get ready for

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

女儿，快起身，备去上学！

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

透过灯烛辉煌的窗子望进去，人人似乎都么备。

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

孩子想出一个聪的办法使妈妈离家, 以便他备晚会给她一个惊喜。