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1 to take a laissez-faire attitude

1 Since they have come, we should make them comfortable (idiom). Since we're here, take it easy.

2 Since this is so, we should accept it.

3 Now we have come, let's stay and take the rough with the smooth.

4 If you can't do anything to prevent it, you might as well sit back and enjoy it.

1 If sb has grasped the truth before you, take him as your teacher (Tang dynasty essayist Han Yu 韓愈|韩愈).

2 We should learn from one who knows the way.

1 lit. to be hardly worth eating, but it would still be a pity to discard it (idiom)

2 fig. some things have little to no value, yet one is still reluctant to part with them

1 a tiny lapse can lead to a huge mistake (idiom); a minor discrepancy leading to enormous losses

1 to gauge the heart of a gentleman with one's own mean measure (idiom)

1 to come when called (idiom); ready and compliant

2 always at sb's beck and call

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

1 everyone loves beauty (idiom)

1 to lose at sunrise but gain at sunset (idiom)

2 to compensate later for one's earlier loss

3 what you lose on the swings you gain on the roundabouts

1 the slightest difference leads to a huge loss (idiom)

2 a miss is as good as a mile

1 limitless supply (of)

2 inexhaustible

1 give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime (idiom)

1 食之無味，棄之可惜|食之无味，弃之可惜[shí zhī wú wèi

2 qì zhī kě xī]

1 to astonish people (with a miraculous feat)

1 The Sound of Music, Broadway musical (1959) and Academy Award-winning movie (1965)

1 imprisonment

1 a complete contrast

2 totally different

1 the Yellow Turbans Peasant Uprising at the end of later Han (from 184)

1 modified fifth note of the pentatonic scale