看生活大爆炸學(xué)英語第二季第四集

【劇情介紹】

Raj被<<人物>>雜志評選為“30歲以下30大杰出人物”, 當(dāng)他宣布這一好消息時(shí),Sheldon他們不但沒替他高興,反而質(zhì)疑聲一片,這讓Raj很失望.

PENNY: Okay,well,I'll just,um,go eat by myself.

LEONARD:Penny,you don't have to do that.

PENNY: Oh,it's okay,between him not talking,him talking and him...I'm better off alone. Good-bye,you poor, strange little man.

RAJ: She's so considerate.

LEONARD: So what's your news?

RAJ: Remember that little planetary object I spotted beyond the Kuiper Belt?

LEONARD:Oh,yeah,2008-NQ Sub-17.

RAJ: Or as I call it,Planet Bollywood. Anyway, because of my discovery,Peoplemagazine is naming me one of their 30 under 30 to watch.

HOWARD: Congratulations.

LEONARD: that's incredible.

SHELDON: Excuse me,30 what under 30 what to watch what?

RAJ: 30 visionaries under 30 years of age to watch as they challenge the preconceptions of their fields.

SHELDON: If I had a million guesses,I never would have gotten that.

RAJ: It's pretty cool. They've got me in with a guy who's doing something about hunger in Indonesia, and a psychotherapist who's using dolphins to rehabilitate prisoners, and Ellen Page,star of the charming independent film,Juno.

HOWARD: Oh,I'd so do her.

LEONARD: You'd do the dolphins.

HOWARD:Do I get an honorable mention for designing the telescope camera mounting bracket you used?

RAJ: Sorry, it's not part of my heartwarming and personal narrative in which a humble boy from New Delhi overcame poverty and prejudice and journeyed to America to reach for the stars.

HOWARD: Poverty? Your father's a gynecologist. He drives a Bentley.

RAJ: It's a lease.

SHELDON: I'm confused. Was there some sort of peer review committee to determine which scientists would be included?

RAJ: Peer review? It's People magazine. People picked me.

SHELDON: What people?

RAJ: The people fromPeople.

SHELDON: Yeah,but exactly who are these people? What are their credentials? How are they qualified? What makes accidentally noticing a hunk of rock that's been traipsing around the solar system for billions of years more noteworthy than any other scientific accomplishment made by someone under 30?

【口語講解】

1. better off經(jīng)濟(jì)狀況好的,富裕的;狀況好的

The good news is that the average American is a little better off, and the proportion of Americans who are poor has dwindled a little.?好消息是美國人的生活總體上得到了改善,貧困人口比例有所下降。

2. honorable mention優(yōu)秀獎(jiǎng);鼓勵(lì)獎(jiǎng);榮譽(yù)獎(jiǎng)

3. camera mounting bracket攝影機(jī)固定支架

4. personal narrative個(gè)人敘事,個(gè)人隨筆

5. peer review committee行業(yè)審查委員會