1、看 Big Bang Theory 学英语第一季 2 集: The Big Bran Hypothesis-Howard: But does it have peanut oil?peanut:花生但有花生油吧?-Leonard: Im not sure.我不清楚。Everyone keep an eye on Howard in case he starts to swell up.keep an eye on sth.: 留心，注意 in case：免得，以防 swell up：肿胀你们每个人都盯着 Howard，以防他突然肿胀。-Sheldon: Since its not bee se
2、ason, you can have my epinephrine.since: 因为，既然 bee season: 美国的拼字大赛，有点像中国的超女比赛，成千上万个小朋友参加比赛，电视直播。拼字比赛，Spell Bee，就是评委读出一个单词，选手要把它的字母拼出来，错误即遭淘汰。用 Bee 这个单词生动地描绘了众人蜂拥的场景。【Bee Season：一部美国电影，中文片名 】epinephrine：肾上腺素既然现在不是看 ，你可以吃我的肾上腺素。-Howard: Are there any chopsticks？chopsticks：筷子有筷子吗?-Sheldon: You dont nee
3、d chopsticks. This is Thai food.Thai：泰国人，泰国语 Thai food: 泰国菜你不需要筷子，这是泰国菜。-Leonard: Here we go.又来啦。-Sheldon: Thailand has had the fork since the latter half of the 19th Century.Thailand：泰国 fork：餐叉 since：（表示时间）从以来 Century：世纪【早期泰国人的用餐方式自由随性，只以芭蕉叶盛饭，再以手取饭菜进食。而今日的泰国餐具也十分简单，基本餐具为一只汤匙和一双筷子，以及一个圆盘。因因泰国一位名君拉瑪
4、五世, 他看到泰国人最初吃饭受印度人影响, 要用手來吃, 极不卫生, 所以他要向西方学习, 便发明匙与刀叉, 所以日后吃泰国菜便使用刀叉。 】泰国自 19 世纪后半期起使用餐叉。Interestingly, they dont actually put the fork in their mouth-interestingly：有趣的是 actually：实际上有趣的是，他们不直接叉食物进嘴，They use it to put the food on a spoon which then goes into their mouth.spoon:汤匙 goes into：进入而是叉食物进汤匙，
5、再送进嘴里。-Leonard: Ask him for a napkin. I dare you.askfor：请求，要求 napkin：餐巾 dare：敢，激 I dare you:我打赌你不敢或我敢说你行你敢不敢找他要餐巾纸?Ill get it.我去开门。-Howard: Do I look puffy? I feel puffy.puffy:肿胀的我看起来肿吗? 我觉得有点鼓鼓的。-Penny：Hey, Leonard.嗨，Leonard -Leonard: Oh, hi, Penny.嗨，Penny-Penny：Am I interrupting?interrupt：打断打扰到你们了
6、? -Leonard: No.没有。-Sheldon: Youre not swelling, Howard.swelling：v. 膨胀(泡胀) a. 膨胀的(增大的)你没有肿胀，Howard。-Howard: No, no, look at my fingers. Theyre like Vienna sausages.fingers：手指 Vienna：维也纳（奥地利首都） sausage：香肠不，不，看我的手指，就像维也纳腊肠。-Penny：Sounds like you have company.sounds like：听起来像 company: n. 公司,友伴, 交际【此处指朋友
7、、客人】看起来你有客人。-Leonard: Theyre not going anywhere.anywhere：任何地方他们哪儿也不去。So, youre coming home from work. Thats great. How was work?你刚下班啊，太好了。工作怎么样?-Penny：Well, you know, its a Cheesecake Factory.cheesecake：奶酪蛋糕 factory：工厂 【Cheesecake Factory：美国著名连锁店】你知道嘛？芝士蛋糕工厂？People order cheesecake and I bring it to
8、 themorder：点（饭菜，饮料）人们购买蛋糕，我给他们就行。-Leonard: So you kind of act like a carbohydrate delivery system.act：做，行为 carbohydrate：碳水化合物 delivery：运送，投递 system：系统也就是说，你类似于是，碳水化合物的运送系统。-Penny：Yeah. Call it whatever you want, I get my minimum wage.whatever：任何，无论什么 minimum：adj. 最低的, 最小的，n. 最小量, 最低限度wage：工资是啊，随便你怎么
