ျမန္မာ -အဂၤလိပ္ စကားပုံမ်ား

• Adjust burden to strength, like arrow to bow.
  တန္ႏွင့္အားကို ေလးႏွင့္ျမွားကဲ့သုိ႔ ညီေအာင္လုပ္ပါ။
• Although cowardly be slow to run.
  မရဲေသာ္လည္း ေျပးခဲေစ။
• The anger of the prudent never shows.
  ပညာရွိအမ်က္ အျပင္မထြက္။
• Arrows all gone before the battle begins.
  စစ္မေရာက္ခင္ ျမွားကုန္။
  
• As the doe gives birth to a fawn the tiger eats it.
  သမင္ေမြးရင္း က်ားစားရင္း။
• As to eating it, will it is covered with grit; but as to throwing it away, well, it is rich and luscious.
  စားရမွာလည္း သဲတရွပ္ရွပ္၊ လႊင့္ပစ္ရမွာကလည္း အဆီနဲ႔ တ၀င္း၀င္း။
• As you are fated to eat honey, bees swarm in your beard.
  စားရကံၾကံဳေတာ့ မုတ္ဆိိတ္ပ်ားစြဲ။
• Ask when you don't know, wash when you're dirty.
  မသိလွ်င္ေမး၊ မစင္လွ်င္ေဆး။
• At the sight of fresh fish away goes the roast.
  ငါးစိမ္းျမင္၊ ငါးကင္ပစ္။
• Bad children? Blame the parents.
  သားသမီးမေကာင္း မိဘေခါင္း။
• The black elephant dare not look at the royal white elephant's face.
  ဆင္ျဖဴမ်က္ႏွာ ဆင္မည္း မၾကည့္၀ံ့။
• Being afraid of the tiger he takes refuge with the lork Spirit, but the lord Spirit is worse than the tiger.
  က်ားေၾကာက္လို႔ ရုွင္ႀကီးကိုး၊ ရွင္ႀကီး က်ားထက္ဆိုး။
• The bigger the tiger, the bigger the pug-marks.
  က်ားႀကီးေတာ့ ေျခရာႀကီး။
• A blind fowl came upon the rice-pot .
  ၾကက္ကန္း ဆန္အိုးတိုး။
• The blind man is not afraid of ghosts.
  မ်က္ကန္းတစ္ေစၦမေၾကာက္။
• The care of one daughter equals that of a thousand cattle.
  သမီးတစ္ေကာင္ ႏြားတစ္ေထာင္။
• The cat jumps with joy when the forest is on fire.
  ေတာမီးေလာင္ ေတာေၾကာင္ လက္ခေမာင္းခတ္။
• Cheeks shinning because of gold earrings.
  ေရႊနားကပ္ေရာင္ေၾကာင့္ ပါးေျပာင္။
• Clear water cannot be obtained from a well that has just been dug.
  ခု ေရတြင္းတူး၊ ခု ေရၾကည္ေသာက္၍ မရ။
  
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