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看 Big Bang Theory 学英语 第一季 5集：The Hamburger Postulate
postulate：假定，基本条件
-Sheldon: All right! I’m moving my infantry division.
infantry division :步兵师 infantry:步兵(部队) division: 师(军队里) 
好吧,我要调动我的步兵师。
-Sheldon: Augmented by battalion of orcs from land of the rings.
 augment:增加,增大 battalion :营,军队,集团 orc:【兽人】
rings:【电影指环王（魔戒）（The Lord of the Rings）】
从指环王里的兽人营加过来的。
-Sheldon: We flank the Tennessee volunteers.
flank:攻击侧面 Tennessee:田纳西州 volunteer:志愿者
我们从侧翼包围了田纳西的志愿兵。
-Sheldon: And the north, once again, wins the Battle of Gettysburg.
Battle of Gettysburg:【葛底斯堡战役, 美国南北战争中的转折点】 battle: 战争
而在北方，我们又一次赢得了葛底斯堡战役。
-Howard: Not so fast!
没那么快!
-Howard: Remember, the south still has two infantry divisions.
 infantry division: 步兵(部队)
别忘了,南方还有两个步兵师。
-Howard: Plus superman and Godzilla.
 Godzilla:【哥斯拉,日本卡通和电影的怪物名称】
再加上超人和哥斯拉。
-Leonard: No, orcs are magic. Superman is vulnerable to magic.
magic:魔法,魔术 vulnerable:易受伤害的,有弱点的,【这里指无能为力】
不,兽人会魔法,超人对魔法无能为力。
-Leonard: Not to mention you already lost Godzilla to the Illinois Cavalry and Hulk.
mention:提到,谈到 the Illinois Cavalry:【伊利诺伊骑兵】Hulk:废船,笨重之人或物【指美国电影《绿巨人》中的人物】
更别提哥斯拉早已被伊利诺伊骑兵和绿巨人消灭。
-Rajesh: Why don't you just have Robert E. Lee charge the line with Shiva and Ganesh?
Robert E. Lee:【罗伯特·李将军, 美国南北战争南军统帅】
charge:管理【这里指统领】 line:线【这里指战线】
Shiva: 【湿婆,印度教三大主神之一】 Ganesh: 【象头神, 湿婆神的大儿子】
为什么不让罗伯特·李将军还有湿婆和格涅沙来统领这一战线?
-Penny: You guys ready to order?
guy:(男)人,家伙 order: 订单,命令  
可以点餐了吗? 
-Howard: Hang on, honey.
hang on: vt. 坚持下去(缠住不放,系于,取决于)
稍等，宝贝。
-Howard: Shiva and Ganesh?
湿婆和格涅沙?
-Howard: The Hindu gods, against the entire Union army?
Hindu:印度人(的)   god:神 entire:全部的,整个的 Union army:【联军】
印度教之神? 对抗整个北部联军?

-Leonard: And orcs.
orc:【兽人】
还有半兽人。
-Penny: I'll be back.
我稍候再来。
-Rajesh: Excuse me.
不好意思。
-Rajesh: Ganesh is the remover of obstacles and Shiva is the destroyer.
remover:移转者【这里是清除,扫除的意思】 obstacle:障碍destroyer:阻止者【这里有毁灭者的意思】
Ganesh擅长清除障碍,湿婆是毁灭之神。
-Rajesh: When the smoke clears, Abraham Lincoln will be speaking Hindi and drinking mint juleps.
clear:放晴, 澄清【这里指的是硝烟的散尽】 Abraham Lincoln:亚伯拉罕·林肯【美国第16任总统】mint:薄荷 julep:冰镇薄荷酒
当硝烟散尽,林肯将会说印第语,喝南方的薄荷饮料。
-Penny: All right, my boss says you have to either order or leave and never come back.
我老板说你们要么点餐，要么永远给他滚蛋。
-Howard: What do you recommend for someone who worked up a man-sized appetite from a morning of weight training and cardio funk?
recommend:推荐 man-sized: adj. 宜于成年男人的, 大型的, 困难的【这里指大型的】  appetite:胃口    weight training:举重锻炼  cardio funk:【有氧锻炼】
对于做了一早上的举重和有氧锻炼,大胃口的我有什么推荐菜式?
-Penny: A shower.
shower: n. 阵雨,淋浴; v. 淋浴,淋湿,下骤雨
洗澡。
-Howard: I'll take the Heart Smart platter.
Heart Smart platter:【奶酪拼盘】
我要个奶酪拼盘。
-Penny: All right, thank you, and Sheldon?