9、叫它，我能拿到基本工资。Yeah. Um, anyways, I was wondering if you could help me out with something. Ive kinda had.anyways：不管怎样 wonder：想知道 help sb. out：帮助好吧，不管怎么说，我在想你能不能帮我个忙?-Leonard: Yes.没问题。-Penny：Okay, great. Im having some furniture delivered tomorrow and I may not be here, so. Oh. H Hello.furniture：家具 deli
10、ver：运送太好了。明天我有些家具要运过来，我可能不在家，所以. 你. 你们好Im sorry?抱歉?-Howard: Havent you ever been told how beautiful you are in flawless Russian?flawless：无暇的，完美的 Russian：俄语没人用俄语夸奖过你的绝世美貌吗?-Penny：No, I havent.不，没有 。-Howard: Get used to it.get used to：习惯于你得习惯这个。-Penny：Yeah. I probably wont.probably：大概，可能呃，我可能很难习惯。Hey，
11、Sheldon. Hi嘿 Sheldon 。 嗨Hey, Raj.嘿 Raj。Still not talking to me, huh?still:仍然，还是还是不理我，嗯?-Sheldon: Dont take it personally, its his pathology. He cant talk to women.dont take it : 别放在心上。 【take 此处引申为介意】 personally：ad. 自己, 亲自地,以个人 pathology：病状，反常别放在心上。这是他的病状，他没法和女人说话。-Howard: He cant talk to attractive
12、women or in your case, a cheesecake scented goddess.attractive:迷人的，有吸引力的 scented：有香味的，有气味的 goddess：女神没法和迷人的女人说话，而你是芝士蛋糕香气逼人的女神。-Leonard: So theres going to be some furniture delivered?那么，有家具要搬过来?-Penny：Yeah, yeah. If it gets here and Im not here tomorrow, could you just sign for it，sign for：签收对。如果明天
13、送来时我不在，你能帮我签收一下吗?and have them put it in my apartment?apartment：一套房间【have something done 让别人做某事这是个很重要的表达方式此处 put 是过去分词意思是让送家具的人把家具搬进屋里】然后搬进我的房间?-Leonard: No problem.没问题。-Penny：Great. Heres my spare key. Thank you.spare：多余的，备用的太好了，这是我的备用钥匙，谢谢！Penny, wait.Penny，等等。-Penny：Yeah?怎么?-Leonard: Uh.If you do
14、nt have any other plans,plan：计划，打算呃. 如果你没别的计划，do you want to join us for Thai food and a Superman movie marathon?join：加入，参加 Thai：泰国 superman：超人 marathon：马拉松要不来和我们一起吃泰国菜，还有超人电影马拉松?-Penny：A marathon? Wow. How many Superman movies are there?马拉松? 哇噢，你们那儿有多少部超人电影?-Sheldon: Youre kidding, right?kid：戏弄，取消你
15、开玩笑，对吧?-Penny：I do like the one where Lois Lane falls from the helicopterfall from：落下，跌落 helicopter：直升机我超喜欢那部，路易丝莱恩从直升机上坠下。and Superman swooshes down and catches her.swoosh：读swu:, swu，n. 嗖的一声( 涡动)，vt. 嗖的一声(涡动)超人嗖地一下过去接住她。Which one was that?那是哪一部?One（其他人齐声说）就一部。-Sheldon: You realize that scene was ri
16、fe with scientific inaccuracy.realize：了解，认识到 scene：（电影，电视的）一个镜头 be rife with：充满scientific：科学的 inaccuracy：不准确，误差你知道那场景里，充斥着科学错误吧？-Penny：Yes, I know, men cant fly.是啊，我知道，人类不能飞。-Sheldon: No, no. Lets assume that they can.assume：假设，猜想不，不，让我们假设人类可以。Lois Lane is falling, accelerating at an initial of 32 f
