吃得苦中苦,方为人上人
= only by enduring the hardest lot can a person aspire to rise above all others
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吃得苦中苦,方为人上人
= only by enduring the hardest lot can a person aspire to rise above all others
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差之毫厘,謬以千里 = an error of the breath of a single hair can lead a thousand li astray---a small discrepancy leads to a great error
撑埸面
= keep up appearance
e.g. He often lives beyond his means just to keep up appearances
= to give it a boost
e.g. A restaurant has to have a couple of master chefs to give it a boost
趁火打劫
= take advantage of somebody’s misfortune to make trouble
= fish in troubled waters
= plunder a burning house
沉鱼落雁 = (of a woman) extremely beautiful : her charms would have made fish sink and wild geese fall from the sky and her beauty put the moon and flowers to shame
小心驶得万年船 = take car and care will prevail(意译)
= care can drive a ship for ten thousand years(直译)