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字词 牛不喝水, 难按角。
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牛不喝水, 难按角。

Niú bù hē shuǐ, nán àn jiǎo.

牛不喝水, 難按角。

Lit [If an] ox doesn't want to drink water, [it's] difficult to press down its horns.

Fig You can't force others to do what they don't want to do; “you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink.”

Note [Note also the colloquial suyu expression: niú bù hē shuǐ, qiáng àn tóu, “trying to press an ox's head down when it doesn't want to drink” in DRC, chap. 46, and àn niú tóu above.]

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