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 英语格言(English
Proverbs)
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A cat has nine lives. 猫有九条命。(英国迷信,
指猫的生命力强)
A cat in gloves catches no mice. (=Muffled cats catch no mice.) 带手套的猫捉不到耗子;
四肢不勤, 一事无成; 怕沾污手指的人做不出什么事。
A cat may look at a king. 猫也可以看国王(指小人物也应有些权利)
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link.
A fool and his money are soon parted.
A fool may give a wise man counsel
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
A good dog deserves a good bone. 好狗应该啃好骨头, 有功者受赏。
A handful of common sense is worth a bushel of learning.少量的常识，当得大量的学问。
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.浅学误人。
A living dog is better than a dead lion. 死狮不如活狗。
A man is known by his friends.
A man is known by the company he keeps.
A man's home is his castle.
A rolling stone gathers no moss.
A sheep among wolves 落入狼群; 落在一群恶汉手中的善良人
A staff 【 stick 】 is quickly 【 soon 】 found to beat a dog with. 欲加之罪,
何患无辞。
A stitch in time saves nine.
A wolf in sheep's clothing 披着羊皮的狼, 口蜜腹剑的人
A woman's place is in the home.
A woman's work is never done.
A word spoken is past recalling.
A work ill done must be twice done.首次做不好，必须重新搞。
A burnt child dreads the fire. 一朝被蛇咬，十年怕井绳。
A willing helper does not wait until he is asked. 于助人者总是主动帮助别人。
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
Action is the proper fruit of knowledge.行动是知识之佳果。
Actions speak louder than words.
Affairs that are done by due degrees are soon ended.按部就班，事情很快就做完。
After a storm comes a calm.
After praising the wine they sell us vinegar.
Agree like cats and dogs 【 口 】 像猫和狗一样合不来, 完全合不来
All cats are grey in the dark. (=At night all cats are grey; when
candles are out, all cats are grey.) 猫在暗中都是灰色; 黑暗中难分丑妍
All good things must come to an end.
All is fair in love and war.
All is over but the shouting.
All lay load on the willing horse.
All roads lead to Rome.
All that glitters is not gold.
All the world loves a lover.
All time is no time when it is past.光阴一去不复返。
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.只工作，不玩耍，聪明小孩也变傻。
All roads lead to Rome.条条大路通罗马。
All's well that ends well.
Among the blind the oneeyed man is the king.山中无老虎猴子称大王。
An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
An army of sheep led by a lion would defeat an army of lions led by
a sheep.
An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.
An idle brain is the devil's workshop.懒汉的头脑是魔鬼的工厂。
An idle youth,a needy age.少壮不努力，老大徒伤悲。
An old dog barks not in vain. 老狗不乱吠; 老狗 一吠, 就得小心。
An old dog will learn no new tricks. (=You cannot teach old dogs new
tricks.) 老狗学不了新把戏; 老年人很难适应新事物。
Anger and haste hinder good counsel.
Appearances are deceptive.
April showers brings may flowers.
Art is long, life is short.
As 【 like 】 a dog with two tails 非常开心【 高兴 】
As a sheep among the shearers 仿佛落在剪羊毛工人手里的绵羊
As poor as a church mouse
As weak as a cat (=as weak as water) 身体非常虚弱
As well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamb 偷大羊或偷小羊反正都得挨绞刑; 一不做二不休
As you make your bed, so must you lie in it.
As you sow, so shall you reap.
As you have made the bed, you must lie on it.自作自受。
Ask no questions and hear no lies.
At the eleventh hour在最后时刻表（误：在十一点钟）
Bad news travels fast.
Barking dogs seldom bite. 爱叫的狗 不咬人; 咬人的狗不露齿。
Barking dogs seldom bite. 爱叫的狗不咬人。
Be (old) dog at (a thing) 对...有经验; 对...很内行
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Beauty is only skin-deep.
Beggars can't be choosers.
Better be safe than sorry.
Better die with honor than live with shame.
Better late than never.迟做总比不做好。
Better master one than engage with ten.会十事，不如精一事。
Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know.
Better to be alone than in bad company.
Better to die in glory than live in dishonor.
Beware of a silent dog and still water. 提防不吠的狗, 小心 静止的水。
Birds of a feather flock together.
Blood is thicker than water.
Blood, toil, tears and sweat.
Boys will be boys.
Bring down the house博得满堂喝彩，引起哄堂大笑（误：把房子弄塌?br>
Business before pleasure.事业在先，享乐在后。
Business is business.公事公办。
Business is the salt of life.事业是生命之盐。
Business makes a man as well as tries him.事业可以考验人，也可以造就人。
Business may be troublesome,but idleness is pernicious.事业虽扰人，懒惰害更大。
Business neglected is business lost.忽视职业便是放弃职业。
Calamity is man true touchstone.
Call somebody names辱骂某人（误：喊某人的名字）
Care and diligence bring luck.谨慎和勤奋带来好运。
Catch as catch can.
Charity begins at home.
Christmas comes but once a year.圣诞一年只一度。
Clean conscience laughs at false accusation.
Come like a dog at a whistle 一呼即来
Crime does not pay.
Cry over spilt milk.
Curiosity killed the cat.
Dead men have no friends.
Dead men tell no tales.
Death is the great leveler.
Deliberate slowly,execute promptly.慢慢酌量，快快行动。
Dexterity comes by experience.熟练来自经验。
Diamond cut diamond.
Diligence is the mother of success.勤奋是成功之母。
Diligence is the mother of good fortune.勤勉是好运之母。
Discretion is the better part of valor.
Divide and rule.
Do as I say, and not as I do.
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。
Do business,but be not a slave to it.要做事，但不要做事务的奴隶。
Do not wear out your welcome.
Do unto others as you would like them to do unto you.
Doing everything is doing nothing. 样样都做等于不做。
Don't count your chickens before they are hatched.
Don't cut off your nose to spite your face.
Don't go near the water until you learn how to swim.
Don't meet trouble half-way.
Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
Don't ride the high horse.
Don't wash your dirty linen in public.
Doubt is the key of knowledge.怀疑是知识之钥。
Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.早睡早起，使人健康、富裕和聪颖。
Easier said than done.
East or west, home is best. 出门五里，不如家里。
Easy come, easy go.来得容易去得快。
Eat no fish做忠实可靠的人（误：不吃鱼）
Enough to make a cat 【 horse 】 laugh 极其可笑; 让人笑掉大牙
Enough to make a cat speak 【 口 】 令人惊讶; 事情太出奇
Entertain an angel unawares.
Every bird loves to hear himself sing.
Every dog has his day. 凡人皆有得意日。
Every dog is a lion at home. 【 Every dog is valiant at his own door.
】 狗是百步王, 只在门前凶。
Every family has a skeleton in the cupboard.
Every man has his faults.
Every man has his price.
Every man is his own worst enemy.
Every picture tells a story.
Every potter praises his own pot.
Every tide hath its ebb.潮涨必有潮落时。
Everybody's business is nobodys business. 三个和尚没水吃
Everyone to his taste.
Everything has its time and that time must be watched.万物皆有时，时来不可失。
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。
Experience is the mother of wisdom.
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。
Failure teaches success.
Faith will move mountains. 精诚所至，金石为开。
Familiarity breeds contempt.
Fast Barking dogs seldom bite.
Fat cat 美国政治运动的出资人, 捐献大宗政治款项的富人; 安于现状的懒汉; 以权谋私的人, 享受特权的人
Fear is stronger than love.
Fear of death is worse than death itself.
Fight dog, fight bear. 打个青红皂白, 一决雌雄。
Fight fire with fire.
Finders keepers, losers weepers.
Fine feathers make fine birds.
Finished labours are pleasant.完成工作是一乐。
Fire is a good servant but a bad master. 火是忠实的朋友，却是残酷的主人。
First come, first served.
First things first.
First think, and then speak.
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Friend in need is a friend indeed. 患难见真情。
Garbage in, garbage out.
Give a dog a bad 【 an ill 】 name(and hang him). 一旦给人加一个坏名声, 他就永远洗刷不掉;
人言可畏。
Give credit where credit is due.
Give him an inch and he'll take a yard.
Give the devil his due.
Give him an inch and he will take an ell（a yard）. 得寸进尺。
God helps them that help themselves.
Good fences make good neighbors.
Goodness is better than beauty.
Grasp all, lose all.
Great minds think alike.英雄所见略同。
Happiness takes no account of time.欢娱不惜时光逝。
Has the cat got your tongue? 【 口 】 猫把你的舌头叼去了吗?为什么不吭声?
Haste makes waste.
Have you somewhat to do tomorrow, do it today.明天如有事，今天就去做。
He is a lucky dog. 他是个幸运儿。
He is the best general who makes the fewest mistakes.
He laughs best who laughs last.
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。
He that is master of himself, will soon be master of others.
He that knows nothing, doubts nothing.
He that plants a tree plants for posterity.
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。
He that will not work shall not eat.不工作者不得食。
He who hesitates is lost.
He who does not advance loses ground. 不进则退。
He who does not reach the Great Wall is not a true man. 不到长城非好汉。
He who laughs last, laughs best. 谁笑到最后谁笑得最好。
He who rides on a tiger can never dismount. 骑虎难下。
Health is not valued till sickness comes. 有病方知无病福。
Honesty is the best policy.
Idle people (folks) have the most labour (take the most pains).懒人做工作，越懒越费力。
Idleness is the key of beggary.懒惰出乞丐。
Idleness is the root of all evil.懒惰乃万恶之源。
If a job's worth doing, it's worth doing well.
If you want knowledge,you must toil for it.若要求知识，须从勤苦得。
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。
Ignorance is bliss.
Ignorance of the law excuses no man.
Ill news travels fast.恶事传千里。
In for a penny,in for a pound.做事一开头，就要做到底；一不做，二不休。
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。
It is good to learn at another man's cost.前车可鉴。
It is ill to waken sleeping dogs. 【 let sleeping dogs lie; don't wake
a sleeping dog. 】 别多事, 别惹麻烦。
It is in to be on the safe side.
It is lost labour to sow where there is no soil.没有土壤，播种也是徒劳。
It is no use crying best spilt milk.
It is not work that kills,but worry.工作不会伤身，伤身乃是忧虑。
It is right to put everything in its proper use.凡事都应用得其所。
It never rains, but it pours.
It rains cats and dogs. 下倾盆大雨, 大雨滂沱
It takes two to tango.
It is no good crying over the spilt milk. 覆水难收。
It takes two to make a quarrel.一只碗不响。
Jack of all trades, master of none.
Keep your mouth shut and your ears open.
Kill two birds with one stone.一箭双雕。
Knowledge advances by steps and not by leaps.知识只能循序渐进，不能跃进。
Knowledge is power.知识就是力量。
Laughter is the best medicine.
Lead a dog's life 过着牛马不如的生活
Lead a dog's life 过穷困潦倒的日子
Learn wisdom by the follies of others.从旁人的愚行中学到聪明。
Let bygones be bygones.
Let sleeping dogs lie.
Let the buyer beware.
Let the cat out of the bag 说走了嘴, (无意中)泄露秘密
Let the dead bury their dead.
Let sleeping dog lie. 不要惹是生非。
Let's call a spade a spade.直言不讳。
Life is just a bowl of cherries.
Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.
Like a cat on hot bricks 局促不安, 如热锅上的蚂蚁
Like father, like son.
Like mother, like daughter.
Live and learn.
Live like cat and dog 【 口 】 整天吵架
Live a cat and dog life（夫妻）过着不和谐的生活（误：过着猫和狗一般的生活）
Living without an aim is liking sailing without a compass. 生活没有目标等于航行没有指南针。
Look after number one.
Look on the bright side.
Look before you leap.三思而后行。
Lookers-on see most of the game. 旁观者清。
Love conquers all.
Love is blind.
Love makes the world go round.
Love me, love my dog. 你若把我当朋友, 也要把我的朋友当朋友; 爱屋及乌。
Love sees no faults.
Love will find a way.
Love me, love my dog.爱屋及乌
Make hay while the sun shines.晒草要趁太阳好。
Man cannot live by bread alone.
Many hands make light work.众擎易举。
Many hands make quick work.人多干活快。
Many a little makes a mickle.积少成多。
Many hands makes light work. 人多好办事。
Marriages are made in heaven.
May As soon as man is born he begins to die.
Might is right.
Mind your own business.
Money is the root of all evil.
Money isn't everything.
More haste, less speed.欲速则不达。
Move heaven and earth想尽一切办法；竭尽全力（误：翻天覆地）
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Never deter till tomorrow that which you can do today.今日事须今日毕，切勿拖延到明天。
Never do things by halves.做事不要半途而废。
Never judge from appearances.
Never look a gift horse in the mouth.
Never mix your liquor.
Never say die.
Never speak ill of the dead.
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。
Never too late to repent.
Never too late to mend. 亡羊补牢未为晚也。
No Bad news travels fast.
No man can serve two masters.
No man is indispensable.
No news is good news.
No one can call back yesterday; Yesterday will not be called again.
昨日不复来。
No pain, no gain.
No root,no fruit.无根就无果。
No one is wise at all time. 智者千虑，必有一失。
Not have a dog's chance 毫无机会
Nothing is certain but death and taxes.
Nothing succeeds like success.
Nothing ventured, thing gained.
Nothing in the world is difficult if you set your mind to it. 世上无难事，只怕有心人。
Old habits die hard.
Old soldiers never die, they simply fade away.
Once Cleanliness is next to godliness.
One good turn deserves another.
One man's loss is another man's gain.
One scabbed sheep infects the whole flock. 一只羊生疮整群羊遭殃。
One today is worth two tomorrows.一个今天胜似两个明天。
One's life is limited, but learning is endless. 生命有限，学海无涯。
Opportunity seldom knocks twice.
Out of sight, out of mind.眼不见，心不烦。
Patience is a virtue.
Penny wise, pound foolish.
Pleasant hours fly past.快乐时光去如飞。
Practice makes perfect.熟能生巧。
Practice what you preach.
Prepare for a rainy day.未雨绸缪。
Prevention is better than cure.
Procrastination is the thief of time.因循拖延是时间的大敌；拖延就是浪费时间。
Pull somebody's leg戏弄某人；开某人的玩笑（误：拖某人的后腿）
Pull up one's socks振作起来；鼓起勇气（误：提起袜子）
Punctuality is the soul of business.守时为立业之要素。
Put your shoulder to the wheel.努力工作。
Rain, rain, go away, come again another day.
Rats desert a sinking ship.
Reading makes a full man and writing an exact man. 读书使人充实，写作使人严谨。
Return to one's sheep 【 muttons 】 回到本题
Revenge is sweet.
Robbing Peter to pay Paul.
Saving is getting. 节省就是获得。
Saying is one thing, doing another. 说是一回事，做是另一回事。
Scornful【 Hungry 】 dogs will eat dirty puddings. 人到危急时, 平时所不屑做的也要做;
急不暇择, 饥不择食。
Scratch my back and I'll scratch yours.
See 【 watch 】 how 【 which way 】 the cat jumps (=wait for the cat to
jump) 观望形势然后行动; 看风使舵, 随机应变
See Naples and die.不到黄河心不死。
Seeing is believing.百闻不如一见。
Send somebody to the chair把某人判死刑；送…电椅（误：把某人送到椅子上）
Separate the sheep from the goats 区别好人和坏人
Sheep and goats 善人与恶人(来自《圣经》)
Sheep that have no shepherd 乌合之众
Silence is golden.
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。
Something is better than nothing.
Spare the rod and spoil the child.
Speak when you are spoken to.
Speaking without think is shooting without aiming. 说话不假思索，等于无的放矢。
Speech is the picture of the mind. 言为心声。
Still waters run deep.
Strike while the iron is hot.趁热打铁。
Sweet things are bad for the teeth.
Take time when time cometh,lest time steal away.时来必须要趁时，不然时去无声息。
Tall trees catch much wind.树大招风。
Teach an old dog new tricks 使守旧的人接受新事物
Teach the dog to bark 教狗怎么叫(意指多此一举)
Teaching others teaches yourself.教学相长。
That's like putting the cat near the goldfish bowl. 引狼入室; 等于把猫放在金鱼缸旁。
The bait hides the hook.
The best fish swim near the bottom.
The best go first.
The best of friends must part.
The best things in life are free.
The bigger they are, the harder they fall.
The burnt child dreads the fire.
The cat did it. 【 口谑 】 是猫打破的; 不是我搞的。(推托责任的话)
The cat is out of the bag. 【 口 】 秘密泄露; 真相大白。
The cat shuts its eyes when stealing cream. 掩耳盗铃; 猫偷吃奶油的时候, 总是闭着眼睛。
The cat would eat fish and would not wet her feet. 猫儿想吃鱼, 又怕湿了脚(想吃鱼又怕腥;
想得到某种东西又怕麻烦或担风险)。
The day is short but the work is much.工作多，光阴迫。
The dog returns to his vomit. 狗回头吃自己吐出来的东西; 重犯旧日罪恶。
The early bird catches the worm.
The end justifies the means.
The female of the species is more deadly than the male.
The first step is the hardest.
The grapes are sour.
The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.
The last straw breaks the camel's back.
The more one knows, the less one believes.
The more you get, the more you want.
The morning sun never lasts a day.好景不常；朝阳不能光照全日。
The pot calls the kettle black.
The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
The scalded cat fears cold water. 被烫过的猫, 连冷水也怕(一朝被蛇咬, 三年怕井绳)
The secret of wealth lieth in the letters SAVE.节俭是致富的秘诀。
The sheep has no choice when in the jaws of the wolf.
The shortest answer is doing the thing.最简短的回答就是一个"干"字。
The early bird catches the worm.笨鸟先飞。
The kettle and the pot.一丘之貉。
The leopard cannot change its spots. 本性难移。
The water that bears boat is the same that swallows it up.水能载舟，亦能覆舟。
There are only twenty-four hours in a day.
There are two sides to every question.
There is a black sheep in every flock.到处都有害群之马。
There is a time and a place for everything.
There is more than one way to skin a cat.
There is no honor among thieves.
There is safety in numbers.
There is no smoke without fire. 无风不起浪。
There's a black sheep in every flock.
There's no fool like an old fool.
There's no place like home.
There's no smoke without fire.
There's one law for the rich, and another for the poor.
They that dance must pay the fiddler.
They who cannot do as they would,must do as they can.不能如愿而行，也须尽力而为。
Things are not always what they seem.
Think a great deal of oneself过高地估计自己（误：为自己想得多）
Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones.
Time and tide wait for no man.岁月无情；岁月易逝；岁月不待人。
Time cures all things.
Time flies.时光易逝。
Time is a great healer.
Time is money.一寸光阴一寸金。
Time past cannot be called back again.光阴一去不复返。
Time tames the strongest grief.时间能缓和极度的悲痛。
Time tries all.时间检验一切。
Time tries truth.时间检验真理。
Time and tide wait for no man.时光不等人。
Time flies like an arrow.光阴似箭。
To err is human.
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。
Tomorrow comes never.切莫依赖明天。
Tomorrow is another day.
Too many cooks spoil the broth （soup）. 厨师多了难烧汤。
Top dog 当权派；头儿
Treat sb. Like a dog 不把某人当人看
True love ever grows old.
Trust is the mother of deceit.
Turn the other cheek.
Two heads are better than one.
Two is company, three is a crowd.
Two wrongs do not make a right.
Two heads are better than one.三个臭皮匠顶个诸葛亮。
United we stand, divided we fall.
Variety is the spice of life.
Virtue is its own reward.
Walls have ears.隔墙有耳。
Waste not, want not.
Watch sb. As a cat watches a mouse. 象猫盯耗子般地盯着某人。
What are the odds so long as you are happy.
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。
What you don't know can't hurt you.
What you lose on the swings you get back on the roundabouts.
Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.凡是值得做的事，就值得做好。
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。
When in doubt, do nothing.
When in Rome, do as the Romans do.
When the cat's away, the mice will play. 猫儿不在,老鼠成精(大王外出, 小鬼跳粱)。
Where there is no trust there is no love.
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。
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。
Wisdom is better than gold or silver.知识胜过金银，
Wisdom is more to be envied than riches.知识可羡，胜于财富。
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。
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。
Without a shepherd, sheep are not a flock.
Work bears witness who does well.工作能证明谁做的好。
Work makes the workman.勤工出巧匠。
Work today,for you know not how much you may be hindered tomorrow.今朝有事今朝做，明朝可能阻碍多。
World is but a little place, after all.
You cannot have it both ways.
You cannot have your cake and eat it.
You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs.
You can't please everyone.
You can't take it with you when you die.
You can't tell a book by its cover.
You can't win them all.
You don't get something for nothing.
You win some, you lose some.
A cat has nine lives. 猫有九条命。(英国迷信, 指猫的生命力强)
A cat in gloves catches no mice. (=Muffled cats catch no mice.) 带手套的猫捉不到耗子;
四肢不勤, 一事无成; 怕沾污手指的人做不出什么事。
A cat may look at a king. 猫也可以看国王(指小人物也应有些权利)
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link.
A fool and his money are soon parted.
A fool may give a wise man counsel
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
A good dog deserves a good bone. 好狗应该啃好骨头, 有功者受赏。
A handful of common sense is worth a bushel of learning.少量的常识，当得大量的学问。
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.浅学误人。
A living dog is better than a dead lion. 死狮不如活狗。
A man is known by his friends.
A man is known by the company he keeps.
A man's home is his castle.
A rolling stone gathers no moss.
A sheep among wolves 落入狼群; 落在一群恶汉手中的善良人
A staff [stick] is quickly [soon] found to beat a dog with. 欲加之罪,
何患无辞。
A stitch in time saves nine.
A wolf in sheep's clothing 披着羊皮的狼, 口蜜腹剑的人
A woman's place is in the home.
A woman's work is never done.
A word spoken is past recalling.
A work ill done must be twice done.首次做不好，必须重新搞。
A burnt child dreads the fire. 一朝被蛇咬，十年怕井绳。
A willing helper does not wait until he is asked. 于助人者总是主动帮助别人。
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
Action is the proper fruit of knowledge. 行动是知识之佳果。
Actions speak louder than words.
Affairs that are done by due degrees are soon ended.按部就班，事情很快就做完。
After a storm comes a calm.
After praising the wine they sell us vinegar.
Agree like cats and dogs [口]像猫和狗一样合不来, 完全合不来
All cats are grey in the dark. (=At night all cats are grey; when
candles are out, all cats are grey.) 猫在暗中都是灰色; 黑暗中难分丑妍
All good things must come to an end.
All is fair in love and war.
All is over but the shouting.
All lay load on the willing horse.
All roads lead to Rome.
All that glitters is not gold.
All the world loves a lover.
All time is no time when it is past.光阴一去不复返。
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.只工作，不玩耍，聪明小孩也变傻。
All roads lead to Rome.条条大路通罗马。
All's well that ends well.
Among the blind the one eyed man is the king. 山中无老虎猴子称大王。
An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
An army of sheep led by a lion would defeat an army of lions led by
a sheep.
An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.
An idle brain is the devil's workshop.懒汉的头脑是魔鬼的工厂。
An idle youth,a needy age.少壮不努力，老大徒伤悲。
An old dog barks not in vain. 老狗不乱吠; 老狗 一吠, 就得小心。
An old dog will learn no new tricks. (=You cannot teach old dogs new
tricks.) 老狗学不了新把戏; 老年人很难适应新事物。
Anger and haste hinder good counsel.
Appearances are deceptive.
April showers brings may flowers.
Art is long, life is short.
As [like] a dog with two tails 非常开心[高兴]
As a sheep among the shearers 仿佛落在剪羊毛工人手里的绵羊
As poor as a church mouse
As weak as a cat (=as weak as water) 身体非常虚弱
As well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamb 偷大羊或偷小羊反正都得挨绞刑; 一不做二不休
As you make your bed, so must you lie in it.
As you sow, so shall you reap.
As you have made the bed, you must lie on it.自作自受。
Ask no questions and hear no lies.
At the eleventh hour在最后时刻表（误：在十一点钟）
Bad news travels fast.
Barking dogs seldom bite. 爱叫的狗 不咬人; 咬人的狗不露齿。
Barking dogs seldom bite. 爱叫的狗不咬人。
Be (old) dog at (a thing) 对...有经验; 对...很内行
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Beauty is only skin-deep.
Beggars can't be choosers.
Better be safe than sorry.
Better die with honor than live with shame.
Better late than never.迟做总比不做好。
Better master one than engage with ten.会十事，不如精一事。
Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know.
Better to be alone than in bad company.
Better to die in glory than live in dishonor.
Beware of a silent dog and still water. 提防不吠的狗, 小心 静止的水。
Birds of a feather flock together.
Blood is thicker than water.
Blood, toil, tears and sweat.
Boys will be boys.
Bring down the house博得满堂喝彩，引起哄堂大笑（误：把房子弄塌?br> Business before pleasure.事业在先，享乐在后。
Business is business.公事公办。
Business is the salt of life.事业是生命之盐。
Business makes a man as well as tries him.事业可以考验人，也可以造就人。
Business may be troublesome,but idleness is pernicious.事业虽扰人，懒惰害更大。
Business neglected is business lost.忽视职业便是放弃职业。
Calamity is man true touchstone.
Call somebody names辱骂某人（误：喊某人的名字）
Care and diligence bring luck.谨慎和勤奋带来好运。
Catch as catch can.
Charity begins at home.
Christmas comes but once a year.圣诞一年只一度。
Clean conscience laughs at false accusation.
Come like a dog at a whistle 一呼即来
Crime does not pay.
Cry over spilt milk.
Curiosity killed the cat.
Dead men have no friends.
Dead men tell no tales.
Death is the great leveler.
Deliberate slowly,execute promptly.慢慢酌量，快快行动。
Dexterity comes by experience.熟练来自经验。
Diamond cut diamond.
Diligence is the mother of success.勤奋是成功之母。
Diligence is the mother of good fortune.勤勉是好运之母。
Discretion is the better part of valor.
Divide and rule.
Do as I say, and not as I do.
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。
Do business,but be not a slave to it.要做事，但不要做事务的奴隶。
Do not wear out your welcome.
Do unto others as you would like them to do unto you.
Doing everything is doing nothing. 样样都做等于不做。
Don't count your chickens before they are hatched.
Don't cut off your nose to spite your face.
Don't go near the water until you learn how to swim.
Don't meet trouble half-way.
Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
Don't ride the high horse.
Don't wash your dirty linen in public.
Doubt is the key of knowledge.怀疑是知识之钥。
Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.早睡早起，使人健康、富裕和聪颖。
Easier said than done.
East or west, home is best. 出门五里，不如家里。
Easy come, easy go.来得容易去得快。
Eat no fish做忠实可靠的人（误：不吃鱼）
Enough to make a cat [horse] laugh 极其可笑; 让人笑掉大牙
Enough to make a cat speak [口]令人惊讶; 事情太出奇
Entertain an angel unawares.
Every bird loves to hear himself sing.
Every dog has his day. 凡人皆有得意日。
Every dog is a lion at home. [Every dog is valiant at his own door.]
狗是百步王, 只在门前凶。
Every family has a skeleton in the cupboard.
Every man has his faults.
Every man has his price.
Every man is his own worst enemy.
Every picture tells a story.
Every potter praises his own pot.
Every tide hath its ebb.潮涨必有潮落时。
Everybody's business is nobody's business. 三个和尚没水吃
Everyone to his taste.
Everything has its time and that time must be watched. 万物皆有时，时来不可失。
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。
Experience is the mother of wisdom.
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。
Failure teaches success.
Faith will move mountains. 精诚所至，金石为开。
Familiarity breeds contempt.
Fast Barking dogs seldom bite.
Fat cat 美国政治运动的出资人, 捐献大宗政治款项的富人; 安于现状的懒汉; 以权谋私的人, 享受特权的人
Fear is stronger than love.
Fear of death is worse than death itself.
Fight dog, fight bear. 打个青红皂白, 一决雌雄。
Fight fire with fire.
Finders keepers, losers weepers.
Fine feathers make fine birds.
Finished labours are pleasant.完成工作是一乐。
Fire is a good servant but a bad master. 火是忠实的朋友，却是残酷的主人。
First come, first served.
First things first.
First think, and then speak.
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Friend in need is a friend indeed. 患难见真情。
Garbage in, garbage out.
Give a dog a bad [an ill] name(and hang him). 一旦给人加一个坏名声, 他就永远洗刷不掉;
人言可畏。
Give credit where credit is due.
Give him an inch and he'll take a yard.
Give the devil his due.
Give him an inch and he will take an ell（a yard）. 得寸进尺。
God helps them that help themselves.
Good fences make good neighbors.
Goodness is better than beauty.
Grasp all, lose all.
Great minds think alike.英雄所见略同。
Happiness takes no account of time.欢娱不惜时光逝。
Has the cat got your tongue? [口]猫把你的舌头叼去了吗?为什么不吭声?
Haste makes waste.
Have you somewhat to do tomorrow, do it today.明天如有事，今天就去做。
He is a lucky dog. 他是个幸运儿。
He is the best general who makes the fewest mistakes.
He laughs best who laughs last.
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。
He that is master of himself, will soon be master of others.
He that knows nothing, doubts nothing.
He that plants a tree plants for posterity.
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。
He that will not work shall not eat.不工作者不得食。
He who hesitates is lost.
He who does not advance loses ground. 不进则退。
He who does not reach the Great Wall is not a true man. 不到长城非好汉。
He who laughs last, laughs best. 谁笑到最后谁笑得最好。
He who rides on a tiger can never dismount. 骑虎难下。
Health is not valued till sickness comes. 有病方知无病福。
Honesty is the best policy.
Idle people (folks) have the most labour (take the most pains).懒人做工作，越懒越费力。
Idleness is the key of beggary.懒惰出乞丐。
Idleness is the root of all evil.懒惰乃万恶之源。
If a job's worth doing, it's worth doing well.
If you want knowledge,you must toil for it.若要求知识，须从勤苦得。
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。
Ignorance is bliss.
Ignorance of the law excuses no man.
Ill news travels fast.恶事传千里。
In for a penny,in for a pound.做事一开头，就要做到底；一不做，二不休。
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。
It is good to learn at another man's cost.前车可鉴。
It is ill to waken sleeping dogs. [let sleeping dogs lie; don't wake
a sleeping dog.] 别多事, 别惹麻烦。
It is in to be on the safe side.
It is lost labour to sow where there is no soil.没有土壤，播种也是徒劳。
It is no use crying best spilt milk.
It is not work that kills,but worry.工作不会伤身，伤身乃是忧虑。
It is right to put everything in its proper use.凡事都应用得其所。
It never rains, but it pours.
It rains cats and dogs. 下倾盆大雨, 大雨滂沱
It takes two to tango.
It is no good crying over the spilt milk. 覆水难收。
It takes two to make a quarrel.一只碗不响。
Jack of all trades, master of none.
Keep your mouth shut and your ears open.
Kill two birds with one stone.一箭双雕。
Knowledge advances by steps and not by leaps.知识只能循序渐进，不能跃进。
Knowledge is power.知识就是力量。
Laughter is the best medicine.
Lead a dog's life 过着牛马不如的生活
Lead a dog's life 过穷困潦倒的日子
Learn wisdom by the follies of others. 从旁人的愚行中学到聪明。
Let bygones be bygones.
Let sleeping dogs lie.
Let the buyer beware.
Let the cat out of the bag 说走了嘴, (无意中)泄露秘密
Let the dead bury their dead.
Let sleeping dog lie. 不要惹是生非。
Let's call a spade a spade.直言不讳。
Life is just a bowl of cherries.
Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.
Like a cat on hot bricks 局促不安, 如热锅上的蚂蚁
Like father, like son.
Like mother, like daughter.
Live and learn.
Live like cat and dog [口]整天吵架
Live a cat and dog life（夫妻）过着不和谐的生活（误：过着猫和狗一般的生活）
Living without an aim is liking sailing without a compass. 生活没有目标等于航行没有指南针。
Look after number one.
Look on the bright side.
Look before you leap.三思而后行。
Lookers-on see most of the game. 旁观者清。
Love conquers all.
Love is blind.
Love makes the world go round.
Love me, love my dog. 你若把我当朋友, 也要把我的朋友当朋友; 爱屋及乌。
Love sees no faults.
Love will find a way.
Love me, love my dog.爱屋及乌
Make hay while the sun shines.晒草要趁太阳好。
Man cannot live by bread alone.
Many hands make light work.众擎易举。
Many hands make quick work.人多干活快。
Many a little makes a mickle.积少成多。
Many hands makes light work. 人多好办事。
Marriages are made in heaven.
May As soon as man is born he begins to die.
Might is right.
Mind your own business.
Money is the root of all evil.
Money isn't everything.
More haste, less speed.欲速则不达。
Move heaven and earth想尽一切办法；竭尽全力（误：翻天覆地）
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Never deter till tomorrow that which you can do today.今日事须今日毕，切勿拖延到明天。
Never do things by halves.做事不要半途而废。
Never judge from appearances.
Never look a gift horse in the mouth.
Never mix your liquor.
Never say die.
Never speak ill of the dead.
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。
Never too late to repent.
Never too late to mend. 亡羊补牢未为晚也。
No Bad news travels fast.
No man can serve two masters.
No man is indispensable.
No news is good news.
No one can call back yesterday; Yesterday will not be called again.
昨日不复来。
No pain, no gain.
No root,no fruit.无根就无果。
No one is wise at all time. 智者千虑，必有一失。
Not have a dog's chance 毫无机会
Nothing is certain but death and taxes.
Nothing succeeds like success.
Nothing ventured, thing gained.
Nothing in the world is difficult if you set your mind to it. 世上无难事，只怕有心人。
Old habits die hard.
Old soldiers never die, they simply fade away.
Once Cleanliness is next to godliness.
One good turn deserves another.
One man's loss is another man's gain.
One scabbed sheep infects the whole flock. 一只羊生疮整群羊遭殃。
One today is worth two tomorrows.一个今天胜似两个明天。
One's life is limited, but learning is endless. 生命有限，学海无涯。
Opportunity seldom knocks twice.
Out of sight, out of mind.眼不见，心不烦。
Patience is a virtue.
Penny wise, pound foolish.
Pleasant hours fly past.快乐时光去如飞。
Practice makes perfect.熟能生巧。
Practice what you preach.
Prepare for a rainy day.未雨绸缪。
Prevention is better than cure.
Procrastination is the thief of time.因循拖延是时间的大敌；拖延就是浪费时间。
Pull somebody's leg戏弄某人；开某人的玩笑（误：拖某人的后腿）
Pull up one's socks振作起来；鼓起勇气（误：提起袜子）
Punctuality is the soul of business.守时为立业之要素。
Put your shoulder to the wheel.努力工作。
Rain, rain, go away, come again another day.
Rats desert a sinking ship.
Reading makes a full man and writing an exact man. 读书使人充实，写作使人严谨。
Return to one's sheep [muttons] 回到本题
Revenge is sweet.
Robbing Peter to pay Paul.
Saving is getting. 节省就是获得。
Saying is one thing, doing another. 说是一回事，做是另一回事。
Scornful[Hungry] dogs will eat dirty puddings. 人到危急时, 平时所不屑做的也要做;
急不暇择, 饥不择食。
Scratch my back and I'll scratch yours.
See [watch] how [which way] the cat jumps (=wait for the cat to jump)
观望形势然后行动; 看风使舵, 随机应变
See Naples and die.不到黄河心不死。
Seeing is believing.百闻不如一见。
Send somebody to the chair把某人判死刑；送…电椅（误：把某人送到椅子上）
Separate the sheep from the goats 区别好人和坏人
Sheep and goats 善人与恶人(来自《圣经》)
Sheep that have no shepherd 乌合之众
Silence is golden.
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。
Something is better than nothing.
Spare the rod and spoil the child.
Speak when you are spoken to.
Speaking without think is shooting without aiming. 说话不假思索，等于无的放矢。
Speech is the picture of the mind. 言为心声。
Still waters run deep.
Strike while the iron is hot.趁热打铁。
Sweet things are bad for the teeth.
Take time when time cometh,lest time steal away.时来必须要趁时，不然时去无声息。
Tall trees catch much wind.树大招风。
Teach an old dog new tricks 使守旧的人接受新事物
Teach the dog to bark 教狗怎么叫(意指多此一举)
Teaching others teaches yourself.教学相长。
That's like putting the cat near the goldfish bowl. 引狼入室; 等于把猫放在金鱼缸旁。
The bait hides the hook.
The best fish swim near the bottom.
The best go first.
The best of friends must part.
The best things in life are free.
The bigger they are, the harder they fall.
The burnt child dreads the fire.
The cat did it. [口谑]是猫打破的; 不是我搞的。(推托责任的话)
The cat is out of the bag. [口]秘密泄露; 真相大白。
The cat shuts its eyes when stealing cream. 掩耳盗铃; 猫偷吃奶油的时候, 总是闭着眼睛。
The cat would eat fish and would not wet her feet. 猫儿想吃鱼, 又怕湿了脚(想吃鱼又怕腥;
想得到某种东西又怕麻烦或担风险)。
The day is short but the work is much.工作多，光阴迫。
The dog returns to his vomit. 狗回头吃自己吐出来的东西; 重犯旧日罪恶。
The early bird catches the worm.
The end justifies the means.
