Scene: The stairwell of the apartment building.

Leonard: Thank you for coming on such short notice.

Mrs Cooper: You did the right thing calling.

Leonard: I didn’t know what else to do, he’s lost all focus, every day he’s got a new obsession. (They enter the apartment. Sheldon is weaving on a loom. He is wrapped in a poncho.) This is a particularly disturbing one.

Sheldon (looking round): Mommy.

Mrs Cooper: Hi baby.

Sheldon (mouths): You called my mother?

on such short notice
on short notice (American English)
=at short notice (British English)
【釋】if you do something at short notice, you do not have very much time to prepare for it.
匆匆地做什么事
【例】The trip was planned on short notice.
旅行是匆匆做出的決定。
【例】Thanks for agreeing to see me at such short notice.
謝謝在這么短的時(shí)間就同意來見我。

did the right thing calling
【釋】did the right thing by calling,口語中經(jīng)常省略
打電話過來是做了正確的事情

lost all focus
focus
【釋】the centre of interest or activity．
焦點(diǎn)，這里指失去了生活的重心
【例】Somewhere in there, we lost all focus and all the effort we've been giving most of the year.
期間的某一刻，我們失去了我們的重心，我們投入大半年的努力也白費(fèi)了。

obsession
【釋】an idea or thought that continually preoccupies or intrudes on a person＇s mind．
迷住
【例】He was in the grip of an obsession he was powerless to resist．
他深陷這個(gè)念頭中，沒有力量去抵抗（不去想它）。
【例】Fitness has become an obsession with him.
健康是他一直在追求的。

loom
【釋】an apparatus for making fabric by weaving yarn or thread.
縫紉機(jī)

poncho
【釋】a garment of a type originally worn in South America, made of a thick piece of woollen cloth with a slit in the middle for the head.
斗篷

disturbing
【釋】making you feel anxious and upset or shocked
煩擾的
【例】a disturbing piece of news
一篇讓人煩擾的新聞
【例】disturbing unemployment figures
令人煩擾的失業(yè)率

生活大爆炸S01E04 MJE美劇筆記：價(jià)值一百萬的夜光魚

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