生活大爆炸 第六季:第18集:女性与科学(上)

 Look, I know you guys don't want to do this, but we have no choice. 我知道你们不想弄这事但我们没得选好吗

So, you can either bitch and whine¹ or we can just get it over with. 你们大可以唧唧歪歪  浪费时间也可以通力合作  早点搞定

I got "whine." I got the "b word." 我负责唧唧。我负责歪歪

Yeah, well, it's in our contract  to serve on a university committee. 我们与学校的合约中注明了得为大学委员会服务

And frankly², this is one I believe in. Okay, here we go. 老实说  我也认同这件事。主题就是

Encouraging more women to pursue a career in the sciences. 鼓励更多女性加入科学领域

Come on, if I was any good at convincing women to do stuff, 拜托  我要有本事说服女人去做我想她们做的事

I wouldn't have spent so much of my 20s in the shower. 那我20多岁时  就不用常自己在浴室"自乐"了

If you ask me,this whole thing is a waste of our time. 要我说的话搞这事根本只是浪费时间

Helping³ women? Yeah, helping anyone. 帮助女性浪费时间吗？帮人就是浪费时间。

People should take care of themselves. 人们应该自己照顾自己

Oh, like yesterday,when you made me drive you to the dry cleaners,the pharmacy⁴ and the post office? 比如像昨天你叫我载你去干洗店药店跟邮局那样吗

I'm not saying people can't use tools. 我又没说人们不能使用工具

Even an otter⁵ picks up a rock when he wants a clam⁶. 连水獭想吃蛤蜊时都知道用石头敲开了

You don't think it's worthwhile to try to get more women working in science. 你觉得花时间让更多女性加入科学行业不好吗

I think that's incredibly sexist of you. 我觉得你太有性别歧视了

I believe in a gender-blind society like in Star Trek⁷, where women and men of all races and creeds⁸ work side by side as equals. 我相信在性别平等的社会比如《星际迷航》中  各个种族信仰各异的男女都平等地一起共事

You mean where they were advanced enough to invent an interstellar warp⁹ drive,but a black lady still answered the space phone? 你是说那个先进到能发明出能进行恒星际旅行的曲速引擎却还是让一个黑人女性接太空电话的世界吗

Oh, I did spend a lot of my shower time with Lieutenant¹⁰ Uhura. 我的浴室"自乐"时间有不少是跟乌乎拉通讯官度过的

Howard's disturbing recollections aside,  I don't appreciate being forced to do banal¹¹ committee work. 先不管霍华德的下流回忆我不喜欢被逼去做这些平庸的委员会工作

Yes, I know, you're too smart for this.Exactly. 是是是  太大材小用了。没错

It's like asking the Human Torch to heat up your frozen burrito.Got it. 就跟叫霹雳火（霹雳火是《神奇四侠》里的人物  能让全身变成火焰）来热你的冷冻玉米煎饼一样。明白

All right, I'm thinking one way to counter bias¹² in the peer-review process, 我想到了一个避免在同行评审阶段遭受歧视的方法

is for papers to be submitted under gender-neutral names. 就是报告都用中性名字递交

Like S. Smith instead of Samantha Smith. 比如S?史密斯而不是沙曼莎?史密斯

I suppose there is a history of professional women using their initials, so as not to be pre-judged. 专业领域的某些女性使用缩写名来避免先入为主的批判  的确行之有年了

Harry¹³ Potter's J.K. Rowling,uh, Star Trek's D.C. Fontana. 《哈利波特》作者  J.K.罗琳《星际迷航》编剧  D.C.丰塔纳

Van Nuys pole-dancer D.D. Melons. 范奈斯市的钢管舞女  DD杯?麦伦（巨乳）

All right, I think we've really helped women today. Let's fire up the old Xbox. 好啦  我们今天有帮到女性了，来打电动吧

Guys, please don't make this a school project where I'm the smart kid doing all the work while the slackers sit back and watch. 你们俩  拜托别让历史重演小时候做报告  聪明孩子做全部其他懒鬼就在旁边看着

No, we're not. 我们才不是呢

This time you're the smart kid doing all the work while the even smarter kids sit back and watch. 这次是聪明孩子负责做全部工作而更聪明的孩子在旁边看着

So, you think I'm one of the smarter kids? 你觉得我也是更聪明的孩子吗

No, you're a tool I was using to make my point. 不是  你只是我用来证明论点的工具

Guys, our topic is "Encouraging Women in Science." 我们的主题是"鼓励女性加入科学领域"

