【汉译英】增广贤文：相识满天下，知心能几人?

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+ n3 `0 k! y2 D! ]+ I$ Z1 b8 {& U相识满天下，知心能几人？相逢好似初相识，到老终无怨恨心。近水知鱼性，近山识鸟音。易涨易退山溪水，易反易复小人心。
& F0 M, X$ V3 L; V4 CYou may have
nodding friends
all over the world,
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of them
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your confidants?
# r8 t0 [% y- T$ N4 Q9 c  p& [0 d: T% ]Always see
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attract you
when you first meet,
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associate without resentment
till you are old.
Living by the river,
you know
how fish swim.
& h$ m* C5 ~2 ^' J, kLiving by a mountain,
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, I, @. K0 s0 T" T1 V1 RThe water of
mountain streams,
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and recedes just as fast.
0 h9 [5 }: C6 n# |" C3 t5 Q) mInconstancy,
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of a petty man's
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相识满天下，知心能几人？相逢好似初相识，到老终无怨恨心。近水知鱼性，近山识鸟音。易涨易退山溪水，易反易复小人心。
You may have friends all over the world, but how many of them can you count on in times of need?
6 `( I. T0 P& P4 ^# ]You friends won't have reasons for resentment if you always treat them just like when you first meet.
) @( Y! G2 O* P; ?5 o, ^1 \Living by a mountain and a river teaches one about the nature of fish and birds.
) d' {+ v3 `' Z! eFickle is the heart of a petty man, just like the water of a mountain stream, which recedes just as fast as it rises.

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