get ready for

You stir your stumps and get ready for school, my girl!

女儿，快起身，准备上学！

Glimpsed through lamplit windows, everybody seems to be getting ready for something.

透过灯烛辉煌的窗子望，似乎都在作什么准备。

The children thought of a clever ruse to get their mother to leave the house so they could get ready for her surprise.

孩子们想出聪的办法使妈妈离家, 以便他们能准备晚会给惊喜。