用法学习: 1. come to light /be brought to light if new information comes to light, it becomes known. in the sense of be revealed. to become known or visible. Nothing about this sum has come to light. This evidence did not come to light until after the trial. The mistake was only brought to light some years later. bring (or come) to light make or become widely known or evident. "no new facts came to light". mack on I. to hit on or flirt with someone. He intends to go to the club to mack on ladies. to make a sexual proposition to someone. You try to mack on anything that wears a skirt! II. to eat. I macked on some food. munch If you munch food, you eat it by chewing it slowly, thoroughly, and rather noisily. Luke munched the chicken sandwiches. Across the table, his son Benjie munched appreciatively. Sheep were munching their way through a yellow carpet of leaves. III. to make out with someone. Sam is in the back room macking on Mary. mack on with someone. a little peck on the lips.. to feel obliged to do = to feel obligated to do It was raining, so I felt obliged to invite him into the house. be/feel obligated to do something to feel that you must do something because it is right or because someone has done something for you. if you are obligated to do something, you must do it because it is your duty or it is morally right. The committee are then obligated to take any comments into consideration. be/feel obligated to someone 亏欠, 欠某人的 to feel that you owe someone something because of what they have done for you She felt obligated to him because of what he had done for her. Ava felt obligated to help her mother, even if it meant leaving college. Watson felt obligated to him for the loan. 2. be of the opinion (that) to think that something is true I was firmly of the opinion that we should not give Jackson any more money.
Herd immunity: Herd immunity means that a large portion of a population becomes infected with a disease, but many recover and are then immune to it. An outbreak eventually fizzles out because there are fewer viable hosts 宿主 for the virus to infect. Scientists have pointed out that if COVID-19 is allowed to spread, there will be fewer younger people to look after the vulnerable. "Intentionally allowing the virus to spread requires accepting that people will die in the short term, in part due to hospitals and the health system being overwhelmed," Dr Silva says. British virologist Professor John Oxford from Queen Mary University of London said letting the virus spread also takes governments into murky ethical waters. "As a virologist, I'm totally unnerved ( unnerve 担心不已 to make someone nervous or frightened. If you say that something unnerves you, you mean that it worries or troubles you. The news about Dermot had unnerved me. Tony was unnerved by the uncanny familiarity [fəˌmɪlɪˈerəti] of her face. unnerved deprived of courage, strength, confidence, self-control, etc. ) by it. I don't like it, I say it's got a touch of eugenics 优选, 优生优育 ( [juˈdʒenɪks] the idea that society can be improved by allowing people to become parents only if they are likely to produce healthy and intelligent children. Eugenics is the study of methods to improve the human race by carefully selecting parents who will produce the strongest children. Eugenics is the practice or advocacy of improving the human species by selectively mating people with specific desirable hereditary traits. It aims to reduce human suffering by "breeding out" disease, disabilities and so-called undesirable characteristics from the human population. Eugenics ([juːˈdʒɛnɪks]) is a set of beliefs and practices that aim to improve the genetic quality of a human population, typically by excluding people and groups judged to be inferior 低等的, and promoting those judged to be superior 高等的, 高级的. The eugenics movement became associated with Nazi Germany and the Holocaust when the defense of many of the defendants at the Nuremberg trials of 1945 to 1946 attempted to justify their human-rights abuses by claiming there was little difference between the Nazi eugenics programs and the U.S. eugenics programs. In the decades following World War II, with more emphasis on human rights, many countries began to abandon eugenics policies, although some Western countries (the United States, Canada, and Sweden among them) continued to carry out forced sterilizations. While ostensibly about improving genetic quality, it has been argued