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Examples:too late for regrets (idiom); It is useless repent after the event.—It is better travel hopefully than to arrive.—decorated knob protruding from seal, allowing it be strung on a cord—the old man lost his mare, but it all turned out for the best (idiom); fig. a blessing in disguise—daring act and courageous enough to take responsibility for it—goose feather sent from afar, a trifling present with a weighty thought behind it (idiom); It's not the gift that counts, but the thought behind it.—Shangke corporation, PRC IT company (since 1994)—lit. easy dodge the spear in the open, hard to avoid a stab in the dark (idiom); it is hard to guard against secret conspiracies—It takes ten years nurture a tree, but a hundred years to train a man (idiom). A good education program takes a long time to develop.—Once sb has cracked the problem, every Tom, Dick and Harry can do it—I really want do it, but don't have the resources.—It is hard change one's essential nature (idiom). You can't change who you are.—use foreigners to subdue foreigners (idiom); let the barbarians fight it out among themselves (traditional policy of successive dynasties)—regret not having met earlier (idiom); It is nice to meet you finally.—lit. it takes a long time make a big pot (idiom); fig. a great talent matures slowly—the eye cannot take it all in (idiom); too many good things see—when the melon is ripe, it falls (idiom); problems sort themselves out in the fullness of time—the benevolent man cannot be rich (idiom, from Mencius). It is easier for a camel go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven (Matthew 19:24).—It's all exaggeration, you don't need take it seriously—hit the target where it hurts (idiom); fig. to hit home—want stop but can't (idiom, from Analects); find it impossible to give up—where it is possible let people off, one should spare them (idiom); anyone can make mistakes, forgive them when possible—cow from Wu is terrified by the moon, mistaking it for the sun—let it be known (esp. of threat or malicious story)—the person who drinks it knows best whether the water is hot or cold (Zen proverb); self-awareness comes from within—substitute one's words for the law and abuse power to crush it (idiom); completely lawless behavior—glue something lightly enough that it can be removed later—chip away at a task and not abandon it (idiom); to chisel away at sth—Excellent theory, but the practice does not bear it out.—having given away a bride, lose one's army on top of it [idiom.]—value the broom as one's own (idiom); to attach value to sth. because it is one's own—if I (you, she, he...) had known it would come this, I (you, she, he...) would not have acted thus [idiom.]—no point in worrying about sth until it actually happens [idiom.]—it is easier change mountains and rivers than to alter one's character [idiom.]— |