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 colloquial, 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 palatable to preface it with banal 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 component?

　　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 distinguished surgical 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 scenario:

　　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 viable 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 libido.

　　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 conversational 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, technically 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 internship?

　　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 mishap 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 briefly 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 frankly, you've been in a foul 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 standing 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 earrings.

　　X ray：x光片 chest cavity：胸腔 cavity：腔 earring：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 discreetly 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 browser 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 acoustic sweet spot.

　　acoustic：声音的 spot：地点

　　他要找一个"余音绕梁"的地儿。