1、看 Big Bang Theory 学英语 第一季 1 集：Pilotpilot：美国电视剧新剧开播都会有一个试播来测试观众对新剧的接受程度，以此来决定是否再继续播下去，也可以说是一个开端，第一集，试播-Sheldon:So if a photon (particle of light) is directed to a plane with two slits in it and either slit is observed, it will not go through both slits.If its unobserved, it will. However, if its obse
2、rved after its left the plane but before it hits its target, it will not have gone through both slits.photon：光子 particle of light：粒子光 direct：对准 plane：平面 slit：裂缝observe：观察 go through：通过 both：两者都 unobserved：没有观察到的 hit：打击 target：目标 如果一个光子打向有两个狭缝的平面，如果有一个狭缝可以观测到，那它没有同时通过两个狭缝。如果观测不到，那它会通过。但如果它是在离开平面后在击中目
3、标物之前被观测到，那它不会同时通过两个狭缝。-Leonard: Agreed. Whats your point?同意。你想说什么？-Sheldon: Theres no point. I just think its a good idea for a T-shirt.没什么，我只是觉得这个主意放在 T 恤上不错。-Leonard: Excuse me.打扰了。-Woman: Hang on.hang on：等等稍等。-Leonard: Uh, 1 across is “Aegean“.across：横过 Aegean：爱琴海【爱琴海是地中海（Mediterranean Sea）东部的一个大
4、海湾】横 1 是“爱琴海”。8 down is “Nabokov“Nabokov：纳巴科夫，俄裔美国小说家竖 8 是“纳巴科夫”。26 across is “MCM“横 26 是“MCM”。14 down is. move your finger.Phylum, which makes 14 across “Port-au-Prince“finger：手指 Phylum：门，生物分类 Port-au-Prince：太子港，海地首都竖 14 是你手挡住了 是门，所以说横 14 是 “太子港”see, “Papa Docs capital idea“, thats “Port-au-Prince“
5、.Papa Doc：海地总统绰号 capital：首要的你看， “Papa Doc 提示了，所以是太子港。-Woman: Can I help you? 需要我帮忙嘛？-Leonard: Yes. Um. is this the high-IQ sperm bank?high-IQ：高智商的 【Intelligence Quotient 的缩写】 sperm bank：精子库 sperm：精子是的。这里是高智商精子库嘛？-Woman: If you have to ask, maybe you shouldnt be here.maybe：可能如果这还要问的话，那你可能不该来这。-Sheldo
6、n:I think this is the place.我想就是这里了-Woman: Fill these out.fill out：填写把表格填了。-Leonard: Thank you. Well be right back.谢谢。马上就好。-Woman: Oh, take your time. Ill just finish my crossword puzzle.take time：花费（时间） finish：完成 crossword puzzle：纵横拼字谜不急。我正好把填字游戏做完。Oh, wait.等等。-Sheldon: Leonard, I dont think I can
7、do this.Leonard，我觉得我做不到。-Leonard: What are you kidding? Youre a semi-pro.kidding：开玩笑 semi-pro：半职业选手 开什么玩笑，你都是“半职业选手”了-Sheldon: No. We are committing genetic mit：犯罪 genetic：基因的 fraud：欺诈不是的，我们这是在犯基因欺诈罪。Theres no guarantee that our sperm is going to generate high-IQ offspring.guarantee：保证 be going to：将
8、要 generate：产生 offspring：后代我们的精子并不能保证将来就能生出高智商的后代。Think about that. I have a sister with the same basic DNA mix who hostesses at Fuddruckers.basic：基本的 mix：混合 hostesses：女服务生 Fuddruckers：Fuddruckers 是家专营汉堡包的公司你想想。我姐姐和我的 DNA 结构相同可是她只是快餐店的女服务生。-Leonard: Sheldon, this was your idea.idea：主意Sheldon，当初你要来的。A
9、 little extra money to get fractional T1 bandwidth in the apartment.extra：额外的 fractional：微少的 bandwidth：带宽 apartment ：公寓这点补贴能让我们在寓所里拥有分式 T-1 带宽。-Sheldon: I know, and I do yearn for faster downloads.yearn for：渴望 faster：更快的 download：下载我知道，我的确渴望更快的下载速度。But theres some poor woman whos going to pin her ho
10、pes on my sperm.poor：可怜的 pinon：钉住 hope：希望但那些可怜的女人们会把希望寄托在我精子上的。What if she winds up with a toddler who doesnt know if he should use an integral or a differential to solve the area under a curve?wind up：以结束 toddler：初学走路的孩子 integral：积分 differential：微分如果她最后发现那小不点连曲线下面积该用积分还是微分算都不知道，她会怎么想？-Leonard: Im s
