生活大爆炸第二季第二十集_1

 　　[scene: in Leonard’s house, the four guys is eating their lunch.]

　　-Leonard: Problem?

　　怎么了?

　　-Sheldon: This is Thai food.

　　这是泰国菜

　　-Howard: Here we go.

　　又来了

　　-Sheldon: We don't have Thai food on Thursday. We have pizza on Thursday.

　　Thai: 泰国人

　　周四不该吃泰国菜应该吃披萨

　　-Leonard: Yes, but we all agreed that the third Thursday of every month would be Anything Can Happen Thursday.

　　是啊但我们一致同意每月第三个周四是随心所欲日

　　-Sheldon: Well, apparently¹ the news didn't reach my digestive system,

　　apparently: 显然的 digestive system: 消化系统 digestive: 助消化的

　　显然没通知我的消化系统

　　which, when startled, has it's own version of Anything Can Happen Thursday.

　　startle: 惊愕 version: 版本   Anything Can Happen: 【随心所欲，】

　　它一震惊就开始自己随心所欲了

　　-Howard: Come on, the whole idea behind Anything Can Happen Thursday

　　拜托随心所欲日的目的

　　is to get out of this rut we've been in lately.

　　get out of : 避免 rut: 惯例

　　就是要打破常规

　　-Sheldon: Rut? I think you mean "consistency²."

　　rut: 惯例 consistency: 一致性

　　常规? 你是说"连续性"吧

　　And if we're going to abandon that, then why even call it Thursday?

　　abandon: 放弃

　　如果想要抛弃常规干啥还叫周四呢?

　　Let's call it "Quonko Day" and divide it into 29 hours of 17 minutes apiece,

　　divide into: 分成 divide: 分开 apiece: 每个

　　何不改成"Quonko日" 每天29小时17分

　　and celebrate it by sacrificing a goat to the mighty³ god Ra.

　　celebrate: 庆祝 sacrifice: 献祭 goat: 山羊   mighty: 强有力的

　　杀头山羊向上神献祭来庆祝

　　-Rajesh: I could go for some goat.

　　goat: 山羊

　　我能弄到山羊

　　-Leonard: Sheldon, we agreed we'd do something different tonight.

　　tonight.: 今晚

　　Sheldon 说好今晚做点别的

　　-Sheldon: All right. Let's go to the comic book store.

　　comic: 连环漫画

　　好啊一起去漫画书店吧

　　-Rajesh: We went to the comic book store last night.

　　昨晚刚去过啊

　　-Sheldon: Last night was Wednesday.

　　昨晚是周三

　　Wednesday is comic book night.

　　comic: 连环漫画

　　周三是漫画之夜

　　Tonight, we'll be going on Thursday, because it's Anything Can Happen Thursday.

　　Anything Can Happen: 什么都可能发生【或者说“随心所欲”】

　　今晚算是周四去因为今天是随心所欲日

　　-Leonard: Way to think outside but pressed right up against the box, Sheldon.

　　press : 加压 up against : 面临

　　思维跳跃打破常规啊 Sheldon

　　-Rajesh: So what are we going to do tonight?

　　今晚到底要做什么呢?

　　-Howard: If I may proffer⁴ a suggestion, in bars all across this great nation of ours,

　　proffe: 建议 suggestion: 建议 bar: 酒吧

　　容我建议你看全国各地酒吧里

　　Thursday night is Ladies' Night.

　　周四是美女之夜

　　Which means, as the evening progresses,

　　progress: 前进

　　也就是说随着黑夜越深

　　we will get better looking courtesy of 99 cent margaritas and two-for-one Jell-O shots.

　　courtesy : 经由…提供 margarita: 玛格丽特   two-for-one: 买一送一 Jell-O: 吉露果子冻

　　拿着99美分的龙舌兰和买一送一的果冻饮我们能更有魅力

　　-Leonard: Come on, Howard, the odds⁵ of us picking up girls in a bar are practically zero.

　　odd: 怪人 pick up: 获得【这里指泡妞】 practically: 几乎 zero: 零

　　拜托 Howard 咱们泡到美女的几率为零

　　-Howard: Oh, really? Are you familiar with the Drake Equation?

　　familiar with: 熟悉 familiar: 熟悉 Equation: 方程式

　　真的吗你知道德瑞克方程吗?

