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bad beginning makes a bad ending.
不善始者不善终。
A bad thing never dies.
遗臭万年。
A bad workman always blames his tools.
不会撑船怪河弯。
A bird in the hand is worth than two in the bush.
一鸟在手胜过双鸟在林。
A boaster and a liar are cousins-german.
吹牛与说谎本是同宗。
A bully is always a coward.
色厉内荏。
A burden of one’s choice is not felt.
爱挑的担子不嫌重。
A candle lights others and consumes itself.
蜡烛照亮别人，却毁灭了自己。
A cat has 9 lives.
猫有九条命。
A cat may look at a king.
人人平等。
A close mouth catches no flies.
病从口入。
A constant guest is never welcome.
常客令人厌。
Actions speak louder than words.
事实胜于雄辩。
Adversity leads to prosperity.
穷则思变。
Adversity makes a man wise, not rich.
逆境出人才。
A fair death honors the whole life.
死得其所，流芳百世。
A faithful friend is hard to find.
知音难觅。
A fall into a pit, a gain in your wit.
吃一堑，长一智。
A fox may grow gray, but never good.
江山易改，本性难移。
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
患难见真情。
A friend is easier lost than found.
得朋友难，失朋友易。
A friend is never known till a man has need.
需要之时方知友。
A friend without faults will never be found.
没有十全十美的朋友。
’After you’ is good manners.
“您先请”是礼貌。
A good beginning is half done.
良好的开端是成功的一半。
A good beginning makes a good ending.
善始者善终。
A good book is a good friend.
好书如挚友。
A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.
一本好书，相伴一生。
A good conscience is a soft pillow.
不做亏心事，不怕鬼叫门。
A good fame is better than a good face.
美名胜过美貌。
A good husband makes a good wife.
夫善则妻贤。
A good medicine tastes bitter.
良药苦口。
A good wife health is a man’s best wealth.
妻贤身体好是男人最大的财富。
A great talker is a great liar.
说大话者多谎言。
A hedge between keeps friendship green.
君子之交淡如水。
A joke never gains an enemy but loses a friend.
戏谑不能化敌为友，只能使人失去朋友。
A leopard cannot change its spots.
积习难改。
A liar is not believed when he speaks the truth.
说谎者即使讲真话也没人相信。
A light heart lives long.
静以修身。
A little body often harbors a great soul.
浓缩的都是精品。
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
一知半解，自欺欺人。
A little pot is soon hot.
狗肚子盛不得四两油。
All are brave when the enemy flies.
敌人逃窜时，人人都成了勇士。
All good things come to an end.
天下没有不散的筵席。
All rivers run into sea.
海纳百川。
All roads lead to Rome.
条条大路通罗马。
All that ends well is well.
结果好，就一切都好。
All that glitters is not gold.
闪光的不一定都是金子。
All things are difficult before they are easy.
凡事总是由难而易。
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
只会用功不玩耍，聪明孩子也变傻。
A man becomes learned by asking questions.
不耻下问才能有学问。
A man can do no more than he can.
凡事都应量力而行。
A man cannot spin and reel at the same time.
一心不能二用。
A man is known by his friends.
什么人交什么朋友。
A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds.
光说空话不做事，犹如花园光长刺。
A man without money is no man at all.
一分钱难倒英雄汉。
A merry heart goes all the way.
心旷神怡，事事顺利。
A miss is as good as a mile.
失之毫厘，差之千里。
A mother’s love never changes.
母爱永恒。
An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
一天一苹果，不用请医生。
A new broom sweeps clean.
新官上任三把火。
An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.
以眼还眼，以牙还牙。
An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening.
一日之计在于晨。
An old dog cannot learn new tricks.
老狗学不出新把戏。
An ounce of luck is better than a pound of wisdom.
聪明才智，不如运气。
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
预防为主，治疗为辅。
A rolling stone gathers no moss.
滚石不生苔，转业不聚财。
As a man sows, so he shall reap.
种瓜得瓜，种豆得豆。
A single flower does not make a spring.
一花独放不是春，百花齐放春满园。
A snow year, a rich year.
瑞雪兆丰年。
A sound mind in a sound body.
健全的精神寓于健康的身体。
A still tongue makes a wise head.
寡言者智。
A stitch in time saves nine.
小洞不补，大洞吃苦。
A straight foot is not afraid of a crooked shoe.
身正不怕影子斜。
A wise head makes a close mouth.
真人不露相，露相非真人。
A word spoken is past recalling.
一言既出，驷马难追。
A year’s plan starts with spring.
一年之计在于春。
A young idler, an old beggar.
少壮不努力，老大徒伤悲。
Bad news has wings.
好事不出门，坏事传千里。
Barking dogs seldom bite.
