第一、詞匯精講

1. involve

雙語釋義：cause sb/sth to take part in (an activity or a situation)

[vt.] 使某人（或某事物）參與某活動或陷入某情況

語法用法：~ sb in something

~ sb in doing something

典型范例：Don't involve me in solving your problems!

你解決你的問題, 不要把我拉進去!

2. butt

雙語釋義：interrupt (sb/sth) or interfere (in sth)

[vt.] 干擾（某人或某事物）; 干涉（某人互毆某事物）

搭配模式：butt in somebody ( or something )

butt on somebody ( or something )

典型例句：Don't butt in like that when I'm speaking.

我講話時別這樣打斷我的話。

May I butt in on your conversation?

我可以插句話嗎?

第二、短語精講

1. any minute：即刻，隨時

A policeman could meet danger any minute of his working day.

警察在工作日的任何時刻都可能有危險。

She looked ready to collapse at any minute.

她看樣子隨時都可能垮下來。

2. make time：騰出時間

Could you make time to type it for me?

你能抽空幫我把它打出來嗎?

I'll make time if it's important.

我可以抽時間，如果事情重要的話。

3. get off the phone (with somebody)：掛電話

Then let me get off the phone and check out the problem.

那么讓我先掛掉電話查看一下問題。

Some people get chatty and are hard to get off the phone.

有些人喜歡聊天，而且很難讓他放下電話。

4. hear sb. out：聽某人把話說完

Please hear me out and make your decision.

請聽我把話說完，你再做決定。

5. work out：解決，想出，得到(解決方法)

Negotiators are due to meet later today to work out a compromise.

談判人員定于今天晚些時候進行會談，商定一個折中方案。

It took me some time to work out what was causing this.

我花了一些時間才弄清此事的起因。

6. butt out：不必多嘴

No one asked your opinion, so butt out.

沒有人征求你的意見，不要插嘴。

7. go on：發生，進行

While this conversation was going on, I was listening with earnest attention.

這場對話進行的時候，我聚精會神地聽著。

I don't know what's going on.

我不知道發生了什么事。

第三、短語回顧

1. right now：現在，馬上

2. listen to：聽

3. have time to do something：有時間做某事

4. would rather：寧愿

5. leave for something：離開（某處）去做某事

第四、語法點撥

1. But I'd really rather not talk about it right now.

點撥：在含有would rather的句子中，要表示否定，就在would rather后面接否定詞not，再接動詞原形。

2. So is this meeting.

點撥：這是倒裝句，結構是：So+系動詞+主語。這句話中以so開頭，系動詞是is，主語是this meeting。在本段臺詞中，同樣的句式還有一個：Yeah, so are we.

4. Betty, you're being incredibly rude.

點撥：be +being+形容詞是表示這樣的情況只是在暫時的，不是經常性的。