经典谚语


1.A bad beginning makes a bad ending. 不善始者不善终。
2.A bad thing never dies. 遗臭万年。
3.A bad workman always blames his tools. 不会撑船怪河弯。
4.A bird in the hand is worth than two in the bush.
一鸟在手胜过双鸟在林。
5.A boaster and a liar are cousins-german. 吹牛与说谎本是同宗。
6.A bully is always a coward. 色厉内荏。
7.A burden of one's choice is not felt. 爱挑的担子不嫌重。
8.A candle lights others and consumes itself. 蜡烛照亮别人，却毁灭了自己。
9.A cat has 9 lives. 猫有九条命。
10.A cat may look at a king. 人人平等。
11.A close mouth catches no flies. 病从口入。
12.A constant guest is never welcome. 常客令人厌。
13.Actions speak louder than words. 事实胜于雄辩。
14.Adversity leads to prosperity. 穷则思变。
15.Adversity makes a man wise, not rich. 逆境出人才。
16.A fair death honors the whole life. 死得其所，流芳百世。
17.A faithful friend is hard to find. 知音难觅。
18.A fall into a pit, a gain in your wit. 吃一堑，长一智。
19.A fox may grow gray, but never good. 江山易改，本性难移。
20.A friend in need is a friend indeed. 患难见真情。
21.A friend is easier lost than found. 得朋友难，失朋友易。
22.A friend is never known till a man has need. 需要之时方知友。
23.A friend without faults will never be found. 没有十全十美的朋友。
24.'After you' is good manners. “您先请”是礼貌。
25.A good beginning is half done. 良好的开端是成功的一半。
26.A good beginning makes a good ending. 善始者善终。
27.A good book is a good friend. 好书如挚友。
28.A good book is the best of friends, the same today and
forever. 一本好书，相伴一生。
29.A good conscience is a soft pillow. 不做亏心事，不怕鬼叫门。
30.A good fame is better than a good face. 美名胜过美貌。

