看风使舵 trim one's sails to the wind
see how the gander hops
- 他真会看风使舵, 口吻也马上变得温和了。
- 生命的航船在浩瀚的海洋中飘泊是无法一下子停留,因此,每人得以“看风使舵。”
Life at sea is nonstop, so everyone is assigned to a watch. - 他们本能的理解是,诚实意味着具备一定的伦理道德标准,既不看风使舵,也不随着眼下的形势而转移。
They understood instinctively that integrity means having a personal standard of morality and ethics that does not sell out to selfishness and that is not relative to the situation at hand.