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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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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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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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You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.

卵を割らなければオムレツは作れない。

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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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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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To err is human, to forgive divine.

間違いをするのが人間で、許すのは神だ。

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Two wrongs don't make a right.

他人の悪事を引き合いに出して自分の悪事の言い訳をすることはできない。

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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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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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Faint heart never won fair lady.

気の弱い男が美女を得たためしがない。

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

早寝早起きは人を健康に、金持ちに、そして賢くする。

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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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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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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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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 can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink.

馬を水の所まで連れていっても水を飲ませることはできない。

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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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The shepherd, even when he become a gentleman, smells of the lamb.

お里が知れる。

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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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It is no use crying over spilt milk.

こぼれたミルクを嘆いても無駄だ。

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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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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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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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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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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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A jack of all trades is a master of none.

何でもこなす者は名人にはなれない。

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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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You can't teach an old dog new tricks.

旧弊な人は新しい事になじめない。

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

早寝早起きは人を健康で裕福で賢明にする。

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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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