I acquiesced,but since I had a business meeting later in the afternoon with which I was preoccupied,I decided to cut short our usual fifteen minutes with Katherine to five.

• 我默许了，可是我心里想着当天下午晚些时候的商务会谈，因此我决定把陪凯瑟琳的时间从往常的15分钟缩短到5分钟。