好，谢谢你，Sheldon呢?
-Sheldon: We don't eat here.
我们没在这里吃过。
-Sheldon: I don't know what's good.
不知道什么好吃。
-Penny: Well, it's all good.
都很好吃。
-Sheldon: Statistically unlikely.
 statistically:统计地(统计上地,统计学地)   unlikely:不大可能发生的
概率上不太可能。
-Leonard: Just get a hamburger.
hamburger: 汉堡
就点一个汉堡。
-Leonard: You like hamburgers.
你喜欢汉堡。
-Sheldon: I like the hamburgers where we usually have hamburgers.
我喜欢我们常去的那家汉堡店的汉堡。
-Sheldon: You can't make the assumption that I'll like the hamburgers here.
 make the assumption:作个假设 assumption: n. 假定,设想
不能假定我也喜欢这里的汉堡。
-Leonard: I'm sorry.
对不起。
-Leonard: Give him a hamburger.
给他一个汉堡。
-Penny: All right, which one?
好吧，哪种?
-Penny: The Classic Burger, the Ranch House Burger, the Barbecue Burger, or the Kobe Burger?
classic:经典的 Burger : 汉堡包【同hamburger】 ranch:牧场 barbecue:烤肉 
经典汉堡,农家汉堡,烧烤汉堡还是柯比汉堡?
-Sheldon: Can't we just go to Big Boy?
能不能去大胖汉堡店?
-Sheldon: They only have one burger... the Big Boy.
大胖汉堡只有一种汉堡。
-Penny: Well, the Barbecue Burger is like the Big Boy.
烧烤汉堡跟大胖汉堡挺像的。
-Sheldon: Excuse me, in a world that already includes a Big Boy, why would I settle for something like a Big Boy?
include:包括 settle for:对...感到满足(满足于) settle : n. 有背的长凳; v. 安放,安顿,定居,解决
对不起，既然世上已经有大胖汉堡,为什么我们要满足于像大胖汉堡呢?
-Penny: Because you're not at Big Boy!
因为你不在大胖汉堡店!
-Sheldon: Fine, I'll have the Barbecue Burger.
好吧那我要烧烤汉堡。
-Leonard: Make it two.
 make it two: 来两份
我也要这个。
-Sheldon: Waitresses don't yell at you at Big Boy.
 waitress: n. 女侍者,女服务员 yell at:对...吼叫
大胖汉堡店的侍应从不高声训我。
-Leslie: Hey, Leonard. Hi, guys.
嘿,Leonard,你们好。
-Men: Hey.
你好。
-Leonard: Hi, Leslie.
你好,Leslie。
-Leslie: I didn't know you ate here.
不知道你们会来这里吃饭。
-Sheldon: We don't.
 确实不会。
-Sheldon: This is a disturbing aberration.
 disturbing: 烦扰的 aberration:越轨【这里是例外的意思】
这次是烦扰的例外。
-Leonard: Leslie, this is Penny.
Leslie,她是Penny。
-Leonard: She lives across the hall from Sheldon and me.
 live across:【住在对面】 hall: n. 大厅,礼堂
她住在我和Sheldon的对面。
-Howard: And walks in quiet beauty like the night.
beauty:  n. 美,美丽,美人,美的东西
她走在美的光彩中,像夜晚 (诗人拜伦的名句)。
-Penny: Howard, I've asked you not to do that.
Howard,我已经说了别这样.
-Leonard: Leslie and I do research together at the university.
do research : 做研究 research:调查,研究 university: 大学【此处用作“实验室”】
Leslie和我在同个实验室做研究。
-Penny: Oh, wow, a girl scientist.
scientist: 科学家
哇,女科学家。
-Leslie: Yep, come for the breasts, stay for the brains.
breast:胸脯,乳房 brain: 脑(子)
没错,勾人靠胸,留人靠脑。
-Leslie: So, I'm glad I ran into you.
run into:偶然遇见
碰见你太好了。
-Leslie: The Physics Department string quartet needs a new cellist.
physics:物理学 department:部,部门,系 string quartet: 【弦乐四重奏】 cellist:大提琴演奏家
物理系弦乐四重奏还缺一个大提琴。
-Leonard: What happened to Elliot Wong?
happen to:发生(碰巧,正巧,偶然)
Elliot Wong怎么啦?