Can you at least play a less sexist game? 你们俩不能玩少点性别歧视的游戏吗

How is it sexist? 这哪有歧视女性

My character wields¹⁴ a battle axe¹⁵ as well as any man. 我的角色能像男人一样把大战锤挥起来

Not to mention she has mammary glands¹⁶ that could nurse a family of 30. 更别说她有着超发达的乳腺足够喂养一家三十口

And have enough milk left over to open a Baskin Robbins. 而且剩下来的量都够开冰激凌店用了

Mother, warrior-princess, franchise¹⁷ owner--I hear glass ceilings shattering all over town. 母亲  战士公主  冰激凌加盟店老板女性职场障碍全被打爆啊

Sheldon, you're always saying how much smarter you are than me. 谢尔顿  你老说你比我聪明无数倍

Spend five seconds and come up with one idea  on how to get more women into science.

All your ideas address the issue at a university level. 你的所有点子都仅限于学术界阶段的问题

By then it's too late. 但那阶段已经太晚了

You need to design an outreach program that targets girls at the middle school level 你应该设计一个扩展研究把目标延伸到中学阶段的少女们

and sets them on an academic track towards the hard sciences. 把她们导向追求学术迈向硬科学的道路之上

That's actually good. Why didn't I think of that? 还真是个好点子。我怎么就没想到呢？

Some people are otters¹⁸, some people are rocks. 有些人是水獭  而有些人就只是石头

I wonder if there's a way we could give the idea a trial run. 有没有什么方法可以先试验一下这点子呢

Maybe I could call my old middle school, see if we can talk to some of the female students. 我可以试试打电话给我以前的中学看我们能不能跟一些女学生聊聊

That's great-- try to set up something for the three of us to go over there. Oh, hold on. 这不错啊  安排一下让我们三个去那里试试，先等等吧

While I'm comfortable speaking about science, 虽然我对谈科学没有任何问题

I'm not sure I know how to spark the interest of schoolchildren. 但我不确定能否勾起中学女孩的兴趣

Better Google it.  What exactly are you looking up? 我先上网搜搜吧。你打算搜什么关键句

"How do I get 12-year-old girls excited." No! No! "如何让12岁少女兴奋"不要  快住手

Thanks again for letting me crash "girls' night." 再次感谢你们让我参一脚"闺蜜之夜"

Are you kidding?  You brought fancy wine and made fondue. 开什么玩笑？你带来上好的红酒  还给我们做芝士火锅

I've slept with guys for less.It's a joke. 比这小的好处我都"睡"过了。开玩笑啦

Based on real events. 基于真实故事的玩笑

Anyway, I was hoping I could, uh,pick your brains a little. 总之  我希望可以向你们请教一下

I'm supposed to take Lucy out Friday and I need a killer¹⁹ first date. 我周五要跟露西约会我需要一个超棒的初次约会

Well, evolutionary²⁰ biology says that women are attracted 进化生物学说  女人容易被

to a man who is steady in the face of danger, so I recommend an unsafe environment. 临危不乱的男人所吸引所以我建议去危险的地方

Seedy bar on the wrong side of the tracks...  picnic near a lunatic asylum²¹... a wine tasting on Skid²² Row. 去贫民区破旧的酒吧去疯人院附近野餐去贫民窟品酒

Eh, Lucy has some, uh, social anxiety issues. 露西有社交焦虑症

Maybe we could start with something simpler. 或许我们可以从简单点的地方着手

Why don't you take her to Disneyland? 你何不带她去迪士尼乐园

You go on Space Mountain,you're in the dark, she's holding onto you. 你们可以玩室内过山车两人处于黑暗中  她紧紧抓住你

Yeah, but you just have to remember,that ride is shorter than you think 但千万要记住那比你想象中还快结束

and they take a picture of you at the end,so make sure you got your clothes back on. 终点前还会给你俩拍照所以记得在那之前就穿回衣服

It's a joke.  Based on real events. 开玩笑啦。基于真实故事的玩笑

Mm, Disneyland? I don't know. 迪士尼乐园  我不知道该不该去

With all the crowds and the weird²³ characters walking around,  just reminds me too much of India. 人挤人  还有奇怪的角色玩偶人四处游走会让我有一种在印度的错觉

