- A bad penny always comes back.（惡有惡報）
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- A bad shearer never had a good sickle.
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- A bad workman always blames his tools.（劣工尤器。）
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- A beggar pays a benefit with a louse.（以怨報德。）
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- A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.（一鳥在手勝於兩鳥在林。）
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- A book that is shut, is but a block.（開卷有益。）
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- A burnt child dreads the fire.（一朝被蛇咬，十年怕井繩。）
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- A cat may look at a king.（君王卿相於我何。）
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- A clear conscience is like a coat of mail.（平生不做虧心事，夜半敲門心不驚。）
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- A contented mind is a perpetual feast.（知足常樂。）
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- A crooked stick will have a crooked shadow.（上樑不正下樑歪。）
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- A crow is never the whiter for washing herself often.（江山易改，本性難移。）
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- A deceitful peace is more hurtful than an open war.（明槍易躲，暗箭難防。）
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- A drowning man will catch at a straw.（急不暇擇。）
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- A fair face may hide a foul heart.［Fair face, foul heart.］（漂亮的面孔可能藏著一顆齷齪的心。［人面獸心。］）
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- A fair woman without virtue is like palled wine.（美女無德如酒無味。）
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- A fault confessed is half redressed.（肯認錯是改過的一半。）
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- A fool’s bolt is soon shot.（黔驢技窮。）
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- A fool’s voice is known by multitude of words.（話多者蠢。）
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- A friend in need is a friend indeed.（患難見真情。［患難之友，乃為真友。））
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- A good book is a light to the soul.（一本好書是靈魂之光。）
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- A good conscience is a safe pillow.（良心清白，安枕無憂。）
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- A great tree attracts the wind.（樹大招風。）
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- A guilty conscience needs no accuser.（作賊心虛。多行不義必自斃，多走夜路必遇鬼。）
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- A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.（小不忍則亂大謀。）
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- A hard beginning makes a good ending.（先苦後甘。）
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- A heavy purse makes a light heart.（錢包飽滿，心情輕鬆。）
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- A hedge between keeps friendship green.（君子之交淡如水。）
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- A honey tongue, a heart of gall.（口蜜腹劍。笑裡藏刀。佛口蛇心。）
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- A Jack of all trades is master of none.（樣樣通樣樣稀鬆（博藝無所精）。）
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- A leopard cannot change his spots.（江山易改，本性難移。）
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- A light purse makes a heavy heart.（錢包薄薄，心情沉重。）
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- A little body often harbors a great soul.（偉大的靈魂常寓於短小的驅體。）
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- A little help is worth a deal of pity.（濟弱扶困勝於同情。）
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- A little learning is a dangerous thing.（一知半解，危險之至。）
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- A little pot is soon hot.（人窮志短。［小人物易發怒。］）
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- A little spark may kindle a great fire.（星星之火可燎原。）
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- A little wariness prevents great weariness.（小心駛得萬年船。）
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- A man is known by the company he keeps.（觀其友，知其人。）
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- A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds.（一個光說不做的人好像一個花園，裡面長滿都是野草。）
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- A miss is as good as a mile.（失之毫釐，差之千里。）
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- A new broom sweeps clean.（新官上任三把火。）
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- A penny saved is a penny earned.（省一文則賺一文。）
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- A pin a day is a groat a year.（聚沙成塔。）
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- A poor man's tale cannot be heard.（人微言輕。）
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- A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder.（平生不做虧心事，夜半敲門心不驚。）
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- A reformed rake makes the best husband.（浪子回頭金不換。）
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- A rolling stone gathers no moss.（滾石不成苔。）
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- A small leak will sink a great ship.（牽一髮，動全身。）
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- A soft answer turneth away wrath.（和言足以息怒。［柔足以克剛。］）
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- A sound mind in a sound body.（健全的頭腦寓於健全的身體。）
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- A stitch in time saves nine.（及時行事，事半功倍。）
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- A straight stick is crooked in the water.（直棍水中曲。）
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- A straw shows which way the wind blows.（見微知著。）
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- A thief passes for a gentleman when thieving has made him rich.（成者為王，敗者為寇。）
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- A thing of beauty is a joy forever.（美的事物是永恆的喜悅。）
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- A wild goose never laid a tame egg.（強將手下無弱兵。）
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- A woman’s advice is no great thing, but he who won’t take it is a fool.（女人的忠告雖不是怎麼大不了的事，若不接受，便是傻瓜。）
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- A word before is worth two behind.（千金難買早知道。）
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- A word before is worth two behind.（事前一句勝過事後兩句）
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- A word is enough to the wise.（智者一點就明。）
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- A word spoken is an arrow let fly.（一言既出，如箭射出。）
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- A word spoken is past recalling.∕A word once spoken can never be recalled.（一言既出，駟馬難追。）
