Later on, it was sometimes hard to tell whether he was larking round or serious: as a narcoleptic, he would often lull journalists into a snooze and then snap to, razor-sharp, with the answer to their questions.
" You all did pretty well, " she told the class, " except for one boy, and it breaks my heart to tell you this, but, " She hesitated, pinning Steve to his seat with a sharp stare, her eyes searching his face.
No one is spared his sharp analysis: not the easy targets of 19th-century women's crippling fashions nor the modern uniforms of Silicon Valley T-shirts.
没有什么能够逃过他的分析:无论是 19 世纪让女性苦不堪言的摧残身体的(紧身)时尚,是成为现代硅谷标志性的 T 恤制服。