The female of the species is more deadly than the male.
The first step is the hardest.
The grapes are sour.
The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.
The last straw breaks the camel's back.
The more one knows, the less one believes.
The more you get, the more you want.
The morning sun never lasts a day.好景不常；朝阳不能光照全日。
The pot calls the kettle black.
The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
The scalded cat fears cold water. 被烫过的猫, 连冷水也怕(一朝被蛇咬, 三年怕井绳)
The secret of wealth lieth in the letters SAVE.节俭是致富的秘诀。
The sheep has no choice when in the jaws of the wolf.
The shortest answer is doing the thing.最简短的回答就是一个"干"字。
The early bird catches the worm.笨鸟先飞。
The kettle and the pot.一丘之貉。
The leopard cannot change its spots. 本性难移。
The water that bears boat is the same that swallows it up.水能载舟，亦能覆舟。
There are only twenty-four hours in a day.
There are two sides to every question.
There is a black sheep in every flock.到处都有害群之马。
There is a time and a place for everything.
There is more than one way to skin a cat.
There is no honor among thieves.
There is safety in numbers.
There is no smoke without fire. 无风不起浪。
There's a black sheep in every flock.
There's no fool like an old fool.
There's no place like home.
There's no smoke without fire.
There's one law for the rich, and another for the poor.
They that dance must pay the fiddler.
They who cannot do as they would,must do as they can.不能如愿而行，也须尽力而为。
Things are not always what they seem.
Think a great deal of oneself过高地估计自己（误：为自己想得多）
Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones.
Time and tide wait for no man.岁月无情；岁月易逝；岁月不待人。
Time cures all things.
Time flies.时光易逝。
Time is a great healer.
Time is money.一寸光阴一寸金。
Time past cannot be called back again.光阴一去不复返。
Time tames the strongest grief.时间能缓和极度的悲痛。
Time tries all.时间检验一切。
Time tries truth.时间检验真理。
Time and tide wait for no man.时光不等人。
Time flies like an arrow.光阴似箭。
To err is human.
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。
Tomorrow comes never.切莫依赖明天。
Tomorrow is another day.
Too many cooks spoil the broth （soup）. 厨师多了难烧汤。
Top dog 当权派；头儿
Treat sb. Like a dog 不把某人当人看
True love ever grows old.
Trust is the mother of deceit.
Turn the other cheek.
Two heads are better than one.
Two is company, three is a crowd.
Two wrongs do not make a right.
Two heads are better than one.三个臭皮匠顶个诸葛亮。
United we stand, divided we fall.
Variety is the spice of life.
Virtue is its own reward.
Walls have ears.隔墙有耳。
Waste not, want not.
Watch sb. As a cat watches a mouse. 象猫盯耗子般地盯着某人。
What are the odds so long as you are happy.
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。
What you don't know can't hurt you.
What you lose on the swings you get back on the roundabouts.
Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.凡是值得做的事，就值得做好。
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。
When in doubt, do nothing.
When in Rome, do as the Romans do.
When the cat's away, the mice will play. 猫儿不在,老鼠成精(大王外出, 小鬼跳粱)。
Where there is no trust there is no love.
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。
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。
Wisdom is better than gold or silver.知识胜过金银，
Wisdom is more to be envied than riches.知识可羡，胜于财富。
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。
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。
Without a shepherd, sheep are not a flock.
Work bears witness who does well.工作能证明谁做的好。
Work makes the workman.勤工出巧匠。
Work today,for you know not how much you may be hindered tomorrow.今朝有事今朝做，明朝可能阻碍多。
World is but a little place, after all.
You cannot have it both ways.
You cannot have your cake and eat it.
You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs.
You can't please everyone.
You can't take it with you when you die.
You can't tell a book by its cover.
You can't win them all.
You don't get something for nothing.
You win some, you lose some.
1.After meat, mustard; after death, doctor.
雨后送伞
2. After praising the wine they sell us vinegar.
挂羊头卖狗肉
3. All is over but the shouting.
大势已去
4. All lay load on the willing horse.
人善被人欺，马善被人骑
5.Anger and haste hinder good counsel.
小不忍则乱大谋
6. As poor as a church mouse
一贫如洗
7. A word spoken is past recalling.
一言既出，驷马难追
8. Birds of a feather flock together.
物以类聚
9. Cry over spilt milk.
覆水难收
11. When in Rome, do as the Romans do.
入乡随俗
12. What you lose on the swings you get back on the roundabouts.
失之东隅，收之桑榆
13. What are the odds so long as you are happy.
知足者常乐
14. Entertain an angel unawares.
有眼不识泰山
15. Every dog has his day.
是人皆有出头日
16. Every potter praises his own pot.
王婆买瓜，自卖自夸
Explanation: people are loath to refer to defects in their possessions
or their family members
17. Great minds think alike
英雄所见略同
鹬蚌相争，渔翁得利: two dogs fight for a bone, and
玉不琢，不成器: C: A piece of jade unless cut forms no article of vertu.
/ E: An uncut gem goes not sparkle. / The finest diamond must be cut.
/ Unpolished pearls never shine.
十年树木，百年树人: C: It takes ten years to grow a tree and a hundred years
to bring up a generation of good men. / E: It takes three generations
to make a gentleman.
学无止境: C: knowledge is infinite / E: progress sometimes uses a comma,
but never a full stop.
此地无银三百两: never try to prove what nobody doubts.
严师出高徒: C: Good pupils are to be brought up by strict teachers. / E:
It is the bridle and spur that makes a good horse.
得不偿失: give a lark to catch a kite.
对症下药: a disease known is half the cure.
君子之交淡如水: a hedge between keeps friendship green.
化干戈为玉帛: bury the hatchet.
家和万事兴: he is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his
home.
江山易改，本性难移: the leopard cannot change its spots.
留得青山在，不怕没柴烧: where there is life, there is hope.
狡兔三窟: the mouse that has but one hole is quickly taken.
举一反三: half a tale is enough for a wise man.
当局者迷，旁观者清: outsiders see more than insiders. / standers-by see more
than gamesters.
世上无难事，只怕有心人: dogged does it.
笨鸟先飞: C: a slow sparrow should make an early start. / E: a lame traveler
should get out betimes.
冷暖自知: every man is best known to himself.
有情人终成眷属: every jack has jill.
宁为玉碎不为瓦全: better death than dishonor.
情人眼里出西施: if jack is in love, he is no judge of jill's beauty.
拳不离手，曲不离口: no day without a line.
吃一堑，长一智: by falling we learn to go safely.
塞翁失马: no great loss without some small gain.
天无绝人之路: god tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.
仁者见仁，智者见智: E: the donkey means one thing, and the driver another.
/ C: the benevolent see benevolence and the wise see wisdom.
师傅领进门，修行在个人: no man is his craft's master the first day.
A bad conscience is a snake in one's heart.
做贼心虚。
A bad workman quarrels with his tools.
拙匠常怨工具差。
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
双鸟在林不如一鸟在手。
A bird is known by its note, and a man by his talk.
闻其歌知其鸟，听其言知其人。
A blind man who leans against a wall imagines that it's the boundary
of the world.
坐井观天。
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
相聚爱益切，离别情更深。
A burnt child dreads the fire.
一朝被蛇咬，十年怕井绳。
Accidents will happen.
天有不测风云。
A clean hand wants no washing.
身正不怕影子斜。
A clear conscience is a soft pillow.
问心无愧，高枕无忧。
A clear conscience is a sure card.
光明磊落，胜券在握。
A clear conscience laughs at false accusations.
白日不做亏心事，夜半敲门心不惊。
A clear fast is better than a dirty breakfast.
宁为清贫，不为浊富。
A close mouth catches no flies.
病从口入，祸从口出。
A cock is valiant on his own dunghill.
夜郎自大。
A common danger causes common action.
同仇敌忾。
A contented mind is perpetual feast.
知足常乐。
Actions speak louder than words.
事实胜於雄辩。
Admonish your friends in private, praise them in public.
在私底下要忠告你的朋友，在公开场合又表扬你的朋友。
A fair face may hide a foul heart.
人不可貌相。
A faithful friend is hard to find.
益友难得。
A fall into the pit, a gain in your wit.
吃一堑，长一智。
After a storm comes a calm.
否极泰来。
After black clouds, clear weather.
否极泰来。
After death, the doctor.
放马後炮。
A good appetite is a good sauce.
饥不择食。
A good example is the best sermon.
身教胜似言教。
A good face is a letter of recommendation.
好的相貌就是一封推荐的介绍信。
A good fame is better than a good face.
好的名望胜於好的相貌。
A good friend is my nearest relation.
良友如近亲。
A good marksman may miss.
智者千虑，必有一失。
A good maxim is never out of season.
至理名言不会过时。
A good medicine tastes bitter.
良药苦口，忠言逆耳。
A good winter brings a good summer.
瑞雪兆丰年。
A happy heart makes a blooming visage.
心花怒放，笑逐颜开。
A hero is known in the time of misfortune.
时势造英雄。
A lazy youth, a lousy age.
少壮不努力，老大徒伤悲。
Ale will make a cat speak.
酒後吐真言。
A little is better than none.
聊胜於无。
A little leak will sink a great ship.
千丈之堤溃於蚁穴。
A little neglect may breed great mischief.
小不忍则乱大谋。
A little spark kindles a great fire.
星星之火，可以燎原。
A little wind kindles, much puts out the fire.
适可而止，过犹不及。
All covet, all lose.
贪多必失。
All is fair in war.
兵不厌诈。
All is not gold that glitters.
闪光的东西并不都是黄金。
All roads lead to Rome.
条条道路通罗马。
All shall be well, Jack shall have Jill.
有情人终成眷属。
All the treasures of the earth would not bring back one lost moment.
机会失去不再来，千贯万贯难赎回。
All things are easy that are done willingly.
做事乐意，诸事容易。
All things are obedient to money.
有钱能使鬼推磨。
A maiden with many wooers often chooses the worst.
少女有了许多求婚者往往选中了最差的一个。
A man apt to promise is apt to forget.
轻诺者易忘。
A man can not spin and reel at the same time.
一心不能二用。
A man cannot whistle and drink at he same time.
一心不能二用。
A man has two ears and one mouth that he may hear much and speak little.
人有两只耳朵一张嘴，就是为了多听少说话。
A man knows his companion in a long journey and a little inn.
路遥知马力，日久见人心。
A man may dig his grave with his teeth.
祸从口出。
A man may lead a horse to the water, but he cannot make him drink.
牵马到河易，强马饮水难。
A man may love his house well without riding on the ridge.
有宝何必人前夸。
A match will set fire to a large building.
星星之火，可以燎原。
Ambition never dies until there is no way out.
不到黄河心不死
A miss is as good as a mile.
失之毫厘，差之千里。
Among the blind the one-eyed man is king.
山中无老虎，猴子称霸王。
A near friend is better than a far-dwelling kinsman.
远亲不如近邻。
An enemy's mouth seldom speaks well.
狗嘴里吐不出象牙。
An evil chance seldom comes alone.
祸不单行。
A new broom sweeps clean.
新官上任三把火。
An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening.
一日之计在於晨。
An old physician, and a young lawyer.
医生年老的好，律师年轻的俏。
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity; a pessimist sees
a calamity in every opportunity.
乐观的人在灾难中看到希望；悲观的人在希望中看到灾难。
An ounce of prevention is worth a …………
英文]：Life is sweet.
人生是美好的.
Life is fine and enjoyable, yet you must learn to enjoy your fine
life.
人生是美好的,但要学会如何享用美好的生活.
Life is real, life is earnest.
人生真实,人生诚挚.
H.W.Longfellow 朗费罗(美国诗人)
Life is compared to a voyage.
人生好比是一次航程.
Life would be too smooth if it had no rubs in it.
生活若无波折险阻,就会过于平淡无奇.
Life means struggle.
生活就是斗争.
Life is but a hard and tortuous journey.
人生即是一段艰难曲折的旅程. /人生无坦途.
Life is a horse, and either you ride it or it rides you.
人生像一匹马,你不驾驭它,它便驾驭你.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on
it you can.
人生是一幅大画布,你应该努力绘出绚丽多彩的画面.
Life is like music. It must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct,
not by rule.
人生如一首乐曲,要用乐感,感情和直觉去谱写.不能只按乐律行事.
Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
生活是绘画,不是做算术.
O.W.Holmes 霍姆斯
Life is a leaf of paper white, thereon each of us may write his word
or two.
生活是一张白纸,每个人都在上面写上自己的一两句话.
A.Lowell 洛威尔
On earth there is nothing great but man; in the man there is nothing
great but mind.
地球上唯一伟大的是人,人身上唯一伟大的是心灵.
A.Hamilton 哈密尔顿
Everything ought to be beautiful in a human being: face, and dress,
and soul, and ideas.
人的一切----面貌,衣着,心灵和思想,都应该是美好的.
Chekhov 契诃夫
All things in their being are good for something.
天生我才必有用.
The good or ill of man lies within his own will
人的善良或邪恶都存在于他自己的意志之中.
[古希腊]Epictetus 爱比克泰德
He is born in a good hour who gets a good name.
生逢其时,美誉自至.
Life is just a series of trying to make up your mind.
生活只是由一系列下决心的努力所构成.
T.Fuller 富勒
Live as though you intend to live forever, and work as though your
strength were limitless.
要这样生活,仿佛你寿命永恒.要这样工作,仿佛你精力无穷.
S.Bernhardt 伯恩哈特(法国女演员)
To live remains an art which everyone must learn, and which no one
can teach.
生活是一种人人须学而无人能教的艺术.
H.Ellis 埃利斯
Life is a foreign language: All men mispronounce it.
生活是一种外语,谁都发不好它的音.
C.D.Morley 莫利
Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.
生活教会了我思考,但思考却没有教会我生活.
A.Herzen 赫尔岑(俄国作家,哲学家)
I wept when I was born, and every day shows why.
人生道路艰难困苦,难怪婴儿出世就哭. /我方出世,哭泣不止,为何如此,日月自知.
Difficult circumstances serve as a textbook of life for people.
困难坎坷是人们的生活教科书.
The proper function of man is to live, not to exist.
人的正确功能是生活,而不是生存.
Jack London 杰克.伦敦(美国小说家)
I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life
was duty.
梦里见到人生无比美丽,醒时发现义务即是人生.
One should eat to live, not live to eat.
人生应为生而食,不应为食而生.
Socrates 苏格拉底
Live not to eat, but eat to live.
不要为了吃饭活着,而要为了活着吃饭.
I eat merely to put food out of my mind.
我吃东西只是为了不再去想食物.
N.F.Simpson 辛普森
Life lies not in living but in liking.
生活的意义并不在于活着,而在于爱好人生.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
浑浑噩噩的生活不值得过.
Socrates 苏格拉底
Life is like an onion: You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes
you weep.
生活就像洋葱头:你只能一层一层地把它剥开,有时你还得流泪.
C.Sandburg 桑德堡
Life consists not in holding good cards, but in playing well those
you hold.
生活不在于握有一手好牌,而在于把手里的牌打好.
J.Billings 比林斯
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions form insufficient
premises.
生活是一种艺术,要在不充足的前提下得出充足的结论.
S.Butler 勃特勒
Life is not all beer and skittles.
人生并非只是啤酒和九柱戏. /人生并不全是吃喝玩乐.
T.Hughes 休斯(英国作家)
For man is man and master of his fate.
人就是人,是自己命运的主人.
A.Tennyson 丁尼生
You are not in charge of the universe; you are in charge of yourself.
你并不掌管整个宇宙,但你得掌管你自己.
A.Bennett 本涅特
There is a history in all men's lives.
所有人的生活里都有一部历史.
Shakespeare 莎士比亚
There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving,
and that's your own self.
宇宙中只有一芥之地你肯定可以改善,那就是你自己.
A.Huxley 赫胥黎
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
生活中最大的幸福是坚信有人爱我们.
[法]V.Hugo 雨果
Have an aim in life, or your energies will all be wasted.
人生应该树立目标,否则你的精力会白白浪费.
R.Peters 彼得斯
The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and the determination
to attain it.
人生重要的在于确立一个伟大的目标,并有决心使其实现.
Goethe 歌德
None is of freedom or life deserving unless he daily conquers it anew.
只有每天再度战胜生活并夺取自由的人,才配享受生活或自由.
[荷兰]Erasmus 伊拉斯漠
What makes life dreary is the want of motive.
没有了目的,生活便郁闷无光.
George Eliot 乔治.埃略特
Don't believe that winning is really everything. It's more important
to stand for something. If you don't stand for something, what do
you win?
不要认为取胜就是一切,更重要的是要有信念,倘若你没有信念,那胜利又有什么意义呢?
Lane Kirkland 莱恩.柯克兰
He will shoot higher who shoots at the moon than he who aims at a
tree.
瞄准月亮的人总比瞄准树的人射得高. /目标远大,效果必佳.
Hitch your wagon to a star.
把你的马车拴到星星上. /要胸怀大志.
We are not born for ourselves.
人之有生,不为一已.
As long as you live, you should be man useful to the people. /Be useful
to the people all your life.
活着就要做一个对人民有用的人.
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
只有为别人而活,生命才有价值.
A.Einstein 爱因斯坦
He is unworthy to live who lives only for himself.
只为自己活着的人,不值得活在世上.
Make yourself necessary to someone.
使自己成为别人需要的人.
R.W.Emerson 爱默生
Comrade Bethune's spirit, his utter devotion to others without any
thought of self, was shown in his boundless sense of responsibility
in his work and his boundless warm-heartedness towards all comrades
and the people.
白求恩同志毫不利已专门利人的精神,表现在他对工作的极端负责任,对态志对人民的极端廊忱.
Mao Zedong 毛泽东
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.
我详揭示大自然的秘密,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.
Edison 爱迪生
Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto
unexplored.
卓越的天才不屑走旁人走过的路.他寻找迄今未开拓的地区.
Lincoln 林肯
To live is to function. That is all there is in living.
活着就要发挥作用,这就是生活的全部内容.
Holmes 霍姆斯
Only when one plunges into the powerful current of the times will
one's life shine brilliantly.
一个人只有投身于伟大的时代洪流中,他的生命才会闪耀出光彩.
Man can only be free through mastery of himself.
只有通过掌握自己,才能使自己得到解放.
S.E.Morison 莫里森
One man, no man.
个人是渺小的.
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
只有向后看才能理解生活;但要生活好,则必须向前看.
Kierkegaard 克尔恺郭尔
While there is one untrodden tract For intellect or will. And men
are free to think and act, Life is worth living.
只要还有一块知识和意志尚未征服的领域,只要人们能自由思考和行动,生活就是值得的.
A.Austin 奥斯汀(英国作家)
Fear not that the life shall come to an end, but rather fear that
it shall never have a beginning.
不要害怕你的生活将要结束,应该担心你的生活永远不会真正开始.
J.H.Newman 纽曼
We are here to add what we can you to life, not to get what we can
from it.
我们来到世上是为了尽自己所能给生活增加一些东西,而不是为了从生活中获取我们所能得到的一切.
W.Osler奥斯勒
Life is ten percent what you make it and ninety percent how you take
it.
生活有百分之十在于你如何塑造它,有百分之九十在于你如何对待它.
I.Berlin 柏林
The great use of life is to spend it for some thing that overlasts
it.
生命的最大用处是将它用于比生命更长久的事物上.
W.James 詹姆斯
Better do more daily, trivial, ordinary and practical work that is
needed by the people, than say a thousand empty words that may be
sweet to the ear.
多做一些人民需要的,日常的,细小的,平凡而实际的工作,胜过说一千句漂亮动听的话语.
Life is made up of little things.
生活是由许多小事构成的.
No man is useless in this world who lightens the burden of someone
else.
在这个世界上能为别人减轻负担的人都是有用的.
C.Dickens 狄更斯
Life is measured by thought and action, not by time.
衡量生命的尺度是思想和行为,而不是时间.
J.Lubbock 卢伯克
The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we
make of them.
生命的价值不在于能活多少天,而在于我们如何使用这些日子.
Montaigne 蒙田
Choose a life of action, not one of ostentation.
要选择行动的一生,而不是炫耀的一生.
[古罗马]C.Nepos 内波斯
The first step is as good as half over.
第一步是最关键的一步.
Even the weariest river winds somewhere safe to sea.
河流虽历尽险阻,也能蜿蜓流入大海.
Goals determine what you are going to be.
目标决定你将成为什么样的人.
Julius Erving 朱利叶斯.欧文
Young people must equip themselves for life's duties and guard against
its temptations.
年轻人必须为履行生活所赋予他们的职责充实自己,同时要抵制生活的诱惑.
Living without an aim is like sailing without a compass.
生活没有目标就像航海没有罗盘.
All human wisdom is summed up in two words-wait and hope.
人类所有的智慧可以归结为两个----等待和希望.
Alexandre Dumas Pere 大仲马(法国作家)
Ideals are like the stars--we never reach them, but like mariners,
we chart our course by them.
理想就像是星星--我们永远够不着星星,但是我们像水手一样,用它们指引航程.
C.Schurz 舒尔茨(美国政治家)
Hope is life and life is hope
希望就是生活,生活也就是希望.
If it were not for hope, the heart would break.
人靠希望活着.
While there is life there is hope.
一息尚存,希望不灭.
英国谚语
He that lives in hope dances without music.
生活在希望中的人,没有音乐照样跳舞.
Hope springs eternal in the human breast.
人生永远满怀希望. /只要有人,就有希望.
I tell you hopeless grief is passionless.
我告诉你,没有希望的悲伤是没有感情的.
E.B.Browning 布朗宁夫人(英国诗人)
Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
希望是美好的早餐,却是糟糕的晚餐.
F.Bacon 培根
Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.
机会是个没有意义的词;任何事物都不会无缘无故地存在.
He who has never hoped can never despair.
从来没有抱过什么希望的人也永远不会失望.
Bernard Show 萧伯纳
When the fight begins within himself, a man's worth something.
当一个内心开始斗争时,他就有了价值.
R.Browning 布朗宁
He who trusts all things to chance makes a lottery of his life.
一切都指望机会的人使自己的生活变得像赌彩票一样.
Hope is itself a species of happiness, and perhaps the chief happiness
which this world affords.
希望本身是一种幸福,也许是这个世界能提供的主要的幸福.
S.Johnson 约翰逊
Hope is bad for the happy man, and good for the unhappy.
希望对幸福的人是不好的事,对不幸福的人是好事.
L.Tolstoy 托尔斯泰
You never know your luck.
命运好坏不由已.
Chance generally favours the prudent.
运气通常照顾深思熟虑者.
The wish is father to the thought.
思考源于愿望. /心有所欲,脑有所思.
Man is not made for defeat.
创造人不是为了让他遭受失败. /人不是为失败而生的.
E.Hemingway 海明威
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man
of value.
不要为成功而努力,要为作一个有价值的人而努力.
A.Einstein 爱因斯坦
Our greatest glory consists not in never falling but in rising every
time we fall.
我们最值得自豪的不在于从不跌倒,而在于每次跌倒之后都爬起来.
O.Goldsmith \ 戈德史密斯
Popularity?It's glory's small change.
名望吗?那不过是光荣的零头.
V.Hugo 雨果
There is only one success--to be able to spend your life in your own
way.
只有一种成功,那就是能够用自己的方式度过自己的一生.
C.Morley 莫利
It is not enough to be industrious, so are the ants. What are you
industrious about?
光勤劳是不够的,蚂蚁也是勤劳的.要看你为什么而勤劳.
H.D.Thoreau 梭罗
Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great
magic trick of human existence.
人类生存的最大魔法,是从稍纵即逝的事物中攫取永恒.
We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite
hope.
我们必须接受失望,因为它是有限的,但千万不可失去希望,因为它是无穷的.
Martin Luther King.Jr. 马丁.路德.金
Fierce-browed, I coolly defy a thousand pointing fingers; head bowed,
like a willing ox I serve the children.
横眉冷对千夫指,俯首甘为孺子牛.
Lu Xun 鲁迅
Take little, but give(or offer)much.
应少索取,而多奉献.
The cow eats grass but gives milk.
牛吃的是草,挤出来的是奶.
Lu Xun 鲁迅
A man's life is limited, but there is no limit to serving the people.
I will dedicate my limited life to the limitless job of serving the
people.
人的生命是有限的,可是,为人民服务是无限的,我要把有限的生命,投入到无限的为人民服务之中去......
LeiFeng雷锋
You have to believe in yourself. That's the secret of success.
人必须相信自已,这是成功的秘诀.
Charles Chaplin查理.卓别林
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important
than any thing.
永远记住:你争取成功的决心才是头等重要的.
Abraham Lincoln亚伯拉罕.林肯
Even a small star shines in the darkness.
星星再小,也会发光.
芬兰谚语
Be concerned about the affairs of state before others, and enjoy comfort
after others. Be the first to feel concern about state affairs and
the last to enjoy yourself.
先天下之忧,后天下之乐而乐.
Give me liberty or give me death.
不自由,毋宁死.
Nothing is more precious than independence and freedom.
没有什么比独立自由更可宝贵的了.
( 越南)Ho Chi Minh胡志明
Who loses liberty loses all.
失掉自由使失掉一切.
Lean liberty is better than fat slavery.
宁自由而贫困,毋奴于人而富足.
Only the selfless can be fearless.
无私才能无畏.
中国谚语
No man is so old, but thinks he may yet live another year.
人活百年不嫌多.
To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.
活在生者的心里,就是不死.
T.Campbell坎贝尔
You should, like a candle, burn yourself out to give light to others.
要像蜡烛一样燃烧自已,照亮别人.
He devoted himself entirely to the service off the people until his
death. /Give one's all till one's heart stops beating.
鞠躬尽瘁,死而后已.
The principal thing in this world is to keep one's soul aloft.
人生在世的首要大事是保持灵魂的高尚.
(法)Flaubert福楼拜
Business before pleasure.
先工作,后娱乐. /干完正事再玩儿.
Be sure before you marry of a house where in to tarry.
先立业,后成家.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
我不缅怀过去的历史,而致力于未来的梦想.
T.Jefferson杰弗逊(美国第3任总统)
I am not afraid of tomorrow for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
我不害怕明天,因为我见过昨天,又热爱今天.
W.A.White怀特美国记者)
Hope well and have well.
善寄希望于未来,又善保有现在.
Achievement provides the only real pleasure in life.
有所成就乃是人生唯一的真正乐趣.
T.Edison爱迪生
The world is his who enjoys it.
世界属于热爱世界的人.
Establishing goals is all right if your don't let them deprive you
of interesting detours.
不妨订立目标,只要你不让它阻挡你兜有趣的圈子.
What may be done at any time will be done at no time.
因循蹉跎,一事无成.
Little things please little minds.
小事满足小志者. /胸无大志,事事称心.
A penny soul never came to two penny.
志小者成不了大事. /心胸狭窄,一事无成.
The world is a ladder for some to go up and some down.
世事如长梯,有人上来有人下.
The horizon of life is broadened chiefly by the enlargement off the
heart.
生活的地平线是随着心灵的开阔而变宽广的.
H.Black布莱克
Nothing seek, nothing find.
无所求则无所获.
Happiness is a way station between too much and too little.
幸福是太多和太少之间的一站.
C.Pollock波洛克
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
对大多数人来说,他们认定自已有多幸福,就有多幸福.
A.Lincoln林肯
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible
to find it elsewhere.
要在自身找到幸福是不容易的,要在别的地方找到幸福则是不可能的.
A.Repplier里普利厄
Pain past is pleasure.
痛苦过去即欢乐.
Call no man happy till he dies.
人在死以前称不上幸福.
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than
to consume wealth without producing it.
正像我们无权只享受财富而不创造财富一样,我们也无权只享受幸福而不创造幸福.
Bernard Shaw萧伯纳
If money be not the servant, it will be the master.
不做金钱的主人,便沦为金钱的奴隶.
Riches serve a wise man but commands a fool.
聪明人使财富为自已服务,傻瓜却任它支配自已.
P.Charron沙朗
The only thing wealth does for some people is to make them worry about
losing them.
财富对有些人只做了一件事:使他们担心会失去财富.
A.R.Rivarol里瓦罗尔
Few rich men own their property. The property owns them.
没有多少富人拥有他们的财产;是财产拥有他们.
R.G.Ingersoll英格索尔
Money is round. It rolls away.
圆圆钱币,滚走容易.
S.Aleichen阿雷钦
All is not gain that is got into the purse.
装进钱包里的不一定都是收益.
L.Sterne斯特恩
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free;if our wealth
commands us, we are poor indeed.
如果我们能支配财富,就会富裕而自由;如果我们听任财富支配,我们就会真正贫穷.
E.Burke伯克
One half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up
before you get it.
知道想要什么,一半在于知道得到它之前必须放弃什么.
S.Howard 霍华德
A wise man never loses anything if he has himself.
聪明的人只要能掌握自己,便什么也不会失去.
[德国]Nietzche 尼采
As good lost as found.
有得必有失. /得失同喜.
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
有时候一个人为不花钱得到的东西付出的代价最高.
A.Einstein 爱因斯坦
Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings
you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances,
but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace
of happiness.
金钱可以是许多东西的谷皮,却不是里面的谷粒.它能带来食物,却带不来胃口;能带来药,却带不来健康;能带来相识,却带不来友谊,能带来仆人,却带不来他们的忠心;能带来享受,却带不来幸福的宁静
H.Ibsen 易卜生
A money lender serves you in the present tense, lends you in the conditional
mood, keeps you in the subjuctive, and ruins you in the future.
放债的人为你服务时用现在时态,借钱给你时用条件语气,使你常处于虚拟语气之中,并于将来时态中毁掉你.
J.Addion 艾迪生
No man can lose what he never had.
一个人从来没有过的东西,他永远不会失去.
L.Walton 沃尔顿
The safest way to double your money is to fold it over once and put
it in your pocket.
要使你的钱翻一番,最保险的办法是将它折叠起来放进口袋.
K.Hubbard 哈伯德
You never know what is enough, unless you know what is more than enough.
欲知何者为足够,必须先知何者为多余.
W.Blake 布莱克
Knowledge makes one laugh, but wealth makes one dance.
知识使人笑逐颜开,财富使人手舞足蹈.
Superfluous wealth can but superfluities only.
多余的财富只能买来多余的东西.
H.D.Thoreau 梭罗
A little of everything, and nothing at all.
什么都来一点,什么也得不到.
Montaigne 蒙田
He who buys what he does not want will soon want what he cannot buy.
一个人常买不想要的东西, 很快会发现他买不起想要的东西.
C.Colton 科尔顿.
My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.
我的座右铭是:满足于一点儿,但是希望有更多.
C.Lamb 兰姆
The more you have, the more you want.
拥有的愈多,想要的愈多. /越富越贪.
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
如果你有一块园地和一个图书馆,那么你就拥有了你所需要的一切.
Cicero 西塞罗
There are two things to aim at in life: First, to get what you want;
and after that, to enjoy it.Only the wisest of mankind achieve the
second.
生活中有两个目标:首先得到你想要的东西,然后则是尽情地享受它.只有最明智的人才能做到第二步.
L.P.Smith 史密斯
You will never have what you like until you learn to like what you
have.
欲得到你喜欢的东西,应先学会喜欢你已有的东西.
W.V.Goethe 歌德
The secret of life is not to do what one likes, but to try to like
what one has to do.
生活的秘密不在于做自己喜欢做的,而在于喜欢自己不得不做的.
D.M.Craik 克雷克
Half the pleasure of life consists of the opportunities one has neglected.
生活的一半乐趣由一切被忽略掉的机遇组成.
O.W.Holmes 霍姆斯
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part
of happiness.
有些东西你想要而没有,这是幸福不可缺少的一个部分.
B.Russell 罗素
Something attempted, something done.
有所尝试,就等于有所作为.
Longfellow 朗费罗
Let that which is lost be for God.
失去的东西就别想它了. /失去的东西就算献给上帝了.
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and
look for circumstances they want, and if they cannot find them, make
them.
在这个世界上取得成功的人,都努力去寻找他们想要的机会,如果找不到时,他们就自己创造机会.
Bernard Shaw 萧伯纳
Victory won't come to me unless I go to it.
胜利是不会向我走来的,我必须自己走向胜利.
M.Moore 穆尔
To be or not to be: that is the question.
生与死是至关重要的问题.
Shakespeare Hamlet 莎士比亚{哈姆雷特}
Life is long if you know how to use it.
只要你善于利用它,生命就是长久的.
Seneca 塞内加
Everyone must die; let me but leave a loyal heart shining in the pages
of history.
人生自古谁无死,留取丹心照汗青.
Wen Tianxiang 文天祥
Life is for one generation, a good name is forever.
生命只有一代之久,而美名永存于世.
We are such stuff as dreams are made on.
人生如梦幻.
Shakespeare 莎士比亚
Conquer the fear of death and you are put into possession of your
life.
征服对死的恐惧,你就占有了生命.
G.Meredith 梅瑞狄斯
He that leaves a name behind him does not die.
身后留名的人万世永存.
Do not try to live for ever.you will not succeed.
不要幻想永远活下去,你不会成功的.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
生和死都无法治,只有享受两者之间的间隔.
G.Santayana 桑塔亚纳
The dead are only dead when they die in the thoughts of the living.
没有活人思念的死人,才是真正的死了.
When the dust of death has choked a great man's voice, the common
words he said turn to oracles.
死亡使一个伟人的声音沉寂之后,他生前平淡无奇的话,都成了至理名言.
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can
only decide how you're going to live now.
你不能选择怎样死,或什么时候死.你只能决定现在怎样生活.
Mean men admire wealth; great men, glory.
庸人爱财富,伟人爱荣誉.
It's great to be great, but it's greater to be human.
成为伟人是美好的,做一个真正的人更美好.
W.Rogers 罗杰斯(美国幽默家)
The fame of great men ought to be judged always by the means they
used to acquire it.
判断伟人的名誉应该以他们如何得到它来衡量.
La Rochefoucauld 拉罗什富科
A little body does often harbour a great soul.
伟大的心灵常寓于矮小的身躯之中.
Great men are rarely isolated mountainpeaks; they are the summits
of ranges.
伟人很少是突兀的山峰;他们是众山中的最高峰.
T.W.Higginson 希金森
There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real
great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
有一个伟大人物使所有的人都感动渺小.但是真正伟大的人却使所有的人感到伟大.
G.K.Chesterton 切斯特顿
A great man is always willing to be little.
伟大的人物总是愿意当小人物的.
R.W.Emerson 爱默生
Men are afraid of becoming famous, just as pigs afraid of fattening.
/Fame portends trouble for men just as fattening does for pigs. /A
famed person and a fattened pig are alike in danger.
人怕出名猪怕壮.
中国谚语
The secret of success is constancy of purpose.
成功的秘诀是目标坚定.
Sow nothing, reap nothing.
春不播,秋不收. /无功不能受禄.
The wealth of the mind is the only wealth.
精神的财富是唯一的财富.
Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.
死是伟大的激情的唯一纯洁,美丽的终结.
D.H.Lawrence 劳伦斯
Death is the privilege of human nature, and life without it were not
our taking.
死亡是人类天然的特权,没有死的生非人类所能有.
Nicholas Rowe 尼克拉斯.罗(英国戏剧家)
I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
我唯一遣憾的是我只有一次生命可以献给祖国.
Nathan Hale 内森.黑尔
"Though death befalls all men alike. it may be weightier than
Mount Tai or lighter than a feather."To die for the people is
weightier than Mount Tai.
"人固有一死,或重于泰山,或轻于鸿毛."为人民利益而死,就比泰山还重.
Mao Zedong 毛泽东
The crash of the whole solar and stellar systems could only kill you
once.
即使整个太阳系和星系崩溃,你也只死一次.
T.Carlyle 卡莱尔
All theory, dear friend, is grey; but the precious tree of life is
green.
亲爱的朋友,所有的理论都是灰色的;而宝贵的生活之树却是绿色的.
Goethe 歌德
Carve your name on hearts and not on marbles.
把你的姓名刻在人们的心上,而不是刻在大理石上.
J.Addison 艾迪生
It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
一个人如何死是无关紧要的,重要的是如何生.
S.Johnson 约翰逊
Many people's tombstones should read:"Died at 30, buriied at
60."
许多人的墓碑上应该刻上:"三十而死,六旬而葬."
N.M.Butler 巴特勒
A man can die but once.
人无二死.
He lives long that lives well.
活得好等于活得久.
We prefer to die a hero, rather than live a slave.
宁为英雄而死,不为奴隶生.
We grow neither better nor worse as we grow old but more and more
like ourselves.
随着年龄的增长,我们并不变好也不变坏,而是变得更像我们自己.
M.L.Becker 贝克尔
Better a glorious death than a shameful life.
宁求光荣死,不可耻辱生.
Nothing in life is to be feared.It is only to be understood.
生活中没有可怕的东西,只有需要理解的东西.
Marie Curie 居里夫人
Chiefly the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands.
一个人的命运主要由他自己塑造.
[意]F.Petrarch彼特拉克
Interests are anchors, and I believe they will bring peace and even
happiness in the end.
兴趣是锚,我相信它最终会带来和平,甚至幸福.
A.C.Benson 本森
There is no better or more blessed bondage than to be a prisoner of
hope.
做希望的俘虏,是为无上的幸福所束缚.