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- A young idler, an old beggar.（少壯不努力，老大徒傷悲。）
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- Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones.（離別削減小愛，卻增添大愛。）
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- Absence is mother of disillusion.（疏離是覺悟之母。）
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- Absence makes the heart grow fonder.（小別勝新婚。［小別情更濃。］）
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- Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.（相聚愛益切，離別情更深。）
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- Absent in body, but present in spirit.（肉身雖不在，精神卻不死。永垂不朽。）
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- Action is the proper fruit of knowledge.（行動是知識的卓越果實。）
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- Actions speak louder than words.（行動勝於空談（事實勝於雄辯）。）
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- Advice is a stranger, if welcome he stays for the night; if not welcome he returns home the same day.［African Proverb］（忠告是一位陌生客，若受歡迎，則停留過夜；不受歡迎，當天就要回家。【非洲諺語】）
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- Advice when most needed is least heeded.（忠言逆耳。［良言於最需要時最不受重視。］）
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- Advice whispered is worthless.（竊竊私語的忠告毫無價值可言。）
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- After a storm comes a calm.（否極泰來。）
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- After black clouds, clear weather.（守得雲開見月時。）
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- All are not saints that go to church.（上教堂的人未必個個都是聖人。）
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- All are not thieves that dogs bark at.（人不可貌相，海不可斗量。［不可一概而論。］ ）
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- All cats are grey in the dark.（貓在黑暗中通通都是灰色的。）
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- All good things must come to an end.（天下無不散之筵席。）
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- All is well that ends well.（結果佳者方佳。）
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- All lay loads on a willing horse.（人善被人欺，馬善被人騎。）
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- All roads lead to Rome.（條條大道通羅馬（行行出狀元））
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- All that glitters is not gold.（閃礫者未必都是金。發亮的不一定全是金子。［人不可貌相。］［金玉其外，敗絮其中。］［虛有其表。］）
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- All things are difficult before they are easy.（萬事起頭難。）
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- All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.（只工作不消遣，使人遲鈍。）
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- All’s well that ends well.（善終為善。吉人自有天相。）
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- Ambition loses many a man.（野心使許多人失敗。）
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- Ambition makes people diligent.（雄心使人勤勉。）
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- An enemy may chance to give good counsel.（敵人也可能給人好的忠告。）
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- An eye for an eye, and we will all go blind.∕An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.（以牙還牙，兩敗俱傷。［以眼還眼使我們全都瞎眼。］）
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- An ill beginning, an ill ending.（不善始者不善終。）
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- An uncut gem goes not sparkle.（玉不琢，不成器。）
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- Anger and haste hinder good counsel.（小不忍則亂大謀。［憤怒和急迫足以誤大計。））
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- Anger is the cause of sin.（憤怒乃犯罪之因。）
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- Apparel makes the man.（人靠衣裳，馬靠鞍裝。）
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- Appearances are deceptive.（外表是靠不住的。）
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- Art is long, life is short.（人生苦短，而學術無窮。）
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- As a man lives, so shall he die.（有生必有死。）
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- As well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb.（一不做二不休。）
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- As you make your bed, so you must lie on it.（自作自受。）
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- As you sow, so shall you reap.種豆得豆，（種瓜得瓜。）
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- At birth we bring nothing; at death we take away nothing.（生不帶來死不帶去。）
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- At the game’s end, we shall see who gains.（比賽結束後，方見得勝者。）
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- Bad beginnings have ever bad endings.（不慎始者，常得惡果。）
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- Bad news travels fast.（惡事傳千里。）
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- Barking dogs seldom bite.（吠叫的狗不咬人（外強中乾；虛有其表；虛張聲勢）。）
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- Be just before you are generous.（先小人後君子。）
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- Beauty fades like a flower.（紅顏薄命。）
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- Beauty is but skin deep.（美是膚淺的（人不可貌相））
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- Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.（情人眼裡出西施。）
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- Beauty is only skin-deep.（人不可貌相。）
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- Beauty may have fair leaves, yet bitter fruit.（美麗長出漂亮的葉子，卻生出苦辣的果實。）
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- Bees that have honey in their mouths have stings in their tails.（口裡含著花蜜的蜜蜂，尾巴卻有螫。口蜜腹劍。笑裡藏刀。）
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- Beggars must not be choosers.（饑者不得擇食。）
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- Better be the head of an ass than the tail of a horse.better be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion.∕Better be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion.（寧為驢頭不為馬尾（寧為狗頭不為獅尾）。）
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- Better die a beggar than live a beggar.（不食嗟來之食。）
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- Better late than never.（寧遲勿缺（亡羊補牢才不為遲）；只要開始，雖晚不遲；過則勿憚改。）
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- Better ride on an ass that carries me than a horse that throws me.（騎馬摔一跤不如騎驢往前走。）
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- Better the devil you know than the devil you do not know.（明槍易躲，暗箭難防。）
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- Better to sail slowly than not to sail at all.（完全停滯不前不如慢慢駛向前。）
