Beginning is easy -- to keep going is hard.
开始容易，继续难。
日本谚语
Beginning is easy -- to keep going is hard.
开始容易，继续难。
Better be proficient in one art than a smatterer in a thousand.
精通一门手艺胜过精通千门手艺。
Better go without medicine than call in an unskilled physician.
与其请一个不熟练的医生，不如不吃药去。
Better than a banquet somewhere else is a good cup of tea and a bowl of rice at home.
在家里喝杯好茶，吃一碗米饭，比在别的地方参加宴会要好。
Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher.
有一位伟大的老师，胜过一千天的勤奋学习。
Better to be a crystal and to be broken, than to be a tile upon the housetop.
宁可作水晶被打碎，不愿作房顶上的瓦。
Better to die than to live in shame.
与其活在耻辱中，不如死得痛快。
Better to wash an old kimono than borrow a new one.
与其借一件新和服，不如洗一件旧和服。
Better to write down something one time than to read something ten times.
一次写下来总比读十遍好。
Big fish do not live in small ponds.
大鱼不生活在小池塘里。
Boasting begins where wisdom stops.
智慧止于吹嘘。
Boat-swalling fish do not live in brooks.
水淹鱼不生活在小溪里。
Boat-swallowing fish do not live in brooks.
吞船鱼不生活在小溪里。
Books are preserved parts of minds.
书籍是思想的一部分。
Borrowed garments do not fit well.
借来的衣服不合身。