| 词汇 | better-safe-than-sorry |
| 释义 | better safe than sorryidiom saying said when you think it is best not to take risks even when it seems boring or difficult to be careful有备无患。 avoiding risk carefulBe careful! I don't want you to fall! cautiousShe's a very cautious driver. play it safeI think I'll play it safe and take the earlier train. risk-averseRisk-averse investors will want to stay away from the company's initial public offering. charyI'm a bit chary of accidentally offending our hosts. better safe than sorryIt's probably nothing more than a headache, but we'll order a round of tests - better safe than sorry. Cautious and vigilant abundance an abundance of cautionidiom askance attentive attentively diligent diligent about something/doing something discreet due diligence gingerly meticulousness mindful minutely narrowly once semi-conservative slowly snuffly super-cautious super-conservative better safe than sorry | American Dictionarybetter safe than sorryidiom it is wise to be careful and protect yourself against risk rather than be careless: Make sure you take an umbrella – I know it's sunny now, but better safe than sorry. Examples of better safe than sorrybetter safe than sorry Clearly, the message that we must be bettersafethansorry is being heard. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Is it possible that they are willing to work on the principle "bettersafethansorry" on a matter relating to children's health? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This phenomenon has been described as the smoke detector principle, or bettersafethansorry. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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