【每日一词】anomaly 摘自生活大爆炸S09E12

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anomaly

[əˈnɑməli]

n.异常，反常； 不规则； 畸形人（物）； 异常现象

复数： anomalies

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The British public's wariness of opera is an anomaly in Europe. 

英国公众对歌剧不大轻易接受的态度在欧洲来说很反常。

An anomaly exists in the case of an incompressible fluid. 

不可压缩流体是一种特殊情况.

A magnetic anomaly can be continued downward mathematically. 

磁异常可在数学上进行向下延拓.

美剧<<生活大爆炸>>中有一段关于anomaly的对话

摘自生活大爆炸S09E12

以下是对话文本

你在干嘛？

What are you doing?

确保望远镜的摄像机白场已平衡

Uh, making sure the telescope's camera is white-field balanced.

那现在呢

What are you doing now?

还在确保望远镜的摄像机

Still making sure the telescope's camera

白场已平衡

is white-field balanced.

了解

Oh, I see.

那现在呢

How about now?

现在在确保望远镜的摄像机白场已平衡  

Now I'm making sure the telescope's camera is white-field balanced

以及后悔你没有一本彩色填色本

and wishing you had a coloring book.

我可以帮上忙啊

Well, I can be helpful.

给我点事情做做嘛

Give me something to do.

告诉你  有一次我爹带我去上班

You know, my father took me to work once,

才十分钟我就发现了

and in ten minutes I figured out

到底是谁从收银机里偷钱

who'd been stealing from the cash register.

就是我爹

It was my father.

我爹丢了工作

Yeah, Dad lost his job,

但是他老板给了我根软糖冰棒

but Mr. Hinckley gave me a Fudgsicle.

行  你想要来点事做是吧

Fine, you want something to do?

这硬盘里有搜集了大约六个月的数据

There's about six months of data on this hard drive.

你何不过一遍这些数据  看能否发现

Why don't you go through it and see if you can spot

有任何规律或异常呢

any patterns or anomalies.

好的  我这就去

Yep, I'm on it.

你看我们

Hey, look at that!

印度阿三把电脑工作外包给白人佬

An Indian guy outsourcing a computer job to a white fella.

随便怎么样

Yeah, okay, whatever it takes

只要能让你忙个数小时就行了

to keep you busy for a few hours.

找到一个

Found one.