17、eet per second.accelerating：加速 initial：最初的 rate（运动，变化等的）速度 feet：英尺 per：每second：秒路易丝莱恩以 32 英尺/秒平方的初始加速度急速坠落，Superman swoops down to save her by reaching out two arms of steel.swoop：俯冲，猛冲 save：挽救，拯救 reach out：伸出 steel ：钢，钢铁超人突然下降，用钢铁般的手臂接住她。Miss Lane, who is now traveling at approximately 120 miles an
18、 hour,traveling：移动，滑动 approximately：近似的，大约 mile：英里莱恩小姐此时大约速度在 120 英里/时，hits them and is immediately slice into three equal pieces.hit：碰撞 immediately：立即，马上 slice into：切开，切成 equal：相等的猛撞上超人的手臂后，她会马上被切成三等分。-Leonard: Unless Superman matches her speed and decelerates.unless：除非 match：（使）相称 decelerate：（使）减速
19、【反义词：accelerate：加速】除非超人赶上她的速度并减速。-Sheldon: In what space, sir? In what space?space：n. 位置,空间,距离； v. 隔开,分隔【此处引申为“一段时间”】哪还有时间，先生? 哪有时间 ?Shes two feet above the ground.她离地面只有两英尺。Frankly, if he really loved her, hed let her hit the pavement.frankly：直率的，坦率的 pavement：硬路面坦白讲，如果他真的爱她，就应该让她直接撞地。Itd be a more
20、merciful death.merciful：仁慈的，宽恕的那会是种更仁慈的死法。-Leonard: Excuse me, your entire argument is predicated on the assumptionentire：全部的 argument：论据，论点 predicate on：以为基础【predicate ：读predikit，n. 述语；a. 述语的；v. 断定为,意味】 assumption：假定抱歉，你全部的争论，都只是建立在一个假设上，that Supermans flight is a feat of strength.flight：飞行 feat：n.
21、 壮举,功绩,技艺表演【此处指技艺】 strength：力，力量假设超人的飞行能力，是一种力量的特技。-Sheldon: Are you listening to yourself?listen to: 听你知道自己说什么吗?It is well established that Supermans flight is a feat of strength.established：确定的【well established 相当于 well-known】这一点是毋庸置疑的啊。It is an extension of his ability to leap tall buildings.exte
22、nsion：延伸，扩展 leap：跳过，跃过 building：建筑物，楼房这是他跳跃高楼能力的延伸，an ability he derives from exposure to Earths yellow sun.ability：能量，力量 derive from：由而来，源于 exposure：暴露，显露是他从太阳光中获取的能力。-Howard：And you dont have a problem with that? How does he fly at night?have a problem with：在方面有问题或困难你没发现问题吗? 那他在夜里怎么飞行 ?-Sheldon: O
23、h, a combination of the moons solar reflectioncombination：结合，组合 solar：太阳的，日光的 reflection：反映，反射哦，结合月球的日光反射，and the energy-storage capacity of Kryptonian skin cells.storage：储存 Krypton：氪 cells：细胞以及氪星人皮肤细胞中贮存的能量。-Penny：Im just gonna go wash up.gonna= going to wash up：洗脸和手【还有洗餐具的意思】我要回去洗个手先。-Leonard: I h
