In two or three months, I'll have an advance on my book
两到三个月后 我能得到我那本书的预付款
They will miss him very much when he leaves home for the first time.
李明第一次离开家,他们会非常想念他的。
When we use a phrase like 'it serves him right', we are, in part, admitting that a certain set of circumstances has enabled justice to act of its own accord.