看生活大爆炸學(xué)英語(yǔ)第二季第二十二集

【劇情介紹】

Howard贈(zèng)書(shū)給大伙慶祝他研制的特制馬桶在太空站使用,美其名曰“廢物處理裝置”,Raj他們一直在圍繞這個(gè)話題開(kāi)他玩笑.

SHELDON: Smell that? That's the smell of new comic books.

HOWARD: They're on me today,boys.

RAJ:You're paying?　Have you been selling your sperm again?

HOWARD: No,I'm celebrating.　As we speak,the space shuttle is docking at the International Space Station where it will deploy the Wolowitz Zero-Gravity Waste Disposal System.

RAJ:Get over yourself.It's a high-tech toilet.

LEONARD:Just think. Thanks to your hard work,an international crew of astronauts?will "boldly go where no man has gone before."

HOWARD: Is that supposed to be funny?

SHELDON: I believe it is. The combination of the Star Trek reference and the play on words involving the double-meaning of the verb "to go" suggests that Leonard is mocking your efforts in space plumbing.

HOWARD: Okay,make your little jokes, but of the four of us,I'm the only one making any real-world contribution to science and technology.

RAJ:He's right. This is an important achievement,for two reasons.Number one..and,of course,number two!

SHELDON:Clever! Playing on the use of cardinal numbers as euphemisms for bodily functions.

【口語(yǔ)講解】

1dock at在…靠碼頭

2Waste Disposal System廢物處置系統(tǒng), 廢物處理系統(tǒng)

3Get over yourself別自以為是了

4play on words詼諧雙關(guān)語(yǔ)；說(shuō)俏皮話

5cardinal number基數(shù)詞

6euphemisms for是…的委婉說(shuō)法

"Pass away" is a euphemism for "die". “去世”是“死”的委婉說(shuō)法。