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三个臭皮匠，顶个诸葛亮sān gè chòu pí jiang , dǐng gè Zhū gé Liàngthree cobblers with their wits combined equal (/excel) Zhuge Liang the master mind—the wisdom of the masses exeeds that of the wisest individual; put three dunces together and you’ve got a wise man; the collective wisdom is always better than that of the cleverest man; two heads are better than one
❍ 副政委看着大家，见刘一萍想说又不想说的，便道：“大家都是共产党员，只管放心讨论，～。”(徐光耀《平原烈火》44) The deputy commissary looked at the assembled men. Yiping seemed to have something on his mind which he couldn’t bring himself to say.“We’re all Communists here，”Xue Chiang encou raged. “Everyone should feel free to join the dis cussion.‘Put three dunces together and you’ve got a wise man，’”he quipped.
❍ 常说：“三个缝鞋匠，顶个诸葛亮”，咱这二十多个共产党员和三个臭皮匠比起来，就强得多了。(冯志《敌后武工队》146) As the saying goes:“Three cobblers with their wits combined equal Zhuge Liang the master mind”. We 20-some Communist Party members are certainly more capable than the three cobblers.
❍ 三个臭皮匠，合成一个诸葛亮，人多主意高。(草明《原动力》111) “Three fools make one wise man. ”When there are a number of people,they are bound to think of a good idea.
❍ 俗话说的好，三个臭皮匠胜过诸葛亮。你有时不让他们发表意见，是不对的。(艾芜《百炼成钢》222) The proverb puts it nicely: “Three stupid cobblers put together are better in wisdom than one Zhuge Liang,the wise prime minister of the Shu Kingdom during the period of the Three Kingdoms.”Sometimes your have not let your helpers express their opinions. This is not right. |