吠犬不咬人。
Beauty lies in the love’s eyes.
情人眼里出西施。
Be swift to hear, slow to speak.
听宜敏捷，言宜缓行。
Better late than never.
不怕慢，单怕站。
Better to ask the way than go astray.
问路总比迷路好。
Between friends all is common.
朋友之间不分彼此。
Birds of a feather flock together.
物以类聚，人以群分。
Blood is thicker than water.
血浓于水。
Blood will have blood.
血债血偿。
Books and friends should be few but good.
读书如交友，应求少而精。
Business is business.
公事公办。
Business is the salt of life.
事业是人生的第一需要。
By reading we enrich the mind, by conversation we polish it.
读书使人充实，交谈使人精明。
Cannot see the wood for the trees.
一叶障目，不见泰山。
Care and diligence bring luck.
谨慎和勤奋才能抓住机遇。
Caution is the parent of safety.
小心驶得万年船。
Cheats never prosper.
骗人发不了财。
Children are what the mothers are.
耳濡目染，身教言传。
Choose an author as you choose a friend.
择书如择友。
Come what may, heaven won’t fall.
做你的吧，天塌不下来。
Complacency is the enemy of study.
学习的敌人是自己的满足。
Confidence in yourself is the first step on the road to success.
自信是走向成功的第一步。
Constant dripping wears away a stone.
水滴石穿，绳锯木断。
Content is better than riches.
知足者常乐。
Count one’s chickens before they are hatched.
蛋未孵先数雏。
Courtesy on one side only lasts not long.
来而不往非礼也。
Creep before you walk.
循序渐进。
Cry for the moon.
海底捞月。
Custom is a second nature.
习惯是后天养成的。
Custom makes all things easy.
有个好习惯，事事皆不难。
Diamond cuts diamond.
强中自有强中手。
Do as the Romans do.
入乡随俗。
Do as you would be done by.
己所不欲，勿施于人。
Doing is better than saying.
与其挂在嘴上，不如落实在行动上。
Do it now.
机不可失，时不再来。
Do nothing by halves.
凡事不可半途而废。
Don’t claim to know what you don’t know.
不要不懂装懂。
Don’t have too many irons in the fire.
不要揽事过多。
Don’t make a mountain out of a molehill.
不要小题大做。
Don’t put off till tomorrow what should be done today.
今日事，今日毕。
Don’t put the cart before the horse.
不要本末倒置。
Don’t trouble trouble until trouble troubles you.
不要自找麻烦。
Don’t try to teach your grandmother to suck eggs.
不要班门弄斧。
Do well and have well.
善有善报。
Each bird love to hear himself sing.
孤芳自赏。
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
早睡早起身体好。
Easier said than done.
说得容易，做得难。
Easy come, easy go.
来也匆匆，去也匆匆。
Eat to live, but not live to eat.
人吃饭是为了活着，但活着不是为了吃饭。
Empty vessels make the greatest sound.
实磨无声空磨响，满瓶不动半瓶摇。
Envy has no holidays.
忌妒之人无宁日。
Even Homer sometimes nods.
智者千虑，必有一失。
Even reckoning makes long friends.
亲兄弟，明算账。
Every advantage has its disadvantage.
有利必有弊。
Everybody’s business is nobody’s business.
人人负责，等于没人负责。
Every day is not Sunday.
好景不常在。
Every dog has his day.
谁都有得意的时候。
Every door may be shut, but death’s door.
人生在世，唯死难逃。
Every heart has its own sorrow.
各人有各人的苦恼。
Every little helps a mickle.
聚沙成塔，集腋成裘。
Every man for himself, and the devil takes the hindmost.
人不为己，天诛地灭。
Every man has his faults.
金无足赤，人无完人。
Every man has his hobbyhorse.
萝卜青菜，各有所爱。
Every man has his weak side.
人人都有弱点。
Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
自己的命运自己掌握。
Every minute counts.
分秒必争。
Every mother’s child is handsome.
孩子是自己的好。
Every potter praises hit pot.
王婆卖瓜，自卖自夸。
Everything is good when new, but friends when old.
东西是新的好，朋友是老的亲。
Example is better then percept.
说一遍，不如做一遍。
Experience is the father of wisdom and memory the mother.
经验是智慧之父，记忆是智慧之母。
Experience must be bought.
吃一堑，长一智。
Fact speak louder than words.
事实胜于雄辩。
Failure is the mother of success.
失败是成功之母。
False friends are worse than bitter enemies.
明枪易躲，暗箭难防。
Far from eye, far from heart.
眼不见，心不烦。
Far water does not put out near fire.
远水救不了近火。
Faults are thick where love is thin.
一朝情意淡，样样不顺眼。
Fear always springs from ignorance.
