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

【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.

在讨论中，我不支持他的观点。

2.be bound by

【释】受...约束(海词，下同)

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

但我们若甘于被过去束缚，就永远无法前进。

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)这里译为袖手旁观

【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击时袖手旁观。