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batten down the hatches
idiom
to fasten the entrances to the lower part of a ship using wooden boards钉上扣板密闭舱口，封舱
to prepare for a difficult situation: 准备面对困境
When you're coming down with flu all you can do is batten down the hatches and wait for it to pass.得了流感以后，你所能做的就是做好心理准备，等它慢慢过去。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Closing and blocking
barricade
batten
be snowed upidiom
block something off
block something up
bung
choke
closing time
congest
cork
dam
dam something up
fur
sandbag
seal something in
seal something off
self-seal
self-sealing
silt
the darkest hour is just before the dawnidiom
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