Question 3: How should you attract the waiter during a business lunch in Bangkok?

曼谷有一次商务午，你应该如何吸引服务员？

I try to avoid business lunches because I still have the afternoon ahead to contend with.

但我尽量避免吃商务，因为我还有整个下午要应付。

Cheers, Paul. What a lovely place for a business lunch.

W：干杯，保罗。 多么适合商务午的好地方。

But never ask for leftovers after a business lunch or dinner.

但切勿在商务午后索要剩菜。

We would like to hold a business lunch at the restaurant.

我们想在厅举行商务午。

I will never invite George to another business lunch with clients again!

Yolanda：我再也不会邀请 George 与客户共进商务午了！

Paul, what a lovely place for a business lunch.

干杯 雪莱 欢 保罗 在这里吃商务午真不错。

We learn in this podcast about making plans at a restaurant for a business lunch.

我们在此播客中了解到如何制定在厅享用商务午的计划。

The suits, the business lunches, the ability to pay my own hotel bills.

西装革履 商务午宴自己负担酒店的账单。

Yolanda says, " I will never invite George to another business lunch with clients again" !

Yolanda 说：“我再也不会邀请 George 与客户共进商务午了” ！

I told the woman that we wanted to " hold a business lunch" at the restaurant.

我告诉那位女士我们想在厅“举行商务午”。

It's perfect for a business lunch. It looks fantastic. If you were to bring someone here, they'd be pretty impressed, don't you think?

看起来美味极了。如果你带人来这儿用，他们一定深刻印象，不是吗?

Another example, one prominent woman executive confesses that at business lunches she always asks people what they did that morning.

另一个例子，一位著名的女性高管承认，在商务午时，她总是问人们那天早上做了什么。

Getting through a business lunch in which no one pulls out a phone to check their messages now counts as a minor miracle in many quarters.

很多时候，如果一个商业午中没有一个人拿出手机查邮件的话，就已经是个小奇迹了。

In part, that's because it used to be many years ago that businesses could include the cost of business lunches as a business expense.

部分原因是，在很多年前，企业可以将商务午的费用计入业务费用。

For example, are you hoping to get through a business lunch without embarrassing yourself, or are you thinking about how fascinating the conversation might be?

”比如，你是期望在一次商业午中不令自己尴尬，还是你在考虑彼此的交谈有可能会多么令人陶醉呢？

That is usually not a good idea, if you are at a business lunch, to order more than one drink; at least that's what some people think.

这通常不是一个好主意， 如果你在商务午时点了不止一种饮料；至少有些人是这么认为的。

I do not use foundation every day, but if I have a zoom meeting or am going out to dinner or a business lunch, I do like a little bit.

我不是每天都使用粉底，但如果我有一个 zoom 会议出去吃饭商务午， 我确实喜欢一点。

Some companies don't have a set lunch hour for the more important bosses, they may go on a long lunch, especially if it is a meeting - a business lunch we would call it.

有些公司对于级别较高的管理者，没有固定的午时间，他们可能会花很长时间来吃午，特别如果那是一个会议——我们称之为商务午。

" I'm going to an alumni lunch." " I'm going to a business lunch." In that case, someone may refer to a " lunch" without the word " business" or " alumni" or whatever particular kind of the event it is.

“我要去吃校友午。 ” “我要去吃商务午。 ” 在这种情况下，有人可能会在提到“午” 时不使用“商务” “校友” 任何特定类型的词。 它是事件。