谚语系列（一）An idle youth,a needy age.
少壮不努力，老大徒伤悲。
Time flies.
时光易逝。
Time is money.
一寸光阴一寸金。
Time and tide wait for no man.
岁月无情；岁月易逝；岁月不待人。
Time tries all.
时间检验一切。
Time tries truth.
时间检验真理。
Time past cannot be called back again.
光阴一去不复返。
All time is no time when it is past.
光阴一去不复返。
No one can call back yesterday;Yesterday will not be called
again.
昨日不复来。
Tomorrow comes never.
切莫依赖明天。
One today is worth two tomorrows.
一个今天胜似两个明天。
The morning sun never lasts a day.
好景不常；朝阳不能光照全日。
Christmas comes but once a year.
圣诞一年只一度。
Pleasant hours fly past.
快乐时光去如飞。
Happiness takes no account of time.
欢娱不惜时光逝。
Time tames the strongest grief.
时间能缓和极度的悲痛。
The day is short but the work is much.
工作多，光阴迫。
Never deter till tomorrow that which you can do today.
今日事须今日毕，切勿拖延到明天。
Have you somewhat to do tomorrow,do it today.
明天如有事，今天就去做。
To him that does everything in its proper time,one day is
worth three.
事事及时做，一日胜三日。
To save time is to lengthen life.
节省时间就是延长生命。
Everything has its time and that time must be watched.
万物皆有时，时来不可失。
Take time when time cometh,lest time steal away.
时来必须要趁时，不然时去无声息。
When an opportunity is neglected,it never comes back to you.
机不可失，时不再来；机会一过，永不再来。
Make hay while the sun shines.
晒草要趁太阳好。
Strike while the iron is hot.
趁热打铁。
Work today,for you know not how much you may be hindered
tomrrow.
今朝有事今朝做，明朝可能阻碍多。
Punctuality is the soul of business.
守时为立业之要素。
Procrastination is the thief of time.
因循拖延是时间的大敌；拖延就是浪费时间。
Every tide hath ist ebb.
潮涨必有潮落时。
Knowledge is power.
知识就是力量。
Wisdom is more to be envied than riches.
知识可羡，胜于财富。
Wisdom is better than gold or silver.
知识胜过金银，
Wisdom in the mind is better than money in the hand.
胸中有知识，胜于手中有钱。
Wisdom is a good purchase though we pay dear for it.
为了求知识，代价虽高也值得。
Doubt is the key of knowledge.
怀疑是知识之钥。
If you want knowledge,you must toil for it.
若要求知识，须从勤苦得。
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
浅学误人。
A handful of common sense is worth a bushel of learning.
少量的常识，当得大量的学问。
Knowledge advances by steps and not by leaps.
知识只能循序渐进，不能跃进。
Learn wisdom by the follies of others.
从旁人的愚行中学到聪明。
It is good to learn at another man's cost.
前车可鉴。
Wisdom is to the mind what health is to the body.
知识之于精神，一如健康之于肉体。
Experience is the best teacher.
经验是最好的教师。
Experience is the father of wisdom and memory the mother.
经验是知识之父，记忆是知识之母。
Dexterity comes by experience.
熟练来自经验。
Practice makes perfect.
熟能生巧。
Experience keeps a dear school,but fools learn in no other.
经验学校学费高，愚人旁处学不到。
Experience without learning is better than learning without
experience.
有经验而无学问，胜于有学问而无经验。
Wit once bought is worth twice taught.
由经验而得的智慧，胜于学习而得的智慧；一次亲身的体会，胜过两次的教师教导。
Seeing is believing.
百闻不如一见。
Business is the salt of life.
事业是生命之盐。
Business before pleasure.
事业在先，享乐在后。
Business makes a man as well as tries him.
事业可以考验人，也可以造就人。
Business neglected is business lost.
忽视职业便是放弃职业。
Never think yourself above business.
勿自视过高；不要眼高手低；永远不要认为自己是大才小用。
Business may be troublesome,but idleness is pernicious.
事业虽扰人，懒惰害更大。
He that thinks his business below him will always be above his
business.
自命大才小用，往往眼高手低。
Do business,but be not a slave to it.
要做事，但不要做事务的奴隶。
Everybody's business is nobody's business.
众人的事就是无人过问的事。
Work makes the workman.
勤工出巧匠。
Better master one than engage with ten.
会十事，不如精一事。
A work ill done must be twice done.
首次做不好，必须重新搞。
They who cannot do as they would,must do as they can.
不能如愿而行，也须尽力而为。
If you would have a thing well done,do it yourself.
想把事情来做好，就得亲自动手搞。
He that doth most at once doth least.
什么都想一次做完，结果一件也做不完；贪多嚼不烂。
Do as most men do and men will speak well of thee.
照大多数人那样干，人们会把你称赞。
What may be done at any time will be done at no time.
在任何时候都可做的事情，总是在任何时候都不做的事情。
Better late than never.
迟做总比不做好。
Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.
凡是值得做的事，就值得做好。
The shortest answer is doing the thing.
最简短的回答就是一个“干”字。
Action is the proper fruit of knowledge.
行动是知识之佳果。
Finished labours are pleasant.
完成工作是一乐。
It is lost labour to sow where there is no soil.
没有土壤，播种也是徒劳。
It is right to put everything in its proper use.
凡事都应用得其所。
Affairs that are done by due degrees are soon ended.
按部就班，事情很快就做完。
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
只工作，不玩耍，聪明小孩也变傻。
Work bears witness who does well.
工作能证明谁做的好。
It is not work that kills,but worry.
工作不会伤身，伤身乃是忧虑。
He that will not work shall not eat.
不工作者不得食。
Business is business.
公事公办。
Deliberate slowly,execute promptly.
慢慢酌量，快快行动。
Put your shoulder to the wheel.
努力工作。
Never do things by halves.
做事不要半途而废。
In for a penny,in for a pound.
做事一开头，就要做到底；一不做，二不休。
Many hands make quick work.
人多干活快。
Many hands make light work.
众擎易举。
A bad workman quarrels with his tools.
技术拙劣的工人抱怨自己的工具。
Diligence is the mohter of success.
勤奋是成功之母。
Idleness is the root of all evil.
懒惰乃万恶之源。
Care and diligence bring luck.
谨慎和勤奋带来好运。
Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
勤勉是好运之母。
Industry is fortune's right hand,and frugality her left.
勤勉是幸运的右手，世俭是幸运的左手。
Idleness is the key of beggary.
懒惰出乞丐。
No root,no fruit.
无根就无果。
Idle people (folks) have the most labour (take the most
pains).
懒人做工作，越懒越费力。
Sloth is the key of poverty.
惰能致贫。
Sloth turneth the edge of wit.
懒散能磨去才智的锋芒。
An idle brain is the devil's workshop.
懒汉的头脑是魔鬼的工厂。
The secret of wealth lieth in the letters SAVE.
节俭是致富的秘诀。

