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原文地址:英语格言警句作者:PraEn实用英语

 

 

 

英语格言警句

 

 

 

教育篇.................................................................................................................................P2

文化篇…………………………………………………………………………………….P14

道德篇…………………………………………………………………………………….P18

爱情篇…………………………………………………………………………………….P21

逆境篇…………………………………………………………………………………….P23

经验篇………………………………………………………………………………….....P27

知识篇…………………………………………………………………………………….P30

理想篇…………………………………………………………………………………….P31

法律篇…………………………………………………………………………………….P34

家庭篇…………………………………………………………………………………….P37

商务篇…………………………………………………………………………………….P40

悲伤篇……………………………………………………………………………….…….P43

很美的英语名言…………………………………………………………………………..P46

英语谚语500句…………………………………………………………………………..P47

谚语大全…………………………………………………………………………………..P70

经典谚语30句……………………………………………………………………………P82

常用谚语……………………………………………………………………………..........P84

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

教育篇

 

A bad beginning makes a bad ending.不善始者不善终。

A bad workman always blames his tools.不会撑船怪河弯。

A bird in the hand is worth than two in the bush.

 一鸟在手胜过双鸟在林。

A bad thing never dies.遗臭万年。

A boaster and a liar are cousins-german.吹牛与说谎本是同宗。

A bully is always a coward.色厉内荏

A burden of one‘s choice is not felt.爱挑的担子不嫌重。

A candle lights others and consumes itself.蜡烛照亮别人毁灭了自己。

Close mouth catches no flies.病从口入

A cat has 9 lives.猫有九条命。

A cat may look at a king.人人平等。

A constant guest is never welcome.常客令人厌。

Actions speak louder than words事实胜于雄辩。

 Adversity leads to prosperity.穷则思变。

 Adversity makes a man wise, not rich.逆境出人才。

A fair death honors the whole life.死得其所,流芳百世。

 A faithful friend is hard to find.知音难觅。

 A fall into a pit, a gain in your wit.吃一堑,长一智。

A fox may grow gray, but never good.江山易改,本性难移。

A friend in need is a friend indeed.患难见真情。

 A friend is easier lost than found.得朋友难,失朋友易。

 A friend is never known till a man has need.需要之时方知友。

A friend without faults will never be found.没有十全十美的

 ‘After you‘ is good manners.您先请”是礼貌。

 A good beginning is half done.良好的开端是成功的一半。

A good beginning makes a good ending.善始者善终。

A good book is a good friend.好书如挚友。

 A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.

 一本好书,相伴一生。

A good conscience is a soft pillow.不做亏心事,不怕鬼叫门。

 A good fame is better than a good face. 美名胜过美貌。

A good husband makes a good wife.夫善则妻贤。

A good medicine tastes bitter.良药苦口。

A good wife health is a man‘s best wealth.

妻贤身体好是男人最大的财富。

A great talker is a great liar.说大话者多谎言。

A light heart lives long.静以修身。

A hedge between keeps friendship green.君子之交淡如水。

A joke never gains an enemy but loses a friend.

戏谑不能化敌为友,只能使人失去朋友。

A leopard cannot change its spots.积习难改。

A liar is not believed when he speaks the truth说谎者即使讲真话也没人相信。

A little body often harbors a great soul.浓缩的都是精品。

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.一知半解,自欺欺人。

A little pot is soon hot.狗肚子盛不得四两油。

All are brave when the enemy flies.敌人逃窜时,人人都成了勇士。

All good things come to an end.天下没有不散的筵席。

All rivers run into sea.海纳百川。All roads lead to Rome.条条大路通罗马。

All that ends well is well.结果好,就一切都好。

All that glitters is not gold.闪光的不一定都是金子。

All things are difficult before they are easy.凡事总是由难而易。

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

只会用功不玩耍,聪明孩子也变傻。

A man becomes learned by asking questions.不耻下问才能有学问。

A man can do no more than he can.凡事都应量力而行。

A man cannot spin and reel at the same time.一心不能二用。

A man is known by his friends.什么人交什么朋友。

A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds.

光说空话不做事,犹如花园光长刺。

A man without money is no man at all一分钱难倒英雄汉。

A merry heart goes all the way.心旷神怡,事事顺利。

A miss is as good as a mile. 失之毫厘,差之千里。

A mother‘s love never changes.母爱永恒。

An apple a day keeps the doctor away.一天一苹果,不用请医生。

A new broom sweeps clean.新官上任三把火。

An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.以眼还眼,以牙还牙。

An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening.一日之计在于晨。

An old dog cannot learn new tricks.老狗学不出新把戏。

An ounce of luck is better than a pound of wisdom.聪明才智,不如运气。

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.预防为主,治疗为辅。

A rolling stone gathers no moss.滚石不生苔,转业不聚财。

As a man sows, so he shall reap.种瓜得瓜,种豆得豆。

A single flower does not make a spring.一花独放不是春百花齐放春满园。

A snow year, a rich year.瑞雪兆丰年。

A sound mind in a sound body.健全的精神寓于健康的身体。

A still tongue makes a wise head.寡言者智。

A stitch in time saves nine.小洞不补,大洞吃苦。

A straight foot is not afraid of a crooked shoe.身正不怕影子斜。

A wise head makes a close mouth.真人不露相,露相非真人。

A word spoken is past recalling.一言既出,驷马难追。

A year‘s plan starts with spring.一年之计在于春。

A young idler, an old beggar.少壮不努力,老大徒伤悲。

Bad news has wings.好事不出门,坏事传千里。

Barking dogs seldom bite.吠犬不咬人。

Beauty lies in the love‘s eyes.情人眼里出西施。

Be swift to hear, slow to speak.听宜敏捷,言宜缓行。

Better late than never.不怕慢,单怕站。

Better to ask the way than go astray.问路总比迷路好。

Between friends all is common.朋友之间不分彼此。

Birds of a feather flock together.物以类聚,人以群分。

Blood is thicker than water. 血浓于水。Blood will have blood.血债血偿。

Books and friends should be few but good.读书如交友,应求少而精。

Business is business.公事公办。Cheats never prosper.骗人发不了财。

Business is the salt of life.事业是人生的第一需要。

By reading we enrich the mind, by conversation we polish it.

读书使人充实,交谈使人精明。

Cannot see the wood for the trees.一叶障目,不见泰山。

Care and diligence bring luck.谨慎和勤奋才能抓住机遇。

Caution is the parent of safety.小心驶得万年船。

 Children are what the mothers are.耳濡目染,身教言传。

Choose an author as you choose a friend.择书如择友。

Come what may, heaven won‘t fall.做你的吧,天塌不下来。

Complacency is the enemy of study.学习的敌人是自己的满足。

Confidence in yourself is the first step on the road to success.

自信是走向成功的第一步。Content is better than riches.知足者常乐

Constant dripping wears away a stone.水滴石穿,绳锯木断。

Count one‘s chickens before they are hatched.蛋未孵先数雏。

Courtesy on one side only lasts not long.来而不往非礼也。

Creep before you walk.循序渐进。 Cry for the moon.海底捞月。

Custom is a second nature.习惯是后天养成的。

Custom makes all things easy.有个好习惯,事事皆不难。

Diamond cuts diamond.强中自有强中手。Do as the Romans do.入乡随俗。

Do as you would be done by.己所不欲,勿施于人。

Doing is better than saying.与其挂在嘴上,不如落实在行动上。

Do it now.机不可失,时不再来Do nothing by halves.凡事不可半途废。

Don‘t claim to know what you don‘t know.不要不懂装懂。

Don‘t have too many irons in the fire.不要揽事过多。

Don‘t make a mountain out of a molehill.不要小题大做。

Don‘t put off till tomorrow what should be done today.今日事,今日毕。

Don‘t put the cart before the horse.不要本末倒置。

Don‘t trouble trouble until trouble troubles you.不要自找麻烦。

Don‘t try to teach your grandmother to suck eggs.不要班门弄斧。

Do well and have well.善有善报。

Each bird love to hear himself sing.孤芳自赏。

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

早睡早起身体好。 Easier said than done.说得容易,做得难。

 Easy come, easy go.来也匆匆,去也匆匆。

 Eat to live, but not live to eat.人吃饭是为了活着,但活着不是为了吃饭。

 Empty vessels make the greatest sound.实磨无声空磨响满瓶不动半瓶摇。

is good when new, but friends when old.东西是新的好,朋友是老的亲。

Example is better then percept. 说一遍,不如做一遍。

Experience is the father of wisdom and memory the mother.

经验是智慧之父,记忆是智慧之母。

Experience must be bought.吃一堑,长一智。

Fact speak louder than words.事实胜于雄辩。

Failure is the mother of success.失败是成功之母。

False friends are worse than bitter enemies.明枪易躲,暗箭难防。

Far from eye, far from heart.眼不见,心不烦。

Far water does not put out near fire.远水救不了近火。

Faults are thick where love is thin.一朝情意淡,样样不顺眼。

Fear always springs from ignorance.恐惧源于无知。

Fields have eyes, and woods have ears.隔墙有耳。

Fire and water have no mercy.水火无情。

Fire is a good servant but a bad master.火是一把双刃剑。

First come, first served.先来后到。

First impressions are half the battle.初次见面,印象最深。

First think and then speak.先想后说。

Fools grow without watering.朽木不可雕。

Fool‘s haste is no speed.欲速则不达。

Fools has fortune.呆人有呆福。

Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much from fools.

愚者不学无术,智者不耻下问。

Forbidden fruit is sweet.禁果格外香。

Fortune favors those who use their judgement.机遇偏爱善断之人。

Fortune knocks once at least at every man‘s gate.风水轮流转。

Four eyes see more than two.集思广益。

Friends agree best at distance.朋友之间也会保持距离。

Friends are thieves of time.朋友是时间的窃贼。

Friends must part.再好的朋友也有分手的时候。

Genius is nothing but labor and diligence. 天才不过是勤奋而已。

Give a dog a bad name and hang him.众口铄金,积毁销骨。

God helps those who help themselves.自助者天助。

Gold will not buy anything.黄金并非万能。

Good for good is natural, good for evil is manly.

以德报德是常理,以德报怨大丈夫。

Good health is over wealth.健康是最大的财富。

Good medicine for health tastes bitter to the mouth.良药苦口利于病。

Good watch prevents misfortune.谨慎消灾。

Great barkers are no biters.好狗不挡道。

Great hopes make great man.伟大的抱负造就伟大的人物。

Great minds think alike.英雄所见略同。

Great men have great faults.英雄犯大错误。

Great men‘s sons seldom do well.富不过三代。

Great trees are good for nothing but shade.大树底下好乘凉。

Great wits have short memories.贵人多忘事。

Greedy folks have long arms.心贪手长。

Guilty consciences make men cowards.做贼心虚。

Habit cures habit.心病还需心药医。

Handsome is he who does handsomely.行为漂亮才算美。

Happiness takes no account of time.欢乐不觉时光过。

Happy is he who owes nothing.要想活得痛快,身上不能背债。

Happy is the man who learns from the misfortunes of others.

吸取他人教训,自己才会走运。

Harm set, harm get.害人害己。Hear all parties.兼听则明。

Hasty love, soon cold.一见钟情难维久。

Health is better than wealth.健康胜过财富。

Health is happiness.健康就是幸福。

 Heaven never helps the man who will not act.自己不动,叫天何用。

He is a fool that forgets himself.愚者忘乎所以。

He is a good friend that speaks well of us behind our backs.

背后说好话,才是真朋友。

He is a wise man who speaks little.聪明不是挂在嘴上。

He is lifeless that is faultless.只有死人才不犯错误。

He is not fit to command others that cannot command himself.

正人先正己。

He is not laughed at that laughs at himself first.自嘲者不会让人见笑。

He is wise that is honest.诚实者最明智。

He knows most who speaks least大智若愚。

He laughs best who laughs last.谁笑到最后,谁笑得最好。

He sets the fox to keep the geese.引狼入室。

He that climbs high falls heavily.爬得越高,摔得越重。

He that will not work shall not eat.不劳动者不得食。

He who does not advance loses ground.逆水行舟,不进则退。

He who makes constant complaint gets little compassion.

经常诉苦,没人同情。

He who makes no mistakes makes nothing.想不犯错误,就一事无成。

He who risks nothing gains nothing.收获与风险并存。

History repeats itself.历史往往重演。

Honesty is the best policy.做人诚信为本。

Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.抱最好的愿望,做最坏的打算。

I cannot be your friend and your flatterer too.朋友不能阿谀奉承。

If a man deceives me once, shame on him, if he deceives me twice, shame on me.

上当一回头,再多就可耻。

If you make yourself an ass, don‘t complain if people ride you.

人善被人欺,马善被人骑。

If your ears glow, someone is talking of you.耳朵发烧,有人念叨。

If you run after two hares, you will catch neither.脚踏两条船,必定落空。

If you sell the cow, you sell her milk too.杀鸡取卵。

If you venture nothing, you will have nothing.不入虎穴,焉得虎子。

If you want knowledge, you must toil for it.要想求知,就得吃苦。

Industry is the parent of success.勤奋是成功之母。

It is better to die when life is a disgrace.宁为玉碎,不为瓦全。

It is easier to get money than to keep it.挣钱容易攒钱难。

It is easy to be wise after the event.事后诸葛亮好当。

It is easy to open a shop but hard to keep it always open.创业容易守业难。

It is hard to please all.众口难调It is never too old to learn.活到老,学到老。

It is no use crying over spilt milk.覆水难收。

It is the first step that costs troublesome.万事开头难。

It is the unforeseen that always happens.天有不测风云,人有旦夕祸福。

It is too late to grieve when the chance is past.坐失良机,后悔已迟。

It never rains but it pours.不鸣则已,一鸣惊人。

It takes three generations to make a gentleman.十年树木,百年树人。

Jack of all trades and master of none.门门精通,样样稀松。

Judge not from appearances.人不可貌相,海不可斗量。

Justice has long arms.天网恢恢,疏而不漏。

Keep good men company and you shall be of the number.近朱者赤近墨黑。

Kill two birds with one stone.一箭双雕。

Kings go mad, and the people suffer for it君王发狂,百姓遭殃。

Kings have long arms.普天之下,莫非王土。

Knowledge is power.知识就是力量。

Knowledge makes humble, ignorance makes proud.

博学使人谦逊,无知使人骄傲。 Learn and live.活着,为了学习。

Learning makes a good man better and ill man worse.

好人越学越好,坏人越学越坏。

Learn not and know not.不学无术。Let sleeping dogs lie.别惹麻烦

Learn to walk before you run.先学走,再学跑。

Let bygones be bygones.过去的就让它过去吧。

Let the cat out of the bag.泄漏天机。Life is but a span.人生苦短。

Lies can never changes fact.谎言终究是谎言。

Lies have short legs.谎言站不长。

 Life is half spent before we know what it is.人过半生,方知天命。

Life is not all roses.人生并不是康庄大道。

Life without a friend is death.没有朋友,虽生犹死。

Like a rat in a hole.瓮中之鳖。

Like author, like book.文如其人。

Like father, like son.有其父必有其子。

Like for like.一报还一报。 Like knows like.惺惺相惜。

Like mother, like daughter.有其母必有其女。

Like teacher, like pupil.什么样的老师教什么样的学生。

Like tree, like fruit.羊毛出在羊身上。

Little things amuse little minds.小人无大志。

Look before you leap.摸清情况再行动。

Lookers-on see more than players.当局者迷,旁观者清。

Losers are always in the wrong.胜者为王,败者为寇。

Lost time is never found again.岁月既往,一去不回。

Love at first sight.一见钟情。 Love cannot be compelled.爱情不能强求。

Love is blind.爱情是盲目的。 Love is full of trouble.爱情充满烦恼。

Love is never without jealousy.没有妒忌就没有爱情。

Love me, love my dog.爱屋及乌Make hay while the sun shines.良机勿失。

Make your enemy your friend.化敌为友。

Man is the soul of the universe.人是万物之灵。

Man proposes, God disposes.谋事在人,成事在天。

Many hands make light work.众人拾柴火焰高。

Many heads are better than one.三个臭皮匠,赛过诸葛亮。

Many things grow in the garden that were never sown there.

有心栽花花不发,无心插柳柳成荫。

Measure for measure.针锋相对。

Misfortunes never come alone.祸不单行。

Misfortune tests the sincerity of friends.患难见真情。

Money isn‘t everything.钱不是万能的。 Murder will out. 纸包不住火。

My son is my son till he has got him a wife, but my daughter is my daughter all the days of her life.

儿子婚前是儿子,女儿终生是女儿。

Nature is the true law.天行有常,不为尧存,不为桀亡。

Necessity is the mother of invention.需要是发明的动力。

Never fish in trouble water.不要混水摸鱼。

Never judge from appearances.不可以貌取人。 Never say die.永不言败。

Never too old to learn, never too late to turn.亡羊补牢,为时未晚。

New wine in old bottles.旧瓶装新酒。 No cross, no crown.不经历风雨,怎么见彩虹。

No garden without its weeds.没有不长草的园子。

No living man all things can.世上没有万事通。

No man can do two things at once.一心不可二用。

No man is born wise or learned.没有生而知之者。 No man is content.人心不足蛇吞象

No man is wise at all times.聪明一世,糊涂一时。

None are so blind as those who won‘t see.视而不见。

None are so deaf as those who won‘t hear.充耳不闻。

No news is good news.没有消息就是好消息。

No one can call back yesterday.昨日不会重现。

No pains, no gains.没有付出就没有收获。

No pleasure without pain.没有苦就没有乐。

No rose without a thorn.没有不带刺的玫瑰。

No sweet without sweat.先苦后甜。 No smoke without fire.无风不起浪。

Nothing brave, nothing have.不入虎穴,焉得虎子。

Nothing dries sooner than a tear.眼泪干得最快。

Nothing in the world is difficult for one who sets his mind to it.

世上无难事,只怕有心人。

Nothing is difficult to the man who will try.世上无难事,只要肯登攀。

Nothing seek, nothing find.没有追求就没有收获。

Nothing is so necessary for travelers as languages.外出旅行语言最要紧。

Nothing is to be got without pains but poverty.

世上唯有贫穷可以不劳而获。

Not to advance is to go back.不进则退。

Not to know what happened before one was born is always to be a child.

