Leonard: Sounds like a wise man.

Mrs Cooper: Oh, not so wise, he was trying to fight a bobcat for some liquorice. So, everybody grab a plate, and a pretty place mat that Shelly wove.

Penny: Has Shelly everfreaked out like this before.

Mrs Cooper: Oh, all the time, I remember one summer when he was thirteen, he built a small nuclear reactor in the shed and told everybody he was going to provide free electricity for the whole town, well the only problem was he had no, whatchacall, fissionable materials. Anyway, when he went on the internets to get some, a man from the government came by and sat him down real gentle and told him it’s against the law to have yellow cake uranium in a shed.

Penny: What happened?

Mrs Cooper: Well, the poor boy had a fit, locked himself in his room and built a sonic death ray.

Leonard: A death ray?

Mrs Cooper: Well, that’s what he called it, didn’t even slow down the neighbour kids. It pissed our dog off to no end. You know, you two make a cute couple.

Both Leonard and Penny laugh, a little too forced.

Leonard: No, we’re not, we’re not, not a couple, two singles, like those individually wrapped slices of cheese that…. are friends.

Mrs Cooper: Did I pluck a nerve there?

Howard: Oh yeah.

Bobcat
【释】a large North American wild cat that has no tail
美洲野猫

Liquorice
【释】a firm black substance with a strong flavour, obtained from the root of a plant, used in medicine and to make sweets/candy
甘草

Place mat
【释】a board or piece of cloth that you put on a table for each person who is eating there, so that the table is protected from the plates, knives etc
餐位餐具垫

Whatchacall
【释】same as term "whatchacallit" (what-you-call-it). Used to describe some one or something who's name cannot be recalled.
你叫？你是？这是？

Fissionable materials
【释】A nuclide that is capable of undergoing fission after capturing either high-energy (fast) neutrons or low-energy thermal (slow) neutrons.
裂变材料

Have a fit
【释】to be very shocked, upset or angry
很震惊，伤心或生气
【例】Your mother would have a fit if she knew you'd been drinking!
你妈妈要是知道了你会喝酒会很生气的！
【例】The teacher had a fit when the dog ran through the classroom.
老师看到狗从教室里面闯过十分生气。

to no end
【释】a lot ,a great deal
很多
【例】It pleases me to no end [=very much] to see you so happy.
看到你这么开心，这让我也很高兴。
【例】His conscious lie exasperated his teacher to no end .
他有意识的撒谎让他的老师恼火到了极点。

pluck a nerve
【释】The expression is usually 'to touch a nerve'. It's used in reference to bringing up subject to which the person is particularly sensitive.
戳到某人的痛处
【例】But this quote might pluck a nerve or two for people with diabetes.
但是这个引用可能会让糖尿病病人觉得很刺眼。

生活大爆炸S01E04 MJE美剧笔记：织娘Sheldon

 

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