Leonard: Did it ever occur to you that not everyone has the compulsive need to sort, organize and label the entire world around them?

Sheldon: No.

Leonard: Well they don’t. Hard as it may be for you to believe, most people don’t sort their breakfast cereal numerically by fibre content.

Sheldon: Excuse me, but I think we’ve both found that helpful at times.

Leonard: Come on, we should go.

Sheldon: Hang on.

Leonard: What are you doing?

Sheldon: Straightening up.

Leonard: Sheldon, this is not your home.

Sheldon: This is not anyone’s home, this is a swirling vortex of entropy.

Hard as it may be

【释】倒装句，Hard as it may be…=as it may be hard...
尽管...会很难
as表示虽然,尽管 等时,引导让步状语从句,常用倒装语序,模式为:
adj. /adv. / n.+as +主语+谓语+主句。

【例】Hard as it may be to believe, there are many unwanted, homeless, abused dachshunds in this country.
尽管很难相信，但在这个国家有很多无家可归、被人遗弃的达克斯猎狗。

numerically

【释】adv. 用数字表示（有道）

【例】Books are then arranged numerically , and then alphabetically by author’s last name,resulting in a library organized by subject.（句酷）
之后按照号（数字）进行排序，再按照作者姓的字母排序。这样，整个图书馆的书便按照科目有序地组织起来了。

straighten up

【释】使整齐, 整理 阐明 挺直

【例】You should straighten up your room before going out.
出门前你应该把房间收拾整齐。

swirling vortex of entropy

【释】swirling n. 漩涡；涡流 adj. 打旋的。vortex涡流；漩涡；（动乱，争论等的）中心；旋风。entropy熵，物理学上指热能除以温度所得的商，标志热量转化为功的程度。被社会科学用以借喻人类社会某些状态的程度。这里的意思是社会恶化的漩涡中心。（在这里Sheldon形容Penny的房间很乱）

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