看生活大爆炸学英语第二季第九集

【剧情介绍】

Leonard终于摆脱Sheldon有机会跟Stephanie单独约会了,Sheldon却又出现了(囧…) 他翻了Leonard的浏览记录找到Leonard所在的电影院(人才啊), 然后开始进行他的怪癖---在电影院怪叫, 选最佳音效的位置.

SHELDON: I have a bone to pick with you,sir.

STEPHANIE: Hi,Sheldon.

SHELDON: Hi,Stephanie. I'm sorry I'm late,but your companion left the most indecipherable invitation.

LEONARD: What invitation?

SHELDON: We're going to the movies. What movie? What theater? What time? If you were trying to make it impossible to locate you,you couldn't have done a better job.

LEONARD: Oh,clearly I could have.

SHELDON: It took me nearly 20 minutes to go through the browser history on your computer to see what movie times you looked up.

SHELDON: Wait here,I'll find us seats.

STEPHANIE: Uh,no,we have seats.

LEONARD: Not the right seats.

STEPHANIE: What is he doing?

LEONARD: He's finding the acoustic sweet spot.

STEPHANIE: Does he always do this?

LEONARD: Sometimes he brings a toy xylophone. I am really sorry about this.

STEPHANIE: No,it's fine. You know,he's sweet.

SHELDON: My apologies,you've been sitting in it all along. Leonard,you want to slide over one?

LEONARD: No,just sit here.

SHELDON: Oh,yeah,this is it.

【口语讲解】

1. have a bone to pick就某事跟某人辩论或争吵,挑毛病
eg: I've got a bone to pick with you over your last shipment to London.
关于上次运到伦敦的那批货，我不得不跟你抱怨一下。

2. browser history浏览记录

3. sweet spot 最有效点；最佳击球位置
eg:We are moving into a sweet spot for the economy.
我们正步入经济发展的最佳时机。

4. all along自始至终，一直
eg: Actually, news is a commodity which involves anxious managerial concern all along the way.
事实上，新闻是一种商品，自始至终都有人要迫不及待地操纵它。

5. slide over移位,回避
eg: The phony managed to slide over the questions which were difficult for him to answer.
那个冒牌货设法避开了那些他难回答的问题。