MJE美剧笔记:生活大爆炸S01E01Sheldon和Leonard的争论

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        Sheldon: I really think we should examinethe chain of causality here.
        Leonard: Must we?
        Sheldon: Event A. A beautiful woman stands naked in our shower. Event B. We drive half way across town to retrieve atelevision set from the aforementioned woman’s ex-boyfriend. Query, on what plane of existence is there even a semi-rational link between these events?
        Leonard: She asked me to do her a favour,Sheldon.
        Sheldon: Ah, yes, well that may be the proximal cause of our journey, but we both know it only exists in contradistinction to the higher level distal cause.
        Leonard: Which is?
        Sheldon: You think with your penis.
        Leonard: That’s a biological impossibility and you didn’t have to come.
        Sheldon: Oh, right,yes, I could have stayed behind and watched Wolowitz try to hit on Penny in Russian, Arabic and Farsi. Why can’t she get her own TV.
        causality
        【释】因果关系 (海词)
        half way across
        【释】arrive in the middle of (自造) 穿过半个...
        【例】The goal keeper got the ball and booted it half way across the field. (海词)
        守门员接到球，猛踢一脚，球掠过了半个球场。
        【例】The dog snot out of the gate and was half way across the field before we know it. (海词)
        狗从大门口蹿出去了，当我们发觉时，它已经穿过了半块田地。
        retrieve
        【释】retrieve sth from sb (esp fml)get possession of sth again (牛津高阶)
        重新得到，寻回
        【例】retrieve one's suitcase from the left luggage office (牛津高阶)
        从行李丢失认领办公室拿回自己的行李。
        【例】I must retrieve my credit card from the waiter.(牛津高阶)
        我必须从服务生那拿回信用卡。
        aforementioned
        【释】adj [usu attrib] (fml) (esp in legal documents) mentioned or referred to earlier(牛津高阶)
        前面提到的
        【例】The aforementioned person was acting suspiciously.(牛津高阶)
        前面提到的那个人表现的很可疑。
        【例】Back to the aforementioned question: Why hasn't there been any prize-winning work done on Chinese soil? (海词)
        回到前面提到的问题：为什么在中国土地上还没有获奖的作品出现？
        query
        【释】question (海词)
        疑问
        proximal
        【释】nearest (韦氏)
        最接近的
        in contradistinction to
        【释】compared with (自造)
        对比...
        【例】I refer specifically to permanent residents, in contradistinction to temporary visitors (海词)
        相比临时访客，我这里强调的是永久居民。
        【例】Today we cross the continent in fast airplanes in contradistinction to the slow covered wagons of our ancestors. (海词)
        今天我们乘高速飞机横越北美大陆，与我们祖先驾低速四轮马车不可同日而语。
        distal
       
        【释】farthest (韦氏)
        末梢
        hit on
        【释】to start talking to somebody to show them that you are sexually attracted to them(牛津高阶)
        （非正式的）搭讪
        【例】She was hitting on me and I was surprised and flattered. (海词)
        她和我搭讪，我受宠若惊。
        【例】If you saw a rascal hit on a girl, would you call the police? (自造)
        如果你看见一个流氓向一个女孩搭讪，你会叫警察吗？
        Farsi
        【释】n. 波斯语=Persian (海词)
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        Leonard: Come on, you know how it is with break-ups.
        Sheldon: No I don’t. And neither do you.
        Leonard: Wuh… I… I broke up with Joyce Kim.
        Sheldon: You did not break up with Joyce Kim, she defected to North Korea.
        Leonard: To mend her broken heart. This situation is much less complicated. There’s some kind of dispute between Penny and her ex-boyfriend as to who gets custody of the TV. She just wanted to avoid having a scene with him.
        Sheldon: So we get to have a scene with him?
        Leonard: No, Sheldon, there’s not going to be a scene. There’s two of us and one of him.
        Sheldon: Leonard, the two of us can’t even carry a TV.
        (you know) how it is with sb/sth
        【释】某人或某事是怎么回事 (原创)
        【例】This is how it is with divorce; parents usually fight for the custody of their children and property.(原创)
        离婚就是这么回事：父母常常为了孩子的监护权和财产争吵。
        【例】You know clearly how it is with the teachers'evaluation system.(原创)
        你已经清楚知道评教系统是怎么回事了。
        Defect
       
        【释】To disown allegiance to one's country and take up residence in another. (the FreeDict)
        叛变
        【例】Hwang, it is said, decided to defect earlier this month while he was in Japan. （有道）
        据说在这个月些时候，还在日本的Hwang就已决定叛变了。
        【例】It never occurred to her that this respectable soldier would defect to the enemy.(有道）
        她从没想到这位值得尊敬的士兵会叛变投向敌军。
        Mend
        【释】(intr) to heal or recover. (the Freedict)
        恢复，康复
        【例】My broken leg is mending. (有道)
        我的断腿正在康复中。
        【例】it's usually the hardest thing to mend a broken heart.(原创）
        通常，最困难的事就是修补一颗破碎的心。
        Custody
        【释】The act or right of guarding, especially such a right granted by a court. (the FreeDict)
        监护权
        【例】Who will have custody of the children? (牛津高阶)
        谁会获得孩子的监护权？
        【例】The bank provides safe custody for valuables.(牛津高阶)
        这家银行提供对贵重物品的安全保管服务。
        Have/make a scene (with sb)
       
        【释】[usually in singular] a public display of emotion or anger. (牛津)
        （当众）大吵大闹
        【例】she was loath to make a scene in the office.(牛津)
        她不喜欢在办公室里大吵大闹。
        【例】the custom is deliberately making a scene with the seller for some reason.（原创）
        出于某种原因，这位顾客故意在公共场合与售货员大吵大闹。
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