Then one day, while we were still in that period of decision making, I was invited to a cocktail party at Harvard for potentially incoming law students where I met a famous law professor.

在我比较哈佛和耶鲁的时候，我受邀参加了哈佛法学院为录取新生准备的鸡尾酒会。在那里我遇到了一位非常有名的法学授。

Let's say you've been to a meeting or a cocktail party or something like that.

假设你去一个会议、调酒趴等等。

The cocktail party was hosted by the owner of the bar.

鸡尾酒派对是这间酒吧老板主办的。

Is it a cocktail party? A Tupperware party?

是有鸡尾酒的聚会? 微波炉食品聚会餐?

So there's one, actually very famous phrase that you can use, uh that you could ask somebody at cocktail party say, to pronounce to try to tell whether they're an Australian or a New Zealander if you're not sure.

所以有一个实际上非常著名的短语，你可以用，呃，你可以在鸡尾酒会上让某个人说，如你不确定他们是澳大亚人还是新西兰人。

Aristocrats at a cocktail party fret about the looming violence, but then change the topic to those things aristocrats always seem to care about: money, sex, and death.

鸡尾酒会上的贵族们 为逼近的战事而担忧，但话题迅速转向 贵族们一向关注的问题：钱、色、死亡。

While you're in a cocktail party, there is a hum of chatter in the background, and if someone says your name" oh, Bailey" , you'll be able to hear it.

当你在鸡尾酒会上时，背景中有聊天的嘈杂声，如有人说你的名字“，”，你就能听到。

The conventional thinker is the guy at the cocktail party who has all of the interesting facts: his knowledge consists solely of fruit that he can display.

他的知识仅仅是他可以展示的水。

They end up with the Carters of the world, and, um, people like you, they turn into cocktail party anecdotes of their foolish youth.

她们最后会和像Carter这样的人在一起而像你这样的人，他们愚蠢的青年时期就变成鸡尾酒舞会的笑谈。

Yeah, I mean, I think we all have had experiences at a cocktail party or something where you just can't always hear the conversation.

是的，我想我们都经历过在鸡尾酒会等场合，我们不总是能听见说话声的情景。

Similar to the cocktail party effect, we will often have our attention pulled back to reality when our names are heard.

与鸡尾酒会效应类似，当我们的名字被听到时，我们的注意力往往会被拉回现实。

Anyway check it out man, it's gonna make a hell of a conversation piece at our next cocktail party, huh pal?

你瞧，我们下次鸡尾酒会就有得聊了，是吧。

Well, I always enjoying going to business socialising occasions, such as cocktail parties or you know conferences.

我总是喜欢参加商业社交活动, 比如鸡尾酒会。

Such as when we're at a cocktail party and here our name in the distance.

比如，当我们在鸡尾酒会上听到远处传来我们的名字时。

We held a cocktail party yesterday in celebration or the 20th anniversary of our company's founding.

我们昨天举行了鸡尾洒会庄祝公司创立20周年。

I'm at this cocktail party, right?

我在一个鸡尾酒会上。

There are people that are box checkers, they just wanna have climb Mount Everest and they're so driven to be able to say that at a cocktail party in Houston that they'll just drive themselves to do it.

有些人是打卡者，他们只想攀登珠穆朗玛峰，他们非常想能够在休斯顿的鸡尾酒会上说这句话，以至于他们会驱使自己去做。

So, to review, you exit a cocktail party serving delicious mini pizzas, you smoke one cigarette, you meet a guy...a nice guy whose name is Terrence...and now you're dating.

所以，总结来说，你逃离了一个有好吃的迷你披萨的鸡尾酒会，你抽了根烟，你遇见了一个男人… … 一个不错的家伙，名叫特伦斯… … 然后现在你们在约会。

So if you want a quick cocktail party test you could have somebody say trash or traffic.

所以如你想要进行一个快速的鸡尾酒会测试，你可以让某人说垃圾或交通。

They just wanna have climb Mount Everest and they're so driven to be able to say that at a cocktail party in Houston that they'll just drive themselves to do it.

他们想攀登珠穆朗玛峰，驱动力就是在休斯敦的鸡尾酒会上，他们能拿攀顶这件事来高谈阔论一番。