生活大爆炸第二季第十二集_3

 　　Which brings us to tenth grade.

　　tenth: 第十【十年级】

　　之后就是高一的事了。

　　-Penny: Howard, do you think maybe sometimes you try too hard?

　　Howard，你觉不觉得有时自己太心急太过火了?

　　-Wolowitz: Look at me.

　　看看我嘛。

　　What chance do I have if I don't try too hard?

　　不太心急太过火，我怎么可能会有机会?

　　-Penny: Well... you'd have a terrific chance.

　　这... 你的机会大大的有

　　I mean, you're smart, you're funny. You have a cool job.

　　你聪明风趣，又有份好工作。

　　You build stuff that goes into outer space.

　　outer: 外部的

　　你做那个飞到外太空的东西。

　　-Wolowitz: I guess.

　　也是啊。

　　-Penny: Look, I'm telling you, I've known you for, like, a year and a half

　　跟你说哦，我认识你也有一年半了，

　　and this is the first time I feel like I'm talking to a real person.

　　这次我才觉得我是在跟你真人讲话。

　　And you know what? I like him. He's a nice guy.

　　而且你知道不，我喜欢他，他人不错。

　　-Wolowitz: You really think so?

　　你真的这么想的?

　　-Penny: Yes.

　　是啊。

　　-Wolowitz: I don't know.

　　这我还真的不知道。

　　-Penny: I do.

　　我知道。

　　[Howard wants to kiss Penny and she punches he in his face]

　　[Scene: The kinetics lab, Leonard, Sheldon, Raj and Kripke are there]

　　-Leonard: Nice little bot you've got here.

　　你这小机器人不错嘛。

　　-Kripke: I'm aware.

　　aware: 知道的

　　这我知道。

　　-Leonard: What's this do, spin?

　　这是干嘛用的? 转齿?

　　-Kripke: Yep. At 3400 r/pm.

　　对，3400转每分钟。

　　It can cut through steel like it was wubber.

　　steel: 钢制品 rubber: 橡皮

　　它切钢就像切橡皮一样。

　　-Leonard: Neat.

　　neat: 了不起的

　　赞。

　　Good work.

　　做得不错。

　　Sheldon, we've got to call this off.

　　Sheldon，我们要赶快取消。

　　-Sheldon: No, Leonard.

　　不要，Leonard。

　　For years, merciless thugs like Kripke have made my life a series of painful noogies

　　merciless: 残忍的 thug: 恶棍 painful: 痛苦的 noogie: <俚语>(表示亲热、开玩笑等，用两根手指头)刮(或轻击)头(或脸)

　　多少年了，像Kripke一样的无良恶霸让我的生活悲惨不堪，

　　and humiliating wedgies and the insensitively named Indian burns.

　　humiliate¹: 羞辱 wedgie: 楔形后跟的女鞋 insensitively: 麻木地 Indian burns: 印第安刑(抓住手臂来回扭以产生剧痛)

　　既被痛打又受尽凌辱，还有印第安刑。

　　That stops now.

　　这些就此打住!

　　-Raj: But, Sheldon, we don't have a chance.

　　可是Sheldon，我们没可能的。

　　The only improvement you were able to make on the robot was to put fresh batteries in the remote.

　　improvement: 改进 battery: 电池 remote: 远程

　　你现在能给这机器人改进的，就是给它遥控器换块新电池。

　　-Sheldon: What you fail to realize is Kripke suffers from a fatal flaw:

　　fatal: 致命的 flaw: 缺陷

　　你没发觉的是Kripke有一个致命伤：

　　Overconfidence from his robot's massive size and its overwhelming power.

　　overconfidence: 自负 massive: 大量的 overwhelming: 压倒性的

　　他对机器人大体积超能量的过度自信。

　　-Raj: That's not overconfidence. That's observation.

　　observation: 观察

　　那不是过度自信，那叫观察。

　　-Sheldon: Trust me, Kripke will fall easy prey² to my psychological warfare³. Observe.

　　prey: 伤害 psychological: 心理上的 warfare: 战争

　　信我，Kripke很快就会倒在我的心理战上的，观察吧。

　　Kripke.

　　Kripke。

　　I would ask if your robot is prepared to meet its maker⁴, but as you are its maker,

　　我想问下你的机器人准备好见它制作人没，不过既然你是他的制作人了，

　　clearly the two of you have met.

