And it isn't that easy to call or fax from the office: the waiting list for phone lines has from one to two million names on it.

而且在泰国，从办公室往外打电话或发传真并不那么容易：待装电话的名单上有一、二百万个名字。

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Would you like us to put you on our waiting list and call you in case we have a cancellation.

我可以把您列入等房间的客人名单。一有人取消订房就打电话给您，好不好？

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So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking, "We've got an unexpected baby boy. Do you want him?"

所以我的父母，他们在等候名单上，在半夜接到一通电话问说：「我们有一个突然出现的男婴儿，你们想要他吗？」

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When that appearance got nixed by Armstrong's doping-related ban, "a friend of mine who had been No. 80 on the waiting list for a hotel room in Kona suddenly got a call that a room was available, " says Bob Babbitt, a pioneer of the sport.

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