THE YOUNG AND PRODIGIOUS T.S. SPIVET( short 36/50 )
Will you like some tuna tartare and grilled asparagus sprinkled with balsamic vinegar reduction?
Sir, Why you hiding your white glove behind your back?
That's just how they told me to stand.Otherwise, I'll get fired.
Well, I like your white gloves.Congratulations.
Thanks.
I almost forgot this.In case someone mistakes you for a kid whose parents couldn't round upa babysitter.
Sorry.I want to be the first to congratulate you.We are so lucky to have a boy like you, so lucky!
What was your first invention?
Do you think your parents will be proud of you?
What is your astrological sign?
So, Any other questions?
Did you ever think that you would find another suitable candidate?
I remember, sitting in my office, before I called him on the ranch, and I said to myself, he is only ten, but let's do this!
They're eating you up, they'll love you.
重点
sprinkle/sprinkle A on B/sprinkle A onto B/sprinkle A over B/sprinkle A with B
to shake small pieces of sth or drops of a liquid on sth
She sprinkled sugar over the strawberries./She sprinkled the strawberries with sugar.
reduction in sth/an act of making sth less or smaller; the state of being made less or smaller
There has been some reduction in unemployment.
a slight / significant / substantial / drastic reduction in costs
mistake/mistake sb for sb/mistake sth for sth
to think wrongly that sb / sth is sb / sth else/同义词： confuse
I think you must be mistaking me for someone else.
round/round sb up/round sth up
1. to find and gather together people, animals or things
I rounded up a few friends for a party.
The cattle are rounded up in the evenings.
ranch
a cattle / sheep ranch
ranch hands (= the people who work on a ranch )
