2013年英语四级考试口语练习：次要地位

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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 become 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。