If gold rusts, what will iron do?

如果金子生锈了，铁怎么办?

If hunger forces a farmer in a particular year to eat both his yam tubers and the seed-yams, the succeeding years would still be worse because he would have no yams to eat and none to plant.

如果饥饿迫使农民在某一年既吃山药的块茎又吃山药的种子，那么接下来的几年将会更糟，因为他既没有山药吃，也没有山药种。

If men were now to turn their hostility towards the cat, it would not be long before the domestic cat becomes a wild animal.

如果人们现在把他们的敌意转向猫，不久家猫就会变成野生动物。

If neither animal nor vegetable you be, then mineral you are. If one finger brought oil it soiled others.

如果你既不是动物也不是植物，那么你就是矿物。如果一根手指沾了油，就会弄脏其他手指。

If one finger brought oil it soiled others.

如果一根手指沾了油，就会弄脏其他手指。

If one goes to a land where they cut off ears, he should cut off his own and contribute them.

人若到那割耳之地，就要把自己的割下来献上。

If one imitates the upright, one becomes upright; if one imitates the crooked, one becomes crooked.

人若效法正直人，就成为正直人;人若学弯曲的，就变弯曲了。

If one were to remove every smoking wood from a fire and condemn it as bad, one would be killing the fire itself.

如果一个人把所有冒着烟的木头都从火里拿出来，并谴责它不好，那他就是在自取灭亡。

If one would not eat pounded yam for its own sake, one can still eat it for the sake of the soup that goes with it.

如果一个人不吃捣碎的山药本身，他仍然可以吃它的汤的缘故。

If the bull would throw you, lie down.

如果牛要把你扔下去，你就躺下。

If the load is too heavy for someone to carry, one would be better off to give the load to the ground to carry.

如果担子太重，一个人扛不动，那么最好把担子放在地上扛。

If the owner of a calabash calls it a worthless calabash, others will join him to use it to pack rubbish.

如果葫芦的主人称它为无用葫芦，其他人就会和他一起用它来装垃圾。

If the owner of the goat is not afraid to travel by night, the owner of a hyena certainly will not be.

如果山羊的主人不怕夜间旅行，鬣狗的主人肯定也不会害怕。

If the owner of two adjacent farms cannot be friends, then they must wait till their next reincarnation to be able to make friends.

如果两个相邻农场的主人不能成为朋友，那么他们必须等到下一次转世才能交上朋友。

If the stomachache were in the foot, one would go lame.

如果胃疼在脚上，一只脚就会跛了。