You can't judge a tree by its bark.
人不可貌相.
Beauty is but skin-deep.
美只是外表, /不能以貌取人.
Clothes do not make the man.
人不在衣装.
It is only when the mind and character slumber that the dress can
be seen.
只有一个人的心灵和品格熟睡的时候,人们才会注意到他的服饰.
R.W.Emerson 爱默生
No man is content with his lot.
没有人对自己的境遇感到满足.
To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problem of content.
如果感觉到自己在生活中有了一个位置,满足的问题就解决了一半.
G.Woodberry 伍德贝利
If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
如果你怀疑自己,那你的立足点确实不稳固了.
Ibsen 易卜生
We should so live and labor in our time that what came to us as seed
may go to the next generation as blossom, and that what came to us
as blossom may go to them as fruit. This is what we mean by progress.
我们一生应该这样地生活和劳动,使给予我们的种子能在下一代开花,使给予我们的花朵能在下一代结果.这就是我们所说的进步的意义.
H.W.Beecher 比彻
Each man is the architect of his own fate.
每个人都是自己命运的建筑师.
A.Claudius 克劳笛乌斯
What's man's first duty? The answer's brief: To be himself.
人的第一天职是什么?答案简单:不伪饰自己.
Ibsen 易卜生
The world wants geniuses, but it wants them to behave just like other
people.
世界需要天才,不过需要他们像其他人一样为人行事.
G.Moore 穆尔(爱尔兰文学家)
To be both a speaker of words and a doer of deeds.
既当演说家,又做实干家.
[古希腊]Homeros 荷马
It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life
that the meaning and shape of great whole of life dawn on you.
在你耐心地操劳于生活的琐事的过程中,你才能领悟整个生活的伟大意义和形象.
P.Brooks 布鲁克斯
Faith is like the radar that sees through the fog-the reality of things
at a distance that the human eye cannot see.
信仰像透视迷雾的雷达,能够洞悉肉眼难辨的远景.
Corrie Tem Boom 科里.坦恩.布姆
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty
minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
未来是这样一件东西,每个 都以每小时六十分钟的速度朝它走去,不管他做什么,也不管他是谁.
C.S.Lewis刘易斯
Life is half spent before we know what it is.
我们认识到人生的意义时,已度过了半辈子.
After a certain number of years.our faces become our biographies.
经过若干年之后,我们的面貌就成了我们的传记.
Cynthia Ozick 辛西娅.奥扎克
The devil knows many things becuase he is old.
人老见识广. /老马识途.
A man is not old as long as he is seeking something. A man is not
old until regrets take the place of dreams.
只要一个人还有所追求,他就没有老.直到后悔取代了梦想,一个人才算老.
J.Barrymore 巴里穆尔
The philosophers have only interpretered the world in various ways.
The point however is to change it.
哲学家们只是用各种方法解释世界,而问题在于改造世界.
K.Marx 马克思
To widen your life without deepening it is only to weaken it.
扩大 生活面而不加深生活,只能削弱生活.
C.Mckay 麦凯
Variety is the spice of life.
变化是生活的调味品.
Those who desire to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and
many foolish and hurtful lusts, such as down men in destruction and
perdition.
那些想要发财的人,就陷入迷惑,落进罗网和许多愚蠢有害的私欲里,叫人毁灭沦丧.
Little goods little care.
钱财少,不烦恼.
Life is a test and this world a place of trial. Always the problems--or
it may be the same problem--will be presented to every generation
in different forms.
人生是一种考验,而这个世界就是考场,每一代都要面对一些问题---可能是相同的问题----只不过问题的形式不同.
And though the soul sail leagues and leagues beyond-- still leagues
beyond those leagues, there is more sea.
尽管你的灵魂航行了千万里,再过千万里之外还是大海.
D.G.Rossetti 罗塞蒂(英国诗人)
Man struggles upwards; water flows downwards.
人往高处走,水往低处流,
We may give advice, but we cannot give conduct.
别人可以相劝,做人还靠自己. /别人可以给你忠告,但不能给你品行.
A great ship asks deep waters.
大船要在深水行. /深水浮大船.
A man of great talents will surely be given important assignments.
大才必有大用.
A great vessel will be long in completion.
大器晚成.
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds;
and the pessimist fears this is true.
乐观主义者宣称,我们生活在最美好的世界里,而悲观主义者则害怕这是真的.
B.Cabell 卡贝尔(美国小说家)
A man is weal or woe as he thinks himself so.
一个人命运好坏,全看自己如何想.
If wishes were horses, beggars might ride.
如果愿望是马,乞丐也有马骑.
Dare and the world always yields. If it beats you sometimes.dare it
again and again and it will succumb.
大胆挑战,世界总会让步.如果有时候你被它打败了,不断地挑战,它总会屈服的.
W.M.Thackeray 萨克雷(英国小说家)
Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime, and a fool's excuse for failure.
命运是暴君施虐的权威,傻瓜失败的借口.
A.Bierce 比尔斯
Let the world slide.
人世沧桑,听其自然.
Anything for a quiet life.
悠然自在最难求.
It's a poor heart that never rejoices.
不知世间有乐事者最可怜.
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal
that is struck with the difference between what things are and what
they ought bo be.
人是唯一会哭和笑的动物,因为他是唯一能区别事物的现状和事物应该有的状态的动物.
W.Hazlitt 哈兹里特
He is not a wise man who cannot play the fool on occasion.
不会偶尔装傻的人算不得聪明.
He laughs best who laughs last.
谁笑在最后,谁笑得最好.
Men may meet but mountains never.
人生何处不相逢.
It takes all sorts to make a world.
世界是由各式各样的人组成的. /世界之大,什么样的人都有.
All people in the revolutionary ranks must care for each other, must
love and help each other.
一切革命队伍的人都要互相关心,互相爱护,互相帮助.
Mao Zedong 毛泽东
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights
of every passing shop.
我们应该学会按照星辰决定航向,而不是跟随每艘驶过的船只的灯光.
Living well is the best revenge.
活得好就是对敌人最好的报复.
A thousand-li journey is started by taking the first step.
千里之行,始于足下.
Wish you an endless view to cheer your eyes? Then one more story mount
and higher rise.
欲穷千里目,更上一层楼.
He lives unsafely that looks too near on things.
人无远虑,必有近忧.
The secret of a man who is universally interesting is that he is universally
interested.
大家都对他感兴趣的人的秘密,在于他对大家都感兴趣.
W.D.Howells 豪威尔斯(美国小说家,文艺批评家)
Have no fear of perfection--you'll never reach it.
不要为十全十美担心----你永远也做不到十全十美.
S.Dali 达里(西班牙画家)
Mediocrities can explain everything, and are surprised at nothing.
庸人能解释一切,而且对什么都不会感到意外.
E.Delacroix 德拉克洛瓦(法国浪漫主义画家)
There's many a slip'twixt cup and lip.
酒杯到唇边还可能滑落. /非到最后不足以说成功.
Of all eloquence a nickname is the most concise, of all arguments
the most unanswerable.
绰号是最简洁的雄辩,最无法反驳的论据.
W.Hazlitt 哈兹里特
The sum of behaviour is to retain a man's own dignity, without intruding
upon the liberty of others.
人的行为准则是,维护自己尊严,不妨碍他人自由.
[英]F.Bacon 培根
A good name is sooner lost than won.
美名难得而易失.
There is a tide in the affairs of men.
人生事业有盛有衰.
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has courage to lose sight
of the shore.
人只有鼓起勇气,告别海岸,才能发现新的大洋.
[法]A.Gide 纪德
It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can
make anyone happy or miserable.
决定人之苦乐的不是地点,也不是环境,而是思想
Religion is in heart, not in the knees.
信仰在心里,并不在膝下.
D.W.Jerrold 杰罗尔德(英国幽默家,剧作家)
Of all the possessions of this life, fame is the noblest; when the
body has sunk into the dust, the great name still lives.
身外之物, 声誉最贵;人死之后,名声犹在.
As in the Changjing River waves urge waves, so the younger generation
excels the older generation.
长江后浪推前浪,一代更比一代强.
Men at some time are masters of their fates.
人有时是命运的主人.
You only live once. But if you work it right, once is enough.
你只活一次,如果活得好,一次就够了.
It takes ten years grow trees, but a hundred to rear people.
十年树木,百年树人.
A hero is nothing but a product of his time.
时势造英雄.
Manners maketh man.
举止造人品.
A foul morn may turn to a fair day.
阴霾的早晨能变成晴朗的白天.
A little pot is soon hot.
壶小易沸,量小易怒.
Every oak must be an acorn.
每棵橡树都曾是一粒橡子.
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
只要有无限的热情,一个人几乎可以在任何事情上取得成功.
C.M.Schwab 施瓦布
What man has done, man can do.
前人能办的事,后人也能做.
One thing I know:The only ones among you who will be really happy
are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
有一点我是知道的:在你们之中,只有那些愿意寻求并发现如何为别人服务的人,才是真正幸福的.
A.Schweizer 施韦策
Man aspires after happiness and trees wait for the advent of spring.
人望幸福树望春.
No sweet without sweat.
幸福来自汗水.
Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.
幸福不是目的,而是一种副产品.
Eleanor Roosevelt 埃莉诺.罗斯福(罗斯福夫人)
Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
幸福是两段不幸福时期之间的间歇.
D.Marquis 马奎斯
Fame is but the breath of the people.
名誉不过是众人口中的一句话而已.
英语谚语
Fame like a river is narroest at its source and broadest afar off.
名誉像条河,源头最狭窄,愈流愈宽阔.
First impressions are most lasting.
最初的印象最难忘
Fortune knocks once at least at every man's gate.
幸运之神至少在每人的门上敲一次.
Be still, and have the will.
不动声色,事方有成.
A man must not be judged by his appearance, just as the ocean cannot
be measured in gallons.
凡人不可貌相,海水不可斗量.
中国谚语
Better the last smile than the first laughter.
宁可最后微笑,不要首先狂喜.
If a jewel falls into the mire, it remains as precious as before;
and though dust should ascend to heaven, its former worthlessness
will not be altered.
宝石即使落在泥潭里,仍是一样可贵;尘土纵然扬到天上,还是没有价值.
[科威特]AL--Jaber 贾比尔
The only worthwhile achievements of man are those which are socially
useful.
人的成就只有对社会有用才是有价值的.
A.Adler 阿德勒
The relation of genius to talent is the same as that of instinct to
reason.
天资之于才华一如本能之于理智.
[法国]J.Renard 勒纳尔
Every man is best known to himself.
自己最了解自己. /知已莫若已.
Every man is his own enemy.
人都有与自己为敌的时候. /败事全由已.
Every man must eat a peck of dirt before he dies.
人生在世总会受点委屈.
I never consider ease and joyfulness as the purpose of life itself.
我从不认为安逸和快乐就是生活本身的目的.
A.Einstein 爱因斯坦
Every man is a fool sometimes, and none at all times.
人都有糊涂的时候,但谁都不会糊涂一生.
All for one, one for all.
人人为我,我为人人.
[法]Dumas pere 大仲马
The greater the man, the more restrained his anger.
人越伟大,越能克制怒火
[古罗马]Ovid奥德维
One may overcome a thousand men in battle.but he who conquers himself
is the greatest victor.
一个人能在战场上制胜千军,但只有战胜自己才是最伟大的胜利者.
[印度]Nehru 尼赫鲁
True nobility is exempt from fear.
真正高尚的人是无所畏惧的.
[英]Byron 拜伦
There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day.
人生没有不重要的一天.
The whole dignity of man lies in the power of thought.
人的全部尊严在于思考的能力.
[法]P.Pscal 帕斯卡
When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself
a choice.
当你必须作出选择而不选择时,这本身也是一种选择.
William James 威廉.詹姆斯(美国哲学家)
When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself a pubic
property.
一个人接受了公众的信任之后,就应该把自己看作是公共的财产.
T.Jefferson 杰斐逊
When answering the questions raised by his daughters Jenny and Laura.Marx
wrote:
马克思在回答自己女儿燕妮和劳拉提出的问题时:写道
What moral character do you value most? --Simplicity.
你最珍贵的品德是什么?----朴素.
What is it that characterizes your personality? --An unswerving aim.
你的主要特点是什么?-----目标始终如一.
How do you understand happiness? --Struggle.
你对幸福的理解是什么?-----斗争.
How do you understand misfortune?--Giving in.
你对不幸的理解是什么?---屈服.
What weakness is it that you can never tolerate?--Sycophancy and servile
flattery.
你最不能容忍的缺点是什么?----奴颜婢膝.
What do you like to do best?--Delving into books.
你最喜欢做的事是什么?----啃书本.
What colour do you like best? --Red.
你最喜欢的颜色是什么?---红色.
Truth is the daughter of time.
真理是时间的女儿.
It is man's duty to be courageous enough to seek for truth.
勇于探索真理是人的天职.
Copernicus 哥白尼(波兰天文学家)
Truth will prevail.
真理必胜
Justice is all-conquering; truth is placed above anything.
正义战无不胜,真理高于一切.
The greatest friend of truth is time, her greatest enemy is prejudice,
and her constant company is humility.
真理最好的朋友是时间,最大的敌人是偏见,永恒的伴侣是谦逊.
Colton 科尔顿
Truth needs no colour.
真理不需要打扮.
True coral needs no painter's brush.
真珊瑚不需要用画笔.
Craft must have clother, but truth loves to go naked.
诡计定然披着外衣,真理却不爱装饰.
Truth's best ornament is nakedness.
打扮真理的秘决是不加掩饰.
Actions speak louder than words.
行动胜于言辞.
Truth may be blamed, but shall never be shamed.
真理可能会被责难,但决不会受羞辱.
Though malice may darken truth, it cannot put it out.
恶意可以诽谤真理,但不能消灭真理.
With justice on your side, you can go anywhere; without it; you can't
take a step.
有理走遍天下,无理寸步难行.
中国谚语
An empty sack cannot stand upright.
空袋难站立. /有理走遍天下,无理寸步难行.
英语谚语
The truth will out.
真相总会大白.
None so blind as they who will not see.
不愿正视事实的人是瞎而又瞎的.
A miss is as good as a mile.
差之毫厘,失之千里.
It is but a step form the sublime to the ridiculous.
从崇高到荒谬只有一步之差.
Napoleon 拿破仑
There's only a step form the sublime to the ridiculous, but there's
no road leading back form the ridiculous to the sublime.
从崇高到荒谬只有一步之差,可是从荒谬却没有路能回到崇高.
L.Feuchtwanger 福伊希特万格
That's good wisdom which is wisdom in the end.
最后正确才是真正确.
Two wrongs do not make a right.
两个错误,加不出一个正确. /用错误改正不了错误.
The deepest turths are the simplest and the most common.
最深刻的真理是最简单,最普通的道理.
All great truths are obvious truths. But not all obvious truths are
great truths.
伟大的真理都是明摆着的事实.但不见得所有明摆着的事实都是伟大的真理.
Every why has a wherefore.
凡事必有因.
Nothing comes out of the sack but what was in it .
空袋倒不出豆. /无中不能生有.
Wisdom is only found in truth.
唯有在真理中才能找到智慧.
Goethe 歌德
Deeds, not words.
行动胜于空谈.
He is eloquent enough for whom truth speaks.
事实本身就是雄辩. /掌握了真理,就是雄辩者.
It is easier to fight for principles than to live up to them.
为原则而斗争容易,按原则的要求活着难.
A.E.Stevenson 史蒂文森
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price
of chains and slavery?
难道生命是如此珍贵,和平是如此甜美,以至于不惜为此戴锁链,当奴隶吗?
P.Henry 亨利
Facts are stubborn things.
事实都是顽强的. /事实是掩盖不住的.
Never try to prove what nobody doubts.
无人怀疑的事无须费力去证实.
Never write what your dare not sign.
不要写不敢署名的文章.
There is nothing permanent except change.
唯有变化才是永恒的.
Heracleitus 赫拉克利特
It is the first step that costs the most.
万事开头难.
Everything must have a beginning.
凡事必有始.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
凡事皆先难后易.
The highest towers begin from the ground.
万丈高楼平地起.
He who would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom.
欲登梯者从底始.
Keeping is harder than winning.
创业难,守业更难.
After dinner comes the reckoning.
要吃饭就得付帐. /要享乐就得付代价.
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must undergo the
fatigue of supporting it.
想要收获自由之果的人,必须承受维护自由的劳苦.
T.Paine 潘恩
Nothing venture, nothing have.
不担风险就无收获.
He who would search pearls dive below.
不潜深水则不得珠.
英语谚语
How can you catch tiger cubs withour entering the tiger's lair?
不入虎穴,焉得虎子.
中国谚语
He that would eat the fruit must climb the tree.
想吃果子就得上树.
You can't be afraid of stepping on toes if you want to go dancing.
你想去跳舞就不能害怕踩着别人的脚.
Without hard work there won't be any scientific creations.
没有艰苦劳动,就没有科学创造.
In the evening one may praise the day.
称誉白日须待夜来之时.
Hope for the best and prepare for the worst.
抱最好的希望,做最坏的打算.
Saying is one thing and doing another.
说是一回事,做是另一回事. /说来容易做来难.
In a calm sea every man is a pilot.
在平静的海上,人人可以作舵手.
He is not to be subdued by force nor swerved by poverty.
威武不能屈,贫贱不能移.
中国谚语
He that would eat the kernel must crack the nut.
欲食果仁先破其壳.
You can't make omelets without breaking eggs.
要炒鸡蛋必得打破鸡蛋.
He that would have eggs must endure the cackling of hens.
想吃鸡蛋就不要讨厌母鸡咯咯叫.
You never know what you can do till you try.
不尝试就不知道你能做什么.
Better rely on yourself than look to others for help.
与其求人,不如求已.
Better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
与其诅咒黑暗,不如燃起蜡烛.
[美国]Strong 斯特朗
Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.
千古之业非坐守可得.
God gives the milk, but not the pail.
上帝赐牛奶,桶要自己买.
英语谚语
The darkest hour is that before the dawn.
黎明之前最黑暗.
The path to glory is always rugged.
光荣之路常坎坷.
No road of flowers lead to glory.
没有一条通向光荣的道路是铺满鲜花的.
La Fontaine 拉封丹
Never do things by halves.
做事不可半途而废.
It is dogged that does it.
有志者事竞成.
Morale should be boosted, not dampened.
气可鼓而不可泄.
Cornered beasts will still fight.
困兽犹斗,狗急跳墙.
You are not beaten until you give up.
你只要不投降就没有被打败.
Ninety-li is only half of a hundred-li journey.
行百里者半九十.
Never say "die".
永远不要说"完了".
If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again.
再接再厉,终会成功.
Success belongs to the persevering.
成功属于不屈不挠的人.
Perseverance is the only road to success.
百折不挠是通向成功的唯一道路.
Failure teaches success.
失败乃成功之母.
英语谚语
Failure is the mother of success.
失败乃成功之母.
Do not, for one repulse, forgo the purpose that you resolved to effort.
不要只因一次挫败,就放弃你原来决心想达到的目的.
Shakespeare 莎士比亚
Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth.
坚韧不拔,意味着失败十九次,而第二十次终于成功.
[美国]J.Andersom 安德森
If a nag travels a thousand li, it's only through perseverance.
驽马千里,功在不舍.
Constant dropping wears away a stone.
滴水可以穿石.
So long as you work hard enough, an iron rod can be ground into a
needle.
只要功夫深,铁杵磨成针.
中国谚语
Nothing in the world is difficult for one who sets his mind on it.
世上无难事,只怕有心人.
中国谚语
Where there is a will, there is a way.
只要意志坚,道路不难寻.
He that falls today may rise tomorrow.
今天跌倒的人,明天可能会站起来.
The force of the wind tests the strength of the grass.
疾风知劲草.
中国谚语
Don't regret about your past as it's useless, but prevent the same
mistakes in the future.
往者不可谏,来者犹可追.
英汉谚语
To follow, without halt, one aim:There's the secret of success.
不停顿地向一个目标前进:这就是成功的秘密.
Anna Pavlova 巴甫洛娃(前苏联芭蕾舞女演员)
The man who has made up his mind to win will never say "Impossible".
凡是决心取得胜利的人是从来不说"不可能"的.
Napoleon 拿破仑
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
大业成于百折不挠,不论力量大小.
英语谚语
Success belongs to the persevering.
胜利属于有毅力者.
英文]：The worth of a thing is best known by the want of it.
缺乏一件东西时,才知道它的可贵.
Slow and steady wins the race.
稳扎稳打;无往不胜.
He that never climbed, never fell.
只有从不攀登的人才不会跌交.
The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work
成功先于工作的唯一地方是在字典里. 注:字典里字母S先于W.
A.Brisbane 布里斯班(美国报社编辑)
No way is impossible to courage.
勇士面前无险路.
Cowards die many times before their deaths.
胆怯者在真正死亡前已死过多次.
Grasp the nettle and it won't sting you.
大胆抓荆棘,荆棘不刺手. /你不怕困难,困难就怕你.
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Newborn calves are not afraid of tigers.
初生牛犊不怕虎.
中国谚语
fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
天使畏惧处,愚人敢闯入.
A.Pope蒲伯(英国诗人)
Rome was not built in a day.
罗马不是一天建成的. /伟业非一日之功.
All roads lead to Rome.
条条大路通罗马.
There are more ways to the wood than one.
此路不通彼路通.
Little chips light great fires.
星星之火,可以燎原.
It is not the suffering, but the cause, that makes a martyr.
蒙受苦难而死不一定成为烈士,为正义的事业而死才是烈士.
He that does nothing does ever amiss.
什么都不做,本身就是错.
Miracles sometimes occur, but one has to work terribly for them.
奇迹有时候是会发生的,但是你得为之而拼命地努力.
C.Weizmann 魏茨曼
As the wind blows, you must set your sail.
挂帆得随风向.
Strike the iron while it is hot.
打铁要趁热.
Do what is right, come what may.
不管会发生什么,对的就要去做.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
无论何处的不公正,对于任何地方的公正都是一种威胁.
[美]Martin Luther King.Jr.马丁.路德.金
An old steed in the stable still aspires to gallop a thousand li-an
old hero still cherishes high aspirations.
老骥伏枥,志在千里. 烈士暮年,壮心不已.
If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?
严冬既已至,春天即不远.
P.B.Shelley 雪莱(英国诗人)
From the ravening monster's jaw, should the diver pause and gasp,
he'd never hold the precious pearl, the bright pearl, in his grasp.
采珠人如果被海中怪物吓住,怎能得到宝贵的珍珠.
[科]Jaber 贾比尔
As long as the green hills last, there'll always be wood to burn.
留得青山在,不怕没柴烧.
After a storm comes a calm.
雨过天晴,苦尽甘来.
英语谚语
No autumn friut without spring blossoms.
没有春天百花开,哪来秋天果满枝.
All is not at hand that helps.
世间没有唾手可得之事.
Early start makes easy stages.
早动身,易从容,早开始,早成功.
The early bird catches the worn.
先出巢的鸟儿先得食.
Better to do well than to say well.
说得好不如做得好.
Better late than never.
迟做总比不做好.
As a man sows so he shall reap.
种瓜得瓜,种豆得豆.
Storms make trees take deeper roots.
风暴使树木深深扎根.
Claude McDonald 克劳德.麦克唐纳
If we can't do as we would, we must do as we can.
如不能如愿而行,定须尽力而为.
No cross, no crown.
未经苦难,得不到荣冠.
No pleasure without pain.
乐中必有苦.
Look on the bright side of things.
要看事物的光明面.
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
平静的大海决不能造就出熟练的水手.
When nature brings difficulties to man, she also bestows a few ounces
of intelligence on him.
大自然在给予人们困难时,也给人们增添几分智力.
Adversity is a good discipline.
逆境磨练人.
Adversity is a great schoolmaster.
逆境是好老师.
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
你不能靠你声称将要去做的事建立声誉.
Henry Ford 亨利.福特(美国大企业家)
Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.
Advance with it.
不要在你父兄的帐篷里沉睡.时代在前进,紧跟它向前吧!
[意大利]Mazzini 马志尼
Hothouse plants do not possess exuberant vitality.
温室里的花草不会有强大的生命力.
He must have iron nails that scratches a bear.
搔熊者必具铁爪. /要干危险事,先得有本事.
英语谚语
It's better to have fought and lost, Than never to have fought at
all.
奋战过而失败,强于根本未战.
A.H.Clough 克拉夫(英国诗人)
Problems loom large when men don't.
困难像弹簧,你弱它就强.
R.J.Bidinotto 比迪诺托
Sweet are the uses of adversity.
逆境之苦可变甜.
The future becomes the present if we fight for it.
只要为之奋斗,未来就会变成现在.
Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold
your ground, and later win a little more.
胜利是一点一点取得的.现在取得一点点胜利,坚持不退,再取得更大的一点胜利.
Necessity and opportunity may make a cnward valiant.
需要和机会可以使懦夫变得大胆.
It is better to trust to valour than to luck.
靠运气不如靠勇气.
In valour there is hope.
希望在于勇敢.
An optimist sees opportunity in every calamity; a pessimist sees a
calamity in every opportunity.
乐观者在每一场灾难中都看到机遇,悲观者在每个机遇中都看到灾难.
To know how to wait is the great secret of success.
懂得如何等待是成功的重要秘诀.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds
rise above it.
渺小的人被不幸压倒,伟大的人则压倒不幸.
To wait for luck is the same thing as waiting for death.
等待走运无异于等待死亡.
Hope and courage are two bright diamonds in the crown of success.
希望和勇敢是成功之冕上两颗明亮的钻石.
Weak men are crushed by detraction, but the brave hold on and succeed.
贬抑只能压倒弱者,勇者则能坚持到胜利.
Fearless courage is the foundation of victory.
勇敢无畏是胜利的基础.
[出处]
Don't expect anything original form an echo.
不要期望从回声中找到独创的东西.
He is the best general who makes the fewest mistakes.
错误犯得最少的将军就是最好的将军.
Ian S.M.Hamilton 汉密尔顿(英国将军)
Who has never tasted bitter, knows not what is sweet.
不尝黄连苦, 怎知蜂蜜甜.
Better never to begin than never to make an end.
没有决心干到底不如不开始.
Good acts are better than good intentions.
好的行动胜过好的意向.
The fire is the test of gold; adversity is the test of a strong man.
火对金子是考验,逆境对人是磨炼.
The strong always succeeds; the weakest goes to the wall.
坚强的人往往成功;软弱的人往往失败.
A brave man may fall, but he cannot yield.
勇者可能跌倒,但不会屈服.
A wilful man will have his way.
顽强者定会成功.
Self-trust is the first secret of success.
自信是成功的首要秘诀.
Success is achieved by converting each step into a goal and each goal
into a step.
把每个步骤变成目标,再把每个目标变成步骤,便能成功.
Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.
今日的机遇可抹去昨日的失败.
Gene Brown 吉恩.布朗
Artists who have won fame are embarrassed by it; thus their first
works are often their best.
成名的艺术家仅为盛名所累,所以他们最早的作品往往是最好的.
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An undeserved success is like a medal that is found lying in the street.
有名无实的功绩, 就像在街上拾到的奖章.
Don't tell me how hard you work. Tell me how much you get done.
不必告诉我你多么勤奋,只要告诉我你做了多少事.
Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after
another.
坚持并非一次长跑,而是一次接一次的无数短跑.
Success is never final and failure never fatal. It's courage that
counts.
没有最终的成功,也没有致命的失败.决定的因素是勇气.
Bad times make a good man.
艰难困苦出能人.
The beginning is not everything.
开头并不是事情的全貌.
The truths we least like to hear are those which it is most to our
advantage to know.
我们最不愿听到的真话,往往是我们知道了会大有好处的真话.
The moon is a moon whether it shines or not.
或明或暗,月亮总是月亮.
Better an egg today than a hen tomorrow.
今天一只蛋,胜过明天一只鸡.
Good steel should be used for the making of the sword's cutting edge.
好钢要用在刀刃上.
中国谚语
Have high aspirations and adopt a practical attitude.
既要有雄心壮志,也要有实事求是的精神.
Even after victory is won, you should tighten the belts on your helmet
and coat of mail.
在胜利之后,也要扣紧盔甲上的带子.
Money can buy off a mean person, but it can never buy off truth.
金钱可以收买小人,却不能收买真理.
The luster of pure gold will never fade; the faith of an upholder
of truth will never change.
纯真的金子,光泽永远不变;坚持真理的人,信念始终不渝.
As truth is like the sun, it cannot be shaded up by one's palm.
真理像太阳,一手难遮挡.
Wise men love truth. whereas fools shun it.
智者爱真理,愚者怕真理.
Failure is the only high road to success.
失败是通往成功的唯一康庄大道.
Compromise is simply changing the question to fit the answer.
妥协只不过是修改问题以迁就答案.
Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions. But no man has
a right to be wrong in his facts.
人人都有权持有错误的见解.但没有人有权把事实弄错.
If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never
take any chances.
假如你从来未曾害怕,受窘,受伤害,那就是说你从来没有冒过险.
Misfortunes tell us what fortune is.
不经灾难不知福.
There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.
没有黑暗这种东西,只有看不见而已.
Muggeridge 马格里奇
To insure peace of mind ignore the rules and regulations.
要想心安理得,就不要去管什么条条框框.
Geoge Ade 乔治.艾德(美国剧作家)
Opportunity is rare, and a wise man will never let it go by him.
机会难得,聪明人从不交臂失之.
A good anvil does not fear the hammer.
好砧不怕铁锤砸.
Adversity makes a man wise, not rich.
逆境不能使人致富,却能使人聪明.
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it!
如果你的船开不进来,那就向它游去!
J.Winters 温特斯
He dances well to whom fortune pipes.
运来事事顺.
He goes far that never turns.
不回头的人走得远.
He has not lost all who has one card left.
手里还有一张牌就没有输尽.
Even Homer sometimes nods.
即使荷马也会打盹. /智者千虑,必有一失.
英语谚语
We cannot wait for favours from nature; we must take them from her--that
is our task.
我们不能等待大自然的恩赐,我们必须向它索取---这就是我们的任务.
Ivan V.Michurin 米丘林
Make the best of a bad bargain.
应善处逆境.
Man's extremity is God's opportunity.
逆境是上帝考验人的良机.
It never will rain roses. When we want to have more roses we must
plant trees.
天上永远不会掉下玫瑰来,如果想要更多的玫瑰,必须自己种植.
G.Eliot 艾略特
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
心之所愿,无事不成.
Deeds are fruits, words are but leaves.
行动是果实,言论不过是叶子.
A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins
to blame somebody else.
一个人可以失败许多次,但是只要他没有责怪旁人,他还不是一个失败者.
J.Burroughs 巴勒斯
All that you do, do with your might; things done by halves are never
done right.
做一切事都应尽力而为,半途而废永远不行.
R.H.Stoddard 斯托达德(美国诗人)
On life's earnest battle they only prevail, who daily march onward
and never say fail.
生活在顽强战斗中,只有每天不屈不挠奋勇向前的人才能取得胜利.
Follow the river and you'll get to the sea.
沿着河走, 一定能走到海边.
All rivers run into the sea.
条条江河归大海.
Study, study, and study.
学习,学习,再学习.
Lenin 列宁
There is no end to learning.
学无止境.
There is no satiety in study.
学而不厌.
Live and learn. /Keep on learning as long as you live.
活到老学到老.
Art is long, but life is short.
人生有限,艺术无穷.
One is never too old to learn.
人有老的时候,没有老得不能学的时候.
It is never too late to learn.
学习从不嫌晚.
No man is born wise or learned.
人非生而知之.
No living man all things can.
世上没有万能的人.
Learn young, learn fair.
学习趁年少,而且要学好.
Who learns young forgets not when he is old.
少而勤学,老而不忘.
What is learned in the cradle is carried to the grave.
孩提时代学到的东西,到老死也不会忘记.
He who will not learn when he is young will regret it when he is old.
少时不学,老来后悔.
Learning is the eye of the mind.
知识是心灵的慧眼.
Without learning, without eyes.
没有学识就是盲人.
Conditions are changing all the time, and to adapt one's thinking
to the new conditions. one must study.
情况是在不断地变化,要使自己的思想适应新的情况就得学习.
Mao Zedong 毛泽东
Wisdom is better than gold or silver.
知识胜过金银.
Wisdom is more precious than wealth.
智慧比财富更宝贵.
Cleverness does not take the place of knowledge.
聪明不能代替知识.
Better sense in the head than cents in the pocket.
口袋里有钱不如头脑里有知识.
Wisdom in the mind is better than money in the hand.
头脑里的知识比手中的金钱更有用.
Wisdom is more to be envied than riches.
知识比财富更令人羡慕.
Wisdom first teaches what is right.
智慧首先教人明理.
A man becomes learned by asking questions.
要长学问,就得多问.
He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
有想象力而无学问的人,等于有翅无脚.
Knowledge is the antidote to fear.
知识是治疗恐惧的特效药.
Science must not be a selfish pleasure. Those who have the good fortune
to be able to devote themselves to scientific pursuits must be first
to place their knowledge at the service of humanity.
科学绝不是一种自私自利的享乐.有幸能够致力于科学研究的人,首先应该拿自己的学识为人类服务.
K.Marx 马克思
There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread
the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its
luminous summits.
在科学上没有平坦的大道,只有不畏劳苦沿着陡峭山路攀登的人,才有希望达到光辉的顶点.
In books are embalmed the greatest thoughts of all ages.
古今伟大思想均永载于书籍之中.
Water-drops, gathered together, become a sea; experience, gathered
together, becomes knowledge.
水滴汇集成大海,经历汇集成学问.
The years teach much which the days never know.
学问积年而成,而每日不自知.
Emerson 爱默生
A strong climbing-rope, made by twisting together confidence, determination
and perseverance, can help you scale the summits of knowledge and
science.
信心, 决心和恒心拧成一根坚实的攀绳,能助你达到知识和科学的高峰.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
想象比知识更重要.
A.Einstein 爱因斯坦
A word is enough to the wise.
智者不用多告诫.
A wise man is never less alone than when alone.
智者独处不寂寞.
The storehouse of wisdom is stocked with proverbs.
智慧的仓库里储满箴言.
You can become a Communist only when you enrich your mind with a knowledge
of all the treasures created by mankind.
只有用人类创造的全部知识财富来丰富自己的头脑,才能成为共产主义者.
Lenin 列宁
Reading enriches the mind.
开卷有益.
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英文：The brighter you are, the more you have to learn.
中文：越聪明的人,越需要学习.
出处：D.Herold 赫罗尔德
英文：Books are the ever-burning lamps of accrmulated wisdom.
中文：好书乃积累智慧之长明灯.
出处：G.W.Curties 寇第斯
英文：That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed
with profit.
中文：好书使人开卷有所求,闭卷有所获.
出处：L.W.Alcott 奥尔科特
英文：Choose an author as you choose a friend.
中文：择书如择友.
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英文：Books and friends should be few but good.
中文：书与友,贵精不贵多.
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Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for
your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former
as by the latter.
选书应和交友一样谨慎,因为你的习惯和性格受书籍的影响不亚于受朋友的影响.
There is no friend so faithful as a good book.
最忠实的朋友莫过于一本好书.
A good book is the best of friends, the same today and for ever.
好书如好友,友情永不渝.
M.Tupper 塔珀(英国诗人)
No entertainment is so cheap as reading nor any pleasure so lasting.
没有比读书更便宜的娱乐,也没有比读书更持久的欢乐.
A foreign language is a weapon in the struggle of life.
外语是人生斗争的一种武器.
K.Marx 马克思
A man who knows two languages is worth two men.
懂得两种语言的人抵得上两个人.
Wisdom is a good purchase though we pay dear for it.
为了求得智慧,代价再高也值得.
Knowledge comes form diligence.
知识源于勤奋.
If you want knowledge, you must toil for it.
求知必须刻苦.
There is no royal road to learning.
求知无坦途.
There is no such thing as genius; it is nothing but labour and diligence.
世间无所谓天才,它仅是刻苦加勤奋.
Talents come form diligence, and knowledge is gained by accumulation.
天才在于勤奋,知识在于积累.
An ounce of mother-wit is worth a pound of clergy(=learning).
一分天资抵得上十分学问.
Learning is a bitter root, but it bears sweet fruit.
学习根苦果甜.
If a man will not seek knowledge, it will not seek him.
你若不去找知识,知识不会来找你.
Wisdom is to the mind what health is to the body.
智慧之于头脑,犹如健康之于躯体.
Knowledge is like the spring water underground----the deeper you dig,
the clearer is the water.
知识好像地下的泉水,掘得越深越清澈.
Knowledge requires repeated explorations, and farmland needs intensive
cultivation.
知识需要反复探索,土地需要辛勤耕耘.
Reading makes a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact
man.
阅读使人渊博,会谈使人机敏,写作使人严谨.
Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtile; natural
philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
读史使人明智,读诗使人灵秀,数学使人周密,科学使人深刻,伦理学使人庄重,逻辑修辞学使人善辨.
F.Bacon 培根
A poor spirit is poorer than a poor purse.
精神空虚比钱包空虚更可怜.
As it is the mark of great minds to say many things in a few words,
so it is the mark of little minds to use many words to say nothing.
