A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
羊
Sheep
Coupled sheep drown one another.
偶合的羊互相淹死。
One mangy sheep spoils a whole flock.
一只臭羊糟蹋了一群羊。
My first job was cleaning sheep pens.
我的第一份工作是清理羊圈。
A leap year is never a good sheep year.
闰年从来不是好羊年。
The lone sheep is in danger of the wolf.
孤羊有狼的危险。
God help the sheep when the wolf is judge.
当狼受到审判时,愿上帝帮助羊。
Without a shepherd, sheep are not a flock.
没有牧人,羊就不是羊群。
You cannot shear the sheep closer than the skin.
剪羊毛不能剪得离羊皮太近。
A wolf hankers after sheep even at his last gasp.
狼即使奄奄一息也要抓羊。
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。
It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.
绵羊和狼讲和是疯狂的。
Do not allow the sheep to die for a halfpenny of tar.
不要让羊为了半便士的焦油而死去。
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My father is actually a quarry man - he deals in stone. He also at one point had a lot of sheep, he owned a sheep farm, but primarily the family business was in stone.
我父亲实际上是个采石场的人——他经营石头生意。他曾经也有很多羊,他拥有一个牧羊场,但主要是家族企业的石头。
The statesman shears the sheep; the politician skins them.
政治家剪羊毛;政客剥了他们的皮。
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。
Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
没有传统,艺术就像一群羊没有牧人。没有创新,它就是一具尸体。
I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.
我不怕一群由羊带领的狮子;我害怕狮子带领的羊群。