荧屏情景

荧屏情景：

实验室 片段选自《生活大爆炸》第4季第10集 The Big Bang Theory S04E10 05:35-06:23

Sheldon: Aren't you slicing that man's brain a little too thin?
谢尔丹：你会不会把那片人脑切太薄了点？
Emily: It's too thin if I were making a foot-long brain sandwich at Quiznos. For examination under a two-photon microscope, it's fine.
艾米丽：如果我要做一英尺厚的人脑三明治，那是太薄了。如果是放在双光子显微镜下检查，那就还好。
Sheldon: Well, you're the expert. If the correct way to do it is the wrong way, then I yield.
谢尔丹：好吧，你是专家。如果你想强词夺理，我没意见。
Emily: Very well. If you die and donate your body to science, I promise to slice your brain like Canadian bacon.
艾米丽：很好，如果你死后为科学捐献尸体的话，我保证把你的大脑切得和加拿大培根一样厚。
Sheldon: Thank you.
谢尔丹：谢谢！
Emily: Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to take my temperature.
艾米丽：如果你不介意，现在我要测一下自己的体温。
Sheldon: Are you monitoring your circadian rhythms in order to identify your periods of maximum mental acuity? I did that one summer. Ah, youth.
谢尔丹：你是在监测自己的生理节奏以确定大脑最活跃的时段吗？有一年百天我也干过，啊，青春啊！

单词与短语

单词与短语：
1. slice vt.切成片；切下；划分
eg. Helen sliced the cake.
海伦把蛋糕切成片。
eg. Slice the steak into long thin slices.
将牛排切成长长的薄片。
2. yield v. 屈服，投降；
eg. I yielded to an impulse.
我没有忍住冲动。
eg. He may yield control.
他可能会放弃控制权。
3. monitor v. 监控；监视；监督
eg. You need feedback to monitor progress.
你需要利用反馈信息来监控进展。
eg. Peter Murray is in London and has been monitoring reports out of Monrovia.
彼得·默里一直在伦敦监听来自蒙罗维亚的新闻报道。
4. circadian adj. 生理节奏的
eg. The circadian clock must be rewound every day to keep it operating on a cycle of roughly 24 hours.
我们必须每天给生物钟上发条，以保持它按照每天24个小时运转。
eg. It isn't clear exactly how disruptions in circadian rhythm could influence body weight.
研究人员尚不完全清楚打乱生理节律是否会影响体重。
5. acuity n. 敏锐，敏锐度
eg. We work on improving visual acuity.
我们致力于提高视觉的敏锐度。
eg. All we've noticed are some cravings and an increased acuity in our senses.
我们所能注意到的只是一些我们变得敏锐的感官。