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(jìn)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(dá)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