- 看过 mend one's ways 的人也看了 :
- turn over a new leaf
mend one's ways 的定义
- Improve one's behavior, as in Threatened with suspension, Jerry promised to mend his ways. This expression, transferring a repair of clothes to one of character, was first recorded in 1868, but 150 or so years earlier it had appeared as mend one's manners.
mend one's ways 近义词
等同于 go straight
mend one's ways 的近义词 4 个
更多mend one's ways例句
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- Truth is a torch, but one of enormous size; so that we slink past it in rather a blinking fashion for fear it should burn us.
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