moving assembly line: 流动装配线 moving: 活动的 assembly: 装配 introduce: 引进

　　流动装配线是由亨利·福特在1908年引进的

　　-Sheldon: That innovation is what made, possible our modern consumer culture

　　innovation: 革新 consumer: 顾客 culture: 文化

　　是这项革新技术通过低费用生产

　　by enabling a low-unit, cost for manufactured goods.

　　enable:使能够 low-unit cost : 【这里说的是缩短单位成本】 unit: 单位 manufacture: 制造   goods: 商品

　　促成了现代消费文化

　　I guess that isn't one of the, topics discussed on your Radiohead.

　　topic: 话题 discuss: 讨论

　　我看Radiohead不讲这些东西吧

　　[scene:in the room，Lenord and Howard is goning to watch the film.]

　　-Leonard: Let's go. We're going to, miss the coming attractions.

　　attraction: 具有吸引力的人，物

　　走了别错过精彩的事

　　-Leonard: What's the matter?

　　怎么了?

　　-Howard: I think I bruised a testicle, capturing that last pawn.

　　bruise: 擦伤 testicle: 睾丸 capture: 夺得 pawn.: 卒

　　我想我吃上一个卒时挫伤了睾丸

　　[scene: Sheldon and Penny’s sound of sing came into the ear of the other men… ]

　　-Sheldon and Penny:

　　* Please pay attentn and listen to me*

　　pay attention: 专心

　　* Please pay attention and listen to me*

　　* Give me some time, to blow the man down *

　　blow down: 吹倒

　　* Give me some time to blow the man down *

　　* I'm a deepwater sailor, just come from Hong Kong *

　　deepwater: 深海的 sailor: 水手

　　* I'm a deepwater sailor just come from Hong Kong *

　　* Give me way,hey,blow the man down *

　　blow down: 吹倒

　　* Give me way, hey, blow the man down *

　　* If you give me some, whiskey I'll sing you a song *

　　whiskey: 威士忌

　　* If you give me some whiskey I'll sing you a song *

　　* Give me some time, to blow the man down.*

　　* Give me some time to blow the man down.*

　　-Leonard: Hello?

　　你们好哇?

　　-Sheldon and Penny:Hello., Hello.

　　你们好你们好

　　-song:

　　-Sheldon: * Come quickly lay aft, To the break of the poop *

　　lay: 躺下 aft: 船尾 poop: 船尾

　　-Sheldon: Come quickly lay after To the break of the poop *

　　lay: 躺下 aft: 船尾 poop: 船尾

　　-Sheldon and Penny:* To me way,hey,blow the man down *

　　* To me way,hey,blow the man down *

　　-Sheldon: Or I'll help you along, with the toe of my boot *

　　along with: 与一起 toe: 脚趾   boot: 靴子

　　* Or I'll help you along with the toe of my boot *

　　along with: 与一起 toe: 脚趾   boot: 靴子

　　-Sheldon and Penny: Give me some time, to blow the man down.*

　　* Give me some time to blow the man down.*

　　-Leonard: W-W-Wait,what's, going on?

　　嘿嘿这是怎么了?

　　-Sheldon: I assume you're referring, to the sea shanty.

　　refer to: 涉及 shanty: 海员号子【Sheldon为了提高生产率而唱的有节奏的号子】

　　我猜你是说这劳动工作歌

　　-Sheldon: It's a rhythmic work song, designed to increase productivity.

　　rhythmic: 节奏 design: 设计 increase: 提高 productivity: 生产率

　　这是首用来提高生产力的节奏感强的劳动歌

　　-Penny: Yeah,it's crazy,but it totally works.

　　totally: 完全的

　　是啊傻了吧唧但的确有用

　　Look,we made this Penny Blossom in under three minutes.

　　blossom: 花 under three minutes: 不到三分钟

　　瞧不到3分钟就做好一个"Penny小花"

　　-Leonard: Terrific,but that kind of raises, more questions than it answers.

　　terrific: 极好的 raise: 提出，提高

　　真棒不过我们的疑问倒是更多了

　　-Sheldon: Penny's making hair accessories.

　　hair accessory: 头饰 accessory: 配件

　　Penny在做头饰

　　I'm helping her optimize, her manufacturing process.

　　optimize: 完善 manufacturing process: 制作工艺 manufacture: 制作

　　我帮她完善她的制作工艺

　　All right,break's over.

　　好了休息结束

　　* Pay attention to orders, now you one and all...*

　　* Pay attention to orders now you one and all...*

　　-Howard: Hold on. What are you, using as a bonding agent?

　　bonding agent: 粘合剂 bonding: 粘合 agent: 药剂

　　等等你用什么粘的?

