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| Leonard | Here we go, Pad Thai, no peanuts. |
| Leonard | Everyone keep an eye on Howard in case he starts to swell up. ■ If the amount or size of something swells or if something swells it, it becomes larger than it was before. = increase |
| Sheldon | Since it's not bee season, you can have my epinephrine. 上网查了一下，说被蜜蜂蛰过，可以根据情况注射过敏针、抗生素或者肾上腺素。Sheldon刚好属于最后一种，自己备份着肾上腺素呢。 |
| Howard | Do I look puffy? I fell puffy. ■ If a part of someone's body, especially their face, is puffy, it has a round, swollen appearance. = swollen Howard对花生过敏，后面有一集过敏的浑身都肿起来了。 |
| Sheldon | Don't take it personally, it's his pathology. ■ Pathology is the study of the way diseases and illnesses develop. (MEDICAL) |
| Penny | I do like the one where Lois Lane falls from the helicopter and superman swooshes down and catches her. |
| Sheldon | You realize that scene was rife with scientific inaccuracy. ■ If you say that something, usually something bad, is rife in a place or that the place is rife with it, you mean that it is very common. |
| Leonard | Your entire argument is predicated on the assumption that superman's flight is a feat of strength. ■ If you refer to an action, or the result of an action, as a feat, you admire it because it is an impressive and difficult achievement. |
| Sheldon | A combination of the moon's solar reflection and the energy storage capacity of Kryptonian skin cells. |
| Sheldon | Well, we don't have a dolly. ■ Dolly is a platform on a roller or on wheels or casters for moving heavy objects. |
| Leonard | Give me a fulcrum and a level and I can move the earth. ■ Fulcrum is the support about which a lever turns. 阿基米德的原话是希腊文的，英文有很多不同的译法，如Give me a place to stand, and I will move the earth. |
| Sheldon | Yes, but they all involve a Green lantern and a Power ring. |
| Sheldon | Ah, gravity, thou art a heartless bitch. ■ Thou is an old-fashioned, poetic, or religious word for `you' when you are talking to only one person. It is used as the subject of a verb. ■ Art is an old-fashioned form of the second person singular of the present tense of the verb be. |
| Sheldon | You do understand that our efforts here will in no way increase the odds of you having sexual congress with this woman. ■ sexual congress = sex |
| Sheldon | A little messy? The Mandelbrot set of complex numbers is a little messy. |
| Sheldon | Explain to me an organizational system where a tray of flatware on a couch is valid. ■ You can refer to the knives, forks, and spoons that you eat your food with as flatware. (AM; in BRIT, use cutlery) |
| Leonard | Did it ever occur to you that not everyone has the compulsive need to sort, organize and label the entire world around them? ■ You use compulsive to describe people or their behaviour when they cannot stop doing something wrong, harmful, or unnecessary. |
| Sheldon | This is not anyone's home. This is a swirling vortex of entropy. ■ If you swirl something liquid or flowing, or if it swirls, it moves round and round quickly. ■ A vortex is a mass of wind or water that spins round so fast that it pulls objects down into its empty center. ■ Entropy is a state of disorder, confusion, and disorganization. (TECHNICAL) |
| Sheldon | Because it was immaculate. ■ If you describe something as immaculate, you mean that it is extremely clean, tidy, or neat. |
| Leonard | Well, we'll get out of your hair. ■ If you get someone out of your hair, you get them to stop bothering or annoying you. |
| Sheldon | You might want to speak in a lower register. ■ In linguistics, the register of a piece of speech or writing is its level and style of language, which is usually appropriate to the situation or circumstances in which it is used. (TECHNICAL) |
| Leonard | I accept your premise. Now, please let's go. ■ A premise is something that you suppose is true and that you use as a basis for developing an idea. (FORMAL) = assumption |
| Sheldon | I have to say I slept splendidly. Granted, not long, but just deeply and well. ■ You use granted or granted that at the beginning of a clause to say that something is true, before you make a comment on it. |
| Leonard | A well known folk cure for insomnia is to break in your neighbor's apartment and clean. ■ Someone who suffers from insomnia finds it difficult to sleep. |
| Sheldon | And snoring, and that's probably just a sinus infection. But it could be sleep apnea.You might want to see an otolaryngologist. ■ When someone who is asleep snores, they make a loud noise each time they breathe. ■ Your sinuses are the spaces in the bone behind your nose. ■ Apnea is transient cessation of respiration. ■ Your respiration is your breathing. (MEDICAL) ■ An otolaryngologista is a medical specialty concerned especially with the ear, nose, and throat. |
| Leonard | The hallmark of the great human experiment is the willingness to recognize one's mistakes. ■ The hallmark of something or someone is their most typical quality or feature. |
| Leonard | Six two-inch dowels. One package Phillips-head screws. ■ A dowel is a short thin piece of wood or metal which is used for joining larger pieces of wood or metal together. |
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| Sheldon | So if a photon is directed through a plane with two slits in it and either slit is observed, it will not go through both slits. ■ A photon is a particle of light. (TECHNICAL) |
| Sheldon Leonard | Leonard, I don't think I can do this. What, are you kidding? You're a semi-pro. Leonard的答复真是太搞笑了，他误解了Sheldon的意思。 |
| Sheldon | No, we are committing generic fraud. ■ Fraud is the crime of gaining money or financial benefits by a trick or by lying. |
| Sheldon | There's no guarantee that our sperm is going to generate high IQ offspring. ■ You can refer to a person's children or to an animal's young as their offspring. (FORMAL) |
| Sheldon | I have a sister with the same basic DNA mix who hostesses at Fuddruckers |
| Leonard | A little extra money to get Factional T1 bandwidth in the apratment. |
