轻松日记商务职场篇50:不想当电灯泡
时间：2018-12-31 作者：英语课 分类：轻松日记商务职场篇
核心句型：
I don't want to be a third wheel.
我不想当电灯泡。
be a third wheel直译过来就是：“做第三个轮子”，自行车上装第三个轮子表示累赘，引申到男女约会时表示：“多余的第三者，当电灯泡”。因此，当美国人说"I don't want to be a third wheel."时，他/她要表达的意思就是:"I don't want to be an unwanted third party on a date."、"I don't want to disturb you two."、"I don't want to be the needless one."。
情景对白：
Terry: I'm going out with Iris 1 tonight. Why not come and have dinner with us?
泰瑞：我晚上要和艾蕊丝约会，和我们一起吃晚饭吧！
Benjamin: You two go on ahead. I don't want to be a third wheel.
本杰明：你们两个去好了，我不想当电灯泡。
搭配句积累：
①It's your private affair and I don't want to interfere 2.
这是你的私事，我可不想介入。
②You two haven't seen each other for so long.
你们俩这么久没见面了。
③You must have a lot to confide 3 to her.
你一定有很多话要对她说。
④Let's ask her out to dinner tonight.
请她和我们一起吃饭。
单词：
1. wheel n. 车轮
The car wheels spun 4 and slipped on some oil on the road.
路面上有些油，汽车车轮经过时直打滑。
The wheel of history rolls on.
历史的车轮滚滚向前。
2. interfere vi. 涉入
I wish everyone would stop interfering 5 and just leave me alone.
我希望大家都别再来干涉我，让我一个人静一静。
The UN cannot interfere in the internal affairs of any country.
联合国不能干涉任何国家的内政。
3. confide vi. 吐露
I knew she had some fundamental problems in her marriage because she had confided 6 in me a year earlier.
我知道她的婚姻存在一些根本性的问题，早在一年前她就向我倾诉过。
He confided to me that he felt like he was being punished.
他向我诉说他觉得自己像是在受罚。
- The opening of the iris is called the pupil.虹膜的开口处叫做瞳孔。
- This incredible human eye,complete with retina and iris,can be found in the Maldives.又是在马尔代夫，有这样一只难以置信的眼睛，连视网膜和虹膜都刻画齐全了。
- If we interfere, it may do more harm than good.如果我们干预的话，可能弊多利少。
- When others interfere in the affair,it always makes troubles. 别人一卷入这一事件，棘手的事情就来了。
- I would never readily confide in anybody.我从不轻易向人吐露秘密。
- He is going to confide the secrets of his heart to us.他将向我们吐露他心里的秘密。
- His grandmother spun him a yarn at the fire.他奶奶在火炉边给他讲故事。
- Her skilful fingers spun the wool out to a fine thread.她那灵巧的手指把羊毛纺成了细毛线。
- She confided all her secrets to her best friend. 她向她最要好的朋友倾吐了自己所有的秘密。
- He confided to me that he had spent five years in prison. 他私下向我透露，他蹲过五年监狱。 来自《简明英汉词典》