A magazine editor I know, for instance, once had a writer tell her at noon on a Wednesday that the time-sensitive piece he was working on would be in her in-box by the time she got back from lunch.

比方说，我认识的一位杂志编辑在一个周三的中午得到约稿作者的消息说他正在写的实时性很强的文章将会在她吃完午饭回去前发到邮箱。

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Suddenly, perhaps because it was lunch time (noon) on the West Coast and 3 PM near or at the end of school on the East Coast, a flood of people started coming in from Twitter and elsewhere.

突然，或许是此时正是西海岸的午餐时间，而在东海岸，这个时候是学校放学的时候，来自Twitter和其他地方的流量开始暴增。

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It was lunch time when we stepped into the restaurant. Apparently this seems to be a popular place among the young local professionals.

由于是午餐时分，餐厅几乎客满。看来这里似乎很受当地年轻白领人士的欢迎。

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Bell, playing at three, posted his fifth successive 50 and Collingwood managed a couple of sixes off Holland before the tourists decided over lunch it was time to give Tremlett, Bresnan and Shahzad another opportunity with the ball.

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Spin was introduced for the first time half an hour before lunch, but it was a piece of brilliance from Zaheer that made the breakthrough 10 minutes before the interval.

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At the time lunch, however, was still known "as an accidental happening between meals", says food historian Monica Askay.

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