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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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Where there's a will, there's a way.

意志のあるところには道がある。

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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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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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You cannot have your cake and eat it, too.

菓子は食べたら残らない。

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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 sound mind dwells in a sound body.

健全な精神は健全な肉体に宿る。

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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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Love me, love my dog.

私と友達になりたいなら、私の友達とも友達になってくれ。

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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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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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Every cock crows on his own dunghill.

人はだれでもお山の大将になれる。

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As rust eats iron, so care eats the heart.

錆が鉄を虫食むのと同様に心配は心を虫食む。

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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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Nothing venture, nothing have.

何の冒険もしないなら、何も得られない。

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

どんなに貧しくてとも我が家に優るところはない。

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You can't teach an old dog new tricks.

老犬に新しい芸は教えられない。

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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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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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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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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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There is a skeleton in every closet.

どんな家にも内輪の悩みはあるものだ。

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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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"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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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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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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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 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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