　　-Sheldon: Hot glue.,

　　Hot glue: 热熔胶 glue: 胶

　　热粘接剂

　　-Howard: You're kidding.

　　kidding: 开玩笑

　　傻了吧你

　　Any of the cyanoacrylates, would do a better job.

　　cyanoacrylate: 氰基丙烯酸盐粘合剂

　　随便一种氰基丙烯酸盐粘合剂粘的效果都会更好啊

　　-Sheldon: It won't work,the flower's too porous.

　　porous: 有气孔的

　　不行的花的孔太多了

　　-Leonard: What if we infused the bottom layer with, silicone-RTV to provide a better mounting surface?

　　infuse: 注入 bottom: 底部   layer: 层 silicone-RTV: 硅橡胶 silicone: 硅树脂 mount: 底座 surface: 表面

　　要是在底层那片注入硅橡胶打好一个基础面呢?

　　-Sheldon: Intriguing.

　　Intriguing: 有趣的

　　有点意思

　　-Howard: Good question. marketing and distribution channels?

　　marketing: 销售 distribution : 分销   channel: 渠道

　　问的好你的市场销售渠道呢?

　　-Penny: Well,there are the waitresses at my, work,and this cute,little shop in Old Town...

　　waitresse: 女服务生 cute: 可爱的

　　有我上班那的服务生们还有奥德城的一家小店...

　　-Sheldon: Hush,hush,hush,hush,hush--, virtually non-existent.

　　hush: 嘘嘘   virtually: 实际上 non-existent: 不存在

　　嘘嘘嘘事实上没有

　　I'm thinking that we set her up with a, hosted turnkey e-commerce system to start.

　　set up: 开业 host: 作为主人（招待） turnkey: 总控 e-commerce: 电子商务

　　我在考虑我们让她从全权负责的电子商务做起

　　-Howard: Why not eliminate the middle man?

　　eliminate: 消除 middle man: 中间商

　　何不省去中间人呢?

　　We could stall a small server farm, with a static IP in her bedroom.

　　stall: 安装 server: 服务器 static: 静态的

　　我们可以用她卧室的静止IP 装一个服务器场

　　-Leonard: She'd need some kind of, industrial cooling system.

　　industrial: 工业的 cooling system.: 冷却系统

　　她得要工业冷却系统

　　-Sheldon: Of course,but before we set up a, marketing and distribution infrastructure,

　　set up: 建立 marketing: 销售 distribution: 分销 infrastructure: 基础设施

　　当然但建立销售和分销基础设施前

　　we should finish optimizing, the manufacturing process.

　　optimiz: 完善 manufacturing process: 制造工艺

　　我们得先完善好制作工艺

　　To start with,she has a terrible problem, with moisture-induced glitter clump.

　　to start with: 首先   terrible: 糟糕的 moisture-induced: 受潮的，遇湿的 moisture: 潮湿 induced: 诱发的 glitter: 闪光 clump: 凝成块

　　首先遇湿凝结的亮片是个老大难

　　-Penny: Yeah,it's a bitch.

　　bitch.: 泼妇

　　是啊烦透了

　　-Howard: Uh,I've seen this before.

　　哦我见过

　　-Leonard: Where?

　　在哪?

　　-Howard: It's a common stripper problem.

　　stripper: 脱衣舞女

　　常见的脱衣舞女问题

　　They dance,they sweat,they clump.

　　sweat: 流汗 clump: 凝成块

　　她们跳啊流汗啊凝到一起

　　-Leonard: Are you thinking about adding a, desiccant like calcium sulfate?

　　add: 增加 desiccant: 干燥剂 calcium sulfate: 硫酸钙 calcium: 钙 sulfate: 硫酸盐

　　你在想加入些除湿剂比如说硫酸钙?

　　-Howard: Actually,I'm thinking about, this one stripper named Vega.

　　stripper: 脱衣舞女

　　事实上我在想那叫Vega的脱衣舞女郎

　　But sure,calcium sulfate would work.

　　calcium sulfate: 硫酸钙 calcium: 钙 sulfate: 硫酸盐

　　但当然硫酸钙应该行

　　-Sheldon: Let's think out of the box for a moment.

　　think out: 仔细考虑

　　咱跳出框框想一想

　　How about a molecular sieve?

　　molecular sieve: 分子筛 molecular: 分子 sieve: 筛子

　　分子筛怎么样?

