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Examples:You can achieve your aim if you try hard without giving up.—you can run this time, but you'll have come back—lit. say grapes are sour when you can't eat them—You can't gain knowledge without practical experience (common saying); wisdom only comes with experience—definitive conclusion on the coffin lid (idiom); You can only judge a person's merits or demerits after death.—knowing the enemy and yourself will get you unscathed through a hundred battles (idiom, from Sunzi's "The Art of War")—think three times then go (idiom); don't act before you've thought it through carefully—when you teach someone, both teacher and student will benefit—You count them on your fingers (idiom). tiny number—When you enter a village, follow the local customs (idiom); do as the natives do—sorry bother you (polite, used to thank sb for a favor)—lit. father a lion, son cannot be a dog (honorific); With a distinguished father such as you, the son is sure do well.—lit. you die, I live (idiom); irreconcilable adversaries—May I trouble you to...? (as part of polite request)—We wish you long life and riches! (idiom, conventional greeting)—(expr.) hold the feudal overlord and you control his vassals—Look out for yourself, or heaven and earth will combine destroy you.—lit. until you reach the Great Wall, you're not a proper person; fig. get over difficulties before reaching the goal—It's all exaggeration, you don't need take it seriously—stir up the fire and you get burnt (idiom); get one's fingers burnt—Thank you for having gone out of your way help me.—(literary) I trust you have been well since we last met—the master leads you the door, the rest is up to you—lit. heart and mouth as one (idiom); say what you think—if two tigers fight, one must get injured (idiom); if you start a war, someone is bound get hurt—A small hole not plugged will make you suffer a big hole (common saying); a stitch in time saves nine—lit. like tofu strung on horsetail, you can't lift it—If you work at it hard enough, you can grind an iron bar ina needle.—Take what you hear be false, only believe it when you see it (idiom). Don't believe what people tell you until you see if for yourself.—lit. Sow melon and you get melon, sow beans and you get beans (idiom); fig. As you sow, so shall you reap.—believe what one sees, not what one hears (idiom). Don't believe what people tell you until you see if for yourself.—(respectful appellation for the addressee) you—You can't judge a person by appearance, just as you can't measure the sea with a pint pot. [idiom.]—like rowing a boat upstream, if you stop moving forward you fall back [idiom.]—if I (you, she, he...) had known it would come this, I (you, she, he...) would not have acted thus [idiom.]—I have been looking forward meeting you for a long time [idiom.]—Money isn't everything but without money you have nothing. [idiom.]— |