不懂世故,幼稚可笑。

No way is impossible to courage.勇者无惧。

Obedience is the first duty of a soldier军人以服从命令为天职。

Observation is the best teacher.观察是最好的老师。

Offense is the best defense.进攻是最好的防御。

Old friends and old wines are best.陈酒味醇,老友情深。

Old sin makes new shame.一失足成千古恨。

Once a man and twice a child.一次老,两次小。

Once a thief, always a thief.偷盗一次,做贼一世。

Once bitten, twice shy.一朝被蛇咬,十年怕井绳。

One boy is a boy, two boys half a boy, three boys no boy.

一个和尚挑水喝,两个和尚抬水喝,三个和尚没水喝。

One cannot put back the clock.时钟不能倒转。

One eyewitness is better than ten hearsays.百闻不如一见。

One false move may lose the game.一着不慎,满盘皆输。

One good turn deserves another.行善积德。

One hour today is worth two tomorrow.争分夺秒效率高。

One man‘s fault is other man‘s lesson.前车之鉴。

One never loses anything by politeness.讲礼貌不吃亏。

One swallow does not make a summ一燕不成夏。

One‘s words reflect one‘s thinking.言为心声。

Out of debt, out of danger.无债一身轻。

Out of office, out of danger.无官一身轻。

Out of sight, out of mind.眼不见,心为静。

Patience is the best remedy.忍耐是良药。

Penny wise, pound foolish.贪小便宜吃大亏。

Plain dealing is praised more than practiced.

正大光明者,说到的多,做到的少。

Please the eye and plague the heart. 贪图一时快活,必然留下隐祸。

Pleasure comes through toil.苦尽甘来。

Pour water into a sieve.竹篮子打水一场空。

Practice makes perfect.熟能生巧。

Praise is not pudding.恭维话不能当饭吃。

Praise makes good men better, and bad men worse.

好人越夸越好,坏人越夸越糟。

Prefer loss to unjust gain.宁可吃亏,不贪便宜。

Prevention is better than cure.预防胜于治疗。

Pride goes before, and shame comes after.骄傲使人落后。

Promise is debt.一诺千金。

Proverbs are the daughters of daily experience.谚语是日常经验的结晶。

Pull the chestnut out of fire.火中取栗。

Put the cart before the horse.本末倒置。

Put your shoulder to the wheel.鼎力相助。

Reading enriches the mind.开卷有益。

Reading is to the mind while exercise to the body.读书健脑,运动强身。

Respect yourself, or no one else will respect you.要人尊敬,必须自重。

Rome is not built in a day冰冻三尺,非一日之寒。

Saying is one thing and doing another.言行不一。

Seeing is believing.眼见为实。 Seek the truth from facts.实事求是。

Send a wise man on an errand, and say nothing to him.

智者当差,不用交代。

Set a thief to catch a thief.以贼捉贼。

Short accounts make long friends.好朋友勤算账。

Something is better than nothing.聊胜于无。

Soon learn, soon forgotten.学得快,忘得快。

Soon ripe, soon rotten.熟得快,烂得快。

Speech is silver, silence is gold.能言是银,沉默是金。

Still water run deep.静水常深。

Strike the iron while it is hot.趁热打铁。

Success belongs to the persevering.坚持就是胜利。

Take things as they come.既来之,则安之。

Talking mends no holes. 空谈无补。

Talk of the devil and he will appear.说曹操,曹操就到。

Tall trees catch much wind.树大招风。

Teach others by your example.躬亲示范。

The best hearts are always the bravest.无私者无畏。

The best man stumbles.伟人也有犯错时。

The cat shuts its eyes when stealing.掩耳盗铃。

The danger past and God forgotten.过河拆桥。

The darkest hour is nearest the dawn.黎明前的黑暗。

The darkest place is under the candlestick.烛台底下最暗。

The devil knows many things because he is old.老马识途。

The devil sometimes speaks the truth魔鬼有时也会说真话。

The die is cast.木已成舟。 The early bird catches the worm.早起的鸟儿有虫吃。

The end justifies the means.只要目的正当,可以不择手段。

The end makes all equal.死亡面前,人人平等。

The eye is bigger than the belly.贪多嚼不烂。

The farthest way about is the nearest way home.抄近路反而绕远路。

The finest diamond must be cut.玉不琢,不成器。

The fire is the test of gold, adversity of strong man.烈火验真金,艰难磨意志。

The first step is the only difficulty.迈出第一步是最艰难的。

The fox knew too much, that‘s how he lost his tail.机关算尽太聪明,反误了卿卿 性命。

The fox preys farthest from home.兔子不吃窝边草。

The frog in the well knows nothing of the great ocean.坐井观天。

The grass is greener on the other side.这山望着那山高。

The greatest talkers are always least doers.语言的巨人总是行动的矮子。

The higher up, the greater the fall.爬得高,摔得惨。

The leopard cannot change its spots.本性难移。

The more noble, the more humble.人越高尚,越谦虚。

The more wit, the less courage. 初生牛犊不怕虎。

The outsider sees the most of the game.旁观者清。

The pen is mightier than the sword.笔能杀人。

The pot calls the kettle black.五十步笑百步。

There are spots in the sun.太阳也有黑点。

There are two sides to every question.问题皆有两面。

There is a skeleton in the cupboard.家家有本难念的经。

There is kindness to be found everywhere.人间处处有温情。

There is no general rule without some exception.任何法规均有例外。

There is no medicine against death.没有长生不老药。

There is no place like home.金窝银窝不如咱的狗窝。

There is no royal road to learning.书山有路勤为径,学海无涯苦作舟。

The style is the man.字如其人。

The tongue is not steel, yet it cuts.人言可畏。

The water that bears the boat is the same that swallows it up.

水能载舟,亦能覆舟。

The wise man knows he knows nothing, the fool thinks he knows all.清者自清,浊者自浊。 The wolf has a winning game when the shepherds quarrel. 螳螂捕蝉,黄雀在后

The world is a ladder for some to go up and others to go down.世界如阶梯,有人上有人下。

The world is but a little place, after all.海内存知己,天涯若比邻。

Think twice before you do.三思而后行。

Things at the worst will mend.否极泰来。

Time and tide wait for no man.时不我待。

Time cures all things.时间是医治一切创伤的良药。

Time flies.光阴似箭。 Time is money.时间就是金钱。

Time lost cannot be won again.时光流逝,不可复得。

Time past cannot be called back again.时间不能倒流。

Time tries all.路遥知马力,日久见人心。

Tit for tat is fair play.人不犯我,我不犯人;人若犯我,我必犯人。

To err is human.人非圣贤,孰能无过。

To know everything is to know nothing.什么都知道,一如什么都不知道。

 To know oneself is true progress.人贵有自知之明。

 Tomorrow never comes.我生待明日,万事成蹉跎。

 Too much familiarity breeds contempt.过分熟悉会使人互不服气。

 Too much knowledge makes the head bald.学问太多催人老。

 Too much liberty spills all.自由放任,一事无成。

 Too much praise is a burden.过多夸奖,反成负担。

 To save time is to lengthen life.节约时间就是延长生命。

 Touch pitch, and you will be defiled.常在河边走,哪有不湿鞋。

 Troubles never come singly.福无双至,祸不单行。

 Truth never grows old.真理永存。

 Turn over a new leaf.洗心革面,改过自新。

Two dogs strive for a bone, and a third runs away with it.

 鹬蚌相争,渔翁得利。

Two heads are better than one.一个好汉三个帮。

 Two of a trade seldom agree.同行是冤家。

 Two wrongs do not make a right.别人错了,不等于你对了。

 Unity is strength.团结就是力量。

 Unpleasant advice is a good medicine.忠言逆耳利于行。

Until all is over one‘s ambition never dies.不到黄河心不死。

 Venture a small fish to catch a great one.吃小亏占大便宜。

 Virtue is fairer far than beauty.美德远远胜过美貌。

 Walls have ears.小心隔墙有耳。

 Wash your dirty linen at home.家丑不可外扬。

 Water dropping day by day wears the hardest rock away.滴水穿石。

 Wealth is nothing without health.失去健康,钱再多也没用。

 We know not what is good until we have lost it.好东西,失去了才明白。

Well begun is half done.好的开始,是成功的一半。

 We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.井干方知水可贵。

 We shall never have friends if we expect to find them without fault

.欲求完美无缺的朋友必然成为孤家寡人。

We should never remember the benefits we have offered nor forget the favor received.

自己的好事别去提,别人的恩惠要铭记。

 Whatever you do, do with all your might.不管做什么,都要一心一意

What is learned in the cradle is carried to the grave.儿时所学,终生难忘。

What‘s done cannot be undone.生米煮成熟饭了。

What‘s lost is lost.失者不可复得。What we do willingly is easy.愿者不难。When in Rome, do as the Romans do.入国问禁,入乡随俗。

When everybody‘s somebody then nobody‘s anybody.人人都伟大,世间没豪杰。

When sorrow is asleep, wake it not.伤心旧事别重提。

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.

 新仇旧恨,齐上心头。

When the fox preaches, take care of your geese.黄鼠狼给鸡拜年,没安好心。

 When wine is in truth, wit is out.酒后吐真言。

Where there is a will, there is a way.有志者事竟成。

 Where there is life, there is hope.留得青山在,不怕没柴烧。

 Where there is smoke, there is fire.事出有因。

 While the priest climbs a post, the devil climbs ten.道高一尺,魔高一丈。

 Who chatters to you, will chatter of you.搬弄口舌者必是小人。

 Whom the gods love die young.好人不长命。

 Wise man have their mouths in their hearts, fools have their hearts in their mouths.

智者嘴在心里,愚者心在嘴里。

Work makes the workman.勤工出巧匠。 Wet behind the ears.乳臭未干。

You cannot burn the candle at both ends.蜡烛不能两头点,精力不可过分耗。

You cannot eat your cake and have it.鱼与熊掌,不可得兼。

 You can take a horse to the water but you cannot make him drink. 强扭的瓜不甜

。 You may know by a handful the whole sack.由一斑可知全貌。

You never know what you can till you try.是驴子是马,拉出来遛遛。

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

文化篇

 

A great poem is a fountain forever overflowing with the waters of wisdom and delight (P.B.Shelley, British poet)

伟大的诗篇即是永远喷出智慧和欢欣之水的喷泉。(英国诗人 雪莱 P B)

 

A novel is a mirror walking along a main road. (Stendhcl,French writer)

一部小说犹如一面在大街上走的镜子。(法国作家 司汤达)

 

A picture is a poem without words. (Horace, ancient Roman poet)

一幅画是一首没有文字的诗歌。(古罗马诗人 贺拉斯)

 

A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin. (E.de Goncourt, French writer)

诗人是这样的人,他架起通向星星的梯子——一边爬梯子一边拉提琴。(法国作家 龚古尔 E)

 

A poet is born, not made. (L.A.Florus, Ancient Roman poet)

诗人靠天分,不是靠培养。(古罗马诗人 弗洛鲁 L A)

 

Any one who conducts an argument by appealing to authourity is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory. (Da Vinci, Italian painter)

一个借着引经据典来辩论的人,不是在运用自己的才智,他是在运用自己的记忆力。(意大利画家 达·芬奇)

 

Art is a lie that tells the truth. (Picasso, Spanish painter)

美术是揭示真理的谎言。(西班牙画家 毕加索)

 

Art is long, and time is fleeting. (Longfellow, American poet)

艺术是永恒的,时间则是瞬息即逝的。(美国诗人 朗费罗)

 

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it ! (Robert Motherwell, American painter)

艺术远没有生活重要,但是没有艺术生活是多么乏味呀!(美国画家 马赦韦尔 R)

 

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling theorist has experienced. (Len Tolstoy, Russian writer)

艺术不是手艺,它是艺术家的体验到的感情的传递。(俄国作家托尔斯泰。L)

 

Art is the mold of feeling as language is the mold of thought. (Susanne Langer, American philosopher)

艺术是感情的模制品,犹如语言是思想的模制品。(美国哲学家 兰格 S)

 

Art is the object of feeling, and the subject of nature. (S.K.langer, American philosopher and educator)

艺术是情感的客观表现。也是本性的主观反映。(美国哲学家、教育家 兰格 S K)

 

Art is the right hand of nature. The latter only gave us being, but the former made us men. (Friedrich Schiller, German poet)

艺术是自然的右手。自然只让我们存在,而艺术创造我们的人类。(德国诗人 席勒 F)

 

Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travel. (Theocore Dreser, American novelist)

好画犹如佳肴,只可意会,不可言传。(法国画家 弗拉曼克 M)

 

Good painting is like good cooking; it ca n be tasted, but not explained. (Maurice de vlaminck, French painter)

简单地说,伟大的文学就是包涵极其丰富意义的语言。(美国诗人 庞德 E)

 

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree (Ezra Poud, American poet)

幽默被人正确地解释为“以诚挚表达感受,寓深思于嬉笑”。(美国诗人 庞德 E)

 

Humor has been well defined as thinking in fun while feeling in earnest. (Mark Twain, American novelist)

我写作只是为了增加自身的美。(美国作家 杰克·伦敦)

 

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. (Jack London, American writer)

音乐要用心灵去听,用头脑去感觉。(法国作家 雨果 V)

 

In music one must think with the heart and feel with the brains. Victor Hugo, French writer Jazz tickles your muscles, symphonies stretch your soul. (PaulWhiteman, American conductor)

爵士乐使你的肌肉发痒,交响乐能舒展你的灵魂。(美国指挥家 怀特曼 P)

 

iterature is a kind of intellectual light which, like the light of the sun, may sometimes enable us to see what we do not like. (Samuse Johnson, British writer and critic)

文学是一种理智之光,它和阳光一样,有时能使我们看到我们不喜欢的东西。(英国作家、批评家 约翰逊 S)

 

Love and scandale the best sweeteners of tea. (HenryFielding, British writer)

风流韵事与丑闻是品茶聊天时的最佳话题。(英国作家 菲尔丁 H)

 

Music has charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks or bend a knotted oak. (William Congreve. British dramatist)

音乐有着抚慰粗野的胸怀、软化顽石或使千年老树弯腰的魅力。(英国剧作家 康格里夫 W)

 

Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing. (John Erskine, American educator)

音乐是唯一不能用及表达卑鄙的或讽刺的事物的语言。(美国教育家 厄斯金 J)

 

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is a apeaking picture. (Simonides, ancient Greek writer)

画是无言之诗,诗是有声之画。(古希腊作家 西蒙尼特斯)

 

Rules and modesty destroy genius and art. (William Hazlitt, British essayist)

规则与谦逊会毁掉天才和艺术。(英国散文家 哈兹里特 W)

 

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face their own. (Jonathan Swift, British writer)

讽刺是一面镜子,观看者通常从中看到每一个人的面容却看不到自己。(英国作家 斯威夫特 J)

 

Some people pretend to despise the things they cannot have. (Aesop, ancient Greek fable writer)

吃不到葡萄的人说葡萄酸。(古希腊寓言作家 伊索)

 

Speech is a mirror of the soul; as a man speaks, so is he. (Ephraem Syrus, American writer)

语言是心灵的镜子;一个人只要说话,他说的话就是他的心灵的镜子。(美国作家 塞拉斯 E)

 

Sunshine can burn you, food can poison you, words can condemn you, pictures can insult you; music cannot punish ---- only bless. (Arthur Schnabel, Austrian pianist)

阳光可能炙烤你,食品可能毒害你,言语可能诅咒你,图画可能侮辱你——音乐不会处罚你只会祝福你。(奥地利钢琴家 施纳贝尔 A)

 

The art of giving presents is to give something which others cannot buy for themselves. (Alan Alexander Milne, British humorist)

送礼的艺术在于送别人不能给自己买的东西。(英国幽默作家 米尔恩 A A)

 

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation; the two keep in their downwad tendency. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe German poet)

文学的衰落表明一个民族的衰落。这两者走下坡路的时候是齐头并进的。(德国诗人 歌德 J W)

 

The lanscope belongs to the man who looks at it. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, American thinker)

风景属于看风景的人。(美国思想家 爱默生 R W)

 

The love of beauty is an essential part of all healthy human nature.(John Ruskin, American writer and critic)

爱美是健康人性的重要组成部分。(美国作家、批评家 罗斯金 J)

 

The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props , the pillars to help him endure and prevail. (William Fulkner, American writer)

诗人的声音不应只是人类的记录,而应是使人类永存并得到胜利的支柱和栋梁。(美国作家福克纳.W.)

 

The value of culture is its effect on character. It avails nothing unless it ennobles and strengthens that. Its use is for life. Its aim is not beauty but goodness. (Somerset Maugham, British noverlist and dramatist)

文化的价值在于它对人类品性的影响。除非文化能使品性变为高尚、有力。文化的作用在于裨益人生,它的目标不是美,而是善。(英国小说家和戏剧家 毛姆 S)

 

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun. (Picasso, Spanish painter)

有些画家把太阳画成一个黄斑,但有些画家借助于他们的技巧和智慧把黄斑画成太阳。(西班牙画家 毕加索)

 

When a dog bites a man that is not news, but when a man bites a dog that is news. (Charls A.Dana, American journalist)

狗咬人不是新闻,人咬狗才是新闻。(美国记者 达纳 C A)

 

When one loves one's art no service seems too hard. (O.Henry, American novelist)

一旦 热爱艺术,什么奉献也不难。(美国小说家 欧·享利)

 

Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair; can transfer knowledge from teacher to students words enable the orator to sway his audience and dictate its decisions. Words are capable of arousing the strongest emotions and prompting all man's actions. Do not ridicule the use of words in psychotherapy. (Sigmund Freud, German Psychiatrist)

言辞具有不可思议的力量。他们能带来最大的幸福,也能带来最深的失望;能把知识从教师传给学生;言辞能使演说者左右他的听众,,并强行代替他们作出决定。言辞能激起最大强烈的情感,促进人的一切行动。不要嘲笑言辞在心理治疗当中的的用途。(德国精神分析学家 弗洛伊德 S)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

道德篇

 

All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it. (John Locke, British Philosopher)

人都会犯错误,在许多情况下,大多数仍是由于欲望或兴趣的引诱而犯错误的。(英国哲学家 洛克.J.)

 

Character is what you are in the dark. (D. L Moody. USA churchman)

暗处最能反映一个人真正品格。(美国教士 穆迪.D.L)

 

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount. (Clare Boothe Luce, RSA dramatist)

勇气是一架梯子,其他美德全靠它爬上去。(美国剧作家 卢斯.C.B.)

 

Despite all the life danger, with one selfless act from one common person, someone is saved, A hero is made. (Norman Stephens, USA writer)

不管一切危险,由于一个普通人的无私行动,有人得救了,英雄就应运而生。(美国作家 斯蒂芬斯.N.)

