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Mark: Your date looks so familiar to me.

Sean: She looks familiar to a lot of people.

Mark: What do you mean?

Sean: A Stanford MBA named Roy Raymond wants to buy his wife some lingerie, but he's too embarrassed to shop for it in a department store. He comes up with an idea for a high-end place that doesn't make you feel like a pervert². He gets a $40,000 bank loan, borrows another 40,000 from his in-laws, opens a store and calls it Victoria's Secret. Makes a half million dollars his first year. Starts a catalog, opens three more stores, and after five years, he sells the company to Leslie Wexner and The Limited for $4 million. Happy ending, right? Except two years later, the company's worth $500 million, and Roy Raymond jumps off the Golden Gate Bridge. Poor guy just wanted to buy his wife a pair of thigh-highs, you know?

Mark: Was that a parable³?

Sean: My date's a Victoria's Secret model. That's why she looks familiar to you.

Mark: God.

Sean: Don't be impressed by all this. I read your blog.

Mark: You know, no, that was for web cretins.

Sean: You know why I started Napster? The girl I loved in high school was with the co-captain of the varsity lacrosse team, and I wanted to take her from him. So I decided⁴ to come up with the next big thing.

Mark: I didn't know that.

Sean: Napster wasn't a failure. I changed the music industry for better and for always. It may not have been good business, but it pissed a lot of people off. And isn't that what your Facemash was about? They're scared of me, pal⁵, and they're gonna be scared of you. What the VCs want is to say, "Good idea, kid, the grown-ups will take it from here." But not this time. This is our time. This time, you're gonna hand them a business card that says, "I'm CEO, bitch." That's what I want for you. So where the hell is Eduardo?

Mark: He's in New York.

Sean: Sucking up to ad execs.

Mark: He's got an...An internship⁶.

Sean: The company's here. A billion-dollar company's here. Do you live and breathe Facebook?

Mark: Yes.

Sean: I know you do. Wardo wants to be a businessman and for all I know he's gonna be a good one, but he shouldn't be in New York kissing Madison Avenue's ass¹. This is a once-in-a-generation, "holy shit" idea. And the water under the Golden Gate is freezing cold. Look at my face and tell me I don't know what I'm talking about.

Mark: Do you ever think about that girl?

Sean: What girl?

Mark: The girl from high school with the lacrosse thing.

Sean: No.

Girl: If you guys are gonna talk about bandwidth, we need shots.

Sean: A hundred schools by the end of the summer?

Mark: Yeah.

Sean: Tell you what. Gesture of good faith. While you're getting into 100 schools, I'll put you on two continents.

妙语佳句 活学活用

1. lingerie: 女内衣。

2. department store: 百货公司；大百货商店。

3. high-end: 高档的；高端的；价高质优的。

4. pervert: 性变态者。

5. catalog: 商品目录。

6. thigh-high: 长筒袜。

7. parable: 寓言故事。

8. cretin: 笨蛋；傻瓜；白痴。

9. co-captain: 副队长。

10. varsity: 大学的。varsity也可以作名词用，意思是“（体育比赛中大中学校的）代表队，校队”。

11. lacrosse: 长曲棍球（两队各十名队员，用带网兜的球棒接球、带球和传球）。

12. piss (somebody) off: 使生气；使厌烦。例如：What did he say to piss you off?（他说什么惹恼了你?）

13. VCs: 风险投资家。VC指的是Venture Capital。

14. suck up (to somebody): 奉承；巴结。看一下例子：She sucks up to him by agree with everything he say.（她巴结他，他说什么话她都同意。）

15. kiss somebody's ass: 谄媚巴结某人；拍某人马屁；奉承某人。看一下例子：You want me to kiss his ass? Read my lips: No Way!（你要我拍他马屁？仔细听好：门儿都没有！）

16. shot: 少量饮料；（尤指）少量烈酒。

17. good faith: 真诚；善意。in good faith指的是“诚心诚意地”。请看例子：He did that in token⁷ of good faith.（他那样做是为了表示诚意。）