Hello, my name is Li Ming and we have a reservation for party tonight.
喂,您好。我叫李明,我们在你们这预定了今晚聚会。
Please lend an ear to this man's important news.
请注意倾听有关这个男人的重大新闻。
Yet, in real life, circumstances do sometimes conspire to bring about coincidences which anyone but a nineteenth century novelist would find incredible.