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[proverb]
▶ experience is the best teacher ▶ custom makes all things easy ▶ you learn best by doing ▶ practice makes perfect ▶ [lit] it is better to grow accustomed than to be taught |
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| 4. | A 2018-10-09 10:08:24 Marcus Richert <...address hidden...> | |
| Diff: | @@ -19,0 +20 @@ +<misc>&proverb;</misc> |
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| 3. | A 2013-10-13 19:02:54 Jim Breen <...address hidden...> | |
| 2. | A* 2013-10-12 13:25:07 Nils Roland Barth <...address hidden...> | |
| Refs: | http://kotowaza-allguide.com/na/narauyorinarero.html 770,000 習うより慣れろ 34,700 習うより慣れよ |
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| Comments: | Add form 習うより慣れろ (〜ろ, not 〜よ) – grammatically modern command form, much more common in practice (a friend used it in the 〜ろ form). (Could have a separate entry; don’t know policy on this.) Also add other glosses; “experience is the best teacher” seems the closest English form (implying experience better than study). |
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| Diff: | @@ -4,0 +4,3 @@ +<k_ele> +<keb>習うより慣れろ</keb> +</k_ele> @@ -8,0 +11,4 @@ +<reb>ならうよりなれろ</reb> +<re_restr>習うより慣れろ</re_restr> +</r_ele> +<r_ele> @@ -9,0 +16,1 @@ +<re_restr>習うより慣れよ</re_restr> @@ -12,1 +20,5 @@ -<gloss>practice makes perfect (implying that it is better to learn from personal experience than from an instructor)</gloss> +<gloss>experience is the best teacher</gloss> +<gloss>custom makes all things easy</gloss> +<gloss>you learn best by doing</gloss> +<gloss>practice makes perfect</gloss> +<gloss g_type="lit">it is better to grow accustomed than to be taught</gloss> |
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| 1. | A 2007-10-06 00:00:00 | |
| Comments: | Entry created |
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