第一， 迷你對話

A: Listen, Nancy. If you can’t understand what we’re doing, mind your own business and do not interfere in my business.

Nancy，聽著，如果你不明白我們在做什么，就少管閑事， 不要干涉我的事情。

B: I’m sorry, but I have the right to ask what you will do. It has something to do with me and my two daughters. We don’t want to become the victims of your foolish decision.

我很抱歉，但是我有權知道你干什么。這和我以及我的女兒有關。我們不想成為你愚蠢的決定的的犧牲品。

A: Yes, you have the right. But I’m not doing anything wrong to threaten your life.

是的，你有權力，但是干任何有礙于你生活的事情。

B: You get on my nerves by keeping us in the dark about your business.

你干什么事情都把我們蒙在鼓里，這就讓我們很不安。

第二， 地道表達

mind one’s own business

1. 解詞釋義

Mind one’s own business的意思是“少管閑事，不要多管閑事”。

2. 拓展范例

e.g. As he was always interfering, I told him to mind his own business.

因他常來干涉, 我叫他少管閑事。

e.g. He was sensible enough to mind his own business.

他很聰明，不管別人閑事。

e.g. He asked me if I was married, so I told him to mind his own business.

他問我結婚了沒有，我叫他少管閑事。

e.g. “You mind your own business”, shouted the landlord, turning savagely on him.

你少管閑事！店老板叫著，兇惡地看他一眼。

第三， 咬文嚼字

interfere in：干涉……

e.g. We have no right to interfere in the internal affairs of other countries.

我們沒有權利干涉別國內政。

e.g. When others interfere in the affair, it always makes troubles.

他人一插手，棘手的事情就來了。

have something to do with：與……有關系

e.g. Her diligence must have something to do with his success.

她的勤勉和她的成功一定有某些關系。

e.g. It has something to do with the young soldier at the castle.

這一定和城堡內那位年輕士兵有關。

get on one’s nerves：使某人心煩易怒

e.g. Children get on their parent's nerves by asking so many questions.

孩子們提這么多問題，使他們的父母心煩。

e.g. The incessant talking got on his nerves and he longed for a quiet place where he could sit by himself.

院里眾人的窮說，使他心里鬧得慌，他愿意找個清靜的地方獨自坐著。

keeping sb. in the dark （about）：對某人保守秘密，不然某人知道……

e.g. She now resolved to keep Harriet no longer in the dark.

現在她決定不再把赫蕊埃特悶在葫蘆里了。

e.g. Can you promise to keep my father in the dark what I tell you ?

你能保證不讓我父親知道我告訴你的事情嗎？

do something wrong：做錯事情

e.g. He enticed the young men to do something wrong.

他誘惑那些年輕人做壞事。

e.g. Mothers often talk with their children harshly when they do something wrong.

母親們在孩子做錯事后總嚴厲責備他們。