生活大爆炸S01E02 MJE美剧笔记 Leonard的道歉
Scene: The hallway, Leonard puts a note under Penny’s door. It opens.
Penny: Hi.
Leonard: Oh.
Penny: What’s going on?
Leonard: Um, here’s the thing. (Reads from note.) Penny. Just as Oppenheimer came to regret his contributions to the first atomic bomb, so too I regret my participation in what was, at the very least, an error in judgement. The hallmark of the great human experiment is the willingness to recognise one’s mistakes. Some mistakes, such as Madame Curie’s discovery of Radium turned out to have great scientific potential even though she would later die a slow, painful death from radiation poisoning. Another example, from the field of ebola research….
Penny: Leonard.
Leonard: Yeah.
Penny (hugs him): We’re okay. (Kisses him on cheek. Closes door. Leonard looks happy, walks back across hallway and straight into the apartment door.)
just as
【释】正像（有道，下同）
【例】Just as a family has to make hard choices about where to spend and where to save , so do we as a government .
作为政府，我们就像一个家庭一样，对于该把钱花在哪里，在哪方面节省钱，不得不做出艰难的抉择。
so too I regret
【释】我也后悔……
【讲】原文中just as X, so too Y（就像……，……也……）是惯用语法，在一些情况下Y需要用倒装，但并不是必须的。In spoken language, instead of using inversion, we often use stress or some other way of phrasing. 口语中,未必一定要倒装
e.g.Just as the soil is a part of the earth, so too is the atmosphere. （有道）
就像土壤是地球的一部分一样，大气也是地球的一部分。
e.g.Just as he liked and praised a country life in comparison with the life he did not like, so too he liked the peasantry in contradistinction to the class of men he did not like, and so too he knew the peasantry as something distinct from and opposed to men generally.
-From a translation of Anna Karenina byTolstoy.
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at the very least
【释】至少，起码（有道，下同）
【例】The probe will at the very least lead to tougher guidelines.
这一调查至少将导致更严厉的准则出台。
the hallmark of
【释】an outstanding or distinguishing feature（free，下同）
标志,常常是一项优秀的品质
【例】The sense of guilt is the hallmark of civilized humanity.
内疚感是人类文明的标志
recognize
【释】to admit or to be aware that something exists or is true（牛津高阶）承认
【例】No matter you agree or not , you must recognize his decision is correct .（有道）
不管你愿意还是不愿意，你都必须承认他的决定是对的。
radiation poisoning
【释】辐射中毒（有道，下同）
【例】The former Russian spy who died from radiation poisoning was laid to rest this afternoon in London .
死于发射性物质中毒的前俄罗斯特工今天下午在伦敦下葬
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