Jennifer 听了Kenny说到Mary和Mike分手的原因以及如何对待Mike不忠心于她的行为和态度，她说了什么呢？我们来看一下：

Well, it doesn't surprise me on bit that he had a mistress. Their marriage has been on the rocks for a long time. I just hope they both signed a pre-nup or she'll end up taking him to the cleaners!

貌似，Jennifer也知道关于Mary和Mike的一些婚姻情况，我们暂且不论她说了什么，先来学习她的话语中的mistress，on the rocks，pre-nup和to talk sb. to the cleaners这些词汇是什么意思。那么，今天我们来学习 Mistress 的意思。

A mistress refers to a woman having an illicit but regular sexual relationship, esp with a married man. Mistress是指“情妇”。表示一个男人有个情妇，我们用have和keep两个动词都可以，即：have a mistress，keep a mistress。

我们来看下面的例句熟悉它的意思和用法。

例句1：I always thought that Mr. Henderson and his wife had the perfect marriage. But I just found out that he has had a mistress for years. （我一直以为Henderson先生和他妻子婚姻很完美，但是我最近才发现他多年来有个情妇了。）
解析1：have a good marriage是指“拥有美好的婚姻”，句中的have the perfect marriage是指“拥有完美的婚姻”。例如：Years ago you gave some advice on how to have a good marriage. （几年前，你曾就如何拥有美满的婚姻提出了一些看法。）

解析2：find out的意思是“发现，弄清楚，查清楚，核实清楚”。例如：I hope we can find out about it. （我希望我们能查清此事。） I must find out which of them was in the right. （我一定要搞清楚他们当中谁有理。）

例句2： If he keeps a mistress, doesn't he have to support two households? （如果他有一个情妇，他不需要养活两个家庭吗?）

例句3： — Poor Alice! Her husband just told her that he has been seeing another woman. — That's his mistress. It seems pretty strange but they all live together.

— 可怜的Alice，她的丈夫最近才告诉她：他一直和另外一个女人约会。— 那个人是他的情妇。看起来很奇怪，他们都住在一起。

解析1：pretty在这里做副词，意思是“相当，非常，颇为”。例如：She seemed pretty satisfied with the result. （她对那结果似乎相当满意） The situation seems pretty hopeless. （这情况似乎没有多大希望了。）

解析2：all用语三人以上，在句中是指Alice和她的husband，还有她丈夫的mistress。

我们今天学习了Mistress这个词汇，记住它是指“情妇”。Hope that you can bear it in your mind.