生活大爆炸第二季第九集_1

 　　-Sheldon：Penny, hello.

　　Penny 你好。

　　-Penny：Hey, Sheldon.

　　好呀 Sheldon。

　　-Sheldon：What is shaking?

　　shake：摇动

　　有啥新鲜事不?

　　-Penny：I'm sorry?

　　你说什么呢?

　　-Sheldon：It's colloquial¹, a conversation opener.

　　colloquial：口语的 opener：开场白

　　一个口语化的开场白。

　　So, do you find the weather satisfying?

　　satisfying：令人满意的

　　天气很怡人，对吧?

　　Are you currently sharing in the triumph some local sports team?

　　triumph：胜利 local：本地的

　　为最近本地球队的胜绩兴奋吧?

　　-Penny：What's wrong with you? You're freaking me out.

　　freak：反常

　　你到底咋了? 这样怪吓人的。

　　-Sheldon：I'm striking up a casual conversation with you.

　　strike up：开始（交谈）casual：随便的

　　我在跟你闲聊哇。

　　S'up?

　　S'up：（黑人土语）最近怎么样

　　咋样?

　　-Penny：Please don't do that.

　　你行行好，别这样。

　　-Sheldon：All right, but I'm given to understand that when you have something awkward to discuss with someone, it's more palatable² to preface it with banal³ chit chat.

　　awkward：尴尬的 discuss：谈论 palatable：合意的 preface with：以…为讲话的开端 banal：乏味的 chit chat：闲聊

　　好吧，但我以为当你准备与某人交谈尴尬之事前，先用闲聊做些铺垫会自在一些。

　　-Penny：So, this wasn't the awkward part?

　　尴尬的部分还没到?

　　-Sheldon：No.

　　没啊。

　　-Penny：Oh, all right. S'up?

　　好吧，啥~事啊?

　　-Sheldon：Oh, good, I used that right.

　　很好，看来我这句用对了。

　　Anyway, you're aware that Leonard has entered into a new romantic relationship which includes a sexual component⁴?

　　aware：知道 enter into：开始 romantic：多情的，浪漫的 include：包含 component：成分

　　总之呢，你知道Leonard开始一段新恋情了，牵扯到性关系那种。

　　-Penny：Okay, feeling the awkward now.

　　我现在可感到尴尬了。

　　-Sheldon：Her name is Dr. Stephanie Barnett and she is a highly distinguished⁵ surgical⁶ resident at Freemont Memorial.

　　distinguished：卓越的，著名的 surgical：外科的 resident：住院医师

　　那女的叫Stephanie Barnett，弗里蒙特医院的有名外科住院医生。

　　-Penny：Yeah, Leonard told me.

　　知道 Leonard给我说过的。

　　-Sheldon：Good. What he may have left out is how important this relationship is to me.

　　那就好，有个事他可能忘说了，就是这段关系对我至关重要。

　　-Penny：To you?

　　对你重要?

　　-Sheldon：Yes, see, of the handful of women Leonard's been involved with, she's the only one I have ever found tolerable.

　　be been involved with：涉及 tolerable：可忍受的，过得去的

　　在Leonard交往过的为数不多的女人中，她是唯一一个我可以忍受的。

　　-Penny：Well, what about me?

　　那我呢?

　　-Sheldon：The statement stands for itself.

　　statement：声明，陈述 stands for：代表

　　事实如此，由不得我。

　　-Penny：Well, aren't you sweet?