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- Between two stools you fall to the ground.（腳踏雙凳必墜地。）
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- Birds of a feather flock together.（物以類聚。）
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- Blood is thicker than water.（血濃於水。）
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- Books and friends should be few and well chosen.（多不如少，少不如好。）
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- Books are the ever-burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.（書籍乃世人累積智慧之不滅明燈。）
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- Brave actions never want a trumpet.（英勇的行為永遠不需要吹噓。）
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- Business is business.（公事公辦。）
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- Business is the salt of life; business and action strengthen the brain. （商務是生命之鹽，商務和行動增強腦力。）
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- By reading we enrich the mind; by conversation we polish it.（讀書使心智豐富，交談使心智明亮。）
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- Call no man happy till he is dead.（蓋棺論定。）
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- Care killed a cat.（憂慮致命（勞神喪命）。）
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- Catch not at the shadow and lose the substance.（勿捨本逐末。）
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- Character is what makes one man stand out more prominently than another.（一個人的德性使他與眾不同。）
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- Charity begins at home.（修身齊家博愛天下。）
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- Clothes do not make the man.（衣冠不能造人品。人不可以貌相。）
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- Clothes make the man.（人要衣裝，佛要金裝。）
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- Come not to counsel uncalled.（人之患在好為人師。）
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- Comparisons are odious.（人比人氣死人。）
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- Conscience does make cowards of us all.（良心的自責使大家變成了懦夫。）
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- Conscience does make cowards of us all.［William Shakespeare］（良心的自責使大家變成了懦夫。【莎士比亞】）
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- Constant dropping wears away the stone.（滴水穿石。）
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- Counsel is to be given by the wise, the remedy by the rich.（忠告一定來自智者，救助一定來自富人。）
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- Counsel must be followed, not praised.（忠告一定要遵守，不是要稱讚。）
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- Counsel without help is useless.（沒有實質幫助的忠告亳無用處。）
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- Counsels in wine seldom prosper.（酒杯空言少見成效。）
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- Cross the bridge when you come to it.（船到橋頭自然直。）
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- Cross the stream where it is shallowest.（別自找麻煩（由易處下手）。 ）
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- Custom reconciles us to everything.（習慣成自然。）
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- Cut your coat according to your cloth.（量入為出。）
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- Dead men tell no tales.（死無對證。）
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- Death is the great leveler.（死後萬人皆平等。）
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- Death quits all scores.（一死百了。）
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- Deeds are males, and words are females.「（做」是男人的事，「說」是女人的事。）
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- Deeds, not words.（在於行動，不在於言語。說得到，做得到。言出必行。）
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- Deeds, not words.（言出必行。）
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- Despatch is the soul of business.（辦事以迅速為貴。）
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- Diamond cuts diamond.（強中自有強中手。）
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- Diamond cuts/cut diamond.（兩虎相爭必有一傷（強中自有強中手）。）
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- Diet cures more than a doctor.（良藥苦口利於病。）
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- Do （to others） as you would be done by.（己所欲施於人。）
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- Do in Rome as the Romans do.（入鄉隨俗。）
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- Do not forget little kindness and do not remember small faults.（小善不忘，小錯不念。）
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- Do to others as you would be done by.（己所不欲，勿施於人。）
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- Dog does not eat dog.（狗不咬狗（同類不相殘）。）
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- Don't change houses in mid-stream.（臨陣勿換將。）
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- Don't put off till tomorrow what you can do today.（今日事今日畢。）
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- Don't teach your grandmother to suck eggs.（別班門弄斧。）
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- Don't wash your dirty linen in public.（家醜不外揚。）
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- Drunken days have all their tomorrows.（樂極生悲。）
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- Easier said than done.（說來容易做來難。）
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- Easy come easy go.（徼悻之財難久留（賺得容易花得快））
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- Easy come, easy go.（來得容易去得快。）
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- Empty vessels make the most sound.（滿瓶不響；半瓶響叮噹。）
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- Even a worm will turn.（狗急跳牆。）
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- Even brothers keep careful accounts.（大智若愚）
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- Even Homer sometimes nods.（智者千慮必有一失（人非聖人，熟能無過）。）
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- Every bean has its black.（金無赤金，人無完人。）
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- Every cloud has a silver lining.（否極泰來。）
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- Every dog has his/its day.（十年風水輪流轉（狗也有走運的一天））
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- Every family has a skeleton in the cupboard.（家家有本難念的經。）
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- Every flow must have its ebb.（人有悲歡離合，月有陰晴圓缺。）
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- Every great thing is nothing but a lot of little ones.（積沙成塔。）
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- Every man has his taste.（人各有所好。）
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- Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.（每一個人都是一卷書，只要你懂得如何閱讀它。）
