看生活大爆炸學(xué)英語第二季第一集

【劇情介紹】

Penny擔(dān)心Leonard今后會因為學(xué)歷問題而對她失去興趣, 于是問Sheldon意見并要求他保密,而Sheldon又不是一個善于撒謊的人…

PENNY:Right. Okay,look,this is between you and me.

SHELDON: You're asking me to keep a secret?

PENNY:Yeah.

SHELDON: Well,I'm sorry,but you would have had to express that desire before revealing the secret, so that I could choose whether or not I wanted to accept the covenant of secret keeping. You can't impose a secret on an ex post facto basis.

PENNY: What?

SHELDON: Secret keeping is a complicated endeavor. One has to be concerned not only about what one says, but about facial expressions,autonomic reflexes. When I try to deceive,I myself have more nervous tics than a Lyme disease research facility.It's a joke. It relies on the homonymic relationship between "tick," the bloodsucking arachnid,and "tic," the involuntary muscular contraction. I made it up myself.

PENNY: Okay,look,if Leonard finds out that I lied,I will absolutely die of embarrassment.

SHELDON: Physiologically impossible.

PENNY:　Oh,Sheldon,please. Look,I am asking you as a friend.

SHELDON: So you're saying that friendship contains within it an inherent obligation to maintain confidences?

PENNY:　Well,yeah.

SHELDON: Interesting. One more question,and perhaps I should have led with this. When did we become friends?

SHELDON: i.e.,I couldn't become Green Lantern unless I was chosen by the Guardians of Oa,?but given enough start-up capital and an adequate research facility,I could be Batman.

LEONARD:　You could be Batman?

SHELDON: Sure. I'm Batman. See?

【口語講解】

1. impose on強(qiáng)加于利用；欺騙；

In a society with more and more obese people, this seems a costly burden to impose onthe airlines.現(xiàn)今肥胖人士越來越多，對航空公司來說是一筆昂貴的負(fù)擔(dān)。

2. ex post facto事后的

No one can alter the fact, ex post facto .沒有人能在事后改變事實本身。

3. nervous tic神經(jīng)性痙攣,抽搐

4. make up捏造,編

I couldn't remember the fairy story I wanted to tell her, so I made one upas I went along.?我想不起我要給她講的那個神話故事，于是我邊講邊編了個故事。

5. lead with(報紙)把…作為重要報導(dǎo)(或頭條新聞)

?Today's China Daily led with President Bush's visit to China.?今天的《中國日報》以布什總統(tǒng)訪華作為頭條新聞。

6. start-up capital倒入資本,企業(yè)初期資本

With banks reluctant to lend, many entrepreneur have looked to family and friends for help providing start-up capital.因為銀行并不愿意貸款，所以很多創(chuàng)業(yè)者紛紛轉(zhuǎn)向了家庭和好友尋求幫助，以獲得啟動資金。