　　难为你了。

　　-Sheldon：Anyway, should you have any interaction with her, it would be most helpful that she not see you as a sexual rival.

　　interaction：交际，互动 rival：竞争对手

　　你是不是该和她交流下的? 免得她把你当竞争对手。

　　-Penny：Yeah, I think she's pretty safe.

　　pretty：非常

　　我觉得她可安全的很咯。

　　-Sheldon：You say that now, but consider the following scenario⁷:

　　consider：考虑 scenario：情节

　　你现在是这样说，但你设想一下。

　　You're sitting in your apartment, it's late, you're alone. Your hypothalamus is swimming in a soup of estrogen and progesterone and suddenly even Leonard seems like a viable⁸ sexual candidate. Or a, uh, "hookup" as it's referred to by today's urban youth.

　　alone：孤单的 hypothalamus：下丘脑 soup：汤 estrogen：雌激素 progesterone：黄酮 viable：可实施的 candidate：候选人 referred to：提及 urban：城市的 youth：年轻人

　　可当你夜深独居闺房孤枕难眠，雌激素和孕酮刺激你的下丘脑使你饥渴难耐，就连Leonard也突然成为适合的交配对象了，或者说"吊男人" 当今大都市青年人口头常念叨的。

　　-Penny：Really?

　　是吗?

　　-Sheldon：Yes.

　　是的。

　　Now, should that happen, I would ask you to find some way to suppress your libido⁹.

　　suppress：抑制（感情等） libido：性欲，本能冲动

　　以防万一，我希望你找些压抑性冲动的法子。

　　-Penny：I could think about you.

　　那我想想你就解决了。

　　-Sheldon：Fine, whatever works.

　　可以，只要奏效我无所谓。

　　-Penny：Always nice talking to you, Sheldon.

　　和你聊天总是很"愉快" Sheldon。

　　-Sheldon：Uh, peace out!

　　peace out：（美口）= see you soon

　　拜拜了!

　　Well, this is very pleasant.

　　pleasant：令人愉快的

　　这真是太惬意了。

　　-Leonard：Glad you're enjoying yourself.

　　很高兴你开心。

　　-Sheldon：And you said there'd never be enough pasta for the three of us.

　　pasta：意大利面

　　你还说意面肯定不够三人吃呢。

　　-Leonard：I stand corrected.

　　stand corrected：认错

　　我认错。

　　-Sheldon：You know, Italian housewives have a rule of thumb.

　　Italian：意大利人的 housewives：家庭主妇 rule of thumb：凭经验的方法

　　要知道意大利主妇们有套经验。

　　A handful of dry pasta about an inch in diameter is sufficient for each person as it doubles in volume when cooked.

　　inch：英寸 diameter：直径 sufficient：足够 double：使加倍 volume：量

　　一把直径大约一英寸的干意面煮熟后量会翻倍，足够每个人吃了。

　　-Stephanie：That's very interesting.

　　真是有趣。

　　-Sheldon：Thank you.

　　谢谢。

　　-Leonard：She doesn't mean it. She's just being nice.

　　她不是那意思，只是客套话。

　　-Sheldon：Well, Stephanie, since Leonard seems to be dropping the conversational¹⁰ ball, I guess I'll just have to pick it up.

　　drop：丢掉 conversational：对话的 pick up：捡起

　　Stephanie 既然Leonard不想聊天，让我找点话题接过来吧。

　　Have you ever witnessed a violent crime?

　　witness：目击，亲眼看见 violent：暴力 crime：犯罪

　　你目击过暴力犯罪吗?

　　-Stephanie：No.

　　没。

　　-Sheldon：Good.

　　那就好。

　　-Sheldon：What's your favorite fruit?

　　favorite：喜欢的 fruit：水果

　　你最喜欢什么水果?

　　-Stephanie：Uh, strawberries.

　　strawberry：草莓

　　草莓吧。

　　-Sheldon：Hmm, technically¹¹ not a fruit, but all right.

　　technically：准确地

　　准确的讲不算水果，但还好。

　　Where did you do your medical internship¹²?

　　medical：医疗的 internship：实习医师

　　你在哪个医院做实习医生的?

　　-Stephanie：Uh, Lawrence Memorial in Galveston, Texas.

　　Texas：德克萨斯州

　　德州加尔维斯顿的劳伦斯医院。

　　-Sheldon：Really? That's where I was born!

　　真的? 那可是我的出生地!

　　-Stephanie：You're kidding!

