A lady wants to be wooed,courted slowly.
女士都想被好好追求，慢慢獻殷勤。
——《生活大爆炸》
電影片段再現
本片段選自電視劇The Big Bang Theory《生活大爆炸》。瑞吉（Kunal Nayyar昆瑙?內亞 飾）給謝爾頓（Jim Parsons吉姆?帕森斯飾）當助手，要和謝爾頓共用一間辦公室，但他倆卻在辦公桌、養鳥等問題上發生了爭執。在瑞吉的堅持和倫納德（Johnny Galecki 約翰尼?蓋爾克奇飾）的幫腔下，謝爾頓終於準許瑞吉擁有一張自己的辦公桌。從這段對話中我們可以學到關於給予許可的一些有用表達。
Raj: Why can’t I have a desk?
Sheldon: Our collaboration is a work of the mind. We don’t need desks.
Raj: You have a desk.
Sheldon: Correct.
Raj: But I can’t have one.
Sheldon: You’re two for two1.
Leonard: Why can’t he have a desk, Sheldon?
Sheldon: Oh, Lord, will this day never end? As I’ve explained repeatedly to Dr. Koothrappali, whose ability to comprehend the American idiom2 fails3 him when it’s convenient, there’s absolutely no money in my budget4 for additional office furniture.
Raj: Oh, but there’s money for a drawer full of Red Vines, a marshmallow shooting rifle, and a super executive ant farm with glow-in-the-dark sand?
Sheldon: Yes.
Howard: Okay, what if he buys his own desk?
Raj: Yeah, what if I buy my own desk?
Sheldon: That’s ridiculous.
Howard: Why?
Sheldon: Because...
[thinking]
Raj: Yes?
Sheldon: It’s my office.
Leonard: Sheldon.
Sheldon: All right, all right. He can buy his own desk.
Raj: And I can put it in your office?
Sheldon: Well, you really want to dot the i’s and cross the t’s5, don’t you?
瑞吉：為什麼我不可以有個辦公桌？
謝爾頓：我們的合作僅僅建立在思想上，根本不需要辦公桌。
瑞吉：但是你有一張啊。
謝爾頓：是的。
瑞吉：而我卻不能有一張。
謝爾頓：再次正確。
倫納德：謝爾頓，為什麼他不能有張辦公桌呢？
謝爾頓：噢，上帝，這一天永遠都不會結束了嗎？我已經反複跟庫特拉帕裏博士解釋過了，這位有時候裝作聽不懂美國習語的家夥，我的預算裏真的沒有額外的辦公家具的錢。
瑞吉：哦，那你就有預算買一抽屜的紅酒棒棒糖，一把棉花糖步槍，一個有夜光沙土的高級螞蟻農場？
謝爾頓：是的。
霍華德：好吧，如果他自己買可以吧？