Your cooking is better than mine, and I certainly prefer not having to bother to cook at all.
你的菜煮得比我好,我当然就不想班门弄斧了。
Better die with honour than live with shame.
与其忍辱偷生,不如光荣而死。
Up to now, historians have assumed that calendars came into being with the advent of agriculture, for then man was faced with a real need to understand something about the seasons.