　　不是开玩笑吧!

　　-Sheldon：I spent so much of my childhood at that hospital. When I was 12, I got to right there in a helicopter.

　　childhood：童年 helicopter：直升机

　　我童年不少时间在那医院度过的，我12那年被直升飞机送去的。

　　-Stephanie：Why, w-w-what happened?

　　为什么，发生了什么?

　　-Sheldon：Radiation burns.

　　Radiation：放射性 burn：烧伤

　　放射线烧伤。

　　A little mishap¹³ while I was building my own CAT scanner.

　　mishap：小的意外 scanner：扫描仪 CAT scanner：轴向分层造影扫描仪

　　我在自制分层造影(CAT)扫描仪时发生了点小事故。

　　-Stephanie：I'm sorry, you tried to build your own CAT scanner?

　　不是吧，你想自制分层造影(CAT)扫描仪?

　　-Sheldon：No, I didn't try, I succeeded.

　　不，不是想，我做出来了。

　　In fact, I was briefly¹⁴ able to see the inside of my sister's guinea pig, Snowball,

　　before he caught fire.

　　briefly：简单地 guinea pig：豚鼠,天竺鼠

　　我基本看到我姐那名叫雪球球的豚鼠的内部构造了，然后它就着火了。

　　It led to an interesting expression in our house: Not a Snowball's chance in a CAT scanner.

　　lead to：导致，引起 expression：词，表达

　　于是就有了我家那句玩笑话，雪球别想在扫描仪里活命 (CAT=猫 Snowball =豚鼠)

　　-Leonard：Uh, Sheldon?

　　嗯 Sheldon?

　　-Sheldon：Excuse me.

　　抱歉离开下。

　　When I come back, just for fun, the subject will be alternative history.

　　subject：话题 alternative：两者择一的

　　等我回来，为了有趣些话题将是:历史的分叉点。

　　Specifically, how would the Civil War have gone differently if Lincoln had been a robot sent from the future?

　　the Civil War：美国内战 robot：机器人

　　尤其是如果林肯是未来送来的机器人，内战会有如何不同的发展呢?

　　Look at that, there's even pasta left over.

　　看嘛，还有没吃完的意面。

　　-Leonard：Do you understand that this was supposed to be a date?

　　be supposed to：应该 date：约会

　　你知道这本应是次约会吗?

　　-Sheldon：I do. Do you?

　　我知道哦，你知道吗?

　　Because frankly¹⁵, you've been in a foul¹⁶ mood since I sat down.

　　frankly：坦率地说 foul：令人不愉快的 mood：情绪

　　老实讲，因为自我坐下你的情绪就一直很恶劣。

　　-Leonard：Okay, here's my question. Why did you sit down?

　　好嘛，那我问你，你为啥要坐下来?

　　-Sheldon：To help.

　　帮忙呀。

　　Look, if you fail at this relationship, and history suggests you will, then we risk losing the medical officer that our landing party has always needed.

　　fail：失败 suggest：表明 risk：冒险 landing party：登陆先头部队

　　如果你这次搞砸，历史证明你会哟，那我们有可能失去登陆先头部队一直需要的医疗官哦。

　　-Leonard：What landing party?

　　什么登陆先头部队? (星际旅行每次都会先遣队登陆探险)

　　-Sheldon：You're Kirk, I'm Spock, Wolowitz is Scotty, Koothrappali is the guy who always gets killed... and now we've got McCoy.

　　你是Kirk，我是Spock， Wolowitz是Scotty ，Koothrappali是那个老被干掉的角色...现在我们可算找到McCoy了 (McCoy星际中的医疗官)。

　　-Stephanie：So, we're all standing¹⁷ around looking at the post-op X ray and there it is, clear as day, right in the guy's chest cavity... one of my earrings¹⁹.

　　X ray：x光片 chest cavity：胸腔 cavity：腔 earring¹⁸：耳环

　　我们都围着看手术后的x光片，十分显眼，就在那家伙的胸腔里有我的一只耳环。

　　-Leonard：Oh, my God, what did you do?