大智者聊聊数语,即能达意,寡智者口若悬河,仍言之无物.
That which is brief, if it be good, is good twice over.
精练的智语是双倍的明智.
西班牙谚语
If you want to acquire profound knowledge, you must start from the
A B C.
要想造就高深学问,就得从字母学起.
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.
倾囊求知,无人能夺. 投资知识,得益最多.
The person who knows how will always have a job. But the person who
knows why will be his boss.
知其然者用于人,但知其所以然者用人.
Bread nourishes the body, and books enrich the mind.
面包滋养身体,书本充实头脑.
The more we study, the more we discover our ignorance.
读书越多,越感到学识不足.
An ignorant man is like a piece of barren land.
不学习的人,像不长谷物的荒地.
Knowledge comes form experience alone.
知识只能来自经验.
Learning is a sceptre to some, a bauble to others.
学识对某些人是权杖,对另一些人只是漂亮的装饰品.
A book that is shut is but a block.
有书不读如藏木.
All readers can be divided into two classes:those who read to remember
and those who read to forget.
所有的读者都可分为两类:有人为了记住而读,有人为了忘却而读.
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants
to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
一个渴望读书的人和一个累了想找本书看的的是大不相同的.
G.K.Chesterton 切斯特顿(英国作家)
Bear this in mind: Scientific research costs a man his energies of
a lifetime.
要记住:科学需要一个人付出他毕业的精力.
It is to books that I owe everything that is good in me.
我身上所有优秀的品质都要归功于书籍.
Gorky 高尔基
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest
men of past centuries.
阅读好书,就好比是同过去多少世纪最杰出的人们交谈.
R.Descartes 笛卡尔
Reading is like permitting a man to talk a long time, and refusing
you the right to answer.
读书犹如允许一个人作长时间的谈话,却不给你答复的权利.
Ed Howe埃德.豪
He that can read and meditate will not find his evenings long or life
tedious.
会读书思索的人不会感到长夜无聊或者生活乏味.
Our best thought comes form others.
我们最好的思想来源于他人.
Sweet discourse makes short days and nights.
晤谈神会使人不觉日夜之长.
英语谚语
It is not wide reading but useful reading that tends to excellence.
读书要有成效不在于博览群书,而在于读有用的书.
Wisdom comes form extensive observation and broad knowledge.
聪明来自于见多识广.
Learning is the light that leads into everything lovely.
学识是照亮通往各种美好事物的道路的明灯.
Don't deck yourself up with fine clothes, but enrich your mind with
profound knowledge.
不要用衣服装饰躯壳,而要用智慧丰富头脑.
Pen and ink is wit's plough.
笔墨是才智之犁.
Years bring wisdom.
年岁带来智慧.
A man who neglects his studies in youth will regret it in later years.
在青年时代轻率地对待学习的人,将来会感到痛苦和难过的.
If you do not exert yourself in youth, you will regret it in old age.
少壮不努力,老大徒伤悲.
Laziness in youth spells regret in old age.
少壮不努力,老大徒伤悲.
Knowledge is a matter of science, and no dishonesty or conceit whatsoever
is permissible.What is required is definitely the reverse--honesty
and modesty.
知识的问题是一个科学问题,来不得半点的虚伪和骄傲,决定地需要的倒是其反面--诚实和谦逊的态度.
Mao Zedong毛泽东
Be modest in learning, for complacency is the enemy of study.
学习要虚心,自满是敌人.
Knowledge makes humble, ignorance makes proud.
知识使人谦虚,无知使人骄傲.
Natural abilities are like natural plants that need pruning by study.
天生的才干如同天生的植物一样,需要靠学习来修剪.
F.Bacon 培根
One thing I know, that is, know nothing.
有一件事我很清楚那,就是我无知
Socrates 苏格拉底
As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind
by exercising it with different studies.
土壤因播种不同的种籽而改良,智力用各科的学习来提高.
If the brain sows not corn, it plants thistles.
思想像田野,不播粮食就长荆棘.
He who knows most knows best how little he knows.
知识愈多就愈了解自己懂得太少.
There is only one good, that is knowledge; there is only one evil,
that is ignorance.
唯一的善是知识,唯一的恶是无知.
A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is
just as bad.
知识浅薄是危险的,而无知是同样糟糕.
Bob Edwards 鲍勃.爱德华兹
A man without knowledge is like a house without a foundation.
人没有知识犹如房子没有地基.
Ignorance is the mother of impudence.
无知是鲁莽之源.
He that is full of himself is very empty.
人若十分自恃,必定十分无知.
The full area of ignorance is not mapped; We are at present only exploring
its fringes.
无知的全部疆域尚未测绘成图:目前我们只是在其周边探索.
J.D.Bernal 贝尔纳(英国物理学家)
It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.
[中文：掩盖无知要比学到知识更难.
Not ignorance, but the ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
不是无知本身,而是对无知的无知,才是知识的死亡.
A.N.Whitehead 怀特海(英国哲学家,数学家)
"Nothing in the world is difficult for one who sets his mind
to it." To cross the threshold is not difficult, and mastery,
too, is possible provided one sets one's mind to the task and is good
at learning.
"世上无难事,只怕有心人."入门既不难,深造也是办得到的,只要有心,只要善于学习罢了.
Mao Zedong毛泽东
The food that enters the mind must be watched as closely as the food
that enters the body.
对精神食粮和对营养身体的食物同样必须谨于选择.
P.J.Buchanan 布坎南
Quality matters more than quantity.
质比量重要.
英语格言
The best fish swim near the bottom.
高山出鹰鹞,深水藏好鱼.
英语格言
No matter in what high esteem you are held, always have the courage
to say to yourself: "I am always ignorant."
不管你的威望有多高,要永远有勇气对自己说:"我永远是无知的."
I.P.Pavlov 巴甫洛夫
Arrogance causes nothing but trouble. It is wiser to ask for advice.
妄自尊大只会带来麻烦.聪明的作法是虚心问人.
He that boasts of his knowledge proclaims his ignorance.
吹嘘自己的知识的人,等于宣扬他自己的无知.
You cannot put old heads on young shoulders.
幼者难具长者智.
Two heads are better than one.
两人智慧胜一人.
Four eyes see more than two.
两人总比一人看得周到.
For every able person there is always one still abler.
能人背后有能人.
He that travels far knows much.
广游者,见识多.
He that goeth far hath many encounters.
走得远,见得多.
Ask the common folk if you want to know how the country is faring.
要知朝中事,乡间问老农.
中国谚语
They that live longest see most.
年岁越高,阅历越深.
A learned man is not learned in everything.
有学问的人并非什么都懂.
Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
所有的人都是无知的,只是对不同的题材无知而已.
W.Rogers 罗杰斯
Other people's defects are good teachers.
别人的缺点就是自己的好老师.
He who questions nothing learns nothing.
对什么都不怀疑就什么也学不到.
A little learning is a dangerous thing.
浅学误人.
Reading without comprehension is like eating with no relish.
读书不知意,等于嚼树皮.
Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars
of learning.
多见识,多受苦,多学习,是知识的三大来源.
Learning without thought is labour lost.
学而不思,白费力气
The wise man is always good listener.
智者善听人言.
Words are the wise man's counters and the fool's money.
智者嘴在心里,愚者把它当金钱.
Half a tale is enough for a wise man.
智者一说就领会. /响鼓不用重棰敲.
英语谚语
The secret of study lies in the integration of throry with practice.
学习的秘诀在于理论与实践的统一.
Better to ask the way than go astray.
问路总比迷路好.
Better to read little with thought than much with levity and quickness.
读书与其多而草率,不如少而精研.
He who knows nothing but pretends to know everything, is indeed a
good-for-nothing.
不懂装懂,永世饭桶.
Having half-baked knowledge is worse than knowing nothing at all.
一知半解,不如不知不解.
Better master one than engage with ten.
十事半通,不如一事精通.
Know something of everything and everything of something.
通百艺而精于一.
Wise men seek instruction, fools fall for applause.
聪明人喜欢别人指教,蠢人则喜欢别人赞美.
If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father
of progress.
如果需要是发明之母,不满足就是进步之父.
D.Rockfeller 洛克菲勒
Learning makes a good man better and an ill man worse.
知识使好人更好,也能使坏人更坏.
Better unlearned than ill-learned.
学而不化,不如无学.
To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we
do not know, that is true knowledge.
知之为知之,不知为不知,是知也.
He who knows useful things, not many things is wise.
聪明人不是懂得多,而是懂得有用的东西.
The wise man knows he knows nothing; the dunce thinks he knows all.
聪明人知道自己不懂什么,蠢人则认为自己什么都懂.
Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much form fools.
傻瓜从聪明人那儿什么也学不到,而聪明人却能从傻瓜那儿学到不少东西.
J.K.Lavater 拉瓦特尔
Through obedience learn to command.
通过服从学习指挥.
He who has an art has everywhere a part.
手艺在手,走遍天下能糊口.
He knows the water the best who has waded through it.
要知水深浅,须问过河人.
The spectators see the game better than the players.
当局者迷,旁观者清.
It is good to learn at another man's cost.
使人失败,自己学乖.
Let another's shopwreck be your sea-mark.
别人的沉船,就是你的航标.
One man's fault is another man's lesson.
一个人的过失是另一个人的教训.
We learn form the mistakes of others.
我们能从别人的错误中得到教训.
Men learn by their sufferings more than by any other teaching.
从自己的苦难中学到的东西胜过别人的教导.
Wit bought is better than wit taught.
付出代价学到的东西胜过老师教导.
Bought wit is best, but may cost too much.
亲身的体验最好,只不过有时代价太高.
He commands enough that obeys a wise man.
听从智者意见的人无需多问别人.
A diligent scholar, and the master's paid.
学生勤奋学习,就是对老师的报答.
It is lawful to learn even from an enemy.
向敌人学习不犯法.
Learn even from an enemy.
即使是敌人也可以向他学习.
Discussion is an exchange of intelligence. Argument is an exchange
of ignorance.
讨论是交换智慧.争辩是交换无知.
A knowing man is hot in arguing for truth's sake; an ignorant man
for opinion's sake.
有知识的人激烈争论是为了辩明真理;无知的人激烈争论是为了固执己见.
You can tell a man's taste in literature by his judgment in knowing
what not to read.
从一个人认为哪 些书不该看,你就可以知道他对文学的趣味高下.
Knowledge advances by steps and not by leaps.
知识只能循序渐进,不能躐等以求.
Children learn to creep ere they can go.
小孩走路先学爬.
Learn to creep before you leap. Learn to walk before you run.
先学爬,再学跳. 先学走,再学跑.
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 keeps no school; she teaches her pupils singly.
经验不由学校教,亲身实践才得到.
A fall into the pit, a gain in your wit. /A stumble may prevent a
fall.
小踬防大跌. /小惩大戒. /吃一堑,长一智.
You can't gain knowledge without practice. Wisdom comes from experience.
不经实践,不长知识. 智慧来自经验.
Dexterity comes by experience.
换取经验要付出代价.
Experience is the father of wisdom and memory the mother.
经验是知识之父,记忆是知识之母.
Action is the proper fruit of knowledge.
行动是知识的佳果.
Knowledge is a treasure. But practice is the key to it.
知识是一座宝库,而实践就是开启宝库的钥匙.
One pound of learning requires ten pounds of common sense to apply
it.
一分学问,要辅以十分见识才能运用.
Knowledge without practice makes but half an artist.
有知识而无实践,只是半个能人.
Observation is the best teacher.
观察是最好的老师.
Beauty in things exist in the mind which contemplates them.
事物的美存在于仔细观察者的心目中.
D.Hume 休姆(英国哲学家,经济学家)
Doubt is the key of knowledge.
怀疑是知识的钥匙.
True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant.
真正的科学首先是教人怀疑和知道自己无知.
M.de Unamuno 乌纳穆诺(西班牙哲学家)
You may glean knowledge by reading. but you must separate the chaff
form the wheat by thinking.
读书可以获得知识,思考才能去粗存精.
Learning without thought is useless; thought without learning is dangerous.
学而不思则罔,思而不学则殆.
Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
读而不思,犹食而不化.
Listen to the voice of experience, but also make use of your brain.
要听经验之谈,也要自己思考.
If I have done the public any service, it is due to patient thought.
如果我为公众做了点事,那要归功于耐心的思考.
I.Newton 牛顿
We thought, because we had power,we had wisdom.
我们曾这样想,因为我们有权力,我们就有智慧.
S.V.Benet 贝尼特(美国诗人,作家)
To think is to see.
思考就是明白.
Balzac 巴尔扎克.
None so deaf as those who won't hear.
不愿听人的,比聋子还聋.
Hear much, speak little. /Speak less and listen more.
少说多听.
Be swift to hear, slow to speak. /Give every man your ear, but few
your voice.
多听少讲.
First think, then speak.
熟思而后言.
Score twice before you cut once. /Look before you leap.
三思而后行.
Second thoughts are best.
再思为上.
Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open.
多看少讲.
Think more, and you'll become wiser.
多思出智慧.
Think today and speak tomorrow.
熟思而后言.
Actual practice builds up genuine knowledge; a strict master brings
up accomplished disciples. /From actual practice comes sound knowledge;
from a strict master, a brilliant disciple.
实践出真知, 严师出高徒.
Knowledge is no burden.
知识再多不压身.
To youth I have but three words of counsel-wrok, work, and work.
对青年,我的忠告只有三句话----工作,工作,工作.
[德]Bismarck 俾斯麦
Will, work and wait are the pyramidal cornerstones for success.
意志,工作,等待,是成功的三角塔的基石.
法国Pasteur 巴斯德
Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.
工作撵跑三个恶鬼:无聊,堕落和贫穷.
Voltaire 伏尔泰
If we have a correct theory but merely prate about it, pigeonhole
it and do not put it into practice, then that theory, however good,
is of no significance.
如果有了正确的理论,只是把它空谈一阵,束之高阁,并不实行,那末,这种理论再好也是没有意义的.
Mao Zedong 毛泽东
Labour created man himself.
劳动创造人.
All things are attained by diligence and toil.
一切都是通过勤劳获得的.
The shortest answer is doing.
最简短的回答是干.
英格兰谚语
The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.
为把明天的工作做好,最好的准备是把今天的工作做好.
[英]Elbert Hubbard 埃尔伯特.哈伯德
Whatever you do, do with your might.
不论干哪 一行,都要尽力干.
Who likes not his business, his business likes not him.
谁若不爱本职,他的本职也不喜欢他.
Honour lies in honest toil.
光荣在于诚恳地劳动.
Laziness is like a lock, which bolts you out of the storehouse of
information and makes you an intellectual starveling.
懒惰是一把锁,锁住了聪明和智慧的仓库,使你在工作和学习上永远是个"缺粮户".
Idleness rusts the mind.
懒散使头脑衰退.
A work ill done must be twice done.
工作没做好,就应当重新做.
Never was a good work done without great effort.
不花大力气干不好工作.
New brooms sweep clean. /A new official applies strict measures.
新官上任三把火.
On Monday morning don't be looking for Saturday night.
别在开始工作时就想休息.
To know everything is to know nothing.
样样都通,件件稀松.
The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
不亲口尝一尝,不知布丁的好坏.
The used key is always bright.
常用的钥匙不长锈.
英语谚语
No mill, no meal.
不磨面,没饭吃.
No song, no supper.
不出力,不得食.
Work while you work, play while you play.
工作的时候工作,游玩的时候游玩.
A bow long bent at last waxeth weak.
良弓张久必驰.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and
deeds left undone.
坟前洒下的最悲伤的眼泪,是痛悔应说而未说的话和应做而未做的事.
He that doth most at once doth least.
越想一次做完最多,越是做得最少. /欲速则不达.
Affairs that are done by due degress are soon ended.
按部就班,只快不慢.
Fair and softly to far in a day.
从容不慌,办事顺当.
A stitch in time saves nine.
不洞不补,大洞尺五. /及时处理,事半功倍.
Fool's haste is no speed.
急急忙忙, 欲速反慢.
Just definitions either prevent or put an end to disputes.
正确的定义不但能避免争论,也能结束争论.
It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.
想要通过争论去战胜无知的人是不可能的.
The best argument is that which seems merely an explanation.
最有力的争辩看上去只是一种解释.
Courage consists, not in the ability of overlooking danger, but in
seeing and conquering it.
勇敢不在于能够忽视危险,而在于认清危险,战胜危险.
Put all your eggs in one basket--and watch that basket.
把所有的鸡蛋放在一只篮子里,然后看好这只篮子.
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age
brings wisdom.
我年纪越大,就越不相信智慧会随年龄增长这句老生常谈.
Everybody's business is nobody's business.
人人负责,无人负责. /龙多四靠.
英语谚语
Genius is the ability to put into effect what is in your mind.
天才是将心里想到的东西付诸实施的能力.
Genius is the gold in the mine; talent is the miner who works and
brings it out.
天赋是埋藏在矿里的黄金;才能是挖掘矿藏的矿工.
To know a little less and understand a little more is our greatest
need.
少知道一点,多理解一点是我们最大的需要.
Words are the most powerful drug used by mankind.
言词是人类最有效的药物.
Brevity is the soul of wit.
言以简为贵.
Shakespeare 莎士比亚
One volunteer is better than ten forced men.
一个志愿者胜过十个被迫者.
If you have a job without any aggravations, you don't have a job.
如果你的工作一点都不使你烦恼,那就不配称为工作.
He who commences many things finishes but few.
样样都搞, 完成者少.
There are tricks in every trade.
各行各业都有诀窍.
We can only love what we know and we can never know completely what
we do not love.
我们只能爱我们理解的东西,而永远无法彻底理解我们不爱的东西.
A. Huxley 赫胥黎
There is no defence, except stupidity, against the impact of a new
idea.
除了愚蠢,对新思想的影响别无防御之法.
P.W.Bridgman 布里奇曼
A fool may give a wise man counsel.
愚人也能为智者出主意. /愚者千虑,必有一得.
The best way of answering a bad argument is to let it go on.
答复糟糕论点的最好办法是任其继续.
S.Smith 史密斯
In doing we learn.
我们在干中学习.
By the street of "Bye-and-bye"one arrives at the house of
"Never".
迁延因循,一事无成.
Easy come, easy go.
来得容易去得. /悖入悖出.
英语谚语
Deal with a man as he deals with you. /Pay a person back in his own
coin.
以其人之道,还治其人之身.
Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.
困难的只是穿上工作服的机遇.
H.J.Kaiser 凯泽(美国实业家)
One eyewitness is better than two hearers.
一个目睹者胜过两个道听途说的人. /耳听为虚,眼见为实.
"They say so" is half a lie.
传闻多失实.
I had six serving men--they taught me all I know; their names are
WHERE, WHAT, WHEN, WHY, HOW, and WHO.
我的知识全来自六名仆人,他们的名字是:"何地","何物","何时","为何","如何"和"何人".
Progress is not created by contented peodle.
满足的人不能创造进步.
If you have wit and learning, add to it wisdom and modesty.
有了才能与学识,还要加上智慧与谦虚.
Stupidity won't kill you, but it can make you sweat.
愚蠢不会使你丧生,却会让你吃苦.
Believe not all that you see nor half what you hear.
虽眼见亦不能全信,道听途说更不足信.
I am not a bit anxious about my battles. If I am anxious I don't fight
them. I wait until I am ready.
对于要打的仗, 我一点儿也不担心.要是担心我就不打.我要等到准备好时才打.
B.Montgomery 蒙哥马利
It's no use pumping a dry well.
枯井抽水,徒劳无功.
It's hard sailing when there is no wind.
无风难驶船.
A man cannot spin and reel at the same time.
一个人不能同时又纺又绕. /一心不能二用.
Nothing must be done hastily but killing of fleas.
除非要捉跳蚤,作事不可匆忙.
Everything comes to him who waits.
凡事要肯等待; 久等必有一得.
Without method little can be done to any good purpose.
没有方法,什么事也做不好.
In every beginning think of the end.
凡事一开始就要想到结果.
Pride breakfasted with Plenty, dined with Poverty, and supped with
Infamy.
骄者往往早餐丰盛,午餐寒酸,晚餐时声名狼藉.
The last drop makes the cup run over.
满斟之杯,溢于最后一滴.
Time and thinking tame the strongest grief.
岁月流逝,悲哀消失;思想专注,忧愁解除.
Today is Yesterday's pupil.
今天是昨天的学生.
One wonderful thing about a vacation is that it makes you feel good
enough to go back to work and poor enough so that you have to.
外出休假的妙处是既使你身心舒畅,愿意回去工作,又使你不名一文,不得不去工作.
I assure you that a learned fool is more foolish than an ingnorant
fool.
我向你保证,一个有学问的傻瓜比无知的傻瓜更傻.
Moliere 莫里哀(法国戏剧家)
If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
盲人领盲人,双双掉沟里.
The man who doesn't recognize a fool when he sees one is one himself.
看见傻瓜而认不出来的人,自己也是傻瓜.
B.Gracian 格拉西安(西班牙作家)
The fool does think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to
be a fool.
愚者自以为智,智者自知其愚.
Grasp all, lose all.
贪多必失.
Words without ideas are likes sails without wind.
言之无物犹如有帆无风.
A good marksman may miss.
好射手也有失手的时候.
Once bitten, twice shy.
吃一次亏,学一次乖.
A man can do no more than he can.
凡事应量力而行.
Problems can best be tackled by experts.
万事怕行家.
中国谚语
He works best who knows his trade.
万事怕行家.
英语谚语
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.
多做事的捷径是每次只做一件事.
First catch your hare, than cook him.
先得兔而后烹之. /到手东西才算数.
Catch your bear before you sell its skin.
抓到熊再卖皮.
The wind cannot be caught in a net.
撒网捕风,徒劳无功.
Too much experience is a dangerous thing.
经验过多反而危险.
O.Wilde 王尔德(英国作家)
Men leap over where the hedge is lowest.
欲跃篱笆者,必选低矮处.
Deliberate slowly, execute promptly.
思谋要慢,行动要快.
A danger foreseen is half avoided.
预见隐患犹如防患一半.
Never make two bites of a cherry.
一颗樱桃不要分两口吃. /做事不要拖泥带水.
Cross the stream where it is shallowest.
渡河要挑最浅处. /从易处着手.
He that runs fastest gets the ring.
谁跑得快谁得奖. /捷足者先登.
Let well alone.
不要画蛇添足. /事已成功,不必多弄.
Kill two birds with one stone.
一石二鸟. /一箭双雕. /一举两得.
A bit in the morning is better than nothing all day.
上午有一点收获,总比全天无收获好.
Don't put the cart before the horse.
不要把车套在马前头. /不要本末倒置.
It is easy to be wise after the event.
事后聪明容易.
A watched pot never boils.
心急锅不开.
Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action.
最可怕的事莫过于无知而行动.
[荷兰]D.Erasmus 埃拉斯谟
The bull must be taken by the horns.
对付公牛得抓其角.
Idle folk have the least leisure.
懒人没空闲.
It is more pain to do nothing than something.
无事可干比有事可干更费劲.
Haste trips over its own heels.
匆忙会被自己的脚后跟绊倒. /忙中有错.
A beard well lathered is half shaved.
皂沫涂得好,胡须半剃掉. /磨刀不误砍柴工.
英语谚语
Practise what you preach.
躬行己说,身体力行. /自己怎么说,就得怎么干.
One careless move may lose the whole game.
一着不慎, 满盘皆输.
I had rather do and not promise, than promise and not do.
宁愿多做事少许诺,不愿多许诺而不做事.
Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where
you haven't planted.
不努力而求成功,无异于不栽种而求收获.
Do business, but be not a slave to it.
应为事之主,勿为事之奴.
The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without
a telescope.
人没有想象力,犹如天文台没有望远镜.
It is not enough to have great qualities, we must also have the management
of them.
有才能还不够,还要善用其才.
Sow nothing, reap nothing.
不播种则无收获.
He who does not work neither shall he eat
不劳动者不得食.
A good beginning makes a good ending.
欲善其终,先善其始.
A good beginning is half the battle.
好的开端等于成功了一半.
A bad beginning makes a bad ending.
恶始必有恶终.
The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are ,the more
leisure we have.
事越做越能做,人越忙越有空.
Experience is the teacher of fools.
经验为愚人之父.
A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the farther of the two.
侏儒站在巨人的肩膀上,能比巨人看得远.
Go to bed with the lamb, and rise with the lark.
日出而作,日入而息.
What may be done at any time is done at no time.
随时可做的事,往往没时间做.
No one is a fool always, every one sometimes.
没有终生的傻瓜,也没有终生不当傻瓜的人.
Empty vessels make the most sound.
满瓶不响,半瓶响叮当.
A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds.
光说不做的人,就像长满杂草的院子.
Saying and doing are two things.
说与做是两回事.
Diamond cuts diamond.
强中自有强中手.
Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow.
进步乃今日之努力,又为明日的保证.
Emerson 爱默生
Fine words butter no parsnips.
花言巧语没有用.
If you want a thing well done, do it yourself.
要想真正做好一件事,就得亲手去做.
The greatest talkers are the least doers.
语言的巨人常是行动的矮子.
Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
自由,一旦开始生根,就会成为一棵生长极快的树木.
G.Washington 华盛顿
Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you give it to others.
自由就是这样的东西,不给予别人你自己也无法得到.
W.A.White 怀特
A rolling stone gathers no moss.
滚动的石头上不长青苔. /见异思迁,终无所获.
It is better to see once than to hear a hundred times. /Seeing for
oneself is better than hearing from others.
百闻不如一见.
Every man has a fool in his sleeve.
人人都有当傻瓜的可能.
Working without a plan is sailing without a compass.
工作无计划等于航海无罗盘.
The talent of success is nothing more than doing well whatever you
do without a thought of fame.
取得成功的秘诀不过是无论干什么都把它干好而不去想到出名.
To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems
so.
胆小怕事,优柔寡断的人,会觉得什么事看来都不可能做好.
Success in money--making is not always a good criterion of real success
in life.
是否赚了大钱不足为生活中是否真正成功的标准.
Presumption begins in ignorance and ends in ruin.
自以为是由无知开始,以毁灭告终.
Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but
through misadventure.
最好最妙的经验教训来自失利而非来自成功.
The failures of the past prepare the triumph of the future.
过去的失败给未来的胜利铺路.
It's the hardest thing in the world to accept a little success and
leave it that way.
世界上最难的事是获得一点成功而甘心到此为止.
W.Brando 布兰多
Dispatch is the soul of business.
迅速是商事之本.
There is a time to speak and a time to be silent.
有该说话的时候,也有该沉默的时候.
As the old cock crows, so does the young.
老公鸡怎样叫,小公鸡怎样学.
Stretch your legs according to your coverlet.
量被伸脚.
A rolling eye, a roving heart.
眼活情不专.
英国谚语
Sharp tools make good work.
工欲善其事,必先利其器.
中国谚语
As is the workman so is the work.
什么匠人出什么活儿.
Too much spoils, too little is nothing.
饭多会馊,饭少不饱
He who hesitates is lost.
当断不断,反受其乱.
To profit form good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.
提出忠告需要智慧,采纳忠告更需要智慧.
J.C.Collins 柯林斯
Take the whole into consideration. But do the job bit by bit.
大处着眼,小处着手.
Injuring all of a man's ten fingers is not as effective as chopping
off one.
伤其十指,不如断其一指.
Sharpening your axe will not delay your job of cutting wood.
磨刀不误砍柴工.
中国谚语
Talent is as talent does.
是不是有实才,就看干得来干不来.
Donna Hill 唐纳.希尔
In shooting, aim your arrow at the target; in playing the violin,
choose a tune that entertains your audience.
射箭看靶子,弹琴看对象.
Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.
给我们适当的工具,我们就能完成任何工作. /干什么活使什么家伙.
Cross your t's and dot your i's.
办事要一丝不苟.
Know the enemy and know yourself. And you can fight a hundred battles
with no danger of defeat.
知己知彼,百战不殆.
中国谚语
Command your man and do it yourself.
要求部下做到,自己也要做到.
Good riding at two anchors, men have told. For if one breaks the other
may hold.
停泊要抛两只锚, 断了一只船不漂.
Experience without learning is better than learning without experience.
有经验而无学问,胜过有学问无而经验.
From words to deeds is a good space.
从言到行,相距甚远.
He that serves well need not be afraid to ask his wages.
只要工作干得好,理直气壮把报酬要.
He that shoots oft shall at last hit the mark.
常练射击的人,总会命中靶子. /功到自然成.
He that stumbles and falls not mends his pace.
绊了一脚而未跌倒的人,一定会走得更快.
Ignorance of the law excuses no man.
不知法不能使任何人免罪.
Knowledge is power.
知识就是力量.
F.Bacon 培根
If you run after two hares, you will catch neither.
同时追二免,全都抓不住.
A cat in gloves catches no mice.
带手套的猫捉不到老鼠.
If you wish good advice, consult an old man.
欲得忠告,请教长者.
In the end things will mend.
船到桥头自然直.
One must draw back in order to leap better.
退后才能跳得更远.
He that fights and runs away may live to fight another day.
会战斗会退却的人,才有可能保存自己,他日再战.
There are people who want to be everywhere at once and they seem to
get nowhere.
有些人想同时去所有的地方,结果看来哪儿也去不成.
C.Sandburg 桑德堡(美国诗人,传记作家)
A wise man cares not for what he cannot have.
智者不为自己得不到的东西而烦恼.
Deliberating is not delaying.
深思熟虑不误事.
Zeal without knowledge is a fire without light.
热情而无知,犹如无光之火.
Capacity without education is pitiful; education without capacity
is throw away.
有才干缺教育令人可惜; 有教育缺才干被人抛弃.
It is love that makes the world go round.
爱是推动世界的力量.
There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than
ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
有的东西比才能稀罕得多,珍贵得多,这就是识别才能的能力.
Robert Half 罗伯特.哈夫
Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever
beset mankind.
工作是医治人间一切病痛和疾苦的万应良药.
[英]Carlyle 卡莱尔
What is worth doing is worth doing well.
一件事如果值得做,就值得做好.
The path of duty is the way to glory.
责任的道路就是通往荣誉的道路.
Time flies.
光阴似箭.
Time marches on.
岁月如流
Time is money.
时间就是金钱.
Time is life.
时间就是生命.
Time is the father of truth.
时间是真理之父.
英语谚语
Time and tide wait for no man.
时光如逝水,岁月不待人.
As every thread of gold is valuable, so every moment of time.
一寸光阴一寸金.
The world belongs to the energetic.
世界属于朝气蓬勃者
Emerson 爱默生
April and May are the key of the year.
一年之计在于春.
英语谚语
An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening.
一日之计在于晨
英语谚语
Time means life, time means speed, time means strength.
时间就是生命,时间就是速度,时间就是力量.
Time works wonders.
时间能创造奇迹.
Time tries all things.
时间检验一切.
Time is the greatest teacher.
时间就是良师.
Time cures all things.
时间是最好的医生. /时间能医愈一切创痛.
Time is the great healer.
时间是最好的医治者.
Time dresses the greatest wounds.
时间能愈合最大的创伤.
Time is a bird for ever on the wing.
时间是一只永远在飞翔的鸟.
T.W.Robertson 罗伯逊(英国剧作家)
Remember that time is money. Do you love life? Then do not squander
time, for that's the stuff life is made of .
记住,时间就是金钱.你热爱生命吗?那就不要浪费时间,因为生命是由时间所组成的.
B.Franklin 富兰克林
Time is often said to be money, but it is more--it is life.
人们常说时间就是金钱,但不如说----时间就是生命.
Like coral insects multitudinous. The minutes are whereof our life
is made.
就像无以计数的珊瑚虫那样, 我们的一生是由分分秒秒构成的.
J.Ingelow 英格洛(英国女作家)
To save time is to lengthen life.
节省时间就是延长生命.
Time still, as he flies, brings increase to her truth. And gives to
her mind what he steals form her youth.
时间在飞逝中仍然带给她更多的真理, 而且把从她青春中偷走的东西给予她的智力.
[英国]E.Moor 穆尔
There is no other misfortune that could be compared with the loss
of time.
没有一种不幸可与浪费时间相比.
To idle away one's time amounts to killing oneself.
虚度年华等于自杀
If you want your dreams to come true, don't sleep.
要想梦成真,少睡多用心.
犹太谚语
If you do not learn to think when you are young, you may never learn.
如果你年轻时不学会思考,那就永远学不会.
Edison 爱迪生
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got
to start young.
老年和其它事物一样,要使之成功,必须从年轻时开始.
F.Astaire 阿斯泰尔
In our expenditure the item that costs most is time.
在我们的消费中,时间是最昂贵的一项.
Wasting time is robbing oneself.
浪费时间就是掠夺自己.
Everything can be bought except time.
什么都能买,唯有时间买不到.
One cannot put back the clock.
时光不能倒流.
Take time by the forelock.
要把握时机.
Make hay while the sun shines.
趁着大晴天,赶紧晒饲草.
There is no time like the present.
最好的时间就是现在.
When an opportunity is neglected, it never comes back to you.
机不可失,时不再来.
Life is too short to waste.
生命短促,不容浪费.
He that gains time gains all things.
赢得时间就赢得了一切.
Time lost cannot be won again. /Time past cannot be recalled.
光阴一去不复返.
Opportunities do not wait.
机不可失,时不再来.
Tomorrow never comes.
切莫依赖明天. /我生待明日,万事成蹉跎.
Fools look to tomorrow, and wise men use tonight.
蠢人指望明天,智者利用今晚.
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
今日事今日毕. /勿将今事待明日.
One today is worth two tomorrow.
一个今天抵得上两个明天.
Franklin 富兰克林
Seize the present; trust the future as little as you may.
抓住现在;尽量少指望未来.
Life is short and time is swift.
生命短暂,光阴飞逝.
No hand can make the clock strike for me the hours that are passed.
光阴如流水,一去不复返.
Time drops in decay. Like a candle burnt.
时间一点一滴流逝, 犹如蜡烛慢慢燃掉.
W.B.Yeats叶芝(爱尔兰诗人)
Youth is half the battle.
年轻是胜利的一半.
Time lost may be repented but never recalled.
失去时间可以后悔,但无法追回.
Take time while time is, for time will be away.
有时间就要利用,因为时间会消逝.
Money lost,little lost; time lost,everything lost.
失去金钱损失不大;失去时间则失去一切.
You may delay, but time will not.
你可以耽搁,但时间不会延迟.
Since yesterday has gone and tomorrow has not come, take account of
this one moment that now is.
昨日已去,明日未到,故应重视现在这顷刻.
One of these days in none of these days.
拖延时日,终难实现. /终久要做,等于不做.
Times change.
时代在改变.
Time works great changes.
时间会产生巨大的变化.
Time is grain for peasants.
对农民来说,时间就是粮食.
Time is wealth for workers.
对工人来说,时间就是财富.
Time is life for doctors.
对医生来说,时间就是生命.
Time is victory for strategists.
对军事家来说,时间就是胜利.
Time is knowledge for educationists.
对教育家来说,时间就是知识.
Time is speed for scientists.
对科学家来说,时间就是速度.
Time is money for enterprisers.
对企业家来说,时间就是金钱.
Time is everything for all of us.
对我们大家来说,时间就是一切.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
见了机会,就要抓他的胡子,因为他后面没有头发.
The golden age is before us, not behind us.
黄金时代是在我们前面而不在我们背后.
Seize this day! Begin now! Each day is a new life.Seize it, Live it
.For in today already walks tomorrow.
把握好今天!现在就开始!每天都是一次新生.把握住它,好好生活,因为今天未逝时,明天已开始.
Spring is a time when youth dreams and old age remembers.
春天是青年人梦想将来和老年人缅怀过去的季节.
To him that does everything in its proper time, one day is worth three.
凡事及时做,一天赛三天.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
拖延为时间之贼.
Friends are thieves of time.
朋友是时间的浪费者. /浪费朋友的时间,就是谋财害命.
Who meddleth in all things may shoe the gosling.
爱管闲事只是浪费时间.
What greater crime than loss of time?
浪费时间是最大犯罪.
Youth is the season of hope.
青春是希望的季节.
Don't waste your precious time, for youth, once spent, will never
come again. /Seize the day, for fleeting youth never returns.
光阴勿虚度,青春不再来.
I cannot afford to waste my time making money.
我浪费不起时间去赚钱.
L.Agassiz阿加西斯(瑞士博物学家)
In reality killing time is only the name for another of the multifarious
ways by which time kills us.
实际上,消磨时间只是时间用以消磨我们的五花八门的又一种办法而已.
O.Sitwell 西特韦尔(英国作家)
Keep a thing seven years and you will find a use for it.
蓄艾三年,必有其用.
英语谚语
The fairest rose is at last withered.
好花终有凋谢时.
If things were to be done twice all would be wise.
假如凡事都可以重新做一次,人人都可成为聪明人.
Gather ye rosebuds while ye may.
有花堪折直须折,莫待花无空折枝.
Tomorrow is another day.
明天又是一个新的开始.
We are only young once. That is all society can stand.
我们一生只年轻一次,社会也只能忍受这么多.
Those that make the best use of their time have none to spare.
充分利用时间的人不会有余暇.
You cannot have two forenoons in the same day.
同一天里是不可能有两个上午的.
Not keeping an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may
as well borrow a person's money as his time.
