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

鸡尾酒会效应即使在最嘈杂的环境中，人类也能辨别出熟悉的声音。

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教授。

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

还有，和汤姆周六过来参加鸡尾酒会吗？

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，此刻乐队正在奏黄色鸡尾酒会音乐，于是大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.

所有一个实际上非常著名的短语，用，呃，在鸡尾酒会上让某个人说，如果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。

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.

当在鸡尾酒会上时，背景中有聊天的嘈杂声，如果有人说的名字“哦，贝利”，就能听到。

As they all congratulated him during cocktails, Sculley recalled, " a beaming Steve stood in the background, nodding his head up and down and wearing a Cheshire Cat smile on his face."

在鸡尾酒会上，大家都向斯卡利表示祝贺，他回忆道：“史蒂夫神采奕奕地站在人群中，不住地点头，脸上挂着柴郡猫式的微笑。”

STEP 3 Skip the mini skirts. Dress your bridesmaids in long, evening gown-length dresses. Short, cocktail lengths are for spring or summer ceremonies.

不要选择迷裙。用很长的，晚礼服长度的裙子装扮伴娘。较短的鸡尾酒会长度的裙子是春季或夏季婚礼的选择。

If a Labour government also attacks private schools and second homes, London's giant pools of capital will disappear faster than a trader's cocktail.

如果工党政府也反对私立学校和第二套住房，伦敦巨大的资本池将会比商人的鸡尾酒会消失得更快。

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，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?

瞧，我们下次鸡尾酒会就有得聊了，是吧。

She was already wearing a salmon-pink cocktail dress.

她已经穿上了一件浅橙色的鸡尾酒会礼服。

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。

Like cocktail-party guests, they do not take a long time to decide if they want to keep talking.

就像鸡尾酒会上的客人一样，他们不会花很长时间来决定是否要继续和某人交谈。

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。

This, by the way, is sometimes called the Cocktail Party Effect.

顺便说一下，这有时被称为“鸡尾酒会效应”。

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，至于他们会驱使自己去做。