实用口语:《生活大爆炸》之来了新邻居

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　　Sheldon: Are you still mad about the sperm bank?
        　　Leonard: No.
        　　Sheldon: You want to hear an interesting thing about stairs?
        　　Leonard: Not really.
        　　Sheldon: If the height of a single step is off by as little as two
millimetres, people will trip.
        　　Leonard: I don’t care. Two millimetres?That doesn’t seem right.
        　　Sheldon: No, it’s true, I did a series of experiments when I was twelve, my
father broke his clavicle.
        　　Leonard: Is that why they sent you to boarding school?
        　　Sheldon: No, that was the result of my work with lasers.
        　　(Leonard spots Penny in the doorway of the apartment opposite. He is
immediately interested.)
        　　Leonard: New neighbour?
        　　Sheldon: Evidently.
        　　Leonard: Significant improvement over the old neighbour.
        　　Sheldon: Two hundred pound transvestite with a skin condition, yes she
is.
        　　Penny (noticing them for the first time):Oh, hi!
        　　Leonard: Hi.
        　　Sheldon: Hi.
        　　Leonard: Hi.
        　　Sheldon: Hi.
        　　Penny: Hi?
        　　Leonard: We don’t mean to interrupt, we live across the hall.
        　　Penny: Oh, that’s nice.
        　　Leonard: Oh… uh… no… we don’t live together… um… we live together but in
separate, heterosexual bedrooms.
        　　Penny: Oh, okay, well, guess I’m your new neighbour, Penny.
        　　Leonard: Leonard, (pointing) Sheldon.
        　　Penny: Hi.
        　　Leonard: Hi.
        　　Sheldon: Hi.
        　　Penny: Hi.
        　　Leonard: Hi. Well… uh… oh, welcome to the building.
        　　Penny: Thank you, maybe we can have coffee sometime.
        　　Leonard: Oh, great.
        　　Penny: Great.
        　　Sheldon: Great.
        　　Leonard: Great. Well, bye.
        　　Penny: Bye.
        　　Sheldon: Bye.
        　　Leonard: Bye.
        　　(Penny closes door.)
        　　trip
        　　【释】[I, Ipr, Ip] ~ (over/up) catch one's foot on sth and stumble or fall
(牛津高阶)使绊倒：某人的脚被勾住，绊倒或跌倒
        　　【例】She tripped (over the cat) and fell. (牛津高阶)
        　　她被猫绊住，跌倒了。
        　　【例】I tripped over, dropping the tray I was carrying. (牛津高阶)
        　　我被绊倒了，携带的盘子也掉了下来。
        　　clavicle
        　　【释】n (anatomy) collar-bone 锁骨. (牛津高阶)
        　　doorway
        　　【释】an entrance into a building or room (韦氏)
        　　门口，门道：进入建筑物或房间的入口
        　　transvestite
        　　【释】a person who adopts the dress and often the behavior typical of the
opposite sex (参考韦氏)
        　　(尤指男性)异性装扮癖者
        　　across the hall
        　　(注:across+n)
        　　【释】on the other side of (sth) (牛津高阶)
        　　在...对面
        　　【例】We shall soon be across the Channel. (牛津高阶)
        　　我们很快就能到达海峡对面去。
        　　【例】He shouted to me from across the room. (牛津高阶)
        　　他在屋对面朝我叫喊。
        　　【例】Across the river is a log cabin, the owner of which is a hunter
manipulated by the wicked queen. (自造)
        　　河对面是一个小木屋，所有者是被邪恶的女王操纵的猎人。
        　　heterosexual
        　　【释】adj feeling sexually attracted to people of the opposite sex (牛津高阶)
        　　异性恋者