What he wanted was a tool that would allow him to make contact with each person on the list of people he had picked out. This is probably a legitimate goal – he sells decent products – but the reality of the world is that relationships, even around so-called shared interests, are not necessarily symmetrical.
他想要的是一套工具，可以让他与每一位他选定清单中的人联系上。这或许是个合理的目标——他贩卖的东西相当好——但这个世界的现实是关系并不一定是对称的，甚至围绕所谓的共同利益的关系也是如此。