| 释义 |
Examples:one time (all the way through)—part-time work in which one works each day for a half-day, typically a morning or an afternoon—Lee Myung-bak (1941-), South Korean businessman, one-time chairman of Hyundai, President of South Korea from 2007—one may know a person for a long time without understanding his true nature—lit. the fish and the bear's paw, you can't have both at the same time (idiom, from Mencius); fig. you must choose one or the other—time crawls when one is wretched—Fall inthe moat and you'll be wiser next time (idiom); One only learns from one's mistakes.—go forward one stage at a time—(literary) be promoted more than one grade or rank at a time—the swallow's nest is built one beakful of mud at a time [idiom.]— |