The Cocktail Party Effect Humans can identify familiar sounds, even in the noisiest environments.

鸡尾酒会效应即嘈杂的环境中，人类也能辨别出熟悉的声音。

Let's drown some booze-fueled falsehoods and see what we remember in the morning.

就让我们一起拆穿这些酒会谎言，同时看看到早上我们还会记得什么。

I bet tequila would do it quicker.

我敢说龙舌兰酒会让它们醉得更快。

Then he learned that not selling it would slash his pay.

但他后来得知不卖酒会减少他的收入。

Just two drinks or more cut REM sleep, which is important for memory and health.

喝两杯以上的酒会阻碍 REM 睡眠（快速动眼睡眠），而 REM 睡眠对记忆和健康很重要。

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.

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。那里我遇到了一位非常有名的法学教授。

Thank you . I've been looking forward to your party.

谢谢你。我一直盼望着你的酒会呢。

That is a shame because you're going to miss the office drinks after work.

这太可惜了，因为下班后你会错过办公室的酒会。

Other accounting firms have suggested holding daytime events rather than after-hours drinks parties.

其他会计师事务所建议举行日间活动，而不是下班后进行酒会。

So suddenly this very sober drinking party had become a very different sort of thing.

所以这个原本清醒的酒会突然变得很不一样了。

Yes, with a bit of booze makes it delicious, but not sickly sweet.

是的，加一点酒会很美味，但不会太甜。

I will handle this. Merlin, you idiot. We've been at the sloe gin again?

我来处理。梅林，你个白痴。我们这又不是黑刺李锦酒会？

So too is his entrance into this drinking party.

他到酒会时就是这么个情景。

And Tom was at the founder's ball with me.

汤姆和我一起创始人酒会上。

Oh, by the way, you and Tom are coming over for cocktails on Saturday?

还有，你和汤姆周六过来参加鸡尾酒会吗？

I will bid them farewell at the Christmas drinks party.

我会圣诞酒会上向大家道别。

Filled with artwork worth millions of dollars.

艺术酒会那里面全是些价值上百万的艺术品。

The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun and now the orchestra is playing yellow cocktail music and the opera of voices pitches a key higher.

大地蹒跚着离开太阳，电灯显得更亮，此刻乐队正奏黄色鸡尾酒会音乐，于是大合唱般的人声又提高了一个音凋。

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，你可以鸡尾酒会上让某个人说，如果你不确定他们是澳大利亚人还是新西兰人。

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。