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A friend in need is a friend indeed.

まさかのときの友こそ真の友。

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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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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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Better be the head of a cat than the tail of a lion.

大きな集団の尻につくより頭になれ。

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You scratch my back and I'll scratch yours.

あなたが私の背中をかいてくれれば、私もあなたの背中をかきます。

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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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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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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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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 cannot teach an old dog new tricks.

老人に新しいことは無理だ。

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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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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 bad wife is the shipwreck of her husband.

女房の悪さは六十年の不作。

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Love me, love my dog.

私と友達になりたいなら、私の友達とも友達になってくれ。

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Well begun is half done.

出だしがよければ半ばやり遂げたようなものだ。

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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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What is done cannot be undone.

やってしまったことは元に戻らない。

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

子宝に恵まれに粗末でも、我が家にまさる所はない。

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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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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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It is no use crying over spilt milk.

すんでしまったことをいつまでもくよくよしても始まらない。

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A man is known by the company he keeps.

付き合う仲間を見れば、その人がわかる。

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Barking dogs seldom bite.

吠える犬はめったに噛み付く事はない。

Hoeru inu wa mettani kamitsuku koto wanai

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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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Do in Rome as the Romans do.

ローマではローマ人がするようにせよ。

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

朝起きは三文の徳。

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You cannot have your cake and eat it, too.

菓子は食べたら残らない。

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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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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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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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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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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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"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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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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A fool and his money are soon parted.

愚か者の金はすぐにその手を離れる。

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He who pays the piper calls the tune.

笛吹きに金を払う者が曲を注文する。

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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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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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Every cloud has a silver lining.

どの雲にも銀の裏地がついている。

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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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It is hard for an empty sack to stand straight.

衣食足りて礼節を知る。

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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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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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As you sow, so will you reap.

種をまくように刈り入れることになる。

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Slow and steady wins the race.

ゆっくりでも着実にやってゆけば勝負には勝つ。

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Rome wasn't built in a day.

ローマは、一日にして建設されたものではない。

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