俗話說：雙喜臨門；可俗話又說：福無雙進，禍不單行！

There’s a saying that goes, "Fortune always comes in pairs." But there’s another saying that says, "Fortune comes, but never in pairs, while misfortune always does."

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Sentence Composition

1 俗話說 súhuàshuō
  1. as the proverb says
  2. as they say...
2 雙喜臨門 shuāngxǐlínmén two simultaneous happy events in the family
=3 可 kě
  1. (prefix) can; may; able to; -able
  2. to approve; to permit
  3. to suit
  4. (particle used for emphasis) certainly; very
  5. but; however
=3 可 kè used in 可汗 kèhán
4 俗話 súhuà
  1. common saying
  2. proverb
5 又 yòu
  1. (once) again
  2. also
  3. both... and...
  4. and yet
  5. (used for emphasis) anyway
=6 說 shuì to persuade
=6 說 shuō
  1. to speak; to talk; to say
  2. to explain; to comment
  3. to scold; to tell off
  4. (bound form) theory; doctrine
=6 說 yuè
  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of 悅 /悦 (yuè, “happy; delighted”)
  2. alternative form of 悅 /悦 (yuè, “happy; delighted”)
=6 說 tuō
  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of 脫 /脱 (“to free; to relieve”)
  2. alternative form of 脫 /脱 (“to free; to relieve”)
=7 福 Fú
  1. surname Fu
  2. abbr. for Fujian province 福建省 Fújiàn Shěng
=7 福 fú
  1. good fortune
  2. happiness
  3. luck
8 無雙 wúshuāng
  1. incomparable
  2. matchless
  3. unique
9 進 jìn
  1. to go forward
  2. to advance
  3. to go in
  4. to enter
  5. to put in
  6. to submit
  7. to take in
  8. to admit
  9. (math.) base of a number system
  10. classifier for sections in a building or residential compound
10 禍不單行 huòbùdānxíng
  1. misfortune does not come singly (idiom)
  2. it never rains but it pours