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Береги платье снову, а честь смолоду

Look after your honour from youth ~ Honour without maintenance is like a blue coat without a badge. A good name is sooner lost than won # Look after your clothes when they're spick and span, and after your honour when you're a young man.

Батюшка сказал мне: "Прощай, Пётр. Служи верно, кому присягнёшь; слушайся начальников; за их лаской не гоняйся; на службу не напрашивайся; от службы не отговаривайся; и помни пословицу: береги платье снову, а честь смолоду". (А. Пушкин. Капитанская дочка)

My father said to me: "Goodbay, Pyotr. Serve faithfully whom you have sworn to serve; obey your superiors, do not seek their favours; don't thrust yourself forward for service, but don't shirk your duty; and remember the proverb: Look after your clothes when they're spick and span, and after your honour when you're a young man.

* При нерадивом отношении к своему здоровью можно очень быстро его лишиться и, напротив, при известной бережливости и внимательности - надолго сохранить. К известной пословице "Береги честь смолоду" следовало бы добавить - "Береги здоровье смолоду". (Ф. Коломийцев. Профилактика преждевременной старости)

It is easy to lose your health if you are careless with it. And, on the contrary, if you are careful and attentive enough you can be healthy for a long time. The saying has it that "you must look after your honour when you're young". I would say: "Look after your health while you're still young".

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The Conventional Designations and Signs:

1. Brackets in combination with different letter types in the Russian title units. For instance, Бабушка (Бабка, Старуха) (ещё) надвое сказала (гадала), where the words Бабушка надвое сказала are the saying in its basic form. The words (Бабка, Старуха) given in brackets, are the variants of the basic component Бабушка; the word (гадала) is the variant of the basic component сказала; the word (ещё) is an optional component of the saying.
2. Description (in English) of a proverb's/saying's meaning is given in italics, e.g.: Бабушка (Бабка, Старуха) (ещё) надвое сказала (гадала) Nobody knows whether it is so or not, whether it will happen or not.
3. = is put before an English monoequivalent e.g.: Аппетит приходит во время еды = Appetite (or The appetite) comes with (or in, while) eating.
4. ~ is put before an English analogue, e.g.: Близок (Близко) локоть, да не укусишь ~ There's many a slip 'twixt cup and lip; or before an English antonym, e.g.: Скоро сказка сказывается, да не скоро дело делается (Contrast: ~ No sooner said than done).
5. ^ is put before a descriptive translation, in which components of an English proverb/saying or an English set-phrase is used, e.g.: Воду (в ступе) толочь - вода (и) будет ^ Beating the air is just beating the air. (The translation is made by way of using the English set-phrase "to beat the air".)
6. :: is put before such a descriptive translation as does not convey the image of the Russian proverb/saying, e.g.: Чем дальше в лес, тем больше дров:: Complications begin to set in.
7. # is put before such a descriptive translation as conveys, partially or in full, the image of the Russian proverb/saying, e.g.: Чем дальше в лес, тем больше дров # The farther into the forest, the thicker the trees. The deeper into the wood you go, the more timber seems to grow.
8. * (the asterisk) is put before those illustrations of the Russian proverb/saying's use where it has undergone an occasional change and/or participates in a stylistic device, e.g.: * Во-первых, как вам известно, вопреки пословице, брань на вороту виснет… (Ю. Герман. Я отвечаю за всё)
Firstly, because mud has a way of sticking, as you probably know…
9. Ср. is a sign of reference informing the reader that the site also contain number of similar Russian proverb/sayings, e.g.: Бабушка надвое сказала Ср. Это еще вилами по воде писано.



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