take / borrow a page from (someone's) book

take a page from sb/sth

借鉴; 效仿; 以某人为榜样

【En】

to follow the example of; imitate.

以…为榜样; 模仿;

to do something in the way someone else would do it; to behave or act like someone else.

以别人的方式做事；行为举止像别人一样。

to copy something that someone else does because it will bring you advantages.

模仿别人做的事情，因为它会给你带来好处。

● What he did, in effect, was propose we take a page from our own history.

实际上，他所做的就是建议我们以史为鉴。

● You may want to borrow a page from his book and study harder for your finals.

你可以以他为榜样，为期末考试更加努力地学习。

● I think I'm going to take a page from your book and start going for a run first thing in the morning.

我想要借鉴你的经验，早上第一件事就是去跑步。

● Our youngest son was always very placid as a baby, but now that he's getting older, he's begun taking a page from our older boy's book.

我们最小的儿子小时候总是很安静，但现在他长大了，他开始效仿起大男孩的样子来了。

【Scenario Example 场景示例】

● Don't take a page from my book. I don't do it well.

别学我的样子。我做得也不好。

● Maybe I should take a page from Rick's book and start coming in early every morning.

也许我应该学学里克，每天早上早点儿来上班。

● When you act like that, you're taking a page from your sister's book, and I don't like it! You had better do it your way.

你那样做，就是在模仿你姐姐，我不喜欢这样! 你最好按你自己的方式去做。

● He wished more young people would take a page from his book and follow his example.

他希望更多的年轻人能够以他为榜样，向他学习。

● Taking a page from the Wrights, tests of the engine at Delphi were shrouded in secrecy.

借鉴了莱特兄弟的经验，在德尔福进行的引擎测试是秘密进行的。

● To catch up in the armaments race, that country has decided to take a page from the competition's book.

为了在军备竞赛中迎头赶上，那个国家决定借鉴效法敌方的经验。

● He has recently been taking a page from the moderate Democratic playbook and talking at every stop about "values."

他最近一直在借鉴温和派民主党的做法，每一站都在谈论“价值观”。

● Now Intel plans to borrow a page from the Japanese by spending heavily through a recession to gain ground on weaker competitors.

现在，英特尔计划借日本的经验，在经济衰退期间大举投资，以击败实力较弱的竞争对手。

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