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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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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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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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You cannot have your cake and eat it, too.

お菓子を持っていたり同時に食べたりはできない。

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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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Least said, soonest mended.

口数が少ないほど、訂正も早くできる。

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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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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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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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Money is a good servant, but a bad master.

金は使っても使われるな。

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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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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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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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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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The danger past and God forgotten.

危険が過ぎると神様は忘れられる。

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Fine words butter no parsnips.

ただ口先ばかりでは何の役にも立たない。

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Every cloud has a silver lining.

どんな悪いことにも良い面がある。

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A man is known by the company he keeps.

人は付き合っている人間でわかる。

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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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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 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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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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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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It's an ill wind that blows nobody any good.

誰にも利益を吹きあたえないような風は悪い風である。

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Better wear out shoes than sheets.

すり減らすのはシーツではなく靴にしろ。

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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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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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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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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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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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