| 1. | Gems unwrought can do nothing useful .
玉不琢，不成器。 |
| 2. | I've been a failure .
我是个不成器的人。 |
| 3. | Tell mr. whitford how ungrateful you know you have been .
告诉惠特福德先生，你已经知道了你过去是多么不成器。 |
| 4. | He had moments of irritation at having produced a commonplace child .
他曾经几次因为生了这么个不成器的孩子而愤怒。 |
| 5. | Attention and submission could not be learned at onceholyrood was not built in a dayuse would make perfect .
专心和顺从不是一下子就可以学会的圣殿门口的十字架非一朝一夕所能造成“玉不琢不成器”嘛！ |
| 6. | A man at sixteen will prove a child at sixty
十六岁不成人,六十岁不成器 |
| 7. | The more you beat iron the harder it grows
铁不炼不成钢，玉不琢不成器。 |
| 8. | Spare the rod and spoil the child
省了棒子，坏了孩子；不打不成器。 |
| 9. | Spare the rod and spoil the child
玉不琢不成器；不打不成器。 |
| 10. | Spare the rod and spoil the child
孩子不打不成器。 |
