生活大爆炸第八季 第15期:无花果牛顿

 Hey. We just wanted to see how your class was going. 我们来看看你的课上得怎么样了。

Where is everybody? 学生呢？

There is no class. 没有学生。

Did you send everyone to the principal's office already? 你这么快就把所有人都送去校长办公室了吗？

No one signed up. 没人报名。

Well, that's not your fault. 这不是你的错。

I called the department secretary to see what happened. 我打电话问学院秘书是怎么回事。

Apparently¹, I have a reputation for being obnoxious². 显然，全校的人都认为我很讨厌。

What? 不会吧？

Hey, Sheldon, I'm sorry. 谢尔顿，真是抱歉。

No, it's fine. 别，没事的。

Now I can devote all my time to dark matter. 现在我可以全身心投入到暗物质的研究中了。

Aw, you brought cookies for everyone? 你还给大家带了饼干？

Oh, yes. Fig³ Newtons. 对 "无花果牛顿"饼干。

I was going to ask them: which scientist both helped to develop calculus⁴ and had a famous cookie named after him? 我本来打算问他们，哪个科学家既对微积分有贡献，又有一款饼干以他命名？

And then after someone said "Newton". 等有人回答"牛顿"。

I was going to tell them they're wrong. 我就告诉他们错了。

The cookies are named after a town in Massachusetts. 这个饼干是用马萨诸塞州的一个镇命名的。

And then I'd throw the cookies away. 然后我再把饼干扔了。

Hey, what if I took your class? 我来听你的课怎么样？

Why would you do that? 你为什么这么做？

Yeah, why would you do that?  What's wrong with you? 你为什么这么做？你脑子出什么问题？

I'm thinking about getting my doctorate⁵, and he wants to teach  why not? 我想拿到博士学位他想要教课，正好啊？

Oh, Howard. I appreciate the gesture, but this is a graduatelevel physics class. 霍华德。感谢你的提议，但这是研究生阶段的物理课程。

I don't think you'd understand a single thing I was talking about. 我觉得你根本无法理解我所讲的任何内容。

Ask why not again; I've got an answer. 再问一遍为什么不能来，我有答案了。

Sheldon, I'm more than smart enough to take your class. No. Yes. 谢尔顿，我的智商来听你的课绰绰有余了。不可能。真的。

How would you determine the ground state of a quantum system with no exact solution? 在没有精确解的情况下你如何确定量子系统的基态？

I would guess a wavefunction and then vary its parameters⁶ until I found the lowest energy solution. 我会任意猜测一个基态波函数，通过更改其参数找出能量最低的量子态。

Do you know how to integrate X squared times E to the minus X, without looking it up? 你知道怎么不查书也能求出x平方乘e到负x的积分？

 

1 apparently   

adv.显然地；表面上，似乎

参考例句：

• An apparently blind alley leads suddenly into an open space.山穷水尽，豁然开朗。
• He was apparently much surprised at the news.他对那个消息显然感到十分惊异。

2 obnoxious   

adj.极恼人的，讨人厌的，可憎的

参考例句：

• These fires produce really obnoxious fumes and smoke.这些火炉冒出来的烟气确实很难闻。
• He is the most obnoxious man I know.他是我认识的最可憎的人。

3 fig   

n.无花果(树)

参考例句：

• The doctor finished the fig he had been eating and selected another.这位医生吃完了嘴里的无花果，又挑了一个。
• You can't find a person who doesn't know fig in the United States.你找不到任何一个在美国的人不知道无花果的。

4 calculus   

n.微积分；结石

参考例句：

• This is a problem where calculus won't help at all.对于这一题，微积分一点也用不上。
• After studying differential calculus you will be able to solve these mathematical problems.学了微积分之后，你们就能够解这些数学题了。

5 doctorate   

n.(大学授予的)博士学位

参考例句：

• He hasn't enough credits to get his doctorate.他的学分不够取得博士学位。
• Where did she do her doctorate?她在哪里攻读博士？

6 parameters   

因素，特征； 界限； （限定性的）因素( parameter的名词复数 )； 参量； 参项； 决定因素

参考例句：

• We have to work within the parameters of time. 我们的工作受时间所限。
• See parameters.cpp for a compilable example. This is part of the Spirit distribution. 可编译例子见parameters.cpp.这是Spirit分发包的组成部分。