 

Distrust can be contagious. But, so can trust. (Robbins Stacia, British writer)

不信任有传染性。但是信任也如此。(英国作家 斯达卡.R.)

 

Fame is the chastisement of meit and the punishment of talent. (Nicolas Chamfort, French writer)

盛名殊誉是德才之忌。(法国作家 尚福尔.N.)

 

God was constructed out of mankind's need for hope, for purpose, for meaning:an invisible protector and conscientious father. (Howards Mel. USA   writer)

人类出于对希望、目标意义的需要而造出了神:一位冥冥之中的保护者和尽责的养育者。(美国作家 梅尔.H.)

 

He who would do good to another must do it in minute particulars; general good is the plea of the scoundrel , hypocrite and flatterer. (William Black, British poet)

行善总是具体的、特定的;抽象的、笼统的行善是恶棍、伪君子和献媚者的托辞。(英国诗人 布莱克.W.)

 

I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after. (Ernest Hemingway, USA writer)

我只知道所谓道德是指你事后觉得好的东西,所谓不道德是指你事后觉得不好的东西。(美国作家 海明威.E.)

 

If you would convince others ,you seem open to conviction yourself. (Philip Dormer Chesterfield, British statesman)

要说服别人,先得说服自己。(英国政治家 切斯特菲尔德.P.D.)

 

If your morals make you dreary. depend upon it, they are wrong. (Robert Louis Stevenson, British novelist)

如果你的品行使你郁郁寡欢,那么,这些品行无疑是错误的。(英国小说家 斯蒂文森.R.L.)

 

It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly. (Magaret Mead, USA humanist)

一个有待解决的问题是:基于是害怕无休止的惩罚而产生的行为是被视作有道德的呢,还是应该被视作懦弱的?(美国人文学家 米德.M.)

 

It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way. (John Morley, British statesman)

人不仅要做好事,更要以正确的方式做好事。(英国政治家 莫利.J.)

 

Lying disguises our mortality, our inadequacies, our fears and anxieties, our loneliness in the midst of the crowd. We yearn for the comfort of familiar lies to create a more amenable reality. (Howards Mel, USAwriter)

说谎掩盖了人死的必然性、缺陷、恐惧、焦虑和在熙熙攘攘的人群中所感到的孤独。耳熟能详的谎言会创造一个较易应付的现实。 人渴望从这些谎言中得到安慰。(美国作家 梅尔.H.)

 

Morality is not really the doctrine of how to make ourselves happy but of how we are to be worthy of happiness. (Immanuel Kant, German Philosopher)

道德确实不是指导人们如何使自己幸福的教条,而是指导人们如何配享有幸福的学说。(德国哲学家 康德.I.)

 

Morality is the custom of one's country ;cannibalism is moral in a cannibal country. (Samuel Brttler, British writer)

道德是一个人所在国家的风俗习惯:在吃人的国家里,吃人是合乎道德的。(英国作家 勃特勒.S.)

 

Morality is the herd instinct in the individual. (German Philosopher)

道德是个人心目中的群居本能。(德国哲学家 尼采.F.)

 

Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice. (Leon Nlum, French statesman)

道德可能仅仅在于有勇气作出抉择。(法国政治家 布鲁姆.L.)

 

Mutual forgiveness of each vice, such are the gates of Paradise. (William Black, British poet)

相互宽容对方的缺点,乃是通向天堂之门。(英国诗人 布莱克.W.)

 

No mourality can be founded on authority, even if the authouity were divine. (A. J. Ayer. USA writer)

道德不可能建立在权威的基础上,即使这种权威是至高无上的。(美国作家 艾尔.A.J.)

 

Nothing is easier than to deceive one's self. (Demothenes, Ancient Greek statesman)

再没有什么比欺骗自己更容易的了。(古然希腊政治家 德摩西尼)

 

Personality is to man what perfume is to a flower. (C C Schwab. US A Businessman)

品格之于人,犹如芳香之于花。(美国实业家 施瓦布 C .C.)

 

Plain living and high thinking. (william Wordsworth, British poet)

生活要朴素,情操要高尚。(英国诗人 德莱顿., J)

 

Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind. (william shakewspeare British dramalist)

如果送礼的人不是出于真心,再贵重的礼物也会失去它的价值。(英国剧作家 莎 士比亚. W)

 

There is , however, a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue. (E Burke, British statesman)

克制也有个限度,超过了限度就不再是美德。(美国政治家 伯克 . E.)

 

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful. (William shakespeare, British dramatist)

美德是勇敢的,善良从来无所畏惧。(英国剧作家 莎士比亚. W.)

 

We all tell lies——little lies, big lies, necessity lies in order to insure social and psychological peace and comfort. (Howard Mel, USA writer)

所有的人说 的谎——小谎、大谎、善意的谎——都是为确保社会安宁、心理舒适采取的必要手段。(美国作家 梅尔, H.)

 

We know the good, we apprehend it clearly, but we can't bring it to achievement. To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man. (Euripides , ancient Creek dramatist.)

我们懂得善,我们理解善,但是我们无法实现善。人的勇气就是坚信自己的希望能够实现,并为之进行不屈不挠的努力。(法国作家 赖奇特 J. P)

 

Wherever true valor is found, true modesty will there abound. (William Gillbert, British dramatist and poet)

真正的勇敢,都包含谦虚。(英国剧作家、诗人 吉尔伯特.W.)

 

Words may be false and full of arts ,sighs are the natural language of the heart. (Thomas Shadwell, British dramatist)

言语可以是谎言并带有技巧;叹息才是心灵的自然流露。(英国剧作家 沙德韦尔.T.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

爱情篇

 

Absence to love is what wind is to fire. It extinguishes the small; it inflames the great. (Roger de Bussy-Rabutin, French writer)

离别之于爱情好比风之于火,它能将小火熄灭,使大火熊熊燃烧。(法国作家 比西-拉比旦.R.)

 

Every man is a poet when he is in love. (Plato ancient Creek philosopher)

每个恋爱中的人都是诗人。(古希腊哲学家 柏拉图)

 

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity. (George Bernard Shaw)

初恋就是一点点笨拙外加许许多多好奇。(英国剧作家 肖伯纳.G)

 

Friendship is like earthenware: once broken, it can be mended; love is like a mirror: once broken, that ends it. (Josh Billings. American humorist)

友谊就像陶器,破了可以修补;爱情好比镜子,一旦打破就难重圆。(美国幽默作家 比林斯 .J.)

 

Friendship is love without his wings. (George Gordon Byron, Bdritish poet)

友谊是没有羽翼的爱。(英国诗人 拜伦.G,G)

 

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. (Albert Einstein, American scientist)

并非地球引力使人坠入爱河。(美国科学家)

 

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse. (Burke Edmund, British statesman)

权力越大,滥用职权的危险就越大。(英国政治家 埃德蒙.B.)

 

The greatest of evils and the worst of crims is poverty. (George Bernard Shaw, British dramatist)

最大的恶和最凶的罪是贫穷。(英国剧作家 肖伯纳.G.)

 

The paramount duty of Congress is to stop deficiencies by the restoration of that protective legislation which has always been the firmst prop of the Treasury. (William Mckinley, American president)

国会的最高职责是恢复始终是国家财政最坚实支柱的保护性立法,以制止财政赤字。(美国总统 科金利.W.)

 

The people may safely be trusted to hear everything true and false, and to form a correct judgment. Were it fall to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers of newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. (Thomas Jefferson, American president)

人民是完全可以信赖的,应该让他们听到一切真实和虚伪的东西,然后作出正确的判断。倘使让我来决定,我们应该是有一个政府而不要报纸呢,还是应该有报纸而不要政府,我会毫不犹豫选择后者。(美国总统 杰斐逊.T.)

 

The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule be-gins. (Soren Kierkegaard, Danish religious philowopher)

暴君死了,他统治也就结束;烈士死了,他的统治刚开始。(丹麦宗教哲学家 基尔克戈德.S.)

 

There is something behind the throne greater than the king him-self. (William Pitt, British statesman)

在王座的后面还有比国王本人更伟大东西。(英国政治家 皮特.W.)

 

To be acquainted with the merit of ministry, we need only observe the condition of the people. (Junius, Unidentified letter writer)

要了解政府的政绩只需要观察民情。(国籍不明书信代理人 朱尼厄斯)

 

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasure, we must go to those who are seeking it :the pains of power is real, its pleasures imaginary. (C.Colton Charles, British churchman)

欲知权力带来的痛苦,去问那些当权者;欲知权力带来的乐趣,去问那些追逐权势者:权力带来的痛苦是真实的,而权力带来的乐趣只不过是凭空想象的。(英国牧师 查尔斯.C.C.)

 

Too fond of the right to pursue the expedient. (Oliver Goldsimith, British poet)

过分喜欢权力就会不择手段。(英国诗人 哥尔德斯密斯.O.)

 

We need in politics man who have something to give, not men who have something to get. (Bernard Baruch, Averican economist)

在政治中我们需要能有所奉献的人,而不是想有所收获的人。(美国经济学家 巴鲁克.B.)

 

When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property. (Thomas Jefferson, American President)

当一个人受到公众信任时,他就应该把自己看作公众的财产。(美国总统 杰斐逊.T.)

 

When society requires to be rebuilt, there is no use attempting to rebuild it on the old plan. (John Stuart Mill, BAritish economist)

当社会需要重建时,试图墨守旧的蓝图重建它是徒劳无益的。(英国经济学家 穆勒.J.S.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

逆境篇

 

Adversity reveals genius; fortune conceals it. (Horace, ancient Roman poet)

苦难显才华,好运隐天资。(古罗马诗人 贺拉斯)

 

Almost any situation---good or bad ---is affected by the attitude we bring to. (Lucius Annaus Seneca, Ancient Roman philosopher)

差不多任何一种处境——无论是好是坏——都受到我们对待处境的态度的影响。(古罗马哲学家 西尼加 L A)

 

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. (Hellen Keller, American writer)

虽然世界多苦难,但是苦难总是能战胜的(美国作家 海伦·凯勒)

 

As fruit needs not only sunshine but cold nights and chilling showers to ripen it, so character needs not only joy but trial and difficulty to mellow it. (Hugh Black, American writer)

水果不仅需要阳光,也需要凉夜。寒冷的雨水能使其成熟。人的性格陶冶不仅需要欢乐,也需要考验和困难。(美国作家 布莱克 H)

 

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing; the freedom to choose his attitude in any given set of circumstances. (Leonhard Frand , German novelist)

我可以拿走人的任何东西,但有一样东西不行,这就是在特定环境下选择自己的生活态度的自由。(德国小说家 弗兰克 L)

 

Every tragedy makes heroes of common people. (Normna Stephens, American writer)

每场悲剧都会在平凡的人中造就出英雄来。(美国作家 斯蒂芬斯 N)

 

He who allows himself to be insulted, deserves to be. (F.C.Comford, British writer)

自己甘愿受辱的人,受污辱也活该。(英国作家 科福德 F C)

 

I find life an exciting business and most exciting when it is lived for others. (Helen Keller,Ameican writer)

我发现生活是令人激动的事情,尤其是为别人活着时。(美国作家 海伦·凯勒)

 

I wept when I was born, and every day shows why.(Jack London, American novelist)

我一生下来就开始哭泣,而每一天都表明我哭泣的原因。(美国小说家 杰克·伦敦)

 

If you want to live your whole life free from pain

如果你想一生摆脱苦难

 

You must become either a god or else a coupes

你就得是神或者是死尸

 

Consider other men's troubles

想想他人的不幸

 

That will comfort yours

你就能坦然面对人生

 

Menander, Ancient Athenian playwriter

古雅典剧作家 米南德

 

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it. (George Bernad Shaw, British dramastist)

对于害怕危险的人,这个世界上总是 危险的。(英国剧作家 肖伯纳 G)

 

It is not true suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering, for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive. (William Somerset Maugham, British novelist)

说苦难能使人格得到升华,这是不确切的;幸福有时倒能做到这一点,而苦难常会使人心胸狭窄,产生复仇的心理。(英国小说家 毛姆 W S)

 

Let us suggest to the person in crisis that he cease concentrating so upon the dangers involved and the difficultie,and concentrate instead upon the opptunity---for there is always opportunity in crisis. (Seebohm Caroline, British physician)

让我们建议处在危机之中的人:不要把精力如此集中地放在所涉入的危险和困难上,相反而要集中在机会上——因为危机中总是存在着机会。(英国医生 卡罗琳 S)

 

Light troubles speak; great troubles keep silent. (Lucius Annaeus Seneneca, Ancient Roman Philosopher)

小困难,大声叫嚷;大困难,闷声不响。(古罗马哲学家 尼加 L A)

 

Mishaps are like knives that either serve us or cut us as we grasp them by the handle or blade.(James Russell Lowell, American poetess and critic)

灾难就像刀子,握住刀柄就可以为我们服务,拿住刀刃则会割破手。(美国女诗人、批评家 洛威尔 J R)

 

No one can degrade us except ourselves; that if we are worthy, no influence can defeat us. (B.T.Washington, American educator)

除了我们自己以外,没有人能贬低我们。如果我们坚强,就没有什么不良影响能够打败我们。(美国教育家 华盛顿 B T)

 

No pain , no palm; no thorns , no throne ; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown. (William Penn, British admiral)

没有播种,何来收获;没有辛劳,何来成功;没有磨难,何来荣耀;没有挫折,何来辉煌。(英国海军上将 佩恩 W)

 

Optimists always picture themselves accomplishing their goals. (Lucius Anaeus Seneca, Ancient Roman philosopher)

乐观主义者总是想象自己实现了目标的情景。(古罗马哲学家 西尼加 L A)

 

Perhaps you can't control your job, but you may be able to make other changes in your life. (Alan Loy Mcginnis ,British writer)

或许你不能支配自己的工作,但你能够使生活发生转变。(英国作家 麦金尼斯 A L)

 

Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth discover virtue.

顺境时显现恶习,逆境时凸现美德

 

Rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation. (John Kennedy, American president)

从希望中得到欢乐,在苦难中保持坚韧。(美国总统 肯尼迪 J)

 

Sweet are the uses of adversity.(William Shakspeare,British Playwriter)

苦尽甘来。(英国剧作家 莎士比亚 W)

 

The chinese word for crisis is divided into two characters, one meaning danger and the other meaning opportunity. (Burejer, British writer)

中文的“危机”分为两个字,一个意味着危险,另外一个意味着机会。(英国作家 布瑞杰)

 

The misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.(James Russell Lowell, American Poetess and critic)

最难忍受的不幸是那些从未来临的不幸。(美国女诗人、评论家 洛威尔 J R)

 

The more you fight something, the more anxious you become ---the more you're involved in a bad pattern, the more difficult it is to escape. (Seebohm Caroline, British Physician)

你越是为了解决问题而拼斗,你就越变得急躁——在错误的思路中陷得越深,也越难摆脱痛苦。(英国医生 卡罗琳 S)

 

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but what they miss. (Thomas Carlyle, British essayist and historian)

生活的悲剧不在于人们受到多少苦,而在于人们错过了什么。(英国散文家、历史学家 卡莱尔 T)

 

The very remembrance of my former misfortune proves a new one to me. (Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish writer)

对于过去不幸的记忆,构成了新不幸。(西班牙作家 塞万提斯 M)

 

Tough--minded optimists approach problems with a can-do philosophy and emerge stronger from tragedies. (Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Ancient Roman Philosopher)

意志坚强的乐观主义者用“世上无难事”人生观来思考问题,越是遭受悲剧打击,越是表现得坚强。(古罗马哲学家 西尼加 L A)

 

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.(H.J.Kaier, American businessman)

困难只是穿上工作服的机遇。(美国实业家 凯泽 H J)

 

We have all sufficient strength to endure the misfortunes of others. (La Rochefoucauld, French writer)

我们都有足够的力量来忍受别人的不幸。(法国作家 拉罗什富科)

 

We shall defend ourselves to the last breath of man and beast. (William II, King of England)

只要一息尚存,我们就要为保卫自己而战。(英国皇帝 威廉二世)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

经验篇

 

All is but lip-wisdom that wants experience. (Philip Sideney, British satesman)

凡是没有实际经验的,都只是口头智慧。(英国政治家 锡得尼 D .)

 

Expericence is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards. (Law Vernon, British writer)

经验是一位先行测试然后才授课严厉的教师。(英国作家 弗农. L.)

 

Experience is not interesting till it begins to repeat itself, in fact, till it does that ,it hardly is experience. (Elizabeth Bowen, British novelist)

经验直到自我重复时才变得有意义,事实上,直到那时才算得上经验。(英国小说家 鲍恩 E.)

 

Expericence is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him. (Aldous Leonard Huxley, American writer)

经验不会从天而降;经验只有通过实践才能获得。(美国作家 郝胥黎.A.L.)

 

Experience is the child of thought , and thought is the child of action. We cannot learn men from books. (Benjamin Disraeli, British statesman)

经验是思想之子,思想是行动之子,了解他人不可以书本为据。(英国政治家 迪斯雷利 B .)

 

Experience is the na me give their mistakes. (Oscar Wilde, British playwriter and poet)

经验是每个人为其错误寻找的代名词。(英国剧作家、诗人 王尔德 O.)

 

Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want. (Dan Stanfort, American brsinessman)

经验是当你没得到想得到之物时所得到的东西。(美国实业家 斯坦福。D.)

 

Expreience keeps a dear school, yet fools will learn in no other. (Benjamin Franklin, Americna president)

经验始终是收费高的学校,然而,笨汉非进此学校不可。(美国总统 富兰克林 B )

 

Experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues. (Bendict de spinoza, Dutch philosopher)

经验给我们太多的教训,告诉我们人类最难管制 的东西,莫过于自己的舌头。(荷兰哲学家 斯宾诺沙 B)

 

Experience never misleads; what you are missed by is only your judgement, and this misleads you by anticipating results from experience of a kind that is not produced by your experements. (Leonardo Da Vinci, Italian painter)

经验永远不会对你做错误的引导;把你引导错的只是你自己的判断,而你的判断之所以对你发生误导的作用,乃是由于它根据那种并非借着实验而产生的经验来预料的结果。(意大利画家 达芬奇)

 

Experience without learning is better than learning without excperi-ence. (Bertuand Russell, British philosopher and mathematician)

有经验而无学问胜于有学问而无经验。(英国哲学家、数学家 罗素.B.)

 

I have but one lamp wait which my feet are guided; and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past. (Patrick Henry, Americna statesman)

我只拿一盏灯来指引我的脚步,而那盏灯就是经验,对于未来,我只是能以过去来判断。(美国政治家 享利.P.)