人生谚语精华版1 ． Actions speak louder than words.
事实胜于雄辩
2．All is not gold that glitters.
金玉其外败絮其中
3．An idle youth， a needy age.
少壮不努力，老大徒伤悲
4． Bitter pills may have wholesome effects.
良药苦口
5． Do wrong once and you'll never hear the end of it.
一失足成千古恨
6． Every cloud has a silver lining.
守得云开见月明
7．Every man has his fault.
人孰无过
8．First come， first served.
捷足先登
9． Haste makes waste.
欲达则不达
10． Honesty is the best policy.
诚实至上
11． In fair weather prepare for foul.
未雨绸缪
12． Knowledge is power.
知识就是力量
13． Let bygones be bygone.
既往不究
14． Look before you leap.
三思而后行
15． Man proposes， God disposes.
谋事在人，成事在天
16． Money talks.
金钱万能
17． No gains without pains.
吃得苦中苦方为人上人
18．Practice makes perfect.
熟能生巧
19.Silence is golden.
献丑不如藏拙
20． Speak well of your friend，of your enemy say nothing.
隐恶扬善
21． Take things as they come.
逆来顺受
22． The ear1y bird catches the worm.
先到先得
23．Time and tide wait for no man.
岁月不饶人
24． To burn the cand1e at both ends.
自暴自弃
25． To count one's chickens before they are hatched.
实事求是
26． To make a mountain out of a mo1ehill.
小题大做
27． Too many cooks spoil tbe broth.
人多手脚乱
28． Well begun is half done.
事半功倍
29． When you are in Rome， do as the Romans do.
入乡随俗
30. Where there is life, there is hope.
留得青山在，不怕没材烧。

英国社会评论家乔治·奥威尔人生锦句

　　当人们回首上学的时光，没有一个人会真心地说那是一点快乐都找不到的地方。

　　——英国社会评论家乔治·奥威尔

　　No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.

　　——George Orwell (1903-50), English social critic

英文精彩成语集锦


　　英文中也有很多经典的成语，有的与中国成语同出一辙，相映成趣。现择其要者摘录如下，以飨读者。

　　1.Barking dogs seldom bite.

　　吠犬不咬人

　　2.Beggars' bags are bottom less.

　　乞丐永远不知足

　　3.Better go to heaven in rags than to hell in embroidery.

　　宁可穷而有志，不可富而失节

　　4.Better late than never.

　　迟做总比不做好

　　5.Between two stools you fall to the ground.

　　脚踩两条凳，早晚要坠地(意同：脚踏两条船)

　　6.Birds of a feather of lock together.

　　物以类聚，人以群分

　　7.Blood is thicker than water.

　　血浓于水(意指：亲人总比外人亲）

动物谚语集锦


1.The early bird catches the worm. (早起的鸟捉到虫。)捷足先登。
2.A bird is known by its voice,and a man by his
words.闻声知鸟，闻言知人。
3.Every bird likes its own nest best.鸟皆爱其巢，人皆爱其家。
4.There are no birds of this year in last year's
nest.(今年的巢里找不到去年的鸟。)时过境迁。
5.If you sell the cow,you sell the milk too.(卖了母牛吃不成奶。)事难两全。
6.No bees,no honey.(不养蜂，无蜜吃。)不劳动，不得食。
7.One swallow does not make a summer.独木不成林。
8.A bird in the hand is worth two in the brush.一鸟在手胜过两鸟在林。
9.Every dog is lion at home.狗是百步王，只在门前狠。
10.The scalded dog fears cold water.(烫过的狗连冷水都怕。)一朝被蛇咬，十年怕井绳。

