MJE美剧笔记 生活大爆炸S01E01新邻居penny

Leonard: Should we have invited her for lunch?

Sheldon: No. We’re going to start Season Two of Battlestar Galactica.

Leonard: We already watched the Season Two DVDs.

Sheldon: Not with commentary.

Leonard: I think we should be good neighbours, invite her over, make her feel welcome.

Sheldon: We never invited Louis-slash-Louise over.

Leonard: Well, then that was wrong of us. We need to widen our circle.

Sheldon: I have a very wide circle. I have 212 friends on myspace.

Leonard: Yes, and you’ve never met one of them.

Sheldon: That’s the beauty of it.

Leonard: I’m going to invite her over. We’ll have a nice meal and chat.

Sheldon: Chat? We don’t chat. At least not offline.

Leonard: Well it’s not difficult, you just listen to what she says and then you say something appropriate in response.

(He knocks on Penny’s door).

Sheldon: To what end?

Should sb have done

【释】”Should sb have done” is subjunctive, which means whether sb should do sth that sb didn’t do at the past moment.
应该会/过去应该会...:是一种虚拟语气，意思是某人过去没有做的事情是本应该做的

【例】If he had started earlier, he should have completed it.（原创）
如果他开始的早的话，就应该已经完成了。

【例】Should we have been more polite to that rude seller?
我们应该对那位粗鲁的销售员更礼貌些吗？

Battlestar Galactica

【释】is an American science fiction franchise created by Glen A. Larson. (Wiki)
太空堡垒-卡拉狄加：是Gken A.Larson创作的美国科幻小说

Commentary

【释】(plural commentaries)an expression of opinions or offering of explanations about an event or situation (牛津)
评论，评注：对于一个事件或情况表达观点或提供解释

Louis-slash-Louise

【释】transvestite （Google）a person, typically a man, who derives pleasure from dressing in clothes appropriate to the opposite sex. (牛津)
路易斯和露易丝：代指异装癖者，尤指从穿异性的衣服得到精神上愉悦的男性

To what end

【释】end: a goal or desired result. （牛津） “To what end？” means that “what goal or result does sb want to achieve”
要达到什么目的呢（end：目标或渴望得到的结果）

【例】“To what end?” His father asked, knowing the answer already.（原创）
已经知道答案的他父亲问：“要达到什么目的呢？”

【例】Some of you are complaining about or completely refusing frequently changing technology, but to what end?
你们中的有些人总是在抱怨或完全拒绝频繁改变的技术，但目的是什么呢？