Can lead a horse to the water, but you can't make him drink.

你能领马匹到水边，但不能强迫它饮水。

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If I find one nearly overcome with thirst I have a special cup-shaped bucket and let him drink by himself.

如果我发现有羊太渴了，就用一个特制的杯状容器让它自己饮水。

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And when she had done giving him drink, she said, I will draw water for thy camels also, until they have done drinking.

女子给他喝了，就说，我再为你的骆驼打水，叫骆驼也喝足。

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You may have heard this expression: You can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make him drink.

VOA: special.2009.07.12

Usually this happens between men and women, so a man will give Richard a drink and pay him a few pennies to go to a woman in the bar and repeat certain things that he has trained Richard to say.

通常是某个男的，给钱让他给某个女人,带教授的话,顾客们会因为。

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We got the horse to the water, and someone else can make him drink.

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