　　-Penny: I've got a spaghetti, strainer in the kitchen.

　　spaghetti,: 意式细面条 strainer: 过滤器

　　我厨房有个意面滤网

　　-Leonard: Hey,we could liberate some, micro-porous charcoal from the chem lab.

　　liberate: 放出 micro-porous charcoal: 微孔木炭 micro: 微小的 porous: 有孔的 charcoal: 木炭 chem: 化学chemstry的缩写

　　我们可以从化学实验室弄点微孔木炭

　　-Sheldon: Oh,great. Raj,why don't you, and Howard go get the charcoal?

　　charcoal: 木炭

　　哦太好了 Raj 你和Howard去拿木炭吧

　　Leonard,why don't you start working, on some preliminary Web site designs.

　　preliminary: 准备 design: 设计

　　Leonard 你着手做网站的初步设计

　　I'll make some space in our apartment, so we can move the manufacturing process.

　　manufacturing process: 制作过程 manufacture: 制作

　　我去我们公寓腾点地方好弄到那边去制作

　　-Penny: Well,what's wrong with my apartment?

　　apartment: 公寓

　　我的公寓怎么了?

　　-Sheldon: It's not my apartment.

　　因为不是我的公寓

　　-Penny: Wait,wait,what am I going to do?

　　等下啊我干点啥呢?

　　-Leonard: Uh,hey,it's your business., Do whatever you want.

　　嘿是你的事嘛想干啥干啥吧

　　-Penny: Okay,cool.

　　好吧

　　I'm going to take a nap.

　　take a nap: 小憩 nap: 小睡

　　我睡一小觉去

　　[scene:in Lenord’s house,all the four men and Penny talks about the business plan]

　　-Leonard: I'm still tweaking things a little bit,but this, will give you the general idea of the Web site.

　　tweaking: 对…稍作调整 general idea: 梗概 general: 一般的

　　我还在不断改进不过现在也能看到网站的基本概念

　　So,what do you guys think?

　　guy: 家伙

　　怎么样?

　　-Howard: Uh,pretty much any way I say that, is going to hurt his feelings.

　　pretty much: 大致上

　　呃...不管咋说都会伤感情的

　　-Leonard: Okay,what's wrong with it?

　　好吧不足在哪里?

　　-Sheldon: What's wrong with it?,

　　不足在哪里?

　　-Leonard:  Not you. I wasn't asking you.Penny?

　　你别说话没问你

　　-Penny: Uh,well,it's a little juvenile.

　　juvenile: 青少年【这个词也有幼稚的的意思，有一点年轻，配合这里的语境，就是装嫩啦】

　　好吧有点装嫩

　　I mean,it kind of looks like the, MySpace page of a 13-year-old girl.

　　我是说感觉是13岁小姑娘的MySpace页面

　　-Leonard: No,it doesn't.

　　没有啊

　　-Howard: Please. Dateline could use, it to attract predators.

　　dateline: 日期栏  attract : 吸引  predator: 食肉动物【这里暗喻好色的家伙】

　　得了吧可以用日期栏吊禽兽上钩

　　-Leonard: Penny,this is your enterprise,so, it's ultimately your decision,

　　enterprise,: 事业 ultimately: 最后

　　Penny 这是你的生意你有最终决定权

　　but based on the quality of his work,I'd, strongly recommend that we let Leonard go.

　　based on: 基于 quality: 质量 strongly: 强烈的 recommend: 推荐

　　但鉴于Leonard的工作质量我强烈建议把他打发掉

　　-Leonard: You want to fire me?

　　fire: 开除

　　你想开了我?

　　-Leonard: What I want is irrelevant., This is Penny's decision.

　　irrelevant: 不相关的

　　我想怎样没关系是Penny的决定

　　Penny?

　　-Leonard: Excuse me,but if I did such a bad job, then why do we already have orders?

　　order: 订单

　　抱歉要是我真做的那么糟怎么会有订单了呢?

　　-Penny: we do?,

　　有了?

　　-Leonard:  Look.

　　瞧

　　Mrs. Fiona Fondell from, Huntsville,Alabama has ordered two.

　　Alabama: 阿拉巴马,美国州名 order: 订购

　　阿拉巴马Huntsville的Fiona Fondell女士下了两个订单

　　-Penny: No kidding. Two?

　　No kidding: 别开玩笑

　　真的啊两个?

　　-Leonard: Look at the comments.

　　comment: 评论

　　看看评论吧

　　-Penny: Thank you,Penny Blossoms. These will, be perfect to cover my bald spot.

　　blossom: 花 perfect: 完美的   cover : 覆盖 bald: 秃顶的 spot: 地点

　　谢谢 Penny小花刚好可以盖住我谢顶的地方

　　that... that is so sweet.

　　sweet: 悦耳的

　　真是...真是贴心啊

　　-Sheldon: Camouflaging bald spots.

　　Camouflag: 掩饰 bald: 秃顶的 spot: 地点

　　遮盖谢顶

　　That's primarily a male concern.

　　primarily: 主要的  male: 男人  concern: 关心的事

　　男士一大隐患啊

　　Perhaps we could expand our market.