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- Every minute counts.（分秒必爭。）
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- Every oak has been an acorn.（千里之行，始於足下。）
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- Every why has a wherefore.（事出必有因。）
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- Everybody's business is nobody's business.（眾人之事乏人管。）
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- Everything has an end.（凡事都會結束。）
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- Everything must have a beginning.（凡事都有個開頭。）
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- Example is better than precept.（身教重於言教）
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- Experience is the best teacher.（前事不忘後事之師。［不經一事，不長一智。）［經驗乃智慧之母。］）
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- Experience is the extract of suffering.（經驗是由痛苦中粹取出來的。）
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- Experience is the mother of wisdom.（經驗乃智慧之母。［不經一事，不長一智。］）
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- Extremes meet.（物極必反。）
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- Failure is the mother of success./ Failure teaches success.（失敗乃成功之母。）
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- Faint heart never won fair lady.（懦弱的人永遠無法贏得美人的歡心。）
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- Fair face, foul heart.（人面獸心。）
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- Fair without and foul (false) within.（金玉其外，敗絮其中。）
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- Familiarity breeds contempt.（近之則不遜。）
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- Familiarity breeds contempt.（過份熟稔易滋侮蔑；近廟欺神。）
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- Far from eye, far from heart.（離眼遠，離心遠。眼不見，心不念。）
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- Feather by feather the goose is plucked.（鐵杵磨成針。）
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- Few words are best.（少說為妙。）
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- Fine feathers do not make fine birds. （酒肉賓朋，柴米夫妻。）
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- Fine feathers make fine birds.佛要金裝，（人要衣裝。）
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- Fine words butter no parsnips.（花言巧語不能滋潤防風草。口惠而實不至。）
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- Fine words dress ill deeds.（巧言藏惡行。好話說盡，壞事做盡。說一套，做一套。）
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- First come first served.（捷足先登。）
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- First impressions are most lasting.（先入為主。）
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- Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.（愚人不怕事，盲人不怕蛇。）
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- Forewarned is forearmed.（先知先戒備。 ）
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- Forgive and forget.（既往不咎。）
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- Full of courtesy, full of craft.（禮多必詐。）
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- Gather you rosebuds while you may.（花開堪折直須折。）
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- Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.（天才是一分靈感加上九十九分流汗。）
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- Give a dog a bad name and hang him.（欲加之罪，何患無辭。）
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- Give a thief enough rope and he will hang himself.（欲擒先縱。［多行不義必自斃。］）
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- Give him an inch and he'll take a yard.∕Give knaves an inch and they will take a yard.］（得寸進尺）
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- Give knaves an inch and they will take a yard.（小人得寸便進尺。）
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- Go to bed with the lamb, and rise with the lark.（日出而作，日入而息。）
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- God helps those who help themselves.（天助自助者。）
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- God never shuts one door but he opens another.（天無絕人之路。）
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- God's mill grinds slow but sure.（天網恢恢，疏而不漏。）
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- Good books need no boost.（好書無需誇耀。）
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- Good counsel has no price.［Good counsel is beyond price.（良言乃無價之寶。）
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- Good counsel never comes amiss.（好的忠告絕不會出差錯。）
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- Good counsel never comes too late.（好的忠告絕不會來得太晚。）
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- Good manners are the fine flowers of civilization.（良好的禮貌是文明的漂亮花朵。）
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- Good medicine tastes bitter.（良藥苦口。）
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- Good to begin well, better to end well.（有好的開始是不錯的，堅持到底更重要。）
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- Good words cost nothing, but are worth much.［Thomas Fuller］ （良言本無價，其貴值千金。【富勒】）
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- Good words without deeds are rushes and reeds.（口惠而實不至。）
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- Grasp all, lose all.（貪者必失。）
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- Great minds think alike.（英雄所見略同。）
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- Great oaks from little acorns grow.（萬丈高樓平地起。）
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- Great talents mature late. ［Great vessels take years to produce.］（大器晚成。）
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- Half a loaf is better than none.（聊勝於無。）
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- Handsome is as handsome does.（慷慨大方始為美。）
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- Handsome is that handsome does.∕Handsome is what handsome does.（相由心生。［心美，貌亦美。］［有德才是美。］）
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- Happy is he who is content.（知足常樂。）
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- Hard words break no bones.（笑罵由人。［惡言傷不到人心。笑罵由他笑罵］）
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- Haste makes waste.（欲速則不達。）
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- He is noble who feels and acts nobly.（顯貴的人總是思想崇高和舉止優雅。）
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- He teaches ill, who teaches all.（樣樣都教樣樣糟。）
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- He that commits a fault thinks everyone speaks of it.（作賊心虛。）
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- He that falls today may rise tomorrow.（東山再起。）
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- He that fears you present will hate you absent.（在你面前怕你的人，在你背後恨你。）
