比喻借助于有利的条件或形势来开展工作或推动某项事业to take advantage of favourable conditions to achieve one's objective; to make use of an east wind

• 这也引发出一个问题，就是有些过去反对过首长，现在见风向转了，来“借东风”。

  This also raises the issue that some people who opposed the chief in the past have seen that the environment has changed and are now taking advantage of the situation to their own ends.

• 为村里发展借东风，找源泉，添助力

  take advantage of conditions to benefit the development of the village, find sources and boost efforts