He often sets the table a-roaring with a well-placed bon mot.

他经常以恰到好处的珠玑妙语使满桌的人哄堂大笑。

ELON MUSK is not, to paraphrase James Watson's bon mot about Francis Crick, a man given to modest moods.

引用詹姆斯·沃森对弗朗西斯·克里克的名言来说，埃龙•马斯克不是一个惯于谦逊的人。

It was Harold Wilson who penned the bon mot that "one man's wage increase is another man's price increase".

写出妙语“工资的增长实际上意味着物价的上涨”的人是哈罗德·威尔逊。

By that bon mot, he meant to imply, no doubt, that only a listener who really involves himself is of importance to music or the makers of music.

这一奇妙的说法，他的意思是说，只有全身心的投入的听众才是对音乐或是对音乐创作者最为重要的。