看生活大爆炸學(xué)英語(yǔ)第二季第十六集

【劇情介紹】

在談?wù)擃A(yù)算消減時(shí),Sheldon毫不客氣地說(shuō)應(yīng)該開(kāi)除Leonard他們,那樣他自己就有足夠的研究經(jīng)費(fèi)(汗,小謝真夠直白的).Leslie輕輕松松地為Howard爭(zhēng)取到他申請(qǐng)的高速原型機(jī)同時(shí)還“喵”了一聲,這讓大家不得不懷疑他倆人的關(guān)系.

RAJ: Did you guys see the new budget memo that went out this morning?

LEONARD: Yeah,more cutbacks.

SHELDON: Unacceptable.It baffles me why they don't simply let some of you go so that there's money available for my research.

LEONARD: You know what baffles me,Sheldon?

SHELDON: Based on your academic record, any number of things,I imagine.

LESLIE: Hey,guys.

Hey,Leslie.

LESLIE: Howard,I got the approval for the rapid prototyper you wanted.

HOWARD: That's great,Leslie. Thanks.

LESLIE: You scratch my back,I scratch yours.

RAJ: What was all that about?

HOWARD: Oh,uh,no big deal. They gave Leslie control of some unrestricted grant money.

LEONARD:?Yeah,okay,but what's with the back - scratching and the meow!

SHELDON: I believe the back-scratching metaphor generally describes a quid pro quo situation where one party provides goods or services to the second party in compensation for a similar action.

LEONARD: Thank you.

SHELDON: The meow,that sounded to me like an African civet cat.

LEONARD: Are you done?

SHELDON: No. Despite what the name suggests, the civet cat is not a true cat. Now I'm done.

【口語(yǔ)講解】

1. budget memo 預(yù)算說(shuō)明,預(yù)算備錄

2. You scratch my back,I scratch yours我們各得所需,互相幫助

3. no big deal沒(méi)什么大不了的

4. metaphor暗喻,明喻是simile,明喻的一個(gè)顯著特征是常用like,as,而metaphor則不用.下面是Rachael在第一季第一集說(shuō)的一段話,大家可以感受一下metaphor,順便回味下老友記;)戳我看老友記第一季第一集劇本

“What if I don't wanna be a shoe? What if I wanna be a- a purse, y'know? Or a- or a hat! No, I'm not saying I want you to buy me a hat, I'm saying I am a ha- It's a metaphor, Daddy!”

5. quid pro quo（拉?。┭a(bǔ)償物；相等物；交換條件；讓步條件

6. in compensation for補(bǔ)償