生活大爆炸第一季第五集_3：The Hamburger Postulate

 　　生活大爆炸第一季第五集_3：The Hamburger Postulate¹

　　-Leonard: You can stare at your board all day, Sheldon.

　　你就算一直瞪着写字板 Sheldon。

　　-Leonard: She's still going to be right.

　　她还是对的。

　　-Penny: Oh, hey, Leonard.

　　嘿,Leonard。

　　-Leonard: Oh, hi

　　嗨。

　　-Penny: So... how's it going?

　　那么... 如何呀?

　　-Leonard: Pretty good.

　　还好。

　　-Penny: Just pretty good?

　　只是还好?

　　-Penny: I'd think you were doing very good.

　　我觉得是很好呀。

　　-Leonard: Pretty, very... there's really no objective scale for delineating variations of "good. "

　　还 "很"... 描述"好"的变化程度，并没有客观的范围。

　　-Leonard: Why do you ask?

　　你为什么这么问?

　　-Penny: Well, a little bird told me that you and Leslie hooked up last night.

　　小鸟告诉我昨晚你跟Leslie勾搭上了。

　　-Leonard: Sheldon!

　　-Penny: So, is it serious? Do you like her?

　　你是来真的? 你喜欢她吗?

　　-Leonard: I don't...

　　我不...

　　-Leonard: Th-th-that's really two different questions.

　　那是两个不同的问题。

　　-Leonard: Uh, I'm not...

　　我不是...

　　-Leonard: Sheldon, we have to go!

　　Sheldon 我们得走了!

　　-Sheldon: Boy, you're wound awfully² tight for a man who's just had sexual intercourse³.

　　刚做完爱,你就这么赶时间?

　　-Penny: All right, well, I'll talk to you later, but I am so happy for you, Leonard.

　　迟些找你吧,真为你高兴,Leonard。

　　-Leonard: Thank you.

　　谢谢。

　　-Leonard: What did she mean she's happy for me?

　　她为我高兴是什么意思?

　　-Leonard: Is she happy that I'm seeing someone?

　　她高兴我现在有伴了?

　　-Leonard: Or is she happy because she thinks that I'm happy?

　　还是因为我开心所以她高兴?

　　-Leonard: Because anyone who cared for someone would want them to be happy.

　　如果一个人喜欢别人,就会希望那人开心吧?

　　-Leonard: Even if the reason for their happiness made the first person unhappy.

　　就算那人开心的理由让前者伤心。

　　-Leonard: Because the second person, though happy, is now romantically unavailable to the first person.

　　因为开心的后者,就不能跟前者成为情侣了。

　　-Sheldon: Do you realize I may have to share a Nobel Prize with your booty call?

　　你意识到我可能要跟你的炮友分享诺贝尔奖吗?

　　-Leonard: You know what?

　　你知道吗?

　　-Leonard: I'm being ridiculous.

　　我真可笑。

　　Who cares what Penny thinks?

　　谁在乎Penny怎么想?

　　Leslie is a terrific girl.

　　Leslie是个很棒的女孩。

　　She's attractive.

　　漂亮。

　　We like each other.

　　我们喜欢对方。

　　She's extremely intelligent...

　　她还超级聪明。

　　-Sheldon: She's not that intelligent.

　　哪有很聪明。

　　-Leonard: She fixed⁴ your equation.

　　她改好了你的公式。

　　-Sheldon: She got lucky. You don't believe in luck.

　　那是走运,你根本不相信运气这种事。

　　-Leonard: I don't have to believe in it for her to be lucky.

　　我不信，但她也可以走运。

　　Regardless, I have a chance at a real relationship with Leslie.

　　我跟Leslie可能有机会恋爱。

　　I'm not going to pass that up for some hypothetical future of happiness with a woman

　　我不会放弃这段感情的，而只为了跟一个可能希望，也可能不希望我和别人开心的女人。

　　who may or may not want me to be happy, with a woman who is currently making me happy.

　　拥有一段假想的幸福未来，而现在那个别人已经让我很开心了。

　　-Sheldon: Leonard...

　　Leonard...

　　-Leonard: Yeah?

　　啊?

　　-Sheldon: I still don't care.

　　我还是没兴趣。

　　-Leonard: Hey, Leslie.

　　嗨,Leslie。

　　-Leslie: Careful, Leonard.

　　小心，Leonard。

　　Liquid nitrogen,320 degrees below zero.

　　液氮，华氏零下320度。

　　-Leonard: Why are smashing a flash-frozen banana?

　　你为什么要砸碎速冻香蕉?

　　-Leslie: Because I got a bowl of Cheerios and I couldn't find a knife. Oh.

　　我有碗谷物早餐，又找不到刀子。

　　-Leonard: So anyway... Hello.

　　那么...你好。

　　Uh, what are you doing?

　　你在干嘛?

　　-Leonard: Just extending the intimacy⁵.

　　跟你亲近一下。

　　-Leonard: Hey, do you want to slip over to the radiation lab and share a decontamination shower?

