Please accept my apology for not neeting you for lunch Tuesday.
我很抱歉,星期二没有与你一起共进午餐。
He was absent yesterday. Do you know why?
昨天他没到,你知道为什么吗?
Dressed up as Father Christmas and accompanied by a 'guard of honour' of six pretty girls, he set off down the main street of the city riding a baby elephant called Jumbo.