that eugenics was more about preserving the position of the dominant groups in the population. Progressive-era US eugenics is now generally associated with racist and nativist elements, as the movement was to some extent a reaction to a change in emigration from Europe, rather than scientific genetics. ), which I'm frightened about," he says. "I feel nerve-wracked about it, I think it's kind of a huge experiment when you're indulging letting the virus go like this, rip through the community. People will die. What will their relatives say? "The whole thing is a bit of a farce 闹剧, 荒唐剧 — and a dangerous farce." "With any infectious disease, particularly respiratory ones such as coronaviruses, a primary public health goal is herd immunity," says Dr Silva. But Dr Silva says a vaccine, which could be 18 months away, is one of the best and safest ways to do that. "One thing is to introduce a vaccine to build up community resistance with an eye toward herd immunity. The other is to let a gnarly ([ˈnɑrli] I. American informal complicated and difficult to deal with. gnarly problems. II. American informal old-fashioned very good and exciting. III. 满是皱纹的, 老手 = gnarled old and twisted and covered in lines. gnarled hands. a gnarled old apple tree. gnarly roots. IV. risky, extreme and radical The surfer really hit that gnarly wave! ) virus happily spread about," he says. "With a vaccine, there isn't the element of sacrificing a segment of your people." "This pandemic is a serious health threat. The protection of the most vulnerable, now, should be the highest priority, not some future theoretical benefit." Social distancing to protect vulnerable people helps to flatten the curve of the pandemic, spreading the number of infections over a longer period of time. Not only does this help ensure the healthcare system doesn't become overwhelmed, but it builds up herd immunity in a controlled way over time.
Brideshead Revisited: In 2015, The Telegraph listed it at number 1 in its list of the greatest television adaptations, stating that "Brideshead Revisited is television's greatest literary adaptation, bar none. It's utterly faithful to Evelyn Waugh's novel 忠实于原著 yet it's somehow more than that, too." Evelyn Waugh's 'Brideshead Revisited' is, I think, the quintessential and the finest novel of the twentieth century - English literature at its highest form. And this 1981 miniseries does the novel great justice: its episodes give us television's finest hours. The splendid cast makes the most of the rich script, which is as faithful to a novel as a script can be. My favorite is Phoebe Nicholls as Lady Cordelia: her performance is disarming 让人卸下心防的, 让人坦然的 ( making someone feel less angry or unfriendly because of the way you behave or talk to them. If someone or something is disarming, they make you feel less angry or hostile. Leonard approached with a disarming smile. When you meet him, he is disarming as he talks about himself. He is, as ever, business-like, and disarmingly honest. She looked at him directly and occasionally smiled disarmingly at him. disarming honesty. ), utterly charming. And Nickolas Grace plays to the hilt ( (up) to the hilt 到极致, 到最高峰, 最大可能的 as much as possible or to the highest level possible. Mike's colleagues were prepared to defend him to the hilt. The estate was mortgaged up to the hilt. Something that is done (up) to the hilt is done completely and without any limits: The government is already borrowing up to the hilt. ) the sybaritic 会享受的, 生活奢华的 ( [ˌsɪbəˈrɪtɪk] a sybaritic person likes pleasure, a comfortable life, and beautiful expensive things. Someone who has a sybaritic way of life spends a lot of time relaxing in a luxurious way. sybarite [ˈsɪbəˌraɪt] a devotee of luxury and the sensual vices. hedonist [ˈhid(ə)nɪst] someone who believes that pleasure is very important, and who tries to spend all their time doing things that they enjoy. hedonistic [hiːdənɪstɪk]. ), viper-tongued 毒舌的 ( viper [vaɪpər] A viper is a small poisonous snake found mainly in Europe. speak with a forked tongue 说谎成性的, 说谎不打草稿的 to tell lies or say one thing and mean something else. A forked tongue is a tongue split into two distinct tines at the tip; this is a feature common to many species of reptiles. silver-tongued 能言善辩的, 能说会道的, 会说的, 巧舌如簧的, 能言善辩的 adj A silver-tongued person is very skilful at persuading people to believe what they say or to do what they want them to do. ...a silver-tongued