I went to a party recently. A fancy(高档的，花哨的) one, filled with(充满，满是) expensive people and interesting clothes.
我最近参加了一个派对。一个高档派对，满场都是身价不菲的人和别致的衣着。
You might find this surprising, as I expend(花费，耗费) hundreds of words a week in this publication bemoan(哀叹，抱怨)ing human interaction, but I love parties. I like free champagne, passed appetizer(开胃菜，餐前小点)s and forced, go-nowhere(毫无进展的) small talk.
你可能会觉得意外，因为我每周都在这个专栏里花上几百字哀叹人际交往，但我其实很喜欢派对。我喜欢免费香槟、传递的餐前小点，还有那种被迫的、毫无进展的闲聊。
Parties in Los Angeles are even better, because they usually involve at least one celebrity. In the case of this most recent event, the celebrity in question(所涉及的，该) was a Real Housewife of Beverly Hills. Well … technically a “friend of”, Bravo reality TV parlance(说法，用语) for a person who isn’t in the main cast and appears sporadically(偶尔地，零星地) on the show thanks to a social connection to one of the actual Housewives. It’s sort of like being Newman on Seinfeld(《宋飞正传》中的纽曼), or the vice-president of the United States. Easy work, if you can get it.
洛杉矶的派对更胜一筹，因为通常至少会有一位名人出席。最近这次活动，那位名人就是《比弗利娇妻》里的一位“主妇”。嗯……严格来说，是“朋友”，这是Bravo真人秀圈的行话，指那些不在主要演员阵容中、因为和某位真正的主妇有社交关系而偶尔出镜的人。这有点像《宋飞正传》里的纽曼，或者美国副总统。轻松活儿，如果你能捞到的话。