Thank you, Mr. Lu. Please wait a moment while I check our reservations list.
谢谢,陆先生。请稍等,我查一下订房名单。
I start work at 8 o'clock.
我八点开始工作。
In the nineteenth century, a novelist would bring his story to a conclusion by presenting his readers with a series of coincidences -- most of them wildly improbable.