谚语系列（二）


All is not gold that glitters.
闪光未必尽黄金。
Money is the root of evil.
金钱是罪恶的根源。
Money makes the mare go.
有钱能使鬼推磨。
All things are obedient to money.
一切事物都服从于金钱。
Before gold,even kings take off their hats.
在黄金面前，国王也要脱帽。
Money is the key that opens all doors.
金钱是打开一切门户的钥匙。
Beauty is potent,but money is more potent.
美貌固有力，金钱力更大。
Avarice increases with wealth.
越有钱，越贪钱。
The money the miser hoards will do him no good.
守财奴积财，对自己毫无好处。
What is wealth good for,If it brings melancholy?
财富如带忧郁来，有了财富有何用？。
Gold will not buy anything.
黄金不能买尽一切。
The chief aim of man is not to get money.
人的主要目的并不是赚钱。
Those who believe money can do everything are frequently
prepared to do everything for money.
相信金钱万能的人，往往会一切为了金钱。
Wealth makes worship.
财富能使人拜倒。
Little wealth,little care.
财富少，烦恼也少。
A moneyless man goes fast through the market.
身上无钱过市快。
Poverty is not a crime.
贫非罪。
Poverty is not a disgrace,but theft is a disgrace.
贫穷不可耻，偷窃乃足羞。
Better be poor than wicked.
宁可做穷人，不可做坏人。
Poverty is not a sufficient cause for disgrace,but poverty
without resolution to help onself,is a disgrace.
贫穷不足为耻，穷而不能自立方可耻。
Poverty is the mother of health.
贫穷是健康之母。
Be considerate toward the poor.
应常为穷人着想。
Poor and content is rich and rich enough.
人能安贫就是富。
Poverty parteth fellowship.
贫穷断友情。
Poverty makes a man mean.
贫困使人小气。
Nothing to be got without pains but poverty.
只有贫穷是可以不劳而获的东西。
Do not through fear of poverty surrender liberty.
不要因为怕贫困而舍去自由。
Poverty and love are hard to hide.
贫困与爱情，都难瞒过人。
Poverty breeds strife.
贫困引起冲突。
The poor man wants much,the miser everything.
穷人要求多，财迷则样样都要。
The dainties of the great are the tears of the poor.
富人口中的美味是穷人眼中的泪水。
Poverty on an old man's back is a heavy burden.
老而贫困，负担最沉。
Beggars must (should) be no choosers.
行乞的哪能挑肥拣瘦；饥不择食。
A lamb is as dear to a poor man as an ox to the rich.
穷人眼中的一只羊，贵似富人一头牛。
A light purse makes a heavy heart.
钱袋轻时心事重。
Poor without debt is better than a prince.
穷人无债胜王子。
Happy is he who owes nothing.
无债一身轻。
Money borrowed is soon sorrowed.
借钱才到手，立刻便担忧。
He that goes a borrowing,goes a sorrowing.
向人借债是自寻烦恼。
Better go to bed supperless than rise in debt.
与其负债起身，不如空腹上床。
Out of debt,out of danger.
脱债就脱险。
A pound of care will not pay an ounce of debt.
深忧偿不了小债。
He is the wisest man who does not think himself so.
不自作聪明便是最聪明。
Wise men have their mouth in their heart,fools their heart in
their mouth.
聪明人嘴在心里，愚蠢人心在嘴边。
Wise men learn by other men's mistakes;fools by their own.
聪明人从旁人的错误中吸取教训，愚笨人则从自身的错误中吸取教训。
He is wise that knows when he's well enough.
知足为智者。
A wise man cares not for what he cannot have.
智者不强求。
He is wise that hath wit enough for his own affairs.
明智者有足够的机智处理自己的事情。
No man is born wise.
聪明非天生。
A wise man will make tools of what comes to hand.
能随机应变的人是聪明人。
A word is enough to the wise.
对明智者一言已足。
He is the wise man who is the honest man.
正直的人就是有见识的人。
A wise man thinks all that he says,a fool says all that he
thinks.
聪明人想了才说，愚笨的人想着就说。
The wise hand doth not all that the foolish mouth speaks.
聪明的手不做愚蠢的嘴所说的事。
A flow of words is no proof of wisdom.
口若悬河，不能证明真有才智。
It is easy to be wise after the event.
事后的诸葛亮容易做。
The wise man knows he knows nothing,the fool thinks the knows
all.
聪明人自认一无所知，愚笨人自负无所不晓。
Fools learn nothing from wise men;but wise men learn much from
fools.
愚人不能从智者那里学到什么；而智者却能从愚人那里学到很多。
A fool always comes short of his reckoning.
愚人常短于心计。
A fool's heart dances on his lips.
愚人的心挂在唇边。
A fool always finds a greater fool than himself.
愚人总以为旁人比自己更傻。
A man may talk like a wise man and yet act like a fool.
一个人可能说话如智者，而行为象愚人。
The more riches a fool hath,the greater fool he is.
愚人越富越蠢。
Never challenge a fool to do wrong.
不要怂恿愚人干错事。
It is better to please a fool than to anger him.
对愚人最好是使他高兴，而不是惹他发怒。
He is a fool who cannot be angry,but he is a wise man who will
not.
不会发怒是蠢人，不愿发怒是聪明人。
'Tis altogether vain to learn wisdom and yet live foolishly.
枉自学聪明，却做愚蠢事。
Wit without learning is like a tree without fruit.
没有学识的机智，犹如没有果实的树。
No man is wise at all times.
世上无一贯明智的人。
Many heads are better than one.
几个脑袋总比一个脑袋强；三个臭皮匠，顶个诸葛亮。
Virtue never grows old.
美德永不老。
Virtue is the only true nobility.
万事不如美德高。
Virtue is a jewel of great price.
美德乃是无价宝。
He that soweth virtue shall reap fame.
播下美德，收获名望。
To be virtuous is to do good.
行善即是有德。
Glory is the shadow of virtue.
荣誉是美德的影子。
There is no virtue that poverty destroyeth not.
没有贫穷不能破坏的美德。
The first step to virtue is to abstrain from vice.
不作恶是走向美德的第一步。
No good building without a good foundation.
基础不良的好建筑物是没有的。
One good turn deserves another.
善行应有善报；善良的行为应得善良行为的报答。
He that returns good for evil obtains the victory.
胜利属于以德报怨的人。
We should never remember the benefits we have offered nor
forget the favor received.
我有德于人不应记；人有德于我不可忘。
If they say you are good,ask yourself if it be true.
若有人称赞，自问对不对。
He who avoids temptation avoids the sin.
不受诱惑就免于罪恶。
A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder.
问心无愧，打雷也能睡。
Never be weary of well doing.
不要厌倦做好事。
Of evil grain,no good seed can come.
坏谷无好种。
That which is evil is soon learnt.
恶行易学。
No vice goes alone.
恶事不单行。
An evil lesson is soon learned.
恶习易染。
A bad thing never dies.
坏事传千年。
Evil comes to us by ells and goes away by inches.
罪恶于人，尺进寸退。
The maintaining of one vice costs more than ten virtues.
保持一桩恶事的代价超过于十件好事。
They that do nothing learn to do ill.
游手好闲，容易学坏。
A wicked man is his own hell.
坏人作恶，自造地狱。
Those who eat best and drink best often do worst.
吃得好，喝得好，坏事常常免不了。
He who has done ill once will do it again.
一次干坏事，便有第二次。
There is no going heaven in a sedan.
坐轿上天堂，从来无此事。
An ill life,an ill end.
恶有恶报。
A wilful fault has no excuse and deserves no pardon.
不能宽恕故意犯下的错误。

