学英语日常对话：Big Bang之Sheldon是机器人吗？(1)

　　今天，我们需要练习的口语对话主要来自科技方面的内容。学英语日常对话内容如下：

　　Howard:Sheldon, if you were a robot, and I knew and you didn't... ...would you want me to tell you?

　　Sheldon :That depends. When I learn that I'm a robot... will I be able to handle it?

　　Howard:Maybe-- although the history of science fiction is not on your side(1).

　　Sheldon :Okay, let me ask you this-- when I learn that I'm a robot, would I be bound by(2) Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics(3)?

　　Raj:You might be bound by them right now.

　　Howard:That's true.Have you ever harmed a human being or through inaction(4) allowed a human being to come to harm?

　　Sheldon :Of course not.

　　Howard:Have you ever harmed yourself or allowed yourself to be harmed except in cases where a human being would have been endangered?

　　Sheldon : Well, no.

　　Howard:I smell robot.

　　1. be on one's side

　　【学英语日常对话释】支持某人(的观点)(改编自海词，下同)

　　【例】I was not on his side in the discussion.

　　在探讨中，我不支撑他的观点。

　　2.be bound by CopyRight yingyuzhijia,英语书面语.com

　　【释】受...约束(海词，下同)

　　【例】But if we are bound by the past , we will never move forward .

　　但咱们若甘于被从前束缚，就永远无奈前进。

　　3.Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics

　　【释】阿西莫夫的机器人三定律

　　4.inaction

　　【释】不活动，无为，怠惰。(海词)这里译为冷眼傍观

　　【例】The police were accused of inaction in the face of a possible attack.(牛津高阶)

　　警察被指控在面对一个可能的攻打时隔岸观火的学英语日常对话知识点讲解。