lawyer. ...the luckless lady who fell for his silver-tongued charm. ) Anthony Blanche. Diana Quick was a bit too old to play convincingly the debutante ( debutante [ˈdebjuəˌtɑnt] a young woman who appears for the first time at a ball and officially becomes part of fashionable society. A debutante is a young woman from the upper classes who has started going to social events with other young people. ) Lady Julia of the early episodes, but in the later ones Quick hits perfectly every disillusioned, jaded, repentant note. The miniseries follows the novel closely, beginning near the end of World War II as Charles Ryder (Jeremy Irons) grows disdainful of military life, which he finds a study in futility [fjuˈtɪləti] ( a lack of purpose, importance, or effectiveness. His efforts were accompanied by a sense of futility and doubt. be a study in something to show a particular emotion or quality by your appearance. His face was a study in dejection. to be a perfect example of something His face was a study in fear. dejected [dɪˈdʒektəd] 人生幻灭的, 没有热情的, 没有希望的 someone who is dejected has lost all their hope or enthusiasm, especially because they have failed at something. They sat in silence, looking tired and dejected. a quick study 快刀手, 学习快手 someone who learns new things quickly. )--and then flashes back twenty years as Ryder recalls his relationship with the aristocratic 贵族的 Marchmain family, a relationship that begins when he becomes friendly with Marchmain son Sebastian Flyte (Anthony Andrews) while the two are students at Oxford. The miniseries captures perfectly a golden moment of youth--and then the gradual disillusionment brought by the passage of time 随着时间流逝而带来的幻灭感. Like all great works, BRIDESHEAD REVISITED--both book and film--touches on a great many themes, most specifically an innocent type of homoeroticism, loss of innocence, alcoholism, adultery, and changing society; ultimately, however, the story is about spiritual values and how they survive in even the most unlikely of circumstances--and how God works through individuals in the most unexpected ways. The performances here are truly fine beyond description. Jeremy Irons has seldom surpassed his work here, and neither Anthony Andrews nor Dianna Quick (as Julia, Sebastian's sister) have ever bested their performances in this film. In addition to the three leads, the miniseries offers an incredible array of superior performances by John Gielgud, Claire Bloom, and Laurence Olivier; the cinematography and art design is flawless; and the score by Geoffrey Burgon is exquisite. Mortimer's script is remarkable in that it not only manages to recreate the novel, it also manages to capture the intangible, spiritual elements upon which the book plays but seldom directly references. A must-own work for any one who appreciates the best of the best; strongly, strongly recommended. Sebastian's family are Roman Catholic, which influences the Flytes' lives as well as the content of their conversations, all of which surprises Charles, who had always assumed Christianity was "without substance or merit". Lord Marchmain had converted from Anglicanism to Roman Catholicism to marry his wife, but he later abandoned both his marriage and his new religion, and moved to Venice, Italy. Left alone, Lady Marchmain focuses even more on her faith, which is also enthusiastically espoused ( espouse [ɪspaʊz] 拥抱, 支持 verb. If you espouse a particular policy, cause, or belief, you become very interested in it and give your support to it. She ran away with him to Mexico and espoused the revolutionary cause. ) by her elder son, Lord Brideshead ("Bridey"), and by her younger daughter, Cordelia. Sebastian, a troubled young man, descends into alcoholism, drifting away from the family over a two-year period. He flees to Morocco, where his drinking ruins his health. He eventually finds some solace ( [ˈsɑləs] something that makes you feel better when you are sad or upset. seek/find solace in: James sought solace in religion. ) as an under-porter and object of charity at a Catholic monastery in Tunisia. Meanwhile Charles finds success as an architectural painter and visits Latin America to paint the buildings there. He is commissioned by Brideshead to paint Marchmain House, the Flytes' London house, before its demolition 拆毁. Sebastian's drifting leads to Charles's own estrangement from the Flytes. Charles marries and fathers two children, but he becomes cold towards his wife, and she is unfaithful to him. He eventually forms a relationship with Sebastian's younger sister, Julia. Julia has married but separated from the rich but unsophisticated [ˌʌnsəˈfɪstɪˌkeɪtəd] 粗鄙的, 粗陋的, 没修养的 ( I. not knowing much about things such as art, literature, and music that educated people usually like. a. not owning fashionable and expensive things. II. 