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1、看 Big Bang Theory 学英语第一季 2集看 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。-Sheld

2、on: Since its not bee season, 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?-S

3、heldon: You dont need 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

4、，以及一个圆盘。因因泰国一位名君拉瑪五世, 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 int

5、o：进入而是叉食物进汤匙，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?interru

6、pt：打断打扰到你们了?-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

7、【此处指朋友、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 i

8、t to 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，随便你怎么叫它

9、，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 deliver：

10、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，Sheldon

11、. 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 women or in

12、 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。如果明天送来时我不在，你能帮我签收

13、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 dont have any othe

14、r 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，取消你开玩笑，对吧?-Penny：I do

15、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 rife with scientific in

16、accuracy.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 feet per second.accelerat

17、ing：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 hour,traveling：移动，滑动approximatel

18、y：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【反义词：accelerate：加速】除非超人赶上她的速度并减速。-Sheldon:

19、 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 merciful death.merciful：仁慈的，宽恕的那会是种更仁慈的死法。-Le

20、onard: 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. 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

21、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.extension：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，

22、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: Oh, a combination of the moons solar reflectioncombinat

23、ion：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 towash up：洗脸和手【还有洗餐具的意思】我要回去洗个手先。-Leonard: I have 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

24、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。-Le

25、onard: 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，可是电梯坏了，so youre gonna have to.gonna（美俚）=going to所以你们得.Oh, youre just gonna

26、 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, we dont have a dolly,dolly：手推车呃，我们没有手推车，or lifting belts or any measura

27、ble 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descendant：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 fulcru

28、m 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 al

29、l 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 (美国漫画超级英雄)。-Leonard: Easy. easy.慢点.慢点Okay. Now weve got an inclined plane.inclined：倾斜的p

30、lane：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, 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 push.push：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