A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
埃塞俄比亚谚语
Ethiopian Proverbs
Coffee is our bread.
咖啡是我们的面包。
Evil gotten, evil spent.
恶有恶报,恶有恶报。
Great men have big hearts.
伟人心胸开阔。
Sitting is being crippled.
坐是残废的。
Termites live underground.
白蚁的地下生活。
With man comes the quarrel.
人一吵就吵。
The coward sweats in water.
懦夫在水里出汗。
A bleating sheep loses a bite.
咩咩叫的羊少咬一口。
The beer is difficult to strain.
这啤酒很难过滤。
I paid a goat because I blaabed.
我付了一只山羊钱,因为我喋喋不休。
An overly modest man goes hungry.
过分谦虚的人会挨饿。
They snatched from me my own cry.
他们抢去我的哭声。
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When one is in love, a cliff becomes a meadow.
当一个人恋爱时,悬崖变成了草地。
The heart of a fool is in his mouth and the mouth of the wise man is in his heart.
愚昧人的心在他口中。智慧人的口在他心里。
Do not hesitate or you will be left in between doing something, having something and being nothing.
不要犹豫,否则你将在做某事、拥有某物和一无所有之间徘徊。
He who knows much does not speak much.
懂得多的人不会说得多。
A shameless person has no sense of shame at all.
无耻之徒毫无羞耻之心。