 

Mistakes are an essential part of education. (Bertrand Russell, Bdritish philosopher)

从错误中吸取教训是教育极为重要的一部分。(英国哲学家 罗素 . B .)

 

Neither beliver nor reject anything, because any other person has rejected of believed it. Heaven has given you a mind for judging truth and error, Use it. (Thomas Jefferson, American president)

不要因为别的人相信或否定了什么东西,你也就去相信它或否定它。上帝赠予你一个用来判断真理和谬误的头脑。那你就去运用它吧/ (美国总统 杰斐逊 .T.)

 

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning. (James Russell Lowell, British Poet and critic)

一次痛苦的经验抵得上千百次的告诫。(英国诗人、批评家 洛威尔 .J. R .)

 

Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. (Samuel Smiles, British writer)

实用的知识只有通过亲身体验才能学到。(英国作家 斯迈尔斯 . S .)

 

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience. (Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish writer)

谚语是从长期经验中获得的短句。(班牙作家 塞万提斯.M.)

 

The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience, and those who are experienced have feeble imaginations. (Alfred North Whitehead, British philosopher and nathematician)

世界的悲剧就在于有想象力又缺乏经验,而有经验的人又缺乏想象力。(英国哲学家、数学家 怀特海 .A . N.)

 

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas. (Grorge Santayana, Spain-born American philosopher and poet)

教育之艰苦在于从意念中获得经验。(西班牙裔美国哲学家、诗人 桑塔亚那.G.)

 

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes. (Winston Churchill. British statesman)

傻瓜有时候也是对的。(英国政治家 丘吉尔 .W.)

 

To make good use of life one should have in youth the experience of advanced years, and in old age the vigor of youth. (Stanislars I, Polish king)

青年而有老年之经验,老年而有青年之朝气,就能使人生发挥更大的作用。(波兰国王 斯坦尼劳斯一世)

 

To most men , experience is like the stern light of a ship which il-luminates only the track it has passed. (Samuel Tylor Coleridge, British poet)

对于大多数人,经验像是一艘船上的尾灯,只照亮船驶过的航道。(英国诗人 柯勒津治. S .T .)

 

Too much experience is a dangerous thing. (Oscar Wilde, British dramatist)

经验过多反而危险。(英国剧作家 王尔德 . O.)

 

We know nothing of what will happen in future , but by the analogy of past experience. (Abraham Lincoln , American president)

除了凭着对过去的经验加以类推之外,我们对今后的事一无所知。(美国总统 林肯 . A .)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

知识篇

 

Activity is the only road to knowledge . (George Bernard Shaw , British dramatist)

 

行动是通往知识的唯一道路 。 (英国剧作家 肖伯纳. G.)

 

A free man obtains knowledge from many sources 1 besides books . (Thomas Jefferson , American president)

 

一个自由的人除了从书本上获取知识外,还可以从许多别的来源获得知识。(美国总统 杰斐逊 . T.)

 

A great part to the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way. (Adams Franklin , American humorist )

 

我的大部分知识都是这样获得的:在寻找某个资料时意外的发现了另上的资料。(美国幽默作家 富兰克林. A.)

 

If a man empties his purse into his head , no man can take it away from him , an investment in knowledge always pays the best interest . (Benjamin Franklin , American president )

 

倾已所有追求知识,没有人能夺走它;向知识投资,收益最佳。(美国总统 富兰克林. B.)

 

Imagination is more important than knowledge .(Albert Einstein , American scientist )

 

想象力比知识更为重要。 (美国科学家 爱因斯坦. A. )

 

Knowledge is power . (Francis Bacon , British philosopher )

 

知识就是力量。 (英国哲学家 培根. F.)

 

The empty vessels make the greatest sound . (William Shakespeare , British dramatist )

 

满瓶不响,半瓶咣当。 (英国剧作家 莎士比亚. W.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

理想篇

 

Do not, for one repulse, give up the purpose that you resolved to effect. (William Shakespeare, British dramatist)

 

 

不要只因一次失败,就放弃你原来决心想达到的目的。(英国剧作家 莎士比亚.W.)

 

 

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. (Mark Twain, American writer)

 

 

不要放弃你的幻想。当幻想没有了以后,你还可以生存,但是你虽生犹死。((美国作家 马克·吐温)

 

 

I want to bring out the secrets of nature and apply them for the happiness of man. I don't know of any better service to offer for the short time we are in the world. (Thomas Edison, American inventor)

 

 

我想揭示大自然的秘密,用来造福人类。我认为,在我们的短暂一生中,最好的贡献莫过于此了。 (美国发明家 爱迪生. T.)

 

 

Ideal is the beacon. Without ideal, there is no secure direction; without direction, there is no life.( Leo Tolstoy, Russian writer)

 

 

理想是指路明灯。没有理想,就没有坚定的方向;没有方向,就没有生活。(俄国作家 托尔斯泰. L.)

 

 

If winter comes, can spring be far behind ?( P. B. Shelley, British poet )

 

 

冬天来了,春天还会远吗?( 英国诗人, 雪莱. P. B.)

 

 

If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground. (Ibsen, Norwegian dramatist )

 

 

如果你怀疑自己,那么你的立足点确实不稳固了。 (挪威剧作家 易卜生)

 

 

If you would go up high, then use your own legs ! Do not let yourselves carried aloft; do not seat yourselves on other people's backs and heads. (F. W. Nietzsche, German Philosopher)

 

 

如果你想走到高处,就要使用自己的两条腿!不要让别人把你抬到高处;不要坐在别人的背上和头上。(德国哲学家 尼采. F. W.)

 

 

It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest, but there is seldom any money in them. ( Mark Twain, American writer )

 

 

就是在我们母亲的膝上,我们获得了我们的最高尚、最真诚和最远大的理想,但是里面很少有任何金钱。(美国作家 马克·吐温)

 

 

Living without an aim is like sailing without a compass. (Alexander Dumas, Davy de La Pailleterie, French Writer)

 

 

生活没有目标就像航海没有指南针。 (法国作家 大仲马. A.)

 

 

The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully 19 have been kindness, beauty and truth.(Albert Einstein, American scientist)

 

 

有些理想曾为我们引过道路,并不断给我新的勇气以欣然面对人生,那些理想就是--真、善、美。 (美国科学家 爱因斯坦. A.)

 

 

The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and the determination to attain it. (Johan Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet and dramatist)

 

 

人生重要的事情就是确定一个伟大的目标,并决心实现它。(德国诗人、戏剧家 歌德. J. M.)

 

 

The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds. (Mark Twain, American writer)

 

 

具有新想法的人在其想法实现之前是个怪人。 (美国作家 马克·吐温)

 

 

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. (Franklin Roosevelt, American president)

 

 

实现明天理想的唯一障碍是今天的疑虑。(美国总统 罗斯福. F.)

 

 

When an end is lawful and obligatory, the indispensable means to is are also lawful and obligatory. (Abraham Lincoln, American statesman)

 

 

如果一个目的是正当而必须做的,则达到这个目的的必要手段也是正当而必须采取的。(美国政治家 林肯. A.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

法律篇

 

Every law has no atom of stregth, as far as no public opinion supports it. (Wendell phillips, American leader against slavery)

若是没有公众舆论的支持,法律是丝毫没有力量的。(美国废奴运动领袖 菲力普斯 W)

 

Good order is the foundation of all things. (E.Burke, Btritish statesman)

良好的秩序是一切的基础。(英国政治家 伯克 E)

 

Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie. (Lawence Durrell, British writer)

犯罪总是以惩罚相补偿;只有处罚才能使犯罪得到偿还。(英国作家 达雷尔 L)

 

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. (Voltaire, Frech writer)

我不同意你说的话,但是我愿意誓死捍卫你说话的权利。(法国作家 伏尔泰)

 

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers. (Charles Dickens, British novelist)

倘若世上没有坏人,也就不会有好的律师。(英国小说家 狄更斯 C)

 

If we only had some God in the country's laws, instead of beng in such a sweat to get him into the Constitution, it would be better all around. (Mark Twain, American writer)

如果我们国家的法律中只有某种神灵,而不是殚精竭虑将神灵揉进宪法,总体上来说,法律就会更好。(美国作家 马克·吐温)

 

In nature there are no rewards or punishments; there are consequences. (HoraclAnnexley Vachell, British writer)

自然界中没有奖赏和惩罚,只有因果报应。(英国作家 瓦谢尔 H A)

 

It is better to fight for justice than to rail at the ill. (Alfreds Tennyson, Bitish writer)

与其责骂罪恶,不如伸张正义。(英国作家 丁尼生 A)

 

aws are generally found to be nets of such a texture, as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle-sized are alone entangled in. (William Shensto, British poet)

人们通常会发现,法律就是这样一种的网,触犯法律的人,小的可以穿网而过,大的可以破网而出,只有中等的才会坠入网中。(英国诗人 申斯通 W)

 

Law can nerver be enforced unless fear supports it. (Sophocles, Ancient Greek dramatist)

如果法律没有恐惧支撑,它绝不能生效。(古希腊剧作家 索福克勒斯)

 

Law is the crystallizaton of the habit and thought of society. (Woodrow Wilson, American president)

法律是社会习俗和思想的结晶。(美国总统 威尔逊 W)

 

Law is order , and good law is good order. (Aristole, Ancient Greek philosopher)

法律就是秩序,有好的法律才有 好的秩序。( 古希腊哲学家 亚里士多德)

 

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law. (Oliver Goldsmith, British writer)

法律吸吮穷人的膏血,而富人却掌握着权柄。(英国作家 哥尔德斯密斯 O)

 

Mankind censure injustice, fearing that they may be the victims of it and not because they shrink from commintting it. (Plato, Ancint Grek philosopher)

人类对于不公正的行为加以指责,并非因为他们愿意做出这种行为,而是惟恐自己会成为这种行为的牺牲者。(古希腊哲学家 柏拉图)

 

No society can make a perpetual constitution, or even a perpetual law.(Thomas Jefferson, America president)

没有哪个社会可以制订一部永远适用的宪法,甚至一条永远适用的法律。(美国总统 杰斐逊 T)

 

One of the most striking and salutary thing in Ameican life is the widespread study of law. (Alexis de Tocqueville ,French judge)

美国人生活中最显著而又有益的事情莫过于对法律的广泛研究了。(法国法官托克维尔 A)

 

Punishment is justice for the unjust. (Augustine British writer)

惩罚是对正义 的伸张。(英国 奥古斯丁)

 

Really, what we want now, is not laws, against crime, but a law a -gainst insaity. (Mark Twain, American writer)

实际上,我们想要的不是针对犯罪的法律,而是针对疯狂的法律。(美国作家 马克·吐温)

 

Singularity is almost invariably a clue. The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult is it to bring it home. (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, British writer)

奇特几乎总能提供一种线索。一种犯罪越是普通,越是不具特点,就越难以查明。(英国作家 柯南·道尔爵士 A)

 

The administration of the law can never go lax where every individual sees to it that it grows not lax in his own case, or in cases which fall under his eyes. (Mark Twain, Arerican writer)

在个人自己的案件中或是他所看到的案件中不能有疏忽,因此执法从来不能疏忽。(美国作家 马克·吐温)

 

The law cannot make all men equal, but they are all equal before the law. (Frederick Pollck ,British jurist)

法律不能使人人平等,但是在法律面前人人是平等的。(英国法学家 波洛克 F)

 

The laws of Nature, that is to say the laws of God, plainly made every human being a law unto himself, we must steadfastly refuse to obey those laws, and we must as steadfastly stand by the conventions which ignore them , since the statutes furnish us peace, fairly good government and stability, and therefore are better for us than the laws of God, which would soon plunge us into confusion and disorder and anarchy if we should adopt them. (Mark Twain, American writer)

自然法即神灵法,只是用来约束每一个个体的法律,我们必须坚定地拒绝遵守。我们应该坚定地遵守忽视神灵法的规章制度,因为规章制度赋予我们和平、比较好的政府和稳定,因而对我们来说,规章制度比神灵法更好,因为如果我们采用神灵法的话,他会将我们陷入迷惑、无序和无政府状态。(美国作家 马克·吐温)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

家庭篇

 

A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning un-necessary. (D.C,Fisher, American female novelist)

母亲不是赖以依靠的人,而是使依靠成为不必要的人。(美国女小说家 菲席尔.D.C.)

 

All happy families are like one another; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. (Leo Tolstoy ,Russian writer)

所有幸福的家庭都十分相似;而每个不幸的家庭各有各自的不幸。(俄国文学家 托尔斯泰.L.)

 

All I am , or can be, I owe to my angel mother. (Abraham lincoln, American president)

我之所有,我之所能,都归功于我天使般的母亲。(美国总统林肯)

 

As a modern parent, I know that it's not how much you give children those counts, it's the love and attention you shower on them.A caring attitude can not only save you a small fortune, but also even make you feel good about being tight-fisted and offering more care than presents. (O,Hare Noel, American writer)

作为一个现代的父母,我很清楚重要的不是你给了孩子们多少物质的东西,而是你倾注在他们身上的关心和爱。关心的态度不仅能帮你省下一笔可观的钱,而且甚至能使你感到一份欣慰,因为你花钱不多并且给予了胜过礼物的关怀。(美国作家 诺埃尔.O.)

 

Be it ever so humble , there is no place like home. (John Howard Payne, Averican drmatist and actor)

金窝,银窝,不如自家的草窝。(美国剧作家、演员佩恩. J. H.)

 

Every soil where he is well, is to a valiand man his natural country. (Masinger Phililp, British dramatist)

勇敢的人随遇而安,所到之处都是故乡。(英国剧作家 菲利普.M.)

 

Go where he will, the wise man is at home His harth the earth, his hall the azure dome. (R.W.Emerson, American thinker)

明智者四海为家--地球是他的壁炉,蓝天是他的客厅。(美国思想家 爱默生.R.W.)

 

Happy are the families where the government of parents is the reign of affection, and obedience of the children the submission to love. (Francis Bacon, British philosopher)

幸福的家庭,父母靠慈爱当家,孩子也是出于对父母的爱而顺从大人。(英国哲学家 培根.F.)

 

He is the happiest ,be he King or peasant , who finds peace in his home. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German dramstist and poet)

无论是国王还是农夫,家庭和睦是最幸福的。(德国剧作家、诗人歌德. J.W.)

 

Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse. (Grorge Bernard Shaw, British dramstist)

家是姑娘的监狱,女人的教养院。(英国剧作家 肖伯纳.G.)

 

Home is the place where ,when you have to go there , it has to take you in. (Frost Robert, American poet)

无论何时何地家永远是向游子敞开大门的地方。(美国诗人 罗伯特.F.)

 

How sharper than a serpent's tooth is to have a thankless child. (William Shakespeare, British dramatist)

逆子无情甚于蛇蝎。(英国剧作家 莎士比亚W.)

 

Husbands and wives in the process of divorce (and those in the throes of another argument )easily fall into the trap of denigraging the other, publicly if possible, and as often as possible. (Howards Mel, American writer)

正在闹离婚的(包括那些处于吵闹不停的痛楚中的)夫妻们很容易陷在对方的泥沼中不能自拔, 这种诋毁是尽可能公开的,尽量频繁地进行。(美国作家 梅尔.H.)

 

I don'nt know who my grandfather was. I' m much more concerned to know what his grandson will be. (Abraham Lincoln, American president)

我不知道我爷爷是什么样的人,我更关心的是,他的孙子会成为什么样的人。(美国总统 林肯.A.)

 

If you want your children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shouldres. (Joh Brnyan Btitish ssayist)

你若希望你的孩子总是脚踏实地, 就要让他们负些责任。(英国散文家 班扬,J.)

 

It was the policy of the good old gentlemen to make his chileren feel that home was the happiest place in the world; and I value this delicious home---feeling as one of the choicest gifts a parent can bestow. (Irvng Washington, Father of literature of the United States.)

让孩子感到家庭是世界上最幸福的地方,这是以往有涵养的大人明智的做法。这种美妙的家庭情感,在我看来,和大人赠给孩子们的那些最精致的礼物一样珍贵。(美国文学之父 华盛顿. I.)

 

Mariage may be compared to a cage:the birds outside deapair to get in and those within despair to get out. (Michel de Montaigne, French thinker and ssayist)

婚姻好比鸟笼,外面的鸟想进进不去;里面的鸟儿想出出不来。(法国思想家、散文家 蒙田.M.D.)

 

My father had always said that there are four things a child needs plenty of love, nourishing food, fegular sleep , and lots of soap and water---and after those, what he needs most is some intelligent neglect. (Ivy Baker Priest, American officer of government)

我父亲总是说,一个孩子需要四样东西--充分的爱、富于营养的食物、有规律的睡眠、大量的肥皂和水--这些完了呢,他最需要的是一些明智的放任。(美国政府官员 普里斯特.I.B.)

 

The brotherly spirit of science , which unites into one family all its votaries of whatever grade ,and however widely dispersed throughout the different quarters of the globe. (Franklin Rosevelt, American president)

科学的博爱精神把分散在世界各地、各种热心科学的人联结成一个大家庭。(美国总统 罗斯。.F.)

 

The family is one of nature's masterpieses. (George Santayana, American Philosopher and poet)

家庭是大自然创造的杰作之一。(美国哲学家、诗人 桑塔亚那.G.)

 

The family you came from isn't as important as the family you are going to have. (D.Herbert Lawrence, British writer)

你将拥有的家庭比你出身的那个家庭重要。(英国作家劳伦斯.D.H.)

 

The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them. (Bretrand Rrssell, British philosopher)

父亲们最根本的缺点在于想要自己的孩子为自己争光。(英国哲学家 罗素.B.)

 

The house of every one is to him as his castle and fortress. (E.Coke, British jutist)

每个人的家对他自己都像是城堡和要塞。(英国法学家 科克.E.)

 

The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one. (William John Locke, British novelist)

越早把你的儿子当成男人,他就越早成为男人。(英国小说家 洛克.W.J.)

 

There is a skeleton in every house. (William Makepeace Thackeray, Bdritish novelist)

家家都有一本难念的经。(英国小说家 萨克雷.W.M.)

 

To make a lasting marriage we have to overcome self-centeredness. (Grorge Goreon Byron, Nritish poet)

要使婚姻长久,就需克服自我中心意识。(英国诗人 拜伦,G.G.)

