The cow is milked, not the ox; the sheep is shorn, not the horse.

牛是挤奶的,牛不是挤奶的;剪羊毛的是羊,不是马。

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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

生活已经养成了不站着结婚的习惯。你得像找到它一样骑着它。你得跟着改变。如果一天过去了,你的一些旧观念还是没有改变,那就像挤死牛一样。

I asked the waiter, 'Is this milk fresh?' He said, 'Lady, three hours ago it was grass.'

我问服务员:“这牛奶新鲜吗?”他说,“女士,三个小时前是草。”

It is a bad sheep that is too lazy to carry its own fleece.

懒得连自己的羊毛都带不走的羊是坏羊。

Many a sheep goes out woolly and comes home shorn.

许多羊出去时毛茸茸的,回来时却剪了毛。

God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.

上帝对剪了毛的羔羊是温和的。

Coupled sheep drown one another.

偶合的羊互相淹死。