Roll with the punches: to be able to deal with a series of difficulties and challenges; to accept the consequences of a choice; to accept the fate of a situation 安然度過難關: 從容應付連串困難

Examples:

  1. “The boss says we have to work tomorrow.” “On Sunday? That sucks!” “Well, you have to learn to roll with the punches.”
  2. Kevin nearly decided to quit after losing the big game, but instead he rolled with the punches and changed to another coach.

(Insider sports, 2021/07/26)

An Olympic triathlon disaster that led to a false start was “kind of annoying,” the bronze medal winner Hayden Wilde of New Zealand said after the event.

Pandemonium ensued when the swimming leg of Monday’s event in Tokyo had to be brought back by a false start because a broadcasting boat blocked around half of the competitors from diving into the water.

The other half were unaware and kept swimming until they were eventually hauled back to dry land to start over.(…)

Wilde was one of the triathletes to have dived in during the false start. Rather than complain about potentially wasted energy, he claimed it was “actually quite good to tick the arms over for 50 plus meters.”

He said: “It kind of got the heart rate up a bit too much. It is what it is and you’ve just got to keep composed, and sometimes that happens and you’ve just got to roll with the punches.”

在奧運鐵人三項贏得銅牌的紐西蘭選手Hayden Wilde說，游泳項目起跑錯誤[有點惱人]。星期一在東京的比賽，因為選手游泳項目開始後被召回而造成一陣騷動，會那樣是因為一艘廣播船擋住了一半的參賽者，害他們沒辦法跳進水裡。另外一半不知情的選手繼續游，直到他們被召回陸地上重新開始。

Wilde是先跳進水裡的那一半，不過他倒是沒有抱怨白白浪費了體力。他宣稱先動動手臂五十多公尺其實還滿好的。他也說讓他心跳速度有點太快了，不過事情就那樣，你必須保持冷靜，事情發生的時候你就是得泰然度過那些考驗。

(The Intelligencer/Wheeling News-Register, 2021/08/04)

The past year has been a roller coaster ride for local restaurant owners and managers, who have had to roll with the punches through the ever-changing health and safety protocols that have come in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Despite being affected by the stay-at-home orders and closed indoor dining room mandates early on in the pandemic, most area restaurants have step-by-step over the past several months seen business pick up a bit. Although few have seen business return to pre-pandemic levels, loosening of restrictions since the height of the near lockdowns last spring have set the table for improvement.

過去這一年對餐廳老闆和經理都是雲霄飛車的一年，他們必須設法平安度過因為疫情而不斷改變的健康和安全規定。

雖然在疫情剛開始的時候，餐廳受到不准外出以及關閉內用命令的影響，大部分本地業者過去幾個月都看到生意漸漸有起色。雖然只有少數恢復到疫情之前的程度，但是從去年春季疫情高峰以來，管制逐步放鬆已經讓情況開始改善。

Sound (中文解釋): ICRT podcast

Photos: Insider; the Intelligencer; flickr