《生活大爆炸》精华精讲：职业水准

2012-03-12 00:00:00来源：可可英语

　

This right, here is why Sweden has no space program.
这就是为什么，瑞典没有太空计划。
-Penny：Well, it-it looked pretty good in the store.
呃，在商店里看起来还不错。
-Leonard：It is an inefficient design. For example, Penny has a flat screen TV,
这个设计效率很低。比方说，Penny有一台纯平电视，
which means all the space behind it is wasted.
这意味着，后面的空间都浪费了。
-Sheldon：We could put her stereo back there.
我们可以把她的立体音响放在后面。
-Leonard：And control it how?
怎么控制调节呢?
-Sheldon：Run an infrared repeater.
接一个红外线转发器。
Photo cell here, emitter here, easy-peasy.
这边发射区域，这边发射器，简单易行。

-Howard：Good point. How are you going to cool it?
好主意，那你怎么散热?
-Penny：Hey, guys, I got this.
嘿，伙计们，我来弄这个。
-Sheldon：Hang on, Penny.
等等，Penny。
How about fans? Here and here.
扇子如何? 这里和这里。
-Leonard：Also inefficient, and might be loud.
还是不行，可能会有噪音。
How about liquid coolant? Maybe a little aquarium pump here,
液体冷却剂如何？也许放个玻璃钢泵在这儿。
-Howard：How about liquid coolant? Maybe a little aquarium pump here,
液体冷却剂如何? 也许放个玻璃缸泵在这儿。
run some quarter-inch PVC...
装四分之一英尺的PVC...
-Penny：Guys, this is actually really simple.
伙计们，这个其实真的很简单。
-Howard：Hold on, honey. Men at work.
等等，亲爱的，男人在做事。
The PVC comes down here.
PVC从这儿下来。
Maybe a little corrugated sheet metal as a radiator here.
也许一点褶皱的金属片，作散热器放这儿。
-Leonard：Oh , really? Show me where we put a drip tray, a sluice, and an overflow reservoir.
真的吗? 指指看，在哪儿放水柱、水闸、和蓄水池。
-Sheldon：If water's involved, we're going to have to ground the crap out of the thing.
如果要引水进来，我们就得接地线。
-Penny：Guys, it's hot in here. I think I'll just take off all my clothes.
伙计们，这儿很热，我想我要把衣服都脱了。
-Leonard：Oh, I've got it.
哦，我明白了。
What about if we replace panels A, B and F and crossbar H with aircraft-grade aluminum?
要不，我们换掉面板A B和F 横木H ，用航行器使用的铝?
-Sheldon：Right. Then the entire thing is one big heat sink.
对，那这整个就是一个大散热器。
-Howard：Perfect. Leonard, why don't you and Sheldon go to the junk yard
完美，Leonard，你和Sheldon去废品回收站，
and pick up about six square meters of scrap aluminum?
找些六平方米的废铝片。
Raj and I will run down to my lab and get the oxyacetylene torch.
Raj和我去实验室弄些氧乙炔炬。
-Leonard：Meet back here in an hour?
一小时后见?
-Howard：Done.
就这样。
-Leonard：Got it.
明白。

单词回顾：
pictographic：图画的，象形的
representation：表示
imaginative：富于想象力的
assemble：装配
Some boys like to assemble model airplanes.
有些男孩喜欢装配模型飞机。
Shops cater for the do-it- yourself craze by offering consumers bits and pieces which they can assemble at home.
商店为了迎合“自己动手”的狂热心理，为消费者提供可以在家里组装的零件。
components：部件
inefficient：效率低的
flat：平的
screen：屏幕
stereo：立体声响
infrared：红外线的
repeater：中继器，转发器
emitter：发射器
cool：此处为动词用，使…降温
liquid：adj. 液体的,液态的；n. 液体
coolant：冷冻剂
aquarium：n. 水族馆,养鱼池,玻缸
pump：泵
coolant：冷却剂
aquarium：玻璃钢
corrugated：起褶皱的　
sheet metal：金属片
radiator：散热器
drip tray ：除霜水盘，滴水盘
drip：n. 滴,点滴,乏味的人,水滴；v. 滴下,漏水
tray：n. 盘,托盘,碟
sluice：水闸
overflow：溢出的
reservoir：水库
involve：牵涉
Don't involve other people in your trouble.
别把别人牵涉进你的麻烦中去。
I got involved in a quarrel about the price.
我被卷入了一场有关价格的争吵。
crap：废物
replace：替换，取代
Nothing can replace a mother's love.
什么都无法取代母爱。
We've replaced the old adding machine with a computer.
我们用电脑取代了老式的加法计算器。
The coach decided to replace player No. 8 with No. 3.
教练决定让3号替换8号。
panels：面板
crossbar：横木
aluminum：铝
heat sink：吸热设备
sink：n. 接收端,沟渠,污水槽；v. 下沉,使...低落,陷于
square meters：平方米 scrap：废料
torch ：n. 火炬,火把,手电筒
oxyacetylene torch：氧乙炔炬