 

We never know the love of the parents until we become parents ourselves. (Henry Ward Beecher, American clergyman and orator)

不养儿不知父母恩(美国牧师、演说家 比沏.H.W.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

商务篇

 

A friendship founded on business is better than business founded on friendship. (John Davision Rockefeller, American businessman)

建立在商务基础上的友谊胜过建立在友谊基础上的商务。(美国实业家 洛克菲勒 J D.)

 

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human in-telligence long enough to get money from it. (Leacock Stephen, Canadian economist)

广告可被视为一种长久蒙蔽人类智慧以期从中赚钱的技巧。(加拿大经济学家 斯蒂芬 L)

 

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. (Samuel Butler, British writer)

世人莫不怀着一种与生俱来的欲望,要把支出超过收入,此乃一切进步的动力。(英国作家 勃特勒. S.)

 

Avarice , the apur of industry. (David Hume, Bdritish Philosopher)

贪婪是工业的兴奋剂。(英国哲学家 休谟 D)

 

Business? That's very simple---- it's other people's money. (Alexandre Dumas, French novelist)

做生意吗? 那太简单了——叫别人掏钱包。(法国小说家 小仲马 A)

 

Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life, Witness the fact that in the Lord's prayer the first petition is for daily bread, No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stoach. (Woodrow Wilson. American President)

生活包括精神生活的基础。不容置疑的事实是,在主祷文中向上帝祈求的第一件事是让我们天天有面包。没有人能饿着肚子敬奉上帝或热爱他的邻居。(美国总统 威尔逊 W.)

 

Did you ever expect a corporation to have a conscience, when it has no soul to damned, and no body to be kicked? (Edward Thurlow, British Lawyer)

公司既没有灵魂可以被诅咒,又没有躯体可以被踢翻,难道你指望它有什么良心吗?(英国律师 瑟洛杉矶 .E.)

 

Economy the poor man's mints; extravagance the rich man's pitfall.(Martin Tupper. American economist.)

节约是穷人的造币厂,浪费是富人的陷阱。(美国经济学家 塔珀 .M.)

 

For years I thought what was good for our country was good for General Motors, and vice versa. (Charles E. Wilison American president of GM)

多少年业,我始终认为对国家有利的事对我们通用汽车公司也有利,反之亦然。(美国通用汽车公司总裁 威尔逊 C.E.)

 

Good times, bad times, there will always be advertising, In good times people want advertising; in bad times they have to. (Bruce Barton British economist)

管是繁荣时期还是萧条时期,广告总会存在。繁荣时,人们想做广告;萧条时,人们不得不做广告。(英国经济学家 巴顿 B.)

 

Here's the rule for bargains "Do other men, for they would do you." That's the true precept. (Charles Dickens. British novelist)

这里有一条交易法则:“欺骗他人,因为他们也欺骗你。”这是真正的经商之道。(英国小说家 狄更斯 C)

 

If Enterprise is afoot, wealth accumulates whatever may be happening to Thrift; and if Enterprise is asleep, wealth decays, whatever Thrift may be doing. (John Maynard keynes British economist)

如果企业在进展,不论节俭不节俭,财富也在衰落。(国经济学家 凯恩斯 .J.M.)

 

Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art. (Wiliam Rplph lnge, Birtish writer and churchman)

当文学一半成为贸易,一半成为艺术时,那是它最繁荣的时期。(英国作家和牧师 英奇. W.R. )

 

Men trifle with their business and their politics, but they never trifle with their games. (George Burnard Shaw British dramatist)

男人拿生意和政治当儿戏,可是他们玩起来却从不当儿戏。(英国剧作家 肖伯纳 .G.)

 

Necessity never makes a good bagain. (Benjamin Franklim, American Pesident)

急需难买便宜货。(美国总统富兰克林 B)

 

The best cure for the national economy would beeconomy. (Ashoey Cooper, British novelist)

拯救国家经济的最好办法就是节约。(英国小说家 库珀 A)

 

The trouble with the profit system has always been that is was highly unprofitable to most people. (E.B.White, American writer)

利润制度的最大弊端始终是绝大多数的人是绝对无利可图的。(美国作家 怀特 E B)

 

There can be no economy where there is no efficiency. (Disraeli, British statesman)

没有效率就没有经济。(英国政治家 狄斯雷利)

 

The consumer isn't a moron; she is your wife. You insult her in-telligence if you assume that a mere slogan and a few vapid adjectives will persuade her to buy anything. (Davik Ogilvy, American advertisement manager)

消费者不是傻瓜;她是你的妻子。如果你认为仅凭 句口号,几个干巴巴的形容词就能诱使她掏腰包购买任何东西的话,那么你就亵渎了她的智慧。(美国广告经营者 奥格尔维 D)

 

There is no resting place for an enterprise in a competitive economy. (Alfred P.Sloan. American businessman)

在竞争的经济中,没有企业休息的地方。(美国实业家 斯隆 A D)

 

When you are skinning your customers , you should leave some skin on to grow so that you can skin them again. (Nikita Khrushchev, Statsman of the former Soviet Union)

如果你要剥客户的皮,你应当给他们留点皮,别剥光,让它长新皮,这样你下次还可以继续剥他们的皮。(前苏联政治家 赫鲁晓夫 N)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

悲伤篇

 

A certain amount of care or pain or trouble is necessary for every man at all times .A ship without a ballast is unstable and will not go straight. (Arthur Schopenhauer. Geman philosopher)

一定的忧愁、痛苦或烦恼,对每个人都是时时必需的。一艘船如果没有压舱物,便不会稳定,不能朝着目的地一直前进。(德国哲学家 叔本华 A)

 

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears. (Michel Eyquem Montaigne, French essayist)

害怕痛苦的人已经在承受他所害怕 的痛苦了。(法国散文家 蒙田 M E)

 

As empty vessels make the loudest sound, so they that have least wit are the greatest babblers. (Plato , Ancient Greek Philosopher)

正像空容器发出的声音最大,智力最低者最善于唠叨不休。(古希腊哲学家 柏拉图)

 

Better one suffer, than a nation grieve. (John Drydon, British poet)

宁可一人受苦,不使民族悲伤。(英国诗人 德莱顿 J)

 

Between grief and nothing I will take grief. (William Faulkner, American writer)

在悲痛与虚无之间,我愿意选择悲痛。(美国作家 福克纳 W)

 

Comparison, more than reality, makes men happy or wretched. (Thomas Fuller, American inventor)

使人高兴的或者沮丧的,与其说是事实,还不如说是攀比。(美国发明家 富勒 T)

 

For evil news rides fast, while good news baits later. (John Milton, Britsh poet)

好事不出门,坏事传千里。(英国诗人 弥尔顿 J)

 

Grief is itself a medicine. (William Cowper, British poet)

悲痛本身也是一种药。(英国诗人 考伯 W)

 

Happiness is beneficial for the body , but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind. (Marcel Proust, French writer)

愉快有益于人的身体,但只有悲伤才能培养心灵力量。(法国作家 普鲁斯 M)

 

Have no doubts because of trouble nor be thou discomtited

你虽然在困苦中也不惴惴不安

 

for the water of life's fountain springeth from a gloom bed

从暗处往往流出生命之泉

 

Sit not sad because that time a fitful aspect weareth

不要因为时运不济而郁郁寡欢,忍耐虽然最痛苦

 

Patience is most bitter , yet most sweet the fruit it bearth

其果实也最香甜

 

Sadi , Perisian poet

波斯诗人 萨迪

 

He best can pity who has felt the worse. (John Gay, British dramstist and poet)

感受过悲伤的人最富有同情心。(英国剧作家、诗人 盖伊 J)

 

He who in adversity would have succor, let him be generous while he rests secure. (Saki, British writer)

谁想在逆境中得到援助,就应在身处顺境时待人宽厚。(英国作家 萨基)

 

I tell you hopeless grief is passionless. (E.B.Browning, British poetess)

我告诉你,没有希望的悲伤是没有激情的。(英国女诗人 布朗宁 E B)

 

It is not miserable to be blind; it is miserable to be incapable of en-during blindness. (John Milton, British poet)

失明本身并非是悲惨的,不能忍受失明才是悲惨的。(英国诗人 弥尔顿 J)

 

Life is made up of sobs, sniffles and smiles with sniffes predomi-nating. (O.Henry, American writer)

人生是由呜咽、抽泣和微笑组成的,而在三者之中,抽泣处于支配地位。(美国作家 欧 享利)

 

No man can be brave who considers pain the greatest evil of life; or temperate , who regards pleasure as the highest good. (Cicero, ancient Roman statsman)

把痛苦视为生活中最大的祸害的人不可能勇敢;把欢乐视为生活中最美妙的人不会自我节制。(古罗马政治家 西塞罗)

 

One must mourn not the death of men but their birth. (Charles Scondat Montesquieu, French thinker and Philosopher)

人所悲伤的并不是人类的死亡而是他们的诞生。(法国思想家、哲学家 孟德斯鸠)

 

Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy. (LeoTolstoy ,Russian writer)

纯粹的、完全的哀愁和纯粹的、完全的欢乐一样都是不可能的。(俄国文学家 托尔斯泰 L)

 

handicaps a man's pow Sadness diminishes or er of action. (Benedict de Spinoza, Dutch Philosopher)

忧伤会减少或者妨害一个人行动的力量。(荷兰哲学家 斯宾诺莎 B)

 

Sorrow and trouble either soften the heart or harden it. (James Mackintosh, British writer)

悲哀和烦恼不是使人心软,就是使人心狠。(英国作家 麦金托什 J)

 

Tears are the silent language of grief. (Voltaire, French philosopher)

眼泪是无声的、悲伤的语言。(法国哲学家 伏尔泰)

 

The fiercest agonies have shorest reign. (William Crllen Bryant, American poet)

最猛烈的痛苦持续的时间也最短。(美国诗人 布莱恩特 W C)

 

The most glorious moment in your life are not the socalled days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishment. (Gustave Flaubert, French writer)

的一生中,最为辉煌的一天并不是功成名就的那些天,而是从悲叹与绝望中产生对人生的挑战和对未来辉煌的期盼的那些日子。(法国作家 福楼拜 G)

 

He pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body. (Publius Syrus, Syrian Latin writer)

心理疾病比身体疾病更糟。(叙利亚拉丁语作家 西拉士 P)

 

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. (George Bernard Shaw, British dramatist)

痛苦的秘密在于有闲功夫担心自己是否幸福。(英国剧作家肖伯纳.G.)

 

To mourn a mischief that is past and gone is the next way to draw new mischief on. (William Shkespeare, British dramatist)

为了一去不复返的灾祸而悲伤将会抬致新的灾祸。(英国剧作家 莎士比亚 W)

 

What's the use of worrying

担忧又有什么用

 

It never was worthwhile

不值得为它浪费时间

 

So, pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag

把烦恼塞进行囊去

 

And smile, smile, smile

让微笑永远充满你的心田

 

George Asaf, British poet

英国诗人 阿萨夫 G

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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夏天的飞鸟,飞到我的窗前唱歌,又飞去了。

秋天的黄叶,它们没有什么可唱,只叹息一声,飞落在那里。

stray birds of summer come to my window to sing and fly away.

and yellow leaves of autumn, which have no songs, flutter and fall

there with a sign.

世界上的一队小小的漂泊者呀,请留下你们的足印在我的文字里。

o troupe of little vagrants of the world, leave your footprints in my words.

世界对着它的爱人,把它浩翰的面具揭下了。

它变小了,小如一首歌,小如一回永恒的接吻。

the world puts off its mask of vastness to its lover.

it becomes small as one song, as one kiss of the eternal.

是大地的泪点,使她的微笑保持着青春不谢。

it is the tears of the earth that keep here smiles in bloom.

无垠的沙漠热烈追求一叶绿草的爱,她摇摇头笑着飞开了。

the mighty desert is burning for the love of a bladeof grass who

shakes her head and laughs and flies away.

如果你因失去了太阳而流泪,那么你也将失去群星了。

if you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the stars.

跳舞着的流水呀,在你途中的泥沙,要求你的歌声,你的流动呢。你肯挟

瘸足的泥沙而俱下么?

the sands in your way beg for your song and your movement, dancing

water. will you carry the burden of their lameness?

她的热切的脸,如夜雨似的,搅扰着我的梦魂。

her wishful face haunts my dreams like the rain at night.

有一次,我们梦见大家都是不相识的。

我们醒了,却知道我们原是相亲相爱的。

once we dreamt that we were strangers.

we wake up to find that we were dear to each other.

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忧思在我的心里平静下去,正如暮色降临在寂静的山林中。

sorrow is hushed into peace in my heart like the evening among

the silent trees. 

 

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A bad beginning makes a bad ending.

不善始者不善终。

A bad thing never dies.

遗臭万年。

A bad workman always blames his tools.

不会撑船怪河弯。

A bird in the hand is worth than two in the bush.

一鸟在手胜过双鸟在林。

A boaster and a liar are cousins-german.

吹牛与说谎本是同宗。

A bully is always a coward.

色厉内荏。

A burden of one's choice is not felt.

爱挑的担子不嫌重。

A candle lights others and consumes itself.

蜡烛照亮别人,却毁灭了自己。

A cat has 9 lives.

猫有九条命。

A cat may look at a king.

猫也可以打量国王,意为人人平等。

A close mouth catches no flies.

病从口入。

A constant guest is never welcome.

常客令人厌。

Actions speak louder than words.

事实胜于雄辩。

Adversity leads to prosperity.

穷则思变。

Adversity makes a man wise, not rich.

逆境出人才。

A fair death honors the whole life.

死得其所,流芳百世。

A faithful friend is hard to find.

知音难觅。

A fall into a pit, a gain in your wit.

吃一堑,长一智。

A fox may grow gray, but never good.

江山易改,本性难移。

A friend in need is a friend indeed.

患难见真情。

A friend is easier lost than found.

得朋友难,失朋友易。

A friend is never known till a man has need.

需要之时方知友。

A friend without faults will never be found.

没有十全十美的朋友。

'After you' is good manners.

“您先请”是礼貌。

A good beginning is half done.

良好的开端是成功的一半。

A good beginning makes a good ending.

善始者善终。

A good book is a good friend.

好书如挚友。

A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.

一本好书,相伴一生。

A good conscience is a soft pillow.

不做亏心事,不怕鬼叫门。

A good fame is better than a good face.

美名胜过美貌。

A good husband makes a good wife.

夫善则妻贤。

A good medicine tastes bitter.

良药苦口。

A good wife health is a man's best wealth.

妻贤身体好是男人最大的财富。

A great talker is a great liar.

说大话者多谎言。

A hedge between keeps friendship green.

君子之交淡如水。

A joke never gains an enemy but loses a friend.

戏谑不能化敌为友,只能使人失去朋友。

A leopard cannot change its spots.

积习难改。

A liar is not believed when he speaks the truth.

说谎者即使讲真话也没人相信。

A light heart lives long.

静以修身。

A little body often harbors a great soul.

浓缩的都是精品。

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

一知半解,自欺欺人。

A little pot is soon hot.

狗肚子盛不得四两油。

All are brave when the enemy flies.

敌人逃窜时,人人都成了勇士。

All good things come to an end.

天下没有不散的筵席。

All rivers run into sea.

海纳百川。

All roads lead to Rome.

条条大路通罗马。

All that ends well is well.

结果好,就一切都好。

All that glitters is not gold.

闪光的不一定都是金子。

All things are difficult before they are easy.

凡事总是由难而易。

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

只会用功不玩耍,聪明孩子也变傻。

A man becomes learned by asking questions.

不耻下问才能有学问。

A man can do no more than he can.

凡事都应量力而行。

A man cannot spin and reel at the same time.

一心不能二用。

A man is known by his friends.

什么人交什么朋友。

A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds.

光说空话不做事,犹如花园光长刺。

A man without money is no man at all.

一分钱难倒英雄汉。

A merry heart goes all the way.

心旷神怡,事事顺利。

A miss is as good as a mile.

失之毫厘,差之千里。

A mother's love never changes.

母爱永恒。

An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

一天一苹果,不用请医生。

A new broom sweeps clean.

新官上任三把火。

An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.

以眼还眼,以牙还牙。

An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening.

一日之计在于晨。

An old dog cannot learn new tricks.

老狗学不出新把戏。

An ounce of luck is better than a pound of wisdom.

聪明才智,不如运气。

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

预防为主,治疗为辅。

A rolling stone gathers no moss.

滚石不生苔,转业不聚财。

As a man sows, so he shall reap.

种瓜得瓜,种豆得豆。

A single flower does not make a spring.

一花独放不是春,百花齐放春满园。

A snow year, a rich year.

瑞雪兆丰年。

A sound mind in a sound body.

健全的精神寓于健康的身体。

A still tongue makes a wise head.

寡言者智。

A stitch in time saves nine.

小洞不补,大洞吃苦。

A straight foot is not afraid of a crooked shoe.

身正不怕影子斜。

A wise head makes a close mouth.

真人不露相,露相非真人。

A word spoken is past recalling.

一言既出,驷马难追。

A year's plan starts with spring.

一年之计在于春。

A young idler, an old beggar.

少壮不努力,老大徒伤悲。

Bad news has wings.

好事不出门,坏事传千里。

Barking dogs seldom bite.

吠犬不咬人。

Beauty lies in the love's eyes.

情人眼里出西施。

Be swift to hear, slow to speak.

听宜敏捷,言宜缓行。

Better late than never.

不怕慢,单怕站。

Better to ask the way than go astray.

问路总比迷路好。

Between friends all is common.

朋友之间不分彼此。

Birds of a feather flock together.

物以类聚,人以群分。

Blood is thicker than water.

血浓于水。

Blood will have blood.

血债血偿。

Books and friends should be few but good.

读书如交友,应求少而精。

Business is business.

公事公办。

Business is the salt of life.

事业是人生的第一需要。

By reading we enrich the mind, by conversation we polish it.

读书使人充实,交谈使人精明。

Cannot see the wood for the trees.

一叶障目,不见泰山。

Care and diligence bring luck.

谨慎和勤奋才能抓住机遇。

Caution is the parent of safety.

小心驶得万年船。

Cheats never prosper.

骗人发不了财。

Children are what the mothers are.

耳濡目染,身教言传。

Choose an author as you choose a friend.

择书如择友。

Come what may, heaven won't fall.

做你的吧,天塌不下来。

Complacency is the enemy of study.

学习的敌人是自己的满足。

Confidence in yourself is the first step on the road to success.

自信是走向成功的第一步。

Constant dripping wears away a stone.

水滴石穿,绳锯木断。

Content is better than riches.

知足者常乐。

Count one's chickens before they are hatched.