　　我的天，你都做了些什么啊?

　　-Stephanie：What do you think I did?

　　我还能做什么?

　　I discreetly²⁰ slipped off the other earring, put it in my pocket and then got the hell out of there!

　　discreetly：小心地 slip off：偷偷地取下 pocket：口袋

　　我小心地取下另外一只放进口袋然后溜了出来!

　　-Sheldon：I have a bone to pick with you, sir.

　　have a bone to pick with：对…不满，对…有抱怨

　　先生，我可得和你评评理。

　　-Stephanie：Hi, Sheldon.

　　你好 Sheldon。

　　-Sheldon：Hi, Stephanie.

　　你好 Stephanie。

　　I'm sorry I'm late, but your companion left the most indecipherable invitation.

　　companion：同伴 indecipherable：破译不出的，难辨认的 invitation：邀请函

　　抱歉迟来了，你的同伴留下了最难破译的邀请函。

　　-Leonard：What invitation?

　　什么邀请?

　　-Sheldon：We're going to the movies.

　　我们看电影去了。

　　What movie? What theater? What time?

　　啥电影，啥影院，啥时候？

　　If you were trying to make it impossible to locate you, you couldn't have done a better job.

　　locate：找出

　　如果你想让别人找不到你的话，你可做得太好了。

　　-Leonard：Oh, clearly I could have.

　　哦，很明显我确实可以做的更好。

　　-Sheldon：It took me nearly 20 minutes to go through the browser²¹ history on your computer to see what movie times you looked up.

　　go through：检查   browser history：浏览器记录   look up：查找

　　我用了将近20分钟查看你电脑里的历史记录，查找你都搜索过什么电影。

　　Wait here, I'll find us seats.

　　seat：座位

　　呆在这，我去找找咱们的座位。

　　-Stephanie：Uh, no, we have seats.

　　不用阿，我们有座位了。

　　-Leonard：Not the right seats.

　　不是"正确"的座位。

　　-Stephanie：What is he doing?

　　他在搞什么？

　　-Leonard：He's finding the acoustic²² sweet spot.

　　acoustic：声音的 spot：地点

　　他要找一个"余音绕梁"的地儿。

1 colloquial   

adj.口语的，会话的

参考例句：

• It's hard to understand the colloquial idioms of a foreign language.外语里的口头习语很难懂。
• They have little acquaintance with colloquial English. 他们对英语会话几乎一窍不通。

2 palatable   

adj.可口的，美味的；惬意的

参考例句：

• The truth is not always very palatable.事实真相并非尽如人意。
• This wine is palatable and not very expensive.这种酒味道不错，价钱也不算贵。

3 banal   

adj.陈腐的，平庸的

参考例句：

• Making banal remarks was one of his bad habits.他的坏习惯之一就是喜欢说些陈词滥调。
• The allegations ranged from the banal to the bizarre.从平淡无奇到离奇百怪的各种说法都有。

4 component   

n.组成部分，成分，元件；adj.组成的，合成的

参考例句：

• Each component is carefully checked before assembly.每个零件在装配前都经过仔细检查。
• Blade and handle are the component parts of a knife.刀身和刀柄是一把刀的组成部分。

5 distinguished   

adj.卓越的，杰出的，著名的

参考例句：

• Elephants are distinguished from other animals by their long noses.大象以其长长的鼻子显示出与其他动物的不同。
• A banquet was given in honor of the distinguished guests.宴会是为了向贵宾们致敬而举行的。

6 surgical   

adj.外科的，外科医生的，手术上的

参考例句：

• He performs the surgical operations at the Red Cross Hospital.他在红十字会医院做外科手术。
• All surgical instruments must be sterilised before use.所有的外科手术器械在使用之前，必须消毒。

