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他本人是泥菩萨过河，自身难保。He could not keep himself safe like mud bodhisattva pass river.

还记得“泥菩萨”和他可怕的顽疾么？Remember the monk "mud bodhisattva" and his terrible skin infections?

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他现在也是泥菩萨过河自身难保了。He is now like a clay Buddha fording the river, hardly able to save himself.

每逢初一、五，母子俩便给泥菩萨烧香上供。On the first and fifteenth of every month, mother and son burned incense before earthen idols.

否则也只是个过江的泥菩萨，还保不住自己吧！Otherwise, we'll be like a clay Bodhisattva, who cannot even save himself as he crosses the river.

如此这般暗地里的讨价还价才得以使这个计划泥菩萨过海，代价是舍弃部分削减成本的最佳方案。Backstage bargains like these kept the plan afloat, but at the price of extinguishing some of the best ideas for reducing costs.

即便如此，中国的邻居们还是很担忧，因为他们清楚已是泥菩萨的美国不会永远存在。Still, China's neighbors are moving to belatedly assert themselves because they realize an overstretched U. S. won't always be around.

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另外一个苦苦压抑着自己的就是考虑他人太多，从来都来不顾及自己，甚至到了泥菩萨过河的时候都还是想的是他人而压抑自己。Another hard pressure is consideration of others too much instead of self, even being a situation of unable to protect or fend for myself still keep thinking about others.

他的意思再清楚不过了，如今布什是泥菩萨过江自身难保，军队亦深陷伊拉克泥淖，国会与美国民众的好战情绪跌到了低谷。You cannot be much clearer than that. With a weak and isolated president, and an army bogged down in the misery of Iraq, the American Congress and people are hardly in fighting mood.

若不懂六度，不能把这六条应用在日常生活里面，受了菩萨戒也是泥菩萨啦！If we are ignorant of the Six Paramitas and thus cannot apply them, then even if we have accepted the Bodhisattva precepts, we will be no more than clay idols unable to even help ourselves.