Take the case of the humble light bulb.

举个谦卑的电灯泡的例子。

His other famous invention was the light bulb.

他另一个著名的发明是电灯泡。

And third wheel all over your sexy breakfast?

做你们性感早餐的电灯泡吗?

So you went from matchmaker to third wheel?

所以你就从媒人变成了电灯泡？

It's a girl, and you need to get out of here.

是个妹子，你这电灯泡得赶紧闪人。

Huh, so you can tell what that feels like. Interesting.

哈，你也知道什么叫当电灯泡呀。有趣。

On our date? Sheldon, that's not okay. Yes, it is.

来当电灯泡吗谢尔顿 这样属违约。才没有。

You can't expect a child to wait for a light bulb to cook brownies.

你不能要求小孩子 等着电灯泡把饼干烤好。

Shopping on credit and driving electric cars and hiring tradesmen to change a lightbulb.

信用卡消费，开电动车，换个电灯泡都得雇人。

Nah, I wouldn't worry about that. But I don't want to be the third wheel.

我倒不担心这个，我也不想当你们两个人的电灯泡。

LEDs are rapidly replacing bulbs and tubes because they are more efficient.

LED正凭借其更高的能量利用率迅速取代电灯泡和灯管。

Yeah. It was like meeting Thomas Edison when he invented the light bulb kind of thing.

是的。就像托马斯·爱迪生发明了电灯泡一样。

And within that evil eye, the merciless glare of a single electric light bulb.

在那只邪恶的眼睛里，有一只散发出无情眩光的电灯泡。

Yeah, we know, Thomas Edison wasn't the sole inventor of the lightbulb.

是的，我们知道，托马斯·爱迪生并非电灯泡的唯一发明者。

Morgan is considering an investment in Thomas Edison's company, and his newly-developed electric light bulb.

摩根正在考虑投资托马斯·爱迪生的公司以及他新发明的电灯泡。

During his lifetime he invented more than 2 000 new things, including the light bulb, the telegraph and photographic film.

他的一生中，发明了2000多种东西，包括电灯泡、电报和胶卷。

I mean, they didn't say anything, but I just kind of felt like I was being a weird third wheel.

问题是，他们什么都没说但我就是觉得我好像是个电灯泡。

A device that made it easier to hear on the telephone, the phonograph, devices for electric light and generating electricity.

他提高了电话声音的传送效率，发明了留声机，电灯泡和发电机。

How many times did Edison try to make a lightbulb?

爱迪生做了多少次电灯泡？

It is actually the oil lamp that is the source of light in the scene and not the electric light bulb.

实上，在这个场景中，光源是油灯，而不是电灯泡。