24、ave 2,600 comic books in ic ：n. 连环图画,杂耍滑稽演员；adj. 滑稽的, 有趣的,喜剧的 comic book：连环漫画册我那儿有 2600 本连环画册。I challenge you to find a single reference to Kryptonian skin cells.challenge：n. 挑战；v. 向.挑战 reference：参考书目你敢不敢去找出，所谓的“氪星人皮肤细胞“ 的内容 ?-Sheldon: Challenge accepted.accept：接受接受挑战。Were locked out.locked out：把 关在
25、外面我们被锁在外面了。-Raj：Also, the pretty girl left.pretty：漂亮的还有，漂亮女孩也走了。-Leonard: Ok, her apartments on the fourth floor but the elevators broken,apartment：一套房间 fourth floor ：四楼【此处为美英说法，英英译为五楼；因为英式：ground floor: 一楼 first floor:二楼美式：first floor:一楼 second floor：二楼】elevator：电梯 broken：adj. 坏掉的,打破的,断掉的房间在四楼，可是电梯
26、坏了，so youre gonna have to.gonna（美俚）=going to所以你们得.Oh, youre just gonna be done? Okay. Cool. Thanks.cool：【此处指“好” ，表示赞同】你们就这么走了? 好吧，没事，谢谢。I guess well just bring it up ourselves.我们自己搬上去吧。-Sheldon: I hardly think so.hardly：几乎不，表否定 I hardly think so：【表示不赞同的方式】我不这么想。-Leonard: Why not?为什么不?-Sheldon: Well,
27、 we dont have a dolly,dolly：手推车呃，我们没有手推车，or lifting belts or any measurable upper-body strength.lifting belt：升运带 measurable：明显的，重大的没有升降运送带，也没有那么强悍的上肢力量。-Leonard: We dont need strength- were physicists.physicist：物理学家我们不需要靠蛮力，我们是物理学家。We are the intellectual descendants of Archimedes.intellectual：智力的 d
28、escendant：后代 Archimedes：阿基米德(古希腊数学家、物理学家、发明家)我们是阿基米德的精英后代。Give me a fulcrum and a lever and I can move the Earth.fulcrum：支点 lever：杠杆给我一个杠杆，一个支点，我就能撬动地球。Its just a matter of. I dont have this.可问题是.我没有。I dont have this! I do not have this!我没有! 我没有!-Sheldon: Archimedes would be so proud.Archimedes：阿基米德
29、阿基米德会为你骄傲的。-Leonard: Do you have any ideas?你有办法吗?-Sheldon: Yes, but they all involve a green lantern and a power ring.involve：（使）参与，牵涉 green lantern：绿灯侠【绿灯侠与超人同为 DC旗下的经典漫画，问世于上世纪 40 年代，据说这是一群实力不亚于超人的英雄。在地球上每一批绿灯都会有一个继承者，可以说除了超人之外，绿灯侠是外星来客帮助地球人的典型代表。 】 power ring：能量指环。都是美国漫画超级英雄有，但都需要绿灯侠和能量指环 (美国漫画超级
30、英雄)。-Leonard: Easy. easy.慢点.慢点Okay. Now weve got an inclined plane.inclined：倾斜的 plane：平面 inclined plane：斜面很好，现在我们弄成了斜面。The force required to lift is reduced by the sine of the angle of the stairs,require：需要 lift：抬起，举起 reduce：减少 sine：正弦 angle：角度 stairs：楼梯，阶梯图运上去所需的力度，按梯角的正弦值减少，call it 30 degrees, so,
31、 about half.degree：度，度数30 度角的话，就减少一半力气。-Sheldon: Exactly half.正好一半。-Leonard: Exactly half.正好一半。Lets pushpush：推来推吧。Okay. See, its moving, this is easy.看，推动了，很容易。Its all in the math.一切都是数学原理。-Sheldon: Whats your formula for the corner?formula：公式，方程式 corner：角，拐角遇到转角，你用什么公式?-Leonard: What? Okay, uh.什么?