| Sheldon | I know and I do yearn for faster downlaods. ■ If someone yearns for something that they are unlikely to get, they want it very much. |
| Sheldon | What if she winds up with a toddler who doesn't know if he should use an integral or a differential to solve the area under a curve? ■ A toddler is a young child who has only just learned to walk or who still walks unsteadily with small, quick steps. |
| Leonard | I don't know. I've never reneged on a proffer of sperm before. ■ If someone reneges on a promise or an agreement, they do not do what they have promised or agreed to do. ■ If you proffer something such as advice to someone, you offer it to them. (FORMAL) = volunteer |
| Sheldon | My father broke his clavicle. ■ Your clavicles are your collar bones. (MEDICAL) |
| Sheldon | 200-pund transvestite with a skin condition? ■ A transvestite is a person, usually a man, who enjoys wearing clothes normally worn by people of the opposite sex. = cross-dresser |
| Sheldon | No, we're gonna start season two of Battlestar Galactica. |
| Leonard | Also, curry is a natural laxative. ■ A laxative is food or medicine that you take to make you go to the toilet. |
| Sheldon | I'm no expert, but I believe in the context of a luncheon invitation, you might want to skip the reference to bowel movements. ■ A luncheon is a formal lunch, for example to celebrate an important event or to raise money for charity. ■ Your bowels are the tubes in your body through which digested food passes from your stomach to your anus. |
| Sheldon | Today we tried masturbating for money. ■ If someone masturbates, they stroke or rub their own genitals in order to get sexual pleasure. |
| Sheldon | Well, it's just some quantum mechanics with a little string theory doodling around the edges. ■ A doodle is a pattern or picture that you draw when you are bored or thinking about something else. |
| Sheldon | It's a spoof of the Born–Oppenheimer approximation. ■ A spoof is something such as an article or television programme that seems to be about a serious matter but is actually a joke. |
| Sheldon | In the winter, that seat is close enough to the radiator to remain warm, and yet not so close as to cause perspiration. ■ Perspiration is the liquid which comes out on the surface of your skin when you are hot or frightened. (FORMAL) = sweat |
| Sheldon | It faces the television at an angle that is neither direct, thus discouraging conversation, nor so far wide as to create a parallax distortion. ■ Parallax is when an object appears to change its position because the person or instrument observing it has changed their position. (TECHNICAL) |
| Sheldon | Tuesday night we played Klingon Boggle till 1:00 am. |
| Sheldon | Yes, it tells us that you paticipate in the mass cultrual delusion that the sun's apparent position relative to arbitrarily defined constellations at the time of your birth somehow affects your personality. ■ A constellation is a group of stars which form a pattern and have a name. |
| Sheldon | You're lactose intolerant. Lactose is a type of sugar which is found in milk and which is sometimes added to food. |
| Leonard | That's not to say that if a carnal relationship were to develop, that I whouldn't participate. ■ Carnal feelings and desires are sexual and physical, without any spiritual element. (FORMAL) = sexual |
| Sheldon | Do you think this possibility will be helped or hindered when she discovers your Luke Skywalker "No More Tears" shampoo? Luke是Star Wars里的Skywalker，难道真有这种shampoo吗？ |
| Leonard | It's Darth Vader shampoo. Luke Sky Walker is the conditioner. |
| Penny | Hey, is there a trick to getting it to switch from tub to shower? 宾馆里面的那种，tub和shouer可以切换的。 |
| Howard | It's a sentiment I can express in six languages. ■ A sentiment that people have is an attitude which is based on their thoughts and feelings. = feeling |
| Sheldon | I really think we should examine the chain of causality here. ■ Causality is the relationship of cause and effect. (FORMAL) |
| Sheldon | Yes, well, that may be the proximal cause of our journey, but we both know it only exists in contradistinction to the higher level distal cause. ■ Proximal means situated close to. ■ Contradistinction means the distinction by means of contrast ■ Distal means situated away from the point of attachment or origin or a central point especially of the body Sheldon在这里讲因果关系，说美女在他们家洗澡，和他们开车穿过了大半个城市去取电视机，这两件事在哪个层面上都没有联系。除非Leonard是在用下半身思考。 |
| Sheldon | You did not break up with Joyce Kim. She defected to North Korea. ■ If you defect, you leave your country, political party, or other group, and join an opposing country, party, or group. |
| Leonard | There's some kind of dispute between penny and her ex-boyfriend as to who gets custody of the TV. ■ When people dispute something, they fight for control or ownership of it. You can also say that one group of people dispute something with another group. |
| Sheldon | We've been denied access to the building, ergo, we are done. ■ Ergo is sometimes used instead of `therefore' to introduce a clause in which you mention something that is the consequence or logical result of what you have just said. (FORMAL or LITERARY) = therefore |
| Leonard | Excuse me, if I were to give up on the first little hitch, I never would have identified the fingerprints of string theory in the aftermath of the bing bang. ■ A hitch is a slight problem or difficulty which causes a short delay. = snag ■ The aftermath of an important event, especially a harmful one, is the situation that results from it. |
| Sheldon | They're both curry based cuisines. ■ The cuisine of a country or district is the style of cooking that is characteristic of that place. = cooking |
| Sheldon | It would be gastronomically redundant. ■ If you describe an amount, especially the cost of something as astronomical, you are emphasizing that it is very large indeed. |
| Sheldon | But as far as the population of this car goes, you're a veritable Mac Daddy ■ You can use veritable to emphasize the size, amount, or nature of something. |