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- He that fears you present will hate you absent.（陽奉陰違。）
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- He that stays in the valley shall never get over the hill.（固步自封。）
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- He that touches pitch shall be defiled.（近朱者赤，近墨者黑。）
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- He who begins many things, finishes but few.（樣樣事只有開始，到頭來一事無成。）
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- He who denies all confesses all.（欲蓋彌彰。）
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- He who does not gain loses.（逆水行舟，不進則退。）
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- He who gives fair words feeds you with an empty spoon.（巧言令色鮮矣仁。）
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- He who gives fair words feeds you with an empty spoon.（花言巧語的人常以空匙餵人。巧言令色鮮矣仁。）
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- He who has health has hope.（留得青山在，不怕沒柴燒。）
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- He who has hope has everything.（擁有希望的人擁有一切。）
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- He who hesitates is lost.（猶豫者多失。）
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- He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.（畏問者，恥於學。）
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- He who lives in a glass house should not throw stones.（投鼠忌器（識時務者為俊傑。］）
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- He who rides a tiger is afraid to dismount.（騎虎難下。）
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- He who teaches, learns.（教學相長。）
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- He who would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom.（登高必自卑。）
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- Health is better than wealth.（健康勝於財富。）
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- Heaven helps those who help themselves.（天助自助者。）
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- Hide not your light under a bushel.（勿過份謙沖以致隱沒才能。）
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- History repeats itself.（歷史會重演。）
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- Hoist your sail when the wind is fair.（見機行事。）
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- Honesty is the best policy.（誠實是上策。）
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- Hunger is the best sauce.（飢不擇食。）
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- Idle folk have the least leisure.（懶惰人才說沒空閒。）
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- If a person is away, his right is away.［Moorish Proverb］（人若不在場，他的權利就會喪失。【摩爾諺語】）
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- If Jack’s in love, he’s no judge of Jill’s beauty.（情人眼裡出西施。）
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- If one will not, another will.（人棄我取，人取我與。）
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- If the counsel be good, no matter who gave it.（計策若佳則勿問策劃者是誰。從善如流。）
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- If the counsel be good, no matter who gave it.（從善如流。）
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- If you live with a lame person you will learn to limp.（近朱者赤 近墨者黑。）
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- If you run after two hares, you will catch neither.（同時追兩兔，兩頭都落空。）
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- If you wish good advice, consult an old man.（老馬識途。）
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- Ill counsel mars all.（不好的忠告損毀一切。）
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- Ill news comes apace.（惡事傳千里。）
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- Imagination is more important than knowledge.（想像力比知識更重要）
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- In peace prepare for war.（和平時不忘備戰。）
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- In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.（山中無老虎，猴子稱大王。）
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- In wine there is truth.（酒後吐真言。）
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- Industry is fortune's right hand, and frugality her left.（勤儉為富貴之本。）
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- Industry is the parent of success.（勤勉為成功之本。）
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- It is a good horse that never stumbles.（再好的馬也會有絆倒之時。）
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- It is a long lane that has no turning.（路必有彎（否極泰來）。）
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- It is an ill wind that blows nobody any good.（凡事有利有弊。）
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- It is as well to know which way the wind blows.（識時務者為俊傑。）
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- It is better to learn a certain trade than to possess a large fortune.（腰纏萬貫，不若一技在身。）
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- It is better to win the peace and to lose the war.（寧願贏得和平而輸掉戰爭）
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- It is dogged that does it.（天下無難事，只怕有心人。）
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- It is easy to be wise after the event.（不經一事，不長一智。）
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- It is more blessed to give than to receive.（施比受更有福）
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- It is never too late to mend.（亡羊補牢，時猶未晚。）
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- It is no use crying over spilt milk.（覆水難收。）
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- It is well to profit by the folly of others.（前車可鑒。）
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- It never rains but it pours.（禍不單行。）
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- It takes all sorts to make a world.（一種米養百種人［世界是形形色色的人所組成的］）
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- It takes two to make a quarrel.（孤掌難鳴（一個巴掌拍不響）。 ）
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- Justice has long arms.（法網恢恢，疏而不漏。 ）
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- Keep something for a rainy day.（未雨綢繆。）
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- Kindness comes of will.（仁慈來自意志。）
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- Kindness is noblest weapon to conquer with.（仁者無敵。）
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- Knowledge is power.（知識就是力量）
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- Least said, soonest mended.（少說少錯（多言惹禍）。）
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- Leopards cannot change their spots.（江山易改，本性難移。）