爽约显然是不诚实的行为.占人时间无异于借人钱.
Ordinary people think merely how they will spend time,a man of intellect
tries to use it.
常人只想如何消磨时间,智者则努力利用时间.
What I do today is important because I am exchanging a day of my life
for it.
我今天做的事情很重要,因为我为它付了一天生命的代价.
At Easter let your clothes be new,or else be sure you will it rue.
复活节不穿新衣裳,日后不免要懊丧.
A plant may produce new flowers; man is young but once. /Flowers will
bloom again in due time,but man can never regain his youth.
花有重开日,人无再少年.
Every flow has its ebb.
潮有涨落日,人有盛衰时.
He keeps putting off till tomorrow, for he thinks another tomorrow
follows tomorrow; he keeps waiting day after day, and surely no achievement
he can make.
明日复明日,明日何其多; 我生待明日, 万事成蹉跎.
He who will not when he may, when he will he shall have nay.
可为时不想为,想为时已不可为.
T.Heywood 海伍德
Hold fast when you have it.
在手之物应紧握.
He that is not handsome at twenty, nor strong at thirty, nor rich
at forty, nor wise at fifty,will never be handsome, strong, rich,
or wise.
二十不俊一生丑,三十不强一生弱,四十不富一生穷,五十不智一生愚.
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether
you are happy or not.
痛苦的秘密在于有闲功夫为自己是否幸福而烦恼.
Bernard Shaw 萧伯纳
Wasting time is a crime against the cause of revolution.
浪费时间就是对革命事业的一种罪过.
You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.
消磨时间不可能不伤害永恒.
H.D.Thoreau 梭罗
A day is a miniature of eternity.
一天是永恒的缩影.
Emerson 爱默生
Life is long if you know how to use it.
只要你善于利用,生命就是长久的.
Sencea 塞内加
The value of a man's life increases with the fact that he really knows
how to make full use of his time.
真正懂得利用时间的人,他的生命价值也就因之增加.
Every man desires to live long but no man would be old.
人人都想活得长久,可是谁也不愿意老.
J.Swift 斯威夫特
One cannot help being old, but one can resist being aged.
一个人无法不变老,但是他可以抵制衰朽.
H.L.Samuel 塞缪尔
None so old that he hopes not for a year of life.
老寿星也不会嫌寿长.
Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half
of your life.
不管你活得多久,头二十年都是你一生中最长的一半.
R.Southey 骚塞
At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at
forty, the judgment.
二十岁时起支配作用的是意志,三十岁时是机智,四十岁时是判断.
B.Franklin 富兰克林
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
青年鲁莽灭裂,中年奋斗不止;老年后悔无穷.
B.Disraeli 迪斯累里
The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but what they
miss.
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.
T.Carlyle 卡莱尔
There is no fence or hedge around time that has gone. You can go back
and have what you like if you remember it well enough.
过去的岁月没有围墙和篱笆,如果你把它珍藏于记忆中,便可以回到从前并重新获得你所喜爱的.
An energetic middle life is, I think, the only safe precursor of a
vitally happy old age.
我认为,精力旺盛的中年生活是生气勃勃的幸福晚年的唯一可靠预兆.
V.D.Scudder 斯卡德
Youth will have its course.
人生谁无少年时,甜苦酸辛各自知.
Youth and white paper take any impression.
青年犹如白纸,可以打上任何印记.
A generation without a cause in its youth has no legacy in its old
age.
一代人如年轻时没有事业,老了就不会有遗产可以传下去.
E.Kennedy 肯尼迪
To sensible men, every day is a day of reckoning.
对聪明人来说,每一天都是要计算盈亏的.
J.W.Gardner 加德纳
Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
年纪只是感觉如何的问题,而不是年岁的问题.
G.W.Curtis 柯蒂斯
It is not by the grey of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.
白发多少并不能告诉你一个人心灵的年龄.
No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
再富有的人也买不回自己的过去.
O.Wilde 王尔德
As soon as you feel too old to do a thing,do it.
一旦你觉得做某件事太老了,赶紧做它.
M.Deland 迪兰
Write it on your heart that every day is the best of the year.
把这铭记在你心里:每一天都是一年中最好的日子.
Emerson 爱默生
One who keeps abreast of the time remains young.
和时代并驾齐驱的人,永远年轻.
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Community of purpose makes friendship.
目标一致生友谊.
To find friendship offer friendship.
以友谊换友谊.
Without confidence there is no friendship.
没有信任就没有友谊.
True friendship lasts forever.
真正的友谊恒久不变.
Friendship is like wine---the older the better.
友谊像美酒,越陈越醇厚.
Old friends and old wine are best.
陈酒味醇,老友情深.
Friendship is a plant which must be often watered.
友谊之树要常浇水.
Fire is the test of gold, adversity of friendship.
烈火试真金,苦难试友情.
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
患难见真情.
英国谚语
Nothing is dearer to a man than a friend in need.
患难之交最可贵.
Wine and judgement mature with age.
酒老味醇,人老识深.
英国谚语
Kindnesses,like grain, increase by sowing.
友情像庄稼,愈种就愈多.
Nothing is better than a loyal friend.
什么也比不上一个忠实的朋友.
The most precious of all possessions is a wise and loyal friend.
最宝贵的财富是明智而忠实的朋友.
A good friend is my nearest relation.
好友即至亲.
英语格言
Charity begins at home.
仁爱先施于亲友.
英汉谚语
A brother is a friend given by God.
兄弟是天赐的朋友.
No man is the whole of himself; his friends are the rest of him.
任何人自己都不是完整的; 他的朋友是他的其余部分.
H.E.Fosdick 福斯迪克
We shall never have friends if we expect to find them without fault.
世上找不到十全十美的朋友.
Man loves company even if it is only that of a small burning candle.
人喜欢伴侣,哪怕只是一根点着的小蜡烛也好.
Without a friend, the worlds is a wilderness.
没有朋友,世界成了荒野.
英语格言
A near friend is better than a far-dwelling kinsman.
远亲不如近友.
One should always live in the best company, whether it be of books
or of men.
无论是人,是书,人生应与益友为伴 .
Life without a friend is death without a witness.
没有朋友的生活等于孤独一人死去.
No one is rich enough to do without a neighbour.
人略钜富,亦需邻居.
丹麦谚语
The poorest man in the world is he who has nothing but money.
世上最穷的人是除了钱以外什么也没有的人.
It is good to have friends in trouble.
患难得友是幸事.
Men are known by their companions.
观其友而知其人.
If you live with a lame person you will learn to limp. /Who keeps
company with the wolf will learn to howl.
近朱者赤,近墨者黑.
One of the greatest pleasures in life is conversation.
生活中最大的乐趣之一是交谈.
L.P.Smith 史密斯
Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
完全的理解有时几乎会使乐趣消失.
A.E.Housman 豪斯曼(英国学者,诗人)
You can read philosophy by yourself if you want to, but you must share
a joke with someone else.
如果你愿意的话,可以一个人读哲学,但笑话必须与他人分享.
[英国]R.L.Stevenson 史蒂文森
A man is known by the company he keeps.
从其交友知其为人.
Good advice is beyond price.
忠告是无价之宝.
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not
at present.
忠言虽难听,必须记在心.
Counsel breaks not the head.
忠告不会打破头.
Counsel is no command.
劝告不是命令.
The best mirror is a friend's eye.
朋友的眼睛是最好的镜子.
All are not friends that speak us fait.
当面说好话的并不都是朋友.
A friennd in word is never friend of mine.
口头上的朋友决不是朋友.
A friend to all is a friend to none.
对一切人都是朋友,对哪一个也不是朋友.
Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody.
谁的好话都说的人不可信赖.
The man who agrees with everybody is not worth having anybody agree
with him.
同意所有人的意见的人,不配得到任何人的同意.
H.J.Palmerston 帕默斯顿
One enemy is too many, and a hundred friends too few.
敌人一个也嫌多,朋友上百也嫌少.
Success has many friends.
成功者朋友多.
Love is all very well in its way, but friendship is much higher.
爱情自有其美好处,可是友谊更可贵.
Victories or defeats are tranisient, while friendship is everlasting.
/To win or lose in a match is temporary while friendship between the
contestants is lasting.
胜负是暂时的,友谊是永恒的.
Fair play's a jewel.
比赛风格好,胜过珠宝.
A friend is known in necessity.
患难见友情.
Poverty tries friends.
贫穷考验朋友.
Poverty shows us who our friends are and who are our enemies.
贫穷让我们看出谁是朋友,谁是敌人.
Better without gold than without friends.
宁可没有金钱,不可没有朋友.
Kindness cannot be bought for gear.
钱财买不到好意.
That friendship will not continue to the end that is begun for an
end.
出于权宜之计的友谊不会长久.
Before you make a friend eat a bushel of salt with him.
交友前先和他共吃一蒲式耳盐. /不深知,不结交.
At need one sees who his friend is.
处于困境时可以看出谁是自己的朋友.
Poverty is the test of civility and the touchstone of friendship.
贫穷是对人情的检验,也是友谊的试金石.
The friend is known in the time of difficulty.
困难时刻才会知道谁是朋友.
It is not lost that a friend gets.
东西给了朋友并不是损失.
Real friendship does not freeze in winter.
真正的友谊遇到寒冬也不会冻结.
True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand
the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to that appellation.
真正的友谊是慢慢生长的树,要经得起患难的冲击,才称得上真正的友谊.
He best can pity who has felt the woe.
曾历忧伤者方知怜悯他人.
Confidence is a plant of slow growth.
信任是一棵难长的树.
Friends that desert us in the hour of need are friends in name,not
in reality.
在困难时刻背弃我们的是有名无实的朋友.
friendship cannot stand always on one side.
友谊是双方的事.
If one receives a plun,one must return a peach.
投桃报李.
中国谚语
Friendship is, at any rate, a relation of perfect equality.
友谊无论如何都是一种完全平等的关系.
Friendship is to be strengthened by truth and devotion.
友谊要以真实和忠诚来巩固.
Pride increases our enemies, but puts our friends to flight.
骄傲招来敌人,驱走朋友.
Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough.
不论什么东西,只要你爱它够深,它就会倾吐它的秘密.
Honesty may be dear bought, but can never be an ill pennyworth.
诚实代价高,换来即是宝.
It is easy to swim if another holds up your head.
有人扶着头,容易学游泳.
Good company on the road is the shortest cut.
良伴同行路不遥.
Any help is better than no help.
任何帮助都胜于没有帮助.
Friendship multiply joys, and divide griefs.
友谊能添乐,也能分忧.
Shared joy is double joy and shared sorrow is half-sorrow.
与人同乐则乐倍之,与人分忧则忧半之.
A trouble shared is a trouble halved.
两人分担,困难减半.
英语谚语
The only way on earth to muitiply happiness is to divide it.
世界上唯一成倍地增加幸福的办法是与人分享.
P.H.Scherrer 谢乐
A smile is a curve that sets a lot of things straight.
微笑是一条曲线,它能使许多东西变直.
He gives twice who gives quickly.
及时帮助效益大.
A forced kindness deserves no thanks.
虚情假意不值得感谢.
A blind man will not thank you for a looking-glass.
瞎子不谢赠镜人.
A little help is worth a deal of pity.
一点帮助胜于一车同情.
A barly-corn is better than a diamond to a cock.
对于公鸡来说,麦粒胜过钻石.
While the grass grows the horse starves.
等到草长出来,马已经饿死. /远水不救近火.
Deceiving those that trust us is more than a sin.
欺骗信任自己的人是罪上加罪.
Hypocrisy is a homage that vice pays to virtue.
伪善是恶对善的敬重.
Diffidence is the poison of friendship.
踌躇是友谊的毒药.
Many words hurt more than swords.
刀伤有法治, 舌伤无药医.
Envy shoots at others and wounds herself.
忌妒之箭,射向别人,伤害自己.
All is well with him who is beloved of his neighbours.
邻里和气,万事如意.
A friend is easier lost than found.
朋友易失不易得.
A broken friendship may be soldered,but will never be sound.
破裂了的友谊,再补也难如故.
When you make new friends, don't forget the old one's.
有了新知,勿忘旧交.
It is easier to make enemies than to make friends.
结怨易,交友难.
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
选择朋友要慢,换朋友更要慢.
Franklin 富兰克林
Friends tie their purses with a cobweb thread.
朋友之间,不应扎紧钱袋.
Before friends all is common.
朋友之间应不分彼此.
A hedge between keeps friendship green.
交友有度,友谊常青. /君子之交淡如水.
Friends are like fiddle-strings, they must not be screwed too tight.
琴弦不可太紧,朋友不可太亲.
Little intermeddling makes good friends.
朋友的事情不介入,友谊长存情谊深.
Even reckoning makes long friends.
帐目清楚,友情久长.
Lend your money and lose your friend.
钱财借出,友谊丧失.
A good neighbour, a good morrow.
邻居好,日子好.
A friend's frown is better than a fool's smile.
朋友对你皱眉,胜过傻瓜对你微笑.
We all have weaknesses, But I have figured that others have put up
with mine so tolerantly that I would be less than fair not to make
a reasonable discount for theirs.
我们都有缺点.可是我想,既然别人那么宽容我的缺点,如果我不对别人的缺点适当地宽容,那我就不够公道.
True praise roots and spreads.
诚实的赞美深入人心.
Better a frank denial than unwilling compliance.
勉强应允不如坦诚拒绝.
V.Hugo 雨果
Words are like bees, they have honey and a sting.
言语像蜜蜂,有蜜也有刺.
Kind hearts are more than coronets.
好心胜过高帽子.
A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the
way down.
真正的朋友绝不会挡住你的去路,除非在你走下坡路时.
I cannot be your friend and your flatterer too.
我不能既作你的朋友,又作你的阿谀者.
The company of a good man is the light of the soul, of an evil man
the poison of life.
结交好人,启迪心灵;结交坏人,败坏一生.
He that speaks me fair and loves me not, I'll speak him fair and trust
him not.
讲我好话而不真心爱我的人,我用好话回敬,但不予以信任.
Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to
others.
只有对自己有信念的人才能对别人守信用.
It is fair to judge people and stained-glass windows only in their
best light.
看人和看彩色玻璃窗,都要从他们最光彩之处着眼,才算公道.
A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly.
如果你有点轻信别人,你的生活就会更如意.
[英]Gaskell 盖斯凯尔
He who mistrusts most should be trusted least.
最不信任别人的人最不应该得到信任.
[古希腊]Theognis 泰奥格尼斯
Better be unmannerly than troublesome.
宁可有失礼貌,也不打扰别人.
If you make a jest, you must take a jest.
爱开玩笑的人,也要经得住别人开玩笑.
A good man terminates a friendship with out rancour.
君子绝交不记仇.
Better to be alone than in bad company.
宁可孤单也不交坏朋友.
The insolent have no friends.
目空一切的人无朋友.
As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down
there to hold him down,so it means you can not soar as you otherwise
might.
你要把别人压着不放,自己就不可能腾身起来.
Strangers at the first meeting,friends at the second.
一回生,二回熟.
Strangers are friends that you have yet to meet.
陌生人是你尚未结识的朋友.
His bashful mind hinders his good intent.
害羞使好意无法表现.
Have a horse of thine own and thou mayest borrow another.
自己有马后,才可向别人借马.
A man knows his companion in a long journey and a little inn.
长途同行,逆旅共处,伴侣品格,洞察如烛.
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
自然情感的流露,使人们更亲近.
Kind words bring life, but cruel words crush your spirit.
体贴的话语会给生活带来温暖,而刻薄的言辞能使人意志消沉.
God send me a friend that may tell me of my faults; if not, an enemy,
and he will.
愿上帝赐给我一个能指出我的过错的朋友;要不,赐给我敌人,敌人准会挑错.
Give me the benefit of your convictions. if you have any; but keep
your doubts to yourself. for I have enough of my own.
如果你有什么信念,请和我分享;但请保留你的疑惑,因为我自己的疑惑已经够多了.
Joys shared with others are more enjoyed.
与众同乐,其乐更乐.
Do not look each of you to your things, but each of you also to the
things of others.
不要只顾自己的事,也要顾别人的事.
False friends are worse than open enemise.
口是心非的朋友比公开的敌人更坏.
Fall not out with a friend for a trifle.
别为小事与朋友争吵.
Every man has his faults.
人都有缺点.
Better lose a jest than a friend.
宁可少说俏皮话,也不开罪朋友.
An open enemy is better than a hollow friend.
宁有公开的敌人,不要虚伪朋友.
He that lies down with dogs must rise up with fleas.
与狗同卧,跳蚤上身. /近朱者赤,近墨者黑.
It's good to have money to buy things that money can buy, but it's
better not to lose things money cannot buy.
有钱去买能买得到的东西当然不错,但不丢失用金钱买不到的东西更好.
G.H.Lorimer 洛里默(美国记者)
Let him who tied the bell on the tiger take it off--whoever started
the trouble should end it.
解铃还须系铃人.
We shall never have friends if we expect to find them without fault.
指望朋友没缺点,就永远不会有朋友.
Friends may meet, but mountains never greet.
山与山不会点头,人与人却能交友.
Forgiving and being forgiven are two names for the same thing. The
important thing is that a discord has been resolved.
饶恕人和被饶恕是同一件事的两面.重要的是嫌隙得到冰释.
Birds of a feather flock together.
物以类聚,人以群分.
When the fox preaches, take care of your geese.
狐狸说教,当心鹅被盗.
英语谚语
Beware the flatterer:he feeds you with an empty spoon. /He who gives
fair words feeds you with an empty spoon.
提防谄媚者:他用空匙喂你.
Distrust all in whom the impules to punish is powerful.
不要信任任何有强烈惩罚欲的人.
Every kingdon divided against itself is brought to desolation; and
every city or house divied against itself shall not stand.
一国自相纷争,就会成为荒场;一城一家自相纷争,必站立不住.
西方箴言
He that plants trees loves others besides himself.
植树的人,不但爱已,而且爱人.
To receive a present handsomely and in a right spirit, even when you
have none to give in return, is to give one in retrun.
雍容大方地接受礼物,虽然你无以回报,也等于回赠了礼物.
He may freely receive courtesies that knows how to requite them.
知道如何还礼的人才可随意收礼.
There is more than one way to help people but there is only one way
to live: help people.
助人之道不一,做人之道则只有一种:助人.
Hospitality consists in a little fire, a little food and an immense
quiet.
款客之道不外是一点炉火,一些肴馔和无边的宁静.
The world is but a little place,after all.
天涯原咫尺,何处不相逢.
Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more
tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
假如我们能预知何时何地重逢,和朋友话别时就会更情真.
Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.
仁爱是联结社会的金链.
Where there is unity, there is victory. /Victory belongs to those
who are united.
有团结就有胜利.
United we stand, divided we fall.
团结则存,分裂则亡.
The talents of an individual are limited; the wisdom of the collective
is boundless.
个人的聪明有限,集体的智慧无穷.
Many hands make light work.
众擎易举. /人多好办事. /众人拾柴火焰高.
One tree does not make a forest.
独木不成林.
One flower does not make a spring.
一花独放不是春.
One swallow does not make a summer.
一燕飞来不成夏.
One strand of silk doesn't make a thread; one tree doesn't make a
forest.
单丝不成线,独木不成林.
中国谚语
There is strength in numbers, but impotence in singlehandedness.
人多势众,孤掌难鸣.
The chain is not stronger than its weakest link.
麻绳专在细处断.
It takes two to make a quarrel.
一个巴掌拍不响.
If two parties fight, a third party will benefit. /Two dogs strive
for a bone, and a third runs away with it. /When shepherds quarrel,
the wolf has a winning game.
鹬蚌相争,渔人得利.
英语谚语
A single spark can start a prairie fire.
星星之火,可以燎原
A number of small streams converge into a vast ocean.
涓涓之流,汇成大海.
中国谚语
Love begets love.
爱爱相生.
Love is the mother of love.
情生情,爱生爱.
英语谚语
Love is the touchstone of virtue.
爱情是美德的试金石.
Love is the lodestone of life.
爱情是生活的磁石.
Love lives in cottages as well as in courts.
爱情不分贫贱与富贵.
Love is neither bought nor sold.
爱情不能买卖.
The heart that once truly loves never forgets.
真正恋爱过的心永不遗忘.
True love never grows old.
真正的爱永不衰老.
A love that could die was not real love.
真正的爱情不会死亡.
True love is giving, not taking.
真挚的爱是给予,而不是索取.
All true love is founded on esteem.
真正的爱基于尊重.
Love asks faith, and faith firmness.
爱情要求信任,信任要求坚定.
英语谚语
Without respect, love cannot go far.
没有尊重的爱难以久存.
Love is the reward of love.
爱是对爱的报答.
英语谚语
The course of true love never did run smooth.
真诚的爱情之路永不会是平坦的.
Shakespeare 莎士比亚
Hope is a lover's staff.
希望是爱者的手扶之杖.
In love is no lack.
爱情不会感到缺乏.
At the touch of love,everyone becomes a poet.
一经爱的触摸,人人能当诗人.
Plato 柏拉图
It is better to give than to take.
施比受更有福.
Love me little,love me long.
爱情应细水长流.
Labour is light where love doth pay.
以爱情作报酬,劳苦也轻松.
Hot love is soon cold.
过热的爱情冷得快.
If there is no future for our country, where can we look for our individual
love and happiness.
如果没有国家的前途命运,哪有个人的爱情和幸福.
Love will find a way.
爱心所至,金石为开.
Complete sincerity can affect even metal and stone.
精诚所至,金石为开.
Sound love is not soon forgotten.
牢固的爱情不会顷刻忘怀.
Pity is akin to love.
怜悯生爱.
Love me,love my dog.
爱屋及乌.
Eyes are as eloquent as lips.
眼睛会和嘴一样说话.
In the coldest flint there is hot fire.
冰冷的燧石里有烈火.
Love is blind.
爱情是盲目的.
Love and cough cannot be hid.
爱情像咳嗽,压也压不住.
英语谚语
Love endures only when the lovers love many things together and not
merely each other.
情人不仅彼此相爱,而且有许多共同爱好时,爱才能持久.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward
together in the same direction.
相爱不表现在互相含情脉脉地对视,而表现在朝着同一个方向向外看.
Joy is found only is Love, Life is found only in loving.
只有在爱中才能找到欢乐,只有在爱别人中才能找到生活.
Love is stronger than death.
爱的力量大于死亡. /爱情能战胜死神.
{圣经}
As devotion unites lovers so perfidy estranges friends.
忠诚是爱情的桥梁,欺诈是友谊的敌人.
Love laughs at locksmiths.
爱情嘲笑锁匠. /爱情能克服困难.
Chains do not hold a marriage together, It is threads, hundreds of
tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.
锁链系不住婚姻;是线 无数的细线经年累月把人们缝合在一起.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
情人眼里出西施.
A faint heart never won a fair lady.
懦夫难得美人心.
英语谚语
None but the brave deserves the fair.
只有勇士搭配美人.
J.Dryden 德莱顿[英国诗人]
Better be a poor man's darling than a rich man's warling.
与其遭富人厌弃,不如嫁给穷人为妻.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
越是不见越想念.
英语谚语
No herb will cure love.
相思病无药医.
There is no rose without a thorn.
没有无刺的蔷薇.
You can't ride two horses at the same time.
不能同时骑两匹马.
Between two stools you fall to the ground.
欲坐双凳必坠地.
One love drives out another.
新的爱情来,旧的爱情去.
Love is a symphony in which the sweetest notes are kisses.
爱情是一首交响曲,其中最美妙的音符是吻.
Love is a dream; but after one kiss one awakens to find it the truth.
爱情是一场梦;但一吻之后你会醒悟到它是真实的.
One in love fears no storm; he fears only the death of love.
恋爱者不会害怕暴风雨,他只担心爱情的终止.
Blood is thicker than water.
血比水浓.
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.
逆子无情甚于蛇蝎.
Shakespeare 莎士比亚
Marriage is a covered dish.
婚姻是一道盖着的菜.
Marriage is like vitamins: we supplement each other's minimum daily
requirements.
婚姻像维他命丸:我们彼此互相补充每天的最低需要.
Two things only a man cannot hide: that he is drunk and that he is
in love.
人不能隐瞒的只有两件事:醉酒和恋爱.
Would you know your daughter, see her in company.
欲知女儿品性,可看她在人前的表现.
When you sit with a nice girl for two hours you think it's only a
minute. But when you sit on a hot stove for a minute you think it's
two hours. That's relativity.
你和一位可爱的女郎坐在一起,两小时就像一分钟;你坐在炽热的炉灶上,一分钟就像两小时.这就是相对论.
A good husband makes a good wife. A good Jack makes a good Jill.
丈夫好,妻子也好.
英语谚语
Marry thy like.
结婚须找同类人.
英语谚语
Happiness is being married to your best friend.
同自己最好的朋友结婚是谓幸福.
Marriage makes or mars a man.
婚姻可使人成功,也可使人失败.
英语谚语
First thrive and then wive.
先立业,后成家.
A young man should not marry yet, an old man not at all.
男子如年轻,还不该结婚.男子如年老,根本不该结婚.
英语谚语
Marry in haste, and repent at leisure.
匆促结婚必后悔.
Birds in their little nests agree.
鸟巢虽小,夫妻不吵.
He that will thrive must ask leave of his wife.
要想发家致富,就得妻子同意.
A good wife and health is a man's best wealth.
男子的最大财富,在于妻子贤惠,自己健康.
英语谚语
A cheerful wife is the joy of life.
有个乐天的妻子是人生的欢乐.
A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership,
tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
结婚纪念日所庆祝的是恩爱,信赖,合作,容忍和坚毅.其顺序则年年不同.
A good marriage is like an incredible retirement fund. You put everything
you have into it during your productive life, and over the years it
turns from silver to gold to platinum.
美满婚姻就像一笔丰厚得难以置信的退休金.盛年时你将一切所得放入其中,经过积年累月,它便会从白银变成黄金,再从黄金变成白金.
As your wedding-ring wears, your cares will wear away.
结婚戒指戴旧了,烦恼也就消除了.
Taking joy in living is a woman's best cosmetic.
对人生感到乐趣是女人最好的化妆品.
Take it and return it:the kiss of love.
对于爱之吻,接受它并立即退回它.
Since they do not speak; kisses never lie.
接吻不用讲话,所以从不会撒谎.
One loses time seeking for words; one kiss brings understanding.
寻找言辞徒费时光,一吻即可得理解.
A kiss can bring either unrest or peace to one's heart.
一个吻既可给人的心灵带来不安,也可以使它得到安宁.
A little kiss while you are sleeping, to give you sweeter dreams.
睡时一个吻,美梦到天明.
Every Jack has his Jill.
人均有其偶.
英语谚语
A man may woo where he will, but he will wed where his hap is.
向谁求爱由自己,与谁结婚靠机遇.
英语谚语
Have but few friends, though many acquaintances.
交游宜广,知心宜稀.
It is not what is she,but what has she.
择妻看人品,切莫恋门第.
英语格言
Follow love and it will flee,Flee love and it will follow thee.
求爱爱避开,躲爱被爱缠.
If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty.
要是杰克爱上了吉尔,吉尔再丑他也说俊俏.
英语谚语
A good face needs no band, and a pretty wench no land.
英俊的小伙子无需吹鼓手,漂亮的村姑无需田地.
A bonny bride is soon buskit [=dressed].
美丽的新娘好打扮.
A man usually falls in love with the woman who asks the kind of questions
he is able to answer.
男人往往会爱上向他提出问题,而他又能回答得出的女人.
If you want to be sure that you never forget your wife's birthday,
just try forgetting it once.
要想永远记住妻子的生日,就忘记一次试试.
Aldo Cammarota 奥尔多.康马罗塔
Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.
选择妻子,用耳比用眼可靠.
Choose neither a woman nor linen by candlelight.
不要在烛光下选妻子或内衣.
Dawted [= petted] daughters make daidling [= silly] wives.
娇生惯养的姑娘,只会成为傻里傻气的婆娘.
Every one can keep house better than her mother till she trieth.
姑娘都说自己比妈妈会当家.
The story of a love is not important---what is important is that one
is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted
of eternity.
爱情的故事并不重要,重要的是一个人能爱.这也许是让我们能瞥到永恒的仅有机会.
Can man be free if woman is a slave?
妇女当牛做马,男子焉能自由?
He who does not honour his wife, dishonours himself.
不尊重自己妻子的人,使自己不受尊重.
英语谚语
He that is a master must serve.
一家之主必为全家操劳.
Even the emperor has straw-sandaled relatives.
皇帝也有穿草鞋的亲戚.
Husbands are in heaven whose wives scold not
妻子不絮烦,丈夫乐无边.
A bride is diligent for three days.
新娶媳妇三日勤.
He has a fault of a wife that marries mam's pet.
娶娇惯的姑娘是找错了对象.
Better a fortune in a wife than with a wife.
娶个富家女不如讨个巧媳妇.
If you always say no, you'll never be married.
常说"不"的人,永远难成婚.
A maiden with many wooers often chooses the worst.
求婚者多的少女往往选中最差的郎君.
Call me cousin, but cozen me out.
与我攀亲可以,欺骗我可不行.
The wife is the key of the house.
妻子是一家的关键.
A nice wife and a back door, do often make a rich man poor.
妻子气派仆人偷,百万富翁也变穷.
A great dowry is a bed full of brambles.
满屋的嫁妆犹如满床荆棘.
Better one's house too little one day than too big all the year after.
一日嫌屋子小,胜过一年嫌屋子大.
That which was bitter to endure may be sweet to remember.
当时艰辛回味甜.
Faults are thick where love is thin.
一朝情义淡,样样不顺眼.
英语谚语
Every man can rule a shrew but he who has her.
泼妇人人都能制服,只有她的丈夫例外.
Cold broth hot again, that loved I never; Old love renewed again,
that loved I ever.
冷汤回锅味不鲜,旧情复燃更缠绵.
Calf love,half love; old love, cold love.
童年相爱,半是稚气; 老年相爱,爱得深沉.
He that would be well needs not go from his own house.
要找幸福,不必离家远寻.
He knows not what love is that has no children.
没有子女的人不知道什么是爱.
Children are poor men's riches.
儿女是穷人的财富.
Comfort is better than pride.
华美不如舒适.
Content lodges oftener in cottages than palaces.
满足常在村舍,而不在王宫.
Example is better than precept.
身教胜于言教.
Who says that the heart of an inch-long plant. Can requite the radiance
of full Spring?
谁言寸草心,报得三春晖.
Meng Jiao 孟郊(中国唐代诗人)
If children grew up according to early inclination,we should have
nothing but geniuses.
儿童如按其早期倾向成长,则个个都会成为天才.
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once
he grows up.
每个孩子都是艺术家,问题在一旦长大后如何仍不失为艺术家.
Boys will be boys.
男孩子总是男孩子.
A man at sixteen will prove a child at sixty.
十六岁不成人,六十岁不成器.
Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves
arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children
but that children produce adults.
我们之中,有谁在生儿育子女前已成熟到可为人父母?结婚的好处并不在于成人可生养孩子,而在于孩子可助人成熟.
When I was young, I admired clever prople. Now that I am old, I admire
kind people.
少时喜欢聪明人,老来喜欢仁厚人.
A.J.Heschel 赫歇尔
Every generation finds it hard to hear what its children need---because
its own childhood is still ringing in its ears.
每一代人都难听到下一代的需要----因为他自己的童年仍然萦绕耳际.
A man among children will be long a child, a child among men will
be soon a man.
成年人和儿童在一起童心常驻,儿童和成年人在一起容易老成.
Women have simple tastes:they can get pleasure out of the conversation
of children in arms and men in love.
女人们有最简单的爱好:她们能够从怀抱的孩子和爱她们的男人的谈话里得到快乐.
Mencken 门肯
It is a good horse that never stumbles, And a good wife that never
grumbles.
不失蹄的是好马,不唠叨的是贤妻.
A woman never loafs; she shops, entertains, and visits.
女人从来不闲逛;购物,待客,串门总有事可忙.
Ed Howe 埃德.豪
In the husband wisdom, in the wife gentleness.
丈夫贵在智慧,妻子贵在温柔.
In a good house all is quickly ready.
治家有方,办事快当.
Be it ever so humble, there is no place like home.
休嫌它寒微贫贱,天涯无处似家园.
J.H.Payne 佩恩(美国作家)
Dry bread at home is better than roast meat abroad.
在外吃烤肉不如在家啃面包.
A good tree is a good shelter.
枝叶茂盛的大树是躲避风雨的好去处. /大树底下好乘凉.
A man's home is his castle.
一个人的家就是他的城堡.
英语谚语
Every bird likes its own nest.
鸟均爱其巢;人皆爱其家.
Home is home,be it never so homely.
金窝银窝,不如自家的草窝.
East or West, home is best.
无论在何处,家园最美好.
Diligence bring about fruitful results. /Hard work brings bumper harvest.
勤劳出硕果.
All things are attained by diligence and toil.
一切都是通过勤劳获得的.
Labour is often the father of pleasure.
劳动常常是幸福之父.
Voltaire 伏尔泰
Work is the true source of human welfare.
劳动是人类福祉的真正源泉.
Diligence is the mother of success.
勤勉是成功之母.
Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.
勤劳是事业的灵魂,是成功的基石.
Dare and diligence bring luck.
大胆又勤奋,定能交好运.
Achievement is founded on diligence and wasted upon recklessness.
业精于勤,荒于嬉.
中国谚语
Reward lies ahead of diligence,but nothing is gained by indolence.
勤有功,嬉无益.
Diligence redeems stupidity.
勤能补拙.
中国谚语
If you have great talents, industry will improve them; if you have
but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.
如果你很有天赋,勤勉会使你完善;如果你能力一般,勤勉能补足你的缺陷.
Where there are industrious persons, there is wealth, for the hand
of the diligent makes riches.
哪里人勤劳,哪里就富裕,因为勤劳之手创财富.
Idleness is the root of all evils.
懒惰是万恶之源.
Drawn wells are seldom dry.
水井常用不枯竭.
A lazy youth, a lousy age.
少时懒惰老来苦.
Idleness makes the wit rust.
懒惰使脑筋生锈.
Sloth makes all things diffiicult, but industry all things easy.
懒惰使一切都难办;勤奋使凡事皆顺利.
The bitter must come before the sweet; and that also make the sweet
the sweeter.
苦应先于甜,会使甜更甜.
J.Bunyan 班扬
Happiness, I have discovered, is nearly always a rebound from hard
work.
我发现,辛勤工作的报酬几乎总是幸福.
D.Grayson 格雷森
Industry is fortune's right hand, and frugality her left.
节俭和勤奋是幸运的左右手.
John Ray 约翰.雷
No sweet without sweat.
没有汗水就没有幸福.
Only by working hard can we reap a bumper harvest.
只有通过辛勤的劳动才能收获丰硕的成果.
Wealth got by labour is sweet in the enjoyment.
劳动得来的财富享受起来味道甜美.
It is sweat, not dew, that helps the harvest.
丰收不靠露滴,而靠汗水.
Learn form the bee busy collecting honey; don't copy the example of
the cicada hanging around doing nothing.
要学蜜蜂勤采蜜,不做悠闲的知了.
He that wiill thrive must rise at five.
五点起床,家业兴旺.
He that labours and thrives spins gold.
劳动聚财如聚金.
Many a grain of sand piled up will make a pagoda.
聚沙成塔.
Many a little makes a mickle.
积少成多;集腋成裘.
英语谚语
Who will not keep a penny never shall have many.
不储小钱,哪来大钱.
Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves.
小财注意,大财自来.
Every little helps.
点滴都有用.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labour does the body.
困难磨练意志,劳动增强身体.
Plough deeper and harvest more.
深耕细作,多打粮秣.
Early sow, early mow.
种得早,收得早.
They must hunger in winter that will not work in summer.
夏不劳动冬挨饿.
If each would sweep before his own door,we should have a clean city.
若家家动手扫清门前,整个城市就清洁了.
National progress is the sum of individual industry, energy and uprightness,as
national decay is of individual idleness,selfishness and vice.
国家之前进源于个人的勤奋,奋发,正直,正如国家之衰落由于个人的懒惰,自私,堕落.
What you have inherited from your fathers, earn over again for yourselves,or
it will not be yours.
从祖先继承来的东西,必须自己重新挣取,否则它将不属于你.
By doing nothing we learn to do ill.
游手好闲是万恶之源.
It's only the idle will be tired.
只有闲人才会感到疲倦.
Lazy folk take the most pains.
懒人躲懒最费力.
Diligence overcomes difficulties. Sloth makes them.
勤劳克服困难,懒惰制造困难.
If the tiller is industrious, the farmland is productive.
人勤地不懒.
中国谚语
A ganging fit is aye getting. /A going foot is always getting.
腿勤生财
Fat sorrow is better than lean sorrow.
富而有愁总强似穷愁无计.
True affluence is not needing anything.
一无所缺是真正的富裕.
Five hours sleepeth a traveller, seven a scholar, eight a merchant,
and eleven every knave.
旅行者睡五小时,学者睡七小时,商人睡八小时,穷汉睡十一小时.
If youth knew what age would crave, it would both get and save.
青年若知老来苦,勤俭两字永不丢.
The love of economy is the root of all virtue.
节约是一切美德的根源.
