Booking tickets before Spring Festival is especially hard; lots of people sit at their computers the moment sales open, trying to grab one.
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Bookings are written with 订, not its homophone 定 "to decide": 订票, 订餐 (to order a meal), 订房间 (to book a room). The word splits around a number: 订了两张票 "booked two tickets".