恐惧源于无知。
Fields have eyes, and woods have ears.
He that will not work shall not eat.
不劳动者不得食。
He who does not advance loses ground.
逆水行舟，不进则退。
He who makes constant complaint gets little compassion.
经常诉苦，没人同情。
He who makes no mistakes makes nothing.
想不犯错误，就一事无成。
He who risks nothing gains nothing.
收获与风险并存。
History repeats itself.
历史往往重演。
Honesty is the best policy.
做人诚信为本。
Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.
抱最好的愿望，做最坏的打算。
I cannot be your friend and your flatterer too.
朋友不能阿谀奉承。
If a man deceives me once, shame on him, if he deceives me twice, shame on me.
上当一回头，再多就可耻。
If you make yourself an ass, don’t complain if people ride you.
人善被人欺，马善被人骑。
If your ears glow, someone is talking of you.
耳朵发烧，有人念叨。
If you run after two hares, you will catch neither.
脚踏两条船，必定落空。
If you sell the cow, you sell her milk too.
杀鸡取卵。
If you venture nothing, you will have nothing.
不入虎穴，焉得虎子。
If you want knowledge, you must toil for it.
要想求知，就得吃苦。
Industry is the parent of success.
勤奋是成功之母。
It is better to die when life is a disgrace.
宁为玉碎，不为瓦全。
It is easier to get money than to keep it.
挣钱容易攒钱难。
It is easy to be wise after the event.
事后诸葛亮好当。
It is easy to open a shop but hard to keep it always open.
创业容易守业难。
It is hard to please all.
众口难调。
It is never too old to learn.
活到老，学到老。
It is no use crying over spilt milk.
覆水难收。
It is the first step that costs troublesome.
万事开头难。
It is the unforeseen that always happens.
天有不测风云，人有旦夕祸福。
It is too late to grieve when the chance is past.
坐失良机，后悔已迟。
It never rains but it pours.
不鸣则已，一鸣惊人。
It takes three generations to make a gentleman.
十年树木，百年树人。
Jack of all trades and master of none.
门门精通，样样稀松。
Judge not from appearances.
人不可貌相，海不可斗量。
Justice has long arms.
天网恢恢，疏而不漏。
Keep good men company and you shall be of the number.
近朱者赤，近墨者黑。
Kill two birds with one stone.
一箭双雕。
Kings go mad, and the people suffer for it.
君王发狂，百姓遭殃。
Kings have long arms.
普天之下，莫非王土。
Knowledge is power.
知识就是力量。
Knowledge makes humble, ignorance makes proud.
博学使人谦逊，无知使人骄傲。
Learn and live.
活着，为了学习。
Learning makes a good man better and ill man worse.
好人越学越好，坏人越学越坏。
Learn not and know not.
不学无术。
Learn to walk before you run.
先学走，再学跑。
Let bygones be bygones.
过去的就让它过去吧。
Let sleeping dogs lie.
别惹麻烦。
Let the cat out of the bag.
泄漏天机。
Lies can never changes fact.
谎言终究是谎言。
Lies have short legs.
谎言站不长。
Life is but a span.
人生苦短。
Life is half spent before we know what it is.
人过半生，方知天命。
Life is not all roses.
人生并不是康庄大道。
Life without a friend is death.
没有朋友，虽生犹死。
Like a rat in a hole.
瓮中之鳖。
Like author, like book.
文如其人。
Like father, like son.
有其父必有其子。
Like for like.
一报还一报。
Like knows like.
惺惺相惜。
0. An idle youth,a needy age.
少壮不努力，老大徒伤悲。
1. Time flies.
时光易逝。
2. Time is money.
一寸光阴一寸金。
3. Time and tide wait for no man.
岁月无情；岁月易逝；岁月不待人。
4. Time tries all.
时间检验一切。
5. Time tries truth.
时间检验真理。
6. Time past cannot be called back again.
光阴一去不复返。
7. All time is no time when it is past.
光阴一去不复返。
8. No one can call back yesterday;Yesterday will not be called again.
昨日不复来。
9. Tomorrow comes never.
切莫依赖明天。
10.One today is worth two tomorrows.
一个今天胜似两个明天。
11.The morning sun never lasts a day.
好景不常；朝阳不能光照全日。
12.Christmas comes but once a year.
圣诞一年只一度。
13.Pleasant hours fly past.
快乐时光去如飞。
14.Happiness takes no account of time.
欢娱不惜时光逝。
15.Time tames the strongest grief.
时间能缓和极度的悲痛。
16.The day is short but the work is much.
工作多，光阴迫。
17.Never deter till tomorrow that which you can do today.
今日事须今日毕，切勿拖延到明天。
18.Have you somewhat to do tomorrow,do it today.
