船到桥头自然直 (船到橋頭自然直)
chuán dào qiáo tóu zì rán zhí
Pinyin

Definition

船到桥头自然直 (船到橋頭自然直)
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chuán dào qiáo tóu zì rán zhí
  1. lit. when the boat gets to the pier-head, it will go straight with the current (proverb)
  2. fig. everything will be all right
  3. cf 車到山前必有路，船到橋頭自然直|车到山前必有路，船到桥头自然直

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

一直
yī zhí
  1. 1 straight (in a straight line)
  2. 2 continuously
  3. 3 always
  4. 4 from the beginning of ... up to ...
  5. 5 all along
来自
lái zì
  1. 1 to come from (a place)
  2. 2 From: (in email header)
到
dào
  1. 1 to (a place)
  2. 2 until (a time)
  3. 3 up to
  4. 4 to go
  5. 5 to arrive
  6. 6 (verb complement denoting completion or result of an action)
到底
dào dǐ
  1. 1 finally
  2. 2 in the end
  3. 3 when all is said and done
  4. 4 after all
  5. 5 to the end
  6. 6 to the last
居然
jū rán
  1. 1 unexpectedly
  2. 2 to one's surprise
  3. 3 go so far as to

Idioms (20)

一条路走到黑
yī tiáo lù zǒu dào hēi
  1. 1 lit. to follow one road until dark (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to stick to one's ways
  3. 3 to cling to one's course
一目了然
yī mù liǎo rán
  1. 1 obvious at a glance (idiom)
一目了然
yī mù liǎo rán
  1. 1 obvious at a glance (idiom)
上贼船
shàng zéi chuán
  1. 1 lit. to board a pirate ship (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to associate with criminals
不以为然
bù yǐ wéi rán
  1. 1 not to accept as correct (idiom); to object
  2. 2 to disapprove
  3. 3 to take exception to

Sample Sentences

连你这少爷公子哥都能意识到问题，想咱们英明的领导不会没个警觉的，放心吧，船到桥头自然直。
lián nǐ zhè shǎoyégōngzǐgē dōu néng yìshidào wèntí ，xiǎng zánmen yīngmíng de lǐngdǎo bùhuì méi gè jǐngjué de ，fàngxīn ba ，chuándàoqiáotóuzìránzhí 。
If even a little rich boy like you is able to realize this problem, I think our wise leaders must be alert to it, relax, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it.
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别担心，船到桥头自然直。等你生了孩子，慢慢就可以摸索出你独特的教育方式了。
bié dānxīn ，chuándàoqiáotóuzìránzhí 。děng nǐ shēng le háizi ，mànmàn jiù kěyǐ mōsuǒ chū nǐ dútè de jiàoyù fāngshì le 。
Don't worry. Everything will be alright. When you have children, you can slowly try to find out your own unique way of teaching.
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