谚语系列（三）

Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.
没有知识的热心，犹如有火而无光。
Pardoning the bad is injuring the good.
隐恶败善；原谅坏人即是伤害好人。
The evil wound is cured but not the evil name.
重伤可治，恶名难去。
Evil communications corrupt good manners.
不良的交往败坏良好的举止。
No wrong without remedy.
有过皆可补。
Virtue flies from the heart of a mercenary man.
唯利是图者，胸中无美德。
First think,and then speak.
动口先动脑。
A word spoken is past recalling(The words once spoken can
never be recalled).
一言既出，驷马难追。
While the word is in your mouth,it is your own;when 'tis once
spoken, 'tis another's.
话在嘴里，属于自己；话一出口，人家所有。
Speech is silver,silence is gold.
言语是银，沉默是金。
Few words are best.
寡言为贵。
No wisdom like silence.
聪明莫过沉默。
Least said,soonest mended.
少说为妙。
Second thoughts are best.
再思而后行。
Look before you leap.
慎思而后行。
He is a wise man who speaks little.
智多言语少。
Fair words butter no parsnips.
美言无补实际。
The tongue is not made of steel,yet it cuts.
舌头不是钢，一动把人伤。
Sometimes words hurt more than swords.
言语能伤人，有时胜刀剑。
A good tongue is a good weapon.
口齿伶俐，是件利器。
A wise head makes a close mouth.
头脑灵，嘴巴紧。
It is one thing to speak much and another to speak
pertinently.
说得多是一回事，讲得中肯又是一回事。
Unprofitable eloquence is like the cypress,which is great and
tall,but bears no fruit.
无益的雄辩犹如高大的柏树，不会结果。
Better say nothing than nothing to the purpose.
与其说话不中肯，不如半句也莫吭。
Many a true word is spoken in jest.
笑语之中吐真言。
Few words,many deeds.
少说话，多做事。
Actions speak louder than words.
行动比言语响亮；百说不如一干。
From words to deeds is a great space.
言行之间，大有距离。
Deeds,not words.
要行动，不要言词。
Bare words,no bargain.
空言不能成交易。
Deeds are fruits,words are but leaves.
行动是果实，言语只是叶子。
Ill deeds cannot honour.
坏行为不受尊敬。
Fine words dress ill deeds.
漂亮的言词装饰着恶劣的行为。
Good words and ill deeds deceive wise and fools.
动听的话和坏行为同样欺骗聪明和愚人。
Our own actions are our security,not others' judgements.
我们的行为是自己的保证，并不是旁人的鉴定。
A man of words and not deeds is like a garden full of weeds.
空有言语而无行动的人，犹如杂草丛生的花园。
A man is not good or bad for one action.
不能凭一件事判断人的好坏。
A man apt to promise is apt to forget.
易于许诺的人也易于忘记。
A man that breaks his word,bids others to be false to him.
人不守信，无异于叫旁人对他失信。
Easier said than done.
说易行难。
The greatest talkers are always the least doers.
大言不惭的总是行动最少的人。
The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
布丁好坏，一尝便知；空谈不如实践。
Pride goes before a fall.
骄者必败。
Pride goes before destruction.
骄者必败。
Pride goeth before,and shame cometh after.
骄傲走在前，羞耻跟在后。
Pride and grace dwelt never in one place.
傲慢和温雅，永难住一处。
He that climbs high falls heavily.
爬得高，跌得重。
Pride must be pinched.
骄傲应收敛。
The more noble the more humble.
越高贵，越应谦逊。
Humility often gains more than pride.
谦逊常比傲慢受益更多。
He who imagines that he has knowledge enough has none.
自命万事通，腹中常空空。
No man is the worst for knowing the worst of himself.
人并不因为他自知很差就是很差。
Pride may lurk under a threadbare cloak.
骄傲可能会潜藏在穿旧的斗篷下。
It is not a sign of humility to declaim against pride.
用慷慨激昂的言语攻击傲慢并不是谦逊的标志。
He that is full of himself is very empty.
自满之人腹内空。
Honesty is the best policy.
诚实为上策。
An honest man's word is as good as his bond.
诚实人的诺言实际上就是他的保证书。
Poor but honest.
虽贫穷，要诚实。
Honesty may be dear bought,but can never be an ill pennyworth.
高价买诚实，永远也值得。
Knavery may serve,but honesty is best.
欺诈可能有用，诚实却是上策。
Every man has his weak side.
人人都有自己的弱点。
He who has no shame has no conscience.
不知羞耻的人不知自疚。
An honest look covereth many faults.
一副诚实的外表掩盖着许多缺点。
Once a knave,ever a knave.
一次成无赖，永远是无赖。
A crafty knave needs no broker.
狡猾的无赖不需要有中间人。
The honest penny is better than the stolen dollar.
正当得到的一分钱胜于偷来的一元钱。
One penny with right is better than a thousand without right.
合法取得的一辨士，胜于非法取得的一千辨士。
The unrighteous penny corrupts the righteous pound.
不正当得来的辨士使正当得来的英镑也受到沾污。
Love is blind.
爱情是盲目的。
Love is without reason.
爱情无理智。
Love is full of trouble.
爱情充满了烦恼。
Love cannot be compelled.
爱情不能强迫。
Love begets love.
爱爱相生。
Love needs no teaching.
爱情不需教导。
Love at first sight.
一见倾心。
Love asks faith,and faith firmness.
爱情要求信任，信任要求坚定。
Love is the touchstone of virtue.
爱情是美德的试金石。
Love not at the first look.
不要一见钟情。
Hasty love,soon cold.
爱得匆忙冷得快。
Love is a sweet torment.
爱情是一种甜蜜的痛苦。
Love rules his kingdom without a sword.
爱情的王国不用刀剑来统治。
Love will find out the way.
爱情自会寻出路。
Love is not to be found in the market.
爱情在市场上找不到。
Lovers live by love,as larks live by leeks.
情侣靠爱情生活，正象云雀靠韭葱生活一样。
Old love will not be forgotten.
旧情永难忘；往日的爱情难以忘怀。
True love kythes(=shows itself)in time of need.
患难显真情。
Sound love is not soon forgotten.
坚固的爱情不会顷刻忘怀。
The greatest hate springs from the greatest love.
最大的恨来自最大的爱。
No love is foul,nor prison fair.
没有肮脏的爱情，也没有美丽的监狱。
Labour is lihgt where love doth pay.
爱情付报酬，劳苦也轻松。
Love is the reward of love.
爱就是爱的报酬。
Love makes all hard hearts gentle.
爱情把一切冷酷之心变成温柔。
When love puts in,friendship is gone.
爱情进入，友情完结。
The course of true love never did run smooth.
真爱的道路绝不平坦。
Love is a sweet tyranny,because the lover endures his torment
willingly.
爱情是可爱的虐政，情人们甘受它痛苦的折磨。
True love is giving,not taking.
真挚的爱是给，不是取。
Love makes obedience easy.
爱情使顺从成为易事。
Love is sweet in the beginning,but sour in the end.
爱情先甜后来酸。
Where love fails,we espy all faults.
爱情一失败，一切毛病都发现。
Follow love and it will flee,flee love and it will follow
thee.
追求爱情它高飞，逃避爱情它跟随。

