Meaning
Nothing is irreversible until the final act is played out.
快樂是要蓋棺才能論定
Dan Cook made a closer stab with "the opera ain't over till the fat lady sings", in a televised basketball commentary in 1978. Cook was preceded however by US sports presenter Ralph Carpenter, in a broadcast, reported in The Dallas Morning News, March 1976:
Bill Morgan (Southwest Conference Information Director): "Hey, Ralph, this... is going to be a tight one after all."
Ralph Carpenter (Texas Tech Sports Information Director): Right. The opera ain’t over until the fat lady sings."
[Italian, from Latin tempus, time.]
There are some very important things they don't tell you on career day. Chief among them is that there is a good chance that at some point during your working adult life you will have an abusive boss
The adjective disgenic has one meaning:
Meaning #1: pertaining to or causing degeneration in the offspring producedReport by: Gerhard Schneibel
[German, from Middle High German brātwurst, from Old High German : brāto, meat + wurst, sausage; see wurst.]
give me a break 讓我休息一下, 得了吧!
come about
1. Also, come to pass. Happen, take place, as in How did this quarrel come about? or When did this new development come to pass? Shakespeare used the first term, first recorded in 1315, in Hamlet (5:2): "How these things came about." The variant, dating from the late 1400s, appears often in the Bible, as in, "And it came to pass ... that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus" (Luke 2:1).
2. Also, go about. In sailing, to change tack (direction), as in It's important to duck under the boom when we come about. [Mid-1500s]
True corporate responsibility, sustainability and that treasured “licence to operate” come, above all, from identifying the fundamental dangers to the business and ensuring they don't come to pass.
真正的企业责任、可持续性和那宝贵的“营业执照”，首先来自于认清企业面临的根本危 险，并确保它们不会发生。
Give me a break!， Give me a break 是非常口語的說法．在不同的場合有不同的解釋． Give me a break 可以解釋為 “你得了吧！”，或者是 “你算了吧！”，我 們來舉一個例子．下面是一個人在跟他的朋友爭論： You really think Jennifer is the prettiest girl in our class? Give me a break! There are several girls in our class who are better looking then she is. To my mind, Lisa is tops. She not only has looks; she also has brains. 這個人說：“你真的認為珍尼弗是我們班上最漂亮的女生？你算了吧！我們班上有好幾個女生都比她好看．在我的心目中， 莉莎比誰都強．她不僅漂亮，而且腦子還很聰敏。” 在這句話裡，give me a break 是表示不同意別人的意見。 下面我們再來給大家舉一個例子．在這個例句裡， give me a break 的意思又不同了，這是一個哥哥在對他的小弟弟講話： Look, kid, I'm working on a term paper that's due tomorrow. I promise to play the video game with you after dinner, OK? Come on, give me a break so I can finish this! 這個哥哥說：“喂，小鬼，我正在寫一份明天要交的學術報告．我保證吃完晚飯後就跟你一起玩電子游戲，行不行？得啦， 你別煩我啦！讓我把報告寫完吧。”