11、ure shell still love him.be sure：确定,肯定我肯定她还是会爱他的。 -Sheldon: I wouldnt.我不会。-Leonard: Well, what do you want to do?你现在想怎么样？-Sheldon: I want to leave.我想走了。-Leonard: Okay.好的。-Sheldon: Whats the protocol for leaving?protocol：礼仪,外交礼仪【这里指应该找个合适的说法给大夫】该怎么跟她说呢？-Leonard: I dont know. Ive never reneged on a pr
12、offer of sperm before.never：从不 renege：违约 proffer：提供 我不知道，我以前从来没有在捐献精子中途走人过。-Sheldon: Lets try just walking out.walk out：走出去我们就直接走吧。-Leonard: Okay.好。-Woman: Bye. 再见。-Sheldon: Bye.再见。-Leonard: Nice meeting you.meet：会见很高兴见到你。-Sheldon: Are you still mad about the sperm bank?mad：生气你还在为精子库的事生气吗？-Leonard:
13、No.没。-Sheldon: You want to hear an interesting thing about stairs?want to：想要 interesting：有趣的 stair：楼梯你想听有关楼梯好玩的事吗？-Leonard: Not really.不太想。-Sheldon: If the height of a single step is off by 2 millimeters, most people will tripheight：高度 single：单一的 step：台阶 millimeter：毫米 trip：跌倒如果一个台阶的高度偏差 2mm 大多数人就会绊倒
14、。-Leonard: I dont care. 2 millimeters? That doesnt seem rightcare：关心 seem：好像,似乎我不关心。2mm? 这不对啊。-Sheldon: No, its true. I did a series of experiments when I was 12.true：真的 a series of：一系列的 experiment：实验就是这样的。我 12 岁时做过一系列的实验。My father broke his clavicle.clavicle：锁骨我爸把锁骨都摔断了。-Leonard: Is that why they s
15、ent you to boarding school?boarding school：寄宿学校所以他们才送你去上了寄宿学校？-Sheldon: No. That was a result of my work with lasers.result of：结果 laser：激光不是，是我研究激光之后才送我去的。-Leonard: New neighbor?neighbor：邻居新邻居?-Sheldon: Evidently.evidently：明显地显然是的。-Leonard: Significant improvement over the old neighbor.significant：重
16、要的 improvement：改进,增进显然比我们老邻居强很多。-Sheldon: 200-pound transvestite with a skin condition?pound：磅 transvestite：易装癖者 skin：皮肤 condition：状况一个重 200 磅有皮肤病的变装癖? Yes, she is.是的，没错。-Penny: Oh, hi.噢，嗨。-Leonard: hi.嗨。-Sheldon: hi. 嗨。-Leonard: hi.嗨。-Penny: Hi?嗨？-Leonard: We dont mean to interrupt. We live across
17、the hall.mean：意思 interrupt：打扰 across：穿过 hall：大厅我们没想打扰你，我们住对门。-Penny: Oh, thats nice.噢，真好。-Leonard: Oh, no, uh, we dont live together.together：一起我们不是睡一起。I mean, we live together, but in separate, heterosexual bedrooms.separate：分开的 heterosexual：异性恋者 bedroom：卧室我是说，我们住在一起，但是睡在两个单独的异性恋房间里。-Penny: Oh. Oka
18、y, well, guess Im your new neighbor. Penny.guess：猜 neighbor：邻居噢，好的，看来我是新邻居了。Penny。-Leonard: Leonard. Sheldon.Leonard Sheldon。-Penny: hi. 嗨!-Sheldon: hi.嗨!-Penny: hi. 嗨!-Leonard: hi.嗨!-Leonard: Well, uh. oh, uh, welcome to the building.welcome：欢迎 buliding：建筑物那个欢迎搬到楼里来。-Penny: Oh, thank you. Maybe we
19、can have coffee sometime.coffee：咖啡 sometime：有时噢，谢谢，或许有时间我们可以一起喝咖啡。-Leonard: Oh, great.噢，太好了。-Penny: great.好极了。-Sheldon: great. 好极了。-Leonard: great.好极了。-Leonard: Well, uh, Bye.恩，那好，拜。-Penny: Bye.拜。-Sheldon: Bye. 拜。-Leonard: Bye.拜。Should we have invited her for lunch?invite：邀请 lunch：午餐我们邀请她吃午餐怎样?-Shel
20、don: No. Were going to start Season 2 of Battlestar Galactica.season：季 Battlestar Galactica：太空堡垒卡拉狄加【美国一部科幻类电视剧】不行，我们要看第二季。-Leonard: We already watched the season 2 DVDs.already：已经我们已经看过第二季的 DVD 了。-Sheldon: Not with mentary：实况报道没看过转播的。-Leonard: I think we should be good neighbors and invite her over
