看生活大爆炸学英语The Big Bang Theory 第1季14集:The Nerdvana Annihilation-Sheldon: This sandwich is an unmitigated disaster. I asked for turkey and roast beef with lettuce and Swiss on whole wheat.unmitigated: 绝对的,十足的disaster: 灾难turkey:火鸡roast:烤肉,烘烤lettuce:莴苣swiss:瑞士奶酪whole wheat:全麦这个三明治真是太失败了,我点了土司夹火鸡肉和烤肉和莴苣还有瑞士奶酪-Rajesh: What did they give you?他们送给你的是什么?-Sheldon: Turkey and roast beef with Swiss and lettuce on whole wheat.火鸡肉和烤肉和瑞士奶酪还有莴苣It's the right ingredients, but in the wrong order. In a proper sandwich, the cheese is adjacent to the bread to create a moisture barrier against the lettuce.ingredient:要素,配料adjacent: 邻近的,紧靠的moisture:水分barrier:障碍成分虽然是对的但顺序不对啊。
正宗的三明治奶酪应涂在土司和莴苣之间,防止土司被莴苣弄潮湿They might as well have dragged this thing through a car wash.might as well:或许drag:拖拉真怀疑他们是不是把三明治在洗车房洗过一遍了-Rajesh: I don't believe it.不太可能吧-Sheldon: I know. It's basic culinary science.culinary:烹饪的是啊做三明治是厨艺基础的基础-Leonard: Some guy is auctioning off a miniature Time Machine prop from the original film, and no one is bidding on it.auction off:拍卖,竞卖miniature:小规模的prop:支柱,支架bid on:出价,投标有人在网上拍卖迷你时间机器,那可是原版电影的仿制品但是没有人在竞拍-Howard: A time machine from the movie The Time Machine?时间机器电影里的时间机器?-Leonard: No. A time machine from Sophie's Choice不是,是"苏菲的抉择"里的时间机器-Rajesh: Boy, Sophie could have used a time machine in that movie. Did you see it? It's rough. rough:粗糙的,粗暴的哥们苏菲可是在那部电影里用过时间机器你们见过它么? 挺猛的-Howard: Oh, that's cool.哦看起来好酷啊-Rajesh: It's only $800?只有800块?-Leonard: Yeah. And that's my bid.bid: 竞标是啊那是我的竞标价-Sheldon: You bid $800?你标800美元?-Leonard: It was a spur-of-the-moment thing. I figured it would go for thousands, and I just wanted to be a part of it.spur: 刺激,激励spur-of-the-moment: 一时冲动的figure:认为我也是一时激动啊!我以为别人会标到上千块我只不过想凑个热闹-Sheldon: There's only3 0 seconds left in the auction.竞拍就剩下3 0秒了-Howard: Do you have $800?你有800块么?-Leonard: Not to blow on a miniature time machine.blow on:把钱挥霍在…我就算有也不能花在迷你时间机器上-Howard: Well, don't worry. The way these things work is people wait until the last second to bid, and then they swoop in and get it. It's called sniping.swoop in: 抓取,突然袭击sniping:狙击呃别担心,拍卖的时候买家总是在最后一秒才出价他们突然闯进来把东西卷走,行话叫狙击战术-Rajesh: 15 seconds.还剩15 秒-Leonard: Come on, snipers.快来啊狙击手-Rajesh: Ten, nine, eight...10 9 8...-Leonard: Where are your snipers?sniper:狙击兵你说的狙击手呢?-Rajesh: five...5-Leonard: Snipe.狙击-Rajesh: four...4 ...-Leonard: Snipe.狙击-Rajesh: three..3-Leonard: Snipe!狙击!-Rajesh: two...2-Leonard: - Snipe!伏击!-Rajesh: one...1...-Leonard: ah....啊....-Rajesh: Ah! Congratulations! You are the proud owner of a miniature time machine!啊! 恭喜你! 你光荣地拥有了迷你时间机器!-Howard: You lucky duck.你真走狗屎运-Sheldon: I wonder why no one else bid. This is a classic piece of sci-fi movie memorabilia. classic: 经典的sci-fi: science-fiction 的缩写,科幻小说memorabilia:纪念品我很奇怪怎么没有别人竞标呢?这可是经典科幻电影中的杰作啊-Leonard: Yeah, I know! I still can't afford it.afford:买得起我知道但是我还是买不起啊-Howard: Why don't we share it? We'll each put in 200 bucks, and we'll take turns having it in our house.buck: 钱(美元)take turns doing sth: 轮流干某事我们去一起合买吧每个人出200块然后我们轮流放在各自家里玩-Rajesh: A time-share time machine .I'm in. Sheldon?