Such jokey bragging about sex is meant to amuse friends , not to impress employers ; eavesdropping on this conversation tells you nothing .
这种关于性的玩笑式自夸是为了取悦朋友,而非雇主;偷听这类谈话不会告诉你任何东西。
Then I realised that all the rooms were named similarly , and that the company had commissioned a jokey wooden signpost to help employees navigate their way around .
接着我意识到,所有的房间的命名都类似,而这家公司用好玩的木制指示牌为员工指路。
It had all seemed like a nice piece of harmless fun to them : leaving a jokey message on an actor 's answerphone about the alleged sexual exploits of his 23-year-old granddaughter .