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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They are also, and we see this from their relationship between one another, and the way they speak to one another, they are also highly competitive, super achievers.

他们也是，我们可以,从他们的关系看出，从他们的彼此交谈的方式看出，他们也是极富竞争性的超级成功者。

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My roommate for many years was going to medical school as I was going to graduate school, and we found we had so many interesting conversations about chemistry -- her from the context of practicing and using medications and talking about how they worked on a molecular level, and me talking about my research.

让你们读医学预科的人都转行,我多年的室友在我去读研究生的时候，去了医学院,我发现我们对于化学有过很多有趣的交谈,她会说如何应用药物,如何在分子层面上让它们工作，我则说关于我的研究。

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