【词汇大师】谁是下一个晚会女王（1/2）

英语自学网

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Party是一个小社会，想做晚会女王还是壁花小姐，还得看看会不会说话。
TIPS
本篇中，只有嘉宾的话，都是需要听写的，大家耐心听哦。另外，可以无视多个“YOU KNOW”，不用听写。
HINTS
flattery entrée

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"Well, what doesn't work is that you should never walk up to somebody and ask them right away what they do for a living. It's not only sort of rude, and it's sort of like 'who are you, are you worth my time?' But it's also bringing up a conversation that you don't know what you're bringing up.
"There's an opening technique that I call the 'flattery entrée,' which works very well if that person has an unusual pair of earrings or tie on. You can walk up to somebody and say 'Hey, I really like that pair of earrings' and you get into it that way. I think the mistake that people make is they think that the only way to talk to people is to ask them questions. And while that's good to do within a conversation, it's actually less threatening to open with something that's more of an observation.
"One of the reasons that people, I think, are afraid to approach strangers at parties is they're really afraid of what happens if something bad does, you know, occur. And if you know that you can escape from anyone, it actually makes you much less afraid to talk to people in the first place.