生活大爆炸S01E03 MJE美剧笔记 尴尬的约会
Penny:It's just... it's my pattern. I break up, then I find some cute guy, and then it's just 36 meaningless hours of... you know.
Leonard:I'm not sure that I do. Is that one 36-hour experience, or is that 36 hours spread out over, say... one glorious summer?
Penny:No, it's usually over a weekend, and trust me, you do not feel good after it.
Leonard:Well, chafing, right?
Penny:Emotionally.
Leonard:Of course, yeah, emotional chafing. Do you want to see something cool? I can make this olive go into this glass without touching it.
Penny:How?
Leonard:Physics.
Penny:Centrifugal force.
Leonard: Actually, it's centripetal force, which is an inward force generated by the glass acting on the olive... Excuse me. If you were riding on the olive, you'd be in a non-inertial reference frame and would...
Penny:Are you okay?
Leonard:Yeah, I'm okay. Did you spill ketchup?
Penny:No.
Leonard:I’m not okay.
spread out
【释】把…分散(安排)，把…分期完成
【例】They wanted to spread out the project over 3 years.
他们想用三年的时间完成该项工程。
chafing
【释】if skin chafes, or if something chafes it, it becomes sore because the thing is rubbing against it
【例】Her wrists chafed where the rope had been.
