看生活大爆炸学英语第一季第十二集

【剧情介绍】

学校来了位小天才Dennis, Dr. Gablehauser 想让Sheldon和Leonard带Dennis到处逛逛,熟悉环境.Sheldon似乎很不喜欢这位新同事.

SHELDON:Here's the problem with teleportation.

LEONARD:Lay it on me.

SHELDON:Assuming a device could be invented which would identify the state of matter of an individual in one location and transmit that to a distant location for reassembly you wouldn't have transported the individual you would have destroyed him in one location and re-created him in another.

LEONARD:How about that.

SHELDON:I would never use a transporter. The original Sheldon would have to be disintegrated in order to create a new Sheldon.

LEONARD:Would the new Sheldon be in any way an improvement on the old Sheldon?

SHELDON:No, he would be exactly the same.

LEONARD:That is a problem.

SHELDON:So you see it too?

DR.GABLEHAUSER:Dr. Hofstadter, Dr. Cooper.

LEONARD:Dr. Gablehauser.

DR.GABLEHAUSER:Gentlemen, I'd like you to meet Dennis Kim. Dennis is a highlysought-after doctoral candidate. We're hoping to have him do graduate work here.

LEONARD:Graduate work, very impressive.

DR.GABLEHAUSER:And he's only 1 5 years old.

SHELDON:Not bad. I myself started graduate school at 1 4.

DENNIS: Well, I lost a year while my family was tunneling out of North Korea.

LEONARD:Advantage, Kim.

DR.GABLEHAUSER:I thought maybe you could show Dennis around. Let him see why we're the best physics research facility in the country.

DENNIS: I know you're not. You don't have an Open Science Grid computer or a free electron laser. The string theory research being done is a dead end.

SHELDON:Excuse me, that is my research, and it is by no means a dead end.

DENNIS: Well, obviously, you don't see it yet, but trust me, you will.

DR.GABLEHAUSER:Dennis, we've discussed this. We're in the process of updating our equipment. We welcome your input on our research goals. We agree to look the other way if you use 20 percent of the money you attract to smuggle your grandfather out of Pyongyang.

【口语讲解】

1. Lay it on me. 多用于口语中,表示跟我说说看。

2. see it 领会,理解

3. sought-after 很受欢迎,吃香的

Gifted with a superb voice, she became the most sought-after singer in America.天生一副好嗓子，她成为美国炙手可热的歌星。

4. a dead end死胡同

The investigation seemed to have come to a dead end.调查好像无法再进展下去。

5. by no means决不,并没有

By no means can you trust him.无论如何你也不能相信他。

6. look the other way视而不见,无视

The government will not look the other way in the face of serious human rights abuses.政府在面临严重的人权问题时绝不会袖手旁观。