Better to ask the way than go astray.

问路总比迷路好。


活学活用：astray

lead (sb.) astray

使人堕落, 把人引入歧途

The boy was led astray by bad companions.

这小孩被坏伙伴诱入歧途。

go astray

走错路; 误入歧途

Do as the Romans do.

入乡随俗。


出处《庄子•山木》：“入其俗，从其令。”

活学活用：as

He is my best friend, my second self, as it were.

他是我最好的朋友，或者说，是第二个我。

as of right

依照法律

as yet

迄今，到目前为止

as of

自从；自…起

as of today

从今天起

as oppesed to

与…不同；与…相反

You can't judge a book by its cover. 你不可以貌取人！


Angela： "He dresses in plain clothes and drives an old car. Who would know he is the richest man in town？"

　　Andy： "You can't judge a book by its cover."

　

　　安吉拉：他穿着很平常，开着一辆旧车，谁会想到他是这个城里最富有的人呢？

　　安 迪：你不可以貌取人。

　　You can't judge a book by its cover means that before you can judge something， you need to take a deeper， closer look at it.

　　中文意思：你不可以貌取人。

Custom makes all things easy.

有个好习惯，事事皆不难。


活学活用：custom

Once is no custom.

[谚]一次不能成例。

give one's custom to

经常光顾, 成为...的常客

Custom is a second nature.

[谚]习惯是第二天性。

Never fish in trouble water.

不要混水摸鱼。


活学活用：trouble

Students growing up from nursery school to college have trouble

dealing with realities.

从幼儿园到大学的大学生在如何应付现实生活上都存在困难。

ask for trouble

找麻烦

get (a girl) into trouble

使（女孩）未婚怀孕

Books and friends should be few but good.

读书如交友，应求少而精。


活学活用：friend

A friend to every body is a friend to nobody.

[谚]滥交者无友。

A friend in court is better than a penny in purse.

[谚]与其囊中有钱, 不如朝中有人。

Make hay while the sun shines.

良机勿失。


活学活用: shine

shine one's shoes

擦皮鞋

shine up to sb.

[美俚]百般讨好某人

cut a shine

[口]大出风头, 招摇过市, 摆阔

Necessity is the mother of invention.

需要是发明的动力。


活学活用：mother

Failure is the mother of success.

失败是成功之母。

Like mother, like child [daughter].

[谚]有其母必有其子[女]。

Hunger is often the mother of crime.

饥饿常是犯罪的根源。

A mother's love never changes.

母爱永恒。


活学活用：change

change about

改变立场[主意], 变节, 反复无常, 见异思迁, 朝三暮四

the last great change

长眠; 死

take one's change out of sb.

[口]向...报复

put the change on sb.

欺骗某人, 对某人隐瞒

small change

零钱, 找另头

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

有时吃亏就是占便宜。


活学活用：gain

No gains without pains.

[谚]没有辛苦就没有收获; 不劳则无获

gain one's living

谋生

gain the battle

打胜仗

gain the audience's attention

吸引住听众[观众]

gain the top of a mountain

到达山顶