21、, make her feel welcome.invite over：请客 welcome：受欢迎的我觉得我们应该做好邻居，请她过来，让她觉得自在些。-Sheldon: We never invited Louie/Louise over.我们就从没请 Louis/Louise 来过。-Leonard: Well. and that was wrong of us. We need to widen our circle.widen：扩展 circle：圈,社交圈那是我们不对。我们要扩大朋友圈。-Sheldon: I have a very wide circle. I have 212 f
22、riends on “myspace“.wide：宽阔的,广泛的 MySpace：我的空间【美国在线社交网站名称，全球第二大的社网站】我的圈子很大了。在 MySpace 上我有 212 个朋友。-Leonard: Yes, and youve never met one of them.met： meet 的过去式,会见是啊，而且你一个都没见过。-Sheldon: Thats the beauty of it.beauty：美的东西这才是美好所在。-Leonard: Im going to invite her over.我要去请她过来。Well have a nice meal and. c
23、hat.chat：交谈我们会吃一顿美餐，好好聊一会儿。-Sheldon: Chat? We dont chat. At least not offline.at least：至少 offline：下线聊天? 我们不聊天啊，至少下线时不会。-Leonard: Well, its not difficult. You just listen to what she says and then you say something appropriate in response.difficult：艰难的 appropriate：恰当的 in response：回应又不是很难，你只要听她说的话，然后你
24、说些得体的话，给她些回应就行了。-Sheldon: To what end?谈什么内容啊？-Leonard: Hi. Again.again：再次嗨，又是我们。-Penny: Hi. 嗨。-Sheldon: Hi.嗨。-Leonard: Hi. Anyway, um. we brought home Indian food.anyway：不管怎样 Indian：印度的就是那个，我们买了印度的食物回来I know that moving can be stressful, and, and, I find that when Im undergoing stress,stressful：紧张的
25、undergo：遭受 stress：压力我知道搬家给人很大压力，我发现如果我有压力的时候。that good food and company can have a comforting pany：陪伴 comforting：安慰的 effect：效果美食和好友相伴可以产生安慰的效果。Also, curry is a natural laxative and I dont have to tell you, that, you know,curry：咖喱 natural：天然的 laxative：泻药同时咖喱还是天然泻药，我不用告诉你，a clean colon is just one les
26、s thing to worry about.colon：结肠 worry about：担心清空大肠是最不需要担心的。-Sheldon: Leonard, Im no expert here, but I believe in the context of a luncheon invitation,believe in：相信 context：语境 luncheon：午宴 invitation：邀请瞧，虽然这方面我不是专家，但我相信这不是请人吃饭的谈话内容you might want to skip the reference to bowel movements.skip：跳过 refere
27、nce：参考 bowel movement：肠运动, 排粪你或许该跳过对于清肠的提示。-Penny: Oh, youre inviting me over to eat?噢，你是请我过去吃饭吗？-Leonard: Uh. yes.是.-Penny: Oh, thats so nice. Id love to.would love to：想要,愿意真好，我很愿意。-Leonard: Great.好极了。-Penny: So, what do you guys do for fun around here?guy：家伙,伙计 fun：有趣的事 那你们平时都玩些什么？-Sheldon: Well,
28、today we tried masturbating for money.masturbate：进行手淫今天我们刚试过靠自慰赚钱。-Leonard: Okay, well, make yourself at home.请随便些。-Penny: Okay. Thank you.谢谢。-Leonard: Youre very welcome.不用客气。-Penny: This looks like some serious stuff. Leonard, did you do this?looks like：看上去像 serious：严肃的 stuff：东西这看着像是很严肃的东西，是你们谁做的吗
29、？-Sheldon: Actually, thats my work.actually：事实上 work：作品事实上那是我的作品。-Penny: Wow.哇哦。-Sheldon: Yeah. Well, its just some quantum mechanics, with a little string theory doodling around the edges.quantum mechanic：量子力学 string theory：弦理论 doodle：乱画 edge：边缘是的，只是一些量子力学。边上还乱画了一些弦理论。That part there, thats just a
30、joke.joke：笑话这个部分，只是个笑话。Its a spoof of the Born-Oppenheimer approximation.spoof：愚弄 Born-Oppenheimer approximation：波恩-奥本海默近似值是讽刺波恩-奥本海默近似值的。-Penny: So youre like one of those beautiful mind genius guys.beautiful mind：美丽心灵【是一部关于一个真实天才的极富人性的剧情片 】 genius：天才 那你就像是“美丽心灵” 里那种天才喽？-Sheldon: Yeah.是。-Penny: Thi
