It may sometimes be a scramble to find a socket to juice up your dying gadgetry, but the "first come, first served" rule stands fast in this area.

有时候，你很难找到插座给自己快要没电的设备充电，但是“先到先得”的规矩在办公室是一直存在的。

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The rule in the restaurant is first come , first served .

餐馆的规矩是先到先招待。

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The rule in our restaurant is first come, first served.

本餐馆的规则是先到先招待。

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Anders Hultin of Kunskapsskolan, a chain of 26 Swedish schools founded by a venture capitalist in 1999 and now running at a profit, says its schools only rarely have to invoke the first-come-first-served rule the chain has responded to demand by expanding so fast that parents keen to send their children to its schools usually get a place.

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Although Roche is delivering the drug on a first-come-first-served basis, there have been some notable exceptions to this rule: the company was quick to send tens of thousands of packs to Indonesia, Turkey and Romania during their recent outbreaks.

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