Scene: The hallway, Leonard puts a note under Penny’s door. It opens.

Penny: Hi.

Leonard: Oh.

Penny: What’s going on?

Leonard: Um, here’s the thing. (Reads from note.) Penny. Just as Oppenheimer came to regret his contributions to the first atomic bomb, so too I regret my participation in what was, at the very least, an error in judgement. The hallmark of the great human experiment is the willingness to recognise one’s mistakes. Some mistakes, such as Madame Curie’s discovery of Radium turned out to have great scientific potential even though she would later die a slow, painful death from radiation poisoning. Another example, from the field of ebola research….

Penny: Leonard.

Leonard: Yeah.

Penny (hugs him): We’re okay. (Kisses him on cheek. Closes door. Leonard looks happy, walks back across hallway and straight into the apartment door.)

just as
【釋】正像（有道，下同）
【例】Just as a family has to make hard choices about where to spend and where to save , so do we as a government .
作為政府，我們就像一個家庭一樣，對于該把錢花在哪里，在哪方面節(jié)省錢，不得不做出艱難的抉擇。

so too I regret
【釋】我也后悔……
【講】原文中just as X, so too Y（就像……，……也……）是慣用語法，在一些情況下Y需要用倒裝，但并不是必須的。In spoken language, instead of using inversion, we often use stress or some other way of phrasing. 口語中,未必一定要倒裝
e.g.Just as the soil is a part of the earth, so too is the atmosphere. （有道）
就像土壤是地球的一部分一樣，大氣也是地球的一部分。
e.g.Just as he liked and praised a country life in comparison with the life he did not like, so too he liked the peasantry in contradistinction to the class of men he did not like, and so too he knew the peasantry as something distinct from and opposed to men generally.
-From a translation of Anna Karenina byTolstoy.
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at the very least
【釋】至少，起碼（有道，下同）
【例】The probe will at the very least lead to tougher guidelines.
這一調(diào)查至少將導(dǎo)致更嚴(yán)厲的準(zhǔn)則出臺。

the hallmark of
【釋】an outstanding or distinguishing feature（free，下同）
標(biāo)志,常常是一項優(yōu)秀的品質(zhì)
【例】The sense of guilt is the hallmark of civilized humanity.
內(nèi)疚感是人類文明的標(biāo)志

recognize
【釋】to admit or to be aware that something exists or is true（牛津高階）承認(rèn)
【例】No matter you agree or not , you must recognize his decision is correct .（有道）
不管你愿意還是不愿意，你都必須承認(rèn)他的決定是對的。

radiation poisoning
【釋】輻射中毒（有道，下同）
【例】The former Russian spy who died from radiation poisoning was laid to rest this afternoon in London .
死于發(fā)射性物質(zhì)中毒的前俄羅斯特工今天下午在倫敦下葬

上一期 生活大爆炸S01E02 MJE美劇筆記 Leonard和Penny分手了？

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