搜索 英語 老師
Monick
What means "playing with forces beyond your ken" and "your ken can kiss my Barbie"
I was watching The Big Bang Theory and then I saw theses phrases that I could not understand. In the context, Sheldon and Penny are fighting:
Penny: Oh, no, are all the machines taken? What are you gonna do?
Sheldon: No problem, I’ll just do my laundry another night.
Penny: Another night? Well, I guess you can try, but deep inside your heart you’ll know that laundry night is always Saturday night.
Sheldon: Woman, you are playing with forces beyond your ken.
Penny: Yeah, well, your ken can kiss my Barbie.
2020年5月8日 15:49
解答 · 4
1
"playing with forces beyond your Ken" means "playing with forces beyond your knowledge", which means "you have no idea what/who you are dealing with". "your Ken can kiss my Barbie" is a witty play on words: Ken=knowledge but it is also Barbie's boyfriend: Ken. Penny is basically telling Sheldon to bring it, that she's not afraid of him.
Hope this helps :)
2020年5月8日
Thank you all for the explanations!
2020年5月10日
Its a play on words, Ken has a different meaning in each of the sentences
2020年5月9日
'Kiss my Barbie" is also a deliberate word play on a ruder expression. See. https://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/american/kiss-my-ass
2020年5月8日
還沒找到你要的答案嗎?
寫下你的問題,讓母語者來幫助你!
Monick
語言能力
中文 (其他), 英語, 法語, 葡萄牙語, 西班牙語
學習語言
中文 (其他), 英語, 法語, 西班牙語
你也許會喜歡的文章

Speak More Fluently with This Simple Technique
27 讚 · 5 留言

How to Read and Understand a Business Contract in English
21 讚 · 4 留言

6 Ways italki Can Help You Succeed in Your School Language Classes
18 讚 · 9 留言
更多文章