Translation

• lit. warning to the following cart (idiom)
• don't follow the track of an overturned cart
• fig. draw lesson from the failure of one's predecessor
• learn from past mistake
• once bitten twice shy

Synonyms

• 以史为鉴, 前车之鉴, 教训, 殷鉴, 覆辙, 鉴, 鉴戒
• 以史为鉴, 以此为戒, 借鉴, 引为鉴戒, 引以为戒, 引以为鉴, 有鉴于, 用人之长, 闻者足戒