明天如有事，今天就去做。
19.To him that does everything in its proper time,one day is worth three.
事事及时做，一日胜三日。
20.To save time is to lengthen life.
节省时间就是延长生命。
21.Everything has its time and that time must be watched.
万物皆有时，时来不可失。
22.Take time when time cometh,lest time steal away.
时来必须要趁时，不然时去无声息。
23.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。
24.Make hay while the sun shines.
晒草要趁太阳好。
25.Strike while the iron is hot.
趁热打铁。
26.Work today,for you know not how much you may be hindered tomrrow.
今朝有事今朝做，明朝可能阻碍多。
27.Punctuality is the soul of business.
守时为立业之要素。
28.Procrastination is the thief of time.
因循拖延是时间的大敌；拖延就是浪费时间。
29.Every tide hath ist ebb.
潮涨必有潮落时。
30.Knowledge is power.
知识就是力量。
31.Wisdom is more to be envied than riches.
知识可羡，胜于财富。
32.Wisdom is better than gold or silver.
知识胜过金银，
33.Wisdom in the mind is better than money in the hand.
胸中有知识，胜于手中有钱。
34.Wisdom is a good purchase though we pay dear for it.
为了求知识，代价虽高也值得。
35.Doubt is the key of knowledge.
怀疑是知识之钥。
36.If you want knowledge,you must toil for it.
若要求知识，须从勤苦得。
37.A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
浅学误人。
38.A handful of common sense is worth a bushel of learning.
少量的常识，当得大量的学问。
39.Knowledge advances by steps and not by leaps.
知识只能循序渐进，不能跃进。
40.Learn wisdom by the follies of others.
从旁人的愚行中学到聪明。
41.It is good to learn at another man's cost.
前车可鉴。
42.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。
43.Experience is the best teacher.
经验是最好的教师。
44.Experience is the father of wisdom and memory the mother.
经验是知识之父，记忆是知识之母。
45.Dexterity comes by experience.
熟练来自经验。
46.Practice makes perfect.
熟能生巧。
0. Lying is the first step to the gallows.
说谎是上断头台的第一步。
1. Waste not,want not.
俭以防匮。
2. From saving comes having.
富有来自节俭。
3. A penny saved is a penny gained.
省一文是一文。
4. Take care of the pence and the pound will take care of themselves.
金钱积少便成多。
5. Frugality is an estate alone.
节俭本身就是一宗财产。
6. He that regards not a penny,will lavish a pound.
小钱不知节省，大钱将滥花。
7. Small gains bring great wealth.
积小利，成巨富。
8. Many a little makes a mickle.
积少便成多。
9. As the touchstone tries gold,so gold tries man.
试金之石可试金，正如黄金能试人。
10.Courage and resolution are the spirit and soul of virtue.
勇敢和坚决是美德的灵魂。
11.The path to glory is always rugged.
光荣之路常坎坷。
12.Nothing is difficult to the man who will try.
世上无难事，只要人肯试。
13.The fire is the test of gold;adversity of strong man.
烈火试真金，困苦炼壮士。
14.Great hopes make great man.
远大的希望造就伟大的人物。
15.No way is impossible to courage.
勇士面前无险路。
16.A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
平静的大海决不能造就出熟练的水手。
17.The good seaman is known in bad weather.
坏天气下才能识得出良好的海员；要识好海员，须凭
坏天气。
18.The best hearts are always the bravest.
行为最勇敢的人心地总是最善良。
19.We must not lie down,and cry,God help us.
求神不如求己。
20.He that falls today may be up again tomorrow.
今天跌倒的人也许明天就会站起。
21.Rome was not built in a day.
罗马并非一日可建成；坚持必成。
22.Success belongs to the persevering.
胜利属于坚忍不拔的人。
23.We must repeat a thousand and one times that perseverance is the only road to success.
我们要多次重申：不屈不挠是取得胜利的唯一道
路。
24.Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth.
十九次失败，到第二十次获得成功，这就叫坚持。
25.Step by step the ladder is ascended.
登梯需要逐级登。
26.Adversity leads to prosperity.
困苦通向昌盛。
27.Patience and application will carry us through.
忍耐和专心会使我们度过难关。
28.Fortune often rewards with interest those that have patience to wait for her.
运气太好，见人不睬；运气太坏，无人理会。
40.Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
每一个人都是自身幸福的建筑师。
41.Happy is he who knows his follies in his youth.
记得年轻时所作蠢事的人是幸福的。
42.Misfortunes never (seldom) come alone (single).
祸不单行。
43.Misfortune is a good teacher.
不幸是良好的教师。
44.Misfortunes come at night.
祸常生于不测。
45.Misfortunes tell us what fortune is.