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- Let bygones be bygones.（既往不究。）
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- Let sleeping dogs lie.（別自找麻煩[。［別惹事生非。］）
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- Liberty is the right to do everything which the laws allow.（自由就是在法律允許下的範圍下有權做任何事。）
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- Life is not merely living but living in health.（生活不只要活，而且要活的健康。）
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- Like breeds like.（龍生龍，鳳生鳳。）
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- Like father, like son.（有其父，必有其子。）
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- Live and learn.∕One is never too old to learn.（活到老，學到老。）
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- Long absence changes a friend.（久別朋友變。）
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- Long absent, soon forgotten.（久別情疏。）
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- Look before you leap.（三思而後行。）
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- Lookers-on see most of the game.（旁觀者清。）
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- Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in same direction.（愛並不在於彼此相對。）
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- Love is blind.（愛情是盲目的。）
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- Love makes the world go round.（愛使世界運轉。）
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- Love me little, love me long.（愛情要細水長流。 ）
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- Make hay while the sun shines.（未雨綢繆（把握時機）。）
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- Man are best loved farthest off.（相隔最遙遠的人最為人疼愛。）
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- Man proposes, God disposes.（謀事在人，成事在天。）
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- Many a little makes a mickle.（積少成多。聚沙成塔。集腋成裘。）
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- Many hands make light work.（眾志成城。）
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- Marry in haste, and repent at leisure.（匆匆結婚，慢慢後悔。）
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- Meat is much, but manner is more.（衣食足而後禮義興。）
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- Men are blind in their own cause.（馬不知臉長。）
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- Men are blind in their own cause.（當局者迷。）
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- Men are not to be measured in inches.（人不可以貌相。）
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- Mere talking tends only to failure.（空談只會導致失敗。）
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- Might is right.（強權就是公理。）
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- Mischief all comes from much opening of the mouth.（是非只為多開口。）
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- Misery loves company.（禍不單行。）
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- Misery loves company∕It never rains but pours.（禍不單行。）
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- Money is the root of all evil.（愛財為萬惡之源。）
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- Money makes the mare go.（有錢能使鬼推磨。）
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- Money talks.（金錢萬能。錢能通神。）
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- More haste, less speed.（欲速則不達。）
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- Much would have more.（貪得無饜。）
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- Murder will out.（如欲人不知，除非己莫為。 ）
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- Necessity is the mother of invention.（需要為發明之母。）
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- Necessity knows no law.（鋌而走險。）
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- Never do things by halves.（做事切莫半途而廢。）
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- Never judge by appearances.（不要以貌取人。）
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- Never look a gift horse in the mouth.（餽贈之物切莫挑剔。）
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- Never put off till tomorrow what may be done today.（今日事，今日畢。）
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- Never say die.（勿氣餒灰心。）
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- Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.（勿自尋煩惱。）
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- Never try to prove what nobody doubts.（此地無銀三百兩。）
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- New brooms sweep clean.（新官上任三把火。）
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- No answer is also an answer.（不回答也是回答。）
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- No cross, no crown.（吃得苦中苦，方為人上人。）
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- No man can serve two masters.（一人不能事二君（一馬不能被兩鞍）。）
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- No man is content with his lot.（無人能滿意於自己的命運。）
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- No news is good news .（無消息即是好消息。）
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- No pains, no gains.∕No gains without pains.（不勞則無獲。）
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- None so blind as those who won't see.（有眼不看者為盲。）
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- Nothing comes amiss to a hungry man.（饑不擇食。）
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- Nothing comes of nothing.（事出必有因（無中不能生有）。）
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- Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.（沒有熱誠難成大事。）
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- Nothing is difficult to a man whom ambition fires.（對於雄心萬丈的人來說，世上沒有難成的事。）
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- Nothing venture, nothing have.（不入虎穴，焉得虎子。）
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- Old habits die hard.（固習難除。）
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- Once bitten, twice shy.（一朝被蛇咬，十年怕草繩。）
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- One gives nothing so liberally as advice.（沒有任何東西像忠告那麼慷慨。）
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- One gives nothing so liberally as advice.∕Nothing is given so freely as advice.（沒有任何東西像忠告那麼慷慨。）
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- One good turn deserves another.（好心有好報。）
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- One pair of heels is often worth two pairs of hands.（三十六計走為上策。）
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- One swallow does not make a summer.（勿以一概全。）
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- Opportunity seldom knocks twice.（福無雙至。）
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- Out of debt, out of danger.（無債一身輕。）
