看生活大爆炸學(xué)英語第二季第十八集

【劇情介紹】

Leonard為Penny特意做了個網(wǎng)站為Penny的發(fā)卡打開銷路,立馬就有人預(yù)定一千個發(fā)卡并且是加急件,結(jié)果五個人大周末地在家做發(fā)卡,Raj打趣地說如果我想周六做發(fā)卡,我還不如呆在印度.

SHELDON: We should get to work.

PENNY: Wait,wait,why does it say "one-day rush"? Since when do we offer a one-day rush?

LEONARD: Amazon offers one-day rush.

PENNY: Yeah,but they don't have to glue the books together. How the hell are we going to make a thousand Penny Blossoms in one day?

LEONARD: Don't yell at me. I'm not manufacturing. I'm just Web design.

PENNY: Okay,well,I'm gonna have to call them and cancel the order.

SHELDON: Excuse me,but was this not your goal? Financial independence through entrepreneurial brilliance and innovation? My brilliance and innovation,of course,but still.

PENNY: I just don't see how we can pull this off.

SHELDON: That,right there,that equivocation and self-doubt,that is not the American spirit. Did Davy Crockett quit at the Alamo? Did Jim Bowie?

HOWARD: They didn't quit. They were massacred...by like a gazillion angry Mexicans.

SHELDON: Let me put it this way. Your gross receipts on this one order will be over $3,000 for one night's work.

PENNY: You guys get started.

LEONARD: What are you doing?

PENNY: Going online to buy shoes!

SHELDON: * She'll be coming round the mountain when she comes *

RAJ: You know,if I wanted to spend my Saturday nights doing this,I could have stayed in India.

HOWARD: Oh,stop with the fake third world crap. Your father's a gynecologist. And you had a house full of servants.

RAJ: We only had four servants. And two of them were children.

LEONARD: How we doing?

LEONARD: We have 128 assorted Penny Blossoms ready to ship.

HOWARD:Oh,God,we're never gonna finish in time.

RAJ: Who made Sheldon the boss anyway?

SHELDON: I believe I'm hearing some negativity on the factory floor.

PENNY: So?

SHELDON: Penny,the labor force is a living organism that must be carefully nurtured. Any counterproductive grumbling must be skillfully headed offby management. Observe. Less talk,more work!

PENNY: Nicely done.

SHELDON: Thank you. You hear any union talk,you let me know.

【口語講解】

1. one-day rush加急服務(wù),當(dāng)天發(fā)貨

2. pull off贏得；脫下；努力實現(xiàn)

Many will ask whether Mr. Obama can actually pull off the deficit reduction he promises. 許多人會問，奧巴馬總統(tǒng)能否如他所承諾的那樣真正減少財政赤字。

3. gross receipt收入總額；總收入款

4. living organism生命有機(jī)體生物體；活體

5. head off阻止；轉(zhuǎn)移方向

Regulators are already acting to head off incipient problems. 監(jiān)管部門已經(jīng)開始行動，將問題消滅在萌芽階段。