蛋未孵先数雏。

Courtesy on one side only lasts not long.

来而不往非礼也。

Creep before you walk.

循序渐进。

Cry for the moon.

海底捞月。

Custom is a second nature.

习惯是后天养成的。

Custom makes all things easy.

有个好习惯,事事皆不难。

Diamond cuts diamond.

强中自有强中手。

Do as the Romans do.

入乡随俗。

Do as you would be done by.

己所不欲,勿施于人。

Doing is better than saying.

与其挂在嘴上,不如落实在行动上。

Do it now.

机不可失,时不再来。

Do nothing by halves.

凡事不可半途而废。

Don't claim to know what you don't know.

不要不懂装懂。

Don't have too many irons in the fire.

不要揽事过多。

Don't make a mountain out of a molehill.

不要小题大做。

Don't put off till tomorrow what should be done today.

今日事,今日毕。

Don't put the cart before the horse.

不要本末倒置。

Don't trouble trouble until trouble troubles you.

不要自找麻烦。

Don't try to teach your grandmother to suck eggs.

不要班门弄斧。

Do well and have well.

善有善报。

Each bird love to hear himself sing.

孤芳自赏。

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

早睡早起身体好。

Easier said than done.

说得容易,做得难。

Easy come, easy go.

来也匆匆,去也匆匆。

Eat to live, but not live to eat.

人吃饭是为了活着,但活着不是为了吃饭。

Empty vessels make the greatest sound.

实磨无声空磨响,满瓶不动半瓶摇。

Envy has no holidays.

忌妒之人无宁日。

Even Homer sometimes nods.

智者千虑,必有一失。

Even reckoning makes long friends.

亲兄弟,明算账。

Every advantage has its disadvantage.

有利必有弊。

Everybody's business is nobody's business.

人人负责,等于没人负责。

Every day is not Sunday.

好景不常在。

Every dog has his day.

谁都有得意的时候。

Every door may be shut, but death's door.

人生在世,唯死难逃。

Every heart has its own sorrow.

各人有各人的苦恼。

Every little helps a mickle.

聚沙成塔,集腋成裘。

Every man for himself, and the devil takes the hindmost.

人不为己,天诛地灭。

Every man has his faults.

金无足赤,人无完人。

Every man has his hobbyhorse.

萝卜青菜,各有所爱。

Every man has his weak side.

人人都有弱点。

Every man is the architect of his own fortune.

自己的命运自己掌握。

Every minute counts.

分秒必争。

Every mother's child is handsome.

孩子是自己的好。

Every potter praises hit pot.

王婆卖瓜,自卖自夸。

Everything is good when new, but friends when old.

东西是新的好,朋友是老的亲。

Example is better then percept.

说一遍,不如做一遍。

Experience is the father of wisdom and memory the mother.

经验是智慧之父,记忆是智慧之母。

Experience must be bought.

吃一堑,长一智。

Fact speak louder than words.

事实胜于雄辩。

Failure is the mother of success.

失败是成功之母。

False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

明枪易躲,暗箭难防。

Far from eye, far from heart.

眼不见,心不烦。

Far water does not put out near fire.

远水救不了近火。

Faults are thick where love is thin.

一朝情意淡,样样不顺眼。

Fear always springs from ignorance.

恐惧源于无知。

Fields have eyes, and woods have ears.

隔墙有耳。

Fire and water have no mercy.

水火无情。

Fire is a good servant but a bad master.

火是一把双刃剑。

First come, first served.

先来后到。

First impressions are half the battle.

初次见面,印象最深。

First think and then speak.

先想后说。

Fools grow without watering.

朽木不可雕。

Fool's haste is no speed.

欲速则不达。

Fools has fortune.

呆人有呆福。

Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much from fools.

愚者不学无术,智者不耻下问。

Forbidden fruit is sweet.

禁果格外香。

Fortune favors those who use their judgement.

机遇偏爱善断之人。

Fortune knocks once at least at every man's gate.

风水轮流转。

Four eyes see more than two.

集思广益。

Friends agree best at distance.

朋友之间也会保持距离。

Friends are thieves of time.

朋友是时间的窃贼。

Friends must part.

再好的朋友也有分手的时候。

Genius is nothing but labor and diligence.

天才不过是勤奋而已。

Give a dog a bad name and hang him.

众口铄金,积毁销骨。

God helps those who help themselves.

自助者天助。

Gold will not buy anything.

黄金并非万能。

Good for good is natural, good for evil is manly.

以德报德是常理,以德报怨大丈夫。

Good health is over wealth.

健康是最大的财富。

Good medicine for health tastes bitter to the mouth.

良药苦口利于病。

Good watch prevents misfortune.

谨慎消灾。

Great barkers are no biters.

好狗不挡道。

Great hopes make great man.

伟大的抱负造就伟大的人物。

Great minds think alike.

英雄所见略同。

Great men have great faults.

英雄犯大错误。

Great men's sons seldom do well.

富不过三代。

Great trees are good for nothing but shade.

大树底下好乘凉。

Great wits have short memories.

贵人多忘事。

Greedy folks have long arms.

心贪手长。

Guilty consciences make men cowards.

做贼心虚。

Habit cures habit.

心病还需心药医。

Handsome is he who does handsomely.

行为漂亮才算美。

Happiness takes no account of time.

欢乐不觉时光过。

Happy is he who owes nothing.

要想活得痛快,身上不能背债。

Happy is the man who learns from the misfortunes of others.

吸取他人教训,自己才会走运。

Harm set, harm get.

害人害己。

Hasty love, soon cold.

一见钟情难维久。

Health is better than wealth.

健康胜过财富。

Health is happiness.

健康就是幸福。

Hear all parties.

兼听则明。

Heaven never helps the man who will not act.

自己不动,叫天何用。

He is a fool that forgets himself.

愚者忘乎所以。

He is a good friend that speaks well of us behind our backs.

背后说好话,才是真朋友。

He is a wise man who speaks little.

聪明不是挂在嘴上。

He is lifeless that is faultless.

只有死人才不犯错误。

He is not fit to command others that cannot command himself.

正人先正己。

He is not laughed at that laughs at himself first.

自嘲者不会让人见笑。

He is wise that is honest.

诚实者最明智。

He knows most who speaks least.

大智若愚。

He laughs best who laughs last.

谁笑到最后,谁笑得最好。

He sets the fox to keep the geese.

引狼入室。

He that climbs high falls heavily.

爬得越高,摔得越重。

He that will not work shall not eat.

不劳动者不得食。

He who does not advance loses ground.

逆水行舟,不进则退。

He who makes constant complaint gets little compassion.

经常诉苦,没人同情。

He who makes no mistakes makes nothing.

想不犯错误,就一事无成。

He who risks nothing gains nothing.

收获与风险并存。

History repeats itself.

历史往往重演。

Honesty is the best policy.

做人诚信为本。

Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

抱最好的愿望,做最坏的打算。

I cannot be your friend and your flatterer too.

朋友不能阿谀奉承。

If a man deceives me once, shame on him, if he deceives me twice, shame on me.

上当一回头,再多就可耻。

If you make yourself an ass, don't complain if people ride you.

人善被人欺,马善被人骑。

If your ears glow, someone is talking of you.

耳朵发烧,有人念叨。

If you run after two hares, you will catch neither.

脚踏两条船,必定落空。

If you sell the cow, you sell her milk too.

杀鸡取卵。

If you venture nothing, you will have nothing.

不入虎穴,焉得虎子。

If you want knowledge, you must toil for it.

要想求知,就得吃苦。

Industry is the parent of success.

勤奋是成功之母。

It is better to die when life is a disgrace.

宁为玉碎,不为瓦全。

It is easier to get money than to keep it.

挣钱容易攒钱难。

It is easy to be wise after the event.

事后诸葛亮好当。

It is easy to open a shop but hard to keep it always open.

创业容易守业难。

It is hard to please all.

众口难调。

It is never too old to learn.

活到老,学到老。

It is no use crying over spilt milk.

覆水难收。

It is the first step that costs troublesome.

万事开头难。

It is the unforeseen that always happens.

天有不测风云,人有旦夕祸福。

It is too late to grieve when the chance is past.

坐失良机,后悔已迟。

It never rains but it pours.

不鸣则已,一鸣惊人。

It takes three generations to make a gentleman.

十年树木,百年树人。

Jack of all trades and master of none.

门门精通,样样稀松。

Judge not from appearances.

人不可貌相,海不可斗量。

Justice has long arms.

天网恢恢,疏而不漏。

Keep good men company and you shall be of the number.

近朱者赤,近墨者黑。

Kill two birds with one stone.

一箭双雕。

Kings go mad, and the people suffer for it.

君王发狂,百姓遭殃。

Kings have long arms.

普天之下,莫非王土。

Knowledge is power.

知识就是力量。

Knowledge makes humble, ignorance makes proud.

博学使人谦逊,无知使人骄傲。

Learn and live.

活着,为了学习。

Learning makes a good man better and ill man worse.

好人越学越好,坏人越学越坏。

Learn not and know not.

不学无术。

Learn to walk before you run.

先学走,再学跑。

Let bygones be bygones.

过去的就让它过去吧。

Let sleeping dogs lie.

别惹麻烦。

Let the cat out of the bag.

泄漏天机。

Lies can never changes fact.

谎言终究是谎言。

Lies have short legs.

谎言站不长。

Life is but a span.

人生苦短。

Life is half spent before we know what it is.

人过半生,方知天命。

Life is not all roses.

人生并不是康庄大道。

Life without a friend is death.

没有朋友,虽生犹死。

Like a rat in a hole.

瓮中之鳖。

Like author, like book.

文如其人。

Like father, like son.

有其父必有其子。

Like for like.

一报还一报。

Like knows like.

惺惺相惜。

Like mother, like daughter.

有其母必有其女。

Like teacher, like pupil.

什么样的老师教什么样的学生。

Like tree, like fruit.

羊毛出在羊身上。

Little things amuse little minds.

小人无大志。

Look before you leap.

摸清情况再行动。

Lookers-on see more than players.

当局者迷,旁观者清。

Losers are always in the wrong.

胜者为王,败者为寇。

Lost time is never found again.

岁月既往,一去不回。

Love at first sight.

一见钟情。

Love cannot be compelled.

爱情不能强求。

Love is blind.

爱情是盲目的。

Love is full of trouble.

爱情充满烦恼。

Love is never without jealousy.

没有妒忌就没有爱情。

Love me, love my dog.

爱屋及乌。

Make hay while the sun shines.

良机勿失。

Make your enemy your friend.

化敌为友。

Man is the soul of the universe.

人是万物之灵。

Man proposes, God disposes.

谋事在人,成事在天。

Many hands make light work.

众人拾柴火焰高。

Many heads are better than one.

三个臭皮匠,赛过诸葛亮。

Many things grow in the garden that were never sown there.

有心栽花花不发,无心插柳柳成荫。

Measure for measure.

针锋相对。

Misfortunes never come alone.

祸不单行。

Misfortune tests the sincerity of friends.

患难见真情。

Money isn't everything.

钱不是万能的。

Murder will out.

纸包不住火。

My son is my son till he has got him a wife, but my daughter is my daughter all the days of her life.

儿子婚前是儿子,女儿终生是女儿。

Nature is the true law.

天行有常,不为尧存,不为桀亡。

Necessity is the mother of invention.

需要是发明的动力。

Never fish in trouble water.

不要混水摸鱼。

Never judge from appearances.

不可以貌取人。

Never say die.

永不言败。

Never too old to learn, never too late to turn.

亡羊补牢,为时未晚。

New wine in old bottles.

旧瓶装新酒。

No cross, no crown.

不经历风雨,怎么见彩虹。

No garden without its weeds.

没有不长草的园子。

No living man all things can.

世上没有万事通。

No man can do two things at once.

一心不可二用。

No man is born wise or learned.

没有生而知之者。

No man is content.

人心不足蛇吞象。

No man is wise at all times.

聪明一世,糊涂一时。

None are so blind as those who won't see.

视而不见。

None are so deaf as those who won't hear.

充耳不闻。

No news is good news.

没有消息就是好消息。

No one can call back yesterday.

昨日不会重现。

No pains, no gains.

没有付出就没有收获。

No pleasure without pain.

没有苦就没有乐。

No rose without a thorn.

没有不带刺的玫瑰。

No sweet without sweat.

先苦后甜。

No smoke without fire.

无风不起浪。

Nothing brave, nothing have.

不入虎穴,焉得虎子。

Nothing dries sooner than a tear.

眼泪干得最快。

Nothing in the world is difficult for one who sets his mind to it.

世上无难事,只怕有心人。

Nothing is difficult to the man who will try.

世上无难事,只要肯登攀。

Nothing seek, nothing find.

没有追求就没有收获。

Nothing is so necessary for travelers as languages.

外出旅行,语言最要紧。

Nothing is to be got without pains but poverty.

世上唯有贫穷可以不劳而获。

Not to advance is to go back.

不进则退。

Not to know what happened before one was born is always to be a child.

不懂世故,幼稚可笑。

No way is impossible to courage.

勇者无惧。

Obedience is the first duty of a soldier.

军人以服从命令为天职。

Observation is the best teacher.

观察是最好的老师。

Offense is the best defense.

进攻是最好的防御。

Old friends and old wines are best.

陈酒味醇,老友情深。

Old sin makes new shame.

一失足成千古恨。

Once a man and twice a child.

一次老,两次小。

Once a thief, always a thief.

偷盗一次,做贼一世。

Once bitten, twice shy.

一朝被蛇咬,十年怕井绳。

One boy is a boy, two boys half a boy, three boys no boy.

一个和尚挑水喝,两个和尚抬水喝,三个和尚没水喝。

One cannot put back the clock.

时钟不能倒转。

One eyewitness is better than ten hearsays.

百闻不如一见。

One false move may lose the game.

一着不慎,满盘皆输。

One good turn deserves another.

行善积德。

One hour today is worth two tomorrow.

争分夺秒效率高。

One man's fault is other man's lesson.

前车之鉴。

One never loses anything by politeness.

讲礼貌不吃亏。

One swallow does not make a summer.

一燕不成夏。

One's words reflect one's thinking.

言为心声。

Out of debt, out of danger.

无债一身轻。

Out of office, out of danger.

无官一身轻。

Out of sight, out of mind.

眼不见,心为静。

Patience is the best remedy.

忍耐是良药。

Penny wise, pound foolish.

贪小便宜吃大亏。

Plain dealing is praised more than practiced.

正大光明者,说到的多,做到的少。

Please the eye and plague the heart.

贪图一时快活,必然留下隐祸。

Pleasure comes through toil.

苦尽甘来。

Pour water into a sieve.

竹篮子打水一场空。

Practice makes perfect.

熟能生巧。

Praise is not pudding.

恭维话不能当饭吃。

Praise makes good men better, and bad men worse.

好人越夸越好,坏人越夸越糟。

Prefer loss to unjust gain.

宁可吃亏,不贪便宜。

Prevention is better than cure.

预防胜于治疗。

Pride goes before, and shame comes after.

骄傲使人落后。

Promise is debt.

一诺千金。

Proverbs are the daughters of daily experience.

谚语是日常经验的结晶。

Pull the chestnut out of fire.

火中取栗。

Put the cart before the horse.

本末倒置。

Put your shoulder to the wheel.

鼎力相助。

Reading enriches the mind.

开卷有益。

Reading is to the mind while exercise to the body.

读书健脑,运动强身。

Respect yourself, or no one else will respect you.

要人尊敬,必须自重。

Rome is not built in a day.

冰冻三尺,非一日之寒。

Saying is one thing and doing another.

言行不一。

Seeing is believing.

眼见为实。

Seek the truth from facts.

实事求是。

Send a wise man on an errand, and say nothing to him.

智者当差,不用交代。

Set a thief to catch a thief.

以贼捉贼。

Short accounts make long friends.

好朋友勤算账。

Something is better than nothing.

聊胜于无。

Soon learn, soon forgotten.

学得快,忘得快。

Soon ripe, soon rotten.

熟得快,烂得快。

Speech is silver, silence is gold.

能言是银,沉默是金。

Still water run deep.

静水常深。

Strike the iron while it is hot.

趁热打铁。

Success belongs to the persevering.

坚持就是胜利。

Take things as they come.

既来之,则安之。

Talking mends no holes.

空谈无补。

Talk of the devil and he will appear.

说曹操,曹操就到。

Tall trees catch much wind.

树大招风。

Teach others by your example.

躬亲示范。

The best hearts are always the bravest.

无私者无畏。

The best man stumbles.

伟人也有犯错时。

The cat shuts its eyes when stealing.

掩耳盗铃。

The danger past and God forgotten.

过河拆桥。

The darkest hour is nearest the dawn.

黎明前的黑暗。

The darkest place is under the candlestick.

烛台底下最暗。

The devil knows many things because he is old.

老马识途。

The devil sometimes speaks the truth.

魔鬼有时也会说真话。

The die is cast.

木已成舟。

The early bird catches the worm.

早起的鸟儿有虫吃。

The end justifies the means.

只要目的正当,可以不择手段。

The end makes all equal.

死亡面前,人人平等。

The eye is bigger than the belly.

贪多嚼不烂。

The farthest way about is the nearest way home.

抄近路反而绕远路。

The finest diamond must be cut.

玉不琢,不成器。

The fire is the test of gold, adversity of strong man.

烈火验真金,艰难磨意志。

The first step is the only difficulty.

迈出第一步是最艰难的。

The fox knew too much, that's how he lost his tail.

机关算尽太聪明,反误了卿卿性命。

The fox preys farthest from home.

兔子不吃窝边草。

The frog in the well knows nothing of the great ocean.

坐井观天。

The grass is greener on the other side.

这山望着那山高。

The greatest talkers are always least doers.

语言的巨人总是行动的矮子。

The higher up, the greater the fall.

爬得高,摔得惨。

The leopard cannot change its spots.

本性难移。

The more noble, the more humble.

人越高尚,越谦虚。

The more wit, the less courage.

初生牛犊不怕虎。

The outsider sees the most of the game.

旁观者清。

The pen is mightier than the sword.

笔能杀人。

The pot calls the kettle black.

五十步笑百步。

There are spots in the sun.

太阳也有黑点。

There are two sides to every question.

问题皆有两面。

There is a skeleton in the cupboard.

家家有本难念的经。

There is kindness to be found everywhere.

人间处处有温情。

There is no general rule without some exception.

任何法规均有例外。

There is no medicine against death.

没有长生不老药。

There is no place like home.

