I really didn't want to go to my boss's dinner party, so I told a white lie and said I had to go to a friend's wedding party that night.

我真的不愿意参加老板的晚宴，因此我说了个推脱之词，说我要出席朋友今晚举行婚礼宴会。

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Its members were seen waltzing the night away, the men all wearing the party's trademark red-and-white ties.

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