2017-01-29

TOO MANY COOKS SPOIL THE BROTH

英文諺語 TOO MANY COOKS SPOIL THE BROTH 七手八腳必敗事;人多礙事

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MEANING
Too many persons involved in managing an activity can ruin it, as in Without a conductor, every player had an idea for how the music should go—too many cooks spoil the broth. This expression alludes to each of many cooks adding something to a soup, which finally tastes awful. If too many people participate in a task, the task will not be done very well. You use this proverb to say that if too many people do the same thing (job, project,, etc.), it will not be done well. Sometimes people just say, “Too many cooks. " Another proverb “There is safety in numbers" expresses the opposite idea.
EXAMPLE
he director never asks more than 10 people to work with him in his projects, and he wants the best 10. He always says, “Too many cooks spoil the broth."
HISTORY
It was already considered a proverb in 1575 (by George Gascoigne in The Life of P. Care).
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2017-01-03

TO ERR IS HUMAN

英文諺語 TO ERR IS HUMAN, TO FORGIVE, DIVINE 犯錯乃人之常情,寬恕則超凡入聖也
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MEANING
“To err is human; to forgive, divine.”Alexander Pope (1688-1744)  English poet 
Something that you say that means that it is natural for people to make mistakes and it is important to forgive people when they do.
EXAMPLE
“You’d think he could find it in his heart to forgive her. To err is human and all that."
HISTORY
The popular saying created by line 525 of Pope’s poem An Essay on Criticism, Part II (1711)
In the original poem, as published in 1711, the line is given as “To err is humane; to forgive, divine.” This is not because Pope erred in his spelling or believed that making a mistake was a compassionate thing to do. At the time, humane was the common spelling used for the word human. 

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