恶运临头后，才知幸运贵。
46.Adversity makes a man wise,not rich.
患难能使人聪明，但不能使人富有。
47.Live and learn.
活到老，学到老。
48.It is never too old to learn.
为学不怕年高。
49.A man becomes learned by asking questions.
要长学问，就得多问；多问则业精。
50.There is no royal road to learning.
学问无坦途。
51.He who is ashamed of asking is ashamed of learning.
畏问之人耻于学。
52.What is learned in the cradle lasts till the grave.
婴孩时期学到的东西，老死不会忘记。
53.Learning makes a good man better and ill man worse.
知识能使好人更好，坏人更坏。
54.Soon learnt,soon forgotten.
学得快，忘得快。
55.Learn young,learn fair.
为学趁年青，既学须学好。
56.A lazy youth,a lousy age.
少时懒惰老来苦。
57.He that knows nothing,doubts nothing.
无知即无疑。
58.A good name keeps its luster in the dark.
良好的名声在黑暗中也能闪闪发光。
59.Fame is a magnifying glass.
名誉是放大镜。
60.A good fame is better than a good face.
美名胜于美貌。
61.Fame like a river is narrowest at its source and broadest afar off.
名誉如河流，发源处最狭，愈远愈宽广。
62.Take honour from me and my life is done.
没有名誉，就没有了生命。
63.Beware of him who regards not his reputation.
要谨防不重名誉的人。
64.It is better to die with honour than to live in infamy.
光荣的死胜于羞辱的生。
65.Adversity successfully overcome is the highest glory.
成功地克服困难是最大的光荣。
66.Reputation is often got without merit and lost without fault.
无功得名是常事，无过失名也是常事。
67.Your father's honour is to you but a second-hand honour.
对于你来说，父亲的荣誉只是间接的荣誉。
68.Never trust another what you should do yourself.
自己该做的事，决不要委托给旁人做。
69.It is an equal failing to trust everybody,and to trust nobody.
信任一切与不信任任何人，同样是弱点。
70.Eat a peck of salt with a man before you trust him.
在你信任一个人之前，先要深入了解他。
71.If you trust before you try,you may repent before you die.
不经考验就依赖，不到瞑目便的悔。
72.Never trust to fine words.
切勿轻信漂亮话。
73.Trust not a great weight to a slender thread.
细线挂重物，终究不可靠。
74.Be just to all,but trust not all.
要对一切人都公正，但不要对一切人都信任。
75.Trust thyself only,and another shall not betray thee.
只要信任你自己，旁人才不出卖你。
76.Self-trust is the essence of heroism.
自信为英雄品质之本。
77.Confidence is a plant of slow growth.
信任是一种生长缓慢的植物。
78.Truth is the daughter of time.
真理是时间的女儿。
79.Truth hath a good face,but ill clothes.
真理面目善良；但衣衫褴褛。
80.Truth and roses have thorns about them.
真理和玫瑰，身旁都有刺。
81.Truth may be blamed,but shall never be shamed.
真理可能会被责难，但绝不会受羞辱。
82.Though malice may darken truth,it cannot put it out.
恶意可以糟塌真理；但无法消灭真理。
83.Truth will prevail.
真理必胜。
84.Truth's best ornament is nakedness.
不加掩饰乃是真理的最好装饰。
85.Facts are stubborn things.
事实是最顽强的东西。
86.Sooner or later,the truth comes to light.
真相迟早会大白。
87.The truths we least like to hear are those which it is most to our advantage to know.
我们最不愿意听到的事实，往往是我们知道了会
大有好处的事实。
88.Falsehood like a nettle stings those who meddle with it.
谎言似荨麻，玩弄会刺手。
89.There is many a fair thing full false.
有许多说得好听的东西充满了谬误。
90.Though a lie be well drest,it is ever overcome.
谎言装扮虽不错，到头总会被揭露。
91.A lie begets a lie till they come to generations.
谎言生谎言，谎言世代传。
92.A false tongue will hardly speak truth.
假舌不会吐真言。
93.False with one can be false with two.
对一个人虚假，也会对两个人虚假。
94.He that will lie will steal.
会说谎的人也就会偷窃。
95.Gossiping and lying go together.
流言常和谎话并行。
96.Equivocation is first cousin to a lie.
含糊其词是谎话的近亲。
97.A great talker is a great liar.
最会夸夸其谈的人也最会说谎。
98.The greatest liars talk most of themselves.
最爱自吹自擂的人是最大的说谎者。
99.Lying rides upon debt's back.