7 scenario   

n.剧本，脚本；概要

参考例句：

• But the birth scenario is not completely accurate.然而分娩脚本并非完全准确的。
• This is a totally different scenario.这是完全不同的剧本。

8 viable   

adj.可行的，切实可行的，能活下去的

参考例句：

• The scheme is economically viable.这个计划从经济效益来看是可行的。
• The economy of the country is not viable.这个国家经济是难以维持的。

9 libido   

n.本能的冲动

参考例句：

• Lack of sleep is a major factor in loss of libido.睡眠不足是导致性欲丧失的一个主要因素。
• Ginseng can increase energy and libido,which can help solve intimacy problems.人参可以增加活力和性欲，从而帮助解决亲密关系的问题。

10 conversational   

adj.对话的，会话的

参考例句：

• The article is written in a conversational style.该文是以对话的形式写成的。
• She values herself on her conversational powers.她常夸耀自己的能言善辩。

11 technically   

adv.专门地，技术上地

参考例句：

• Technically it is the most advanced equipment ever.从技术上说，这是最先进的设备。
• The tomato is technically a fruit,although it is eaten as a vegetable.严格地说，西红柿是一种水果，尽管它是当作蔬菜吃的。

12 internship   

n.实习医师，实习医师期

参考例句：

• an internship at a television station 在电视台的实习期
• a summer internship with a small stipend 薪水微薄的暑期实习

13 mishap   

n.不幸的事，不幸；灾祸

参考例句：

• I'm afraid your son had a slight mishap in the playground.不好了，你儿子在操场上出了点小意外。
• We reached home without mishap.我们平安地回到了家。

14 briefly   

adv.简单地，简短地

参考例句：

• I want to touch briefly on another aspect of the problem.我想简单地谈一下这个问题的另一方面。
• He was kidnapped and briefly detained by a terrorist group.他被一个恐怖组织绑架并短暂拘禁。

15 frankly   

adv.坦白地，直率地；坦率地说

参考例句：

• To speak frankly, I don't like the idea at all.老实说，我一点也不赞成这个主意。
• Frankly speaking, I'm not opposed to reform.坦率地说，我不反对改革。

16 foul   

adj.污秽的；邪恶的；v.弄脏；妨害；犯规；n.犯规

参考例句：

• Take off those foul clothes and let me wash them.脱下那些脏衣服让我洗一洗。
• What a foul day it is!多么恶劣的天气！

17 standing   

n.持续，地位；adj.永久的，不动的，直立的，不流动的

参考例句：

• After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震过后只有几幢房屋还立着。
• They're standing out against any change in the law.他们坚决反对对法律做任何修改。

18 earring   

n.耳环，耳饰

参考例句：

• How long have you worn that earring?你戴那个耳环多久了？
• I have an earring but can't find its companion.我现在只有一只耳环,找不到另一只了。

19 earrings   

n.耳环( earring的名词复数 )；耳坠子

参考例句：

• a pair of earrings 一对耳环
• These earrings snap on with special fastener. 这付耳环是用特制的按扣扣上去的。 来自《简明英汉词典》

20 discreetly   

ad.(言行)审慎地，慎重地

参考例句：

• He had only known the perennial widow, the discreetly expensive Frenchwoman. 他只知道她是个永远那么年轻的寡妇，一个很会讲排场的法国女人。
• Sensing that Lilian wanted to be alone with Celia, Andrew discreetly disappeared. 安德鲁觉得莉莲想同西莉亚单独谈些什么，有意避开了。

21 browser   

n.浏览者

参考例句：

• View edits in a web browser.在浏览器中看编辑的效果。
• I think my browser has a list of shareware links.我想在浏览器中会有一系列的共享软件链接。

22 acoustic   

adj.听觉的，声音的；(乐器)原声的

参考例句：

• The hall has a fine acoustic.这个大厅的传音效果很好。
• Animals use a whole rang of acoustic, visual,and chemical signals in their systems of communication.动物利用各种各样的听觉、视觉和化学信号来进行交流。