Leonard: Sounds like a wise man.

Mrs Cooper: Oh, not so wise, he was trying to fight a bobcat for some liquorice. So, everybody grab a plate, and a pretty place mat that Shelly wove.

Penny: Has Shelly everfreaked out like this before.

Mrs Cooper: Oh, all the time, I remember one summer when he was thirteen, he built a small nuclear reactor in the shed and told everybody he was going to provide free electricity for the whole town, well the only problem was he had no, whatchacall, fissionable materials. Anyway, when he went on the internets to get some, a man from the government came by and sat him down real gentle and told him it’s against the law to have yellow cake uranium in a shed.

Penny: What happened?

Mrs Cooper: Well, the poor boy had a fit, locked himself in his room and built a sonic death ray.

Leonard: A death ray?

Mrs Cooper: Well, that’s what he called it, didn’t even slow down the neighbour kids. It pissed our dog off to no end. You know, you two make a cute couple.

Both Leonard and Penny laugh, a little too forced.

Leonard: No, we’re not, we’re not, not a couple, two singles, like those individually wrapped slices of cheese that…. are friends.

Mrs Cooper: Did I pluck a nerve there?

Howard: Oh yeah.

Bobcat
【釋】a large North American wild cat that has no tail
美洲野貓

Liquorice
【釋】a firm black substance with a strong flavour, obtained from the root of a plant, used in medicine and to make sweets/candy
甘草

Place mat
【釋】a board or piece of cloth that you put on a table for each person who is eating there, so that the table is protected from the plates, knives etc
餐位餐具墊

Whatchacall
【釋】same as term "whatchacallit" (what-you-call-it). Used to describe some one or something who's name cannot be recalled.
你叫？你是？這是？

Fissionable materials
【釋】A nuclide that is capable of undergoing fission after capturing either high-energy (fast) neutrons or low-energy thermal (slow) neutrons.
裂變材料

Have a fit
【釋】to be very shocked, upset or angry
很震驚，傷心或生氣
【例】Your mother would have a fit if she knew you'd been drinking!
你媽媽要是知道了你會(huì)喝酒會(huì)很生氣的！
【例】The teacher had a fit when the dog ran through the classroom.
老師看到狗從教室里面闖過十分生氣。

to no end
【釋】a lot ,a great deal
很多
【例】It pleases me to no end [=very much] to see you so happy.
看到你這么開心，這讓我也很高興。
【例】His conscious lie exasperated his teacher to no end .
他有意識(shí)的撒謊讓他的老師惱火到了極點(diǎn)。

pluck a nerve
【釋】The expression is usually 'to touch a nerve'. It's used in reference to bringing up subject to which the person is particularly sensitive.
戳到某人的痛處
【例】But this quote might pluck a nerve or two for people with diabetes.
但是這個(gè)引用可能會(huì)讓糖尿病病人覺得很刺眼。

生活大爆炸S01E04 MJE美劇筆記：織娘Sheldon

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