1·You cannot make a silk purse out of sow's ear.
用猪耳朵做没有成丝钱包。
2·You cannot make a silk purse out of a sows ear.
猪耳朵做不成丝钱包；巧妇难为无米之炊。
3·One can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
一个人不能用一只猪耳朵做出钱包来。
4·You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
猪耳朵做不成丝钱包；巧妇难为无米之炊。
5·You can not make a silk purse from a sow's ear .
您无法做一个丝绸钱包从母猪的耳朵。
6·One cannot make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
一个人不能用一只猪耳朵做出钱包来。
7·One can not make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
猪耳做不出丝钱包；坏材料造不出好东西；朽木不可雕。
8·It may be that we will find ways to turn this silk purse into a sows ear.
我们将发现，这可能会变成将丝质的小钱包转变成母猪的耳朵等之类的方法。
9·You can't, for example, turn lead into gold. Or a silk purse into a sow's ear.
比如，铅不能变成金子，也没法用猪耳朵做丝绸提包。
10·But his eyes kept flickering toward the huge silk purse the bride wore on her right shoulder and which was now stuffed full of money envelopes.
但是他的眼睛对着新娘挎在右肩的巨大丝绸钱包不停地眨着，钱包里现在塞满了装着钱的信封。