负债的人谎话多。
0. Lying is the first step to the gallows.
说谎是上断头台的第一步。
1. Waste not,want not.
俭以防匮。
2. From saving comes having.
富有来自节俭。
3. A penny saved is a penny gained.
省一文是一文。
4. Take care of the pence and the pound will take care of themselves.
金钱积少便成多。
5. Frugality is an estate alone.
节俭本身就是一宗财产。
6. He that regards not a penny,will lavish a pound.
小钱不知节省，大钱将滥花。
7. Small gains bring great wealth.
积小利，成巨富。
8. Many a little makes a mickle.
积少便成多。
9. As the touchstone tries gold,so gold tries man.
试金之石可试金，正如黄金能试人。
10.Courage and resolution are the spirit and soul of virtue.
勇敢和坚决是美德的灵魂。
11.The path to glory is always rugged.
光荣之路常坎坷。
12.Nothing is difficult to the man who will try.
世上无难事，只要人肯试。
13.The fire is the test of gold;adversity of strong man.
烈火试真金，困苦炼壮士。
14.Great hopes make great man.
远大的希望造就伟大的人物。
15.No way is impossible to courage.
勇士面前无险路。
16.A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
平静的大海决不能造就出熟练的水手。
17.The good seaman is known in bad weather.
坏天气下才能识得出良好的海员；要识好海员，须凭
坏天气。
18.The best hearts are always the bravest.
行为最勇敢的人心地总是最善良。
19.We must not lie down,and cry,God help us.
求神不如求己。
20.He that falls today may be up again tomorrow.
今天跌倒的人也许明天就会站起。
21.Rome was not built in a day.
罗马并非一日可建成；坚持必成。
22.Success belongs to the persevering.
胜利属于坚忍不拔的人。
23.We must repeat a thousand and one times that perseverance is the only road to success.
我们要多次重申：不屈不挠是取得胜利的唯一道
路。
24.Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth.
十九次失败，到第二十次获得成功，这就叫坚持。
25.Step by step the ladder is ascended.
登梯需要逐级登。
26.Adversity leads to prosperity.
困苦通向昌盛。
27.Patience and application will carry us through.
忍耐和专心会使我们度过难关。
28.Fortune often rewards with interest those that have patience to wait for her.
做事只要有耐心，到头总会有好运；耐心候好运，好
运常会来。
29.All things will come round to him who will but wait.
只要肯等待，一切都会按时来。
30.Constant dropping wears the stone.
滴水不绝可穿石。
31.Omelets are not made without breaking of eggs.
鸡蛋不打破，蛋卷做不成；不甘愿吃苦，则预期效果
达不到。
32.The world is a ladder for some to go up and others to go down.
世界好似一把梯，有人上去有人下。
33.There needs a long apprenticeship to understand the mystery of the world's trade.
要知世事奥秘多，须要长期作学徒。
34.Life is sweet.
生活是可爱的；人无不好生(恶死)。
35.Where there is life,there is hope.
生命不息，希望长在。
36.Life is not all beer and skittles.
人生并不全是吃喝玩乐。
37.Much water runs by the mill that the miller knows not of.
眼前发生许多事，有些我们并不知。
38.Fortune knocks once at least at every man's door.
人人都有走运的一天。
39.If you are too fortunate,you will not know yourself;if you are too unfortunate,nobody will know you.
聪明人从旁人的错误中吸取教训，愚笨人则从自身
的错误中吸取教训。
45.He is wise that knows when he's well enough.
知足为智者。
46.A wise man cares not for what he cannot have.
智者不强求。
47.He is wise that hath wit enough for his own affairs.
明智者有足够的机智处理自己的事情。
48.No man is born wise.
聪明非天生。
49.A wise man will make tools of what comes to hand.
能随机应变的人是聪明人。
50.A word is enough to the wise.
对明智者一言已足。
51.He is the wise man who is the honest man.
正直的人就是有见识的人。
52.A wise man thinks all that he says,a fool says all that he thinks.
聪明人想了才说，愚笨的人想着就说。
53.The wise hand doth not all that the foolish mouth speaks.
聪明的手不做愚蠢的嘴所说的事。
54.A flow of words is no proof of wisdom.
口若悬河，不能证明真有才智。
55.It is easy to be wise after the event.
事后的诸葛亮容易做。
56.The wise man knows he knows nothing,the fool thinks the knows all.
聪明人自认一无所知，愚笨人自负无所不晓。
57.Fools learn nothing from wise men;but wise men learn much from fools.
愚人不能从智者那里学到什么；而智者却能从愚
人那里学到很多。
58.A fool always comes short of his reckoning.
愚人常短于心计。
59.A fool's heart dances on his lips.
愚人的心挂在唇边。
60.A fool always finds a greater fool than himself.
愚人总以为旁人比自己更傻。
61.A man may talk like a wise man and yet act like a fool.
一个人可能说话如智者，而行为象愚人。
62.The more riches a fool hath,the greater fool he is.