31、s is really impressive.really：真正地 impressive：令人印象深刻的真是令人印象深刻。-Leonard: I have a board. If you like boards, this is my board.board：板 我也有个板子，你要是喜欢板子，这块是我的。-Penny: Holy smokes!Holy smokes：天啊我的天啊。-Sheldon: If by “holy smokes“ you mean a derivative restatement of the kind of stuff you can find scribbled
32、on the wall of any mens room at MIT, sure.mean：意思是 derivative：导出的 restatement：重述 scribble：潦草的写法 MIT： Massachusettes Institute of Technology(美国)麻省理工学院她说“我的天啊” ，她是说这些毫无独创性的理论重述在麻省任何一个房间的墙上都能看到。-Leonard: What?什么? -Sheldon: Come on.拜托。Who hasnt seen this differential below “here I sit, broken-hearted“?d
33、ifferential：微分的 broken-hearted：心碎,伤心这微分谁没见过啊？我真是心碎。-Leonard: At least I didnt have to invent 26 dimensions just to make the math come out.invent：发明 dimension：次元 math：算术 come out：出现至少我不用创造 26 个次元，就为了做个算术。-Sheldon: I didnt invent them. Theyre there.不是创造，是本来就存在的。-Leonard: In what universe?universe：范围在什
34、么范围啊-Sheldon: In all of them. That is the point.point：要点在所有的范围内。就是这样。-Penny: Uh. do you guys mind if I start?mind：介意 start：开始你们介意我开始吃吗？-Sheldon: Um. Penny.thats where I sit.那是我坐的地方。-Penny: So, sit next to me.next to：紧靠旁边你可以坐我旁边。-Sheldon: No. I sit there.不，我就是坐那儿的。-Penny: Whats the difference?differe
35、nce：不同处有什么不同吗？-Sheldon: Whats the difference?!有什么不同? -Leonard: Here we go.又来了。-Sheldon: In the winter, that seat is close enough to the radiator to remain warm, and yet not so close as to cause perspiration;seat：所在地 radiator：暖气片 remain：保持 cause：引起 perspiration：流汗冬天的时候，这个地方离电暖器最近，很暖和，也不会很热到直流汗。in the
36、 summer, its directly in the path of a cross-breeze created by opening windows there, and there.directly：直接地 cross-breeze：跨风【过堂风】 create：引起夏天的时候，这里又刚好可以吹过堂风，是来自这扇窗户和那扇的。It faces the television at an angle that is neither direct, thus discouraging conversation,television：电视 angle：角度 thus：如此,这样 discou
37、rage：阻碍 conversation：谈话 而且坐这里看电视的角度，可以直接看，又不会影响谈话，nor so far wide as to create a parallax distortion.parallax：视差 distortion：扭曲不会太远，不至于造成脖子过分扭曲。I could go on, but I think Ive made my point.go on：继续我可以继续，我想我已经说明白了。-Penny: Do you want me to move?你想我换个地方吗？-Sheldon: Well.恩-Leonard: Just sit somewhere els
38、e.坐别的地方不行吗？-Sheldon: Fine.好吧。-Leonard: Sheldon, sit!Sheldon，坐下。-Sheldon: Ah.恩。-Leonard: Well, this is nice. We dont have a lot of company pany：同伴这样真好。我们没怎么请人来过。-Sheldon: Thats not true.Koothrappali and Wolowitz come over all the e over：过来 all the time：一直,始终是的，Koothrappali 和 Wolowitz 总来。-Leonard: Yes
39、, I know, but.是，我知道。-Sheldon: Tuesday night we played Klingon Boggle till 1:00 in the morning.Klingon Boggle：克林贡拼字游戏 【克林贡是外星人 】 boggle：犹豫【这里指拼字游戏】周二晚我们玩 Klingon 拼字游戏直到凌晨一点。-Leonard: Yeah, I remember.remember：记得是啊，我记得。-Sheldon: I resent you saying we dont have company.resent：生气那你干吗这么说？-Leonard: Im so
40、rry.对不起。-Sheldon: That has negative social implications.negative：负面的 social implications：社会影响 social：社会的 implication：暗示, 牵连这有负面的社会效应。-Leonard: I said Im sorry!我道歉了。-Penny: So. Klingon Boggle?那么Klingon 拼字?-Leonard: Yeah. Its like regular boggle, but. in Klingonregular：常规的跟普通的没什么区别，就是在 Klingong 而已。Tha