　　很明显你们是见过面了。

　　-Kripke: What is his pwoblem?

　　pwoblem=problem

　　他脑子怎么鸟?

　　-Raj: Way to bust⁵ out the Jedi mind tricks, dude.

　　bust out: <美口>考试不及格被大学等开除【学的差得远呢】 trick: 计谋

　　学绝地武士心理战还差得远，伙计。

　　-Leonard: I just want to make sure that we're all clear.

　　我只是想确认下我们说好了。

　　Standard robotic fighting league rules apply.

　　standard: 标准 apply: 适用

　　按照标准机器人格斗联盟规则。

　　-Kripke: Are you cwazy? This is a stweet fight.

　　cwazy=crazy stweet=street

　　你是疯了不成? 这是个街战。

　　The stweet has no rules.

　　街战哪有什么规则的?

　　-Sheldon: He's right, Leonard. The paradigm⁶ is to the death.

　　paradigm: 范例

　　他说得对，Leonard，一直到死为直。

　　-Kripke: I will, however, give you the opportunity to concede my superiority now

　　opportunity: 机会 concede: 承认 superiority: 优越性

　　不过我现在给你们个机会承认，我是比你们优越，

　　and offer me your robot as the spoils of war.

　　spoil: 战利品

　　然后把你的机器人给我当战利品。

　　-Sheldon: Never.

　　永远都没可能!

　　I'd rather see Monte dead than in your hands.

　　我宁愿Monte死都不要落到你手里。

　　-Kripke: That could be easily arranged.

　　arrange: 安排

　　那真是小菜一碟。

　　Ready, set, go?

　　各就各位准备开始?

　　-Sheldon: Do it.

　　来吧。

　　-Kripke: All right then. Weady. Set. Go.

　　weady=ready

　　那好吧，预备，开始。

　　-Raj: Come on, Sheldon, you got this.

　　来吧，Sheldon，你可以的。

　　-Sheldon: Indeed. We are prepared for anything he can throw at us.

　　indeed: 当然，固然

　　当然。我们做好了万全准备，他怎么对我们都不怕。

　　That's new.

　　这招是新的。

　　-Leonard: Run, Monte, run!

　　逃啊，Monte! 逃!

　　-Raj: Go, Monte!

　　闪啊，Mont!

　　Monte!

　　Monte!

　　-Leonard: Go, go, go, go!

　　跑! 跑! 跑! 跑!

　　-Sheldon: Don't hurt us, don't hurt us, don't hurt us!

　　别伤害我们! 别伤害我们! 别伤害我们!

　　[Scene: Leonard and Sheldon’s apartment]

　　-Leonard: Well, so much for making up for the emotional wounds of childhood.

　　emotional: 情感的 wound: 创伤 childhood: 童年

　　好了，弥补儿时心灵创伤就到此为止了。

　　-Sheldon: I did this.

　　是我干的。

　　Monte was killed by my hubris⁷ and my pride.

　　hubris: 狂妄自大

　　Monte被杀都是因为我的傲慢跟自大。

　　No matter what anybody says, this is my fault.

　　不管别人怎么说，这都是我的错。

　　-Raj: No one's arguing with you, dude.

　　又没人在跟你争。

　　-Wolowitz: I got your text. How bad is... Oy.

　　我收到你短信了，它有多烂... 噢。

　　-Leonard: Forget the robot. What happened to you?

　　先别管那机器人了，你是怎么了?

　　-Penny: He slipped and fell.

　　slip: 滑到

　　他不小心滑倒了。

　　-Wolowitz: Yes, I slipped and, fell, in the bathroom.

　　是，我不小心滑倒了，还是在浴室里。

　　Bounced right off the tub.

　　bounce: 弹起 tub: 浴缸

　　被浴缸弹起来了。

　　-Penny: Yes, now he knows what bathtubs are capable of doing when you don't treat them with respect.

　　capable: 能胜任的 respect: 尊重

　　对，现在他知道了，如果他不尊重浴缸的话，浴缸会给他好看的。

　　-Wolowitz: Yeah.

　　那是。

　　They sucker punch you when your eyes are closed.

　　趁你闭眼时就给你一拳。

　　-Sheldon: So what do you think, Howard?

　　你觉得怎样，Howard?

　　It's not that bad, right?

　　也不算很烂，对吧?

