Today we explain a very old saying that has had a big influence on rock-and-roll music.

VOA: special.2009.06.21

I think there's the old saying, "You can't run before you walk." and I think it's basically the same thing about writing.

有句俗话叫，“你不能未立先走。”我觉得写作跟这个是一个道理。

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Think about an eight year old girl, who's very unhappy, and then reads some magazine about that study, saying that basically you are genetically set point what you are born with is there for life.

设想一个8岁的女孩，她很忧伤，然后在杂志上读到那个研究，研究告诉她，基本上你的基因决定了一切,你与生俱来的一切，将伴随你终生。

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One writer believes that the expression might have come from an old saying.

VOA: special.2010.01.17

And she's saying "I don't look fine, I'm old, I'm not looking great. I'm really tired."

她说，“我看起来很不好，我年纪大了，也不再美丽了。我真的很疲劳。”

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And sometimes, as the old saying goes, it is the thought that counts.

VOA: special.2010.02.08

So that's really cute when they are five years old and they are saying that.

他们才五岁所以说那一些话很可爱.

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Diamonds may be a girl's best friend, as the old saying goes.

VOA: special.2010.06.28

There is an old saying that forbidden fruit tastes the sweetest.

VOA: special.2011.02.13

There's an old saying, "if you can't beat them,join them." and that is just what Isaak is doing to help make ends meet.

VOA: standard.2010.07.19

We have an old saying: A gift from a wicked man is a trap.

VOA: standard.2009.11.10

Still,in the words of an old American saying, the person who keeps pulling the grapevine shakes down at least a few grapes.

VOA: special.2009.02.22

(SAYING) Sixteen-year-old Mota, like many of the school children who live in the village, came to help visitors clean.

VOA: standard.2010.04.01

Family and friends of jailed U.S.-Iranian journalist Roxana Saberi are saying they are relieved she has decided to put an end to her two-week old hunger strike, in the aftermath of an Iranian pledge to hear her appeal next week.

VOA: standard.2009.05.06

(Speech) Fujii says the government is saying goodbye to an old concept of growth, a concept that relied on large investments on public projects, an idea that whoever is making money should make more money to help the economy.

VOA: standard.2009.10.27