看生活大爆炸学英语第三季第十四集

 

【剧情介绍】Sheldon工作上卡壳了，比平时更“疯”了，大半夜跑到彩球池玩，到Penny工作的地方去当服务员，打碎了一大堆碗后突然清醒，把一堆烂摊子留给Penny了，莫非真像Howard说的那样被突然重启了？

1. Captain Hook's hand was eaten by a crocodile, not an alligator. If you're going to mock me, at least get your facts straight.
胡克船长的手是被鳄鱼而不是短吻鳄咬掉的，你想嘲笑我前，至少把事实弄清楚。

Get straight彻底了解，搞通；办好

2. Back door has a five-pin tumbler system,single-circuit alarm. Child's play.
后门是五锁连环栓，单回路报警系统，小菜一碟。

Child's play.非常容易的事

3. Well, thank you for noticing. I'm "Menial Employee of the Month."
多谢你留意到了，我可是“本月最佳低贱员工”。

Employ of the month本月最佳员工

4. For thousands of years, the lowest classes of the human race have spent their lives laboring to erect monuments under the lash of their betters, until finally, they dropped down and became one with the dust through which they trudged.
几千年来，最底层人类在佼佼者的鞭笞之下建立丰碑，最终却在跋涉的途中倒下化作一粒尘埃。

under the lash受鞭笞刑，受体刑；遭责骂

5. I asked myself, what is the most mind-numbing, pedestrian job conceivable ,and three answers came to mind. That toll booth attendant, and Apple Store Genius...and what Penny does.
我扪心自问，世上最令人心烦意乱，平淡沉闷的工作是什么？三个答案出现在我脑海：收费站工作人员，苹果店店员及Penny做的工作。

Pedestrian除了表示“人行道”外，还有“缺乏想像力的；平淡的；沉闷的”的意思。toll booth收费站

5. I bet if we allchipped in, we could buy Sheldon a van.
我确信如果我们凑份子可以给Sheldon买个小货车。

Chip in 集资出钱，插嘴，下赌注。

6.  - Happy now? 
高兴了吧？

-I'm on a cloud.
开心死了

On a cloud忘乎所以，高兴得不得了。