I haven't been to Disneyland since I was a kid. 我从来没去过迪士尼

We should definitely go one weekend. 真应该找个周末去玩玩

Weekends are too crowded. 周末人太多了

So, blow off work, go on a weekday.  Hooky? 那就不去上班  工作日时去。翘班吗？

I've never played hooky in my life. 我这辈子连课都没翘过

My mom said that's how girls end up addicted²⁴ to reefer and jazz music. 我妈说翘课的女生最后都会沉迷于大麻和爵士乐

It's more like how girls end up at a Best Western hotel  with a 34-year-old guy named Luther. 其实翘课的女生更有可能在酒店跟一个34岁的老头开房

Joke? I can laugh about it now. So, what do you say? 也是玩笑吗？我现在对此能一笑置之了。你们觉得怎么样

This Friday we ditch work and go to Disneyland? 周五我们放下工作去迪士尼  好吗

I'm in.  Me, too. 我赞成。我也赞成

Excuse me,   I thought we were trying to solve my problem? 打断一下，你们不是要帮忙解决我的问题吗？

Oh, yeah, right. Wait, what was your problem again? 对哦，没错。等下，你的问题是什么来着？

I am a man who can't talk to women,trying to figure out how to go on a romantic date with a girl 我是一个无法跟女性正常交流的男人试图想出如何跟一个患有严重社交焦虑症

who suffers from such crippling social anxiety she can't be around other people. 而无法跟人共处的女孩进行一次浪漫约会

Yeah, that's a toughie.Let's think. 对哦  这还真有难度。我们好好想想

We doing just Disney or California Adventure, too? 我们是光去迪士尼  还是也去加州冒险乐园呢

It's nice of your old school to let us try out our science talk on some female students. 真是太好了  你的母校肯让我们试验在一群女学生面前宣讲科学

Well, they're actually pretty excited. 他们其实挺开心的

I'm their most famous alum. 我是他们最出名的毕业生

If you don't count the serial²⁵ killer who ate all those prostitutes. 如果不算那个奸杀妓女还吃掉她们的连环杀手的话

This must feel pretty good for you,coming back to your alma mater as an astronaut. 你的感觉一定很好吧以宇航员的身份荣归母校

Yeah, last time I was here,I was just a scrawny little nerd. 那是  我上一次在这里时我只是个骨瘦如柴的小阿宅

And now you're also an astronaut.  So many memories. 现在还是  不过是多了宇航员的身份。这里有我很多回忆

I mean, how many times in these hallways was I tripped, punched and spit on? 我经常在这些走廊里被人绊倒  被人打  还被吐口水

Oh, look, here's my old locker²⁶. 瞧  这是我以前的储物柜

I have a masters in engineering and I still can't figure out how Scott Kapinski got me and my briefcase²⁷ to fit in there. 虽然我是工程学的硕士但我还是想不明白斯科特?坎宾斯基是怎么把我和我的公文包一起塞进里面的

What?Nothing.Smart. We don't want any problems. 干嘛？没事。明智  我们可不想惹麻烦

I can't believe I ditched work for Disneyland. 真不敢相信  我居然翘班去迪士尼

What did you tell your boss? 你怎么跟老板说的

Oh, I was very clever, I did it in stages. 我相当聪明  一步一步铺好哏

At 7:00 last night,  I called about a problem at the lab and casually²⁸ mentioned I was going out for seafood²⁹. 昨晚7点，我打去跟他说实验室的问题然后不经意地提到我要出去吃海鲜

At 9:30,I called and told him that one of my scallops tasted weird. 9点半我打去告诉他  我其中一个扇贝吃起来怪怪的

At  11:30 I called and told him thatI was throwing up like a fire hose. 11点半  我打过去说我吐得天昏地暗

At 12:45.I called and made nothing but dry heaving sounds,and now I'm going to Disneyland. 12点45分我打过去  什么也不说就一直干呕而现在我在去迪士尼的路上了

Penny, what did you say? 佩妮  你怎么说的

I work at the Cheesecake Factory,I said "Bye." 我在芝士蛋糕工厂上班，说声再见就能甩头走人

So, what are we gonna do first? 我们先玩什么

I don't know about you guys,but I'm gonna make a beeline for the place that gives you a princess makeover. 我不知道你们俩想玩什么，但我要直奔一个地方可以把你装扮成公主