分享时间的时间机器,我同意Sheldon你呢?-Sheldon: Need you ask? I still don't understand why no one else bid.还用问吗? 我还是弄不懂为什么没人竞拍-Sheldon: I understand why no one else bid.我明白为什么没人竞拍了-Rajesh: Did the listing actually say "miniature"?拍卖单上面真的说了这是"迷你"的么?-Leonard: just assumed. Who sells a full-size time machine for $800?assume:认为full-size:全尺寸的我以为是呢?谁会想到实物大小的时间机器才卖800块-Sheldon: In a Venn diagram, that would be an individual located within the intersection of the sets No longer want my time machine and "Need $800."Venn diagram:韦恩图解(英国逻辑学家韦恩制定的逻辑图解)individual:个人,单个的intersection:交集某人肯定处于两块韦恩集合图的交集一张集合图写着"不再需要时间机器"另一张写着"急需800块"-Howard: It's actually a tremendous bargain. Even with shipping, it works out to less than four dollars a pound.tremendous:巨大的bargain: 买卖,交易work out:计算实际上这东西买得很划算啊!算上运费平均一磅才不到4美元-Rajesh: Cocktail shrimp are $12 .5.番茄调味酱蘸虾(一种开胃菜) 都要12块5呢!-Leonard: How are we going to get it upstairs?我们怎么把这个搬上去?-Howard: If we take the dish off, it might fit in the elevator.elevator:电梯把后面那个盘子拿下来的话应该能放进电梯里面-Leonard: Yes, but the elevator has been broken for two years.没错但是电梯都坏了2年了-Sheldon: I've been meaning to ask you. Do you think we should make a call about that? mean: 打算make a call: 打电话我一直想问你,你觉得我们应该打一个检修电话么-Howard: Not necessary. I have a Master's in engineering. I remotely repair satellites on a regular basis.necessary:必须的remotely: 远程,长距离的satellite:卫星on a regular basis: 定期地没必要我是工程学硕士我可以在地面远程维修太空卫星还是太空站有效载荷的故障检修员I troubleshoot space shuttle payloads. When the Mars Rover started pulling to the left, I performed,a front-end alignment from 620 million miles away.troubleshoot:寻找故障(调试)space shuttle: 航天飞机payload:有效负载alignment:调整,对准front-end:前端的当年火星漂流者号在航线上左偏时我正在6千2百万英里外进行前线校准工作No. That baby's broken.不行这家伙坏了-Leonard: Come on, guys! Push!加油啊伙计们用力推!-Sheldon: If I push any harder, I'm going to give birth to my colon.give birth to: 引起,生产colon:结肠,直肠再用力我的肠子都要拉出来了-Rajesh: I can't feel my fingers. Hurry up!Hurry up:快点我的手指失去知觉了快点啊-Sheldon: It's the same amount of work no matter how fast you go. Basic physics.Physics:物理学走得再快做的功都一样基本物理常识-Rajesh: Sheldon?Sheldon?-Sheldon: Yeah?什么事?-Rajesh: If my fingers ever work again, I've got a job for the middle one.如果我的手指还能动我一定对你竖中指-Penny: Oh. Hey, guys.嗨伙计们-Leonard: Oh. Hi, Penny. Take a break, guys.好啊Penny休息一下伙计们-Penny: What are you doing?你们在干什么呢-Leonard: We're just, you know, moving something upstairs.upstairs:往楼上我们只是...搬点东西上楼-Penny: What is it?搬什么呢?-Leonard: Just... You know. Time machine.只是...时间机器-Penny: Yeah. Okay. Neat. But I really got to get to work.neat: 干得好啊很好但是我现在需要去上班-Leonard: Just give us a few minutes.稍等两分钟-Penny: I don't have a few minutes. I'm running really late.我没办法等了我已经很迟了-Sheldon: Then, I have a simple solution. Go up to the roof. Hop over to the next building. There's a small gap—don't look down if you're subject to vertigo--and use their stairwell.solution: 解决方案roof: 屋顶hop: 跳vertigo:眩晕stairwell: 楼梯井那么我有个很简单的解决方案上到房顶,蹦到隔壁的楼顶上中间有点间隔不过很窄--不过如果你眩晕的话别往下看然后用他们的楼梯吧-Penny: You're joking, right?你在开玩笑吧?-Sheldon: Oh, I never joke when it comes to vertigo.我从不拿眩晕开玩笑的-Penny: Damn. Okay, I'll just take the roof.