生活大爆炸第八季 第185期:去厨房帮你

 Do you need any help in the kitchen? 需要去厨房帮你吗？

No, we got it. You guys make yourselves comfortable. 不用，有我们就够了，你们自己随意就好。

All right, hey, you two, we're here for Howard right now, okay? 你们俩记住，今晚的主角是霍华德，好吗？

Yes, so please behave yourselves. - Fine. - Of course. 对啊，表现乖一点。-好吧。-没问题。

So I heard you two, uh, wrote a paper together. How's that going? 我听说你俩一起写了一篇论文啊。结果怎么样？

This food is amazing. 这些菜太好吃了。

Mm, and not a vegetable in sight. 而且一点蔬菜也没有。

That's not true. We've got tomatoes right here. 错了，这里有好多"番茄"呢。

All these bright people sitting around a table by candlelight. Feels like we could be an 18th century French salon¹. 一群聪明人围着烛光坐成一圈，感觉仿佛回到了18世纪的法国沙龙。（沙龙最早出现于16世纪意大利）

Indeed. Penny, a salon is a gathering² where intellectuals entertained each other with sparkling conversations about issues of the day. 没错。佩妮，沙龙是指知识分子们围在一起讨论时下最新的事件。

Oh, so it's like The View. 所以就跟《访谈》节目一样嘛。

Sheldon, The View is a daytime talk show hosted by women. 谢尔顿，《访谈》是一档女性主持的日间节目。

Oh, I'm aware. It features Whoopi Goldberg. She played Guinan on Star Trek³: Next Gen. Penny, Next Gen refers to Star Trek...- Shut up. 我知道。里面有琥碧·戈博，她在《星际迷航·下一代》中扮演了吉南。佩妮，《下一代》是指星际迷航的... -闭嘴。

I would like to propose a salon topic. 我愿意提一个沙龙话题。

Ooh, please do, Rajesh. 愿听其详，拉杰什。

The lead in The Hunger Games is a woman. Marvel⁴ has made "Tor" a female. 《饥饿游戏》的主角是女人，漫威也将"托尔"改成了女性。

Wait, who's Tor? 等等，谁是托尔？

You know, Tor, the God of "Tunder." 你懂的吧，托尔，"雷神"啊。（其实是索尔Thor）

As I was saying, is this a sign that our society is approaching gender⁵ equality? 综上所述，这是标志着我们的社会逐步走向性别平等吗？

Certainly a lot more women are reading comic books now. 现在很多女性也爱看漫画了。

It's true. At the store, I had to put a seat on the toilet. 这是真的。我还得为店里厕所装上个马桶坐垫。

We won't know if there's equality until female Thor has a baby and the Avengers are cool with her pumping breast milk at work. 在女索尔生孩子后，而其他复仇者们不介意她在工作场所挤母乳之前，性别平等还很难说。

I wonder if only a baby who is worthy⁶ can suckle at the bosom⁷ of Thor. 我在想什么样的孩子才有资格能吸雷神的奶子。(雷神之锤梗)

 

1 salon   

n.[法]沙龙；客厅；营业性的高级服务室

参考例句：

• Do you go to the hairdresser or beauty salon more than twice a week?你每周去美容院或美容沙龙多过两次吗？
• You can hear a lot of dirt at a salon.你在沙龙上会听到很多流言蜚语。

2 gathering   

n.集会，聚会，聚集

参考例句：

• He called on Mr. White to speak at the gathering.他请怀特先生在集会上讲话。
• He is on the wing gathering material for his novels.他正忙于为他的小说收集资料。

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。

4 marvel   

vi.(at)惊叹vt.感到惊异；n.令人惊异的事

参考例句：

• The robot is a marvel of modern engineering.机器人是现代工程技术的奇迹。
• The operation was a marvel of medical skill.这次手术是医术上的一个奇迹。

5 gender   

n.（生理上的）性，（名词、代词等的）性

参考例句：

• French differs from English in having gender for all nouns.法语不同于英语，所有的名词都有性。
• Women are sometimes denied opportunities solely because of their gender.妇女有时仅仅因为性别而无法获得种种机会。

6 worthy   

adj.(of)值得的，配得上的；有价值的

参考例句：

• I did not esteem him to be worthy of trust.我认为他不值得信赖。
• There occurred nothing that was worthy to be mentioned.没有值得一提的事发生。

7 bosom   

n.胸，胸部；胸怀；内心；adj.亲密的

参考例句：

• She drew a little book from her bosom.她从怀里取出一本小册子。
• A dark jealousy stirred in his bosom.他内心生出一阵恶毒的嫉妒。