| 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. |