32、好吧呃 .Okay, yeah, no problem. Just come up here, help me and turn.pull:拉 turn：转动，使改变方向没问题，你上来这儿帮我拉，然后转弯。-Sheldon: Ah, gravity, thou are a heartless bitch.gravity：万有引力，重力 【thou=you 相当于汉语中称“你”为“汝” 】heartless：无情的 bitch：坏女人，骂人的话啊，地心引力，你真是无良的婊子。You do understand that our efforts here willeffort：努力，尽力你得明白，
33、我们这儿所有的努力，in no way increase the odds of you having sexual congress with this woman.in no way：决不 increase：增加 odds：可能性，机会 sexual：性的 congress：n. 代表大会,国会,议会；男女性交绝不可能增加你和那女人，发生性关系的几率。-Leonard: Men do things for women without expecting sex.expect：期望男人为女人做事，并不是只求做爱予以回报。-Sheldon: Those would be men who jus
34、t had sex.had sex：发生性行为那是对于，刚做过爱的男人来说。-Leonard: Im doing this to be a good neighbor.neighbor：邻居我这么做，是想成为一个好邻居。In any case, theres no way it could lower the odds.In any case：无论如何 lower：降低 odds：机会无论如何，这也绝不会降低几率啊。-Leonard: Almost there. Almost there. Almost there.快到了。快到了。快到了。 -Sheldon: No, were not. We
35、re not.不，还没到。不，还没到。-Leonard: Im sorry.对不起。-Sheldon: Watch your fingers. Watch your fingers.fingers：手指小心你的手指。-Leonard: Yeah.好的。-Sheldon: Oh, God, my fingers!finger： n，手指，指针上帝啊我的手指!-Leonard: You okay?你没事吧?-Sheldon: No, her. Great Caesars ghost, look at this place.Caesar：恺撒大帝 ghost：幽灵不，她. 伟大凯撒的亡灵啊，看看这地
36、方。-Leonard: So Pennys a little messy.messy：凌乱的，肮脏的看来 Penny 的房间有一点凌乱。-Sheldon: A little messy?有一点凌乱?The Mandelbrot set of complex numbers is a little messy.set：集合 complex：复杂的高次幂 Mandelbrot 集的复杂数字，才叫有一点凌乱。This is chaos.chaos：混乱这简直是一团糟。Excuse me.不好意思。Explain to me an organizational system where a tray
37、of flatware on a couch is valid.organizational system：组织系统 tray：餐具盘 flatware：餐具 couch：长沙发valid：符合逻辑的你解释下，一个餐具盘放在沙发上，这样的组织系统能叫合理吗?Now, Im just inferring that this is a couchinfer：推断现在，我只是假设这是沙发，because the evidence s the coffee table is having a tiny garage sale.evidence：证据 suggest：暗示 tiny：极小的 garage
38、 sale：现场旧货出售因为证据显示，咖啡桌上正进行一场小型旧货出售。-Leonard: Did it ever occur to you that not everyone has the compulsive need to sort, organizeoccur to：被想起（到） compulsive：强迫性的 sort：分类 organize：组织，使有条理你有没想过，并不是每个人都觉得必须要. 归类、整理、and label the entire world around them?label：贴标签于 entire：全部的并将一切事物都贴上标签?-Sheldon: No.没有想过
39、。-Leonard: Well, they dont. Hard as it may be for you to believe,其实人们不这样，也许你很难相信，most people dont sort their breakfast cereal numerically by fiber content.cereal：麦片粥 numerically：用数字表示 fiber：纤维 content：含量大多数人并不用纤维量，去归类他们的芥麦早餐。-Sheldon: Excuse me, but I think weve both found that helpful at times.at t
40、imes：有时，不时抱歉，但我认为我们都发现，有时那个很管用。-Leonard: Come on, we should go.快点，我们得走了。 -Sheldon: Hang on.hang on：坚持下去(缠住不放,系于,取决于)等一下。-Leonard: What are you doing?你在干嘛?-Sheldon: Im straightening up.straighten up: 清理我在清理。-Leonard: Sheldon, this is not your home.Sheldon，这不是你的家。-Sheldon: No, this is not anyones home
