He says someone with a flair for cocktail party conversation, a witticism, would say this. He gives it to us, but he frames it as an affectation of style.

他说在一个鸡尾酒派对上交谈的调酒师，这是妙语，他给我们了，但是他将其用娇柔做作的风格包装起来。

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because there is a bar on the corner of MaCarren Park that gives you Margaritas in foam cups.

因为在MaCarren公园的拐角处有一个酒吧，在那里你可以用塑料泡沫杯品尝玛格丽特鸡尾酒。

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Let me give you one other anecdote that I can't resist. This is the kind of thing you can use at cocktail parties to impress your friends from Harvard. OK.

让我再告诉一个秘密吧,这事儿在鸡尾酒会上,你能用来唬唬,哈佛的那帮人，好。

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