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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 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。