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。