-Leslie: He switched over to high-energy radiation research
switch:转 high-energy:高能的 radiation:辐射
他调到高能辐射课题组了。
-Leslie: Had a little mishap, and now the other guys are uncomfortable sitting next to him.
mishap:不幸之事,灾祸,恶运 uncomfortable:不舒服的,不自在的
发生一些小意外,其他团员怕坐他身边被辐射。
-Leslie: So are you in?
in: 【这里用作包括，比如：Count me in.】
你来不来?
-Leonard: Yeah, sure, why not?
当然来。
-Leslie: Great, we rehearse on Tuesdays at your place.
rehearse:预演,排演,预先演习
太好了,周二去你那里彩排。
-Sheldon: Why at my place?
为什么去我那里?
-Leslie: Yeah, Department of Energy said our regular space is kind of a hot zone.
regular:有规律的,有规则的 hot zone:【危险区】
能源部说我们原来排练的地方现在是危险区。
-Leslie: Nice meeting you.
很高兴见到你。
-Penny: Yeah, you, too.
我也是。
-Penny: Leonard, I didn't know you played the cello.
cello: 大提琴
Leonard,不知道你会拉大提琴。
-Leonard: Yeah, my parents felt that naming me Leonard and putting me in Advanced Placement classes wasn't getting me beaten up enough.
Advanced Placement classes : 跨级班 advanced:高级的,先进的   placement:方位(位置,堆放)   beaten up : adj. 年久失修的(残破的)；v. 暴打【这里戏称被别人暴打】   beat:打, 打败
是啊，我父母觉得给我取名Leonard，让我上天才班，还不够招人恨的。
-Howard: If you're into music, I happen to be a human beat box.
into : 喜欢 happen to be : 碰巧是，刚好 human beat box:【口技】
你喜欢音乐吗? 我会学口技。
-Penny: Really?
真的?
-Penny: I'm actually not that into music.
其实我不是太喜欢音乐。
-Penny: So, hey, your friend's really cute. Anything going on with you two?
cute:可爱的,聪明的,俐伶的
你那个朋友不错,你们俩是不是有点情况?
-Leonard: Leslie?
Leslie?
-Leonard: No, no.
没有。
-Leonard: What, are you kidding? He asked her out once.
kid:开玩笑 ask…out:邀请外出
怎么可能? 他约过她一次
-Sheldon: It was an embarrassing failure.
embarrassing:令人为难的(麻烦的) failure: 失败
尴尬地失败了。
-Leonard: Thank you, Sheldon.
多谢,Sheldon。
-Sheldon: Oh, I'm sorry.
噢,对不起。
-Sheldon: Was that supposed to be a secret?
be supposed to:应该(据说,被期望,获准) secret:秘密
这个需要保密吗?
-Penny: Aw, that's too bad.
哦,太可惜了。
-Penny: You guys would make a cute couple.
 couple:对,夫妇
你们本可以做一对甜蜜情侣。
-Rajesh: Oh, dear.
我的天。
-Howard: What's the matter?
怎么了?
-Rajesh: She didn't take my order.
她没问我点什么。
-Howard: How can she take your order?
她怎么问你?
-Howard: when you're too neurotic to talk to her?
neurotic:神经病的,神经过敏的
你紧张得连话都不会说。
-Rajesh: Nevertheless, this will be reflected in her tip.
nevertheless:然而,不过 reflect:反映,归咎 tip:小费
尽管如此，这将反映在她的小费上。

-Sheldon: What did Penny mean, "You would make a cute couple?"
Penny说"你们本可以做一对甜蜜情侣" 什么意思?
-Leonard: Well, I assume she meant the two of you together would constitute a couple that others might consider cute.
assume:假定,设想,承担 constitute:构成,组成,任命 consider:考虑,思考,认为
我想她的意思是,你们两个在一起可以组成情侣，并且令其他人觉得你们甜蜜。
-Sheldon: An alternate and somewhat less likely interpretation is that you could manufacture one.
alternate:交替的,轮流的【另一个】 somewhat:多少,几分  less likely: 不太可能 likely:很可能 interpretation:解释,演出,翻译 manufacture:制造
另一个不太可能的解释是你们可以制造一对情侣。
-Sheldon: As in, "Oh, look, Leonard and Leslie made Mr. and Mrs. Goldfarb. Aren't they adorable?"
as in : 如…中所述 adorable:可爱的
例如,"快看 Leonard和Leslie所生的 Goldfarb夫妻,是不是很可爱?"
