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迷你对话学英语口语 第1363期:在某人控制或支配下

2019-06-30来源:和谐英语

第一,迷你对话

A: Susan, I'm sorry about last night.

Susan,昨晚的事情,我很抱歉。

B: Oh, that's OK.

哦,没关系。

A: I never expect that we would get back that late.

我没料到我们会那么晚才回来。

B: Well, you cannot keep everything under your thumb.

嗯,不是所有的事情都在你的控制下。

第二,地道表达

under one's thumb

1. 解词释义

Under one's thumb的字面意思是“在某人的大拇指下”,比喻为“在某人的控制下”“被某人控制”的意思。如果someone是名词时,可以用作under the thumb of someone。

2. 拓展范例

E.g. We are all under the thumb of Sally, the boss's secretary.

用法:to be under the thumb of ....

我们都在老板的秘书莎莉的控制之下。

E.g. The mayor is so popular that he has the whole town under his thumb.

用法:have someone under one's belt

市长如此深得人心,全城人都听他的。

E.g. The Jones family is under the thumb of the mother.

用法:to be under the thumb of...

琼斯一家人都得听从母亲的。

E.g. Jim is a bully.He keeps all the younger children under his thumb.

吉姆很霸道,所有年幼的孩子都得受他摆布。

用法:keep someone under one's thumb

Eg. She's got him under her thumb.

用法:get someone under one's thumb

她把他管住了。

E.g. Mrs Roberts lived very much under her husband's thumb.

用法:做副词性短语用

罗伯茨夫人对她的丈夫唯命是从。

第三,视野拓展

to be sorry about :对.....感到抱歉,遗憾,悲痛

E.g. I'm desperately sorry about Art Romeo too.

对阿特·罗密欧,我也深感悲痛。

E.g. I' m deeply sorry about the whole business.

对整个事情我深感遗憾。

E.g. I'm sorry about what happened yesterday.

对于昨天发生的一切,我非常抱歉。

get back:回来

E.g. He trudged three hours in the snow to get back home.

他在雪中跋涉三个钟点才回到家。

E.g. When did you get back from the countryside?