【跟着美剧练发音】美剧美语862期

AMY: You'vebeen awfully¹ quiet tonight. Is everything okay?

Sheldon,: I'mfine.

AMY: Allright, well, how was work today? Did you exchange your research with Kripke?

Sheldon,: Yes.

AMY: Sheldon,what's going on?

Sheldon,: Iread his research, and...it's leaps and bounds ahead of mine. Which means themommy of the smartest physicist² at the university is not my mommy as I hadthought. It's his mommy.

AMY: Sheldon,I wish there was something I could do to make you feel better. May I offer youa consoling hug?

Sheldon,: Whatdo we have to lose?

AMY: How'sthat?

Sheldon,: Ifeel like I'm being strangled by a boa constrictor. Why'd you stop?

1 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。

2 physicist   

n.物理学家，研究物理学的人

参考例句：

• He is a physicist of the first rank.他是一流的物理学家。
• The successful physicist never puts on airs.这位卓有成就的物理学家从不摆架子。