Ooh, that sounds like fun.  You're kidding, right? 听起来很好玩。你说笑呢，对吧？

We're not just gonna get drunk and go on rides? 我们不是要喝个大醉  然后去坐游乐设施吗

Come on, do it with us.All right, whatever.  How does it work? 别这样，和我们一起玩嘛。好吧，随便吧。要怎么玩

Okay, so, you pick your princess--  Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, Cinderella--they give you hair, makeup³⁰, the works. 你先选个公主睡美人  白雪公主  灰姑娘他们会帮你弄头发  化妆  弄全套

Guess it would be fun to be Cinderella.Oh, I want to be Cinderella, too. Yeah. 打扮成灰姑娘肯定很好玩。我也想当灰姑娘 对啊

We can't all be Cinderella. 我们不能都当灰姑娘

Then how do we decide? Well, it's simple. 那要怎么决定呢？很简单

This was my idea. I'm driving.    I'm Cinderella. 这是我的主意，开车的是我。所以我是灰姑娘

You bitches got a problem with that, 你们两个小贱货要是有意见

we could stop the car right now. 我们现在就可以停车

 

1 whine   

v.哀号，号哭；n.哀鸣

参考例句：

• You are getting paid to think,not to whine.支付给你工资是让你思考而不是哀怨的。
• The bullet hit a rock and rocketed with a sharp whine.子弹打在一块岩石上，一声尖厉的呼啸，跳飞开去。

2 frankly   

adv.坦白地，直率地；坦率地说

参考例句：

• To speak frankly, I don't like the idea at all.老实说，我一点也不赞成这个主意。
• Frankly speaking, I'm not opposed to reform.坦率地说，我不反对改革。

3 helping   

n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的，辅助的

参考例句：

• The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
• By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。

4 pharmacy   

n.药房，药剂学，制药业，配药业，一批备用药品

参考例句：

• She works at the pharmacy.她在药房工作。
• Modern pharmacy has solved the problem of sleeplessness.现代制药学已经解决了失眠问题。

5 otter   

n.水獭

参考例句：

• The economists say the competition otter to the brink of extinction.经济学家们说，竞争把海獭推到了灭绝的边缘。
• She collared my black wool coat with otter pelts.她把我的黑呢上衣镶上了水獭领。

6 clam   

n.蛤，蛤肉

参考例句：

• Yup!I also like clam soup and sea cucumbers.对呀！我还喜欢蛤仔汤和海参。
• The barnacle and the clam are two examples of filter feeders.藤壶和蛤类是滤过觅食者的两种例子。

7 trek   

vi.作长途艰辛的旅行；n.长途艰苦的旅行

参考例句：

• We often go pony-trek in the summer.夏季我们经常骑马旅行。
• It took us the whole day to trek across the rocky terrain.我们花了一整天的时间艰难地穿过那片遍布岩石的地带。

8 creeds   

（尤指宗教）信条，教条( creed的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• people of all races, colours and creeds 各种种族、肤色和宗教信仰的人
• Catholics are agnostic to the Protestant creeds. 天主教徒对于新教教义来说，是不可知论者。

9 warp   

vt.弄歪，使翘曲，使不正常，歪曲，使有偏见

参考例句：

• The damp wood began to warp.这块潮湿的木材有些翘曲了。
• A steel girder may warp in a fire.钢梁遇火会变弯。

10 lieutenant   

n.陆军中尉，海军上尉；代理官员，副职官员

参考例句：

• He was promoted to be a lieutenant in the army.他被提升为陆军中尉。
• He prevailed on the lieutenant to send in a short note.他说动那个副官，递上了一张简短的便条进去。

11 banal   

adj.陈腐的，平庸的

参考例句：

• Making banal remarks was one of his bad habits.他的坏习惯之一就是喜欢说些陈词滥调。
• The allegations ranged from the banal to the bizarre.从平淡无奇到离奇百怪的各种说法都有。

12 bias   

n.偏见，偏心，偏袒；vt.使有偏见

参考例句：

• They are accusing the teacher of political bias in his marking.他们在指控那名教师打分数有政治偏见。
• He had a bias toward the plan.他对这项计划有偏见。

13 harry   

vt.掠夺，蹂躏，使苦恼

参考例句：

• Today,people feel more hurried and harried.今天，人们感到更加忙碌和苦恼。
• Obama harried business by Healthcare Reform plan.奥巴马用医改掠夺了商界。