　　Perhaps: 或许 expand: 扩张

　　可以以此拓宽市场

　　-Penny: How are flower barrettes, going to appeal to men?

　　barrette: 发夹 appeal: 有吸引力

　　男的怎么会对花发夹感兴趣的?

　　-Howard: We add Bluetooth!

　　bluetooth: 蓝牙

　　加上蓝牙!

　　-Sheldon: Brilliant. Men love Bluetooth.

　　brilliant: 有才气的 bluetooth: 蓝牙

　　聪明男人喜欢蓝牙

　　-Penny: Wait a minute,wait a minute,you want, to make a hair barrette with Bluetooth?

　　barrette: 发夹 bluetooth: 蓝牙

　　等等用蓝牙做发夹?

　　-Sheldon: Penny,everything is, better with Bluetooth.

　　bluetooth: 蓝牙

　　Penny 有了蓝牙事半功倍

　　-Leonard: Holy crap. Someone just ordered, a thousand Penny Blossoms.

　　Holy: 太棒了 crap: 废话 order: 订购

　　天呐刚有人定了1千朵的Penny小花

　　-Penny: Get out!

　　不可能

　　Who needs a thousand sparkly, flower barrettes with rhinestones?

　　sparkly: 耀眼的 barrette: 发夹 rhinestone: 莱茵石，一种假钻石

　　谁会要一千个莱茵仿钻花发夹啊?

　　The Fifth Annual East Rutherford,New, Jersey,Gay,Lesbian,Bisexual and Transgender Alliance Luau.

　　annual: 每年的 Rutherford: 卢瑟福，化学家 jersey: 运动衫 gay: 男同性恋 lesbian: 女同性恋 bisexua: 双性恋 transgender: 变性人 alliance: 联盟 luau: 夏威夷式烤野猪宴

　　新泽西东卢瑟福男同女同双性恋变性人联盟5周年庆

　　-Sheldon: Oh,another market to expand, into-- balding gay men.

　　expand: 扩张 bald: 秃顶的 gay: 男同性恋

　　哦~我们还以发展一下谢顶同志

　　-Howard: And I'll bet lesbians love Bluetooth.

　　bet: 打赌 lesbian: 女同性恋 bluetooth: 蓝牙

　　我打赌拉拉肯定也喜欢蓝牙

　　-Sheldon: We should get to work.

　　开工啦

　　-Penny: Wait,wait,why does, it say "one-day rush"?

　　rush: 匆忙完成

　　等等为什么说是"一天交货"

　　Since when do we offer a one-day rush?

　　offer: 提供

　　我们什么时候有这服务了?

　　-Leonard: Amazon offers one-day rush.

　　offer: 提供

　　亚马逊就有"一天交货"

　　-Penny: Yeah,but they don't have, to glue the books together.

　　glue: 粘合

　　是啊但是他们不需要把书粘起来

　　How the hell are we going to make a, thousand Penny Blossoms in one day?

　　the hell: 咒骂人的词组 blossom: 花

　　我们到底要怎样才能在一天内做出一千个?

　　-Leonard: Don't yell at me. I'm not, manufacturing. I'm just Web design.

　　yell: 吼叫 manufacture: 制造 design: 设计

　　别对我吼我又不是搞生产的我只是设计网站而已啦

　　-Penny: Okay,well,I'm goning to have to, call them and cancel the order.

　　cancel: 取消 order.:订单

　　好那我打电话告诉他们取消订单

　　-Sheldon: Excuse me,but was this not your goal?

　　goal: 目标

　　等等难道这不是你的目标?

　　Financial independence through, entrepreneurial brilliance and innovation?

　　financial: 财政的 independence: 独立   entrepreneurial: 创业的 brilliance: 才华   innovation: 革新

　　通过才智和创新的商业头脑来财政独立

　　My brilliance and, innovation,of course,but still.

　　brilliance: 才华   innovation: 创新

　　我的才智和创新当然

　　-Penny: I just don't see how, we can pull this off.

　　pull off: 努力实现

　　我只是不知道要怎么完成订单

　　-Sheldon: That,right there,that equivocation and, self-doubt,that is not the American spirit.

　　equivocation: 模棱两可的话 self-doubt: 自我怀疑 spirit: 精神

　　别你这模棱两可和自我怀疑可不符合美国精神

　　Did Davy Crockett quit at the Alamo?

　　quit: 退出 the Alamo: 1836年美国与墨西哥之间的战争，有款游戏也叫这个名字

　　大卫·克劳克拉从阿拉莫之围中退却了吗?

　　Did Jim Bowie?

　　吉姆·鲍伊有吗?

　　-Howard: They didn't quit. They were massacred...

　　massacre: 大屠杀

　　没但他们被屠杀了

　　by like a gazillion angry Mexicans.

　　gazillion: 极大量   Mexican: 墨西哥人

　　被无数墨西哥暴民给屠杀了