Economy is the art of making the most of life.
节约是把生活尽量巧安排的艺术.
Economy is itself a great income.
节约本身就是一大笔收入.
From saving comes having.
富有来自节俭.
Thrift is not only a great virtue, but also a great revenue.
节俭不仅是一大美德,而且是一大财源.
Gear is easier gained than guided.
生财容易理财难.
Everything is good for something.
每物必有其用.
Never spend your money before you have it.
钱财未到手,不可提前花.
Put your hand no further than your sleeve will reach.
量入为出.
Cut your coat according to your cloth.
看布裁衣.
He that gains well and spends well needs no account book.
挣得多花得恰当的人用不着帐本.
Waste not, want not.
不浪费,不会穷.
If you cannot have the best, make the best of what you have.
没有更好的,用好现有的.
Little and often fills the purse.
多省小钱成大富.
A small leak will sink a great ship.
小漏能沉大船.
Who repairs not his gutters repairs his whole house.
今日不补沟,他日必补屋.
The love of money is a root of all knids of evil; which some reaching
after have been led astray from the faith, and have pierced themselves
through with many sorrows.
贪财是万恶之根:有人贪恋钱财,就被诱离了正道,使自己充满许多愁苦.
Creditors have better memories than debtors.
放债的比借债的记性好.
B.Franklin 富兰克林
It is too late to husband when all is spent.
囊空而后节俭,为时已晚。
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
双鸟在林,不如一鸟在手。
Cheapest is the dearest.
最便宜的也就是最贵的。
One of the difficult tasks in this world is to convince a woman that
even a bargain costs money.
世界上难办的事之一,是使女人相信便宜货也是要花钱的。
Ed Howe 埃德.豪
Stuff today and starve tomorrow.
今日大鱼大肉,明日饥肠辘辘。
I would rather have my people laugh at my economies than weep for
my extravagance.
我宁可让我的人民笑我的节省,也不愿让他们为我的奢侈而哭泣。
Oscar 奥斯卡二世(瑞典前国王)
Little pigeons can carry great messages.
小小的信鸽能带重要的信息。
A penny saved is a penny gained.
省一文等于挣一文。
Money is a good servant but a bad master.
金钱是个好仆人,又是个坏主人。
法国谚语
A trout in the pot is better than a salmon in the sea.
锅里一条小鱼胜过海里一条大鱼。
爱尔兰谚语
He is most free from danger, who even when safe, is on guard.
居安思危者最平安。
Overeating will cause indigestion.
贪多嚼不烂。
Never hope for too much.
不要期望太多。
Grasp all, lose all.
什么都想要,什么都失掉。
Think not on what you lack as much as on what you have.
少想自己欠缺的,多想自己拥有的。
Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
知足是天然的财富,奢侈是人为的贫困。
Content is the philosopher's stone, that turns all it touches into
gold.
知足好比点金术。
From small profits and many expenses comes whole life of sad consequences.
嫌得少,花得多,一世日子不好过。
Spend not where you may save; spare not where you must spend.
可以省时不要花;必须花时不要省。
A like every day makes a clout on Sunday. /If you always wear your
best clothes they will soon wear out.
平时穿衣无好歹,假日出门无新衣。
英语谚语
Wealth is a slave to the wise, a master to the fool.
财富是聪明人的奴隶,是蠢人的主子。
Money is a bottomless sea, in which honour, conscience, and truth
may be drowned.
金钱是深不可测的海洋,能淹没廉耻,良心和是非感。
Preparedness prevents calamity. /Where there is precaution, there
is no danger.
有备无患。
英语谚语
Plan your consumption carefully on a long term basis, and you need
not worry when a famine occurs.
细水长流,遇灾不愁。
Cast not out the foul water till you bring in the clean.
端来清水以前,别把浊水泼掉。
There's many a good tune played on an old fiddle.
旧琴也能奏出好乐章。
More than enough is too much.
超过所需就是太多。
Hunger is the best sauce.
饥者口中尽佳肴。
A fool and his money are soon parted.
傻瓜花钱快。
Conceited [=ingenious] goods are quickly spent.
花哨货,不经用。
Drift is as bad as unthrift.
花钱凭冲动,等于无底洞。
A great fortune is a great slavery.
财多多受累。
Goods are theirs who enjoy them.
爱物者有物用。
Alms never make poor.
施舍穷不了人。
Bear wealth, poverty will bear itself.
耐得富的人也耐得穷。
Better go to bed supperless than rise in debt.
与其醒来负债,不如忍饿上床。
Better leave than lack.
有余胜过不足。
Save early and avoid want later.
/Better spare at brim than at bottom.
及早节省免得以后受穷。
Better spare to have of thine own than ask of other men.
求人不如自己省。
He that regards not a penny, will lavish a pound.
小钱不节省,大钱必乱花。
He that saveth his dinner will have the more for his supper.
午餐节省,晚餐丰盛。
The man who saves when young will have more to spend when he is old.
年少节俭,年老不愁。
He that shows his purse longs to be rid of it.
夸财招祸。
Beggars do not envy millionaires, though of course they will envy
other beggars who are more successful.
乞丐并不羡慕百万富翁,尽管他们会羡慕比他们乞讨得多的乞丐。
B.Russell 罗素
A beggar can never be bankrupt.
乞丐永远不会破产。
If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.
要想知道钱的价值,就想办法去借钱试试。
B.Franklin 富兰克林
People don't resent having nothing nearly as much as too little.
人们埋怨的常常是太少,而不是没有。
Burnett 伯内特
Beggars cannot be choosers.
乞丐不能挑肥拣瘦。
D.Heywood 海伍德
Do not buy what you want, but what you need; what you do not need
is dear at a farthing.
不要买你想要的,要买你需要的; 你不需要的东西哪怕一分钱也是贵的。
P.Cato 加图
All good things are cheap, all bad things are very dear.
一切好的东西都是便宜的,所有坏的东西都是非常贵的。
H.D.Thoreau 梭罗
The fly that sips treacle is lost in the sweet.
啜饮蜜糖的苍蝇在甜蜜中丧生。
J.Gay 盖依
We must deal with pleasure as we do with honey, only touch them with
the tip of the finger. and not with the whole hand for fear of surfeit.
我们应该像吃蜂蜜那样对待享受,只用指尖蘸点儿,而不能用整只手去抓,以免吃得太多.
Saint Bede 圣.比德
A thing you don't want is dear at any price.
不需要的东西,无论买价多少都贵.
virtue is the only true nobility.
唯有美德是高贵的.
Virtue is beyond price. /Virtue is a jewel of great price.
美德乃无价之宝.
Virtue never grows old.
美德不会衰老.
Nurture passes nature.
教养胜过天性.
Courage and resolution are the spirit and soul of virtue.
勇敢和坚定是美德的灵魂.
The best hearts are always the bravest.
心灵最高尚的人,也总是最勇敢的人.
Courtesy is the inseparable companion of virtue.
礼貌和美德是分不开的伴侣.
Glory is the shadow of virtue.
荣誉是美德的影子.
英语谚语
Character is what you are in the dark.
品格是你在暗室中的为人.
D.L.Moody 穆迪(美国教士)
Plain living and high thinking.
生活要朴素,情操要高尚.
W.Wordsworth 华兹华斯
Handsome is that handsome does.
心美貌亦美.
英语谚语
Personality is to man what perfume is to a flower.
人的品格,犹如花的香味.
C.C.Schwab 施瓦布(美国实业家)
A man is only as good as what he loves.
一个人要用他所爱的东西有多好来衡量.
Bellow 贝洛(美国作家)
He who would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom.
欲登高梯必自平地始.
Every one of us has in him a continent of undiscovered character.
Blessed is he who acts the Columbus to his own soul.
每个人都有未经发现的品性,能够像哥伦布那样探索自己灵魂的新大陆的人,是有福气的.
Wealth is the test of a man's character.
财富是对一个人品格的试金石.
It's not the gay coat that makes the gentleman.
君子在德不在衣.
Reason rules all things.
理智统治一切.
Once virtue is lost, all is lost.
一旦丧失道德,便是丧失了一切.
Fame is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.
盛名殊誉乃德才之忌.
[法国]Chamfort 尚福尔
Prettiness makes no pottage.
漂亮不能当饭吃.
He is only bright that shines by himself.
真正的漂亮靠自身的光彩.
Being a well-dressed man is a career, and he who goes in for it has
no time for anything else.
穿着整齐本身就是一种职业,一味追求穿着就没有时间做别的了.
H.Broun 布龙
The well-dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice.
服饰得体的人使你永远也不会注意到他的穿着.
The highest possble stage in moral culture is when we recognize that
we ought to control our thoughts.
道德修养能达到的最高阶段,是认识到我们应该控制我们的思想.
C.Darwin 达尔文
Thinking is , or ought to be, a coolness and a calmness; and our poor
hearts throb, and our poor brains beat too much for that.
思考是,或者应该是,冷静沉着的;而我们可怜的心怦怦跳,我们可怜的脑子老兴奋,使我们不能思考.
H.Melville 梅尔维尔(美国小说家,诗人)
Best to bend while it's a twig.
树当从小修整.
Good is good, but better carries it.
精益求精,善益求善.
Character is the first and last word in the success circle.
品德好是成功的先决条件和最终衡量.
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
抱负是一切高尚操行的萌芽.
Honesty is the best policy.
诚实为上策.
G.Sandys 桑迪斯
Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.
美德是勇敢的,善良从来无所畏惧.
Shakespeare 莎士比亚
Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.
感恩是精神高尚的标志.
Respect yourself, or no one else will respect you.
人必自敬,然后人敬之.
Patience is a virtue.
忍耐是一种美德.
Patience! The windmill never strays in search of the wind.
耐心等待! 风车从不跑去找风.
Andy J.Sklivis 安迪J.斯克利维斯
The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.
人生最难是自知.
Every tub must stand on its own bottom.
人须自立.
Genius formed in quiet, character in the stream of life.
天才形成于平静中,性格来自于生活的激流.
Goethe 歌德
Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
勇气是一架梯子,其它美德全靠它爬上去.
C.B.Luce 卢斯
Fortune never helps the man whose courage fails.
运气永远不会帮助没有勇气的人.
Sophocles 索福克勒斯
Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice.
品德可能仅仅在于有勇气作出抉择.
L.Blum 布鲁姆
The better part of valour is discretion.
小心即大勇.
Shakespeare 莎士比亚
Wise fear begets care.
懂得担心,就会小心.
Wherever valour true is found, true modesty will there abound.
真正的勇敢,都饱含谦虚.
W.S.Gilbert 吉尔伯特
Humility is the beginning of wisdom.
智慧源于谦逊.
History tells us that modesty leads to success and conceit, to failure.
历史告诫我们,谦逊使人成功,骄傲使人失败.
Man will become better only when you will make him see what he is
like.
只有使一个人看清他自己的为人,他才能变得更好.
Chekov 契柯夫
A thing of beauty is a joy for ever.
美的事物永远令人喜悦.
The noble soul has reverence for itself.
灵魂高尚的人必自尊.
Treitschke 特赖奇克
A guilty conscience needs no accuser.
自己问心有愧,无需别人责备.
Civility costs nothing.
礼貌不费分文.
Courtesy on one side only lasts not long.
礼貌靠双方维持.
Freedom lies in being bold.
自由在于勇敢.
R.Frost 弗罗斯特
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage.
把恐惧留给自己,把勇气分给别人.
Courage is that virtue which champions the cause of right.
勇敢是支持正义事业的美德.
Courage is a virtue only so far as it is directed by prudence.
勇敢只有由审慎指导才能成为美德.
Self-control is courage under another form.
自我克制是勇气的另一种形式.
He that respects not is not respected.
你不敬人,人不敬你.
He that returns good for evil obtains the victory.
胜利属于以善报恶的人.
It is with narrow-souled people as with narrow-necked bottles; the
less they have in them the more noise they make in pouring out.
心胸狭隘的人就像小口瓶子;里面装的东西越少,倒出时噪音越大.
[英国]Pope 蒲柏
To know oneself is wisdom, to forget oneself is folly.
自知之明是智慧,忘乎所以是愚蠢.
He is not wise that is not wise for himself.
没有自知之明的人算不得聪明.
It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others.
判断自己比判断别人要难得多
Saint-Exupery 圣.埃格楚佩里
He that is master of himself will soon be master of others.
能自制者方能制人.
Listen to both sides and you will be enlightened, heed only one side
and you will be benighted.
兼听则明,偏信则暗.
Correct the mistakes if you have committed them, and avoid them if
you have not.
有则改之,无则加勉.
If you don't want people to know about it, don't do it.
若要人不知,除非己莫为.
There is nothing noble in being superior to some other man, True nobility
is being superior to your former self.
优于别人并非高尚; 今日之你优于昨日之你,才是真正的高尚.
Delays are dangerous.
因循出危险.
Speech is silver, siilennce is gold.
雄辩如银,沉默如金.
Speech is silver, humour is gold.
雄辩是银, 幽默是金.
The severest test of character is not so much the ability to keep
a secret as it is, but when the secret is finally out, to refrain
from disclosing that you knew it all along.
对品德的最严格考验,不在于你能否保守秘密,而在于秘密泄露后你能否不说你早就知道.
They are fools who adulate every decision of their leaders.
对领导的每个决定一味奉承的人是蠢材.
Courage without conscience is a wild beast.
不计道德的勇敢与野兽无异.
Be like the sun and the meadow, which are not in the least concerned
about the coming winter.
要像阳光和草地那样对寒冬的来临全不在乎.
An optimist sees the rose; a pessimist the thorn.
乐观的人看到玫瑰,悲观的人只看到它的刺.
A man's own good-breeding is his best security against other people's
ill manners.
自身教养好是抵制他人无礼的最好保证.
Self-confidence and self-reliance are the mainstays of a strong character.
自信和自力更生是坚强的柱石。
Self-discipline is when your conscience tells you to do something
and you don't talk back.
听从良心劝告不违背良心办事即谓之有自约能力。
An honest man's word is as good as his bond.
诚实人说的话等于契约。
Beauty is potent, but morality is omnipotent.
美貌固有力，道德力无穷。
Benefits please, like flowers, while they are fresh.
没有开不败的鲜花，也没有永远使人感激的恩惠。
Good watch prevents misfortune.
谨慎小心就不会遇到灾祸。
Say the right thing at the right time, and keep still most of the
time.
只在恰当的时候说恰当的话，大部分时间则不要说话。
Do not do to others what you would not have them do to you.
己所不欲，勿施于人。
中国谚语
To err is human. To forgive , divine.
有过失是人之常情。能原宥别人，才是超越常人。
Modesty helps one to make progress; conceit makes one lag behind.
谦虚使人进步，骄傲使人落后。
A man of moral integrity does not fear any slanderous attack.
人正不怕影子斜。
中国谚语
Conceit comes from shallowness; arrogance is due to ignorance.
骄傲来自浅薄，狂妄出于无知。
Fair and softly goes far.
谦和者致远。
He that has patience may compass anything.
有耐心的人事事做得到。
[法国]Rabelais 拉伯雷
Let patience grow in your garden always.
让忍耐之心在你的花园里永不凋谢。
There is no mistake so great as that of being always right.
最大的错误莫过于总是自信正确。
Be not angry that you connot make others as you wish them to be ,
since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
不要由于别人不能成为你所希望的人而恼怒，因为你自己也不能成为自已所希望的人。
[德国]Thomas 托马斯
A good archer is not known by his arrows but his aim.
神箭手因其射中靶子而非因其箭而闻名。
John Lyly 约翰·黎里
Hesitation signifies wavering of will.
犹豫说明意志的动摇。
中国谚语
Strong in action, gentle in method.
行动要坚强，方式要温和。
To me, faith means not worrying.
对我来说，信念意味着不担心。
J.Dewey 杜威
There are no faults in a thing we want badly.
我们非常想要的东西总是没有缺点的。
阿拉伯谚语
The greater a man is, the more distasteful is praise and flattery
to him.
一个人越伟大，对表扬和奉承就越反感。
J.Burroughs 巴勒斯
Human pride is human weakness.
人类的骄傲即是人类的弱点。
M.B.Eddy 埃娣
He that thinks too much of his virtues bids others think of his vice.
念念不忘自己长处的人，使别人想起他的缺点。
W.Hazlitt 哈兹里特
The most difficult secret for a man to keep is his own opinion of
himself.
一个人最难保守的秘密是自己对自己的看法。
M.Pagnol 帕尼奥尔
Words are like leaves; And where they most abound, much fruit of sense
beneath is rarely found.
言语就像树叶，在最茂密的树叶下，很难找到丰硕的理智之果。
Pope 蒲柏
Let bygones be bygones.
既往宜不咎。
英语谚语
Look on both sides of the shield.
看问题要从两面看。
英语谚语
If you don't like it , you can lump it.
纵不喜欢，也要容忍。
英语谚语
There is one thing about hens that looks like wisdom-they don't cackle
until they have laid their eggs.
母鸡有一点看来是明智的它们在下了蛋之后才咯咯叫。
J.Billings 比林斯
The turtle lays thousands of eggs without anyone knowing, but when
the hen lays an egg, the whole country is informed.
海龟下几千只蛋都不动声色，母鸡下一只蛋就闹得四邻皆知。
Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles
as if she had laid an asteroid.
噪声不能证明什么。母鸡产下一只蛋，往往大声啼叫，好像产下小行星似的。
Conceit may puff a man up, but it can never prop him up.
自高自大可以使一个人膨胀起来，但并不能支撑住他。
J.Ruskin 罗斯金
There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire.
The other is to gain it.
人生有两出悲剧。一是失去心中所欲的，另一是得到心中所欲的。
Pride goes before fall.
骄者必败。
If it weren't for the rocks in its bed, the stream would have no song.
溪床如果无石块，溪流就不会潺潺歌唱。
英语谚语
Let him who knows the instrument play upon it.
让会干的人去干。
We soon believe what we desire.
心里想什么就会相信什么。
In important matters, we expose our best sides; in trivial matters,
we disclose ourselves as we really are.
在重要的事件中我们显露出好的方面，在无关紧要的小事中我们才显露出本来的面目。
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your
riches but to reveal to him his own.
给人最大的帮助，不单是让他分享你的富有，而是向他指明他的富有。
Every medal has two sides.
每个勋章都有两面。/每个问题都有正反两面。
Who chatters to you will chatter of you.
对你论人是非者，必将对人论你是非。
Beware of a silent dog and still water.
提防不吠的狗，小心平静的水。/不叫的狗咬人痛，无浪的水淹死人。
The least said, the soonest mended.
少说一句，息事宁人。
Titles do not reflect honour on men, but rather men on theri titles.
称号并没有给人带来荣誉，而是人给自己的称号带来荣誉。
N.Machiavelli 马基雅弗利(意大利政治家)
Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest.
每匹马都认为自己的负载最重。
Light not a candle to the sun.
不要对着太阳点蜡烛。/日既出矣，爝火可熄。
It is a foolish sheep that makes the wolf his confessor.
笨羊才向狼忏悔。
The higher the ape goes, the more he shows his tail.
猴子爬得越高，尾巴露得越多。
A man's vanity is actually in proportion to ignorance.
一个人的虚荣心实际上和他的愚蠢程度成正比。
The lowly are most intelligent; the elite are most ignorant.
卑贱者最聪明，高贵者最愚蠢。
Catch not at the shadow and lose the substance.
勿抓影子而失去本质。
You can tell the size of a man by the size of the things that make
him mad.
你可以根据多大的事情能使一个人生气，判断出这个人的器量。
A.E.Stevenson 史蒂文森
Man proposes, God disposes.
谋事在人，戒事在天。
Sometimes a majority simply means that all the fools are on the same
side.
有时多数只意味着所有的愚人都站在同一边 。
A word once spoken cannot be taken back even by a team of four horses.
一言既出，驷马难追。
Never fry a fish till it is caught.
鱼未捉到手，不要忙着煎。
Fine feathers make fine birds.
好的衣装只能打扮出个好外表。
[讽]英语谚语
Call a spade a spade.
是啥说啥，难听不怕。
He who says what he likes, shall hear what he does not like.
想怎么说就怎么说的人早晚会听到他不中意的话。
He that has a great nose thinks everybody is speaking of it.
鼻子长得大，总怕有人说。/做贼心虚。
Error is often the precursor of what is correct, but conceit is the
prelude to a fall.
错误往往是正确的先导，骄傲往往是跌跤的前奏。
A liar is not believed when he tells the truth.
惯说谎者说真话时也没人相信了。
Some people cannot see the wood for the trees.
有些人见树不见林。
You cannot burn the candle at both ends.
蜡烛不能两头点。
Do not put new wine into old bottles.
不要旧瓶装新酒。
One cloud is enough to eclipse all the sun.
片云足以遮全日。
He who refuses nothing will soon have nothing to refuse.
对什么都不拒绝的人很快会没有东西可拒绝。
Hemingway 海明威
We must set the example but that doesn't mean we must follow it.
我们必须树立起榜样，但这并不意味着我们必须照办。
B.Kops 科普斯(英国剧作家、小说家)
Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.
通常是没想到成名的人反而成了名。
O.W.Holmes 霍姆斯(美国诗人)
All men can't be first.
不可能人人得冠军。
We can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and elap as
they go by.
我们不可能都成为英雄。总得有人在英雄们走过时坐在路边鼓掌。
W.Roger罗杰(美国幽默家)
Good wine needs no bush.
酒好无需挂幌子。
英语谚语
Hide not your light under a bushel.
不要把你的烛光藏在笆斗下。/勿过分谦虚，隐藏才能。
An honest man doesn't do anything underhand.
明人不做暗事。
If the ruler is personally upright, all will go well even though he
does not give orders. But if he is not personally upright, even though
he gives orders, they will not be obeyed.
其身正，不令而行； 其身不正，虽令不从。
Confucius 孔子
One must draw the line somewhere.
干什么都应有个限度。
Wishes never can fill a sack.
愿望装不满口袋。
Never bow to authority, but always tip your hat.
应向有权者敬礼，不应向他屈膝。
Don't halloo till you are out of the wood.
未出险境，莫先高兴。
Don't throw out the baby with the bath water.
不要将小孩与洗澡水一起倒掉。
Appearances are deceptive.
外表是靠不住的。
Spectators see clearly while the participants are often lost in the
maze.
旁观者清，当局者迷。
中国谚语
We get so much in the habit of wearing a disguise before others that
we eventually appear disguised before ourselves.
我们惯于在别人面前矫揉造作，结果对自己也矫揉造作。
Gossip is that which no one claims to like-but everybody enjoys.
没人自称喜欢听闲话，可是闲话人人都爱听。
Leal heart lied never.
心诚无谎言。
Knavery may serve a turn, but honesty never fails.
欺诈或许暂时有用，诚实却永远有用。
It is hard to laugh and cry both with a breath.
人很难同时即哭又笑。
What is a workman without his tools?
巧妇难为无米之炊。
All bread is not baked in one oven.
面包不都是一个炉灶里烤出来的。/不应强求一律。
Once a beggar, always a beggar.
一次做乞丐，永远是乞丐。
英语谚语
Murder will out.
恶行终会败露。
"Never"is a long word.
不要轻易说"决不"。
英语谚语
One gives nothing so liberally as advice.
不花钱出主意，谁人不乐意。
One good turn deserves another.
应以德报德。
英语谚语
We should never remember the benefits we have offered, not forget
the favour received.
做点好事别提起，别人恩情要牢记。
In my own city my name, in a strange city my clother procure me respect.
在家乡，名字使人受到尊敬；在异地，衣服使人受到尊敬。
The pot calls the kettle black.
锅嫌罐黑。/责人而不责己。
英语谚语
Open different locks with different keys.
一把钥匙开一把锁。
中国谚语
Tell all that you know and tell it without reserve.
知无不言，言无不尽。
Running water does not get stale; a doorhinge is never worm-eaten.
流水不腐，户枢不蠹。
中国谚语
You can't have everything in this life.
万事如意古来难。
英语谚语
He is wise that is ware in time.
聪明人防患于未然。
Think more, and you'll become wiser. /Use your brain and you'll become
a wise man.
多思出智慧。
It is the careless man that will suffer;never will the prudent man
fall into a trap.
只有大意吃亏，没有小心上当。
中国谚语
The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.
妒忌者对别人是烦恼，对他们自己却是折磨。
W.Penn 佩恩
An irritable man is like a hedgehog rolled up the wrong way, tormenting
himself with his own prickles.
易怒的人像一只反过来蜷缩的刺猬，用自己的刺折磨自己。
T.Hood 胡德(英国诗人)
The man who gets angry suffers more than the person who is the object
of his wrath.
发脾气的人比对方受罪。
O.W.Holmes 霍姆斯
If a person refuses to hear other's advice, this will do him no good;
but if he follows whatever advice people might offer him, this will
do him even greater harm.
一个人不听劝告不好，但若任何劝告都听，则是更加不好。
A stupid person always tries to justify himself for his mistakes;
but a wise man tries his best to correct his errors.
愚蠢的人总是为自己的错误辩护，聪明的人则力求改正自己的错误。
If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice,
shame on me.
人欺我一次，他羞耻，欺我两次，我羞耻。
Advice should always be consumed to between two thick slices of doubt.
对任何劝告都该三思而后行。
Walt Schmidt 沃尔特·施米特
Trust thyself only, and another shall not betray thee.
不信他人信自己，别人不会出卖你。
He who peeps through a hole may see what will vex him.
偷窥者会看到使自己烦恼的事。
He who allows himself to be insulted, deserves to be.
自己甘愿受辱的人，受污辱也活该。
[英国]F.C.Cornford 科福德
A still tongue makes a wise head.
沉默者有智慧。
Beware beginning.
慎始为上。
If you save a drowning dog, it'll bite you after getting back on shore.
救了落水狗，反咬你一口。
If you let a tiger escape back to the mountain, you'll cause calamity
for the future.
纵虎归山，必有后患。
Just a bit of a mouse's dropping will spoil a whole saucepan of broth.
一粒老鼠屎败坏一锅汤。
中国谚语
We needn't guard against one who calls himself a thief, but we should
watch out for one who calls himself an upright gentleman.
自称盗贼的无须防，自称正人君子的必须防。
When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, count a hundred.
生气的时候，先数到十再开口；如果非常愤怒，先数到一百。
T.Jefferson 杰弗逊
A past mistake of one serves as a good lesson to all.
一人之失，百人之师。
中国谚语
In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
在任何力量与耐心的比赛中，把宝押在耐心上。
W.H.Prescott 普雷斯科特
Beware of the fury of a patient man.
要小心脾气好的人发火。
J.Dryden 德莱顿(英国文学家)
There is , however, a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.
克服也有个限度，超过了限度就不再是美德。
E.Burke 伯克
Anger is seldom without an argument, but seldom with a good one.
生气很少没有理由，不过很少有一个很好的理由。
C.M.Halifax 哈利法克斯
The overturned cart ahead is a warning to the carts behind.
前车之覆，后车之鉴。
中国谚语
A mirror can only help you see the stain on your face; and to wipe
it off, you have to rely on yourself.
镜子只能帮助你找到脸上的污点，要擦掉污点还要靠自己。
Repent what's past, avoid what is to come.
前事不忘，后事之师。
Where it concerns himself, who's angry at a slander makes it true.
一涉及自己，忿怒便会使诽谤成真。
B.Jonson 琼森(英国文学家)
Remember that you took a wrong way to a place, and you can have a
smooth trip home.
记着去时走错的路，回来时就顺利了。
Don't be afraid of making mistakes, but it is harmful to let them
remain uncorrected.
不怕有过，就怕不改。
Happy is the man who learns from the misfortunes of others.
吸取别人教训，自然就会走运。
英语谚语
It's just in time to rein in at the brink of the precipice; but it's
too late to mend the ship's leak in the middle of the river.
悬崖勒马犹未晚，船到江心补漏迟。
中国谚语
Be steady in doing your work; be resolute in correcting your mistakes.
做事要稳，改错要狠。
A person who is imperious and tries to gloss over his fault is bound
to suffer in the end.
专横跋扈，文过饰非的人到头来总是要吃亏的。
A modest man frequently ponders over his mistakes; a conceited man
only gossips about other's errors.
谦虚者常思己过，骄傲者只论人非。
There is no garden without its weeds.
没有不长杂草的花园。
Give credit where credit is due.
有功则赏。
Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong.
自由是无意而犯错误的权利，而不是故意做错事的权利。
J.G.Diefenbaker 迪芬贝克
One link broken, the whole chain is broken.
一环断，全链断。/百尺之链，断于一环。
One's ability falls short of one's wishes. /The spirit is willing,
but the flesh is weak.
心有余而力不足。
A bad workman quarrels with his tools.
人笨怨刀钝。
He who cannot dance puts the blame on the floor.
不会跳舞的人怪地板不平。
印度谚语
Knock, and the door shall be opened.
只要敲门，就会有人来开。
No one but the wearer knows where the shoe pinches.
穿鞋的人自己知道哪儿夹脚。
A big wind can blow through a small hole.
针尖大的窟窿，斗大的风。
A bad padlock invites a picklock.
坏锁招人撬。
He who fears to venture as far as his heart urges and reason permits
is a coward.
有道理的事想做而不敢做的人是懦夫。
Nature has given us two ears, two eyes and one tongue, to the end
that we should hear and see more than speak.
老天给人双耳双眼一张嘴，为使我们多听多看少讲话。
Poverty of speech is the outward evidence of poverty of mind.
语言贫乏说明头脑空虚。
Wisdom consists in the ability to discriminate between the probable
and improbable, and in being reconciled to the inevitable.
智慧在于辨别可能与不可能并顺应不可避免的事情。
It takes two to speak truth-one to speak and another to hear.
说真话要有两个人一个说，一个听。
A gossip's mouth is the devil's mail-bag.
饶舌者的嘴巴是魔鬼的邮袋。
No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and
love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other.
一个人不能侍奉两个主人；不是恨这个爱那个，就是重这个轻那个。
Love victory, but despise the pride of triumph.
要爱胜利，但不要为胜利而骄傲。
Vows made in storms are forgotten in calms.
急风暴雨时信誓旦旦，风平浪静时忘在一边。
Prudence is a good thing; forethought is wisdom.
谨慎小心是好事；深谋远虑是明智。
A cautious mind is the half of wisdom.
谨慎小心近于明智.
Ingratitude is a kind of weakness; clever men are not ungrateful.
忘恩负义是一种软弱的表现；明智的人不会忘记别人的恩德。
Gratitude is the least of virtues; ingratitude the worst of vices.
感恩是小德；忘恩是大恶。
Gratitude takes three forms_a feeling in the heart, an expression
in words, and giving in return.
感恩有三种形式：藏在心里，说在嘴上，见于行动。
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
没有一笔遗产能像诚实一样丰厚。
Don't make mountains out of molehills.
勿把苍蝇说成大象。
英语谚语
Never offer to teach fish to swim.
切忌班门弄斧。
There's no wisdom like silence.
保持沉默最聪明。
Who knows most says least.
知道得最多的人说得最少。
Conceit is the most incurable disease that is known to the human soul.
骄傲自满是精神上最不可救药的顽症。
Pride, the most dangerous of all faults, proceeds from want of sense,
or want of thought.
骄傲是最危险的过错，它产生于缺乏见识，或缺乏思考。
A man may have a just esteem of himself without being proud.
一个人虽对自己有恰当的尊敬，也无需骄傲。
Respect a man, he will do the same.
尊重别人，别人就会尊重你。
Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with.
与人相处切忌卖弄聪明与学识。
Without modesty beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.
没有谦虚，美丽就不端庄，机智也讨人嫌。
A large part of virtue consists in good habits.
美德大多只是良好的习惯。
Wisdom is in the head and not in the beard.
智慧在于有脑子，不在于有胡子。
Justifying a fault doubles it.
护短是加倍的错误。
Be wisely worldly, be not worldly wise.
要聪明地世故，不要世故地聪明。
To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized
man.
曾对自己的最初原则表示怀疑，是文明人的标记。
Envy is a most terrible thing, and would spoil anybody's nature.
忌妒是很可怕的东西，它会毁损一切人的天性。
He that desires honour is not worthy of honour.
渴求荣誉的人不值得有荣誉。
Vainglory blossoms but never bears.
虚荣光开花，永远不结果。
Envy may dissatisfy us with our lot.
嫉妒可使我们对自己的命运不满意。
Spite is never lonely; envy always tags along.
怨恨绝不孤独；嫉妒总是与它相随。
He who is great need not inflate himself.
伟大的人不需要自吹自擂。
There must be a happy medium somewhere between being totally informed
and blissfully unaware.
无所不知与幸福地无知之间，一定有适得其所的中间地。
The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively
but says nothing.
等到对方只是点头同意而一言不发时，那就是你该停止说话的时候了。
The first requirement of good conversation is that nobody should know
what is coming next.
谈话艺术的第一要素是让人不知道你接下去要讲什么。
Anger begins with folly, and ends in repentance.
愤怒以愚蠢开始，以后悔告终。
Two can play at the game.
你会耍的花招，别人也会。
英语谚语
Anger is not only inevitable, it is necessary. Its absence means indifference,
the most disastrous of all human failings.
愤怒不仅无可避免，而且有必要。没有愤怒表示你漠不关心，那才是人类最可怕的弱点。
Never "for the sake of peace and quiet" deny your own experience
or conviction.
永远不?quot;为了息事宁人"而否认自己的经验或信念。
More trouble is caused in this world by indiscreet answers than by
indiscreet questions.
轻率的回答在这个世界上造成的麻烦比轻率的问题造成的麻烦多得多。
If there were less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble
in the world.
如果世界上少一些同情，世界上也就会少一些麻烦。
O.Wilde 王尔德
Opinions should be formed with great caution-and changed with greater.
形成意见要慎重，改变意见要更慎重。
Credit keeps the crown of the causeway.
守信誉的人不怕走在大街中央。
When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that
three of his fingers are pointing at himself.
用手指着别人的时候，该记得另三只手指是指着自己的。
Barking dogs don't bite.
吠犬不咬人。
You are permitted in time of great danger to walk with the devil until
you have crossed the bridge.
危急之时人可以与魔鬼结伴而行，但需只到走过险桥后为止。
Whether the pitcher strikes the stone, or the stone the pitcher, it
is bad for the pitcher.
不论是水罐敲石头，还是石头敲水罐，都是水罐遭殃。
Don't have your cloak to make when it begins to rain.
别等下雨再做雨衣。/宜未雨绸缪。
Spare the rod and spoil the child.
不打不成器。
Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on
the street.
许多人的名声如果在街上遇到自己的品德会互相不认识。
E.Hubbard 哈伯德(美国作家)
The wages of sin is death.
为恶者应灭亡。
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As man sows, so he shall reap.
善有善报，恶有恶报。
Who swims in sin shall sink in sorrow.
在罪恶中漂浮者终将在悲哀中沉没。
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill.
Our antagonist is our helper.
和我们搏斗的人增强我们的神经，磨砺我们的技巧。敌手即是助手。
He deserves not the sweet that will not taste the sour. He dwells
far from neighbours that is fain to praise himself.
不愿吃苦的人，不配享乐；爱炫耀自己的人，没有人愿与他为邻。
He hath ill neighbours that is fain to praise himself.
爱自夸的人没有好邻居。
I can resist everything except temptation.
我什么都能抵制，只有诱惑除外。
O.Wilde 王尔德
Haste and wisdom are things far odd.
轻率与智慧相距遥远。
Great men's sons soldom do well.
伟人的儿子有出息的不多。
Fair words fill not the belly.
甜言蜜语填不饱肚子。
Falsehood like a nettle stings those who meddle with it.
谎言似荨麻，谁玩谁被扎。
英语谚语
False with one can be false with two.
能对一个人虚伪，就能对两个人奸诈。
Familiarity breeds contempt.
亲密生侮心。
英语谚语
For a lost thing care nothing.
物已丢失，勿再烦恼。
For a morning rain leave not your journey
不要因为早晨下了一场雨就不去旅行。
For one good deed a hundred ill deeds should be overlooked.
一善足以消百恶。
To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly
is the beginning of wisdom.
远离罪恶是美德之始；摆脱愚蠢是智慧之初。
[古罗马]Horatius 贺拉斯
Forgive and forget.
恢弘大度，勿念旧恶。
Give a dog a bad name and hang him.
一旦加入以恶名，他永远洗刷不清。
Give a lie twenty-four hours start, and you can never overtake it.
让谎言早跑一天，你就别想追上。
Give losers leave to speak.
要允许失败者讲话。
A boaster and a liar are all one.
吹牛撒谎一家亲。
Go not for every grief to the physician, for every quarrel to the
lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot.
不要一有病痛就求医，一有争吵就请律师，稍觉口渴就找水壶。
A birbe will enter without knocking.
贿赂毋须敲门而入。
Beauty will buy no beef.
漂亮不能当饭吃。
Every bean hath its black.
每粒蚕豆都长黑嘴。 /人都有缺点。
Easy and success are fellows.
从容与成功是伙伴。
Envy never enriched any man.
嫉妒从未使人得益。
Humility often gains more than pride.
谦逊往往比骄傲获益更多。
He that is angry without a cause, must be pleased without amends.
不要给无故生气的人赔不是。
He that praiseth himself spattereth himself.
