It's like talking to a dead phone.

简牛弹琴。

Amy Farrah Fowler. Yes, that is a girl's name. Good grief. It's like trying to talk to a dolphin.

艾米·菲拉·福勒 没错 这确实个女孩 天哪 简就牛弹琴。

He slept through the whole play. It's a case of pearls before swine.

他整场演出都在睡觉。真牛弹琴。

He might as well have talked to a wall. The Serpent never moved.

可他这番话完全牛弹琴。蛇一动也不动。

Well, I'm just playing tennis against the drapes here.

我这完全在牛弹琴啊。

She said she saw it through the windows of a moving el train.

这简就在牛弹琴。

The heroine of Pride and Prejudice is Elizabeth Bennet. She is a great and complex character. Not that you would know.

傲慢与偏见的女主角伊莉莎白。她伟大也的主角，跟你说牛弹琴。

And I'm like, no, it's like preaching to the choir.

而且我说，不，这牛弹琴。

Is that you can't keep talking to the converted.

你不能总牛弹琴。

So, I mean, you're kind of preaching to the choir.

所以，我的意思，你这在牛弹琴。

She was talking to a wall, literally.

她简在牛弹琴。

It's so important when we're communicating with others that we understand what their interests are, what their needs are to make sure that we're actually engaging in dialogue with one another as opposed to talking past each other.

当我们与他人沟通时， 理解他们的兴趣和需求非常重要的，这样才能确保我们真正进行话， 而不在牛弹琴。

And so it's just such an amazing moment of this clash of these worlds that they just talk past each other.

这真一个令人惊叹的时刻，两个世界在此碰撞，他们却只在牛弹琴。

I'm afraid you may have a fellow, I think you're speaking to the converted, a fellow weirdo.

恐怕你在牛弹琴，我觉得你在跟一个同道中人，一个怪咖说话。

Yeah, it falls on deaf ears.

yeah, 这话牛弹琴。

Man, you're preaching to the choir.

伙计，你这牛弹琴。

They just talk past each other because she is trying to say, look at your infant son.

他们只在牛弹琴，因为她试图说，看看你那婴儿儿子。