叉腰
= rest one’s hands on the hips
= stood with arms akimbo
撑埸面
= keep up appearance
e.g. He often lives beyond his means just to keep up appearances
= to give it a boost
e.g. A restaurant has to have a couple of master chefs to give it a boost
趁火打劫
= take advantage of somebody’s misfortune to make trouble
= fish in troubled waters
= plunder a burning house
沉鱼落雁 = (of a woman) extremely beautiful : her charms would have made fish sink and wild geese fall from the sky and her beauty put the moon and flowers to shame
小心驶得万年船 = take car and care will prevail(意译)
= care can drive a ship for ten thousand years(直译)