41、ts probably enough about us. So, tell us about you.probably：大概,或许我们已经说的够多了，跟我们说说你吧。-Penny: Um. me? Okay.我? 好的。Im a Sagittarius, which probably tells you way more than you need to know.Sagittarius：射手座我是射手座的。这样你们就能了解很多想知道的事了。-Sheldon: Yes. It tells us that you participate in the mass cultural delusion
42、participate in：参与 mass cultural：大众文化的 delusion：错觉 是啊，这让我们知道你被大众文化所迷惑了that the suns apparent position relative to arbitrarily defined constellations at the time of your birth somehow affects your personality.apparent：显然的 position：位置 arbitrarily：任意地 define：限定 constellation：星座birth：出生 affect：影响 persona
43、lity：人格,个性根据太阳的位置随便胡乱定个星座以及你的出生日期影响了你的性格。-Penny: Participate in the what?跟什么有关?-Leonard: I think what Sheldons trying to say is that Sagittarius wouldnt have been our first guess.try to：试图我想 Sheldon 是想说我们一开始没想到是射手座的。-Penny: Oh, yeah. A lot of people think Im a water sign.water sign：水相星座是啊，很多人都觉得我像水相
44、星座。Okay, lets see, what else.噢，我想想，还有什么？Oh, Im a vegetarian. Except for fish.vegetarian：素食者 except for：除以外我吃素，除了鱼以外。And the occasional steak. I love steak!occasional：偶尔的 steak：牛排偶尔还有牛排，我爱死牛排了。-Sheldon: Well, thats interesting. Leonard cant process corn.interesting：有趣的 process：处理， 【消化】 corn：玉米真有意思,Le
45、onard 不能消化玉米。-Leonard: Well, uh, do you have some sort of a job?some sort of：某种你有在工作吗？-Penny: Oh, yeah. Im a waitress at the Cheesecake Factory.waitress：女侍者 我是 Cheesecake Factory 的女招待。-Leonard: Oh. I love cheesecake.cheesecake：芝士蛋糕我喜欢芝士蛋糕。-Sheldon: Youre lactose intolerant.lactose：糖乳 intolerant：不能容忍
46、的【对乳糖过敏反应】你对乳糖过敏的。-Leonard: I dont eat it. I just think its a good idea.我不吃，但我觉得这是个好主意。-Penny: Oh. Anyways, Im also writing a screenplay.screenplay：剧本还有，我还在写一部剧本。Its about this sensitive girl who comes to L.A. from Lincoln, Nebraska,sensitive：多愁善感的 L.A.：洛杉矶(L.A. 是 Los Angeles 的缩写)是讲一个多愁善感的女孩子从林肯去了洛杉
47、矶，to be an actress and winds up a waitress at the Cheesecake Factory.actress：女演员 wind up：以结束 想要当女明星，却去当 Cheesecake Factory 的女招待。-Leonard: So, its based on your life.base on：基于是以你的生活为范本。-Penny: No, Im from Omaha.不，我是从奥马哈来的。-Leonard: Well, if that was movie, I would go see it.如果要拍成电影，我肯定去看。-Penny: I k
48、now, right? Okay, lets see, what else. um.我知道，没错。我想想，还有什么。Guess thats about it. Thats the story of Penny.guess：猜想 我想就是这样了。这就是 Penny 的故事了。-Leonard: Well, it sounds wonderful.sound：听起来 wonderful：极好的听起来很不错。-Penny: It was. Until I fell in love with a jerk!fall in love with：爱上 jerk：混蛋以前是的。直到我爱上了一个混蛋！-She
49、ldon: Whats happening?怎么啦?-Leonard: I dont know.我不知道。-Penny: God, you know, four years I lived with him.我和他一起住了 4 年。Four yearsthats like as long as high school!high school：高中4 年，那可跟高中时间一样长啊。-Sheldon: It took you four years to get through high school?go throung：完成,度过你用了 4 年才念完高中？-Penny: It just. I cant believe I trusted him!believe：相信 trust：信任我不敢相信我竟然那么信任他！-Leonard: Should I say something? I feel like I should say something.feel like：感觉我