-Leonard: If Penny didn't know that Leslie had turned me down,
turn down:拒绝
如果Penny不知道Leslie拒绝过我,
then it would unambiguously mean that she, Penny, thought I should ask her,
unambiguously:明显的 ask…out:邀请外出
那么这一句的所指将十分清晰即她(Penny)认为我应该追她(Leslie)。
Leslie, out indicating that she, Penny, had no interest in me asking her, Penny, out.
indicate:指明,表明
表明她(Penny)对于我，追求她(Penny)并无兴趣。
But, because she did know that I had asked Leslie out
但由于她知道我追过Leslie
and that she, Leslie, had turned me down, then she, Penny, could be offering consolation.
offer: 企图 consolation: 安慰
并且她(Leslie)已经拒绝我，那么她(Penny)可能只是安慰我。
"That's too bad, you would have made a cute couple..."
"真可惜，你们本来可以做一对甜蜜情侣..."
But while thinking:" Good, Leonard remains available."
 remain:依然 available:【单身】
并且暗想,很好,Leonard还是单身。
-Sheldon: You're a lucky man, Leonard.
 lucky: 幸运
你很幸运,Leonard。
-Leonard: How so?
 how so:怎么会…【口语中很实用的短语】
怎么说?
-Sheldon: You're talking to one of the three men in the western hemisphere capable of following that train of thought.
 hemisphere:半球 capable:有能力的 train of thought:思路
听你说话的人是西半球仅有的三个能跟得上你思维的人之一。
-Leonard: Well, what do you think?
 what do you think: 英语的常用语，询问另一个人的看法，也可用“How do you like”
那么,你怎么看?
-Sheldon: I said I could follow it. I didn't say I care.
我只是说我能跟上,不代表我有兴趣。

-Leslie: I admire your fingering.
 admire:赞赏 fingering:用指摸弄,抚弄,捻弄【指法】
我很欣赏你的指法。
-Leonard: Thank you.
谢谢。
-Leslie: Maybe sometime you can try that on my instrument.
Instrument:乐器
也许你可以在我的"乐器"上演练一下。
-Leslie: Good night, guys. Good job.
晚安兄弟。练得不错。
-Man: Thanks.
谢谢。
-Leslie: See you next week.
下周见。
-Leonard: That was fun, Leslie. Thanks for including me.
 include: v. 包括,包含,连...在内
挺好玩的,Leslie,多谢你叫上我。
-Leslie: You're welcome.
不客气。
-Leslie: If you're up for it, we could practice that middle section again.
be up for: vt. 在被提名(在法庭受审,被关押,打算)   practice:练习 section: n. 部分,章节,部门,路段;断面,剖面,截面;v. 划分 [同]divide
如果你有兴趣,我们可以练一下中间部分。
-Leonard: Sure, why not?
why not:为什么不？【当同意一个人的提议的时候，常这么表达】
当然好。
-Leslie: Just so we're clear, you understand that me hanging back to practice with you
hang back:犹豫
说说清楚比较好，你知不知道我留下来陪你加练。
is a pretext for letting you know that I'm sexually available.
pretext:借口 sexually:性别地, 两性之间地 available: a. 可用的,有效的
是一个铺垫,为了让你知道我是潜在性对象。
-Leonard: Really?
真的?
-Leslie: Yeah, I'm good to go.
是的,我随时可以。
-Leonard: I thought you weren't interested in me.
我以为你对我没兴趣。
-Leslie: That was before I saw you handling that beautiful piece of wood between your
legs.
 handle:操作
那是在看到你摆弄两腿之间那块优雅的木头之前。
-Leonard: You mean my cello?
cello: 大提琴
你是指大提琴?
-Leslie: No, I mean the obvious, crude, double entendre.
obvious:明显的 crude:粗鲁的 double entendre:双关语
不,那是一个明显下流的双关。
-Leslie: I'm seducing you.
seduce:引诱
我在勾引你。
-Leonard: No kidding.
不是吧。
-Leslie: What can I say? I'm a passionate and impulsive woman.
passionate:热情的 impulsive:冲动的
怎么说呢?我是有激情的冲动型女人。
-Leslie: So how about it?
你说呢?
-Leonard: Gee. Uh...
这个,呃...
-Leslie: Is it the waitress?
waitress: n. 女侍者,女服务员 (男服务员为waiter)
因为那个侍应生?
-Leonard: Penny? What about her?
Penny? 她怎么了?
