【劇情介紹】Leonard終于鼓起勇氣約Penny吃飯,而吃飯的氣氛很尷尬,兩個人都絞盡腦汁想話題,這飯吃的真夠杯具的.

LEONARD: Turns out that Raj and Howard had to work and Sheldon had a colonoscopy, and he hasn’t quite bounced backyet.

PENNY: Ooh, my uncle just had a colonoscopy.

LEONARD: You’re kidding. Well, then, that’s something we have in common.

PENNY: How?

LEONARD: We both have people in our lives who wanna nip intestinal polyps in the bud.

PENNY: So, what’s new in the world of physics?

LEONARD: Nothing.

PENNY: Really? Nothing?

LEONARD: Well, with the exception of string theory, not much has happened since the 1 930 .and you can’t prove string theory.At best you can say, "Hey, look, my idea has an internal logical consistency."

PENNY: Ah. Well, I’m sure things will pick up.

LEONARD: What’s new at the Cheesecake Factory?

PENNY: Oh, uh, not much. Oh, we do have a chocolate key lime that’s moving pretty well.

【口語講解】

1.bounced back迅速恢復,反彈.除了指身體復原,還多用于表達經濟復蘇.

After a slowdown through 1990, China’s economic bounced back mightily, reaching a recent peak of 13 per cent growth last year. 中國經濟在經歷了1990年的緩慢增長以后，強力反彈，去年達到13%的增長高峰.

2. nip in the bud防患于未然;消滅于萌芽狀態

To nip something in the bud is better than to talk about whose responsibility after something happens.與其在事后來追究責任，不如防范于未然.

3. what’s new in最近...有什么新動向,對久未見面的朋友也可以直接說what’s new,最近怎么樣啊?

4. with the exception of除了.

5. pick up 好轉,除此之外pick up還有學會,撿起,獲得等意思.

6. that’s moving pretty well.這里是銷量好的意思.