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"A rolling stone gathers no moss" is a proverb.

「転がる石は苔をもつけず」はことわざである。

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Do as you would be done by.

自分がしてもらいたいように人にもしなさい。

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Do in Rome as the Romans do.

ローマにおいてはローマ人がするようにせよ。

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Every cloud has a silver lining.

憂いの反面には喜びがあるものだ。

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A jack of all trades is a master of none.

何でも屋は何でも中途半端。

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A man is known by the company he keeps.

人は交わる友によってその人物がわかる。

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

意志があるところに道は開ける。

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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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Every Jack must have his Jill.

どんな男にもそれ相当の嫁のきてがあるもの。

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The shepherd, even when he become a gentleman, smells of the lamb.

お里が知れる。

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A man is as old as he feels and a woman as old as she looks.

男の年は気持ちで決まり、女の年は容貌で決まる。

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It's too late to shut the barn door after the horse is stolen.

泥棒を見て縄をなう。

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The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

プディングのうまいまずいは食べてみてから。

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When the cat is away, the mice will play.

猫がいなくなるとネズミたちが遊びだす。

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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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You can't teach an old dog new tricks.

旧弊な人は新しい事になじめない。

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

早寝早起きは人を健康に、金持ちに、そして賢くする。

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Do in Rome as the Romans do.

ローマはローマ人のするようにせよ。

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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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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

勉強ばかりで遊ばないと子供はだめになる。

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He who pays the piper calls the tune.

費用を受け持つ者に決定権がある。

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It's never too late to make amends.

過ちては改むるに憚ることなかれ。

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Do as you would be done by.

人からして貰いたいように人にもなせ。

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You cannot teach an old dog new tricks.

老いた犬に新しい芸当を教え込むことはできない。

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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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A jack of all trades is a master of none.

あらゆる職業に手を出す者は何の熟練工にもなれない。

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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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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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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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Slow and steady wins the race.

ゆっくりと着実なのが競争に勝つ。

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Slow and steady wins the race.

ゆっくりで着実なのが競走に勝つ。

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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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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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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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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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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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To err is human, to forgive divine.

間違いをするのが人間で、許すのは神だ。

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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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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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A fox is not caught twice in the same snare.

何時も柳の下に泥鰌は居らぬ。

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Don't cross a bridge till you come to it.

橋の所へこないうちに橋を渡るな。

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A woman's mind and winter wind change oft.

女心と冬の風はしばしば変わる。

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He who touches pitch shall be defiled therewith.

朱に交われば赤くなる。

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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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You cannot teach an old dog new tricks.

老人に新しいことは無理だ。

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Two wrongs don't make a right.

他人の悪事を引き合いに出して自分の悪事の言い訳をすることはできない。

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

いかに粗末であろうとも我が家に勝る所はない。

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