　　-Sheldon: The one that estimates the odds of making contact with extraterrestrials

　　estimate: 预测 odd: 怪人 makie contact with: 联系 contact : 联系 extraterrestrial: 地球外的

　　那个通过计算一系列严格限制的小数乘积

　　by calculating the product of an increasingly restrictive series of fractional values

　　calculat: 计算 product: 结果 increasingly: 增加的 restrictive: 限制 series of : 一系列 series: 系列 fractional : 小数的 values: 标准

　　例如有行星的星系和可能产生生命的行星

　　such as those stars with planets, and those planets likely to develop life?

　　such as: 比如 planet: 行星 develop: 发展出

　　得出接触外星生物几率的方程式?

　　N equals R times FP times NE times FL times FI times FC times L?

　　equal: 等于 times: 乘以

　　N=R*FP*NE*FL*FI*FC*L?

　　-Howard: Yeah, that one.

　　就这个

　　You can modify it to calculate our chances of having sex

　　modify: 修改 calculate: 计算 chance: 机会 have sex: 做爱

　　可以修改一下用来计算我们艳遇的几率

　　by changing the formula to use the number of single women in Los Angeles,

　　formula: 公式，准则  the number of : 数量  single: 单身的

　　只需改用洛杉矶单身女性数量

　　the number of those who might find us attractive, and what I call the Wolowitz Coefficient.

　　attractive: 吸引人的 Wolowitz Coefficient: 【Howard瞎编的】 Coefficien: 系数

　　会对我们一见钟情的人的数量还有Wolowitz系数

　　-Rajesh: The Wolowitz Coefficient?

　　Wolowitz Coefficient: 【Howard瞎编的】 Coefficien: 系数

　　Wolowitz系数?

　　-Howard: Neediness⁶ times dress size squared.

　　Neediness: 需求 times: 乘以 dress: 女服 square: 平方

　　需求度乘以衣服紧身度的平方

　　Crunching⁷ the numbers, I come up with a conservative 5,812 potential sex partners

　　crunch⁸ number: 【crunch: 快速大量处理信息，所以这里应该是计算的意思】  come up with: 提出   conservative: 保守的 potential: 潜在的 sex partner: 性伴侣 partner: 伙伴

　　通过计算 40英里之内保守估计

　　within a 40-mile radius⁹.

　　radius: 半径范围

　　有5812个潜在对象

　　-Leonard: You're joking.

　　开玩笑吧

　　-Howard: I'm a horny engineer, Leonard.

　　horny : 淫荡的，俚语 engineer: 工程师

　　我是饥渴的工程师 Leonard

　　I never joke about math or sex.

　　joke about: 取笑

　　对于数字和做爱我从不玩笑

　　-Rajesh: Well, what are we waiting for? Let's bounce, bitches.

　　bounce: 弹跳【这里指动起来】 bitch: 小妞

　　那还等什么放马过来吧小妞

　　-Leonard: Well, you're right.

　　说的没错

　　It's Anything Can Happen Thursday. Let's hit the clubs and meet hot women!

　　hit: 袭击【其实是go的意思，这里想要表达强烈的感情色彩，所以用这个字眼】 hot : 热烈的 club: 俱乐部 hot: 热辣的

　　今天是随心所欲日我们去泡吧泡妞吧

　　-Rajesh: Here we go. Lock up your daughters!

　　Lock up: 关起来 lock: 锁

　　来吧把你女儿锁起来!

　　We're going to hit it and quit it.

　　hit it and quit it: 【玩玩就走，俚语】

　　咱们速战速决

　　-Leonard: Or we could finish eating and go to the comic book store.

　　comic : 连环漫画 store: 商店

　　或者我们可以吃完饭去逛逛漫画店

　　-Rajesh: Also a good plan.

　　也是个好主意

　　-Howard: All right, but next Anything Can Happen Thursday, we're definitely going to a bar.

　　definitely: 明确的 bar: 酒吧

　　好吧但下次随心所欲日我们一定要去酒吧

　　-Leonard: Oh, absolutely.

　　absolutely: 当然

　　那必然

　　-Rajesh: You heard that, Ladies' Night ladies?

　　听到没美女之夜的美女?

　　We're eventually coming for you!

　　eventually: 最后

　　哥哥们要来咯!

　　-Sheldon: Fascinating.

　　fascinating: 迷人的

　　真赞

　　[scene: the four guys meet Penny in the front of their doors…]

　　-Penny: Oh, hey, guys. Where're you headed?

　　guy: 伙计 head: 朝向….

　　嘿你们要去哪?

　　-Sheldon: To the comic book store.

　　comic : 连环漫画

　　去漫画店

　　You're probably thinking, "The comic book store? On a Thursday?

　　probably: 可能的

　　你准在想周四去漫画店?

