The early bird catches the worm, the early worm eaten by the bird!

早起的鸟儿有虫吃，早起的虫儿被鸟吃！

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Running water is never stale and a door-hinge never gets worm-eaten.

流水不腐，户枢不蠹。

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Charles looked round him at the dingy smoke-discolored walls, the worm-eaten staircase.

查尔斯环视被烟熏黑的墙壁和虫蛀的楼梯。

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And was it really that same head, battered and worm-eaten, with an iron spike still rammed through the skull, that became a souvenir, a vulgar curiosity, a treasured relic and was finally in 1960 secretly laid to rest in the chapel of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, where the young Cromwell briefly studied?

ECONOMIST: Oliver Cromwell