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LeonardHere we go, Pad Thai, no peanuts.
LeonardEveryone 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
SheldonSince 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。
HowardDo 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。
SheldonDon't take it personally, it's his pathology.
■ Pathology is the study of the way diseases and illnesses develop. (MEDICAL)
PennyI do like the one where Lois Lane falls from the helicopter and superman swooshes down and catches her.
SheldonYou 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.
LeonardYour 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.
SheldonA combination of the moon's solar reflection and the energy storage capacity of Kryptonian skin cells.
SheldonWell, we don't have a dolly.
■ Dolly is a platform on a roller or on wheels or casters for moving heavy objects.
LeonardGive 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.
SheldonYes, but they all involve a Green lantern and a Power ring.
SheldonAh, 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.
SheldonYou do understand that our efforts here will in no way increase the odds of you having sexual congress with this woman.
■ sexual congress = sex
SheldonA little messy? The Mandelbrot set of complex numbers is a little messy.
SheldonExplain 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)
LeonardDid 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.
SheldonThis 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)
SheldonBecause it was immaculate.
■ If you describe something as immaculate, you mean that it is extremely clean, tidy, or neat.
LeonardWell, we'll get out of your hair.
■ If you get someone out of your hair, you get them to stop bothering or annoying you.
SheldonYou 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)
LeonardI 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
SheldonI 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.
LeonardA 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.
SheldonAnd 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.
LeonardThe 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.
LeonardSix 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.