Could you take a monent to freshen up first? you don't want to go into the meeting smelling like that!
你可不可以先去清醒一会儿?你也不希望带着这样的一身气味去开会吧!
At first I thought I'd done the right thing, but I soon realized that I'd made a mistake.
开始我以为我做对了,但是很快就发现自己犯了个错误。