Sometimes " You can't make an omelet without breaking a few eggs" means it is impossible to get something important done without creating a problem for someone else.
" You can't make an omelet without breaking a few eggs" 有时指在不给别人制造麻烦的情况下完成件重要的事情是不可能的。
That no longer happens. But we still get in " hot water." When we are in " hot water, " we are in trouble. It can be any kind of trouble -- serious or not so serious.
那种情况已不再发生。但我们仍会遇到麻烦。当说我们in hot water, 也就是说我们遇到麻烦。它可以表示任何严重或不严重的麻烦。
Julien had never been in that man's house. Only a few days before he had been thinking of nothing but the means of giving him a sound thrashing without getting into trouble with the police.