-Leslie: I thought I saw your pupils dilate when you looked at her.
pupil:瞳孔 dilate:扩大
你看她的时候瞳孔放大。
-Leslie: Which, unless you’re a heroin addict, points to sexual attraction?
heroin:海洛因 addict:上瘾者 points to:指出 sexual:性的 attraction:吸引力
这表明有性吸引力，除非是海洛因成瘾反应。
-Leonard: Well, I did have a poppy seed bagel for breakfast.
poppy: 罂粟 seed:种子 bagel:百吉饼
我早餐吃了一个含罂粟籽的百吉饼。
-Leonard: Which could cause a positive urine test for opiates but certainly not dilate my pupils?
 positive: 阳性 urine test:尿检 opiates:鸦片剂   dilate: v. 扩大,详述
可能导致鸦片碱尿检阳性,但肯定不至于扩大瞳孔。
-Leonard: So I guess there was no point in bringing it up.
bring up sth. :提出
所以...我不知道为什么要说起这个。
-Leslie: You and the waitress then.
你和那个侍应生。
-Leonard: No... No.
没有,没有。
-Leonard: There's nothing going on between Penny and me.
我和Penny之间没什么。
-Leslie: So you're open to a sexual relationship?
relationship:关系
所以你可以建立性关系咯?
-Leonard: Yeah, yeah, I guess I am.
可以可以,我想。
-Leslie: Good.
好。
-Leonard: Yeah, it is. It is good.
很好。
-Leonard: Did you want to start now?
要现在就开始?
-Leslie: Why don't we finish the section first?
finish:完成
演完这一章吧。
-Leonard: Oh, okay.
好的。
-Leonard: A little musical foreplay. Terrific.
musical:音乐的 foreplay: 前戏 terrific:极好的
音乐前戏,不错。
-Leonard: I'm g-good to go.
我准备好了。 
-Leslie: Me, too.
我也是。
-Penny: Oh, hey, Sheldon. What's going on?
Sheldon 怎么了?
-Sheldon: I need your opinion on a matter of semiotics.
semiotics:记号语言学
我需要符号学方面的帮助。
-Penny: I'm sorry?
什么?
-Sheldon: Semiotics. The study of signs and symbols.
sign: 符号 symbol: 象征
符号学,研究符号和象征。
-Sheldon: It's a branch of philosophy related to linguistics.
branch: 分支 philosophy:哲学 linguistics:语言学
是语言学基本理论的分支。
-Penny: Okay, sweetie, I know you think you're explaining yourself but you're really not.
explain: 解释
亲爱的,你以为自己在解释,但其实你没有。
-Sheldon: Just come with me.
跟我来。
-Sheldon: Well?
怎样?
-Penny: Well, what?
什么怎样?
-Sheldon: What does it mean?
什么意思?
-Penny: Oh, come on, you went to college.
得了,你上过大学的。
-Sheldon: Yes, but I was 11.
我11岁上的。
-Penny: All right, look, a tie on the doorknob usually means someone doesn't want to be disturbed。
tie: 领带 doorknob: 门把手 disturb: 打扰
好吧,是这样,门把手上挂条领带，意思是不想被打扰。
-Penny: Because, they're... you know, getting busy.
因为...因为在忙活
-Sheldon: So you're saying Leonard has a girl in there?
就是说Leonard跟个女孩在房间里?
-Penny: Well, either that or he's lost his tie rack and gotten really into Bryan Adams.
tie rack: 领带架 rack: n. 架,行李架,拷问台;v. 折磨,使...痛苦,加以拷问 get into: vt. 进入(陷入,从事于,研究,习惯于,变成)
不然就是他丢了领带架，还疯狂地喜欢上了Bryan Adams。
-Leslie: Oh, Leonard, you magnificent beast.
magnificent:壮丽的【了不起的】 beast:野兽
Leonard，你这了不起的野兽!
-Penny: We really shouldn't be standing here.
我们不该站在这。
-Sheldon: This is very awkward.
awkward:笨拙的【尴尬的】
太尴尬了。
-Penny: Oh, come on, Leonard's had girls over before, right?
Leonard以前也带女孩回来过吧?
-Sheldon: Oh, yes, but there's usually planning, courtship, advance notice...
courtship: 求爱 advance: 提前 
有的,但通常要计划,求爱,提前通知...
-Sheldon: Last time, I was able to book a cruise to the Arctic to see a solar eclipse.
 be able to:能够 book:预订 cruise:漫游 the Arctic: 北极区 solar:太阳的 eclipse:日蚀
就像上次,我才有时间去北极看日食的旅行。
-Penny: You had to leave the state because your roommate was having sex?
state: 州 roommate: 室友
你室友要做爱，你就得离开这个州?
-Sheldon: I didn't have to.
不是的。
-Sheldon: The dates just happened to coincide.
coincide:与...一致【巧合】
时间上完全是个巧合。
-Penny: So, do you know who's in there?
你知道里面那是谁吗?
-Sheld