Sheldon：I'm sorry, we cannot do this without Wolowitz.
對不起，沒有Wolowitz我們吃不成。
Leonard：We can't order Chinese food without Wolowitz?
沒有Wolowitz我們就不能點中國菜?
Sheldon：Let me walk you through it. Our standard order is: the steamed dumpling appetizer, General Tso's chicken, beef with broccoli, shrimp with lobster sauce and vegetable lo mein. Do you see the problem?
我來給你解釋一下。我們的標(biāo)準(zhǔn)菜單是: 用蒸餃開胃然后上左宗棠雞，芥蘭牛肉，龍舟活魚，最后吃菜撈面。你看出問題所在了嗎?
【解析】
1、walk through: 輕松地初排；草率地處理；走過
2、steamed：蒸
3、appetizer：開胃品
4、General：將軍
5、broccoli：花菜
6、shrimp：小蝦
7、lobster sauce：豆豉
8、lo mein：撈面
Leonard：I see a problem.
我看你是個問題。
Sheldon：Our entire order is predicated on four dumplings and four entrees divided amongst four people.
我們整個的點菜是建立在點四只蒸餃、四道小菜、四個人分著吃的基礎(chǔ)上的。
【解析】
1、predicated on：以…為基礎(chǔ) predicate：使基于
2、entrée：主菜
Leonard：So, we'll just order three entrees.
那我們就點三個菜好了。
Sheldon：Fine. What do you want to eliminate? And who gets the extra dumpling?
好吧，你想去掉哪個? 誰能吃那只多余的蒸餃?
【解析】
1、eliminate：排除
Raj：We could cut it into thirds.
我們可以把它三等分。
Sheldon：Then it's no longer a dumpling. Once you cut it open it is, at best, a very small open-faced sandwich.
那它就不是蒸餃了。一旦你把它切開，充其量它只是個開口的小三明治。
Waiter：Hi, fellas. Oh, where's your annoying little friend who thinks he speaks Mandarin?
嗨，伙計們，你們那個招人厭的自以為會說普通話的朋友去哪兒了?
【解析】
1、fella：（美俚）伙伴
2、Mandarin：普通話
Sheldon：He's putting his needs ahead of the collective good. Where he comes from, that's punishable by death.
他把個人利益臵于集體利益之上，在他的祖國這樣會被處以死刑。
【解析】
1、collective：集體的
Waiter：I come from Sacramento.
我來自薩克拉曼多。
【解析】
1、Sacramento：薩克拉曼多（美國加州首府）
Leonard：Can we get an order of dumplings but with three instead of four?
我們能點一份蒸餃但是只要三個嗎？
Waiter：No substitutions.
不能換成別的。
【解析】
1、substitutions：代替
Leonard：This isn't a substitution. It's a reduction.
不是換成別的，是減少分量。
Waiter：Okay. No reductions.
好吧，不能減少分量。
Leonard：Fine. Uh, bring us three orders of dumplings. That's 12. We'll each have four. That works.
好吧，給我們上三份蒸餃。一共12個，我們每人4個，這樣就行了。
Sheldon：No. If we fill up on dumplings, we need to eliminate another entree.
不行，如果我們用蒸餃填飽了肚子，就必須再去掉一道菜。
Waiter：No eliminations.
不能去掉。
Leonard：If we have extra, we'll just take the leftovers home.
如果有剩下的，我們就打包帶回家。
【解析】
1、leftovers：剩飯菜
Sheldon：And divide it how? I'm telling you, we cannot do this without Wolowitz.
然后怎么分?我給你說了，沒有Wolowitz我們吃不成。
Leonard：Wolowitz is with his new girlfriend. If you had let me invite Penny, then you would have had your fourth.
Wolowitz和他的新女朋友在一起，如果你讓我邀請Penny的話，就會有第四個人了。
Sheldon：Have you seen Penny eat Chinese food? She uses a fork and she double-dips her egg rolls.
你見過Penny吃中國菜嗎? 她用的是叉子而且吃蛋皮春卷要蘸兩次醬。
【解析】
1、dip：蘸
2、egg rolls：炸春卷
Leonard：We don't order egg rolls.
我們不點蛋皮春卷。
Sheldon：Exactly, but we'd have to if she was here!
沒錯，但是如果她來了就會點的。
Raj：Can we please make a decision? Not only are there children starving in India, there's an Indian starving right here.
我們快點做決定好嗎？不僅是印度的孩子們在挨餓，這里就有一個印度人在挨餓。
Leonard：There's an idea. Why don't we just go out for Indian food?
有主意了。我們?yōu)槭裁床蝗コ杂《炔四兀?/span>
Waiter：You're nice boys. Tell you what I'm going to do. I'm going to bring you the four dumplings. When I'm walking over to the table, maybe I get bumped, one of the dumplings fall to the floor. No one has to know.
你們都是好孩子。讓我告訴你們怎么辦吧。我會給你們上四個蒸餃。當(dāng)我朝這張桌子走過來時，可能我被絆了一下，一個蒸餃掉在了地上。沒人會知道。
【解析】
1、bump：撞倒
Sheldon：I'll know.
我會知道的。 -Raj：How about soup? soup：湯 喝湯怎么樣？ -Leonard：Yeah, we can always divide soup. 對，我們總能平分湯的。
Sheldon：What about the wontons?
湯里的餛飩怎么辦？
【解析】
wonton：餛飩
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