mind your own business少管閒事

一句劃清公私邊界的話：工作時間歸我管，下了班歸你。它聽起來客氣，實際是把關心擋在門外，也把權力收得乾乾淨淨。換到任何職場都成立，是老闆最常用的一招軟釘子。

What you do after working hours is your own business.

拒絕別人過問私事、劃清工作與生活界限時用，對同事和上級都算得體。

What you do on your own time is up to you. ／ Once you clock out, it's none of my business.

中性

What you do 輕快帶過，after working hours 連讀，your own business 放慢收尾。

How I spend my weekends is my own business. 我週末怎麼過，是我自己的事。

把一段婚姻的破裂歸結成一句最樸素的心願：不想陪你變老。它不控訴、不辯解，只說出一個殘酷的事實，正因為平淡才顯得格外狠，也格外讓人心軟。

She just didn't want to grow old with me.

形容感情走到盡頭、對方選擇離開時用，多在對親近的人傾訴的場合，語氣低沉。

She simply didn't want to share a life with me. ／ She chose not to grow old beside me.

literary

just 輕帶，didn't want to 連讀，grow old with me 逐詞放慢收尾。

In the end, he just didn't want to grow old with me. 到最後，他只是不想和我一起變老。

用一個數字開場，把時間和驕傲一起亮出來，再讓背叛把兩者同時擊碎。它不說恨，只說曾經的引以為傲，反差越大，痛越深，是那種一句話交代半生的句子。

For ... years I was proud of ...

回顧長久關係、感嘆由自豪到破碎時用，適合對信任的人傾訴，語氣剋制而沉重。

For twenty-two years she was the one I was proud of. ／ I spent all those years proud of her.

中性

Twenty-two years 放慢加重，I was proud of my wife 平穩收尾。

For thirty years I was proud of what we built together. 三十年來，我一直為我們共同建起的一切感到驕傲。

用「像兒子」三個字，把僱傭關係一下抬到親情的高度，也把老闆的絕情反襯出來。它適合在替人求情、點破對方忘恩時用，不指責，只提醒，殺傷力卻很足。

He was almost like a son to you.

替被虧待的人說話、點出對方絕情時用，對年長或位高的人說也站得住，語氣剋制。

He was like family to you. ／ You treated him almost like your own son.

中性

almost 稍重，like a son 連讀，to you 輕收。

She was almost like a daughter to them, and they still let her go. 她對他們幾乎像女兒一樣，可他們還是把她辭了。