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11. cross a bridge when one comes to it车到山前必有路
1 L0 L; P7 a8 J/ C0 }; X! s0 `释义:deal with a situation when, and not before, it occurs
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V, B6 P; a8 A, X9 J例句:If we can't sell the house——well, we'll cross that bridge when we
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我们要是卖不掉这房子,那我们就等问题出现时再解决也不迟。+ g: Q) Y; R# ]7 J* D- N
* N+ G: j* z) R9 l1 W a" s. [) O典故:这个短语起源甚早,即使连《牛津英语谚语词典》也无法列出其起源,只- A4 h0 W" |* A+ N
引用了19世纪美国诗人朗菲罗的作品:. k1 E) k2 ?* q' j) B. {
Don't cross the bridge till you come to it, ......is a proverb old, and of
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5 V+ P/ n, c' U2 N" t! T Don't cross the bridge till you come to it, ......是个充满智慧的古老的谚
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