Question Please help to[CN] tl this phrase

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  1. qxbluish

    qxbluish Well-Known Member

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    明明是你把这东西丢给自己,说“随便”找个人送了,但又规定,必须得是自己认识的,还得是宫里的,女的。

    自己这不是猪八戒照镜子,里外不是人吗?
     
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  2. nonononononono

    nonononononono NONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONO

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    Clearly, it was you who gave this thing to me. It was also you who said that it can be given to anyone, yet it needed to be some one I know, and it had to be a female in this palace.

    zhū bá jiè zhào jìng zi – lǐ wài bú shì rén
    猪八戒照镜子 – 里外不是人
    Zhu Bajie (Pig in Journey to the West, one of the four great classical novels of Chinese literature, who carries a rake as a weapon) looks in the mirror – neither he nor his reflection is anything but a pig; (figuratively), trying to please everyone and ending up pleasing no-one. When you are in such a situation you feel like "里外不是人".
     
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    Playful Devil Miki995 [Happy go lucky~]

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    [You had clearly tossed this item to me and said that I could "randomly" give it to someone. But yet, you continued to specify that the person must be someone you know and is a female from the palace.]

    Aren't you like Zhu Bajie looking into a mirror, trying to please everyone but backfiring in the end?

    Hehe~ I'm not sure for the second part but I rearranged Nonono's attempt xD
     
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    Thank you
     
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    qxbluish Well-Known Member

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    Thank you!