愚人越富越蠢。
63.Never challenge a fool to do wrong.
不要怂恿愚人干错事。
64.It is better to please a fool than to anger him.
对愚人最好是使他高兴，而不是惹他发怒。
65.He is a fool who cannot be angry,but he is a wise man who will not.
不会发怒是蠢人，不愿发怒是聪明人。
66.'Tis altogether vain to learn wisdom and yet live foolishly.
枉自学聪明，却做愚蠢事。
67.Wit without learning is like a tree without fruit.
没有学识的机智，犹如没有果实的树。
68.No man is wise at all times.
世上无一贯明智的人。
69.Many heads are better than one.
几个脑袋总比一个脑袋强；三个臭皮匠，顶个诸葛
亮。
70.Virtue never grows old.
美德永不老。
71.Virtue is the only true nobility.
万事不如美德高。
72.Virtue is a jewel of great price.
美德乃是无价宝。
73.He that soweth virtue shall reap fame.
播下美德，收获名望。
74.To be virtuous is to do good.
行善即是有德。
75.Glory is the shadow of virtue.
荣誉是美德的影子。
76.There is no virtue that poverty destroyeth not.
没有贫穷不能破坏的美德。
77.The first step to virtue is to abstrain from vice.
不作恶是走向美德的第一步。
78.No good building without a good foundation.
基础不良的好建筑物是没有的。
79.One good turn deserves another.
善行应有善报；善良的行为应得善良行为的报答。
80.He that returns good for evil obtains the victory.
胜利属于以德报怨的人。
81.We should never remember the benefits we have offered nor forget the favor received.
我有德于人不应记；人有德于我不可忘。
82.If they say you are good,ask yourself if it be true.
若有人称赞，自问对不对。
83.He who avoids temptation avoids the sin.
不受诱惑就免于罪恶。
84.A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder.
问心无愧，打雷也能睡。
85.Never be weary of well doing.
不要厌倦做好事。
86.Of evil grain,no good seed can come.
坏谷无好种。
87.That which is evil is soon learnt.
恶行易学。
88.No vice goes alone.
恶事不单行。
89.An evil lesson is soon learned.
恶习易染。
90.A bad thing never dies.
坏事传千年。
91.Evil comes to us by ells and goes away by inches.
罪恶于人，尺进寸退。
92.The maintaining of one vice costs more than ten virtues.
保持一桩恶事的代价超过于十件好事。
93.They that do nothing learn to do ill.
游手好闲，容易学坏。
94.A wicked man is his own hell.
坏人作恶，自造地狱。
95.Those who eat best and drink best often do worst.
吃得好，喝得好，坏事常常免不了。
96.He who has done ill once will do it again.
一次干坏事，便有第二次。
97.There is no going heaven in a sedan.
坐轿上天堂，从来无此事。
98.An ill life,an ill end.
恶有恶报。
99.A wilful fault has no excuse and deserves no pardon.
不能宽恕故意犯下的错误。
0. Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.
没有知识的热心，犹如有火而无光。
1. Pardoning the bad is injuring the good.
隐恶败善；原谅坏人即是伤害好人。
2. The evil wound is cured but not the evil name.
重伤可治，恶名难去。
3. Evil communications corrupt good manners.
不良的交往败坏良好的举止。
4. No wrong without remedy.
有过皆可补。
5. Virtue flies from the heart of a mercenary man.
唯利是图者，胸中无美德。
6. First think,and then speak.
动口先动脑。
7. A word spoken is past recalling(The words once spoken can never be recalled).
一言既出，驷马难追。
8. While the word is in your mouth,it is your own;when 'tis once spoken, 'tis another's.
话在嘴里，属于自己；话一出口，人家所有。
9. Speech is silver,silence is gold.
言语是银，沉默是金。
10.Few words are best.
寡言为贵。
11.No wisdom like silence.
聪明莫过沉默。
12.Least said,soonest mended.
少说为妙。
13.Second thoughts are best.
再思而后行。
14.Look before you leap.
慎思而后行。
15.He is a wise man who speaks little.
智多言语少。
16.Fair words butter no parsnips.
美言无补实际。
17.The tongue is not made of steel,yet it cuts.
舌头不是钢，一动把人伤。
18.Sometimes words hurt more than swords.
言语能伤人，有时胜刀剑。
19.A good tongue is a good weapon.
口齿伶俐，是件利器。
20.A wise head makes a close mouth.
头脑灵，嘴巴紧。
21.It is one thing to speak much and another to speak pertinently.
说得多是一回事，讲得中肯又是一回事。
22.Unprofitable eloquence is like the cypress,which is great and tall,but bears no fruit.
无益的雄辩犹如高大的柏树，不会结果。
23.Better say nothing than nothing to the purpose.