粗陋的. 简单的. used for describing simple tools and pieces of equipment that are not advanced. An unsophisticated method or device is very simple and often not very effective. ...an unsophisticated alarm system. III. Unsophisticated people do not have a wide range of experience or knowledge and have simple tastes. It was music of a rather crude kind which unsophisticated audiences enjoyed listening to. She was quite unsophisticated 涉世未深的, 没有社会经验的 in the ways of the world. ) Canadian–born businessman and politician Rex Mottram. This marriage caused great sorrow to her mother, because Rex, though initially planning to convert to Roman Catholicism, turns out to have divorced a previous wife in Canada, so he and Julia ended up marrying without fanfare in the Savoy Chapel, an Anglican church that accepts divorced people. Cordelia returns from ministering 布道 to the wounded in the Spanish Civil War with disturbing news about Sebastian's nomadic existence and steady decline over the past few years. She predicts he will die soon in the Tunisian monastery. On the eve of the Second World War, the ageing Lord Marchmain, terminally ill, returns to Brideshead to die in his ancestral 祖传的 home. Appalled by the marriage of his elder son Brideshead to a middle-class widow past childbearing age, he names Julia heir to the estate, which prospectively offers Charles marital ownership of the house. However, Lord Marchmain's return to the faith on his deathbed changes the situation: Julia decides she cannot enter a sinful marriage with Charles, who has also been moved by Lord Marchmain's reception of the sacraments.
Tom Brady's Patriots split exposes cruel NFL reality: It didn't have to come to this 不一定非要搞成这样, 不一定非要走到这一步, and for that both Bill Belichick and Tom Brady deserve some blame. Patriots owner Robert Kraft does, too, but he's been blamed for so many things that maybe we should give him a pass. The greatest quarterback of our time - OK, make that all time - is parting with the team he led to six Super Bowl titles. That alone should make football fans sad, even if their Sundays were usually spent rooting against Brady and his curmudgeon ( curmudgeon [kərˈmʌdʒən] 老倔驴, 臭脾气老头儿 someone who gets annoyed easily, especially an old person. If you call someone a curmudgeon, you do not like them because they are mean or bad-tempered. ...such a terrible old curmudgeon. ) coach. But the NFL is a cold, hard place 冷酷无情的. There's no room for a 42-year-old quarterback with declining skills and the huge contract he would want to stay in New England. Turns out everyone is expendable 没有非谁不可的事情, 地球离了谁也照转. Even the GOAT. And now the question is, what becomes of 会怎样 ( what has/will become of 怎么样了 used for asking what has happened to someone or something, because you have not seen them for a long time, or what will happen to them, because you are worried about them. If she is sent to prison, what will become of her children? Whatever became of the painting that used to be in your grandfather's library? If you ask what became of someone or something, you want to know where they are and what happened to them: Whatever became of that parcel you sent? And Mickey Adams - I wonder what became of him. ) an ageing quarterback who still thinks he has what it takes to lead a team to a Super Bowl? Does Brady find the perfect fit and go out in grand style with another team like Peyton Manning did with his Super Bowl win with the Broncos four years ago? Or is he a Joe Namath throwing wobblers ( throw a wobbler To suddenly become very upset or intensely angry and make a big display of it. Primarily heard in UK, Australia. John threw a wobbler at work after the boss criticized his report. Needless to say, he won't be coming back in on Monday. wobbly adj I. 摇摇晃晃的(unstable, shaky, unsafe, uneven). moving from side to side in a way that is not steady. a wobbly chair/table/wheel. 摇椅. a. not held firmly in place. Something that is wobbly moves unsteadily from side to side. I was sitting on a wobbly plastic chair. ...a wobbly green jelly. ...wobbly teeth. a wobbly tooth. 