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。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

He first built a navy on rivers using Dutch shipmasters from amsterdam.

他先找荷兰造船师在河流上建了支海军

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