Sheldon: At least now you can retrieve the black box from the twisted, smoldering wreckage that was once your fantasy of dating her and analyze the data so that you don't crash into Geek Mountain again.

Howard: I disagree. Love is not a sprint, it's a marathon-- a relentless pursuit that only ends when she falls into your arms... or hits you with the pepper spray.

Leonard: I'm done with Penny. I'm going to be more realistic and go after someone my own speed.

Raj: Like who?

Leonard: I don't know... Olivia Geiger.

Sheldon: The dietician at the cafeteria with the limp and the lazy eye?

Leonard: Yeah.

Sheldon: I don't think you have a shot there. I have noticed that Leslie Winkle recently started shaving her legs. Now given that winter is coming, one can only assume she's signaling sexual availability.

Howard: I don't know. You guys work in the same lab.

Leonard: So?

Howard: There are pitfalls. Trust me, I know. When it comes to sexual harassment law, I'm a bit of a self-taught expert.

Leonard: If I were to ask Leslie Winkle out, it would just be for dinner. I'm not going to walk into the lab, ask her to strip naked and dance for me.

Howard: Oh, then you're probably okay.

smoldering
【释】A fire behavior terms used to describe a fire that is burning without flame and barely spreading.闷烧,不完全燃烧
【例】The smoldering coal or ash of a dying fire.
余烬将熄的火焰中的煤块或灰烬。

wreckage
【释】残骸
【例】Pieces of the wreckage were cast up on the beach.
失事船只的残骸被冲到了沙滩上。

fantasy
【释】幻想
【例】The young always live in a world of fantasy.
年轻人总是生活在幻想中。

sprint
【释】短跑,冲刺
【例】The athlete put on a sprint of speed to make it.
赛跑运动员在到达终点前进行冲刺。

relentless
【释】不间断的
【例】Life is never just being. It is a becoming, a relentless flowing on.
生命从来不止是生存。生命是成就自我,是一种不懈的追求。

pepper spray
【释】胡椒喷雾,辣椒喷雾,防狼喷雾(警察或独身女士所用)
【例】A police officer punched a 15 -year-old girl then used pepper spray to subdue her .
一名警官在殴打了一个15岁的女孩后,又用辣椒喷雾剂制服她。

someone my own speed
(1)speed
【释】At your level or in your interest
【例】He is definitely my speed. I wanna get with him.
他正合我的胃口,我要跟着他。
(2)someone my own speed
【释】合我拍的人;和我合得来的人
【例】He is not someone my own speed. I like dark-skinned guys more.
他跟我不合拍,我更喜欢黑小伙。

dietician
【释】营养学家;膳食学家
【例】I have no doubt she would make a good dietitian.
毫无疑问她会成为优异的营养学家。

lazy eye
【释】弱视
【例】Amblyopia lazy eye, is poor vision in an eye (less frequently, both eyes) that did not develop normal function during childhood.
弱视是导致视力降低的一种常见病,一般认为它和早期的异常视觉经验密切相关。

given that
【释】只要是,考虑到;假定,已知
【例】Given that there are over 20 students in the class, and only one teacher, I think they have done a marvelous job!

pitfalls
【释】陷阱, 隐患, 想不到的困难
【例】Shareholders in PCCW , the Hong Kong telecommunications company , have learnt the hard way that there can be expensive pitfalls in doing business with Beijing .(有道)
香港电信公司电讯盈科(PCCW)的股东们学到了一个惨痛教训:与北京做生意,可能有代价高昂的隐患。
【讲】Howard说的隐患是指:Sheldon说Leslie最近在刮腿毛暗示Leonard是她的潜在性对象,而Howard认为他们在一个实验室,Leslie有性骚扰Leonard的隐患

strip naked
【释】剥光
【例】There they were told to strip naked , jump into a freezing lake and pump up rug by balls underwater .
在那里,训练者要求队员脱得一丝不挂,跳进冰冷的湖中,在水下给橄榄球打气

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