點滴英語天天學第103期:分手了!(詞彙詳解7)
Jennifer 聽了Kenny說到Mary和Mike分手的原因以及如何對待Mike不忠心於她的行爲和態度，她說了什麼呢？我們來看一下：
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也知道關於Mary和Mike的一些婚姻情況，我們暫且不論她說了什麼，先來學習她的話語中的mistress，on the rocks，pre-nup和to talk sb. to the cleaners這些詞彙是什麼意思。那麼，今天我們來學習 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“情婦”。表示一個男人有個情婦，我們用have和keep兩個動詞都可以，即：have a mistress，keep a mistress。
我們來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. （我一直以爲Henderson先生和他妻子婚姻很完美，但是我最近才發現他多年來有個情婦了。）
解析1：have a good marriage是指“擁有美好的婚姻”，句中的have the perfect marriage是指“擁有完美的婚姻”。例如：Years ago you gave some advice on how to have a good marriage. （幾年前，你曾就如何擁有美滿的婚姻提出了一些看法。）
解析2：find out的意思是“發現，弄清楚，查清楚，覈實清楚”。例如：I hope we can find out about it. （我希望我們能查清此事。） I must find out which of them was in the right. （我一定要搞清楚他們當中誰有理。）
例句2： If he keeps a mistress, doesn't he have to support two households? （如果他有一個情婦，他不需要養活兩個家庭嗎?）
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.
— 可憐的Alice，她的丈夫最近才告訴她：他一直和另外一個女人約會。— 那個人是他的情婦。看起來很奇怪，他們都住在一起。
解析1：pretty在這裏做副詞，意思是“相當，非常，頗爲”。例如：She seemed pretty satisfied with the result. （她對那結果似乎相當滿意） The situation seems pretty hopeless. （這情況似乎沒有多大希望了。）
解析2：all用語三人以上，在句中是指Alice和她的husband，還有她丈夫的mistress。
我們今天學習了Mistress這個詞彙，記住它是指“情婦”。Hope that you can bear it in your mind.
