Therefore, Ms. Smith has asked me to tell you that a meeting would not be helpful at this time.
我转告你现在会面没有什么意义。
Today English is the international language of business and trade.
如今英语是商务和贸易的国际性语言。
On turning eagerly to the text, one learns that the lady was a typist who found the sound of office typewriters worried her more and more until eventually she had to go into a mental hospital.