谚语系列（四）

When poverty comes in at the door,love flies out of the
window.
贫穷一进门，爱情跳窗走。
Faults are thick while love is thin.
一朝情义淡，样样不顺眼。
Hatred is blind as well as love.
爱情和仇恨，二者皆盲目。
Marriage is a lottery.
婚姻是一桩难于预测的事。
Marry thy like.
跟你情投意合的人结婚。
Marriage makes or mars a man.
婚姻成全人，也能损害人。
It is good to marry late or never.
晚婚或不婚，都是好事情。
Early wed,early dead.
早婚者早夭。
They that marry in green,their sorrow is soon seen.
年纪轻轻就结婚，为时不久便悔恨。
A young man married is a man that's marred.
男子早婚，种下祸根。
Marry in haste,and repent at leisure.
匆匆结婚，时时悔恨。
Marry in lent,and you'll live to repent.
借债结婚，一生悔恨。
He that marries for wealth,sells his liberty.
为财富而结婚的人，出卖了自己的自由。
An ill marriage is a spring of ill fortune.
不良的婚姻是恶运的来源。
Who marrieth for love without money,hath good nights and sorry
days.
为了爱情，无钱结婚，夜来欢娱，白天悔恨。
If you always say 'NO',never be married.
常常说“不”字，永远难结婚。
Honest men marry soon,wise men not at all.
老实的人早成婚，聪明的人不结婚。
A good wife and health is a man's best wealth.
贤妻和健康是男子的至宝。
A good wife makes a good husband.
有好妻子就有好丈夫；妻贤夫自良。
Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.
选择妻子，最好用耳不用眼。
Better be half hanged than ill wed.
与其成怨偶，不如守单身。
He who does not honour his wife,dishonours himself.
不尊重自己妻子的人，自己也不会受人尊重。
The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives.
有懦弱的丈夫，就有凶悍的妻子。
It is a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.
母鸡司晨家不兴。
The wife is the key of the house.
妻子是一家之钥；妻贤一家兴。
The more women look in their glass,the less they look to their
house.
妇女照镜越多，照管家务就越少。
East or west,home is best.
东也好，西也好，还是家中最好；金窝银窝，不如家里的草窝。
One father can support ten children; ten children cannot
support one father.
一个父亲可以供养十个孩子，十个孩子却不能供养一个父亲。
One father is more than a hundred school-masters.
一个父亲胜于一百个教师。
Like father,like son.
有其父，必有其子。
The father buys,the son bigs,the grandchild sells,and his son
thigs.
父买、子修建、孙儿卖，重孙街上当乞丐。
The mother's breath is aye sweet.
母亲的低语总是甜蜜的。
Like mother,like daughter.
有其母，必有其女。
Children are the parents' riches.
子女是父母的至宝。
A little child is the sweetest and purest thing in the world.
孩童是世界上最可爱和最纯洁的东西。
He that hath no children,knows not what is love.
没有孩子的人，不知道什么叫做爱。
Children learn to creep ere they can go.
孩子要走路，先得学爬行。
Silly(=good) child is soon ylered(=taught).
好小孩，学得快。
Boys will be boys.
孩子终归是孩子。
One boy is more trouble than a dozen girls.
一个男孩比十二个女孩增添的麻烦还多。
Spare the rod and spoil the child.
省了棍子，惯坏了孩子。
Naughty boys sometimes make good men.
淘气的男孩有时会成为争气的孩子。
The child is father of the man.
三岁定到老。
Happy is he that is happy in childhood.
童年时快乐的人是幸福的。
Children and fools cannot lie.
孩子和愚人不会扯谎。
My son is my son till he hath got him a wife, but my
daughter's my daughter all the days of her life.
儿子娶妻后就不是自己的儿子，可是女儿终身都是自己的女儿。
It is harder to marry a daughter well than to bring her up
well.
养女容易嫁女难。
A maid that laughs is half taken.
少女笑口开，婚事成一半。
A maiden with many wooers often chooses the worst.
有许多人向她求婚的少女，往往选中最差的一个。
Maids want nothing but husbands,but when they have them they
