Do we stay late at the office to finish a memo, or put it off to the next day, so that we can have dinner with the family?

我们是在当天必须在办公室做一个小的备忘录，还是把它推迟到第二天，这样我们就可以和家人共进晚餐？

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It gets worse: at a subsequent family dinner, his father took him aside and told him it would have been better if he, rather than his younger brother, had died in a car accident several years earlier.

接着更糟的是：在随后的而一次家庭晚餐中，父亲将他拉到一旁，对他说，如果几年前在交通事故中死去的人是他而不是他的弟弟，那就好了。

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In fact, this graduated into a family habit of after-dinner quizzes at the table about books read most recently and new words learned.

事实上，这一爱好渐渐变成一种家庭习惯，晚饭后大家围在餐桌旁互相考查近日所读的书以及新学的单词。

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Next time you have a family dinner at Thanksgiving, be it in Canada or the United States, try using that term.

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The second recounts a family dinner during his childhood at which his mother, then in her 40s and dying of multiple sclerosis, struggled desperately to enjoy her meal.

ECONOMIST: Hospitality

It was 1963 and I was 11 years old, throwing a tantrum at the family dinner.

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