Never go back to your EX. It's like reading the same book over and over again when you know how the story ends.
绝不要奢望能跟前任回到过去。这就好像你在读一本早已烂熟于心，并知道结局的书。This is an attempt to avoid the fact that while familiarity can breed liking, over-familiarity tends to breed contempt.
这样做的根据是：熟悉引起好感的同时，烂熟则会招致不屑。They may know all the safety statistics, and yet merely booking a reservation can trigger mental pictures of horrific plane crashes.
这些人或许对所有那些安全统计数据烂熟于心，然而仅仅是预定机票就足以让他们联想到可怕的飞机失事场面。After awhile, however, the techniques became second nature, and you were better able to plan for contingencies at higher speeds.
一段时间之后，这些技巧烂熟于心，你可以想想如何应对各类情况，提高速度。You are likely to have been thinking about the situation in exactly the same way for a very long time. You know the story by heart.
很可能你会一直用同一种方式看待这件事，而它也早烂熟于心。Guests attending a tea ceremony today go through a ritual that would be entirely familiar to Rikyu.
今天出席茶道的客人都要经历利休烂熟于胸的仪式。By heart: I know all my friends' telephone numbers by heart. I never have to look in the telephone book.
背得烂熟，记在心里----我把朋友们的电话号码全都记在心里了，我从来不查电话本儿。This point I'd well learned in designing calculator chips at HP.
这点经验是我在惠普公司设计计算器芯片时就烂熟于胸的。Long sentence, if overripe in mind, always inspired me to read more books, read good books!
这句早就烂熟于心的话，时刻激励着我要多读书，读好书！