Or you win, and I cook dinner for the entire family.
要是你赢了, 我替全家做晚餐。
The (or A) beggar may sing before the thief (or footbad).
既是穷光蛋,何虑窃贼偷。
Nothing can be compared, he maintains, with the first cockcrow, the twittering of birds at dawn, the sight of the rising sun glinting on the trees and pastures.