want everything.
未婚女子不要别的，只要丈夫，有了丈夫以后，一切都要。
Would you know your daughter,see her in company.
你若想了解女儿，只要看她和什么样的人交往。
He that would the daughter win,must with the mother first
begin.
要想赢得女儿的欢心，必须先从她母亲着手。
Life without friend is death.
没有朋友的生活便等于死亡。
Without a friend,the world is wilderness.
没有朋友，世界成了荒野。
Friendless is the dead.
死者无友。
A good friend is my nearest relation.
好友即至亲。
A near friend is better than a fardwelling kinsman.
近友胜远亲。
A friend to everybody is a friend to nobody.
和任何人都认朋友，结果和任何人都交不成朋友；友多无好友。
In time of prosperity,friends will be plenty.
走运时候朋友多。
It is good to have friends in trouble.
在患难中能有朋友是好事。
Prosperity makes friends and adversity tries them.
富裕招致朋友，困苦考验朋友。
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
患难时的朋友才是真正的朋友。
Poverty tries friends.
贫穷考验朋友；人贫见友情。
Try your friend ere you trust him.
对朋友要先考验，后信任。
Prove thy friend ere thou have need.
在你需要朋友帮助前，先要考验他们。
A friend is never known till a man have need.
不到困窘时，永难识真友。
A faithful friend is hard to find.
忠实朋友实难求。
Friends are like fiddle-strings,they must not be screwed too
tight.
朋友有如琴弦，不能上的太紧。
Have but few frieds,though many acquaintances.
结交可以多，朋友应宜少。
All are not friends that speak us fair.
向我们说好话的并不都是好朋友。
He that hath a full purse never wanted a friend.
金钱满袋，朋友盈门；钱袋装得饱，朋友不会少。
A friend in court is better than a penny in purse.
朝中有友，胜如囊中有钱。
It is good to have some friends both in heaven and hell.
天堂上和地狱中都有几个朋友，这乃是一件好事。
We shall never have friends if we expect to find them without
fault.
指望朋友无缺点，永远休想交朋友。
A friend without faults will never be found.
没有缺点的朋友永不可得。
A man without a friend is only half a man.
无友的人只能算半个人。
A friend is not so soon gotten as lost.
失友快，交友慢。
Friendship cannot stand always on one side.
友谊不能总是在一方。
Old acquaintance will soon be remembered.
故人一见便相亲。
He is a good friend that speaks well of us behind our backs.
背后称我好，才算好朋友。
Friends (the best of friends) must part.
好友终有分手时。
A friend is best found in adversity.
患难见真交。
I will be thy friend,but not thy vices' friend.
我愿意做你的朋友，但不做你那些恶习的朋友。
False friends are worse than open enemies.
假朋友比真敌人更坏。
Short acquaintance brings repentance.
浅交致后悔。
He that lies down (sleeps) with dogs must rise up with fleas.
与恶人交终会变恶；近朱者赤，近墨者黑。
Better be alone than in bad company.
交损友不如无友。
Write down the advice of him who loves you,though you like it
not at present.
爱你的人的忠告，即使你当时并不喜欢，也得把它记下。
Hunger knows no friend.
饥饿不认朋友。
Misery makes strange bedfellows.
难中不择友。
One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
一个敌人为害，胜过十个朋友行好。
An enemy's mouth seldom speaks well.
敌人嘴里无好话。
Believe no tales from the enemy.
敌人之言不可信。
One enemy is too much.
一个敌人已太多。
Mickle power makes many enemies.
权高树敌多。
Do not despise your enemy.
不可轻敌。
Though thy enemy seem a mouse,yet watch him like a lion.
敌人即使小如鼠，防他也要如防狮。
If we are bound to forgive an enemy,we are not bound to trust
him.
即便我们决心宽恕敌人，也决不能相信敌人。
He that dallies with enemy gives him leave to kill him.
把敌人看儿戏，无异于准许敌人杀害自己。
In an enemy spots are soon seen.
敌人身上求疵易。