　　Why, I've fallen down the rabbit hole and into a land of madness."

　　fall down: 落下 rabbit: 兔子 hole: 洞 land: 着陆  madness: 疯狂愚蠢的行为

　　怎么会呢天方夜谭啊

　　What you have failed to take into account, Penny, is that this is Anything Can Happen Thursday.

　　fail to: 未能 take into account: 考虑

　　Penny 你百密一疏没想到今天是随心所欲日

　　-Penny: You got me.

　　骗到我了

　　Oh, hey, while you're there, could pick me up a few comics for my nephew's birthday?

　　pick up: 挑选 comic: 连环漫画 nephew: 侄子

　　对了能否买几本连环画回来我想送小侄子做生日礼物

　　-Sheldon: I think you mean comic books.

　　comic: 连环漫画

　　你是说漫画书吧

　　Comics are feeble attempts at humor featuring talking babies

　　feeble: 无力的 attempt: 尝试 humor: 幽默 feature: 其重要作用

　　连环画是那些"逗你一笑"栏目里

　　and anthropomorphized pets found traditionally in the optimistically-named "funny pages."

　　anthropomorphized : 人格化的 pet: 宠物 traditionally: 习惯上 optimistically: 乐观的 funny: 有趣的 funny pages: 【有点像“开心一刻”这样的专栏，funny可以替换，比如yellow pages 指的是黄页，也就是电话薄】

　　会说话的婴儿和人格化的动物讲述的冷笑话

　　-Penny: Leonard, could you pick me up a few comics for my nephew's birthday?

　　pick up: 挑选 comic: 连环漫画 nephew: 侄子

　　Leonard 你能帮忙买吗?

　　-Leonard: Sure. What does he like?

　　没问题他喜欢什么?

　　-Penny: I don't know, he's 13. Just pick out anything.

　　pick out: 挑选出

　　我也不知道他13了看着买吧

　　-Sheldon: Just pick out anything?

　　pick out: 挑选出

　　看着买?

　　Well, maybe at the same time we can pick out a new suit for him without knowing his size.

　　at the same time: 同时 suit: 衣服 size: 尺寸

　　那不知道尺寸也能买衣服咯

　　Or pick out his career for him without knowing his aptitude¹⁰.

　　pick out: 挑选出 career: 职业 aptitude: 天资

　　不知道他的本事也能给他找工作咯

　　Or pick out a new breakfast cereal without knowing his fiber¹¹ requirements...

　　pick out: 挑选出 cereal: 谷类食品 fiber: 纤维   requirement: 需求

　　不知道纤维素需求也能给他挑麦片咯

　　or his feelings about little marshmallows.

　　marshmallow: 棉花糖

　　或者不知道他是否喜欢软糖

　　-Penny: Spider-Man. Get him Spider-Man.

　　spider-Man: 蜘蛛侠 spider: 蜘蛛

　　蜘蛛侠就买蜘蛛侠吧

　　-Sheldon: Amazing Spider-Man, Ultimate Spider-Man, Spectacular Spider-Man,

　　amazing: 令人惊异的 sltimate: 终极的 Ultimate: 最终的 spectacular: 惊人的

　　非凡蜘蛛侠终极蜘蛛侠神奇蜘蛛侠

　　The Marvelous Adventures of Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2099?

　　marvelous: 了不起的   adventure: 冒险 spider-man: 蜘蛛侠

　　蜘蛛侠大冒险还是蜘蛛侠2099

　　-Penny: Leonard?

　　Leonard?

　　-Leonard: You know this can go on all night. Why don't you just come with us?

　　come with : 与…一起

　　这样说起来就没完了跟我们走吧?

　　-Penny: That's what I was trying to avoid.

　　avoid: 避免

　　我就怕这个

　　-Sheldon: Oh, I forgot Sensational¹² Spider-Man.

　　Sensational : 感动的 spider-man: 蜘蛛侠

　　哦对还有感动蜘蛛侠

　　[scene: in the cosmic bookstore, the four guys and Penny…..]

　　-Penny: Aw, what a cute, little store.

　　cute: 可爱的

　　小店好可爱啊

　　Ev-everybody's staring at me.

　　stare at: 注视 stare: 凝视

　　大家都在看我

　　-Leonard: Don't worry, they're more scared of you than you are of them.

　　scared: 使害怕

　　别担心其实他们更害怕

　　-Penny: Unlikely.

　　unlikely: 未必

　　未必吧

　　Here, what about this one for my nephew?

　　nephew: 侄子

　　买这个送我侄子怎么样?

　　a superb choice.

　　superb: 极好的 choice: 选择

　　好眼光

　　-Penny: Oh, Great.

