The poll showed that nearly a third of respondents had splashed out cash for home entertainment improvements such as sofas, dining tables, games consoles and bigger televisions to impress the guests.

调查显示，近三分之一的受访者不惜重金改善家庭娱乐条件，以给客人留下好印象，比如更换或添置沙发、餐桌、游戏机和大屏幕电视机等。

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After Hussein left, we kept going, with everyone staying in the dining room and collecting around different tables to keep working on various issues.

侯赛因走后，我们全体留在用餐室继续就各种问题进行磋商。

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"It may be that the effort to buy a car made people hold off on buying other items like refrigerators and new dining room tables and things like that," Achuthan said.

人们可能会为了要买车而推迟买冰箱、新餐桌等等的计划。

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They have even been known to get up from their community dining tables to participate in an impromptu electric slide.

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While upscale restaurants around the world struggle with how to handle the growing popularity of mobile phones at dining tables, Eva leaves it up to its customers to hand in their phones to the hostess who will then store them in baskets with their name on them and return them on the customers way out.

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They then proceed to a spacious art deco dining car, whose tables are set with linen tablecloths, fresh flowers and silver.

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