看美剧《生活大爆炸》学英语8_影视英语

    台词
    amy: how about you, penny? do you go on many dates?
    penny: uh, yeah, i wouldn't say many. a few. what's...?
    sheldon: your characterization of approximately 171 different men as "a few."
    penny: what...where did you get 171 men?
    sheldon: simple extrapolation. in the three years that i've known you, you were single for two. during that time, i saw 17 different suitors. if we work backwards, correcting for observation bias and postulate an initial dating age of 15
    penny: whoa, wait, wait, wait. i did not start dating at 15.
    sheldon: i'm sorry. sixteen?
    penny: fourteen.
    sheldon: my mistake. now, assuming the left side of a bell curve peaking around the present, that would bring the total up to 193 men. plus or minus eight men.
    词汇解释
    1. characterization n. 刻画, 特色
    2. approximately ad.近似地,几乎正确地
    3. extrapolation n. 外推法, 归纳, 推论
    4. postulate v.假定,要求
    5. minus adj.负的, 减的
    参考译文
    艾米:你呢,佩妮,你约会过很多次吗?
    佩妮:其实也没有很多次啦,有几个吧!这算啥表情?
    谢尔顿:你把约171个不同男人描述为"有几个"。
    佩妮:什么?你怎么算的171个?
    谢尔顿:简单的推断:我认识你的这三年来,你有两年是单身。
    在那两年里,你跟17名追求者约会过。
    往前倒推的话,请纠正如果观察有误,并假设你初次约会年龄为15岁...
    佩妮:等等,等等,我才不是15岁开始约会的。
    谢尔顿:抱歉,十六岁。
    佩妮:十四。
    谢尔顿:我的错。假设钟形曲线的左半部分在目前达到峰值,那就是说总数为193人,正负8人。