自我标榜，等于自我诽谤。
He that promises too much means nothing.
许诺过多等于零。
He that puts on a public gown must put off a private person.
担任公职的人，就要不徇私情。
He that speaks sows, and he that holds his peace gathers.
滔滔不绝者播下种子，闭口不言者收割庄稼。
He who has no shame has no conscience.
不知羞耻的人不知自疚。
He who laughs at crooked men should need walk very straight.
讥笑别人驼背的人，自己先得挺直身子。
He that hears much and speaks not a all. shall be welcome both in
bower and hall.
多听不多言，里外人不嫌。
Those who seek to please everybody please nobody.
见人就献媚，谁也不待见。
If you are too fortunate, you will not know voruself; if you are too
unfortunate,nobody will know you.
运气太好，忘乎所以； 运气不好，无人搭理。
Don't meet trouble half-way.
不要自寻烦恼。
A horse stumbles that has four legs.
人有失足，马有失蹄。
Let not the sun go down on your wrath.
不要在生气中让太阳下山。 /今日气，今日息。
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
沉默是最难反驳的论点之一。
A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder.
心里坦然，打雷也照样入睡。
A proud man hath many crosses.
骄傲者挫折多。
A clear conscience laughs at false accusation.
只要问心无愧，无端的指责可以一笑置之。
A close mouth catches no flies.
嘴巴闭得紧，苍蝇飞不进。
A covetous man is good to none, but worst to himself.
贪心不足的人对他人无益，对自己最有害。
I will not keep a dog and bark myself.
既然养了狗，何必自己叫?
英语谚语
Too many cooks spoil the broth.
厨师太多烧坏汤。
英语谚语
Don't carry coals to Newcastle.
别往纽卡斯尔(英煤都)运煤。/多此一举，徒劳无益。
英语谚语
Accidents will happen in the best regulated families.
家规再严，事端难免。
An unambitious man is easily carried away by victory; a short-sighted
man would have an exaggerated opinion of his abilities after being
praised a little.
胸无大志的人容易被胜利冲昏头脑；鼠目寸光的人稍受表扬就不知天高地厚。
What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would
smell as sweet.
名字有什么关系?把玫瑰花叫做别的名称，它还是照样芳香。
Shakespeare 莎士比亚
Whom the gods destroy, they first make mad.
上帝要谁灭亡，必先让他疯狂。
Euripides 欧里庇得斯
Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
愤怒是吹灭心中之灯的风。
R.Ingersoll 英格索尔
All the mistakes I ever made in my life were when I wanted to say
"NO", and said "Yes".
我一生中所犯的错误都是在本想说"不"的时候说了"是"。
M.Hart 哈特
The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.
生活中最使人筋疲力尽的事是装虚作假。
A.M.Lindbergh 林德伯格
To hide a fault with a lie is to replace a blot by a hole.
用谎言掩盖错误，等于挖一个洞除掉污渍。
M.Aurelius 奥里利厄斯
Good temper is like a sunny day; it sheds its brightness everywhere.
好情绪犹如明媚的阳光，普照四方。
P.Sidney 西德尼
In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.
对于害怕危险的人，这个世界上总是有危险的。
Bernard Shaw 萧伯纳
A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
害怕痛苦的人已经在承受他所害怕的痛苦了。
Montaigne 蒙田
It's a day after the fair.
错过良机，为时已晚。
英语谚语
Don't run with the hare and hunt with the hounds.
不要既陪野兔奔跑，又随猎狗追捕。
英语谚语
You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people
all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
你可以一时骗过所有的人，也可以在所有时间里骗过一些人，但不能在所有时 间里骗过所有的人。
Lincoln 林肯
Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.
恐惧有许多眼睛，能看见地下的事物。
Cervantes 塞万提斯
An ounce of prudence is worth a pound of gold.
一盎司谨慎抵得上一磅黄金。
T.Smollett 斯摩莱特
Don't waste life in doubts and fears.
不要把生命浪费于怀疑与恐惧中。
Emerson 爱默生
All the weapons of war will not arm fear.
任何武器都武装不了恐惧。
E.C.Sanford 桑福德
A sober man may become a drunkard through being a coward. A brave
man may be come a coward through being a drunkard.
清醒的人胆小时会变成醉汉。勇敢的人喝醉时会变得懦弱。
G.K.Chesterton 切斯特顿
Rashness borrows the name of courage, but it is of another race, and
nothing allied to that virtue; the one descended a direct line from
prudence, the other from folly and presumption.
鲁莽借用了勇气的名义，但属于另一类，和美德毫无关系；勇气直接裔于谨慎 ，鲁莽则裔于愚蠢和狂妄。
K.Raine 雷恩
Anger is a brief madness.
愤怒是短暂的疯狂。
Horace 贺拉斯
It is discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty
and how few by deceit.
令人沮丧的是，有那么多人对诚实感到吃惊，而对欺骗感到吃惊的人却那么少。
N.Coward 科沃德
As the call, so the echo.
发什么声音，有什么回声。
As the tree, so the fruit.
什么树结什么果。
It is a bad cloth that will take no colour.
布再坏也能染色。
Neither adjust your shoe in a melon patch, nor your hat under a plum
tree.
瓜田不纳履，李下不整冠。
中国谚语
Habour no ill intention against others, but never relax vigilance
against evil-doers.
害人之心不可有，防人之心不可无。
A selfless man is upright and high-minded.
人不自私，顶天立地。
The moon does not heed the barking of dogs.
月亮不怕狗叫。/只要品格高尚，何惧他人底毁。
Every cloud has a silver lining.
乌云后面有光明。
英语谚语
Good clothes open all doors.
门不挡衣着华丽的人。
He that talks much lies much.
言多必妄。
He that talks much errs much.
语多必失。
He that spares th bad injures the good.
纵容坏人必伤害好人。
He that believes all, misseth; he that believes nothing, hits not.
全信必有所失，全不信一无所得。
A place for everything, and everything in its place.
物应各有其所，亦应各在其所。
Give a thief enough rope and he'll hang himfelf.
多行不义必自毙。
For a modest man, achievements serve as a vaulting-pole, with which
he surmounts a new height in his future endeavour; for a conceited
man, achievements serve as a slide, along which he falls far behind
in his self-complancency.
成绩是谦虚者的撑杆，促使他在新的努力中，跃进更高的境界。 成绩是骄傲者的滑梯，使他在沾沾自喜中，跌倒到最后面。
Shallow streams make most din.
溪浅声喧。
Still waters run deep.
静水流深。
Sometimes the best gain is to lose.
有时吃亏就是最大的便宜。
All that glitters is not gold.
闪烁者不尽是金。
Fools never know when they are well off.
愚人总是身在福中不知福。
Speak the truth and shame the devil.
说真话可使魔鬼感到羞愧。
Don't count your chickens before they are hatched.
蛋未孵，别先数鸡。
Do not pick the sesame seeds but overlook the watermelons.
勿拣了芝麻，丢了西瓜。
中国谚语
Standers-by see more than gamesters.
旁观者清，当局者迷。
For every evil under the sun, There is a remedy or there is none;
If there be one, try and find it; If there be none,never mind it.
世间的一切弊病， 有的可以救药，有的不可救药；有救药，努力去找；无救药，就别放在心上。
A bully is always a coward.
恃强欺弱者均是懦夫。
If moral behavior were simply following rules, we could program a
computer to be moral.
道德行为如果只是循规蹈矩办事，我们就可以编制一套程序使电脑有道德。
He that mischie hatches, mischief catches.
害人者终将害己。
He that is ill to himself will be good to nobody.
不能自爱，焉能爱人。
A clean hand wants no washing.
手要是干净无须洗。
In speaking well of others, you speak well of yourself.
称赞他人，如同称赞自己。
He that would govern others. first should be the master of himself.
要管好别人，先管好自己。
P.Massinger 马辛杰(英国剧作家)
Swearing was invented as a compromise between running away and fighting.
发明诅咒是把它作为逃跑和打架之间的一种折衷 。
F.P.Dunne 邓恩
Self-praise is no recommendation.
自夸不足为自荐。
The worst wheel of the cart creaks most.
最差的车轮吱嘎声最大。
They brag most who can do least.
本领最小的人，最会吹牛。
Don't have too many irons in the fire.
不要把太多的熨斗放到火炉上。/不要同时要办的事太多。
The good is the enemy of the best.
过得去是精益求精的敌人。
Don't trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.
麻烦没有来找你，不要去找麻烦。
A bird is known by its note, and a man by his talk.
闻声知鸣鸟，闻言见人心。
Make it a point to do something every day that you don't want to do.
This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty
without pain.
坚持每天做一点不愿意做的事。这是养成乐意尽职习惯的金科玉律。
Gifts from enemies are dangerous.
敌人的礼物收不得。
No question is ever settled until it is settled right.
正确解决问题才算真正解决。
No man is a hero to his valet.
在最贴身的人眼中，谁也充不了伟人。
Cornuel 柯努尔(法国作家)
One's sin will find one out.
坏事终归要败露。
《圣经》
Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop
thinking and go in.
考虑时不要匆忙；但是一旦行动的时刻来到，就要停止思考投入行动。
J.Andrew 安德鲁(美国废奴运动领袖)
To no man will we refuse justice.
对一切人都应给以正义。
Our mightiest feeling are always those which remain most unspoken.
最强烈的总是那些最缄默的感情。
C.Kingsley 金斯利(英国小说家、诗人)
A good name is better than riches.
美名胜过金钱。
Gold does not belong to the miser, but the miser to gold.
财富并不属于守财奴，而是守财奴属于财富。
If you swear you will catch no fish.
咒骂解决不了问题。
There are spots in the sun.
太阳也有黑点。
The best fish swim near the bottom.
好鱼常在水底游。
Gossiping and lying go hand in hand.
流言蜚语和谎言总是连一起。
Better deny at once than promise long.
与其答应而不履行，不如马上拒绝。
A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will.
智者通权达变，愚者坚持己见。
Better the foot slip than the tongue trip.
宁可失足，不可失言。
Be slow to promise and quick to perform.
允诺宜缓，履行宜速。
Many words will not fill a bushel.
空言无补于事。
Judge not of men and things at first sight.
不要靠初次的印象来判断人或事。
Good counsel does no harm.
忠言有利无害。
You are your greatest enemy if you are a coward; but if you are brave,
you are your greatest friend.
怯懦者是自己最大的敌人。 勇敢者是自己最好的朋友。
L.Frank 弗兰克
There is one thing more important than knowing self; it is governing
self. There is one thing better than crushing impulse, it is using
impulse.
有一件事比自知更重要，即自制；有一件事比压制冲动更好，即利用冲动。
H.R.Haweis 哈维斯
You'll never get rid of a bad temper by losing it.
用发脾气的办法永远改不掉坏脾气。
If you want people to think well of you, do not speak well of yourself.
要想人们对你有好感，就不要说自己的好话。
B.Pascal 帕斯卡(法国科学家、哲学家)
Politeness costs nothing and gains everything.
礼貌不用花一分钱，却能赢得一切。
M.W.Montagu 蒙塔古(英国女作家)
He knows much who knows how to hold his tongue.
慎言为智。
He is lifeless that is faultless.
只有死人才无错误。 /人孰无过。
He is not fit to command others that cannot command himself.
不能指挥自己，就不能指挥别人。
He is not laughed at that laughs at himself first.
先自嘲的人，不会见笑于人。
Whosoever understands the times is great man.
/A wise man submits to circumstances.
识时务者为俊杰。
It is an equal failing to trust everybody and to trust nobody.
轻信所有人和不相信一切人同样是缺点。
Sweep before your own door.
正人先正己。
英语谚语
Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
无人能抵御嘲笑的进攻。
Mark Twin 马克·吐温
Zeal should not outrun discretion.
热情不应压倒谨慎。
An ounce of discretion is worth a pound of wit.
一盎司慎重等于一磅机智。
Let every man praise the bridge he goes over.
过桥不忘造桥人。
What's lost is lost.
失者不可复得。
What is done by night appears by day.
若要人不知。除非己莫为。
He who hesitates is lost.
当断不断，必受其患。
If we can't do as we would, we must do as we can.
如果做不到想做的事，就去做能做的事。
A clean fast is better than a dirty breakfast.
宁为清贫，不为浊富。
Open confession is good for the soul.
坦然承认错误，有益于灵魂。
Fortune favours the bold.
天助勇者。
It is a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait.
蠢人才上两回当。
Pride hurts, modesty benefits.
满招损，谦受益。
Don't teach your grandmother to suck eggs.
不要班门弄斧。
英语谚语
He that is full of himself is very empty.
自满的人腹中空。
Nothing is worth more than a mind well instructed.
什么好也比不上教育好。
It's never too late to mend.
改过不嫌晚。
One loses by pride and gains by modesty.
满招损，谦受益。
A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes
another's.
一个人在描述别人的性格时最能暴露出自己的性格。
J.P.Richter 里克特
A man's character is like a fence--it cannot be strengthened by whitewashing.
人的名誉犹如一道篱笆粉刷并不能使之坚固。
T.W.Robertson 罗伯逊
Blushing is virtue's color.
脸红是美德的颜色。
R.Taverner 塔弗纳
A straw shows which way the wind blows.
草动知风向。 /见微知著。
英语谚语
Speech is the image of actions.
语言是行动的图像。
[古希腊]Hesiod 赫西奥德
Do not put all your eggs in one basket.
不要把全部鸡蛋放在一只篮子里。
Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know.
明枪易躲，暗箭难防。
A man can't ride your back unless it's bent.
你的腰不弯，别人就不能骑在你背上。
The tongue is not steel, yet it cuts.
舌头非剑，但可伤人。
It is not the fine coat that makes the gentleman.
使人成为君子的并不是讲究的衣着。
T.Fuller 富勒
An educated man is not necessarily a learned man or a university man,
but a man with certain subtle spiritual qualities which make him calm
in adversity, happy when alone, just in his dealings, rational and
sane in all the affairs of life
有教养的人不一定有学问，也不一定上过大学，而是具有一种微妙的气质的人，他处逆境能镇定，虽孤独也快乐，待人公正，处世稳健明理。
At times, although one is perfectly right, one's legs tremble; at
other times, althouth one is completely in the wrong, birds sing in
one's soul.
有时，我们虽然理直气壮，双腿却不免颤抖；另有些时候，我们虽然完全错了 但却内心欢畅。
Things will probably come out all right, but sometimes it takes strong
nerves just to watch.
事情可能结局很好，不过有时单是等待事态发展就需要极大的勇气。
A crooked stick will have a crooked shadow.
身不正，影必斜。
The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell,
a hell of heaven.
心灵是自己作主的地方，能把地狱变成天堂，把天堂变成地狱。
The treacherous, unexplored areas of the world are not in continents
or the seas; they are in the minds and hearts of men.
世上未经勘探的险恶之境，不是在大陆上，也不是在海洋中，而是在人们的头脑和心里。
When someone sings his own praises, he always gets the tune too high.
一个人歌颂自己时，音调往往太高。
Our faults irritate us most when we see them in others.
自已的缺点在别人身上看到，最令我们讨厌。
Maturity is the ability to do a job whether or not you are supervised,
to carry money without spending it and to bear an injustice without
wanting to get even.
无论有没有人监督都能做好工作，身上有钱而不花，受到不公正的待遇而不求报复，这便是成熟。
Tact is the art of recognizing when to be big and when not to be little.
知道何时应该宽宏大度，何时不应量小器微，是谓练达。
Patience is the ability to put up with people you'd like to put down.
能容忍你想羞辱的人，便是忍耐。
Be able to be alone.Lose not the advantage of solitude.
要有单独自处的能力，不要放过孤寂的好处。
A holiday gives one a chance to look backward and forward, to reset
oneself by an inner compass.
假期使你有机会回顾与前瞻，用心中的罗盘重新定好自已的方位。
Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
改变自己往往比改变环境更为需要。
Perfection is finally attained, not when there is no longer to add,
but when there is no longer anything to take away.
最终达到完美，不在于无可增添，而在于无可删减。
Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings.
伟大的思想需要起落架，也需要双翼。
Fair words make fools fain [=pleased].
甜言蜜语会使愚者得意忘形。
I have yet to be bored by someone paying me a compliment.
人家恭维我，我还没觉得厌烦过。
Please all and you please none.
要面面俱到者，面面不到。
Everyone is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day. Wisdom
consists in not exceeding the limit.
一个人每天至少有五分钟是个大傻瓜，明智者在于不超过这个时限。
Co-operation is doing with a smile what you have to do anyhow.
所谓合作，就是面带笑容去做非做不可的事。
Men may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.
别人可能怀疑你说的话，但他们会相信你的行动。
We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could
know how seldom they do.
如果我们知道别人难得想到我们，大概便不会担心别人对我们的想法。
You need to be discreet in giving advice, humble in accepting it.
提出忠告要谨慎，接受忠告要虚心。
Conceit is the quicksand of success.
自负是成功的流沙。
Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they
will show themselves great.
信任别人，别人才能对你忠诚；待人尊重，别人才能尊重自持。
Emerson 爱默生
Every man has the defects of his own virtues.
人皆有与其优点并存的缺点。
No man is infallible.
没有人不犯错误。
Pardon all but thyself.
宽恕一切人，只是别宽恕自己。
The noblest vengeance is to forgive.
最高尚的复仇是宽容。
A brave man risks his life, but not his conscience.
勇敢的人可用生命冒险，但不以良心冒险。
[德]Schiller 席勒
The moon is a moon still, whether it shine or not.
月明月暗，终不失其为月亮。
Honour and ease are seldom bedfellows.
荣誉和舒适难成伴侣。
Be just before you are generous.
要慷慨必先求公正。
It is as well to know which way the wind blows.
最好知道风吹往哪个方向。 /识时务者为俊杰。
Make the best of a bad bargain.
已然吃亏，尽力而为。
Manners make the man.
举止见人品。
Men are not to be measured in inches.
人不可以寸量。 /人不可貌相，海水不可斗量。
We often pardon those who bore us, but we cannot pardon those whom
we bore.
我们往往原谅使我们厌烦的人，但不能原谅厌烦我们的人。
[法国]Rochefoucauld 罗什富科
He who seeks only for applause from without has all his happiness
in another's keeping.
追求别人的赞赏，就是将自己的快乐委诸别人手中。
[英国]Goldsmith 戈德史密斯
I have seen the sea when it is stormy and wild. when it is quiet and
serene, when it is dark and moody. And in all its moods, I see myself.
我见过汹涌澎湃的海，风平浪静的海，阴郁易怒的海。我在它的种种变化中见到了我自己。
All fellows at football. /On the playing-field, all are on equality.
运动场上人人平等。
He that makes a thing too fine, breaks it.
做事过于苟求，反把事情弄坏。
When all else is lost the future still remains.
就是失去了一切别的，也还有未来。
Adopt the pace of nature: Her secret is patience.
采用大自然的步伐：她的秘密在于耐心。
Emerson 爱默生
I have but one counsel for you-be your own master.
我只有一个忠告给你做你自己的主人。
Happiness lies first of all in health.
幸福首先在于健康。
Health is better than wealth. /Good health is above wealth.
健康胜过财富。
Early to bed and early to rise, Makes a man healthy, wealthy and Wise.
睡得早，起得早，富裕，聪明，身体好。
Health and wealth create beauty.
健康和财富能创造美丽。
英语格言
The world is his who enjoys it.
活着感到快乐，世界就属于你。
Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding.
求知者快乐，被理解者幸福。
英语谚语
Fortune is good to him who knows to make good use of her.
知道用福的人才有福。
英语格言
Cheerfulness is health; its opposite, melancholy, is disease.
欢乐就是健康，忧郁就是病痛。
A little labour, much health.
适量的劳动有益于健康。
英语谚语
Fortune is easily found, but hard to be kept.
找到福分易，保持福分难。
It is good to be merry and wise.
乐不移智，娱不纵情。
Laugh and grow fat.
心宽体胖 。
Wisdom is to the mind what health is to the body.
知识之于心灵，正如健康之于身体。
Work won't kill but worry will.
劳动无害，忧愁伤身。
It is not work that kills, but worry.
工作不损寿，忧虑才伤身。
He is rich that has few wants.
寡欲者富。
Laziness makes you ill, labour makes you healthy.
懒散使人生病，劳动使人健壮。
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
只工作，不玩耍，聪明小伙也变傻。
Every man at forty is a fool or a physician.
人到四十，如果不是傻子，就该知道保养身体。
A bow long bent grows weak.
常拉满弓无力。
People who cannot find time for recreation are Obliged sooner or later
to find time for illness.
没有时间娱乐的人，迟早得有时间生病。
[美国]J.Wanamaker 沃纳梅克
No animal ever invented anything so bad as drunkness-or so good as
drink.
没有动物发明过像喝醉这样糟糕的事也没有发明过像饮酒这样美好的享受。
G.K.Chesterton 切斯特顿
He is wise that knows when he is well enough.
知足为智者。
He who lives with his memories becomes old. He who lives with plans
for the future remains young.
终日怀旧催人老，计划未来葆青春。
Youth is not being 20 years old. A young man is one who is moved by
any injustice in the world.
并非韶华二十便算年轻，一个人能为世上的不公平感到不平才是年轻。
A good conscience is a continual feast.
问心无愧天天乐。
A growing youth has a wolf in his belly.
年轻小伙子，吃饭像饿狼。
A creaking door hangs long.
旧门久用，病夫命长。
英语谚语
Prevention is better than cure.
治病不如防病。
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
一分预防胜过十分治疗。
Diet cures more than doctors.
自己饮食有节，胜过上门求医。
Kitchen Physic is the best physic.
饮食有节，百药无缘。
Medicines are not meant to live on.
药物可治病，不能当饭吃。
Cleanliness is next to godliness.
清洁仅次于圣洁。
After dinner sit awhile; after supper walk a mile.
午餐后稍坐片刻，晚餐后步行一里。
英语谚语
A glass at supper is not amiss.
晚酌一杯也无妨。
Take things as they come.
随遇而安。
He is happy that thinks himself so.
自乐者常乐。
He who does not rise early never does a good day's work.
不愿早起的人，做不好一天的工作。
An ague in the spring is physic for a king.
春天一场病，一年不服药。
An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
每天一只苹果，无需医生进门。
英语谚语
Better pay the butcher than the doctor.
花钱看病不如出钱买肉。
In sports and journeys men are known.
从体育和旅行中，可看出男子的品德。
Sound men wear out shoes, sick men sheets.
健康者费鞋子，久病者费床单。
Better wear out shoes than sheets.
宁愿把鞋子穿漏，不愿把床单磨破。
英语谚语
True friendship is like sound health, the value of which is seldom
known until it be lost.
健康和友谊，不丢不知惜。
By the side of sickness health becomes sweet.
不生病不知道健康的快乐。
Hide nothing from thy physician.
不要对医生隐瞒。
Health is not valued till sickness comes.
病时方知健康可贵。
Diseases are the interests of pleasures.
疾病是为享乐付出的债息。
Blow first and sip afterwards.
喝茶防烫，吃饭防噎。
Eat at pleasure, drink with measure.
随意吃饭，适度饮酒。
Leave off with an appetite.
吃得七分饱，就该离餐桌。
A belly full of gluttony will never study willingly.
吃得过饱，懒得学习。
A full belly neither fights nor flies well.
肚子太饱，不能打仗也不能逃跑。
You eat and eat, but you do not drink to fill you.
吃饭要饱，饮酒要少。
Gluttony kills more than the sword.
暴食比刀剑伤人。
Feed by measure and defy the physician.
饮食有节，医生失业。
英语谚语
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
在酒里淹死的人比在海里淹死的人多。
A man who finds no satisfaction in himself, seeks for it in vain elsewhere.
在自己身上找不到满足的人，在别的地方也找不到满足。
La Roucheffoucauld 拉·罗什富科
He who has good health is young, and he is rich who owes nothing.
健康葆青春，无债即富足。
Let him that would be happy for a day, go to the barber; for a week,
marry a wife; for a month, buy him a new horse; for a year, build
him a new house; for all his lifetime, be an honest man.
理了发，乐一天；娶媳妇，乐一周；买匹马，乐一月；建新房，乐一年；做个老实人，足可乐一生。
Care is no cure.
忧虑治不了病。
Care killed a cat.
忧虑能杀人。
Health and money go far.
有了健康和钱财，就能走遍天下。
He that fears death lives not.
害怕死亡的人，活着也没有快乐。
Laugh and the world laughs with you, weep and you weep alone.
欢笑，则世界与你同乐；哭泣，则独自悲伤。
No man is happy but by comparison.
人的幸福都是比较而言的。
Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many
cases, the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.
每个人的一生中，幸运女神都来敲过门，可是，许多人竟在隔壁的酒馆里，听 不见她的敲门。
There is no joy without alloy.
世上没有十全十美的快乐. /金无足赤，乐无十全。
Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond
your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon
you.
幸福有如蝴蝶，你追逐它时永远捉不到，你静坐下来，它却可能落在你身上。
The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause
for being happy except that they are so.
最快乐的人似乎是那些并没有特别原因觉得快乐而只是快乐的人。
Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left
open.
快乐往往从你忘记关好的门溜进来。
Some people have all the luck. And they're the ones who never depend
on it.
有些人经常走运，但他们却常是最不依赖运气的人。
Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime, and
too sleepy to worry at night.
白天忙得没有时间发愁，夜里困得来不及发愁的人是真正有福的。
Happy is he who only desires what he may and does what he ought.
不作非分之想又能尽本分的人是快乐的。
Youth is full of pleasance, age is full of care.
青春充满愉快，高龄满怀忧虑。
Happiness is not always annexed to wealth.
幸福并不一定是财富的附属物。
He that eats till he is sick must fast till he is well.
吃出病来的人，反而要饿到病好才能再吃。
There is no greater grief than to recall a time of happiness when
in misery.
没有比在悲惨中回忆起幸福的时刻更痛苦。
Dante 但丁(意大利诗人)
The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making
of world history.
人民，只有人民，才是创造世界历史的动力。
Mao Zedong 毛泽东
A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by
the men it honors. the men it remembers.
一个民族不仅通过它所造就的人，也通过它给以荣誉的人和它所铭记的人展示 自己。
J.F.Kennedy 肯尼迪
A hero is nothing but a product of his time.
时势造英雄。
The administration of justice is the firmest pillar of government.
主持正义是政府最坚定的支柱。
Washington 华盛顿
We need in politics men who have something to give , not men who have
something to get.
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。
B.Baruch 布鲁克
I love myself well, but my countrymen better.
我爱自己，但更爱自己的同胞。
Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute
the laws which the people have made.
政府官员是人民的公仆和代理人，应执行人民制定的法律。
G.Cleveland 克列夫兰
When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public
property.
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]T.Jefferson 杰弗逊
You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.
从一个民族的广告可以看出这个民族的理想。
N.Douglas 道格拉斯
My aspiration is that the aged live an easy life, friends have faith
in me and the youth cherish the memory of me.
老者安之，朋友信之，少者怀之。
Confucius 孔子
Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow.
进步是今天的活动，明天的保证。
Emerson 爱默生
Discontent is the first step in progress of a man or a nation.
不满足是一个人或一个民族进步的第一步。
O.Wilde 王尔德
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve
change amid order.
进步的艺术是在变革中保持秩序，在秩序中保持变革。
A.N.Whitehead 怀特黑德
Good order is the foundation of all things.
良好的秩序是一切的基础。
E.Burke 伯克
Law makers should not be law breakers.
立法者不可违法。
He that cannot obey cannot command.
不服从命令者不能指挥。
If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.
指挥有方则人人乐从。
England expects every man to do his duty.
祖国望每个国民恪尽职守。
H.Nelson 纳尔逊(英国海军上将)
If anyone among the officials breaks the law, he, too should be punished.
长官犯了法，也要受处罚。
中国谚语
There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they
would make him threesided.
有一句话说得很好：如果三角形发明一个上帝，它们也会使他有三条边。
[法国]Montesquieu 孟德斯鸠
The net of heaven is large and wide, but it lets nothing through.
天网恢恢，疏而不漏。
中国谚语
The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection
of his own face.
世界是一面镜子，每个人都在上面照到自己。
Newspapers are the world's mirror.
报纸是世界的镜子。
J.Ellis 埃利斯(美国拳击运动员)
A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
我认为，一份好的报纸是一个民族在同自己谈话。
A.Miller 米勒(美国剧作家)
The world is a play that would not be worth seeing if we knew the
plot.
世界是一出戏，要是事先知道情节，就不值得看了。
F.M.Collby 科尔比
The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
宇宙不必和人类的雄心壮志完全协调一致。
The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it
was when you came in.
世界在你面前，你不必原封不动地接受它或让它去。
To govern is to keep straight, If you take a lead in doing so, who
will dare to act otherwise?
政者，正也。子帅以正，孰敢不正?
Confucius 孔子
The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
具有新想法的人在其想法被接受之前是怪人。
Mark Twain 马克·吐温
Justice is a machine that, when someone has given it a starting push,
rolls on itself.
正义是一台机器，一旦有人推一下就会自己转下去。
J.Galsworthy 高尔斯华绥(英国文学家)
He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.
有的人就像公鸡一样，以为太阳因为要听它啼叫才升起。
G.Eliot 艾略特
Force can never destroy right.
武力决不能摧毁正义。
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
暴力是无能者的最后手段。
He that makes a good war makes a good peace.
正义的战争创造持久的和平。
If you wish for peace, be prepared for war.
欲求和平，必先备战。
When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.
打破固定的模式，新世界才能出现。/破旧立新。
There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient
about it.
任何一条道德戒律在奉行时都会引起不便。
History repeats itself.
历史往往重演。
Hsitory is bunk.
历史是一堆废话。
Henry Ford 亨利·福特(美国汽车业巨人)
We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.
我们受法律约束，为的是可以自由。
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.
自由的代价是永远警惕。
W.Philips 菲利普斯
Smokers and non-smokers can not be equally free in the same railway
carriage.
吸烟的人和不吸烟的人在同一节火车车厢里不可能同样自由。
Bernard Shaw 萧伯纳
The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation
to dinner without giving any excuse.
唯一真正自由的人是能够拒绝宴会的邀请而不用提出理由的人。
J.Renard 勒纳尔(法国作家)
Principles without programs are platitudes.
没有纲领的原则只是陈词滥调。
Bernard Shaw 萧伯纳
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your
right to say it.
我不同意你说的话，但是我愿意誓死捍卫你说话的权利。
Voltaire 伏尔泰
They have rights who dare defend them.
敢于保卫权利的人就能拥有权利。
They that can give up essential liberty to obtaina little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
不惜牺牲自由以图苟安的人，既不配享受自由，也不配获得自由。
A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he canot sit upon
it.
一个人可以用刺刀为自己建造一个宝座，但却无法坐在上面。
W.R.Inge 英奇(美国作家、神学家)
Like knows like
人识其类。
Great minds think alike.
英雄所见略同。
I would rather be right than President.
我宁可正确而不愿当总统。
H.Clay 克莱(美国内战时政治领袖)
Is long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man
rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.
只要世界还存在，就会有错误，如果没有人反叛，这些错误将永远存在下去。
C.Darrow 达罗
The throne is but a piece of wood covered with velvet.
皇帝的宝座不过是一块盖着天鹅绒的木头。
Napoleon 拿破仑
He who is not in charge of governing does not interfere in its business.
不在其位，不谋其政。
Confucius 孔子
Bread is the staff of life.
民以食为天。
The voice of the people is the voice of God.
人民的呼声就是上帝的声音。
The sun shines upon all alike.
太阳照人，不分贵贱。
Social science affirms that a woman's place in society marks the level
of civilization.
社会科学认为，妇女在社会里的地位标志着文明的水平。
E.Stanton 斯坦顿
Democracy means not"I'm as good as you are"but"you're
as good as Iam."
民主的含义不是"我跟你一样好"，而是"你跟我一样好"。
T.Parker 帕克
I cannot undertake to be impartial as between the fire brigade and
the fire.
在消防队和大火之间，我不能同意不偏不倚。
Churchill 邱吉尔
One fifth of the people are against everything all the time.
有五分之一的人永远是反对一切的。
R.Kennedy 肯尼迪
He who goes against the fashion is himfelf its slave.
反对时尚的人自己也是时尚的奴隶。
L.P.Smith 史密斯
Every man loves what he is good at.
人人都喜欢自己擅长的事物。
T.Shadwell沙德韦尔
Let those who know the way go before.
让识途的人先行。
At court, everyone for himself.
在法庭上人人都要为自己。
Bear with evil, and expect good.
坏事要忍，好事要等。
At a round table there's no dispute of place.
圆桌上没有座次之争。
A cat may look at a king.
猫也可以看皇帝。/地位虽不同，人人应平等。
Do as you would be done by.
己所不欲，勿施于人。
英语谚语
Propaganda is the art of persuading others of what one does not believe
oneself.
宣传是劝说别人去相信自己不相信的东西的艺术。
A.Eban 埃班(以色列外交家)
The greater part of whitewashing is done with ink.
大部分的粉饰是用墨水进行的。
G.D.Prentice 普伦蒂斯
Every time I close the door on reality, it comes in through the window.
我每次闭门不纳现实，它都从窗口进来。
There is no disputing about tastes.
品味无可争论。/人各有所好。
As a tree falls, so shall it lie.
树倒在何处，就躺在何处。
I myself have become a Gaullist only little by little.
我自己也只是一点一点地才成为一个戴高乐主义者的。
C.de Gaulle 戴高乐
If one sheep leaps over the ditch, all the rest will follow.
一只羊跳过水沟，其他羊都会跟着跳。
Promises must be kept and action must be resolute. /Always be true
in word and resolute in deed.
言必信，行必果。
中国谚语
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to
do nothing.
只要好人不闻不问，邪恶就能胜利。
E.Burke 伯克
Better be blamed by our kith and kin, than be kissed by the enemy.
宁可让亲人责备，切勿让敌人亲吻。
Ice and live charcoal cannot be placed in the same furnace; the enemy
and ourselves do not go the same way.
冰炭不同炉；敌我不同路。
A leopard and a goat can never live in the same flock.
豹子和山羊不同群。
If you read the Bible to the wolf, it'll certainly say: "Stop
reading at once! A flock of sheep have just passed by! "
如果对狼读《圣经》，狼一定会说："快停止吧! 一群羊刚过去了!"
If you cut the weeds without digging up their roots, they'll grow
again when the spring breeze blows.
斩草不除根，春风吹又生。
中国谚语
When the fox preaches, the cock should ponder.
要是狐狸布道，公鸡就该深思。
He that makes himself a sheep shall be eaten by the"wolf".
甘为羔羊，定膏狼吻。
To recognize a toxin will do you as much good as to get a good medicine.
认清毒物，如获良药。
When the enemy praises you.you should ask yourself what errors you
have committed.
当敌人夸奖你的时候，你得想到自己做错了什么。
If you deals with a fox, think of his tricks.
与狐狸周旋，要谨防上当。
It is madness for a sheep to treat of peace with a wolf.
羊跟狼讲和平，是羊发了疯。
If we are bound to forgive an enemy, we are not bound to trust him.
敌人可恕不可信。
Better drink the water given by a friend, than eat the honey offered
by the enemy.
宁喝朋友水，不吃敌人蜜。
Evil communications corrupt good manners.
与坏人交往，好人也变坏。 /近朱者赤，近墨者黑。
Good will be rewarded with good, and evil with evil; if the reward
is not forthcoming, it is because the time has not arrived yet; and
when the time arrives, one will get all the rewards he deserves.
善有善报，恶有恶报，不是不报，时候未到，时候一到，一切都报。
中国谚语
He that loses his due gets not thanks.
失去应得的东西，别人不感谢。
When Greek meets Greek, then comes the tug of war.
两雄相遇，其斗必烈。
God defend me from my friends, from my enemies I can defend myself.
愿上帝助我防备朋友，我自己能抵御敌人。
You cannot make a silk purse out of sow's ear.
用猪耳朵做不成丝钱包。
英语谚语
An onion will not produce a rose.
洋葱里长不出玫瑰。/乌鸦里飞不出金凤凰。
英语谚语
Never fear a hard-beaked bird, but beware of a heart-eating worm.
不怕硬嘴鸟，最怕蛀心虫。
If it is a dog that bites people, Ishould think it must be beaten,
no matter whether it is on shore or in the water.
倘是咬人之狗，我觉得都在可打之列，无论它在岸上或在水中。
LU Xun 鲁迅
When I say I know women, I mean I know that I don't know them.
当我说我了解女人时，我的意思是我知道我并不了解她们。
Thackeray 萨克雷
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
明白事理的人使自己适应世界；不明事理的人硬想使世界适应自己。
Bernard Shaw 萧伯纳
What one loses on the swings one makes up on the roundabouts.
失之东隅，收之桑榆。
There is no rule without an exception.
有规则必有例外。
Among the blind the one-eye man is king.
瞎子国里，独眼称王。
Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.
宁在地狱为王，不到天堂当差。
Better be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion.
宁为鸡口，毋为牛后。
Ill news hath wings, and with the wind doth go. Comfort's a cripple
and comes very slow.
坏消息长有翅膀，随风飞扬。安慰却是个跛子跚跚来迟。
M.Drayton 德雷顿
When a dog bites a man that is not news, but when a man bites a dog
that is news.
