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You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink.

馬を水の所まで連れていっても水を飲ませることはできない。

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Nothing venture, nothing have.

何の冒険もしないなら、何も得られない。

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Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home.

たとえどんなに粗末であろうと、我が家ほどよいところはない。

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Rome wasn't built in a day.

ローマは1日で建設されたものではない。

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You cannot get blood out of a stone.

石から血を取り出すことはできない。

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A house without love is no more a home than a body without a soul is a man.

魂なき肉体が人間でないのと同様に、愛なき家庭は決して家庭ではない。

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Barking dogs seldom bite.

よく吠える犬はめったにかみつかない。

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Faint heart never won fair lady.

気の弱い男が美女を得たためしがない。

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Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

早寝早起きは健康と富と賢さのもと。

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Birds of a feather flock together.

同じ色の羽の鳥は共に集まるものだ。

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He laughs best who laughs last.

早まって喜ぶな、最後に笑える者が勝ち。

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When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out the window.

赤貧戸口に至らば、恋は窓より飛び去る。

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You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.

たまごを割らずにオムレツは作れない。

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Money is a good servant, but a bad master.

金は善い召使だが悪い主人だ。

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You cannot teach an old dog new tricks.

老犬に新しい芸は仕込めない。

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You cannot teach an old dog new tricks.

年取った犬に新しい芸を仕込めない。

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Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

結婚前は両眼を大きく見開いておれ、その後は、その半ばを閉じよ。

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As rust eats iron, so care eats the heart.

錆が鉄を虫食むのと同様に心配は心を虫食む。

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Don't cry before you're hurt.

何もされていないうちから文句をいうな。

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Short accounts make long friends.

貸借の期間が短ければ交友期間は長い。

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Where there's a will, there's a way.

やる気があれば方法は見つかるもの。

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Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

会わないでいると人の心はいっそう愛情が深くなる。

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The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.

心熱けれど肉体は弱し。

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Do as you would be done by.

自分が人からしてもらいたいと思うことは人にもせよ。

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Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home.

どんなに粗末な家でも我が家にまさるところはない。

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He who would the daughter win, with the mother must begin.

将を射んと欲すれば先ず馬を射よ。

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Least said, soonest mended.

口数が少なければ言い直しもたやすい。

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What is done cannot be undone.

なされたことは元通りにはならない。

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All his geese are swans.

自分のものならガチョウも白鳥に見える。

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It is hard for an empty sack to stand straight.

衣食足りて礼節を知る。

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Spare the rod and spoil the child.

鞭を惜しむと子供は駄目になる。

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Forewarned is forearmed.

あらかじめ警告を受けているのは、あらかじめ武装しているに同じ。

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You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.

オムレツを作るには卵を割らなくてはならない。

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It's a poor workman who blames his tools.

へたな職人は道具に難癖をつける。

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It's never too late to make amends.

過ちを改むるにはばかることなかれ。

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There is a skeleton in every closet.

どんな家にも内輪の悩みはあるものだ。

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You can't take it with you when you die.

死んだらお金はあの世へ持っていけない。

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A great man will be remembered for his achievements.

虎は死して皮を留め、人は死して名を残す。

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You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink.

馬を水際まで連れて行くことはできても、水を飲ませることはできない。

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You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink.

馬を水際まで連れて行くことは出来るが、水を飲ませることは出来ない。

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There's many a slip between the cup and the lip.

100里を行く者は99里を半ばとする。

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You can't teach an old dog new tricks.

老犬に新しい芸は教えられない。

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One man's meat is another man's poison.

ある人の食べ物が別の人には毒。

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Two wrongs don't make a right.

他人が悪い事をしているからといって自分もそうしてよいということにはならない。

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Least said, soonest mended.

口数が少ないほど、訂正も早くできる。

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The last straw breaks the camel's back.

最後のわら一本がらくだの背骨を折る。

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A little learning is a dangerous thing.

少しばかりの学問は危険なもの。

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You can't have your cake and eat it too.

ケーキを食べてしかもそのケーキを持っていることはできない。

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All that glitters is not gold.

輝くものすべてが金とは限らない。

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Where there's a will, there's a way.

意志あるところには道がある。

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A bad wife is the shipwreck of her husband.

女房の悪さは六十年の不作。

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