　　想溜进辐射实验室，一起洗个去污澡吗?

　　-Leslie: Okay, uh, what exactly do you think's going on between us?

　　你觉得我们俩之间发生了什么事?

　　-Leonard: I'm not sure, but I think I'm about to discover how the banana felt.

　　不知道，不过我可能就要，知道那香蕉什么感觉了。

　　-Leslie: Listen, Leonard, neither of us are neuroscientists, but we both understand the biochemistry of sex.

　　Leonard,我们都不是神经学家,但是都了解性的生物化学原理。

　　I mean, dopamine in our brains is released across synapses⁶, causing pleasure.

　　脑中的多巴胺在神经键中释放，造成快感。

　　You stick electrodes in a rat's brain; give him an orgasm button,

　　在老鼠大脑里置入电极,再给它安个高潮按键，

　　he'll push that thing until he starves to death.

　　它会一直按着那个键直到死。

　　-Leonard: Well, who wouldn't?

　　谁不会呢?

　　-Leslie: Well, the only difference between us and the rat is that you can't stick an electrode in our hypothalamus.

　　我们跟老鼠的区别就在于无法在我们视丘下部置入电极

　　That's where you come in.

　　所以你就派上用场了。

　　-Leonard: Yeah, well, I'm just glad to be a part of it.

　　很高兴能起到作用。

　　-Leonard: So what happens now?

　　那么现在如何?

　　-Leslie: Well, I don't know about your sex drive, but I'm probably good till New Year's.

　　不知道你性欲多强烈，但我到新年之前应该都够了。

　　-Leonard: Oh. Okay. Thank you.

　　好吧，谢谢。

　　-Leslie: Thank you.

　　谢谢你。

　　-Leonard: You want to make plans for New Year's?

　　要订新年的计划吗?

　　-Leslie: Whoa, Leonard, please. You're smothering⁷ me.

　　Leonard 拜托了，你逼得我喘不过气来。

　　-Leonard: Oh. Sorry.

　　抱歉。

　　-Howard: Hey, look. It's Dr. Stud!

　　瞧瞧,这不是种马博士吗!

　　-Leonard: Dr. What?

　　什么博士?

　　-Howard: The blogosphere is a-buzzing with news of youand Leslie Winkle making eine kleine bang-bang music.

　　博客界的人都因为你跟Leslie奏响的嘿休小夜曲兴奋不已呢!

　　-Leonard: What? How did it get on the Internet?

　　这事怎么传上互联网的?

　　-Howard: I put it there.

　　我放上去的。

　　-Leonard: Well, how did you know about it?

　　你怎么知道的?

　　-Rajesh: A little bird told us.

　　小鸟告诉我们的。

　　Apparently⁸, you are a magnificent beast.

　　显然你是了不起的野兽

　　-Leonard: That part's true.

　　那倒是真的。

　　-Sheldon: You know, I think I may have misjudged this restaurant.

　　我想我给这家餐厅的评价错了。

　　-Leonard: No kidding.

　　不是吧。

　　-Sheldon: I don't want to go out on a limb,

　　我不想冒险。

　　-Sheldon: but I think we may be looking at my new Tuesday hamburger.

　　但我可能找到了新的周二汉堡包。

　　-Leonard: Your old Tuesday hamburger will be so brokenhearted.

　　原来的周二汉堡会很伤心的。

　　-Sheldon: Way ahead of you.

　　早想到了。

　　-Sheldon: I was thinking of moving Big Boy to Thursdays, and just dropping Souplantation.

　　我想把"大胖汉堡"挪到周四,放弃"汤植园" (一家自助餐厅)

　　-Leonard: Really? Yeah.

　　真的?对。

　　-Sheldon: The name always confused me anyway.

　　我总是搞不懂这名字。

　　-Sheldon: Souplantation.

　　汤植园。

　　-Sheldon: You can't grow soup.

　　汤可没法种植出来。

　　-Penny: So, how's everything?

　　如何呀?

　　-Sheldon: Mmm! Terrific.

　　棒极了。

　　-Sheldon: You'll be happy to know that I plan to come here every Tuesday night

　　for the foreseeable future.

　　在可预见的将来，我打算每周二晚上都来这你开心吧

　　-Penny: Really? Oh, yay!

　　真的? 太好了~

　　-Sheldon: Who do I speak to about permanently⁹ reserving this table?

　　如果要永久订下这张台要跟谁谈?

　　-Penny: Um... I don't know... a psychiatrist¹⁰?

　　不知道，心理医生吧?

　　-Penny: So, hey, how are things with you and Leslie?

　　嘿,你和Leslie如何?

　　-Leonard: Oh, to be honest, I don't think it's going to work out.

　　说实话，我看没戏。

　　-Penny: Oh. Oh, that's too bad.

　　啊，太糟了。

　　-Penny: Well, hey, don't worry.

　　别担心。

　　-Penny: I'm sure there's someone out there who's just right for you.