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- Out of sight, out of mind.（眼不見，心不念。［離眼遠，離心遠。久離則疏遠。））
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- Pardon is the most glorious revenge.（寬恕是最偉大的報復.）
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- Patience is bitter but its fruit is sweet.（保持耐性是痛苦的，但它的果實是甜美的。）
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- Penny wise, pound foolish.（小事精明，大事糊塗。）
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- Practice makes perfect.（熟能生巧。）
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- Practice what you preach.（言出必行。）
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- Pretty face, poor fate.（自古紅顏多薄命。）
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- Prevention is better than cure.（預防勝於治療。）
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- Pride goes before a fall.（驕者必敗。）
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- Put the saddle on the right horse.（責備得當（冤有頭，債有主）。）
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- Rome was not built in a day.（羅馬不是一天造成的。）
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- Salt water and absence wash away love.（遠離久別，恩情疏。）
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- Second thoughts are best.（退一步想最穩當。）
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- Seeing is believing.（百聞不如一見（眼見為信）。）
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- Seek and you shall find.［Matthew :］（尋找，就尋見。《馬太福音:》）
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- Seek mickle, and get something; seek little, and get nothing.（尋找多一些，就得著一些。尋找少一些，就一無所得。）
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- Self is a bad counselor.（利己心是最壞的顧問。自私非上策。）
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- Self-trust is the first secret of success.（自信是成功的第一祕訣）
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- Slow and steady wins the race.∕Slow but sure wins the race.（穩健紮實必致勝。）
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- Some people cannot see the wood for the trees.（見木不見林，逐末而忘本。）
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- Soon ripe, soon rotten.（速戰速決。）
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- Sow nothing, reap nothing.（無功不受祿。）
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- Spare the rod and spoil the child.（不打不成器。）
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- Still waters run deep.（水深流靜（大智若愚）。）
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- Strike while the iron is hot.（打鐵趁熱。）
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- Take away the cause, and the effect must cease.（沒有因，那有果。）
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- Take the rough with the smooth.（逆來則順受。）
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- Take things as they come.（既來之則安之。）
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- Talk of the devil and he is sure to appear.（說曹操曹操就到。）
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- That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.（好書開卷時引人入勝，終卷時使人獲益。）
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- The absent are always in the wrong.（誰人背後無人說，哪個人前不說人。）
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- The absent are never with fault, nor the present without excuse.（缺席者絕對沒有不對，出席者也不會沒有藉口。）
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- The bait hides the hook.（餌裡藏鉤。）
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- The best defence is offence.（先下手為強。）
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- The best fish swim near the bottom.（好魚游溪底。［好酒沈甕底。］）
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- The best is the enemy of the good.（「最好」往往成為「好」的敵人。［目標太高反而失敗。］）
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- The best is the enemy of the good.（目標太高反而失敗。）
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- The biter is sometimes bit.（欺人反受欺（害人反害己）。）
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- The blood of the soldiers makes the glory of the general.（一將功成萬骨枯。）
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- The boughs that bear most hang lowest.（大丈夫能屈能伸。）
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- The child is father of the man.（少年時代可決定一人之未來。）
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- The devil finds work for idle hands to do.（小人閑居做歹事。）
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- The devil is not so black as he is painted.（過甚其詞。）
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- The early bird catches the worm.（捷足先登（早起的鳥兒有蟲吃）。）
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- The end justifies the means.（為達目的，不擇手段。）
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- The fairer the paper, the fouler the blot.（黑白分明。）
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- The first blow is half the battle.（先下手為強。）
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- The fish will soon be caught that nibbles at every bait.（貪吃的魚兒易上鉤。）
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- The good seaman is known in bad weather.（時窮節乃現。）
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- The higher the mountain, the greater descent. （山愈高，峭壁愈陡。爬得愈高，跌得愈深。）
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- The higher the mountain, the greater descent.（爬得愈高，跌得愈深。）
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- The last straw breaks the camel's neck.（凡事宜節制，過則必敗事。）
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- The leopard cannot change his spots.∕Leopards cannot change their spots.（江山易改，本性難移。）
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- The leopard cannot change his spots.（江山易改，本性難移。）
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- The longest day must have an end.（天網恢恢，疏而不漏。）
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- The pen is mightier than the sword.（文勝於武。）
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- The pot called the kettle black.（五十步笑百步。）
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- The pot calls the kettle black.（半斤八兩。）
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- The proof of pudding is in the eating.（欲知布丁味，親嚐便可曉。［空言不如力行。］）
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- The road to h#ll is paved with good intentions.（手抱菩薩操屠刀。）
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- The tongue is not steel, yet it cuts.（舌頭雖非鐵卻可傷人。）
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- The wealth of the mind is the only true wealth.（心靈的財富才是唯一真正的財富。）
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- There are many ways to fame.（行行出狀元。）
