For instance , when lin min s colleague mr . yau asks for jin - jin s address , why doesn t lin min makes up an excuse or simply gives him a his friend s address 之后，邱老师说要家访，林民大可不必给他正确地址，自讨苦吃。尾段的大团圆，更是一啖笑。
" my dear m . debray , " said the banker , " do not kill yourself to - night listening to the follies of madame danglars , for you can hear them as well to - morrow ; but i claim to - night and will devote it , if you will allow me , to talk over some serious matters with my wife . “我亲爱的德布雷， ”银行家说， “别自讨苦吃了，通夜不睡去听腾格拉尔夫人的那些傻话，您明天白天不是照样可以听到的吗，今天晚上，假如您允许的话，我要和我妻子讨论一点儿正事。 ”
Being the third son of the family , and not bred to any trade , my head began to be fill d very early with rambling thoughts : my father , who was very ancient , had given me competent share of learning , as far as house - education , and a country free - school generally goes , and design d for the law ; but i would be satisfied with nothing but go to sea , and my inclination to this led me so strongly against the will , nay the commands of my father , and against all the entreaties and perswasions of my mother and other friends , that there seem d to be something fatal in propension of nature tending directly to the life of misery which was to befal me 接着，他态度诚挚充满慈爱地劝我不要耍孩子气，不要急于自讨苦吃因为，不论从人之常情来说，还是从我的家庭出身而言，都不会让我吃苦。他说，我不必为每日生计去操劳，他会为我作好一切安排，并将尽力让我过上前面所说的中间阶层的生活。如果我不能在世上过上安逸幸福的生活，那完全是我的命运或我自己的过错所致，而他已尽了自己的责任。
