Sheldon: Are you still mad about the sperm bank?
Leonard: No.
Sheldon: You want to hear an interesting thing about stairs?
Leonard: Not really.
Sheldon: If the height of a single step is off by as little as two millimetres, people will trip.
Leonard: I don’t care. Two millimetres?That doesn’t seem right.
Sheldon: No, it’s true, I did a series of experiments when I was twelve, my father broke his clavicle.
Leonard: Is that why they sent you to boarding school?
Sheldon: No, that was the result of my work with lasers.
(Leonard spots Penny in the doorway of the apartment opposite. He is immediately interested.)
Leonard: New neighbour?
Sheldon: Evidently.
Leonard: Significant improvement over the old neighbour.
Sheldon: Two hundred pound transvestite with a skin condition, yes she is.
Penny (noticing them for the first time):Oh, hi!
Leonard: Hi.
Sheldon: Hi.
Leonard: Hi.
Sheldon: Hi.
Penny: Hi?
Leonard: We don’t mean to interrupt, we live across the hall.
Penny: Oh, that’s nice.
Leonard: Oh… uh… no… we don’t live together… um… we live together but in separate, heterosexual bedrooms.
Penny: Oh, okay, well, guess I’m your new neighbour, Penny.
Leonard: Leonard, (pointing) Sheldon.
Penny: Hi.
Leonard: Hi.
Sheldon: Hi.
Penny: Hi.
Leonard: Hi. Well… uh… oh, welcome to the building.
Penny: Thank you, maybe we can have coffee sometime.
Leonard: Oh, great.
Penny: Great.
Sheldon: Great.
Leonard: Great. Well, bye.
Penny: Bye.
Sheldon: Bye.
Leonard: Bye.
(Penny closes door.)
trip
【釋】[I, Ipr, Ip] ~ (over/up) catch one’s foot on sth and stumble or fall (牛津高階)使絆倒：某人的腳被勾住，絆倒或跌倒
【例】She tripped (over the cat) and fell. (牛津高階)
她被貓絆住，跌倒了。
【例】I tripped over, dropping the tray I was carrying. (牛津高階)
我被絆倒了，攜帶的盤子也掉了下來。
clavicle
【釋】n (anatomy) collar-bone 鎖骨. (牛津高階)
doorway
【釋】an entrance into a building or room (韋氏)
門口，門道：進入建筑物或房間的入口
transvestite
【釋】a person who adopts the dress and often the behavior typical of the opposite sex (參考韋氏)
(尤指男性)異性裝扮癖者
across the hall
(注:across+n)
【釋】on the other side of (sth) (牛津高階)
在...對面
【例】We shall soon be across the Channel. (牛津高階)
我們很快就能到達海峽對面去。
【例】He shouted to me from across the room. (牛津高階)
他在屋對面朝我叫喊。
【例】Across the river is a log cabin, the owner of which is a hunter manipulated by the wicked queen. (自造)
河對面是一個小木屋，所有者是被邪惡的女王操縱的獵人。
heterosexual
【釋】adj feeling sexually attracted to people of the opposite sex (牛津高階)
異性戀者
