I was about five minutes into a lovely chat with a man backstage at an event recently, when I casually asked him: “So what do you do then?” As he humbly explained that he tends to do things “on stage and stuff”, I suddenly realised, to my horror, that I was talking to a very famous actor. But no sooner had I started to turn scarlet and to say things like, “Oh, I knew I recognised you,” (a lie) than the actor had lost his grip on the mini-cake he was trying to lift to his mouth, launching it into the air. It smooshed on to the floor, iced side down. “Oh God,” he muttered.
最近在一个活动的后台，我和一个男人愉快地聊了大约五分钟，我随口问他：“那你是做什么的呢？”当他谦虚地解释说他经常在“舞台上之类的地方”表演时，我突然惊恐地意识到，我正在和一个非常有名的演员交谈。就在我开始脸红并说“哦，我就知道我认出你了”（其实是谎言）的时候，这位演员失去了对他试图送入嘴里的迷你蛋糕的控制，把它抛向了空中。蛋糕糖霜朝下掉在了地板上。“哦天啊，”他嘟囔道。