Leonard: I have a board. If you like boards, this is my board.

Penny: Holy smokes.

Sheldon: If by holy smokes you mean a derivative restatement of the kind of stuff you can find scribbled on the wall of any men’s room at MIT, sure.

Leonard: What?

Sheldon: Oh, come on. Who hasn’t seen this differential below “here I sit broken hearted?”

Leonard: At least I didn’t have to invent twenty-six dimensions just to make the math come out.

Sheldon: I didn’t invent them, they’re there.

Leonard: In what universe?

Sheldon: In all of them, that is the point.

Holy smokes

【释】An expression to show surprise or exclamation(urban)
表示惊讶

【例】Holy smokes!That’s Cheyanne Silver in that porno.(urban)
神啊! Ceyanne Silver在那个毛片里面呢。

【例】A:I have already published three papers in SCI.
他在SCI上发了3篇论文了。

B:Holy smokes!(原创)
我的神啊!

If by…sure

【释】表示讽刺的句式

【例】if by doing great on your exams, you mean barely passed most of the course, then sure.(原创)
如果考得好意思就是绝大部分科目勉强通过,那还真是考得不错呀。

Derivative

【释】(usually disaproving)copied from something else,not having new or original idea.(牛津高阶)
没有原创性的

【例】I found the novel thin and derivative,I had expected more.（牛津高阶）
我觉得这小说既空洞又缺乏原创,让我很失。望

【例】Her table tennise skills were merely derivative of Yining Zhang.（原创）
她打乒乓球那两下子不过是照抄张怡宁的,毫无原创性。

Scribble on

【释】to make meaningless or illegible marks(on).(柯林斯)
涂鸦,潦草地写

【例】Doodles are scribbled on the wall of the street.(原创)
大街两边的墙上各种涂鸦。

【例】Don’t scribble on the desk.(原创)
不要在你桌子上乱写乱画。

Dimension

【释】a measurement in space,for example the height,width or length of something.（牛津高阶）
单位

In what universe？

【释】在哪个世界？此处表示Leonard不赞同Sheldon“这26维空间存在”的观点。

【例】In what universe would Rick Santorum get elected president of the United States?(yahoo)
Rick Santorum当选美国总统? 开什么国际玩笑!

【例】A:There must be a place where everyone lives with happiness .
世间一定有一片世外桃源的。

B:In what universe?
（原创）在哪个世间?

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