Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

Once I did bad and that I heard never

Arabic translation:

أسأتُ مرةً فكثُر فُيَّ الملام

Added to glossary by Ahmed Samir
Aug 6, 2010 03:52
13 yrs ago
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English term

Once I did bad and that I heard never

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CONTEXT:
There is a poem that should remind us of this:
“Once I did bad and that I heard never.
Twice I did good but that I heard ever.”
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Proposed translations

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أسأتُ مرةً فكثُر فُيَّ الملام

اقتراح للبيتين

أسأتُ مرةً فكثُر فُيَّ المــــــــــلام
وأحسنتُ اثنتيْنِ فغفل عنِّي الأنام

ملاحظة: الإساءة في مقابل الإحسان من تعبيرات القرآن

"إِنْ أَحْسَنتُمْ أَحْسَنتُمْ لِأَنفُسِكُمْ وَإِنْ أَسَأْتُمْ فَلَهَا"
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agree Nesrin
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agree TargamaT team : رائع
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agree Lamis Maalouf : Nice
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English term (edited): once i did bad and that i heard ever

ارتكبت خطأ فتكلم الناس عنه أبداً

Based on the reference I provided below...

ارتكبت خطأ فتكلم الناس عنه أبداً
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agree Mohamed Gaafar
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أخطأت مرة فذهبت إلى الأبد

أخطأت مرة فذهبت إلى الأبد
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Reference comments

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Reference:

Misquoted

(By the way - the context would have been more useful if you'd told us what "this" refers to)
Anyway, Since the poem didn't make much sense to me, I googled it and came up with nothing, so I googled the first few words and found that what you have is misquoted, and that's why it doesn't make sense. The real poem is:
"Once I did bad and that I heard ever, Twice I did good, but that I heard never".
Meaning that when I once did something bad, people kept talking about it forever, but when I twice did something good, nobody everh mentioned it.
Peer comments on this reference comment:

agree Mohamed Gaafar
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