The Problem: you want to go out to dinner, but after you spend 30 minutes trying to find a place to park your car, you've missed your reservation.

问题：出去吃饭，你花了30分钟才找到车位把车停好，却发现已经错过了预定的位置。

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Q: What kind of processes do you have in place to make sure a reservation isn’t lost, especially by a hotel?

问：你们采取什么样的程序确保订单不会流失，尤其是酒店的订单？

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A person who reserves a place, as on an airplane, but neither uses nor cancels the reservation.

订座未搭乘的人预订了座位，如飞机，但既未使用也未取消订座。

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I made the reservation back then and then I thought it would be a good place to ask Nancy to marry me."

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And in Hong Kong and Japan there is still a reservation system in place with no shipping dates on the websites.

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To spend a day crossing the reservation is to see a place stunningly beautiful and seemingly forgotten all at once, small, poor communities tucked into the hollows of western South Dakota's Cheyenne River Reservation.

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If you don't mind staying in the same chain each place, try negotiating with that chain's reservation center, he says.

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