　　我相信会有合适你的人的。

　　-Leonard: What did she mean by that?!

　　她那么说什么意思?

　　-Leonard: Was that just a generic¹¹ platitude¹²,

　　是习惯性的说词?

　　-Leonard: or was that a subtle bid for attention?

　　还是巧妙地在吸引我的注意?

　　-Sheldon: You know why this hamburger surpasses the Big Boy?

　　你知道这个比大胖汉堡强的原因吗?

　　-Sheldon: This is a single-decker hamburger, whereas the Big Boy is a double-decker.

　　这是单层的，大胖汉堡是双层。

　　-Sheldon: This has a much more satisfying meat-to-bun-to-condiment ratio.

　　这个汉堡的肉，面包和调料的比例，更令人满意。

　　-Leonard: Are you even listening to me?

　　你在听我说话吗?

　　-Sheldon: Of course, I'm listening.

　　当然，在听。

　　-Sheldon: Blah, blah, hopeless Penny delusion¹³, blah, blah, blah.

　　废话+关于Penny无望的幻想+废话

　　-Leonard: Okay, then.

　　那好吧。

　　-Leonard: You know, you can grow the ingredients for soup.

　　你知道，汤的配料是可以种植的。

　　delineate:描绘

　　pass up：放弃

　　hypothetical：假设的

　　smother：使…喘不过气

　　go out on a limb：孤立无援的境地

1 postulate   

n.假定，基本条件；vt.要求，假定

参考例句：

• Let's postulate that she is a cook.我们假定她是一位厨师。
• Freud postulated that we all have a death instinct as well as a life instinct.弗洛伊德曾假定我们所有人都有生存本能和死亡本能。

2 awfully   

adv.可怕地，非常地，极端地

参考例句：

• Agriculture was awfully neglected in the past.过去农业遭到严重忽视。
• I've been feeling awfully bad about it.对这我一直感到很难受。

3 intercourse   

n.性交；交流，交往，交际

参考例句：

• The magazine becomes a cultural medium of intercourse between the two peoples.该杂志成为两民族间文化交流的媒介。
• There was close intercourse between them.他们过往很密。

4 fixed   

adj.固定的，不变的，准备好的；(计算机)固定的

参考例句：

• Have you two fixed on a date for the wedding yet?你们俩选定婚期了吗？
• Once the aim is fixed,we should not change it arbitrarily.目标一旦确定，我们就不应该随意改变。

5 intimacy   

n.熟悉，亲密，密切关系，亲昵的言行

参考例句：

• His claims to an intimacy with the President are somewhat exaggerated.他声称自己与总统关系密切，这有点言过其实。
• I wish there were a rule book for intimacy.我希望能有个关于亲密的规则。

6 synapses   

n.（神经元的）突触( synapse的名词复数 )；染色体结合( synapsis的名词复数 )；联会；突触；（神经元的）触处

参考例句：

• Nerve cells communicate with one another at the synapses, where their membranes almost touch. 神经细胞在突触部位彼此沟通，在这里它们的膜几乎接触到一起了。 来自辞典例句
• Glutamatergic synapses are common excitatory chemical connections in mammalian central nervous system. 谷氨酸性突触是哺乳动物神经系统的主要兴奋性突触。 来自互联网

7 smothering   

（使）窒息， （使）透不过气( smother的现在分词 )； 覆盖； 忍住； 抑制

参考例句：

• He laughed triumphantly, and silenced her by manly smothering. 他胜利地微笑着，以男人咄咄逼人的气势使她哑口无言。
• He wrapped the coat around her head, smothering the flames. 他用上衣包住她的头，熄灭了火。

8 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。

9 permanently   

adv.永恒地，永久地，固定不变地

参考例句：

• The accident left him permanently scarred.那次事故给他留下了永久的伤疤。
• The ship is now permanently moored on the Thames in London.该船现在永久地停泊在伦敦泰晤士河边。

10 psychiatrist   

n.精神病专家；精神病医师

参考例句：

• He went to a psychiatrist about his compulsive gambling.他去看精神科医生治疗不能自拔的赌瘾。
• The psychiatrist corrected him gently.精神病医师彬彬有礼地纠正他。

11 generic   

adj.一般的，普通的，共有的

参考例句：

• I usually buy generic clothes instead of name brands.我通常买普通的衣服，不买名牌。
• The generic woman appears to have an extraordinary faculty for swallowing the individual.一般妇女在婚后似乎有特别突出的抑制个性的能力。

12 platitude   

n.老生常谈，陈词滥调

参考例句：

• The talk is no more than a platitude. 这番话无非是老生常谈。
• His speech is full of platitude. 他的讲话充满了陈词滥调。

13 delusion   

n.谬见，欺骗，幻觉，迷惑

参考例句：

• He is under the delusion that he is Napoleon.他患了妄想症，认为自己是拿破仑。
• I was under the delusion that he intended to marry me.我误认为他要娶我。