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增广贤文(英汉对照) Popular Collection of Traditional Chinese Wise Sayings To understand the present, one should first know the past because without the past there is no present. 观今宜鉴古，无古不成今。 Although you may know many people, not many are really honest with you. 相识满天下，知心能几人。 If you live close to the water, you will know the character of the fishes well. If you live by a wooded mountain, you will know the different songs of the birds. 近水知鱼性，近山识鸟音。 A flower does not grow sometimes when you purposely plant it whereas a willow grows and offers a shade sometimes when you purposelessly transplant it. 有意栽花花不发，无心插柳柳成荫。 The person who comes to you to make a report about a trouble is none other than the trouble-maker. 来说是非者，便是是非人。 When people have tea and wine enouph to entertain others, they have many guests who seem as intimate as their brothers; when they are in need and danger, nobody comes to their aid. 有茶有酒多兄弟，急难何曾见一人。 When you picture a tiger it is easier for you to picture its hide than its bones. When you see a person it is easier for you to know their faces than their hearts and minds. 画龙画虎难画骨，知人知面不知心。 Wealth is like muck, and yet benevolence and righteousness are as valuable as gold. 钱财如粪土，仁义值千金。 As distance tests a horse’s strength, so time reveals a person’s heart. 路遥知马力，事久见人心。 The water from my native place, no matter whether it is tasty, is beauty; the people from my native place, no matter who they might be, are dear to me. 美不美，乡中水; 亲不亲，故乡人。 If you are not a hospitable host at home, you will find it difficult to meet a hospitable host when you visit others away from home. 在家不会迎宾客，出外方知少主人。 The poor living downtown are called by nobody, and the rich living even in remote mountains are visited by many people including their distant relations. 贫居闹市无人问，富在深山有远亲。 As in the Yangtze River the waves behind drive on those before, so in the world man of a new generation is driving endlessly that of an old one forward. 长江后浪推前浪，世上新人赶旧人。 A waterside tower gets the moonlight first,