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英譯：
(have) in stitches

例句：
His jokes had us in stitches. (他的笑話讓我們忍不住捧腹大笑)

She had everyone in stitches. (她把每個人都逗得忍不住哈哈大笑)

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英譯：
a watched pot never boils

例句：
Don’t just sit there waiting for your girlfriend to call. A watched pot never boils. (別只是坐在那裡等著你女朋友打電話來。心急水不開啊!)

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英譯：
creations of Cadmus

例句：
I can never imagine that the sons and daughters would attack one another like the creations of Cadmus in the presence of their dying father. (我無法想像這些兒女們竟在他們那垂死的老父親面前互相攻擊，兄弟鬩牆)

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英譯：
rob Peter to pay Paul

例句：
It’s very unwise to rob Peter to pay Paul. (拆東牆補西牆是非常不明智的)

Robbing Peter to pay Paul is quite common during economic downturn. (經濟衰退期間，以債養債的情況頗為普遍)

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英譯：
one swallow doesn’t make a summer

例句：
When you say that one swallow does not make a summer, what you mean is that just because something good has happened, it doesn’t mean good things will continue to happen. (當你說「一燕不成夏」時，你的意思就是一事成功並非萬事大吉)

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英譯：
set a thief to catch a thief

例句：
The government set a thief to catch a thief, hiring a stockbroker convicted of fraudulent practices to entrap the stockbroker they were investigating for fraud. (政府以毒攻毒，雇用了一名曾因詐欺被判刑的股票經紀人來誘使那位涉嫌詐欺、正受到調查的股票經紀人自投羅網)

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英譯：
(on) the straight and narrow

例句：
The police were surprised that such a trustworthy man, who had kept to the straight and narrow all his life, had committed such a high crime. (這樣一個一生循規蹈矩，值得信任的人，竟然犯下如此重大罪行，讓警方感到非常驚訝)

Lashing out at your children isn’t ideal behavior for keeping them on the straight and narrow. (要使你的小孩循規蹈矩，嚴斥並非理想的作法)

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英譯：
honesty is the best policy

例句：
Mary: I borrowed Jane’s white blouse without asking her, and then I spilled tomato sauce on it. Should I tell her what happened, or should I just put the blouse back in her closet and hope she won’t notice? Teresa: Honesty is the best policy. (瑪麗：我沒先問珍就借了她的白襯衫，後來我把蕃茄醬弄在襯衫上。我該告訴她實情，還是就把襯衫放回她的衣櫥，希望她沒注意到呢? 泰瑞莎：誠實才是上策)

When I was a young boy, my father usually said that honesty was the best policy. (在我小時候，我父親經常說，誠實才是上策)

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英譯：
the pen is mightier than the sword

例句：
Why not give up sword and take up pen? The pen is mightier than the sword for many times. (為什麼不「投戎從筆」呢? 文字的力量可是勝於武力好多倍啊!)

Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons. (不管誰說筆桿子比槍桿子更厲害，他肯定沒遭遇過自動武器)
— General Douglas MacArthur (麥克阿瑟將軍)

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英譯：
(nearly, almost, etc.) split/burst one’s sides (with laughter)

例句：
The members of the audience almost split their sides with laughter. (觀眾幾乎笑破了肚皮)

They nearly burst their sides when I told them my reason for being late. (當我說出我遲到的原因時，他們幾乎笑翻了天)

When I heard what happened to Patricia, I almost split my sides. (當我聽到派翠西亞所發生的事情時，我幾乎捧腹大笑)

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