Leonard: Excuse me, your entire argument is predicated on the assumption that Superman’s flight is a feat of strength.

Sheldon: Are you listening to yourself, it is well established that Superman’s flight is a feat of strength, it is an extension of his ability to leap tall buildings, an ability he derives from Earth’s yellow Sun.

Howard: Yeah, and you don’t have a problem with that, how does he fly at night.

Sheldon: Uh, a combination of the moon’s solar reflection and the energy storage capacity of Kryptonian skin cells.

Penny: I’m just going to go wash up.

Leonard: I have 26 hundred comic books in there, I challenge you to find a single reference to Kryptonian skin cells.

Sheldon: Challenge accepted. (Tries door.) We’re locked out.

Raj: Also, the pretty girl left.

be predicated on

【释】(predicate something on/upon) found or base something on（oxford）基于…进行预测

【例】the theory of structure was predicated on chemistry.

a feat of strength

【释】A display to draw attention to one's muscles, mistakenly believed to be attractive. （urban）

【例】It was here that Lu performed his amazing feat of strength by pulling a willow tree out of the ground.
鲁智深倒拔垂杨柳的故事，就发生在这里。（juku）

Are you listening to yourself

【释】你知道自己在说什么吗？你说的事由衷的话吗？你有在听吗？（口语中反问）

【例】Are you listening to yourself? This is crazy.(灵格斯)
这话你自己相信吗？你简直疯了。

established

【释】证实 （longman 江沪）

【例】It has been established that she was not there at the time of the crime.
已经证实,案发时她不在现场。

wash up

【释】(North American English)to wash your face and hands (oxford)梳洗

【例】Go and get washed up.去洗洗。

Kryptonian

【释】Krypton means the imaginary planet where the character Superman was born（longman）
即氪星, 而Krypton+ian（suffix）是氪星人的、含氪的.

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