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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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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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Money is a good servant, but a bad master.

金は使っても使われるな。

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It is the last straw that breaks the camel's back.

ぎりぎりの重荷を負ったラクダはわら1本でも積ませたら参ってしまう。

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

早起きは三文の徳。

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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 can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.

卵を割らなくては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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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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A man is known by the company he keeps.

人は関わる友によってその人柄が分かる。

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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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Well begun is half done.

滑り出しが好調なら事は半ば成就したのに等しい。

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

どんなにそまつでも、我が家が一番だ。

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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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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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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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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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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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You cannot teach an old dog new tricks.

老人に新しいことは無理だ。

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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 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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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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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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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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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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A fool's bolt is soon shot.

愚者はすぐ奥の手を出し行き詰まる。

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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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Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones.

ガラスの家に住む人は石を投げるべきではない。

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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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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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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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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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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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