同时笑场

类别：情绪

严肃会议中因一个滑稽发音而与同事强忍笑意，道出职场默契友谊的珍贵。

时长 63 秒 · 语速 138 wpm

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The meeting was very serious. 那场会开得特别严肃。

Twelve people around a long table, 十二个人围坐在一张长桌旁，

and a man from head office showing us slide number forty. 总公司来的一位男同事正给我们翻到第四十页幻灯片。

Then he said it. 然后他说了那个词。

A normal word, but he pronounced it wrong, 一个很普通的词，但他读错了，

in a way that sounded like something else entirely. 听起来完全变成了另外一个词。

I won't tell you what. 我才不告诉你们是哪个词呢。

Nobody reacted. 当时谁也没反应。

Eleven professional faces. 十一个人都摆着专业、严肃的面孔。

I made one mistake. 但我犯了个错误。

I looked at Priya. 我看了一眼普里亚。

She was already looking at me. 她已经在看着我了。

That was it. 这下彻底完了。

Her lips pressed together. 她紧紧抿着嘴唇。

Her shoulders started to shake. 肩膀开始一抖一抖的。

I stared hard at my notebook 我死死盯着自己的笔记本，

and wrote the date, slowly, four times. 慢慢地、连着写了四遍今天的日期。

Beside me, I could hear her breathing through her nose. 我能听见身边的她一直在用鼻子使劲憋气。

We survived, barely. 我们勉强撑了过去，真的就差一点。

In the hallway afterwards, 开完会到了走廊里，

we laughed until we had to hold the wall. 我们笑得只能扶着墙站着。

Nobody else understood. 别人根本不懂我们在笑什么。

You can't explain it. 这种事你也没法解释。

There are people you like. 有些人只是你喜欢相处，

And then there are people you can't look at in a meeting. 但有些人，是你开会时绝对不能看一眼的。

Keep those. 这种朋友，一定要深交。