晓兮怀疑自己听错了，她努力掩饰心中的惊讶：“A joke?Joke?（一个笑话）”
Johnny挑了下眉毛，略有严肃地说：“Yeah， tell me a joke and it has to be related to options.（是的，告诉我一个笑话，必须跟期权有关）”
这个真是出乎意料，晓兮只好说：“Please give me some time to think about this.(请给我点时间想想)”
然后她开始绞劲脑汁地想，想了一会儿，还是想不出来， Johnny看了一下表说：“It is okay if you could not think of any. We are not in the right place.（算了吧，想不出来也没关系）”
晓兮突然之间来了灵感，她说道：“I have one， I have one. When I just came to the university， I found a class called options and futures in the curriculum. I thought it is a philosophical class about what options you have and how they will influence your futures. It turns out to be a class about financial products.（我想出来了一个，想出来了。刚来大学的时候，发现课程里有一门课叫期权和期货。我认为这是一门关于你有哪些选择，option，以及它们将如何影响你的未来，future，的哲学课。后来才发现这是一门关于金融产品的课）”
这件囧事晓兮还没有跟别人提起过，她觉得很好笑，但是Johnny并没有笑，说道：“Well， you know， it is not a joke to certain extent. Your future may be related to options.（这或许不是一个笑话，你的未来可能真跟期权有关）”
他看了一眼桌子上的另一张简历，“I can only choose one today. So， do you think I should choose you or Alice Ai?（我今天只能选择一个。所以，你觉得我应该选你还是另一个爱丽丝）”
艾心怡的能力强是公认的，她学习成绩顶尖，在学生会中担任领导职位，曾在著名咨询公司麦肯思做过暑期实习。但是晓兮知道现在不是显露自己弱点和不自信的时候，但她也不好直接说对方的不好，她说道：“Both of us are very good students.（我们俩都挺好的）”
Johnny不耐烦地说道：“I know that. That is why you made to the interview. You or her?（我知道，可我只能选择一个人，你还是她）”
晓兮说道：“Me. I think you should choose me.（你应该选择我）“
还没等到她解释原因，Johnny就说道：“Why? The other Alice did a summer internship in Mckenze. I am very impressed. And you just did a research project with Dr. Zhou. I don’t even know who he is?（为什么？另一个 Alice在 Mckenze暑期实习。给我留下了非常深刻的印象。你和周博士做了一个研究项目。我不知道他是谁）”
Johnny的话可以算是讽刺，也可以算是合理的质疑，毕竟麦肯思是那么有名的公司，周教授却是个刚毕业的还没有任何名气的助理教授。晓兮努力保持冷静，说道：“Dr. Zhou is a very talented young professor. He graduated from the famous economics school UC Berkeley. He was writing a paper on exchange rate forecasting. I helped him gather and clean massive amount of FX data， and used Matlab to test his new methods. From this project，