(Penny opens door).
Leonard: Hi. Again.
Penny: Hi.
Sheldon: Hi.
Leonard: Hi.
Penny: Hi.
Leonard: Anyway, um. We brought home Indian food. And, um. I know that moving can be stressful, and I find that when I’m undergoing stress, that good food and company can have a comforting effect. Also, curry is a natural laxative, and I don’t have to that,uh, a clean colon is just… one less thing to worry about.
Sheldon: Leonard, I’m not expert here but I believe in the context of a luncheon invitation, you might want to skip the reference to bowel movements.
Penny: Oh, you’re inviting me over to eat?
Leonard: Uh, yes.
Penny: Oh, that’s so nice, I’d love to.
Leonard: Great.
Penny: So, what do you guys do for fun around here?
Sheldon: Well, today we tried masturbating for money.
comforting
【釋】making you feel calmer and less worried or unhappy(牛津高階)
令人欣慰的：讓人覺得寬心，少焦躁或不開心
【例】He wanted to say some comforting and heartening word to his mother. (海詞)
他想對(duì)他媽媽說一些讓她欣慰和振奮的話。
【例】For a family in our situation, the Superintendent of Frizinghall Police was the most comforting officer you could wish. (有道)
對(duì)我們這種處境的一戶人家來說，正巴不得看到弗利辛霍的警察局長(zhǎng)呢。他倒是最能叫人寬心的官員了。
curry
【釋】n [C, U] dish of meat, fish, vegetables, etc cooked with certain hot-tasting spices, usu served with rice (牛津高階)
咖喱食品：用某些很辣的調(diào)味品烹飪出的肉、魚和蔬菜等，常用來配米飯
laxative
【釋】n, adj (medicine, food or drink) causing or helping the bowels to empty (牛津高階)
通便劑：能幫助腸道排空的（藥物、食物或飲料）
colon
【釋】n lower part of the large intestine (牛津高階)
結(jié)腸：大腸的下面部分
I’m not expert here but
【釋】I'm not good at it but (自造)
我在這不是內(nèi)行，但是...
【例】I'm no expert here, but it seems to me that this could not haven effected through natural selection. (海詞)
在這我不是內(nèi)行，但就我看來這不能通過自然選擇被影響。
【例】I'm no child expert, but I can tell that kid has some serious issues. (自造)
我對(duì)兒童不了解，但我能分辨出那孩子有嚴(yán)重的問題。
in the context of
【釋】under the circumstance of (參考牛津)
在...背景/環(huán)境下
【例】In the context of the present economic crisis it seems unwise to lower taxes. (牛津高階)
在現(xiàn)在經(jīng)濟(jì)危機(jī)的背景下，降低稅收是不明智的。
【例】We are doing this work in the context of reforms in the economic, social and cultural spheres. (柯林斯)
我們?cè)诮?jīng)濟(jì)，社會(huì)和文化領(lǐng)域的改革背景下做這項(xiàng)工作。
luncheon
【釋】n [C, U] (fml 文) lunch (牛津高階)
午餐的正式說法
the reference to
【釋】the act of mentioning (參考牛津)
提及
【例】One particularly interesting piece of information in the above reading is the reference to Sheldon(有道)
上述的閱讀中一個(gè)特別令人感興趣的信息片段是提到了Sheldon
【例】There is no further reference to him in her diary. (海詞)
她日記中再?zèng)]提到他
bowel movements
【釋】bowel: part of the alimentary canal below the stomach; intestine 腸 (牛津高階)
大腸運(yùn)動(dòng)
masturbate
【釋】 [I, Tn] give (oneself/sb) sexual pleasure by stimulating the genitals, esp by hand (牛津高階)
手淫
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