地道英语口语500句 迷你对话学地道口语第333期:次要地位

迷你对话学地道口语第333期:次要地位  

特别声明,该文章中的迷你对话选自口语书籍，对话精讲为可可编辑编写。,第一、迷你对话,A: Lily thinks that the job takes a back seat to the family after she is married.,Lily认为结婚后家庭为先，工作处于次要地位。,B: She must be a good wife.,她一定是一个好妻子。,A:Not necessarily. This is only what she says, not what he does.,那也未必，说归说，做归做。,B:I see.,我明白了。,第二、 对话精讲,【地道表达】take a back seat,【解词释义】to bee less important than someone or something else 处于次要地位,【语法用法】要以......为主要地位而......为次要地位，在短语的后面加上介词to，即：take a back seat to something。,【支持范例】When the discussion turned to military affairs, the governor had to take a back seat.,当讨论到军事问题时，州长只好靠边站了。,After 30 years in the business it's time for me to take a back seat and make room for younger men.,干了30年，现在我该退居二线，给较年轻的人让位了。,My homework had to take a backseat to football during the playoffs.,在比赛赛季，我必须以足球危险，而学业功课处于次要地位。,Jimmy always took a backseat to his older brother, Bill, until Bill went away to college.,Jimmy总是让着他的哥哥Bill，知道他上大学。