A magazine editor I know, for instance, once had a writer tell her at noon on a Wednesday that the time-sensitive piece he was working on would be in her in-box by the time she got back from lunch.

比方说，我认识的一位杂志编辑在一个周三的中午得到约稿作者的消息说他正在写的实时性很强的文章将会在她吃完午饭回去前发到邮箱。