Now that's not really an apt comparison.

这并不是一个恰当的比较。

He is apt to get angry over trifles.

他容易为小事而生气。

The elites were more apt to collaborate earlier in the war.

上层人物更容易在战争前期叛变。

That Dory analogy is pretty apt here.

这个多莉的比喻很贴切。

But in another way, the sombre warnings are apt, and profoundly depressing.

但从另一方面说，严峻的警告是明智的，让人深感压抑。

" He's not apt to deny it" .

" 现在他也没法否认。"

So how apt were you to go back on that horse after that?

那你是怎么骑着那匹马回去的？

You were apt to fall in with them.

你愿意和他们并肩战斗。

Orphan Inn would be more apt, thought Brienne.

叫" 孤儿客栈" 更恰当，布蕾妮心想。

Historians have often considered the sugar-as-a-drug metaphor to be an apt one.

历史学家们通常认为“糖就像毒品”的比喻是恰当的。

Now we are apt to treat it as an art.

如今我们更爱把它看成一门艺术。

In a concentration camp, one is apt to lose a little weight.

在集中营里想不消瘦也很难。

English League teams are apt to pass the midfield quickly with long passes.

英超球队通常用长传快速通过中场。

But, if congenial to philosophy, it is apt to be dangerous to the commonwealth.

但是，这种心境在哲理上说得通，它对国家社会却易于产生危险。

In most things he was a fine boy, but he was too apt to cry.

大多数情况下他是个好孩子，但他太喜欢哭鼻子了。

A disgraced biography, in her apt metaphor, is a stain that cannot be washed away.

用她恰如其分的比喻来说，名誉扫地的生平是不能洗去的污点。

In the house, if you go about heedlessly, you will be very apt to run against some one.

即使在房子里，如果你走路不小心，也会撞倒什么东西。

The point seems grimly apt because we are, many of us, a little like the passengers on a stricken liner.

这一比喻似乎非常贴切，因为我们中的许多人都有点像一艘失事邮轮上的乘客。

And next week, unless his budget plans are more apt, Britain risks paying a heavy price.

除非他的计划非常贴切，否则英国极有可能在下周为此付出沉重的代价。

Explaining one thing in terms of another can be both illuminating and pleasurable, if the metaphor is apt.

如果比喻恰当的话，用一件事来解释另一件事既能带来启发，又令人感到愉悦。