亡羊補牢 (wang2 yang2 bu3 lao2)
羊跑掉之後，趕快修補羊圈，還不算晚。比喻問題發生後，設法補救，還來得及。英文也有個類似的說法：「Locking the stable door after the horse has bolted.」。然而，這兩句中英文成語雖然相似，卻又不盡相同。中文的「亡羊補牢」有正面的意涵，表示事情發生後趕快補救，還來得及；英文則意味著：問題都已經發生了，再怎麼補救，也都太遲了。
她女朋友昨晚跟他提分手了，他正在亡羊補牢。
(Last night his girlfriend told him she wanted to split up. He is now trying to patch things up with her.)
你這次期中考的數學被當掉了，只會整天在那裡打電動，也不想辦法亡羊補牢一下。
(You’ve failed math in the mid-terms, and you’re sitting there playing computer games all day without trying to do something about it.)
Lock the stable door after the horse has bolted
This means attempting to remedy a situation after an unfortunate event. Unlike the Chinese “亡羊補牢”, this idiom suggests that the person involved has acted too late, and should have taken adequate precautions before.
She has said she wants to break up. Apologizing now is a bit like locking the stable door after the horse has bolted.
（她已經說要分手，現在跟她道歉已經太晚了。)
You won’t get a second chance to take this test. The horse has already bolted: what’s the point in locking the stable door now?
（你連補考的機會都沒有的。現在做甚麼都無法補救了。)
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