　　哦太好了

　　-Sheldon: Provided he has already read Infinite Crisis and 52,

　　provided: 假如 Infinite: 无限的 Crisis: 危机

　　前提是他看过了无限危机和52

　　and is familiar with the reestablishment of the DC multiverse.

　　familiar: 熟悉 reestablishment: 重建 multiverse: 多元宇宙

　　并且熟悉DC多重世界的重建

　　-Penny: What's a "multiverse"?

　　multiverse: 多元宇宙

　　嘛叫"多重世界"?

　　-Sheldon: Get her out of here.

　　get out: 出去

　　快请她出去

　　-Leonard: Come on, I'll help you pick something.

　　pick: 挑选

　　来吧我来帮你选

　　-Rajesh: That's right. She's with us.

　　没错她跟我们来的

　　Guys like that are so pathetic.

　　pathetic: 可怜的

　　那种男生太可悲了

　　-Howard: Tell me about it.

　　还用说

　　-Howard: Ooh, look, a new Batman belt buckle¹³.

　　Batman : 蝙蝠侠 belt buckle: 皮带搭扣 buckle: 皮带扣

　　快看新版蝙蝠侠腰带扣

1 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。

2 consistency   

n.一贯性，前后一致，稳定性；(液体的)浓度

参考例句：

• Your behaviour lacks consistency.你的行为缺乏一贯性。
• We appreciate the consistency and stability in China and in Chinese politics.我们赞赏中国及其政策的连续性和稳定性。

3 mighty   

adj.强有力的；巨大的

参考例句：

• A mighty force was about to break loose.一股巨大的力量即将迸发而出。
• The mighty iceberg came into view.巨大的冰山出现在眼前。

4 proffer   

v.献出，赠送；n.提议，建议

参考例句：

• He rose and proffered a silver box full of cigarettes.他站起身，伸手递过一个装满香烟的银盒子。
• I proffer to lend him one.我表示愿意借他一个。

5 odds   

n.让步，机率，可能性，比率；胜败优劣之别

参考例句：

• The odds are 5 to 1 that she will win.她获胜的机会是五比一。
• Do you know the odds of winning the lottery once?你知道赢得一次彩票的几率多大吗？

6 neediness   

n.穷困，贫穷

参考例句：

• He recognized her neediness but had no time to respond to it. 他看出了她的需要但没有时间回应。 来自互联网
• In costumes more extravagant than any Gaultier concert frocks, he revealed an actor's narcissism, neediness, daring. 角色浓艳戏服下，他抖出了一个演员的自恋、需索和毋视世俗。 来自互联网

7 crunching   

v.嘎吱嘎吱地咬嚼( crunch的现在分词 )；嘎吱作响；（快速大量地）处理信息；数字捣弄

参考例句：

• The horses were crunching their straw at their manger. 这些马在嘎吱嘎吱地吃槽里的草。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The dog was crunching a bone. 狗正嘎吱嘎吱地嚼骨头。 来自《简明英汉词典》

8 crunch   

n.关键时刻；艰难局面；v.发出碎裂声

参考例句：

• If it comes to the crunch they'll support us.关键时刻他们是会支持我们的。
• People who crunch nuts at the movies can be very annoying.看电影时嘎吱作声地嚼干果的人会使人十分讨厌。

9 radius   

n.半径，半径范围；有效航程，范围，界限

参考例句：

• He has visited every shop within a radius of two miles.周围两英里以内的店铺他都去过。
• We are measuring the radius of the circle.我们正在测量圆的半径。

10 aptitude   

n.(学习方面的)才能，资质，天资

参考例句：

• That student has an aptitude for mathematics.那个学生有数学方面的天赋。
• As a child,he showed an aptitude for the piano.在孩提时代，他显露出对于钢琴的天赋。

11 fiber   

n.纤维，纤维质

参考例句：

• The basic structural unit of yarn is the fiber.纤维是纱的基本结构单元。
• The material must be free of fiber clumps.这种材料必须无纤维块。

12 sensational   

adj.使人感动的，非常好的，轰动的，耸人听闻的

参考例句：

• Papers of this kind are full of sensational news reports.这类报纸满是耸人听闻的新闻报道。
• Their performance was sensational.他们的演出妙极了。

13 buckle   

n.扣子，带扣；v.把...扣住，由于压力而弯曲

参考例句：

• The two ends buckle at the back.带子两端在背后扣起来。
• She found it hard to buckle down.她很难专心做一件事情。