牙松动了. 牙齿松了. II. feeling weak and having trouble standing or walking, especially because you are sick or tired. She still felt a little wobbly on her feet. If you feel wobbly or if your legs feel wobbly, you feel weak and have difficulty standing up, especially because you are afraid, ill, or exhausted. She could not maintain her balance and moved in a wobbly fashion. Ryan was exhausted by the flight and walked off with wobbly 站不稳的, 打颤的, 颤抖不已的 legs to find Clark. III. not strong, confident, or certain. If you describe an organization, economy, or plan as wobbly, you think it is not very good or will not be successful. ...cheap deals on wobbly 不靠谱的, 不牢靠的 airlines. Both countries suffer from large budget deficits and wobbly financial sectors. IV. if your voice is wobbly 声音颤抖, 颤抖着说, it goes up and down, usually because you are frightened, not confident, or are going to cry. If a person's voice is wobbly, it sounds weak and keeps varying in pitch, for example because the person is about to cry. 'So that's why I want to go home,' he said in a wobbly voice. ) in front of fans in Los Angeles who thought they were getting the quarterback who won the most significant Super Bowl years earlier? In a world that's suddenly uncertain, the one certainty is that there is a team desperate enough to sign Brady for the kind of contract his fellow 40-something quarterback Drew Brees got Tuesday from the New Orleans Saints. A cool $US50 million for two years, a sum the Patriots weren't willing to part with even if it would keep Brady in the fold until retirement. Proof again that sentimentality 多愁善感是没有用的, 不是多愁善感之地 has no place in the NFL. Everybody's expendable, even the quarterback who began his pro career as a sixth-round pick and will end it as the best quarterback in the 100-year history of the league. The NFL - along with other major sports - is a business 是门生意, as we're constantly reminded. Management is free to do as it wishes, and players like Brady who are eligible for free agency are free to do as they wish. Still, imagine Derek Jeter hanging up the pinstripes and playing his final two seasons with the Marlins. Or Kobe Bryant testing the waters to see what other teams might offer after winning five NBA championships for the Los Angeles Lakers. Some players are so identified with franchises that they're almost as big as the franchise. Teams need to make decisions now and they are, despite the fact sports everywhere have been shut down by the coronavirus and there's no certainty the NFL will be playing in the fall. That Brady can still play at a high level really isn't debated 没有争议的, 没有讨论的. Give him enough protection, a good possession receiver and a deep threat, and he'll complete enough passes to make any team competitive. His experience and leadership will also be a welcome addition to any locker room. But ageing players always think they have more left to give than they actually do. They remember the ease of which they did things in their prime and believe they can still do it - even if reality suggests otherwise. In a perfect world, Brady would play one last season with the Patriots and then retire with all the pageantry and glory that should go to a player who made Kraft's franchise way more valuable than it was when he arrived.
Big Bang Theory: 1. Sheldon: Raj, you're probably wondering why Amy and I aren't showing any affection to one another. Raj: Didn't even crack the top ten. Sheldon: Well, you should know that she recently broke up with me. Amy: I said I needed time to think. Raj: I'm sure you guys will figure something out. Sheldon: You hear that? Raj is devastated. Bernadette: Sheldon, shh. The wedding's starting. Sheldon: I see what's happening. Sides are forming 开始站队了. Well, if Bernadette's on Amy's team, I pick Howard. Howard: I'm not taking sides. Sheldon: Fine, I guess I'm stuck with Raj. Raj: Really? Stuart: At least you got picked. 