在生活中，大家是不是經常會遇到朋友，同學，親人地抱怨和傾訴他們內心地不滿，或者他們遭遇地不公平對待。是不是，有時候卻找不到文字來安慰他們。那麼今天，大蝦我就來分享一句地道地英語表達方式：“Let sleeping dogs lie”。用這一句來安慰你的朋友，再合適不過啦！那，這一句到底是什麼意識呢？我們來學習一些吧！
學習詞組（Phrase）：Let sleeping dogs lie
解釋（Meaning）：leave things as they are to avoid causing trouble or restarting an old argument
小夥伴們，現在明白了嗎？是不是覺得，就是“算了吧！免得引起更多地麻煩”的意識呢？這個翻譯精確嗎？我們先把它放在一個場景裡運用一下，再來進一步的理解。
小明：Come on Feifei, you've been grumpy all morning – what's upset you?
飛飛：We have a new tea-making rota, and it seems that DaXia will be making less tea than me.
小明：Are you sure?
飛飛：Yes. Look! Feifei – Monday morning, Tuesday afternoon, Thursday morning and every other Friday. DaXia – just Wednesday morning. This tea-making rota is so unfair. I'm really going to complain about this at the next team meeting. He always has it easy.
小明：Is it that important Feifei? If I were you, I'd let sleeping dogs lie. You could make things worse.
小夥伴們，看了這個情景對話，現在理解了它的用法了嗎？什麼！似懂非懂？？？那麼我再來舉幾個例子，來加深你們的印象吧！
舉例子（Example）:
I was going to mention the argument we had last night, but decided to let sleeping dogs lie.
Let's not go over last night's performance: let sleeping dogs lie and move on.
Don't remind her about the divorce. Let sleeping dogs lie and talk about something else.
總結（Summary）：
這就是今天大蝦我分享的英語筆記。
We're finding out about the phrase 'let sleeping dogs lie', meaning to 'leave a situation as it is and avoid causing trouble or restarting an old problem'. Just like avoiding waking up a dog and making it angry, let sleeping dogs lie.
所以，小夥伴們，這下會了吧! 那就趁熱打鐵，趕緊和你的朋友去演練一下哦！
最後，大蝦英語筆記，給學英語的小夥伴們每日推薦一句“照亮人生的金句”
The positive thinker sees the Invisible, feels the Intangible, and achieves the Impossible.
心態積極者能夠看到別人無法看到的，感悟別人無法感悟的，完成他人無法完成的。