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Parties
I don't like to go to parties.
我不喜欢参加聚会。
I love parties. I love a good time.
我喜欢派对。我喜欢快乐的时光。
I'm not going out to parties every night.
我不会每天晚上都出去参加聚会。
Those who do a thing are consenting parties.
做一件事的人是双方当事人。
I don't go out and go to parties and do all of that.
我不出去，不参加派对，也不做这些。
I don't have dinner parties - I eat my dinner in bed.
我不参加晚宴，我在床上吃晚餐。
Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.
我认为，嫉妒是所有缺点中最糟糕的，因为它使双方都成为受害者。
Giving parties is a trivial avocation, but it pays the dues for my union card in humanity.
举办聚会是一项微不足道的业余爱好，但它为我的人性联盟卡支付了会费。
It's awkward going to parties with people you don't know, especially when they think they know you.
和你不认识的人去参加聚会是很尴尬的，尤其是当他们认为他们认识你的时候。
I used to hang out by the food table at parties because you don't have to talk to anybody. If you do then you can talk about the food.
我过去常常在聚会的餐桌旁闲逛，因为你不需要和任何人说话。如果你这样做了，你就可以谈论食物。
Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.
几乎我们所有的关系都是从相互剥削开始的，其中大多数都是作为一种精神或物质交换的形式继续存在的，当一方或双方的货物用完时，这种关系就会终止。
I play Rock Band, which is Guitar Hero times ten. You can play with four people, so when you have parties, you have a real band. Nobody ever wants to sing, so I'm always the one throwing down on the mic.
我玩摇滚乐队，这是吉他英雄十倍。你可以和四个人一起玩，所以当你开派对的时候，你有一个真正的乐队。从来没有人想唱歌，所以我总是一个人把麦克风扔下去。
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These days we seem more bound to our bosses than ever before. We even identify our own selves with the jobs we do: 'What do you do?' is the first question we ask each other at parties, as if a job title could express a fundamental truth about our personality.
如今，我们似乎比以往任何时候都更离不开老板。我们甚至把自己和工作联系在一起:‘你是做什么的?这是我们在派对上互相问的第一个问题，似乎一个职位头衔可以反映出我们性格的一个基本事实。
To illustrate to the Indians the advantages the white race had in the telephone I divided a body of warriors from Sitting Bull's camp into two parties and had them talk to each other over the telephone line.
为了向印第安人说明白人在电话中的优势，我把坐着的公牛队的一群战士分成两派，让他们通过电话互相交谈。
I am not very comfortable about dancing at weddings and New Year parties. Maybe it's because of the way I have been brought up; I wouldn't want my family to feel that cringe moment. Dance is an art for me.
我不太喜欢在婚礼和新年晚会上跳舞。也许是因为我的成长方式;我不想让我的家人感到害怕。舞蹈对我来说是一门艺术。
I wasn't political enough to write articles about myself or go to cocktail parties, meaning that not only has my art been pirated and my intellectual property rights stolen, but my work has been misrepresented.
我没有足够的政治背景来写关于我自己的文章或参加鸡尾酒会，这意味着我的艺术不仅被盗版，我的知识产权被窃取，我的作品也被歪曲了。