I could never make a merit of being caviare to the crowd the way my quasi-friend Pound does. I want to reach out, if it were a thing I could do by taking thought.

我不能因为创作大众的阳春白雪而夸耀,就像我的半个朋友庞德一样，我希望伸展开来，如果这是我动脑经就能完成的事。

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So I threw a party in New York, and her best friend, my co-worker came, and she brought her,

我在纽约开了个派对，而她最好的朋友，也就是我的同事，把她带到派对上去了。

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You have- and another example of that that would be true, is let's say you have a child who lives in this sort of circular area here, who lives here and his friends with a child who lives here.

我们还有个现实案例,假如你有个小孩,居住在我画圈的这块区域,他住在这儿,而他的朋友们住在这儿

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but a friend of a friend of a friend, I think that helps.

而一个朋友的朋友的朋友，我想可能都会帮到你。

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