41、. This is a swirling vortex of entropy.Swirling：漩涡 vortex：涡流 entropy：n. 熵，函数这根本不能叫家，这是社会恶化的旋涡中心。-Leonard: When the transvestite lived here, you didnt care how he kept the place.transvestite：易装癖，异性模仿欲当易装癖住在这儿的时候，你就不计较他怎么糟蹋这的。-Sheldon: Because it was immaculate. I mean, you opened that mans closet, it
42、 was left to right evening gowns,immaculate：整洁的 closet：厨，壁橱 left to right：从左到右 gown：女长服，礼服evening gowns：晚礼服因为他的很完美。当你打开那男人的衣橱时，从左到右，依次是女士晚礼服、cocktail dresses, then his police uniforms.女士短裙、然后是警察制服。-Leonard: What were you doing in his closet?closet：n. 壁橱,小室；adj. 秘密的,空论的【此处指橱柜】你去翻他的衣橱干什么?-Sheldon: I h
43、elped him run some cable for a web cam.run：运行 cable：电缆 cam：camera 的缩写，摄像机 webcam ：摄像头我帮他调试摄像头网线。-Penny：Hey, guys. 嘿，伙计们。 -Leonard: Oh, Hey, Penny.嘿，Penny。This just arrived, we just brought this up. just now.家具刚到，我们搬上来.刚刚。-Penny：Great. Was it hard getting it up the stairs?Stairs：楼梯太好了，你们搬上楼来很费劲吧?-Leo
44、nard: No.不。-Sheldon: “No“?“不“?-Leonard: No.不。-Sheldon: No.不。-Leonard: Well, well get out of your here.好了，我们出去了。-Penny：Okay, great. Thank you again.太好了，再次谢谢你们。-Sheldon: Penny.I just want you to know that you dont have to live like this.Penny，我只是想让你知道，你没必要这样生活。Im here for you.有我在呢。-Penny：Whats he talk
45、ing about?他在说什么?-Leonard: Its a joke.说笑话。 -Penny：I dont get it.get it：挨骂,理解,受到惩处 【这里指理解；“Got it？”这样的问话常出现在口语中，意为“理解了吗？”，非常实用】我没听懂。-Leonard: Yeah, he didnt tell it right.是啊，他讲不来笑话的。-Leonard: Sheldon? Sheldon? Hello? Sheldon!Sheldon! Sheldon? 哈罗? Sheldon!-Sheldon: Shh, Shh, shh. Pennys sleeping.Shh： i
46、nt. 嘘, 安静一点嘘，嘘，Penny 在睡觉。-Leonard: Are you insane?insane：精神失常的，疯狂的你疯了吗?You cant just break into a womans apartment in the middle of the night and clean.break into：闯入，破门而入你不能就这么闯进一间女人的公寓，深更半夜，还打扫整理。-Sheldon: I had no choice.我别无选择。I couldnt sleep knowing that just outside my bedroom was our living roo
47、m, and immediately adjacent to the hallway was. this.sleep：睡眠 bedroom：卧室 living room：客厅 immediately：直接的 adjacent：临近的 adjacent to ：vt. 靠近(与邻接) hallway：走廊我没法睡着，明明知道，我卧室外是客厅，客厅外是走廊，而直接紧接走廊的是.这个。-Leonard: Do you realize that if Penny wakes up,realize：了解，意识到 wake up：醒来你有没想过，万一 Penny 醒了，there is no reason
48、able explanation as to why were here.reasonable：合理的 explanation：解释该如何解释我们在这儿呢。-Sheldon: I just gave you a reasonable explanation.just：刚才，方才我刚就给了你一个合理解释。-Leonard: No, no, you gave me an explanation.不，不，你给了我一个解释。Its reasonableness will be determined by a jury of your peers.reasonableness：合理性 determine
49、：确定，测定 jury：陪审团 peer：同辈，同龄人可它的合理性，得由你的同伴陪审团来裁决。-Sheldon: Dont be ridiculous. I have no peers.ridiculous：可笑的，荒谬的 peer：n. 同侪,匹敌,贵族；v. 凝视,窥视别说笑了。我没什么同伴。-Leonard: Sheldon, we have to get out of here.get out of：离开Sheldon，我们得出去。-Sheldon: You might want to speak in a lower register.lower register：低音区 register ：v. 记录,登记,注册,挂号；n. 暂存器, 记录,登记簿也许你得降低声调。-Leonard: What?什么?-Sheldon: Evolution has made women sensitive to high-pitched noises while they sleepevolution：演变，进化 sensi
