Proverbs |
Annotation
And Connotations |
- Visiting
monks give better sermons.
(Chinese
original: 外来的和尚好念经； Chinese Pinyin:  Wài lái de héshang hǎo
niànjīng.)
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- People
always value opinions coming from sources other than their fellow employees.
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- Mend
the pen only after the sheep are all gone.
(Chinese original: 亡羊补牢；Chinese Pinyin: Wáng-yáng-bǔ-láo.)
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- Some
say it is too late. Some say, well, if you learn a lesson, it is not
necessarily late: no more sheep will flee. It is better than if you
leave the pen broken at all. Therefore people use the proverb to either
purpose.
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- He
who plays with fire will get himself burned.
(Chinese
original: 玩火自焚；Chinese Pinyin: Wán-huǒ-zì-fén.)
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- An evil
doer will eventually end up being punished.
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- Ruthlessness
is key to a man's accomplishment.
(Chinese
original: 无毒不丈夫; Chinese Pinyin: Wú dú bù zhàngfu.)
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- Unfortunately
history proves it to be true again and again, particularly among statesmen
and politicians.
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- No
wind, no waves.
(Chinese original: 无风不起浪； Chinese Pinyin: Wú fēng
bù qǐ làng.)
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- How about
"There is no fire without smoke."? The assumption here is that
rumors may have some grounds.
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- Things
will develop in the opposite direction when they become
extreme.
(Chinese
original: 物极必反；Chinese Pinyin: Wù-jí-bì-fǎn.)
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- The pendulum
is also swing back and forth.
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- One
never comes to pray in the Temple of Three Treasures if
he is not in trouble.
(Chinese original: 无事不登三宝殿； Chinese Pinyin: Wú
shì bū dēng sānbǎodiàn.)
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- When
someone who rarely contacts you suddenly comes to you and you know what
he is come to, you will say this to yourself.
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- If
you've done nothing wrong, you shouldn't worry
about devils knocking at your door in midnight.
(Chinese original: 无事不怕鬼叫门； Chinese Pinyin: Wú
shì bù pà guǐ jiào mén.)
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- Same
as "If you have not done anything evil, you should not worry
too much": the good/regular always overwhelms the bad/irregular
though in real life it is not necessarily so.
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- Fifty
steps laugh at a hundred steps.
(Chinese original: 五十步笑一百步； Chinese Pinyin: Wǔ
shí bù xiào yī bǎi bù.)
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Don't
gloat over others' mistakes while you are making the same ones in a different
fasion. |
