But then, not every sentence can be literally translated. For example, the Beijing expression "People move to live, but if you move trees they die" can only be transformed into the Taiwanese idiom, "People have to work, chickens have to peck."
不過當然不是每句話都能「直譯」，例如北京諺語「人挪活，樹挪死」，就得找出台語的「人要翻，雞要啄」才講得通。