Sheldon：I'm sorry, we cannot do this without Wolowitz.
对不起，没有Wolowitz我们吃不成。
Leonard：We can't order Chinese food without Wolowitz?
没有Wolowitz我们就不能点中国菜?
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?
我来给你解释一下。我们的标准菜单是: 用蒸饺开胃然后上左宗棠鸡，芥兰牛肉，龙舟活鱼，最后吃菜捞面。你看出问题所在了吗?
【解析】
1、walk through: 轻松地初排；草率地处理；走过
2、steamed：蒸
3、appetizer：开胃品
4、General：将军
5、broccoli：花菜
6、shrimp：小虾
7、lobster sauce：豆豉
8、lo mein：捞面
Leonard：I see a problem.
我看你是个问题。
Sheldon：Our entire order is predicated on four dumplings and four entrees divided amongst four people.
我们整个的点菜是建立在点四只蒸饺、四道小菜、四个人分着吃的基础上的。
【解析】
1、predicated on：以…为基础 predicate：使基于
2、entrée：主菜
Leonard：So, we'll just order three entrees.
那我们就点三个菜好了。
Sheldon：Fine. What do you want to eliminate? And who gets the extra dumpling?
好吧，你想去掉哪个? 谁能吃那只多余的蒸饺?
【解析】
1、eliminate：排除
Raj：We could cut it into thirds.
我们可以把它三等分。
Sheldon：Then it's no longer a dumpling. Once you cut it open it is, at best, a very small open-faced sandwich.
那它就不是蒸饺了。一旦你把它切开，充其量它只是个开口的小三明治。
Waiter：Hi, fellas. Oh, where's your annoying little friend who thinks he speaks Mandarin?
嗨，伙计们，你们那个招人厌的自以为会说普通话的朋友去哪儿了?
【解析】
1、fella：（美俚）伙伴
2、Mandarin：普通话
Sheldon：He's putting his needs ahead of the collective good. Where he comes from, that's punishable by death.
他把个人利益臵于集体利益之上，在他的祖国这样会被处以死刑。
【解析】
1、collective：集体的
Waiter：I come from Sacramento.
我来自萨克拉曼多。
【解析】
1、Sacramento：萨克拉曼多（美国加州首府）
Leonard：Can we get an order of dumplings but with three instead of four?
我们能点一份蒸饺但是只要三个吗？
Waiter：No substitutions.
不能换成别的。
【解析】
1、substitutions：代替
Leonard：This isn't a substitution. It's a reduction.
不是换成别的，是减少分量。
Waiter：Okay. No reductions.
好吧，不能减少分量。
Leonard：Fine. Uh, bring us three orders of dumplings. That's 12. We'll each have four. That works.
好吧，给我们上三份蒸饺。一共12个，我们每人4个，这样就行了。
Sheldon：No. If we fill up on dumplings, we need to eliminate another entree.
不行，如果我们用蒸饺填饱了肚子，就必须再去掉一道菜。
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，我们就打包带回家。
【解析】
1、leftovers：剩饭菜
Sheldon：And divide it how? I'm telling you, we cannot do this without Wolowitz.
然后怎么分?我给你说了，没有Wolowitz我们吃不成。
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，如果你让我邀请Penny的话，就会有第四个人了。
Sheldon：Have you seen Penny eat Chinese food? She uses a fork and she double-dips her egg rolls.
你见过Penny吃中国菜吗? 她用的是叉子而且吃蛋皮春卷要蘸两次酱。
【解析】
1、dip：蘸
2、egg rolls：炸春卷
Leonard：We don't order egg rolls.
我们不点蛋皮春卷。
Sheldon：Exactly, but we'd have to if she was here!
没错，但是如果她来了就会点的。
Raj：Can we please make a decision? Not only are there children starving in India, there's an Indian starving right here.
我们快点做决定好吗？不仅是印度的孩子们在挨饿，这里就有一个印度人在挨饿。
Leonard：There's an idea. Why don't we just go out for Indian food?
有主意了。我们为什么不去吃印度菜呢？
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.
你们都是好孩子。让我告诉你们怎么办吧。我会给你们上四个蒸饺。当我朝这张桌子走过来时，可能我被绊了一下，一个蒸饺掉在了地上。没人会知道。
【解析】
1、bump：撞倒
Sheldon：I'll know.
我会知道的。 -Raj：How about soup? soup：汤 喝汤怎么样？ -Leonard：Yeah, we can always divide soup. 对，我们总能平分汤的。
Sheldon：What about the wontons?
汤里的馄饨怎么办？
【解析】
wonton：馄饨
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