Can't learn an old dog new tricks, as the saying is.

俗话说得好，老狗学不了新把戏。

youdao

I reckon you're a kind of a singed cat, as the saying is—better'n you look.

我看你就像俗话说的那样，是一只烧焦的猫——比你看起来的那样好。

youdao

Where you are dropped, as the saying is, is who you are, at least in a certain limited sense.

正如古语所言，你出生的地方将会为你打上烙印，至少在某种有限的意义上是这样的。

youdao

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

VOA: special.2010.02.08

So in the end, this is just saying allocate me as many bytes s1 as were needed to store s1 itself.

最终，这个只是表示给我分配,足够多的空间来存储。

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So, what I'm saying is, when you leave the place you were born, you leave your ancestors as well.

我想说的是,当你离开故乡,你也就离开了你的祖先

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First, it rests on some peculiar comparisons saying, as Mr Higonnet does, that Jackson Pollock is the equivalent of Manet is as meaningless as saying that Arnold Schwarzenegger is the equivalent of Juliette Binoche.

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That is hardly the same as saying there is some mysterious mind-body placebo effect that could help treat all sorts of everyday ailments.

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Angela Merkel is on record as saying defending the euro is a German national interest.

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