迷你對話學地道口語第1363期:在某人控制或支配下

第一，迷你對話

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

Susan,昨晚的事情，我很抱歉。

B: Oh, that's OK.

哦，沒關係。

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

我沒料到我們會那麼晚纔回來。

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，地道表達

under one's thumb

1. 解詞釋義

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

2. 拓展範例

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

用法：to be under the thumb of ....

我們都在老闆的祕書莎莉的控制之下。

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

用法：have someone under one's belt

市長如此深得人心，全城人都聽他的。

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

用法：to be under the thumb of...

瓊斯一家人都得聽從母親的。

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

吉姆很霸道，所有年幼的孩子都得受他擺佈。

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：做副詞性短語用

羅伯茨夫人對她的丈夫唯命是從。

第三，視野拓展

to be sorry about ：對.....感到抱歉，遺憾，悲痛

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

對阿特·羅密歐，我也深感悲痛。

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

對整個事情我深感遺憾。

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

對於昨天發生的一切，我非常抱歉。

get back：回來

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

他在雪中跋涉三個鐘點纔回到家。

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