金窝银窝不如咱的狗窝。

There is no royal road to learning.

书山有路勤为径,学海无涯苦作舟。

The style is the man.

字如其人。

The tongue is not steel, yet it cuts.

人言可畏。

The water that bears the boat is the same that swallows it up.

水能载舟,亦能覆舟。

The wise man knows he knows nothing, the fool thinks he knows all.

清者自清,浊者自浊。

The wolf has a winning game when the shepherds quarrel.

螳螂捕蝉,黄雀在后。

The world is a ladder for some to go up and others to go down.

世界如阶梯,有人上有人下。

The world is but a little place, after all.

海内存知己,天涯若比邻。

Think twice before you do.

三思而后行。

Things at the worst will mend.

否极泰来。

Time and tide wait for no man.

时不我待。

Time cures all things.

时间是医治一切创伤的良药。

Time flies.

光阴似箭。

Time is money.

时间就是金钱。

Time lost cannot be won again.

时光流逝,不可复得。

Time past cannot be called back again.

时间不能倒流。

Time tries all.

路遥知马力,日久见人心。

Tit for tat is fair play.

人不犯我,我不犯人;人若犯我,我必犯人。

To err is human.

人非圣贤,孰能无过。

To know everything is to know nothing.

什么都知道,一如什么都不知道。

To know oneself is true progress.

人贵有自知之明。

Tomorrow never comes.

我生待明日,万事成蹉跎。

Too much familiarity breeds contempt.

过分熟悉会使人互不服气。

Too much knowledge makes the head bald.

学问太多催人老。

Too much liberty spills all.

自由放任,一事无成。

Too much praise is a burden.

过多夸奖,反成负担。

To save time is to lengthen life.

节约时间就是延长生命。

Touch pitch, and you will be defiled.

常在河边走,哪有不湿鞋。

Troubles never come singly.

福无双至,祸不单行。

Truth never grows old.

真理永存。

Turn over a new leaf.

洗心革面,改过自新。

Two dogs strive for a bone, and a third runs away with it.

鹬蚌相争,渔翁得利。

Two heads are better than one.

一个好汉三个帮。

Two of a trade seldom agree.

同行是冤家。

Two wrongs do not make a right.

别人错了,不等于你对了。

Unity is strength.

团结就是力量。

Unpleasant advice is a good medicine.

忠言逆耳利于行。

Until all is over one's ambition never dies.

不到黄河心不死。

Venture a small fish to catch a great one.

吃小亏占大便宜。

Virtue is fairer far than beauty.

美德远远胜过美貌。

Walls have ears.

小心隔墙有耳。

Wash your dirty linen at home.

家丑不可外扬。

Water dropping day by day wears the hardest rock away.

滴水穿石。

Wealth is nothing without health.

失去健康,钱再多也没用。

We know not what is good until we have lost it.

好东西,失去了才明白。

Well begun is half done.

好的开始,是成功的一半。

We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.

井干方知水可贵。

We shall never have friends if we expect to find them without fault.

欲求完美无缺的朋友必然成为孤家寡人。

We should never remember the benefits we have offered nor forget the favor received.

自己的好事别去提,别人的恩惠要铭记。

Wet behind the ears.

乳臭未干。

Whatever you do, do with all your might.

不管做什么,都要一心一意。

What is learned in the cradle is carried to the grave.

儿时所学,终生难忘。

What's done cannot be undone.

生米煮成熟饭了。

What's lost is lost.

失者不可复得。

What we do willingly is easy.

愿者不难。

When in Rome, do as the Romans do.

入国问禁,入乡随俗。

When everybody's somebody then nobody's anybody.

人人都伟大,世间没豪杰。

When sorrow is asleep, wake it not.

伤心旧事别重提。

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.

新仇旧恨,齐上心头。

When the fox preaches, take care of your geese.

黄鼠狼给鸡拜年,没安好心。

When wine is in truth, wit is out.

酒后吐真言。

Where there is a will, there is a way.

有志者事竟成。

Where there is life, there is hope.

留得青山在,不怕没柴烧。

Where there is smoke, there is fire.

事出有因。

While the priest climbs a post, the devil climbs ten.

道高一尺,魔高一丈。

Who chatters to you, will chatter of you.

搬弄口舌者必是小人。

Whom the gods love die young.

好人不长命。

Wise man have their mouths in their hearts, fools have their hearts in their mouths.

智者嘴在心里,愚者心在嘴里。

Work makes the workman.

勤工出巧匠。

You cannot burn the candle at both ends.

蜡烛不能两头点,精力不可过分耗。

You cannot eat your cake and have it.

鱼与熊掌,不可得兼。 (衣人注:此翻译不尽准确,仅供参考。)

You can take a horse to the water but you cannot make him drink.

强扭的瓜不甜。

You may know by a handful the whole sack.

由一斑可知全貌。

You never know what you can till you try.

是驴子是马,拉出来遛遛。

 

 

 

谚语大全

 

A bad beginning makes a bad ending.不善始者不善终。

A bad workman always blames his tools.不会撑船怪河弯。

A bird in the hand is worth than two in the bush.

 一鸟在手胜过双鸟在林。

A bad thing never dies.遗臭万年。

A boaster and a liar are cousins-german.吹牛与说谎本是同宗。

A bully is always a coward.色厉内荏

A burden of one‘s choice is not felt.爱挑的担子不嫌重。

A candle lights others and consumes itself.蜡烛照亮别人毁灭了自己。

Close mouth catches no flies.病从口入

A cat has 9 lives.猫有九条命。

A cat may look at a king.人人平等。

A constant guest is never welcome.常客令人厌。

Actions speak louder than words事实胜于雄辩。

 Adversity leads to prosperity.穷则思变。

 Adversity makes a man wise, not rich.逆境出人才。

A fair death honors the whole life.死得其所,流芳百世。

 A faithful friend is hard to find.知音难觅。

 A fall into a pit, a gain in your wit.吃一堑,长一智。

A fox may grow gray, but never good.江山易改,本性难移。

A friend in need is a friend indeed.患难见真情。

 A friend is easier lost than found.得朋友难,失朋友易。

 A friend is never known till a man has need.需要之时方知友。

A friend without faults will never be found.没有十全十美的

 ‘After you‘ is good manners.您先请”是礼貌。

 A good beginning is half done.良好的开端是成功的一半。

A good beginning makes a good ending.善始者善终。

A good book is a good friend.好书如挚友。

 A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.

 一本好书,相伴一生。

A good conscience is a soft pillow.不做亏心事,不怕鬼叫门。

 A good fame is better than a good face. 美名胜过美貌。

A good husband makes a good wife.夫善则妻贤。

A good medicine tastes bitter.良药苦口。

A good wife health is a man‘s best wealth.

妻贤身体好是男人最大的财富。

A great talker is a great liar.说大话者多谎言。

A light heart lives long.静以修身。

A hedge between keeps friendship green.君子之交淡如水。

A joke never gains an enemy but loses a friend.

戏谑不能化敌为友,只能使人失去朋友。

A leopard cannot change its spots.积习难改。

A liar is not believed when he speaks the truth说谎者即使讲真话也没人相信。

A little body often harbors a great soul.浓缩的都是精品。

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.一知半解,自欺欺人。

A little pot is soon hot.狗肚子盛不得四两油。

All are brave when the enemy flies.敌人逃窜时,人人都成了勇士。

All good things come to an end.天下没有不散的筵席。

All rivers run into sea.海纳百川。All roads lead to Rome.条条大路通罗马。

All that ends well is well.结果好,就一切都好。

All that glitters is not gold.闪光的不一定都是金子。

All things are difficult before they are easy.凡事总是由难而易。

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

只会用功不玩耍,聪明孩子也变傻。

A man becomes learned by asking questions.不耻下问才能有学问。

A man can do no more than he can.凡事都应量力而行。

A man cannot spin and reel at the same time.一心不能二用。

A man is known by his friends.什么人交什么朋友。

A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds.

光说空话不做事,犹如花园光长刺。

A man without money is no man at all一分钱难倒英雄汉。

A merry heart goes all the way.心旷神怡,事事顺利。

A miss is as good as a mile. 失之毫厘,差之千里。

A mother‘s love never changes.母爱永恒。

An apple a day keeps the doctor away.一天一苹果,不用请医生。

A new broom sweeps clean.新官上任三把火。

An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.以眼还眼,以牙还牙。

An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening.一日之计在于晨。

An old dog cannot learn new tricks.老狗学不出新把戏。

An ounce of luck is better than a pound of wisdom.聪明才智,不如运气。

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.预防为主,治疗为辅。

A rolling stone gathers no moss.滚石不生苔,转业不聚财。

As a man sows, so he shall reap.种瓜得瓜,种豆得豆。

A single flower does not make a spring.一花独放不是春百花齐放春满园。

A snow year, a rich year.瑞雪兆丰年。

A sound mind in a sound body.健全的精神寓于健康的身体。

A still tongue makes a wise head.寡言者智。

A stitch in time saves nine.小洞不补,大洞吃苦。

A straight foot is not afraid of a crooked shoe.身正不怕影子斜。

A wise head makes a close mouth.真人不露相,露相非真人。

A word spoken is past recalling.一言既出,驷马难追。

A year‘s plan starts with spring.一年之计在于春。

A young idler, an old beggar.少壮不努力,老大徒伤悲。

Bad news has wings.好事不出门,坏事传千里。

Barking dogs seldom bite.吠犬不咬人。

Beauty lies in the love‘s eyes.情人眼里出西施。

Be swift to hear, slow to speak.听宜敏捷,言宜缓行。

Better late than never.不怕慢,单怕站。

Better to ask the way than go astray.问路总比迷路好。

Between friends all is common.朋友之间不分彼此。

Birds of a feather flock together.物以类聚,人以群分。

Blood is thicker than water. 血浓于水。Blood will have blood.血债血偿。

Books and friends should be few but good.读书如交友,应求少而精。

Business is business.公事公办。Cheats never prosper.骗人发不了财。

Business is the salt of life.事业是人生的第一需要。

By reading we enrich the mind, by conversation we polish it.

读书使人充实,交谈使人精明。

Cannot see the wood for the trees.一叶障目,不见泰山。

Care and diligence bring luck.谨慎和勤奋才能抓住机遇。

Caution is the parent of safety.小心驶得万年船。

 Children are what the mothers are.耳濡目染,身教言传。

Choose an author as you choose a friend.择书如择友。

Come what may, heaven won‘t fall.做你的吧,天塌不下来。

Complacency is the enemy of study.学习的敌人是自己的满足。

Confidence in yourself is the first step on the road to success.

自信是走向成功的第一步。Content is better than riches.知足者常乐

Constant dripping wears away a stone.水滴石穿,绳锯木断。

Count one‘s chickens before they are hatched.蛋未孵先数雏。

Courtesy on one side only lasts not long.来而不往非礼也。

Creep before you walk.循序渐进。 Cry for the moon.海底捞月。

Custom is a second nature.习惯是后天养成的。

Custom makes all things easy.有个好习惯,事事皆不难。

Diamond cuts diamond.强中自有强中手。Do as the Romans do.入乡随俗。

Do as you would be done by.己所不欲,勿施于人。

Doing is better than saying.与其挂在嘴上,不如落实在行动上。

Do it now.机不可失,时不再来Do nothing by halves.凡事不可半途废。

Don‘t claim to know what you don‘t know.不要不懂装懂。

Don‘t have too many irons in the fire.不要揽事过多。

Don‘t make a mountain out of a molehill.不要小题大做。

Don‘t put off till tomorrow what should be done today.今日事,今日毕。

 Don‘t put the cart before the horse.不要本末倒置。

 Don‘t trouble trouble until trouble troubles you.不要自找麻烦。

Don‘t try to teach your grandmother to suck eggs.不要班门弄斧。

 Do well and have well.善有善报。

Each bird love to hear himself sing.孤芳自赏。

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

早睡早起身体好。 Easier said than done.说得容易,做得难。

 Easy come, easy go.来也匆匆,去也匆匆。

 Eat to live, but not live to eat.人吃饭是为了活着,但活着不是为了吃饭。

 Empty vessels make the greatest sound.实磨无声空磨响满瓶不动半瓶摇。

is good when new, but friends when old.东西是新的好,朋友是老的亲。

Example is better then percept. 说一遍,不如做一遍。

Experience is the father of wisdom and memory the mother.

经验是智慧之父,记忆是智慧之母。

Experience must be bought.吃一堑,长一智。

Fact speak louder than words.事实胜于雄辩。

Failure is the mother of success.失败是成功之母。

False friends are worse than bitter enemies.明枪易躲,暗箭难防。

Far from eye, far from heart.眼不见,心不烦。

Far water does not put out near fire.远水救不了近火。

Faults are thick where love is thin.一朝情意淡,样样不顺眼。

Fear always springs from ignorance.恐惧源于无知。

Fields have eyes, and woods have ears.隔墙有耳。

Fire and water have no mercy.水火无情。

Fire is a good servant but a bad master.火是一把双刃剑。

First come, first served.先来后到。

First impressions are half the battle.初次见面,印象最深。

First think and then speak.先想后说。

Fools grow without watering.朽木不可雕。

Fool‘s haste is no speed.欲速则不达。

Fools has fortune.呆人有呆福。

Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much from fools.

愚者不学无术,智者不耻下问。

Forbidden fruit is sweet.禁果格外香。

Fortune favors those who use their judgement.机遇偏爱善断之人。

Fortune knocks once at least at every man‘s gate.风水轮流转。

Four eyes see more than two.集思广益。

Friends agree best at distance.朋友之间也会保持距离。

Friends are thieves of time.朋友是时间的窃贼。

Friends must part.再好的朋友也有分手的时候。

Genius is nothing but labor and diligence. 天才不过是勤奋而已。

Give a dog a bad name and hang him.众口铄金,积毁销骨。

God helps those who help themselves.自助者天助。

Gold will not buy anything.黄金并非万能。

Good for good is natural, good for evil is manly.

以德报德是常理,以德报怨大丈夫。

Good health is over wealth.健康是最大的财富。

Good medicine for health tastes bitter to the mouth.良药苦口利于病。

Good watch prevents misfortune.谨慎消灾。

Great barkers are no biters.好狗不挡道。

Great hopes make great man.伟大的抱负造就伟大的人物。

Great minds think alike.英雄所见略同。

Great men have great faults.英雄犯大错误。

Great men‘s sons seldom do well.富不过三代。

Great trees are good for nothing but shade.大树底下好乘凉。

Great wits have short memories.贵人多忘事。

Greedy folks have long arms.心贪手长。

Guilty consciences make men cowards.做贼心虚。

Habit cures habit.心病还需心药医。

Handsome is he who does handsomely.行为漂亮才算美。

Happiness takes no account of time.欢乐不觉时光过。

Happy is he who owes nothing.要想活得痛快,身上不能背债。

Happy is the man who learns from the misfortunes of others.

吸取他人教训,自己才会走运。

Harm set, harm get.害人害己。Hear all parties.兼听则明。

Hasty love, soon cold.一见钟情难维久。

Health is better than wealth.健康胜过财富。

Health is happiness.健康就是幸福。

 Heaven never helps the man who will not act.自己不动,叫天何用。

He is a fool that forgets himself.愚者忘乎所以。

He is a good friend that speaks well of us behind our backs.

背后说好话,才是真朋友。

He is a wise man who speaks little.聪明不是挂在嘴上。

He is lifeless that is faultless.只有死人才不犯错误。

He is not fit to command others that cannot command himself.

正人先正己。

He is not laughed at that laughs at himself first.自嘲者不会让人见笑。

He is wise that is honest.诚实者最明智。

He knows most who speaks least大智若愚。

He laughs best who laughs last.谁笑到最后,谁笑得最好。

He sets the fox to keep the geese.引狼入室。

He that climbs high falls heavily.爬得越高,摔得越重。

He that will not work shall not eat.不劳动者不得食。

He who does not advance loses ground.逆水行舟,不进则退。

He who makes constant complaint gets little compassion.

经常诉苦,没人同情。

He who makes no mistakes makes nothing.想不犯错误,就一事无成。

He who risks nothing gains nothing.收获与风险并存。

History repeats itself.历史往往重演。

Honesty is the best policy.做人诚信为本。

Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.抱最好的愿望,做最坏的打算。

I cannot be your friend and your flatterer too.朋友不能阿谀奉承。

If a man deceives me once, shame on him, if he deceives me twice, shame on me.

上当一回头,再多就可耻。

If you make yourself an ass, don‘t complain if people ride you.

人善被人欺,马善被人骑。

If your ears glow, someone is talking of you.耳朵发烧,有人念叨。

If you run after two hares, you will catch neither.脚踏两条船,必定落空。

If you sell the cow, you sell her milk too.杀鸡取卵。

If you venture nothing, you will have nothing.不入虎穴,焉得虎子。

If you want knowledge, you must toil for it.要想求知,就得吃苦。

Industry is the parent of success.勤奋是成功之母。

It is better to die when life is a disgrace.宁为玉碎,不为瓦全。

It is easier to get money than to keep it.挣钱容易攒钱难。

It is easy to be wise after the event.事后诸葛亮好当。

It is easy to open a shop but hard to keep it always open.创业容易守业难。

It is hard to please all.众口难调It is never too old to learn.活到老,学到老。

It is no use crying over spilt milk.覆水难收。

It is the first step that costs troublesome.万事开头难。

It is the unforeseen that always happens.天有不测风云,人有旦夕祸福。

It is too late to grieve when the chance is past.坐失良机,后悔已迟。

It never rains but it pours.不鸣则已,一鸣惊人。

It takes three generations to make a gentleman.十年树木,百年树人。

Jack of all trades and master of none.门门精通,样样稀松。

Judge not from appearances.人不可貌相,海不可斗量。

Justice has long arms.天网恢恢,疏而不漏。

Keep good men company and you shall be of the number.近朱者赤近墨黑。

Kill two birds with one stone.一箭双雕。

Kings go mad, and the people suffer for it君王发狂,百姓遭殃。

Kings have long arms.普天之下,莫非王土。

Knowledge is power.知识就是力量。

Knowledge makes humble, ignorance makes proud.

博学使人谦逊,无知使人骄傲。 Learn and live.活着,为了学习。

Learning makes a good man better and ill man worse.