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- There are other fish in the sea.（天涯何處無芳草。）
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- There are two sides to every question.（每個問題都有正反兩面看法。［公說公有禮，婆說婆有禮。］）
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- There are two sides to every question.（公說公有理，婆說婆有理。）
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- There is no accounting for tastes.（人各有所好。）
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- There is no rose without a thorn.（朵朵玫瑰皆有刺。［沒有十全十美的人生。］）
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- There is no royal road to learning.（學問無捷徑。）
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- There is no smoke without fire. （有煙必有火無風不起浪；事出有因。）
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- There is no wool so white but a dyer can make it black.（人非聖賢，孰能無過。）
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- There's a black sheep in every flock.（每一個團體中都難免有害群之馬。）
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- There's a black sheep in every flock.（樹大有枯枝，族大有乞兒。）
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- Think today and speak tomorrow.（熟思而後言。）
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- Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones.（投鼠忌器。）
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- Time flies like an arrow.（光陰似箭。［時光飛逝。））
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- Time is money.（時間就是金錢。）
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- To do one thing well is a worthy ambition.（把一件事做好，這就是一個有價值的雄心。）
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- To entertain an angel unawares.（有眼不識泰山。）
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- To err is human, to forgive is divine.（犯錯乃人之常情，寬恕則超凡入聖也。）
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- To think of danger in time of peace.（居安思危。）
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- Tomorrow never comes.（明天永不來。）
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- Too many cooks spoil the broth.（七手八腳必敗事。人多礙事。）
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- Too much water drowned the miller.（過猶不及。）
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- Trust men and they will be true to you.（相信他們，他們才會對你忠誠［信人者人恆信之］）
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- Turn a stumbling block into a stepping stone.（化阻力為助力。化絆腳石為墊腳石。）
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- Two heads are better than one（三個臭皮匠，勝過一個諸葛亮。集思廣益。）
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- Two of a trade can never agree.（同行相嫉。）
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- Union is strength.（團結就是力量。）
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- Variety is the spice of life.（變化是生活的調味料。）
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- Violent fires soon burn out.（野火燒不盡，春風吹又生。）
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- Virtue is its own reward.（為善自得其樂。）
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- Walls have ears.（壁上有耳。［謹防竊聽。］）
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- Water is a boon in the desert, but the drowning man curses it.（水能載舟亦覆舟。）
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- Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.（弱者等待機會，強者創造機會。）
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- Well begun is half done.（好的開始是成功的一半。）
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- What can't be cured must be endured.（無能為力之事只得忍耐（盡人事以待天命）。）
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- What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.（人真正珍惜的是未得到的，而不是所擁有的。）
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- Whatever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.（種瓜得瓜，種豆得豆。）
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- When God has his church, the devil will have his chapel.（上有政策，下有對策。）
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- When one door shuts, another opens.（天無絕人之路。）
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- When the cat's away, the mice will play.（貓兒不在，老鼠做怪。閻王不在，小鬼做怪。）
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- When things are at the worst they begin to mend.（否極泰來。）
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- Where the dam leaps over, the kid follows.（上行下效。）
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- Where there is a will, there is a way.（有志者事竟成。）
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- While the dogs growled at each other, the wolves devoured the sheep.（鷸蚌相爭，漁翁得利。）
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- While the grass grows the horse starves.（遠水解不了近渴。）
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- While there is life, there is hope.（留得青山在，不怕沒柴燒。）
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- Who takes a lion when he is absent, fears a mouse present.（趁獅子不在時取而代之者，卻怕老鼠的存在。）
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- Words cut more than swords.（舌劍利於刀劍。）
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- You cannot burn the candle at both ends.（蠟燭不能兩頭燒（勿過分消耗體力）。）
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- You cannot get blood out of a stone.（石頭擠不出血來（鐵石心腸那有淚）。）
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- You cannot run with the hare and hunt.（不可腳踏二條船。）
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- You cannot sell the cow and drink the milk.∕You cannot have your cake and eat it.（魚與熊掌，不可兼得。）
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- You cannot teach an old dog new tricks.（老狗學不來新花樣。朽木不可雕也；人老則守舊。）
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- You cannot tell a book by its cover.（凡事不可貌相。）
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- You must reap what you have sowed.（種瓜得瓜；種豆得豆。）
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- You scratch my back and I'll scratch yours.（禮尚得來。你我互相奉承讚美。）
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- Zeal is fit only for wise men, but is found mostly in fools.（熱誠只適宜於智者，但熱誠多半在愚者身上。）
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- Zeal too often lacks discretion.（熱心有餘，審慎不足。）
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- Zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse.（熱心有餘，知識不足。志大才疏猶如脫韁之馬。）
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- Zeal without prudence is frenzy.（熱誠不夠謹慎猶若瘋狂。）
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- Zeal, when it is a virtue, is a dangerous one.（把熱誠當作美德是危險的。）
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