But,New Orleans,he writes,is like "watching an outdoor cocktail party play football."

VOA: special.2010.02.05

Again, the Swedish, the "Swedish cocktail" Was sort of suffocating people by stuffing manure down their throat until they died.

还有瑞典人有一种杀人方法 把粪便塞入喉咙,令人窒息,就叫做"瑞典鸡尾酒"

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

A stranger with a flair for cocktail party descriptive prose might have commented that the room, at a quick glance, looked as if it had once been tenanted by two struggling twelve-year-old lawyers or researchists.

一个鸡尾酒派对的调酒师,也能看一眼就对这件房子作出评论，他会看得出房间曾被两个奋斗的,12岁的律师或研究员租过。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

I only caught five. A couple more,you can have yourself a cocktail.

VOA: standard.other

Let me give you one other anecdote that I can't resist. This is the kind of thing you can use at cocktail parties to impress your friends from Harvard. OK.

让我再告诉一个秘密吧,这事儿在鸡尾酒会上,你能用来唬唬,哈佛的那帮人，好。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

"Kook means the clueless beginner who paddles his surf board out to the other surfers in the lineup and starts chattering away like it's a cocktail party, completely ignores all the finely-tuned protocols of surf that have developed over decades."

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

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