But his eyes kept flickering toward the huge silk purse the bride wore on her right shoulder and which was now stuffed full of money envelopes.

但是他的眼睛对着新娘挎在右肩的巨大丝绸钱包不停地眨着，钱包里现在塞满了装着钱的信封。

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It may be that we will find ways to turn this silk purse into a sows ear.

我们将发现，这可能会变成将丝质的小钱包转变成母猪的耳朵等之类的方法。

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One can not make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.

猪耳做不出丝钱包；坏材料造不出好东西；朽木不可雕。

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Vogts cannot be expected to fashion the proverbial silk purse from a sow's ear, but he has some way to go, tactically, to prove that he is the man to take Scotland forward.

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When we left a few minutes later, our transformation went in the opposite direction, or silk purse into sow's ear, since after several delicious blowsy hours of la vie en rose, our beeping cell phones signaled the impatience of the world outside.

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