英汉互译中的谚语巧合（1）俚语和谚语是英语学习中的一大绊脚石。我们不明白这些俗语的含义，是因为我们和英语国家的文化背景不同。如果能在汉语中为这些俗语找到对应的说法，问题就解决了。我们向你介绍一些英汉合璧的俚语和谚语，帮助你的英语学习更上一层楼。
1.After meat, mustard; after death, doctor .
雨后送伞
Explanation: this describes a situation where
assistance or comfort
is given when it is too late.
Example: just as I had cancelled my application to
go abroad, I had
a promise of money for my fare. It was a case of
fter death, the
doctor.
2. After praising the wine they sell us vinegar.
挂羊头卖狗肉
Explanation: to offer to give or sell something
that is inferior to
what you claim it to be.
Example: that fellow completely misled us about
what he was capable
of doing. After praising the wine, he sold us
vinegar.
3. All is over but the shouting.
大势已去
Explanation: finally decided or won; brought to
the end; not able to
be changed.
Example: after Bill’s touch down, the game is all
over but shouting.
4. All lay load on the willing horse.
人善被人欺，马善被人骑
Explanation: a willing horse is someone who is
always doing things
for others. Very often the implication is that
others impose on him.
Examples: the trouble is you're too good-natured
and people take
advantage of it. all lay load on the willing
horse. You will have to
learn to refuse people who ask too much.
5.anger and haste hinder good counsel.
小不忍则乱大谋
Explanation: one can not act wisely when one is
angry or in a hurry.
Example: you should calm down before you decide
the next move. Anger
and haste hinder good counsel.
6. As poor as a church mouse
一贫如洗
Explanation: to be exceedingly poor, having barely
to live upon.
Example: he has a large family, and is poor as a
church mouse.
Note: a church is one of the few buildings that
contain no food.
7. A word spoken is past recalling.
一言既出，驷马难追
Explanation: the harm done by a careless word can
not easily undo.
Example: for the rest of his life he regretted
what he had said, but
a word spoken is past recalling and he knew he
could never repair
the damage of that moment of harshness.
NOW, TRY YOUR HAND ON THE
FOLLOWING:（根据解释，试试翻译下面的谚语）
Love is blind.
beauty is a matter of individual taste and
judgement. This is often
used of a person whose judgement is affected by
love or infatuation.
Better to die in glory than live in dishonor.
if one has the choice between living in shame and
degradation and
dying in glory, it is better to die.
Birds of a feather flock together.
people who are alike often become friend or are
together: if you are
often with certain people, you may be their
friends or like them.
Blood, toil, tears and sweat.
said of a person bending oneself to a task and
exerting all efforts
in the performance of one duty.
Calamity is man true touchstone.
the most telling test of a man ability and worth
comes when he has
to face great difficulties.
Clean conscience laughs at false accusation.
a person who knows he has done no wrong is morally
stronger than
those who falsely accuse him are.
Cry over spilt milk.
to cry or complain about something that has
already happened

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