生活大爆炸第八季 第28期:拼词游戏

 Well, do you think when she and I had that conversation, she left people off her list? 那你觉得我跟她讨论这个问题的时候，她也藏了些别的前任了吗？

I'm sure she did. 肯定的啊。

Why? 为什么？

Because if she hadn't, she'd still be wading¹ through the list. 因为如果她没有藏的话，她说到现在都说不完。

Will you stay out of this? 你能别说话吗？

If only Penny had said that once in a while. 希望Penny也就说过那么几次吧。

Hey, what difference does it make? You're the one she wants to marry. 嘿，有什么区别吗？她想嫁的人是你啊。

That's true. 这倒是真的。

Yeah, and I'm not sure that complete honesty is always the best thing for a relationship. 而且我也不确定在二人世界里，完全的坦诚是不是最好的选择。

Yeah, he's right. Once, in a moment of candor², I told Amy that her hair reminded me of a duck caught in an oil spill.  他说得对。有一次，我特别坦诚地告诉Amy，她的头发让我想起浸在油里的鸭子。

Well...she stormed out. 然后...她摔门而出。

Which was sad, because we were playing Scrabble, and I had all the letters to spell "persimmon." 太悲伤了。因为那时候我们正在玩拼词游戏，而我刚刚拿到能拼出"柿子"的字母

Why are you even part of this conversation? You don't know anything about women. 你插什么嘴？你一点都不懂女人。

I know that if I had a wife or a fiancée, I'd ask her first before I invested money in a comic book store. 至少我知道，如果我有老婆或者未婚妻的话，像投资漫画书店这样的事，我一定会问问她的意见的。

He's right. 他说得对。

Yeah, well, of course I am. I was also right about her hair. It did everything but quack³. 是啊，当然对了。她头发那件事我说的也没错。除了不会嘎嘎叫。

There's something I wanted to run past you. 有件事我想听听你的意见。

What's up? 怎么了？

Mm, the guys and I were thinking about investing in Stuart's comic book store. Is that okay? 呃，我们几个想投资给Stuart的漫画书店。你怎么看？

Why are you asking me? 你为什么问我？

Well, you know, we're engaged, and it's kind of a big deal financially. It seems like something we should talk about. 我们毕竟订婚了，而这件事也算是财务方面的大事。我觉得还是问问你的意见比较好。

Oh. Well, would you consider mounds⁴ of credit card debt kind of a big deal financially? 这样啊。那你觉得成堆的信用卡账单是理财方面的大事吗？

Yeah. 是啊。

Huh. 哈。

Mm. So, me and the guys were talking about this great investment opportunity...-Nope. 那个 我们几个最近在讨论一个超赞的投资机会...-不行。

But you didn't hear what it was. 你还没听我说完呢。

I know. 是啊。

Oh, come on. 别这样嘛。

Fine. What is it? 好吧，什么计划？

It's to help reopen the comic book store. -Nope. 帮Stuart把漫画书店重新开起来。-不行。

Well, hear me out. 听我说完啊。

Howard, you know we're saving up for a house. Howard，我们在存钱买房呢。

I know, but all the guys are doing it. We're splitting it four ways, so it's really not that much money. 我知道，但是他们几个都想这么干。我们四个一起投资，所以也花不了多少钱。

 

1 wading   

（从水、泥等）蹚，走过，跋( wade的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• The man tucked up his trousers for wading. 那人卷起裤子，准备涉水。
• The children were wading in the sea. 孩子们在海水中走着。

2 candor   

n.坦白，率真

参考例句：

• He covered a wide range of topics with unusual candor.他极其坦率地谈了许多问题。
• He and his wife had avoided candor,and they had drained their marriage.他们夫妻间不坦率，已使婚姻奄奄一息。

3 quack   

n.庸医；江湖医生；冒充内行的人；骗子

参考例句：

• He describes himself as a doctor,but I feel he is a quack.他自称是医生，可是我感觉他是个江湖骗子。
• The quack was stormed with questions.江湖骗子受到了猛烈的质问。

4 mounds   

土堆，土丘( mound的名词复数 )； 一大堆

参考例句：

• We had mounds of tasteless rice. 我们有成堆成堆的淡而无味的米饭。
• Ah! and there's the cemetery' - cemetery, he must have meant. 'You see the mounds? 啊，这就是同墓，”——我想他要说的一定是公墓，“看到那些土墩了吗？