生活大爆炸第八季 第34期:机器人女友

 I'm sorry. Is that a "no"? 抱歉，你是说“不看”吗？

Okay. No. Leonard's right. We're here to focus. 好吧，不看了。Leonard说得对，我们得集中精力。

Didn't we used to have a list of all our ideas? 我们以前不是有点子清单吗？

I...I think I still have it. 我好像还留着。

I did not get a clear answer. I'm gonna set this down now. 我还没听到明确答复，所以我先把光盘放下。

Ah, here it is. 找到了。

Whoa. I haven't looked at these in years. "Robot girlfriend." 哇哦。我好多年都没看过了。"机器人女友"。

Mm, that was mine. 是我的主意。

"Robot prostitute." "机器人妓女"。

Also mine. 还是我的。

Wait. I'm confused. Why would you need both a robot girlfriend and a robot prostitute? 等等，我有点奇怪。你为什么会想要机器人女友又要机器人妓女呢？

There's just some things you don't do with your robot girlfriend. 因为有些“事情”你没法跟机器人女友做。

Boy, when you met Bernadette, the field of robotics really took a hit. 兄弟，你遇到Bernadette之后，机器人研究领域受到了重创啊。

Okay, let's just skip all the inventions you can have sex with. 好吧，我们就跳过那些能"搞"的发明。

All right, no...here we go: "Ergonomic heated seat cushion" 好吧... 有了："符合人体工程学的加热坐垫"。

No, it vibrates. Keep going. 那个会震动。接着翻。

You know, let's just come up with something new. 好吧，我们还是想些新点子吧。

You know, a number of significant innovations¹ have been inspired by science fiction. 要知道，相当一部分的伟大创新，都是从科幻作品里找到的灵感。

The...the geosynchronous satellite from Arthur C.Clarke. 地球同步人造卫星是借鉴了Arthur C. Clarke的作品。（Arthur C. Clarke: 英国著名科幻作家。地球同步卫星轨道被命名为“克拉克轨道”）

The Motorola flip² phone...that came from Star Trek³. 摩托罗拉翻盖手机... 借鉴了"星际迷航"。（詹姆斯·柯克船长的通话器为第一代翻盖手机的设计提供了灵感）

Yeah, and I've long suspected that the idea of an African-American President was stolen from the movie Deep Impact. 我已经怀疑了很久，一个非洲裔美国人当总统这主意是从《天地大冲撞》里偷来的。（天地大冲撞：美国1998年的一部科幻灾难电影，片中摩根·弗里曼扮演一名黑人总统）

 

1 innovations   

改革( innovation的名词复数 )； 新观念； 新事物； 新设施

参考例句：

• The engineer has many technical innovations to his credit. 这位工程师有许多项技术革新的成就。
• This year's copy contains no innovations over those in the past. 今年的版本没有不同于过去的新花样。

2 flip   

vt.快速翻动；轻抛；轻拍；n.轻抛；adj.轻浮的

参考例句：

• I had a quick flip through the book and it looked very interesting.我很快翻阅了一下那本书，看来似乎很有趣。
• Let's flip a coin to see who pays the bill.咱们来抛硬币决定谁付钱。

3 trek   

vi.作长途艰辛的旅行；n.长途艰苦的旅行

参考例句：

• We often go pony-trek in the summer.夏季我们经常骑马旅行。
• It took us the whole day to trek across the rocky terrain.我们花了一整天的时间艰难地穿过那片遍布岩石的地带。