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1 lit. the cart in front overturns, a warning to the following cart (idiom); fig. draw lesson from the failure of one's predecessor
2 learn from past mistake
3 once bitten twice shy

前车之鉴

qián chē zhī jiàn

1 to learn a lesson from the mistakes of one's predecessor (idiom)

包藏祸心

bāo cáng huò xīn

1 to harbor evil intentions (idiom); concealing malice

因祸得福

yīn huò dé fú

1 to profit from a disaster (idiom); some good comes out of a setback
2 It's an ill wind that blows nobody any good.

天有不测风云，人有旦夕祸福

tiān yǒu bù cè fēng yún , rén yǒu dàn xī huò fú

1 fortune as unpredictable as the weather, every day may bring fortune or calamity (idiom); sth unexpected may happen at any moment

Sample Sentences

你看到金恩在出车祸那里没有？看到他被自己最爱的女人撞到，我都哭了。

nǐ kàndào Jīn Ēnzài chū chēhuò nàlǐ méiyǒu ？kàndào tā bèi zìjǐ zuìài de nǚrén zhuàngdào ，wǒ dōu kū le 。

Have you seen up to the part where Kim Un-jae gets into car crash? Seeing him get run over by the girl he most loved made me cry.

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呸、呸、呸，我才不会被撞呢。再说了，交通法同情弱者，发生车祸，肯定是开车人的错，他们要负主要责任。一般不会追究行人的责任。

pēi 、pēi 、pēi ，wǒ cái bùhuì bèi zhuàng ne 。zài shuō le ，jiāotōng fǎ tóngqíng ruòzhě ，fāshēng chēhuò ，kěndìng shì kāichērén de cuò ，tāmen yào fù zhǔyào zérèn 。yībān bùhuì zhuījiū xíngrén de zérèn 。

Woah, woah, woah. I won't get hit. Furthermore, the traffic laws sympathize with the pedestrian. If an accident happens, it's definitely the driver's fault. They would have to carry the full responsibility. Generally it's not blamed on the pedestrian.

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嗯，制造车祸，这招你想得还不错。事情办完了，我绝对不会亏待你的。

en ，zhìzào chēhuò ，zhè zhāo nǐ xiǎng de hái bùcuò 。shìqing bàn wán le ，wǒ juéduì bùhuì kuīdài nǐ de 。

Hah, causing a car accident. You did well in thinking up this trick. I absolutely will not treat you badly after the thing is done.

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欸！那边出车祸了！我们快去帮忙。

èi ！nàbiān chū chēhuò le ！wǒmen kuài qù bāngmáng 。

On no! There's been an accident! Let's go help.

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好，我来打电话。你好，我在辛亥路和建国南路口，这里发生车祸，小客车撞了行人，行人头部有外伤，在流血，看起来意识不清。

hǎo ，wǒ lái dǎ diànhuà 。nǐhǎo ，wǒ zài Xīnhài lù hé jiànguónán lùkǒu ，zhèlǐ fāshēng chēhuò ，xiǎokèchē zhuàng le xíngrén ，xíngrén tóubù yǒu wàishāng ，zài liúxiě ，kàn qǐlái yìshibùqīng 。

OK, I'll call. Hello, I'm at the corner of Xinhai Road and Jianguo South Road, there's been an accident. A car ran over a pedestrian. The pedestrian has an external head injury, he's bleeding and seems unresponsive.

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早上的大雾天气造成了好几起车祸。

zǎoshang de dàwù tiānqì zàochéng le hǎo jǐ qǐ chēhuò 。

The heavy fog this morning caused a lot of car accidents.

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然而，就在我们交往的第三个月，高捷在校门口遇上了车祸。手术过后，当医生慢慢地揭开她头上的纱布时，我惊呆了。高捷的脸上布满了疤痕，而且还没有下巴。我无法适应从美梦到噩梦的突然转变，夺门而出。她的容貌使我不敢再靠近，然而之前的海誓山盟却在我脑中久久回荡。矛盾的心情开始了对我的折磨。

ránér ，jiù zài wǒmen jiāowǎng de dì sān ge yuè ，Gāo Jié zài xiàomén kǒu yùshàng le chēhuò 。shǒushù guòhòu ，dāng yīshēng mànmàn de jiēkāi tā tóu shàng de shābù shí ，wǒ jīngdāi le 。Gāo Jié de liǎn shàng bùmǎn le bāhén ，érqiě hái méiyǒu xiàba 。wǒ wúfǎ shìyìng cóng měimèng dào èmèng de tūrán zhuǎnbiàn ，duóménérchū 。tā de róngmào shǐ wǒ bùgǎn zài kàojìn ，ránér zhīqián de hǎishìshānméng què zài wǒ nǎo zhōng jiǔjiǔ huídàng 。máodùn de xīnqíng kāishǐ le duì wǒ de zhémó 。

However, during the third month of us knowing each other, GaoJie was involved in a traffic accident at the school gate. After she had surgery, and when the doctor revealed her head from under the gauze, I was stunned. Gaojie's face was covered entirely in scare tissue and she no longer had a chin. I couldn't reconcile this sudden transformation of my sweet dreams of her, to this nightmare. I pushed open the door and ran out. Her appearance made it impossible for me to be near her. Even so, the sound of my pledge of my undying love to her continued to reverberate in my head. A mood of uncertainty began to torment me.

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