见鬼好吧我走房顶-Leonard: Hey, if you wait for us to set up the time machine, I can drop you off at work yesterday. Time travel joke. It's not... never mind.set up:处理好drop off:把…放下嗨如果你等我们把时间机器装好了我可以送你去昨天上今天的班时间旅行的笑话不是...算了当我没说-Sheldon: For what it's worth, I thought it was humorous.humorous:幽默的从它的用途来看,我觉得你说的很幽默-Leonard: Let's just do this.先干完活吧-Leonard: You guys ready to push?你们准备好推了没-Rajesh: In a minute. Howard stepped outside to throw up.throw up: 吐稍等Howard 跑出去吐了-Sheldon: I don't know what you were worried about. I think it really works in the room.我不知道你在担心什么我觉得它在这间房子里一定行-Leonard: Yeah. It is by far the coolest thing I have ever owned.by far: 到目前为止这是目前为止我见过的最酷的东西了-Sheldon: The exact time machine that carried actor Rod Taylor from Victorian England into thepost-apocalyptic future, where society had splintered into two factions:post-apocalyptic:灾难后的splinter:劈开,裂faction:派别这是那台把演员Rod Taylor从维多利亚时代的英格兰送到了未来地球大灾难后的时间机器在未来社会分化成两部分the subterranean Morlocks, who survived by feasting on the flesh of the gentle surface-dwelling Eloi.subterranean:地下的Morlock:摩洛克surface-dwelling:住地面上的Eloi:伊洛族feast on:以…为生在地下生活的莫洛克人他们以在地表定居的友善的伊洛人的肉为食物-Howard: Talk about your chick magnets.magnet:磁铁真是性感的万人迷啊-Rajesh: Oh, yeah. The guy who lives next to me is always like, "I have a Jacuzzi on my balcony. I have a Jacuzzi on my balcony."Jacuzzi:按摩浴缸是啊有个家伙住我隔壁他老是在那唠叨"我在阳台上有一个水流按摩浴缸我在阳台上有一个水流按摩浴缸"But wait until I tell him, I've got a time machine on my balcony. Stuff that in your Speedo, Jacuzzi Bob."balcony: 阳台stuff:塞满,填满可下次我见他时我要说我在阳台上有一个时间机器"把你的东西收起来吧水流按摩浴缸Bob" -Sheldon: Gentlemen, I know we said we'd take turns, but I think you'll agree that practicality dictates it remain here.practicality:实际性dictate: 指挥,指令先生们我们之前说过要轮流使用但是我觉得你们应该也同意事实表明它只能留在这里-Howard: You can't just keep it here. What if I meet a girl and say, You want to come up and see my time machine? It's at my friends' house." How lame is that?lame:跛足的,不完全的你不能把机器留在这里如果我遇到一个女孩儿和她说你想来看我的时间机器么?它在我朋友家里! 多逊啊?-Rajesh: He's got a point.他说的有道理-Sheldon: All right, I think we're going to need some ground rules; in addition to the expected no shoes in the time machine, "and "no eating in the time machine,"ground rule: 基本规则in addition to:除此以外好吧我们要制定基本的规则除了坐时间机器的时候不能穿鞋子还有不能在上面吃东西之外I propose we add "pants must be worn at all times in the time machine."我建议不许在机器上不穿裤子-Leonard: Seconded.seconded:支持的我支持-Howard: I was going to put down a towel.towel: 毛巾我本打算在下面放一条毛巾的-Rajesh: I still want it on my balcony. I say we move it on a bi-monthly basis.bi-monthly: 每两个月的我还是想把它放在我的阳台上我建议我们每个按月轮换嗯-Leonard: Yeah, that sounds fair.听起来挺合理的-Sheldon: Hold on, bi-monthly is an ambiguous term .Do you mean move it every other month or twice a month?ambiguous: 模棱两可的等等这个有点模棱两可你是说一个月换一次还是两次?-Rajesh: Twice a month.一月两次-Sheldon:Then no.不行-Rajesh: Okay, every other month.好吧,每月一次-Sheldon no.不行-Leonard: Sheldon, you can't be selfish. We all paid for it, so it belongs to all of us. Now get out of the way so I can sit in my time machine.selfish:自私的belong to: 属于get out of the way:让开Sheldon 别那么自私啊,我们都付钱了这是公共财产。