Howard:Sheldon, if you were a robot, and I knew and you didn’t... ...would you want me to tell you?

Sheldon :That depends. When I learn that I’m a robot... will I be able to handle it?

Howard:Maybe-- although the history of science fiction is not on your side(1).

Sheldon :Okay, let me ask you this-- when I learn that I’m a robot, would I be bound by(2) Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics(3)?

Raj:You might be bound by them right now.

Howard:That’s true.Have you ever harmed a human being or through inaction(4) allowed a human being to come to harm?

Sheldon :Of course not.

Howard:Have you ever harmed yourself or allowed yourself to be harmed except in cases where a human being would have been endangered?

Sheldon : Well, no.

Howard:I smell robot.

1. be on one’s side

【釋】支持某人(的觀點)(改編自海詞，下同)

【例】I was not on his side in the discussion.

在討論中，我不支持他的觀點。

2.be bound by

【釋】受...約束(海詞，下同)

【例】But if we are bound by the past , we will never move forward .

但我們?nèi)舾视诒贿^去束縛，就永遠(yuǎn)無法前進(jìn)。

3.Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics

【釋】阿西莫夫的機(jī)器人三定律

4.inaction

【釋】不活動，無為，怠惰。(海詞)這里譯為袖手旁觀

【例】The police were accused of inaction in the face of a possible attack.(牛津高階)

警察被指控在面對一個可能的攻擊時袖手旁觀。