We had to call off the party at our house this weekend because of a family emergency.

因为家里有急事，所以不得不取消本周末在我们家举行的聚会。

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He regularly slips out of the White House to buy a burger, despite having a cordon bleu chef at his beck and call.

尽管拥有顶级厨师随时待命，但他经常会溜出白宫去买汉堡。

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A guest call to an in house guest who is not in the room at the moment, taking message for the guest.

一位客人打电话给一位住店客，但这个客人目前不在房间，帮助客人留言。

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Before dawn on Tuesday, officers responding to an emergency call at a house in the community of Ladera Ranch, about 30 miles (48km) south of Los Angeles, found a female victim dead from multiple gunshot wounds, Orange County sheriff's spokesman Jim Amormino told the BBC.

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Fifteen years ago, he was also singing with a local opera company when he got a call to substitute for a singer at the Sydney Opera House.

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She said that she had a 40-second conversation with Bellfield at 1738 GMT and a longer call later that evening and Bellfield returned to the house at 2200 or 2300 GMT.

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