看生活大爆炸学英语第二季第十八集

【剧情介绍】

Leonard为Penny特意做了个网站为Penny的发卡打开销路,立马就有人预定一千个发卡并且是加急件,结果五个人大周末地在家做发卡,Raj打趣地说如果我想周六做发卡,我还不如呆在印度.

SHELDON: We should get to work.

PENNY: Wait,wait,why does it say "one-day rush"? Since when do we offer a one-day rush?

LEONARD: Amazon offers one-day rush.

PENNY: Yeah,but they don't have to glue the books together. How the hell are we going to make a thousand Penny Blossoms in one day?

LEONARD: Don't yell at me. I'm not manufacturing. I'm just Web design.

PENNY: Okay,well,I'm gonna have to call them and cancel the order.

SHELDON: Excuse me,but was this not your goal? Financial independence through entrepreneurial brilliance and innovation? My brilliance and innovation,of course,but still.

PENNY: I just don't see how we can pull this off.

SHELDON: That,right there,that equivocation and self-doubt,that is not the American spirit. Did Davy Crockett quit at the Alamo? Did Jim Bowie?

HOWARD: They didn't quit. They were massacred...by like a gazillion angry Mexicans.

SHELDON: Let me put it this way. Your gross receipts on this one order will be over $3,000 for one night's work.

PENNY: You guys get started.

LEONARD: What are you doing?

PENNY: Going online to buy shoes!

SHELDON: * She'll be coming round the mountain when she comes *

RAJ: You know,if I wanted to spend my Saturday nights doing this,I could have stayed in India.

HOWARD: Oh,stop with the fake third world crap. Your father's a gynecologist. And you had a house full of servants.

RAJ: We only had four servants. And two of them were children.

LEONARD: How we doing?

LEONARD: We have 128 assorted Penny Blossoms ready to ship.

HOWARD:Oh,God,we're never gonna finish in time.

RAJ: Who made Sheldon the boss anyway?

SHELDON: I believe I'm hearing some negativity on the factory floor.

PENNY: So?

SHELDON: Penny,the labor force is a living organism that must be carefully nurtured. Any counterproductive grumbling must be skillfully headed offby management. Observe. Less talk,more work!

PENNY: Nicely done.

SHELDON: Thank you. You hear any union talk,you let me know.

【口语讲解】

1. one-day rush加急服务,当天发货

2. pull off赢得;脱下;努力实现

Many will ask whether Mr. Obama can actually pull off the deficit reduction he promises. 许多人会问,奥巴马总统能否如他所承诺的那样真正减少财政赤字。

3. gross receipt收入总额;总收入款

4. living organism生命有机体生物体;活体

5. head off阻止;转移方向

Regulators are already acting to head off incipient problems. 监管部门已经开始行动,将问题消灭在萌芽阶段。