狗咬人不是新闻，人咬狗才是新闻。
Dana 达纳(美国记者)
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of , he always
declares that it is his duty.
愚人做自己感到惭愧的事情时，总是宣称那是他的职责。
Bernard Shaw 萧伯纳
People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
通常人们是因为不会辩理才吵架的。
Chesterton 切斯特顿
The usual excuse of those who cause others trouble is that they wish
them well.
给别人造成麻烦的人通常的借口是出于好意。
Vauvenargues 沃夫纳格
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each
other.
当人们可以自由行事时，他们常常互相模仿。
N.M.Butler 巴特勒
The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong
to be broken.
习惯之链很弱，往往感觉不到，一旦感觉到了，已经牢固得绷不断了。
S.Johnson 约翰逊
Equivocation is first cousin to a lie.
模棱两可是谎话的近亲。
If wise man play the fool, they do it with a vengeance.
聪明人做傻事，傻得格外离奇。
Let the sleeping dogs lie.
莫惹是非。
If the cap fits, wear it.
帽子合适，你就戴上；如说的符合你的情况，你就接受。
If you run after two hares, you will catch neither.
同时追二免，必将无所获。
Face the fearful with no fears, and its fearfulness dissapears.
见怪不怪，其怪自败。
What is bought is cheaper than a gift.
自己花钱买的，比别人送的便宜。
A drowning man will catch at a straw.
快淹死的人连草也要抓。
Hardship disposes man to meet adversity.
艰苦的生活使人能面对逆境。
A well-Prepared mind hopes in adversity and fears in prosperity.
遇事有准备的人逢逆境不失望，处顺境不大意。
Nothing is a greater misfortune than not being able to bear misfortune.
经不起不幸是最大的不幸。
Success covers a multitude of blunders.
成功能掩盖大量失误。
The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity
of the man who expresses it.
一个想法的价值与表述它的人是否真诚没有关系。
O.Wilde 王尔德
It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.
在争论中是无法击败无知者的。
W.G.McAdoo 麦卡杜
A long dispute means that both parties are wrong.
持久的争论意味着双方都是错的。
Voltaire 伏尔泰
Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards.
大多数吵架当时都是不可避免的，事后都是令人难以置信的。
E.M.Forster 福斯特
It is easy to be wise after the event.
事后诸葛亮容易当。
He that tells a secret is another's servant.
泄漏机密的人，就成为别人的奴仆。
The cleverest housewife cannot cook a meal without rice.
巧妈难为无米之炊。
中国谚语
He who likes borrowing dislikes paying.
爱借的人往往不爱还。
The only thing most people do better than anyone else is to read their
own handwriting.
大多数人唯一比别人做得好的事，是认自己写的字。
I would rather see a young man blush than turn pale.
我宁可看到青年人脸红，也不愿看到他脸色变得苍白。
M.P.Cato 加图
Do you know that those who run in a race run all, but only one receives
the prize? Even so run, that you may attain.
岂不知在场上赛跑的都在跑，但得奖赏的只有一人? 即使如此，也只有这样跑，你们才有可能得到奖赏。
It is a long lane that has no turning.
路长有弯，事长有变。
英语谚语
The moon is not seen where the sun shines.
日出月不见。
Without carrying the load yourself you don't know how heavy it is,
without walking the long distance yourself you don't know how far
it is.
不挑担子不知重，不走长路不知远。
Clever all one's life, but stupid this once. /Smart as a rule, but
this time a fool.
聪明一世，糊涂一时。
A man without a smiling face must not open a shop.
没有笑脸的人不能开店。
He is an ill guest that never drinks to his host.
不知道为主人干杯的客人，不会作客。
He is a good physician who cures himself.
能给自己看病的才是好医生。
Wonders will never cease.
奇迹无穷尽。
[英国] Sir Dudley 达德利爵士
Good masters make good servants.
主人好，仆人坏不了。
Truth is stranger than fiction.
事实离奇胜于虚构。
Byron 拜伦(英国诗人)
Good ware makes quick markets.
货好销得快。
Good will should be taken for part payment.
善意应该被看作是部分报偿。
He that has much prayer, has but little devotion.
祷告多的人心不诚。
He was a bold man that first ate on oyster.
第一个吃牡蛎的人是勇士。
J.Swift 斯威夫特
Ask no questions and you will be told no lies.
少问就听不到假话。
Every one is witty for his own goal.
为达到自己的目标，人人都很聪明。
By his claw, you may know the lion.
要知狮子看脚爪。
Extreme right is extreme wrong.
极端正确即极端错误。/过犹不及。
Extremes meet.
两极相通，有无相生。
Fate leads the willing but drives the stubborn.
顺从者被命运领着走，执拗者被命运赶着走。
Fields have eyes, and woods have ears.
地有眼，树有耳。/没有不透风的墙。
First deserve and then desire.
先做到受之无愧，而后再邀功请赏。
For age and want, save while you may! No burning sun lasts a whole
day.
幼时防老，有时防无；朝阳虽好，难以终日。
Forbidden fruit is sweet.
禁果分外甜。
Forewarned is forearmed.
凡事预则立。
Fortune and misfortune are two baskets in a well.
福与祸是一个井里打水的两个吊桶。
Fortune favours the brave.
天佑勇士。
From a choleric man withdraw a little; form him that says nothing,
for ever.
同易动气的人离远点；同不开口的人别打交道。
Gentility is but ancient riches.
出身高贵，只不过是其祖辈有钱。
God help the poor, for the rich can help themselves.
愿上帝帮助穷人，因为富人无需帮助。
Giving much to the poor does increase a man's store.
给穷人大量馈赠必定会增加自己的库存。
Glasses and lasses are brittle ware.
玻璃易碎，姑娘易毁。
英语谚语
God made the country; man made the town.
上帝创造了乡村，人类建造了城镇。
A great city, a great solitude.
城市越大越寂寞。
A black plum is as sweet as a white.
黑梅白梅一样甜。
A blunt knife may be sharpened on a stone, but if a man is stupid
there is no help for his stupidity.
刀钝石上磨，人蠢没奈何。
Like begets like.
龙生龙，凤生凤。
A shy cat makes a proud mouse.
猫儿胆小耗子闹。
An artist lives everywhere.
一技在身，走遍天下。
An Englishman is never happy but when he is miserable, a Scotchman
never at home but when he is abroad, and an Irishman never at peace
but when he is fighting.
英格兰人只有在受苦时才幸福，苏格兰人只有在他乡时才舒适，爱尔兰人只有 在打架时才安宁。
Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is
because we are not the person involved.
我们为什么听到有人诞生就欢喜，看到有人出殡就悲伤呢? 因为诞生和死亡的是别人。
There's only one kind of tax that would please everybody-one that
nobody but the other guy has to pay.
只有一种税人人欢迎，那就是只有别人必须缴纳的税。
Take not a musket to kill a butterfly.
杀蝶不用枪。
If you cannot bite, never show your teeth.
不能咬人就别龇牙。
There are only two ways to be quite unprejudiced and impartial. One
is to be completely ignorant.The other is to be completely indifferent.
只有两种办法可以做到不偏不倚，一种是完全无知，一种是完全不在乎。
C.P.Curtis 柯蒂斯
The weak have one weapon; The errors of those who think they are strong.
弱者有一个武器；那些自认为强者的人的错误。
G.Bidault 比多
An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.
一个思想对信仰它的人并不负有责任。
D.Marquis 马奎斯
The exception proves the rule.
例外证明法则的存在。
Art is long, life is short.
人生短暂，艺术长存。
Art lies in concealing art.
艺术在于使人看不见艺术。
The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
世界是一本书，没有旅行过的人只读了一页。
St.Augustine 圣·奥古斯丁
The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.
每个国家的基础都在于对其青年的教育。
Diogenes 第欧根尼(古希腊哲学家)
Money spent on the brain is never spent in vain.
用于教育之金钱决不虚掷。
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves
throughout their lives.
教育的目的在于让青年人作好毕生自我教育的准备。
R.Hutchins 哈钦斯(美国教育家)
The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition
of continually asking questions.
教育的真正目的是让一个人习惯于不断地提出的问题。
M.Creighton 克赖顿
Birth is much, but breeding is more.
教养重于出身。
Education is a progressive discovery of ourown ignorance.
教育是一个逐步发现自己无知的过程。
W.Durant 杜兰特(美国历史学家、散文家)
In education we are striving not to teach youth to make a living,
but to make a life.
教育不是为了教会青年人谋生，而是教会他们创造生活。
W.A.White 怀特
Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.
培养一个人，教育打基础，完美靠交谈。
Great trees keep down little ones.
大树底下，小树难长。
The primary purpose of education is not to teach you to earn your
bread, but to make every mouthful sweeter.
教育最主要的目的，不是教你挣得面包，而是使每一口面包都香甜。
J.Angell 安吉尔(美国心理学家)
Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy
to govern but impossible to slave.
教育使一个国家的人民容易领导，但是难于驱使；容易治理，却不可以奴役。
H.P.Brougham 布罗厄姆(英国政治家)
One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
一个父亲，胜过百名教师。
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
母亲不是籍以依赖的人，而是使依赖成为不必要的人。
D.C.Fisher 菲希尔(美国女小说家)
The mother's breath is aye sweet.
母亲的气息，永远甜蜜。
Give me a child for the first seven years and you may do what you
like with him afterwards.
让我把小孩带到七岁，以后随你怎么都可以。
Give bairn his will, and a whelp his fill, and none of these two will
thrive.
纵容溺爱，子不成材。
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence
stops.
教师的影响是永恒的；无法估计他的影响会有多深远。
H.B.Adames 亚当斯(美国历史学家)
A painter leaves his emotions behind him for his posterity to share.
画家把自己的感情留下来，与后人共享。
A.John 约翰(英国画家)
Novelists should never allow themselves to weary of the study of real
life.
小说家们永远不应对研究真实的生活感到厌烦。
Charlotte Bronte 夏洛蒂·勃朗特
Mathematics possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty-a beauty
cold and austere. like that of sculpture.
数学不仅拥有真理，而且拥有至上的美一种冷静而严肃、犹如雕塑那样的 美。
B.Russell 罗素(英国哲学家)
A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed
that uses it.
只有逻辑的头脑像只有刃的刀，它会割破使用它的手。
[印度] Tagore 泰戈尔
Animals are such agreeable friends-they ask no questions, they pass
no criticisms.
动物是极容易相处的朋友，它们从不提问，也从不会批评。
George Eliot 乔治·艾略特
The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop
to admitting it.
猫可以是人们最好的朋友，但它自己却不肯屈尊承认这一点。
Doug Larson 道格·拉森
The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all
be as happy as kings.
世界上的东西是那样丰富多彩，我肯定我们都应当像国王一样愉快。
Stevenson 史蒂文森
It's but little good you'll do a-watering the last year's crop.
为去年的庄稼浇水徒劳无功。
George Eliot 乔治·艾略特
Inflation is being broken with a lot of money in your pocket.
通货膨胀是你的口袋有大量的钱，而你破产了。
Each of us is the accumulation of our memories.
我们每个人都是我们记忆的累积。
Alan Loy McGinnis 艾伦·洛尹·麦金尼斯
If dogs could talk, it would take a lot of fun out of owning one.
如果狗能讲话，那养狗就无多少乐趣了。
Andrew A.Rooney 安德鲁·A·鲁尼
It is the last straw that breaks the camel's back.
骆驼负载过重时，加根草也能把它压倒。
Judge not a book by its covers.
评价书不能看封面。
It is hard to please all.
要使人人满意是件难事。
It is better to please a fool than to anget him.
若惹蠢人生气，不如使他欢喜。
英语谚语
Vice is often clothed in virtue's habit.
罪恶往往披着德道的外衣。
He give twice who gives quickly.
给得爽快，等于给了两次。
It is no sin to sell dear, but a sin to give ill measure.
高价出售不为过，缺斤少两才是罪。
Brevity is the soul of wit.
言以简洁为贵。
Couch hard arguments in soft words.
理要硬而话要软。
It is no use crying over spilt milk.
牛奶已泼，哭也无用。
Good take-heed does surely speed.
谨慎是成功的保证。
In every country the sun rises in the morning.
无论在哪个国家都是早晨出太阳。
In settling on island, the first building erected by a Spaniard will
be a church; by a Frenchman, a fort; by a Dutchman, a warehouse; and
by an Englishman, an alehouse.
在海岛定居时，西班牙人先造教堂；法国人先造要塞；荷兰人先造仓库而英 国人则先造酒店。
Your liberty to swing your arms ends where my nose begins.
你有挥舞手臂的自由，但这自由必须止于我的鼻端。
Adventure is just a romantic name for trouble.
冒险是自找麻烦的浪漫说法。
Louis Lamour 路易斯·拉穆尔
What is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh.
江山好改，本性难移。
英语谚语
Speech is the picture of the mind.
言语是心灵的画像。
Language is the dress of thought.
语言是思想的衣服。
The essence of language is human activity.
语言的本质是人类活动。
O.Jespersen 耶斯佩森
What the heart thinks the tongue speaks.
言为心声。
Folk rhymes are the mirrors that show the feelings of the people.
民谣是人心的镜子。
The pen is mightier than the sword.
笔锋利于剑。
B.Lytton 利顿(英国政治家)
Like author, like book.
书如其人。
Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
风趣是谈话中的盐，而不是主食。
[英国] W.Hazlitt 哈兹里特
A poet is born, not made.
诗人靠天成。
L.A.Florus 弗洛鲁斯(古罗马诗人)
A poet is , before anything else, a person who is passionately in
love with language.
一个诗人，首先应当是一个非常热爱语言的人。
[英国] W.H.Auden 奥登
To have great poets, there must be great audience too.
要有伟大的诗人，必须要有伟大的听众。
[美国] W.Whitman 惠特曼
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while
playing a violin.
诗人是这样的人，他把梯子架到星星上，一边爬梯子一边拉提琴。
[法国] E.de Goncourt 龚古尔
A great poem is a fountain forever overflowing with the waters of
wisdom and delight.
伟大的诗篇犹如永远流出智慧和欢欣之水的喷泉。
P.B.Shelley 雪莱
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.
诗乃自发溢出的强烈的情感。
Wordsworth 华兹尔斯
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is a speaking picture.
画是无言之诗，诗是有声之画。
The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.
对于诗人来说，最大的悲剧莫过于由于误解而受到钦佩。
[法国] J.Cocteau 科克托
For a man to become a poet he must be in love, or miserable.
一个人要恋爱或潦倒才可成为诗人。
The only really difficult thing about a poem is the critic's explanation
of it.
对于诗歌，唯一真正难以理解的是批评家对它的解释。
[美国] F.M.Colby 科尔比
You know what charm is: A way of getting the answer "Yes"without
having asked any clear question.
你知道什么是魅力：一种不用明白地提出问题而能得到肯定答复的办法。
A.Camus 加缪
It has been said that art is a tryst, for in the joy of it maker and
beholder meet.
有人说艺术是一种幽会，因为艺术家和欣赏者可在幽会的乐趣中相遇在一起。
What art offers is space-a certain breathing room for the spirit.
艺术提供的空间一种给心灵呼吸的空间。
Humour must have its background of seriousness.
幽默必须以严肃为背景。
[英国] M.Beerbohm 比尔博姆
The difficulty with humorists is that they will mix what they believe
with what they don't, whichever seems likelier to win an effect.
幽默家的困难，在于他们把相信的和不信的全混在一起，只考虑哪个看上去更 有效果。
[美国] John Updike 约翰·厄普代克
A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.
批评家是一个认得路但不会开车的人。
[英国]K.Tynan 泰南
I think of music as a menu. I can't eat the same thing everyday.
我把音乐比作菜单。我不能每天吃同样的菜。
Good art is not what it looks like, but what it does to us.
好的艺术不在于它像什么，而在于它引起我们什么感受。
The greatest artist was once a beginner.
最伟大的艺术家也曾是个初学者。
Writers, composers, entertainers and such know an awful truth: it
is easier to please a million eople you don't know than to please
one person you do know.
作家、作曲家、表演艺人等都知道一个可怕的事实：取悦一百万个陌生人，比 取悦一个熟人更容易。
The best is often the enemy of the good.
完美常是美好之敌。
A book is a success when people who haven't read it pretend they have.
一本书如果没有看过的人也冒充看过，便是成功的。
There are three things that ought to be considered before some things
are spoken, the manner, the place, and the time.
有些事情在谈论之前应该考虑三点：方式、地点和时间。
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.
如果上帝不存在，也有必要造出一个来。
We could't conceive of a miracle if none had ever happened.
如果从来没有发生过奇迹，我们便无法想像奇迹这种事。
When all men think alike, no man thinks very much.
大家都一样想的时候就没有人多想了。
There is one thing which give radiance to everything. It is the idea
of something around the corner.
有一样东西可给任何事物添上光彩，那就是好事即将来临的想法。
Eating and scratching wants but a beginning.
吃饭和搔痒只需开个头。
英语谚语
Langhter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
笑是太阳，它从人们脸上赶走冬天。
If there were no clouds, we should not enjoy the sun.
没有阴云不觉阳光可爱。
Never fear shadows. They simply mean there's a light shining somewhere
nearby.
不要害怕黑影。它只不过意味着附近有光在照耀。
Lilies are whitest in a blackamoor's hand.
黑人手中的百合花最白。
英语谚语
The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in
the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting
moment.
讲话的真正艺术不仅是在适当的场合讲适当的话，而且要在最诱人的时刻不要 讲错误的话。
Short speeches are not always the best, but the best speeches are
always short.
短话不一定是最好的，但最好的话却总是短的。
It is right to be contented with what we have, never with what we
are.
可以满足于所得，但不要满足于自己。
Pride and grace dwell never in one place.
傲慢与优雅决不共存。
Honour and profit lie not sack.
荣誉和私利不能睡在一起。
Beauty and folly are often companies.
漂亮与愚蠢常为伴侣。
A cracked bell can never sound well.
破钟无好音。
There is nothing which has not been bitter before being ripe.
凡事在成熟前，都是苦味的。
A bad penny always comes back.
伪币迟早归原主。
Envy assails the noblest, the winds howl around the highest peak.
峰高招风，位高人妒。
He that is foolish in the fault, let him be wise in the punishment.
因愚蠢而犯错误的人，应使受惩罚而聪明起来。
Laugh before breakfast and you'll cry before supper.
笑得早也会哭得早。
Every dog has his day.
瓦块也有翻身日，人人都有运来时。
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
秋季是第二个春天，每片树叶都是花朵。
Custom is second nature.
习惯是第二天性。/习惯成自然。
Custom reconciles us to everything.
习惯则不怨。
Custom makes all things easy.
凡事成习惯就容易做。/熟能生巧。
Nature is wonderful. A million years ago she didn't know we were going
to need glasses, but look where she put our ears.
造化真妙。百万年前它并不知道我们会要戴眼镜，可是瞧瞧它把我们的耳朵放在什么地方。
One machine can do the work of 50 ordinary men, but no machine can
do the work of one extraordinary man.
一台机器可以做五十个普通人的工作，但是没有任何机器能够做一个非凡的人的 工作。
E.Hubbard 哈伯德
Optimist: A man who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery.
乐观主义者：被狮子逼上了树但仍然能欣赏风景的人。
W.Winchell 温切尔
May the best of this year be the worst of next.
但愿明年最坏的事也和今年最好的事那么好。
Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
悲观主义者：可在两种不幸中选择一个时而两者都选的人。
OWilde 王尔德
A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to
run.
保守主义者是胆小得不敢斗争，又胖得跑不动的人。
E.Hubbard 哈伯德
Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions.
可以给偏执下一个粗略的定义：没有观点的人的愤怒。
G.K.Chesterton 切斯特顿
Patience: A minor form of despair disguised as virtu.
耐心：被伪装成美德的轻度的绝望。
A.Bierce 比尔斯
Egotists do not see the world with themselves in it, but see themselves
with the world around them.
自高自大的人看到的不是自己存在于这个世界上，而是世界围绕着他们而存在.。
H.L.Samuel 塞缪尔
He who will not reason, is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he
who dares not is a slave.
不愿说理是偏执者；不会说理是愚人；不敢说理是奴隶。
W.Drummond 德拉蒙德(苏格兰诗人)
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of
nothing.
玩世不恭者是知道一切事物的价格，却不知道任何东西的价值的人。
O.Wilde 王尔德
A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree
bring forth good fruit.
好树不会结坏果子，坏树不会结好果子。
西方箴言
The worst vice of the fanatic is his sincerity.
狂热者的大恶在于他的诚意。
O.Wilde 王尔德
Real charity doesn't care if it's taxdeductible or not.
真正的慈善捐款不在乎捐款是否可以免税。
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
人人都把自己的错误美其名为经验。
A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time
left to meddle with you.
势利的人要在势利上花许多时间，不会剩许多时间来管你的闲事。
W.Faulkner 福克纳
When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he
hasn't the slightest intention of putting it into practice.
当一个人说他原则上赞成某事时，那就是说他根本无意把那件事付诸实施。
Habit is the fly-wheel of civilization.
习惯是文明的飞轮。
H. J. 詹姆斯
Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man,
but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.
习惯就是习惯，谁也不能将其扔出窗外，只能一步一步地引它下楼。
Mark Twain 马克·吐温
So many countries , so many customs.
异国不同俗。
Other times, other manners.
隔代不同礼。
When at Rome, do as the Romans do.
入乡随风，入境随俗。
Coming events cast their shadows before.
未来之事，必有征兆。
A snow year, a rich year.
瑞雪兆丰年。
北欧谚语
Timely snow foretells a bumper harvest. /Auspicious snow promises
good harvests.
瑞雪兆丰年。
中国谚语
Cloudy mornings turn to clear evenings.
早见云雾晚见晴。
Red sky at night, shepherd's delight; red sky in the morning, shephered's
warning.
傍晚天红，牧羊人高兴；早晨天红，牧羊人当心。
When there is solar halo, it will rain; When there is lunar halo,
it will blow.
日晕而雨，月晕而风。
中国谚语
After wind comes rain.
风是雨的头。
A wonder lasts but nine days.
奇闻只存在九天。
The same man never crossed the same river twice.
旧地重来景已非。
英语谚语
Man can climb to the highest summit, but he cannot dwell there long.
人可以爬到最高峰，但他不能在那儿久住。
Bernard Shaw 萧伯纳
The highest branch is not the safest roost.
高枝非良栖之所。
The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins.
暴君死了，他的统治也就结束了；烈士死了，他的统治刚开始。
Kierkegaard 克尔恺郭尔(丹麦宗教哲学家)
Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be
important.
世界上大部分的麻烦都是要想成为伟大人物的人搞出来的。
T.S.Eliot 艾略特
The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything
or nothing.
生活中的主要危险来自那些想要改变一切或什么也不想改变的人。
Lady Astor 阿斯特子爵夫人(英国下议院第一位女议员)
The greater the power , the more dangerous the abuse.
权力越大，滥用权力造成的危险也越大。
E.Burke 伯克
Those who foolishly sought power by riding on the back of the tiger
ended up inside.
那些愚蠢地骑在虎背上追求权利的人终将被老虎吞下肚子。
J.F.Kennedy 肯尼迪
No man loves his fetters, be they made of gold.
即使是金子做的镣铐，也没有人喜欢。
D.B.Heywood 海伍德
Men only weep when deeply grieved.
男儿有泪不轻弹，皆因未到伤心处。
中国谚语
All men have a reason, but not all men can give a reason.
所有的人都有理由，但并非所有的人都能讲出理由。
J.H.Newman 纽曼
What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he
holds it.
关键不在于一个人所持的观点，而在于他的这个观点有多么根深蒂固。
E.Pound 庞德
No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly
moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are
happy.
在所有的人都获得自由之前，没有一个人能完全自由；在所有的人都有道德之前，没有一个人能被称为完全有道德；在所有的人都幸福之前，没有一个人能完全幸福！
H.Spencer 斯宾塞
Good things are worth waiting for.
好事值得等待。
You can take a horse to the water but you cannot make him drink.
你可以把马牵到河边，但无法强迫它喝水。
He who is first come is first served.
先到的先得。
They who lay traps for others are often caught by their own bait.
给别人设圈套的人常常落在自己的圈套里。
[古希腊] Lesiod 拉西奥德
Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which
does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
请使我远离没有眼泪的智慧，没有欢笑的哲学，和不肯向孩子低头的伟大。
More people are flattered into virtue than are bullied out of vice.
因受到赞扬而行善的人比因受到威胁而不作恶的人要多。
R.S.Surtees 瑟蒂斯
A bargain is a bargain.
成约不能翻悔。
A baited cat may grow as fierce as a lion.
被逼急的猫，凶得像狮子。
Never let your feet run faster than your shoes.
不要让你的脚跳得比你的鞋子快。
苏格兰谚语
Burn not your house to fright the mouse away.
别为吓跑耗子而去烧房子。
One never goes to the temple for no reason.
无事不登三宝殿。
He who has a mind to beat his dog will easily find his stick.
要想打狗，找棍不难。/欲加之罪，何患无辞。
A waterfront pavilion gets the moonlight first; the flowers and trees
on the sunny side meet spring earlier.
近水楼台先得月，向阳花木早逢春。
中国谚语
It is hard to please all.
众口难调。
It is ill jesting with edged tools.
手持利器，不可打闹。
What's the use of running when you are on the wrong road?
路走错了，跑步又有何用?
An eye for an eye, a tooth for (a) tooth.
以眼还眼，以牙还牙。
All are not saints that go to church.
上教堂的未必都是圣人。
It is not the hood that makes the monk.
穿袈裟的不一定就是和尚。
All are not thieves that dogs bark at.
狗咬的不见得都是小偷。
All are not hunters that blow the horn.
吹号角的未必都是猎人。
Every new sovereign brings his own courtiers.
一朝天子一朝臣。
You cannot catch old birds with chaff.
用秕糠捉不到精明鸟。
Every man for himself, and God for us all.
人人为自己，上帝为大家。
All is fair in love and war.
情场战场，不择手段。
Let each one sweep the snow from his own doorstep and heed not the
frost on his neighbour's roof.
各人自扫门前雪，莫管他人瓦上霜。
Even a black hen lays a white egg.
黑鸡生白蛋，丑妇生俊儿。/草窝里飞出金凤凰。
It is as futile as drawing water with a bamboo basket.
竹篮打水一场空。
中国谚语
What's done cannot be undone.
木已成舟，覆水难收。
A good tale is none the worse for being told twice.
好戏不厌两回看。/好故事百听不厌。
Silence gives consent.
沉默就是赞成。
Needs must when the devil drives.
天要下雨，娘要嫁人。
East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet.
东是东来西是西，两者永远要分离。
R.Kipling 吉卜林(英国诗人)
There's nothing new under the sun.
天下原无新事物。
《圣经》
What God will no frost can kill.
天意难违。
We are all slaves of opinoin.
我们都是意见的奴隶。
One cannot serve God and Mammon.
不能既拜上帝又拜财神。
《新约》
A paradise that you cannot leave is hell.
不能离开的天堂等于是地狱。
It is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye , than for a
rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
富人进天堂比骆驼穿过针眼还难。
《圣经》
For every one that does ill hates the light, and comes not to the
light, lest his works should be reproved.
凡作恶 的便恨光并躲避光，唯恐他的行为受到责备。
西方箴言
If then you are not able to do even that which is least , why are
you anxious concerning the rest?
最小的事，你们尚且不能作，为什么还要去操心其余的事呢?
西方箴言
A lion at home, a mouse abroad.
在家像狮子，出外成老鼠。
A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with
an optimist.
悲观主义者吗? 那是曾和乐观主义者过从甚密的人。
Render threrfore unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's; and unto
God the things that are God's.
凯撒的物当归还给凯撒，上帝的物当归还给上帝。
Let not they left hand know what thy right hand does.
右手所为，不让左手知道。
《新约》
Water is a boon in the desert, but the drowning man curses it.
水是沙漠里的恩物，快淹死的人却诅咒它。
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish
we didn't.
我们请别人给以忠告时，说明我们已经知道解决问题的答案却希望并不知道它 。
As you make your bed so you must lie on it.
自己铺的床必须自己去躺。/自作则自受。
A mill cannot grind with the water that is past.
磨轮不能用已经流走的水来转动。
The devil is not so black as he is painted.
魔鬼并不像人们描绘的那样黑。
A boisterous horse must have a boisterous bridle.
烈马要套上好辔头。
A dream that is not interpreted is like a letter that is not opened.
一个未圆的梦恰似一封未拆的信。
Blind men can judge no colours.
盲者不辨色。
Better be sure than sorry.
稳当总比后悔好。
Far fowls have fair feathers.
远方的鸟羽毛美。/弄不到手的东西是最好的。
英语谚语
The soft can overcome the hard, and the weak can defeat the strong.
柔能克刚，弱能制强。
中国谚语
The obscure we see eventually.The com pletely obvious, it seems, takes
longer.
隐悔的，我们终究会体会。显而易见的，却似乎需要更长的时间才能看出。
The only worthwhile achievements of man are those which are socially
useful.
所谓真正的成就，即对社会有用之事。
Every shoe fits not every foot.
不可只用一种尺度衡量一切。
Every white has its black, and sweet its sour.
月白必有黑，有甜必有苦。
Extreme heat gives rise to wind; poverty gives rise to a desire for
change.
热极生风，穷则思变。
Loooking from this hill, you think the opposite hill is higher; but
after climbing up there, you can't find wood to make a fire.
这山看来那山高，到了那山没柴烧。
中国谚语
No man is indispensable.
没有一个人是不可缺少的。/少了谁地球也转。
You cannot make a crab walk straight.
你无法叫螃蟹直着走。/不要做不可能的事。
You may know by a handful the whole sack.
抓一把就可知整袋装的是什么。/见微知著。
Things are seldom what they seem.
事情很少像表面所显示的那样。
Not good is it to harp on the same string.
不要老是弹一根弦。
People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.
以火攻火者，结果只剩一片灰烬。
When someone is beating a gong, listen to its overtones; when someone
is talking, listen to his voice.
锣鼓听音，说话听声。
Happiness is a form of courage.
幸福是勇气的一种形式。
H. Jackson 杰克逊(英国作家)
A hungry man is an angry man.
饿汉易怒。
A good man can no more harm than a sheep.
好人像绵羊，为恶不在行。
A good horse cannot be of a bad colour.
好马无劣色
Agood horse should be seldom spurred.
好马无需用鞭抽。
A good face is a letter of recommendation.
漂亮的面孔就是推荐书。
A fool may ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer
in seven years.
傻子一小时提出的问题，聪明人七年也回答不了。
A fool knows more in his own house than a wise man in another.
傻子在自己家里比聪明人在别人家里知道得多。
A dog will not howl if you beat him with a bone.
肉骨头打狗，狗不叫。
A dear ship stands long in the haven.
贵重的船只停留在避风港里的时间长。
A curst cow has short horns.
性子烈的牛角短，脾气暴的人为害有限。
A crabbed knot must have a crabbed wedge.
难解的绳结得用坚硬的楔子来对付。
A city that parleys is half gotten.
求和之城已陷落一半。
The darkest hour is that before the dawn.
黎明之前最黑暗。
I think, therefore I am.
我思考，所以我存在。
Descartes 笛卡儿
The man who offers an insult writes it in sand, but for the man who
received it, it's chiselled in bronze.
侮辱人者是把话写在沙上，受辱者却把它看作镶刻在铜上。
The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look
respectable.
经济预测的唯一作用是使占星术看起来体面一些。
I've never any pity for conceited people, because Ithink they carry
their comfort about with them.
我从不怜惜自负的人们，因为我觉得他们无处不能自我安慰。
George Eliot 乔治·艾略特
Influence is like a savings account.The less you use it, the more
you've got.
影响力犹如储蓄存款，用得愈少，积得愈多。
Humory has been well defined as "thinking in fun while feeling
in earnest".
幽默被人正确地解释为"以诚挚表感受，寓深思于嬉笑。
Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
文明是不必要的必需品的无限增加。
Mark Twain 马克·吐温
I know how to be abased , and I know also how to abound: in everything
and in all things have I learned the secret both to be filled and
to be hungry, both to abound and to be in want.
我知道怎样对待窘迫，也知道怎样对待富有：凡事均既饱足又饥饿，既有余又匮乏，这是我学到的秘诀。
Every one that does sin does alos lawlessness; and sin is lawlessness.
凡犯罪的，就是违背律法，违背律法就是罪。
When the lust has conceived, it bears sin, and the sin, when it is
full-grown, brings forth death.
私欲既怀了胎，就生出罪来。罪既成长，就会死去。
A ship in harbour is safe-but that is not what ships are for.
船停泊在港中固然安全，可是这并非造船的目的。
The water supporting a ship can also upset it.
水可以载舟，亦可以覆舟。
There is a black sheep in every flock.
羊多必有黑羊；人多必有败类。
A good reputation sits still; a bad one runs about.
好名不出门，恶名传四方。
It is not the lofty sails but the unseen wind that moves the ship.
推动船的不是高大的帆，而是无形的风。
Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
宁要机智的傻子，不要愚蠢的机智人。
A man, a horse, and a dog are never weary of each others company.
人、马、狗可以永远相伴不厌倦。
A light purse makes a heavy heart.
钱袋越空，心情越重。
A lie begets a lie.
谎言生谎言。
A lean dog shames his master.
狗瘦主人羞。
A little neglect may breed great mischief.
细小的疏忽会酿成大祸。
A lawyer never goes to law himself.
律师自己决不会打官司。
A king without learning is but a crowned ass.
无知的国王不过是一头戴着王冠的驴。
A honey tongue, a heart of gall.
口如蜜甜者心似胆苦。
A handsaw is a good thing, but not to shave with.
手锯再好也不能用来剃胡须。
A handful of good life is better than a bushel of learning.
为善一时，赛过满腹经纶。
A green wound is soon healed.
新伤口愈合快。
Christmas comes but once a year, But when it comes it brings good
cheer.
圣诞节一年只来一次，但每次来临却都带来喜悦。
Critics are like brushers of noblemen's clothes.
批评家好比男仆，为大人物刷去衣服上的灰尘。
Curiosity is ill manners in another's house.
在别人家里显得好奇是没礼貌的表现。
Desires are nourished by delays.
欲望迟迟得不到满足，而愈来愈强烈。
Do not all you can; spend not all you have; believe not all you hear;
and tell not all you know.
做事别逞能，用钱莫用尽，人言勿全信，说话留三分。
A burnt child dreads the fire.
烧伤的孩子最怕火。
A good thing is soon snatched up.
好货卖得快。
A good tongue is a good weapon.
会说话的舌头是一件精良的武器。
A good tale ill told is marred in the telling.
好故事还要讲得好。
A good surgeon must have an eagle's eye, a lion's heart, and a lady's
hand.
一个好外科医生要有鹰的眼、狮子的胆和女性的手。
A good shift may serve long, but it will not serve ever.
好的推诿之词或许长期有用，但不会永远有用。
A true jest is no jest.
真正的笑语决非笑话。
All his geese are swans.
自己的鹅都是天鹅。
A good deed is never lost.
好心一定有好报。
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Translation
of Corresponding English and Chinese Proverbs
Zhao Baobin （赵宝斌）
There are many proverbs in both Chinese
and English. Sometimes it is hard for us to find the corresponding
ones because of the different culture background and sometimes you
can find the corresponding ones in the two languages. In this way
is it a little easier for us to translate them into Chinese or English
otherwise it is very difficult to put them into another language.
Now I will turn some Chinese proverbs into the equivalent ones in
English.
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.
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.
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.
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.
5.Anger and haste hinder good counsel.
小不忍则乱大谋
Explanation: one cannot act wisely when one is angry or in a hurry.
6. As poor as a church mouse
一贫如洗
Explanation: to be exceedingly poor, having barely to live upon.
7. A word spoken is past recalling.
一言既出，驷马难追
Explanation: the harm done by a careless word cannot easily undo.
8. Birds of a feather flock together.
物以类聚
Explanation: 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.
9. Cry over spilt milk.
覆水难收
Explanation: to cry or complain about something that has already happened
10.World is but a little place, after all.
天涯原咫尺，到处可逢君
Explanation: it is used when a person meets someone he knows or is
in someway connected with him in a place where he would never have
expected to do so.
11. When in Rome, do as the Romans do.
入乡随俗
Explanation: conform to the manners and customs of those amongst whom
you live.
12. What you lose on the swings you get back on the
roundabouts.
失之东隅，收之桑榆
Explanation: a rough way of starting a law of average; if you have
bad luck on one day you have good on another; if one venture results
in loss try a fresh one---it may succeed.
13. What are the odds so long as you are happy.
知足者常乐
Explanation: what does anything else matter if a person is happy.
14. Entertain an angel unawares.
有眼不识泰山
Explanation: to receive a great personage as a guest without knowing
his merits.
15. Every dog has his day.
是人皆有出头日
Explanation: fortune comes to each in turn
16. Every potter praises his own pot.
王婆买瓜，自卖自夸
Explanation: people are loath to refer to defects in their possessions
or their family members
17. Great minds think alike
英雄所见略同
Explanation: people happen to have the same idea.
From the examples above, we can find some Chinese
proverbs that have the equivalent ones in English. So we have the
different ways to express the similar ideas.
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