14 wields   

手持着使用（武器、工具等）( wield的第三人称单数 )； 具有； 运用（权力）； 施加（影响）

参考例句：

• She wields enormous power within the party. 她操纵着党内大权。
• He remains chairman, but wields little power at the company. 他还是主席，但在公司没有什么实权了。

15 axe   

n.斧子；v.用斧头砍，削减

参考例句：

• Be careful with that sharp axe.那把斧子很锋利，你要当心。
• The edge of this axe has turned.这把斧子卷了刃了。

16 glands   

n.腺( gland的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• a snake's poison glands 蛇的毒腺
• the sebaceous glands in the skin 皮脂腺

17 franchise   

n.特许，特权，专营权，特许权

参考例句：

• Catering in the schools is run on a franchise basis.学校餐饮服务以特许权经营。
• The United States granted the franchise to women in 1920.美国于1920年给妇女以参政权。

18 otters   

n.（水）獭( otter的名词复数 )；獭皮

参考例句：

• An attempt is being made to entice otters back to the river. 人们正试图把水獭引诱回河里去。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Otters are believed to have been on Earth for 90 million years. 水獭被认为存活在地球上已经9千多万年。 来自互联网

19 killer   

n.杀人者，杀人犯，杀手，屠杀者

参考例句：

• Heart attacks have become Britain's No.1 killer disease.心脏病已成为英国的头号致命疾病。
• The bulk of the evidence points to him as her killer.大量证据证明是他杀死她的。

20 evolutionary   

adj.进化的；演化的，演变的；[生]进化论的

参考例句：

• Life has its own evolutionary process.生命有其自身的进化过程。
• These are fascinating questions to be resolved by the evolutionary studies of plants.这些十分吸引人的问题将在研究植物进化过程中得以解决。

21 asylum   

n.避难所，庇护所，避难

参考例句：

• The people ask for political asylum.人们请求政治避难。
• Having sought asylum in the West for many years,they were eventually granted it.他们最终获得了在西方寻求多年的避难权。

22 skid   

v.打滑 n.滑向一侧；滑道 ，滑轨

参考例句：

• He braked suddenly,causing the front wheels to skid.他突然剎车，使得前轮打了滑。
• The police examined the skid marks to see how fast the car had been travelling.警察检查了车轮滑行痕迹，以判断汽车当时开得有多快。

23 weird   

adj.古怪的，离奇的；怪诞的，神秘而可怕的

参考例句：

• From his weird behaviour,he seems a bit of an oddity.从他不寻常的行为看来，他好像有点怪。
• His weird clothes really gas me.他的怪衣裳简直笑死人。

24 addicted   

adj.沉溺于....的，对...上瘾的

参考例句：

• He was addicted to heroin at the age of 17.他17岁的时候对海洛因上了瘾。
• She's become addicted to love stories.她迷上了爱情小说。

25 serial   

n.连本影片，连本电视节目；adj.连续的

参考例句：

• A new serial is starting on television tonight.今晚电视开播一部新的电视连续剧。
• Can you account for the serial failures in our experiment?你能解释我们实验屡屡失败的原因吗？

26 locker   

n.更衣箱，储物柜，冷藏室，上锁的人

参考例句：

• At the swimming pool I put my clothes in a locker.在游泳池我把衣服锁在小柜里。
• He moved into the locker room and began to slip out of his scrub suit.他走进更衣室把手术服脱下来。

27 briefcase   

n.手提箱，公事皮包

参考例句：

• He packed a briefcase with what might be required.他把所有可能需要的东西都装进公文包。
• He requested the old man to look after the briefcase.他请求那位老人照看这个公事包。

28 casually   

adv.漠不关心地，无动于衷地，不负责任地

参考例句：

• She remarked casually that she was changing her job.她当时漫不经心地说要换工作。
• I casually mentioned that I might be interested in working abroad.我不经意地提到我可能会对出国工作感兴趣。

29 seafood   

n.海产食品，海味，海鲜

参考例句：

• There's an excellent seafood restaurant near here.离这儿不远有家非常不错的海鲜馆。
• Shrimps are a popular type of seafood.小虾是比较普遍的一种海味。

30 makeup   

n.组织；性格；化装品

参考例句：

• Those who failed the exam take a makeup exam.这次考试不及格的人必须参加补考。
• Do you think her beauty could makeup for her stupidity?你认为她的美丽能弥补她的愚蠢吗？