2. Sheldon: Amy, I don't understand, are we broken up or not? It's like you can't make up your mind. Amy: It's because you're not giving me any space to think 给我时间想想. Sheldon: Well, you should think fast, because men can sire offspring their entire lives, but those eggs you're toting around have a sell-by date. Amy: You know what, Sheldon, you've made this really easy. You're immature, you're selfish, you just insulted me to my face 当面羞辱我. I don't need any more time to think. We're broken up. 3. Leonard: Hey, uh, buddy, can we have some privacy? Sheldon: Oh, of course. Wouldn't want to intrude. This is yours. Penny: Okay, when I'm done with him, I'm gonna need more information. Sheldon: Nothing odd. I just wanted to rub Amy's nose in it. Penny: Okay, look, I might be overreacting, but how am I supposed to get past this when I know tomorrow you're gonna go to work and see this woman? Sheldon: Now, forgive me for eavesdropping, but as I see it 对我来说, 在我看来, there's a simple solution. Leonard: Wake up, wake up, wake up. Sheldon: Bring Penny to meet Mandy. Leonard: What? Why? Sheldon: Well, right now, Penny's imagination is running wild, but if they meet, that will eliminate the mystery 丢掉神秘感 and alleviate 减缓 her fears. Like when that Sparkletts guy let me look under his eye patch. Leonard: Uh, first of all, you made that guy cry. Sheldon: And we learned that you don't need an eyeball to do that. Leonard: Secondly, I can't think of a more horrible idea than Penny meeting Mandy. Penny: Really? Why is that? Leonard: What, you actually want to meet her? Penny: No, but now that you're being weird about it, maybe I should. Leonard: I'm not being weird. Am I being weird? Sheldon: Yes. And that's coming from me. Leonard: Fine, you want to meet her? Penny: No, I just want to know that when you're at work, there's nothing going on. Leonard: How many times do I have to tell you? I have no interest in this woman. Penny: Yeah, well, maybe she has interest in you. Sheldon: In Leonard? Oh, even the Sparkletts guy could see that's unlikely. 4. Sheldon: Wait a minute. I know this may sound far fetched, but I'm on the market now. You know, if I dated Mandy, that would teach both Leonard and Amy a lesson. Penny: That's ridiculous. Sheldon: Oh, you're right. I could never be with a woman whose self-esteem was so low she'd be with Leonard. Penny: I'm with Leonard. Sheldon: Yeah, I know. Forever. Who would have believed these things would happen to us? 5. Amy: Thank you for doing this. Bernadette: Our pleasure. You feeling okay? Amy: We were together for so long, I honestly don't know what I'm feeling. Howard: Well, that's understandable. You forgot. It's called happy. Bernadette: Howard. Howard: I'm not saying anything bad. Just that she was in love with her captor and somehow managed to escape from his dark and crazy dungeon. Stuart: I know what you're going through. My, my, my last breakup was pretty tough. Amy: Oh. What was her name? Stuart: Hey, it's a true story. I don't need the third degree ( the third degree 诘问, 盘问, 拷问 informal asking serious questions and/or giving someone rough treatment to get information: I got the third degree when I got home last night. The third degree is a euphemism for torture ("inflicting of pain, physical or mental, to extract confessions or statements"). In 1931, the Wickersham Commission found that use of the third degree was widespread in the United States. quiz verb. to ask someone a lot of questions, often in an urgent or angry way. If you are quizzed by someone about something, they ask you questions about it. He was quizzed about 追问 his income, debts and eligibility for state benefits. Sybil quizzed her about life as a working girl. quizzing someone for more information. quiz noun 知识问答 a competition in which you answer questions. A quiz is a game or competition in which someone tests your knowledge by asking you questions. We'll have a quiz at the end of the show. debrief When someone such as a soldier, diplomat, or astronaut is debriefed, they are asked to give a report on an operation or task that they have just completed. to get information from someone who has just finished an important job, especially for the military or the government. The men have been debriefed by British and Saudi officials. He went to Rio after the CIA had debriefed him. grill noun. I. (BrE grill. AM broiler) A grill is a part of a stove which produces strong heat to cook food that has been placed underneath it. Place the omelette under a gentle grill until the top is set. II. A grill is a flat frame of metal bars on which food can be cooked over a fire. III. A grill is a restaurant that serves grilled food. grill verb I. When you grill food, or when it grills, you cook it using very strong heat directly above or below it. Grill 烤肉 the meat for 20 minutes each side. Apart from peppers and aubergines, many other vegetables grill well....grilled chicken. The breast can be cut into portions for grilling. II. If you grill someone about something, you ask them a lot of questions for a long period of time. Grilled 查问 about the friends she had to sacrifice, she replied, "I've gotten rid of a lot of people." Grill your travel agent about the facilities for families with children. The police grilled him for hours. The pop princess will receive a grilling about her life and career. Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman are wellknown to be anxious to preserve as much privacy as they can but if they take the sex therapy case to court they could leave themselves open to being cross-examined about all sorts of intimate details they may not want aired in public." interrogate [ɪnˈterəˌɡeɪt] 审问, 审讯 I. to ask someone, for example a prisoner or criminal, a lot of questions in an angry or threatening way, in order to get information. If someone, especially a police officer, interrogates someone, they question them thoroughly for a long time in order to get some information from them. I interrogated everyone even slightly involved. I was well aware of what my interrogators wanted to hear. The suspects were interrogated by the police. II. computing to get information from a computer by using a special program. ). Bernadette: For God's sake, Sheldon, what are you doing? Sheldon: I didn't want to come in. I was told it would make everyone feel uncomfortable. So I'll just stay out here and pretend that I don't have to go to the bathroom. 6. Sheldon (singing): Buddy you're a boy, make a big noise playin' in the street, gonna be a big man someday. You got mud on your face, you big disgrace, kickin' your can all over the place. I have an eidetic [aɪˈdɛtɪk] memory (photographic memory). Sometimes it's a curse. 7. Amy: Anybody can make a mistake in a weak moment 一时不察, 一不小心. Penny: What do you think? Bernadette: I don't know what to think. But then again, I just found out about it. Penny: You know, I fell in love with Leonard because he wasn't anything like the guys I was used to dating. I mean, I knew those guys weren't above cheating ( not be above doing something to not be too proud to do something. Lady Travers was not above helping with the housework when necessary. too good or important for something: No one is above suspicion in this matter. He's not above lying (= he sometimes lies) to protect himself. ) because that's usually how we met. Amy: Come on, you know Leonard's not like that. Penny: I want to believe you. I really do. Am I being naive? Bernadette: Oh, I don't know. This is all so new to me. I'm still processing. Penny: You know, he never would've done this when we first met. He's cockier now. Amy: That's because you made him more confident. Bernadette: You know, if you think about it, without you, he never would've grown into the person he is now. I mean, sure, more women might notice him, but I think it's better to have a guy be with you because he wants to be and not because he thinks he doesn't have any other choice. Penny: I never thought about it like that. Bernadette: Oh, me neither, not until just now. 8. Leonard: Look at all these activities the university has. Rock climbing club, archery, flag football. Sheldon: Had me at flag, lost me at football. Penny: Yeah, I think it's great you guys want to get more exercise, but do you really think sports is the right choice for you? Leonard: What are you saying? We're not coordinated 身体不协调 enough to play sports? Penny: Okay, Leonard, sweetheart, you twisted your ankle playing Scrabble. Leonard: I got a triple-word score with a double letter Q. If that's not a time to bust out the scrabble dance, what's the point of having one? Hey, Barry Kripke started a fencing club. Sheldon: Interesting. Sword fighting does hold a certain elegant appeal. And I would imagine it meets many of our personal criteria for a sport. Leonard: It's indoors, so no sunscreen. Sheldon: No throwing, no catching, no running. Leonard: No gym shorts that can be yanked down. Sheldon: Or worse, up. Leonard: Preach ( preach I. intransitive/transitive to talk about a religious subject at a religious meeting, especially in church. preach a sermon: The Reverend Hugh McKeag preached the sermon. preach to: That afternoon he preached to three thousand people. preach about/against: People flocked to hear him preach about Jesus. II. intransitive showing disapproval to give people advice, or to tell them how to behave, in a way that annoys them. I don't