第一，迷你对话

A: Susan, I'm sorry about last night.

Susan,昨晚的事情，我很抱歉。

B: Oh, that's OK.

哦，没关系。

A: I never expect that we would get back that late.

我没料到我们会那么晚才回来。

B: Well, you cannot keep everything under your thumb.

嗯，不是所有的事情都在你的控制下。

第二，地道表达

under one's thumb

1. 解词释义

Under one's thumb的字面意思是“在某人的大拇指下”，比喻为“在某人的控制下”“被某人控制”的意思。如果someone是名词时，可以用作under the thumb of someone。

2. 拓展范例

E.g. We are all under the thumb of Sally, the boss's secretary.

用法：to be under the thumb of ....

我们都在老板的秘书莎莉的控制之下。

E.g. The mayor is so popular that he has the whole town under his thumb.

用法：have someone under one's belt

市长如此深得人心，全城人都听他的。

E.g. The Jones family is under the thumb of the mother.

用法：to be under the thumb of...

琼斯一家人都得听从母亲的。

E.g. Jim is a bully.He keeps all the younger children under his thumb.

吉姆很霸道，所有年幼的孩子都得受他摆布。

用法：keep someone under one's thumb

Eg. She's got him under her thumb.

用法：get someone under one's thumb

她把他管住了。

E.g. Mrs Roberts lived very much under her husband's thumb.

用法：做副词性短语用

罗伯茨夫人对她的丈夫唯命是从。

第三，视野拓展

to be sorry about ：对.....感到抱歉，遗憾，悲痛

E.g. I'm desperately sorry about Art Romeo too.

对阿特·罗密欧，我也深感悲痛。

E.g. I' m deeply sorry about the whole business.

对整个事情我深感遗憾。

E.g. I'm sorry about what happened yesterday.

对于昨天发生的一切，我非常抱歉。

get back：回来

E.g. He trudged three hours in the snow to get back home.

他在雪中跋涉三个钟点才回到家。

E.g. When did you get back from the countryside?