　　-Wolowitz: Oh, no. A little electrical tape, some solder⁸... Are you insane?

　　electrical: 有关电的 tape: 线带 solder: 焊料 insane: 疯狂的

　　噢，不算，用点电线包布，一些焊剂... 你是疯了还是怎样?!

　　I've seen space probes that crashed into the desert that were in better shape than this.

　　space: 太空 probe: 探测器 crash: 坠毁 desert: 沙漠 shape: 形状

　　太空探测器坠毁在沙漠都比这死相好看。

　　-Sheldon: You're right. Monte's gone.

　　你说得对，Monte走了。

　　We'll bury him in the morning. A simple ceremony. I'll speak.

　　bury: 埋葬 ceremony: 仪式

　　我们明早去埋了它，做个简单的仪式，我来主持。

　　Leonard, you'll play your cello⁹.

　　cello: 大提琴

　　Leonard，你要拉你的大提琴。

　　-Penny: Sheldon, honey, aren't you getting a little carried away?

　　carry away: 使深受感动失去自制力

　　Sheldon，亲爱的，你是不是有点走火入魔了?

　　I mean, it's just a toy robot.

　　我是说，这不就是个机器人嘛。

　　-Sheldon: Just a toy robot?

　　不就是个机器人嘛?

　　-Leonard: Penny.

　　Penny。

　　-Penny: I know I got it.

　　我知道了，这就去。

　　Sheldon, I'm sorry.

　　Sheldon，对不起。

　　-Wolowitz: Well, don't get the wrong idea.

　　别以为我吃亏了。

　　The way I see it, I'm halfway¹⁰ to pity sex.

　　halfway: 中途的 pity: 同情

　　在我看来，她很快就会因为同情，然后跟我做爱了。

1 humiliate   

v.使羞辱，使丢脸[同]disgrace

参考例句：

• What right had they to bully and humiliate people like this?凭什么把人欺侮到这个地步呢？
• They pay me empty compliments which only humiliate me.他们虚情假意地恭维我，这只能使我感到羞辱。

2 prey   

n.被掠食者，牺牲者，掠食；v.捕食，掠夺，折磨

参考例句：

• Stronger animals prey on weaker ones.弱肉强食。
• The lion was hunting for its prey.狮子在寻找猎物。

3 warfare   

n.战争(状态)；斗争；冲突

参考例句：

• He addressed the audience on the subject of atomic warfare.他向听众演讲有关原子战争的问题。
• Their struggle consists mainly in peasant guerrilla warfare.他们的斗争主要是农民游击战。

4 maker   

n.制造者，制造商

参考例句：

• He is a trouble maker，You must be distant with him.他是个捣蛋鬼，你不要跟他在一起。
• A cabinet maker must be a master craftsman.家具木工必须是技艺高超的手艺人。

5 bust   

vt.打破；vi.爆裂；n.半身像；胸部

参考例句：

• I dropped my camera on the pavement and bust it. 我把照相机掉在人行道上摔坏了。
• She has worked up a lump of clay into a bust.她把一块黏土精心制作成一个半身像。

6 paradigm   

n.例子，模范，词形变化表

参考例句：

• He had become the paradigm of the successful man. 他已经成为成功人士的典范。
• Moreover,the results of this research can be the new learning paradigm for digital design studios.除此之外，本研究的研究成果也可以为数位设计课程建立一个新的学习范例。

7 hubris   

n.傲慢，骄傲

参考例句：

• There is no safety in unlimited technological hubris.在技术方面自以为是会很危险。
• The very hubris of French claims alarmed the other powers.法国贪婪的胃口使其他大国惊恐不安。

8 solder   

v.焊接，焊在一起；n.焊料，焊锡

参考例句：

• Fewer workers are needed to solder circuit boards.焊接电路板需要的工人更少了。
• He cuts the pieces and solders them together.他把那些断片切碎，然后把它们焊在一起。

9 cello   

n.大提琴

参考例句：

• The cello is a member of the violin family.大提琴是提琴家族的一员。
• She plays a melodious cello.她拉着一手悦耳的大提琴。

10 halfway   

adj.中途的，不彻底的，部分的；adv.半路地，在中途，在半途

参考例句：

• We had got only halfway when it began to get dark.走到半路，天就黑了。
• In study the worst danger is give up halfway.在学习上，最忌讳的是有始无终。