得很好。

《牛津词典》

They all started off with meeting a nice, polite gentleman and finished off - as I nearly did, twice - dead, because they believed he was a nice person until their time came to be his prisoner.

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If I were a Greek politician, faced with these options, I'd be pretty keen to put off that meeting as well.

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The strain was there to see on a dramatic day in Birmingham at an event billed as the world's biggest and best one-off indoor meeting.

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