好人越学越好,坏人越学越坏。

Learn not and know not.不学无术。Let sleeping dogs lie.别惹麻烦

Learn to walk before you run.先学走,再学跑。

Let bygones be bygones.过去的就让它过去吧。

Let the cat out of the bag.泄漏天机。Life is but a span.人生苦短。

Lies can never changes fact.谎言终究是谎言。

Lies have short legs.谎言站不长。

 Life is half spent before we know what it is.人过半生,方知天命。

Life is not all roses.人生并不是康庄大道。

Life without a friend is death.没有朋友,虽生犹死。

Like a rat in a hole.瓮中之鳖。

Like author, like book.文如其人。

Like father, like son.有其父必有其子。

Like for like.一报还一报。 Like knows like.惺惺相惜。

Like mother, like daughter.有其母必有其女。

Like teacher, like pupil.什么样的老师教什么样的学生。

Like tree, like fruit.羊毛出在羊身上。

Little things amuse little minds.小人无大志。

Look before you leap.摸清情况再行动。

Lookers-on see more than players.当局者迷,旁观者清。

Losers are always in the wrong.胜者为王,败者为寇。

Lost time is never found again.岁月既往,一去不回。

Love at first sight.一见钟情。 Love cannot be compelled.爱情不能强求。

Love is blind.爱情是盲目的。 Love is full of trouble.爱情充满烦恼。

Love is never without jealousy.没有妒忌就没有爱情。

Love me, love my dog.爱屋及乌Make hay while the sun shines.良机勿失。

Make your enemy your friend.化敌为友。

Man is the soul of the universe.人是万物之灵。

Man proposes, God disposes.谋事在人,成事在天。

Many hands make light work.众人拾柴火焰高。

Many heads are better than one.三个臭皮匠,赛过诸葛亮。

Many things grow in the garden that were never sown there.

有心栽花花不发,无心插柳柳成荫。

Measure for measure.针锋相对。

Misfortunes never come alone.祸不单行。

Misfortune tests the sincerity of friends.患难见真情。

Money isn‘t everything.钱不是万能的。 Murder will out. 纸包不住火。

My son is my son till he has got him a wife, but my daughter is my daughter all the days of her life.

儿子婚前是儿子,女儿终生是女儿。

Nature is the true law.天行有常,不为尧存,不为桀亡。

Necessity is the mother of invention.需要是发明的动力。

Never fish in trouble water.不要混水摸鱼。

Never judge from appearances.不可以貌取人。 Never say die.永不言败。

Never too old to learn, never too late to turn.亡羊补牢,为时未晚。

New wine in old bottles.旧瓶装新酒。 No cross, no crown.不经历风雨,怎么见彩虹。

No garden without its weeds.没有不长草的园子。

No living man all things can.世上没有万事通。

No man can do two things at once.一心不可二用。

No man is born wise or learned.没有生而知之者。 No man is content.人心不足蛇吞象

No man is wise at all times.聪明一世,糊涂一时。

None are so blind as those who won‘t see.视而不见。

None are so deaf as those who won‘t hear.充耳不闻。

No news is good news.没有消息就是好消息。

No one can call back yesterday.昨日不会重现。

No pains, no gains.没有付出就没有收获。

No pleasure without pain.没有苦就没有乐。

No rose without a thorn.没有不带刺的玫瑰。

No sweet without sweat.先苦后甜。 No smoke without fire.无风不起浪。

Nothing brave, nothing have.不入虎穴,焉得虎子。

Nothing dries sooner than a tear.眼泪干得最快。

Nothing in the world is difficult for one who sets his mind to it.

世上无难事,只怕有心人。

Nothing is difficult to the man who will try.世上无难事,只要肯登攀。

Nothing seek, nothing find.没有追求就没有收获。

Nothing is so necessary for travelers as languages.外出旅行语言最要紧。

Nothing is to be got without pains but poverty.

世上唯有贫穷可以不劳而获。

Not to advance is to go back.不进则退。

Not to know what happened before one was born is always to be a child.

不懂世故,幼稚可笑。

No way is impossible to courage.勇者无惧。

Obedience is the first duty of a soldier军人以服从命令为天职。

Observation is the best teacher.观察是最好的老师。

Offense is the best defense.进攻是最好的防御。

Old friends and old wines are best.陈酒味醇,老友情深。

Old sin makes new shame.一失足成千古恨。

Once a man and twice a child.一次老,两次小。

Once a thief, always a thief.偷盗一次,做贼一世。

Once bitten, twice shy.一朝被蛇咬,十年怕井绳。

One boy is a boy, two boys half a boy, three boys no boy.

一个和尚挑水喝,两个和尚抬水喝,三个和尚没水喝。

One cannot put back the clock.时钟不能倒转。

One eyewitness is better than ten hearsays.百闻不如一见。

One false move may lose the game.一着不慎,满盘皆输。

One good turn deserves another.行善积德。

One hour today is worth two tomorrow.争分夺秒效率高。

One man‘s fault is other man‘s lesson.前车之鉴。

One never loses anything by politeness.讲礼貌不吃亏。

One swallow does not make a summ一燕不成夏。

One‘s words reflect one‘s thinking.言为心声。

Out of debt, out of danger.无债一身轻。

Out of office, out of danger.无官一身轻。

Out of sight, out of mind.眼不见,心为静。

Patience is the best remedy.忍耐是良药。

Penny wise, pound foolish.贪小便宜吃大亏。

Plain dealing is praised more than practiced.

正大光明者,说到的多,做到的少。

Please the eye and plague the heart. 贪图一时快活,必然留下隐祸。

Pleasure comes through toil.苦尽甘来。

Pour water into a sieve.竹篮子打水一场空。

Practice makes perfect.熟能生巧。

Praise is not pudding.恭维话不能当饭吃。

Praise makes good men better, and bad men worse.

好人越夸越好,坏人越夸越糟。

Prefer loss to unjust gain.宁可吃亏,不贪便宜。

Prevention is better than cure.预防胜于治疗。

Pride goes before, and shame comes after.骄傲使人落后。

Promise is debt.一诺千金。

Proverbs are the daughters of daily experience.谚语是日常经验的结晶。

Pull the chestnut out of fire.火中取栗。

Put the cart before the horse.本末倒置。

Put your shoulder to the wheel.鼎力相助。

Reading enriches the mind.开卷有益。

Reading is to the mind while exercise to the body.读书健脑,运动强身。

Respect yourself, or no one else will respect you.要人尊敬,必须自重。

Rome is not built in a day冰冻三尺,非一日之寒。

Saying is one thing and doing another.言行不一。

Seeing is believing.眼见为实。 Seek the truth from facts.实事求是。

Send a wise man on an errand, and say nothing to him.

智者当差,不用交代。

Set a thief to catch a thief.以贼捉贼。

Short accounts make long friends.好朋友勤算账。

Something is better than nothing.聊胜于无。

Soon learn, soon forgotten.学得快,忘得快。

Soon ripe, soon rotten.熟得快,烂得快。

Speech is silver, silence is gold.能言是银,沉默是金。

Still water run deep.静水常深。

Strike the iron while it is hot.趁热打铁。

Success belongs to the persevering.坚持就是胜利。

Take things as they come.既来之,则安之。

Talking mends no holes. 空谈无补。

Talk of the devil and he will appear.说曹操,曹操就到。

Tall trees catch much wind.树大招风。

Teach others by your example.躬亲示范。

The best hearts are always the bravest.无私者无畏。

The best man stumbles.伟人也有犯错时。

The cat shuts its eyes when stealing.掩耳盗铃。

The danger past and God forgotten.过河拆桥。

The darkest hour is nearest the dawn.黎明前的黑暗。

The darkest place is under the candlestick.烛台底下最暗。

The devil knows many things because he is old.老马识途。

The devil sometimes speaks the truth魔鬼有时也会说真话。

The die is cast.木已成舟。 The early bird catches the worm.早起的鸟儿有虫吃。

The end justifies the means.只要目的正当,可以不择手段。

The end makes all equal.死亡面前,人人平等。

The eye is bigger than the belly.贪多嚼不烂。

The farthest way about is the nearest way home.抄近路反而绕远路。

The finest diamond must be cut.玉不琢,不成器。

The fire is the test of gold, adversity of strong man.烈火验真金,艰难磨意志。

The first step is the only difficulty.迈出第一步是最艰难的。

The fox knew too much, that’s how he lost his tail.机关算尽太聪明,反误了卿卿 性命。

The fox preys farthest from home.兔子不吃窝边草。

The frog in the well knows nothing of the great ocean.坐井观天。

The grass is greener on the other side.这山望着那山高。

The greatest talkers are always least doers.语言的巨人总是行动的矮子。

The higher up, the greater the fall.爬得高,摔得惨。

The leopard cannot change its spots.本性难移。

The more noble, the more humble.人越高尚,越谦虚。

The more wit, the less courage. 初生牛犊不怕虎。

The outsider sees the most of the game.旁观者清。

The pen is mightier than the sword.笔能杀人。

The pot calls the kettle black.五十步笑百步。

There are spots in the sun.太阳也有黑点。

There are two sides to every question.问题皆有两面。

There is a skeleton in the cupboard.家家有本难念的经。

There is kindness to be found everywhere.人间处处有温情。

There is no general rule without some exception.任何法规均有例外。

There is no medicine against death.没有长生不老药。

There is no place like home.金窝银窝不如咱的狗窝。

There is no royal road to learning.书山有路勤为径,学海无涯苦作舟。

The style is the man.字如其人。

The tongue is not steel, yet it cuts.人言可畏。

The water that bears the boat is the same that swallows it up.

水能载舟,亦能覆舟。

The wise man knows he knows nothing, the fool thinks he knows all.清者自清,浊者自浊。 The wolf has a winning game when the shepherds quarrel. 螳螂捕蝉,黄雀在后

The world is a ladder for some to go up and others to go down.世界如阶梯,有人上有人下。

The world is but a little place, after all.海内存知己,天涯若比邻。

Think twice before you do.三思而后行。

Things at the worst will mend.否极泰来。

Time and tide wait for no man.时不我待。

Time cures all things.时间是医治一切创伤的良药。

Time flies.光阴似箭。 Time is money.时间就是金钱。

Time lost cannot be won again.时光流逝,不可复得。

Time past cannot be called back again.时间不能倒流。

Time tries all.路遥知马力,日久见人心。

Tit for tat is fair play.人不犯我,我不犯人;人若犯我,我必犯人。

To err is human.人非圣贤,孰能无过。

To know everything is to know nothing.什么都知道,一如什么都不知道。

 To know oneself is true progress.人贵有自知之明。

 Tomorrow never comes.我生待明日,万事成蹉跎。

 Too much familiarity breeds contempt.过分熟悉会使人互不服气。

 Too much knowledge makes the head bald.学问太多催人老。

 Too much liberty spills all.自由放任,一事无成。

 Too much praise is a burden.过多夸奖,反成负担。

 To save time is to lengthen life.节约时间就是延长生命。

 Touch pitch, and you will be defiled.常在河边走,哪有不湿鞋。

 Troubles never come singly.福无双至,祸不单行。

 Truth never grows old.真理永存。

 Turn over a new leaf.洗心革面,改过自新。

Two dogs strive for a bone, and a third runs away with it.

 鹬蚌相争,渔翁得利。

Two heads are better than one.一个好汉三个帮。

 Two of a trade seldom agree.同行是冤家。

 Two wrongs do not make a right.别人错了,不等于你对了。

 Unity is strength.团结就是力量。

 Unpleasant advice is a good medicine.忠言逆耳利于行。

Until all is over one‘s ambition never dies.不到黄河心不死。

 Venture a small fish to catch a great one.吃小亏占大便宜。

 Virtue is fairer far than beauty.美德远远胜过美貌。

 Walls have ears.小心隔墙有耳。

 Wash your dirty linen at home.家丑不可外扬。

 Water dropping day by day wears the hardest rock away.滴水穿石。

 Wealth is nothing without health.失去健康,钱再多也没用。

 We know not what is good until we have lost it.好东西,失去了才明白。

Well begun is half done.好的开始,是成功的一半。

 We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.井干方知水可贵。

 We shall never have friends if we expect to find them without fault

.欲求完美无缺的朋友必然成为孤家寡人。

We should never remember the benefits we have offered nor forget the favor received.

自己的好事别去提,别人的恩惠要铭记。

 Whatever you do, do with all your might.不管做什么,都要一心一意

What is learned in the cradle is carried to the grave.儿时所学,终生难忘。

What‘s done cannot be undone.生米煮成熟饭了。

What‘s lost is lost.失者不可复得。What we do willingly is easy.愿者不难。When in Rome, do as the Romans do.入国问禁,入乡随俗。

When everybody‘s somebody then nobody‘s anybody.人人都伟大,世间没豪杰。

When sorrow is asleep, wake it not.伤心旧事别重提。

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.

 新仇旧恨,齐上心头。

 When the fox preaches, take care of your geese.黄鼠狼给鸡拜年,没安好心。

 When wine is in truth, wit is out.酒后吐真言。

Where there is a will, there is a way.有志者事竟成。

 Where there is life, there is hope.留得青山在,不怕没柴烧。

 Where there is smoke, there is fire.事出有因。

 While the priest climbs a post, the devil climbs ten.道高一尺,魔高一丈。

 Who chatters to you, will chatter of you.搬弄口舌者必是小人。

 Whom the gods love die young.好人不长命。

 Wise man have their mouths in their hearts, fools have their hearts in their mouths.

智者嘴在心里,愚者心在嘴里。

Work makes the workman.勤工出巧匠。 Wet behind the ears.乳臭未干。

You cannot burn the candle at both ends.蜡烛不能两头点,精力不可过分耗。

You cannot eat your cake and have it.鱼与熊掌,不可得兼。

 You can take a horse to the water but you cannot make him drink. 强扭的瓜不甜

。 You may know by a handful the whole sack.由一斑可知全貌。

You never know what you can till you try.是驴子是马,拉出来遛遛。

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

经典谚语30句

 

1. Pain past is pleasure.

 

  (过去的痛苦就是快乐。)[无论多么艰难一定要咬牙冲过去,将来回忆起来一定甜蜜无比。]

 

 

  2. While there is life, there is hope.

 

  (有生命就有希望/留得青山在,不怕没柴烧。)

 

  3. Wisdom in the mind is better than money in the hand.

 

  (脑中有知识,胜过手中有金钱。)[从小灌输给孩子的坚定信念。]

 

  4. Storms make trees take deeper roots.

 

  (风暴使树木深深扎根。)[感激敌人,感激挫折!]

 

  5. Nothing is impossible for a willing heart.

 

  (心之所愿,无所不成。)[坚持一个简单的信念就一定会成功。]

 

  6. The shortest answer is doing.

 

  (最简单的回答就是干。)[想说流利的英语吗?那么现在就开口!心动不如嘴动。]

 

  7. All things are difficult before they are easy.

 

  (凡事必先难后易。)[放弃投机取巧的幻想。]

 

  8. Great hopes make great man. (伟大的理想造就伟大的人。)

 

  9. God helps those who help themselves.(天助自助者。)

 

  10. Four short words sum up what has lifted most successful individuals above the crowd: a little bit more.

 

  (四个简短的词汇概括了成功的秘诀:多一点点!)

 

  [比别人多一点努力、多一点自律、多一点决心、多一点反省、多一点学习、多一点实践、多一点疯狂,多一点点就能创造奇迹!]

 

  11. In doing we learn.(实践长才干。)

 

  12. East or west, home is best.(东好西好,还是家里最好。)

 

  13. Two heads are better than one.(三个臭皮匠,顶个诸葛亮。)

 

  14. Good company on the road is the shortest cut.(行路有良伴就是捷径。)

 

  15. Constant dropping wears the stone.(滴水穿石。)

 

  16. Misfortunes never come alone/single.(祸不单行。)

 

  17. Misfortunes tell us what fortune is.(不经灾祸不知福。)

 

  18. Better late than never.(迟做总比不做好;晚来总比不来好。)

 

  19. It's never too late to mend.(过而能改,善莫大焉;亡羊补牢,犹未晚也。)

 

  20. If a thing is worth doing it is worth doing well.(如果事情值得做,就值得做好。)

 

  21. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.(无热情成就不了伟业。)

 

  22. Actions speak louder than words.(行动比语言更响亮。)

 

  23. Lifeless, faultless.(只有死人才不犯错误。)

 

  24. From small beginning come great things.(伟大始于渺小。)

 

  25. One today is worth two tomorrows.(一个今天胜似两个明天。)

 

  26. Truth never fears investigation.(事实从来不怕调查。)

 

  27. The tongue is boneless but it breaks bones.(舌无骨却能折断骨。)

 

  28. A bold attempt is half success.(勇敢的尝试是成功的一半。)

 

  29. Knowing something of everything and everything of something.

 

  (通百艺而专一长。)

 

30. Good advice is beyond all price.(忠告是无价宝。)

 

 

 

常用谚语

 

man proposes and god disposes 谋事在人成事在天 .

 

 

the weakest goes to the wall.优胜劣败

 

 

to look one way and row another声东击西 .

 

 

in everyone’s mouth.脍炙人口

 

 

to kick against the pricks 螳臂挡车 .

 

 

to give the last measure of devotion 鞠躬尽瘁 .

 

 

to suffer for one’s wisdom. 聪明反被聪明误

 

 

to harp on the same string. 旧调重弹

 

 

what’s done cannot be undone 覆水难收 .

 

 

to convert defeat into victory. 转败为胜

 

 

beyond one’s grasp. 鞭长莫及

 

 

to be severe with oneself and lenient with others.

严以责己宽以待人

 

 

a heart of steel. 铁石心肠

 

 

to be guided by destiny.听天由命

 

 

pride goes before a fall 骄者必败 .

 

 

the supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy

without 不战而屈人之兵

 

 

what is bugging you 什么事使你心烦

 

 

sworn brother 干兄弟, 盟兄弟

 

 

it’s dying art 这是已失传的手艺

 

 

gentlemen agreement 君子协定

 

 

I'm trying to make ends meet 我尽力要使收支平衡

 

 

prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.

 

 

富贵结朋友, 患难见真情

 

 

if you wish to be the best man, you must suffer the

bitterest of the bitter.

 

 

吃得苦中苦, 方为人上人

 

 

it is better to fight for good than to fail at the ill.

 

 

宁为善而斗, 毋屈服于恶

 

 

he who has hope has everything.

 

 

怀有希望者, 便拥有一切

 

 

self-trust is the first secret of success.

 

 

自信心是成功的首要关键

 

 

the secret of success is constancy of purpose.

 

 

成功的秘绝在于目标坚定有恒

 

 

success grows out of struggles to overcome difficulties.

 

 

成功源于努力去克服困难

 

 

experience is the extract of suffering.

 

经验是受苦的结晶

 


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