mean to preach, but I think it’s time to get serious about your relationship. III. transitive to express a strong opinion and try to persuade other people to accept it. Both my parents have always preached tolerance and moderation. preach [about] the values/virtues/evils of something 说好话, 说坏话: He preaches the virtues of hard work. a. to give a moral or stern discourse on something. Please don't preach about the evils of fried food. I like the stuff, and people eat it all the time and don't die! She was preaching about the value of 倡导, 提倡 a fat-free diet. To offer a stern, moralistic, typically condescending lecture about something. The priest preached about the sin of coveting other people's possessions. He was preaching about God's message of love and peace. I wish you would stop preaching about being fiscally responsible, Dad. I get it. My mother always preaches about 说教, 唠叨个不停, 灌输 the dangers of drugs and drinking, so I've never wanted to try them. preach the gospel 宣扬, 宣传 I. to tell people about Jesus. II. to try to persuade people to accept something that you believe in very strongly. They preach the gospel that inequality is neither right nor inevitable. preach to the choir to try to persuade people to accept opinions and beliefs that they already have, and that they do not need to know. practice what you preach to behave in the same way that you try to persuade other people to behave. Sometimes it's hard as a parent to practice what you preach. ). Sheldon: And as an added bonus, the word touché comes from fencing. It would be our only opportunity to use it in a non-metaphorical sense. Leonard: What about a game of tag on a French schoolyard? Sheldon: Ah, touché. 9. Sheldon: But I met with 11 people, and they all walked out. And that Hollywood phoney 骗子 Chris Pratt never tweeted me back. Amy: I'm sure you'll find somebody else. Sheldon: I suppose. What happened to me, Amy? Years ago I was completely disengaged from my feelings. I'd say it was a happier time, but I was disengaged from my feelings, so who can tell? Amy: I don't know how to help you. You know, feelings are a part of life. Sheldon: They didn't used to be. You and Leonard and Penny, you all poisoned me with emotions. I was like the Tin Man, perfectly content until that evil wizard gave him a heart. Amy: I don't think that was the point of the movie. Sheldon: Fine, then I was like Pinocchio before that jerk Geppetto went and made him a real boy. Amy: There you go. 10. Stuart: I like all kinds of music, but my favourite genre is free. Raj: Hey, we've always talked about playing together. Howard: Well, it could be fun to try a little acoustic thing. Raj: Oh, we could play filk music. Stuart: What's that? Raj: It's been around for years. It's like folk music, but with a sci-fi/fantasy theme. Stuart: I like it. It sounds exactly like something I shouldn't be expected to pay for. Raj: Dude, if we do this, we're gonna need a cool band name. Howard: You know, I've actually had one I've been sitting on 早就取好了 for years. Raj: Really? Howard: It was for this power trio I tried to put together in junior high, but I was short 缺了, 差了, 少了 two friends. Raj: What is it? Howard: Footprints on the Moon. Raj: I just got chills. Howard: So did I. Stuart: Me, too. But I, uh, might have Lyme Disease. 11. Sheldon: Thank you for letting me come speak with you. Bernadette: Of course. Sheldon: As my relationships with Penny and Amy are currently strained 关系有变, 关系变差, 关系出现裂痕, I'm turning to you for female comfort and encouragement. Bernadette: Aw. I'm honoured 很荣幸. Sheldon: I tried reaching out to my mother, but she was in Bible study. Leonard's mother is on a book tour. My Mee-Maw was taking a nap, and after a while Siri started repeating her answers. Bernadette: So, I'm your seventh choice. Sheldon: Yeah, I know, top ten, pretty exciting. Bernadette: How can I help you? Sheldon: Well, in addition to Amy leaving me, Leonard's moving in with Penny. It's difficult not to feel abandoned. Bernadette: Well, why don't you look at this as an opportunity? You had other roommates before Leonard. Maybe this is a chance to find someone new. Sheldon: Perhaps I could find someone better than Leonard. Someone I can rub in his face. Chris Pratt's all the rage 正当红, 红的发紫 right now. I wonder how he'd feel about taking the smaller bedroom. Stuart: Hey. Bernadette: Hey. You know who would be the perfect roomie? Sheldon: Gandalf, but he's a smoker.
