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It is no use crying over spilt milk.

過ぎ去ったことを嘆いてもしょうがない。

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His bark is worse than his bite.

彼のほえるのはかむのよりひどい。

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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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To err is human, to forgive divine.

あやまちを犯すのは人の常、ゆるすのは神。

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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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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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Well begun is half done.

始まりがうまければ半ばうまくいったもおなじ。

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There's many a true word spoken in jest.

冗談に言ったことが本当になる場合がたくさんある。

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

両方いいようにはできない。

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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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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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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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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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You're never too old to learn.

学ぶのに年を取りすぎているということはない。

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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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He that cannot ask cannot live.

人にものを聞くことができないものは生きることもできない。

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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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Rome wasn't built in a day.

ローマは1日でできたのではなかった。

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

どんなにみすぼらしくても、わが家にまさる所はない。

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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 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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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 never too late to learn.

決して学ぶのに遅すぎるということはない。

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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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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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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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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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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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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裕福にそして賢明にする。

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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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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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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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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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You cannot have your cake and eat it, too.

菓子は食べたら残らない。

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As well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb.

小羊を盗んで絞首刑になるくらいなら親羊を盗んで絞首刑になるほうがましだ。

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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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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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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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Speak of the devil and he is sure to appear.

悪魔のことを話せば悪魔が現れる。

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