生活大爆炸之来了新邻居(01)

　　TBBT101-4 生活大爆炸之来了新邻居penny（1）

　　Sheldon: Are you still mad about the sperm¹ bank?

　　Leonard: No.

　　Sheldon: You want to hear an interesting thing about stairs?

　　Leonard: Not really.

　　Sheldon: If the height of a single step is off by as little as two millimetres, people will trip.

　　Leonard: I don’t care. Two millimetres? That doesn’t seem right.

　　Sheldon: No, it’s true, I did a series of experiments when I was twelve, my father broke his clavicle.

　　Leonard: Is that why they sent you to boarding school?

　　Sheldon: No, that was the result of my work with lasers.

　　(Leonard spots Penny in the doorway² of the apartment opposite. He is immediately interested.)

　　Leonard: New neighbour?

　　Sheldon: Evidently.

　　Leonard: Significant improvement over the old neighbour.

　　Sheldon: Two hundred pound transvestite with a skin condition, yes she is.

　　Penny (noticing them for the first time): Oh, hi!

　　Leonard: Hi.

　　Sheldon: Hi.

　　Leonard: Hi.

　　Sheldon: Hi.

　　Penny: Hi?

　　Leonard: We don’t mean to interrupt, we live across the hall.(注:across+n)

　　Penny: Oh, that’s nice.

　　Leonard: Oh… uh… no… we don’t live together… um… we live together but in separate, heterosexual bedrooms.

　　Penny: Oh, okay, well, guess I’m your new neighbour, Penny.

　　Leonard: Leonard, (pointing) Sheldon.

　　Penny: Hi.

　　Leonard: Hi.

　　Sheldon: Hi.

　　Penny: Hi.

　　Leonard: Hi. Well… uh… oh, welcome to the building.

　　Penny: Thankyou, maybe we can have coffee sometime.

　　Leonard: Oh, great.

　　Penny: Great.

　　Sheldon: Great.

　　Leonard: Great. Well, bye.

　　Penny: Bye.

　　Sheldon: Bye.

　　Leonard: Bye.

　　(Penny closes door.)

　　trip

　　【释】[I, Ipr, Ip] ~ (over/up) catch one's foot on sth and stumble or fall (牛津高阶)使绊倒：某人的脚被勾住，绊倒或跌倒

　　【例】She tripped (over the cat) and fell. (牛津高阶)

　　她被猫绊住，跌倒了。

　　【例】I tripped over, dropping the tray I was carrying. (牛津高阶)

　　我被绊倒了，携带的盘子也掉了下来。

　　clavicle

　　【释】n (anatomy) collar-bone 锁骨. (牛津高阶)

　　doorway

　　【释】an entrance into a building or room (韦氏)

　　门口，门道：进入建筑物或房间的入口

　　transvestite

　　【释】a person who adopts the dress and often the behavior typical of the opposite sex (参考韦氏)

　　（尤指男性）异性装扮癖者

　　across the hall

　　(注:across+n)

　　【释】on the other side of (sth) (牛津高阶)

　　在...对面

　　【例】We shall soon be across the Channel.  (牛津高阶)

　　我们很快就能到达海峡对面去。

　　【例】He shouted to me from across the room. (牛津高阶)

　　他在屋对面朝我叫喊。

　　【例】Across the river is a log cabin, the owner of which is a hunter manipulated by the wicked queen. (自造)

　　河对面是一个小木屋，所有者是被邪恶的女王操纵的猎人。

　　heterosexual

　　【释】adj feeling sexually attracted to people of the opposite sex (牛津高阶)

　　异性恋者

　　中译英巩固练习

　　留意门槛，别被绊倒。笔记作者MJE美剧口语联盟

1 sperm   

n.精子，精液

参考例句：

• Only one sperm fertilises an egg.只有一个精子使卵子受精。
• In human reproduction,one female egg is usually fertilized by one sperm.在人体生殖过程中，一个精子使一个卵子受精。

2 doorway   

n.门口，(喻)入门；门路，途径

参考例句：

• They huddled in the shop doorway to shelter from the rain.他们挤在商店门口躲雨。
• Mary suddenly appeared in the doorway.玛丽突然出现在门口。