与其说话不中肯，不如半句也莫吭。
24.Many a true word is spoken in jest.
笑语之中吐真言。
25.Few words,many deeds.
少说话，多做事。
26.Actions speak louder than words.
行动比言语响亮；百说不如一干。
27.From words to deeds is a great space.
言行之间，大有距离。
28.Deeds,not words.
要行动，不要言词。
29.Bare words,no bargain.
空言不能成交易。
30.Deeds are fruits,words are but leaves.
行动是果实，言语只是叶子。
31.Ill deeds cannot honour.
坏行为不受尊敬。
32.Fine words dress ill deeds.
漂亮的言词装饰着恶劣的行为。
33.Good words and ill deeds deceive wise and fools.
动听的话和坏行为同样欺骗聪明和愚人。
34.Our own actions are our security,not others' judgements.
我们的行为是自己的保证，并不是旁人的鉴定。
35.A man of words and not deeds is like a garden full of weeds.
空有言语而无行动的人，犹如杂草丛生的花园。
36.A man is not good or bad for one action.
不能凭一件事判断人的好坏。
37.A man apt to promise is apt to forget.
易于许诺的人也易于忘记。
38.A man that breaks his word,bids others to be false to him.
人不守信，无异于叫旁人对他失信。
39.Easier said than done.
说易行难。
40.The greatest talkers are always the least doers.
大言不惭的总是行动最少的人。
41.The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
布丁好坏，一尝便知；空谈不如实践。
42.Pride goes before a fall.
骄者必败。
43.Pride goes before destruction.
骄者必败。
44.Pride goeth before,and shame cometh after.
骄傲走在前，羞耻跟在后。
45.Pride and grace dwelt never in one place.
傲慢和温雅，永难住一处。
46.He that climbs high falls heavily.
爬得高，跌得重。
47.Pride must be pinched.
骄傲应收敛。
48.The more noble the more humble.
越高贵，越应谦逊。
49.Humility often gains more than pride.
谦逊常比傲慢受益更多。
50.He who imagines that he has knowledge enough has none.
自命万事通，腹中常空空。
51.No man is the worst for knowing the worst of himself.
人并不因为他自知很差就是很差。
52.Pride may lurk under a threadbare cloak.
骄傲可能会潜藏在穿旧的斗篷下。
53.It is not a sign of humility to declaim against pride.
用慷慨激昂的言语攻击傲慢并不是谦逊的标志。
54.He that is full of himself is very empty.
自满之人腹内空。
55.Honesty is the best policy.
诚实为上策。
56.An honest man's word is as good as his bond.
诚实人的诺言实际上就是他的保证书。
57.Poor but honest.
虽贫穷，要诚实。
58.Honesty may be dear bought,but can never be an ill pennyworth.
高价买诚实，永远也值得。
59.Knavery may serve,but honesty is best.
欺诈可能有用，诚实却是上策。
60.Every man has his weak side.
人人都有自己的弱点。
61.He who has no shame has no conscience.
不知羞耻的人不知自疚。
62.An honest look covereth many faults.
一副诚实的外表掩盖着许多缺点。
63.Once a knave,ever a knave.
一次成无赖，永远是无赖。
64.A crafty knave needs no broker.
狡猾的无赖不需要有中间人。
65.The honest penny is better than the stolen dollar.
正当得到的一分钱胜于偷来的一元钱。
66.One penny with right is better than a thousand without right.
合法取得的一辨士，胜于非法取得的一千辨士。
67.The unrighteous penny corrupts the righteous pound.
不正当得来的辨士使正当得来的英镑也受到沾污。
68.Love is blind.
爱情是盲目的。
69.Love is without reason.
爱情无理智。
70.Love is full of trouble.
爱情充满了烦恼。
71.Love cannot be compelled.
爱情不能强迫。
72.Love begets love.
爱爱相生。
73.Love needs no teaching.
爱情不需教导。
74.Love at first sight.
一见倾心。
75.Love asks faith,and faith firmness.
爱情要求信任，信任要求坚定。
76.Love is the touchstone of virtue.
爱情是美德的试金石。
77.Love not at the first look.
不要一见钟情。
78.Hasty love,soon cold.
爱得匆忙冷得快。
79.Love is a sweet torment.
爱情是一种甜蜜的痛苦。
80.Love rules his kingdom without a sword.
爱情的王国不用刀剑来统治。
81.Love will find out the way.
爱情自会寻出路。
82.Love is not to be found in the market.
爱情在市场上找不到。
83.Lovers live by love,as larks live by leeks.
情侣靠爱情生活，正象云雀靠韭葱生活一样。
84.Old love will not be forgotten.
旧情永难忘；往日的爱情难以忘怀。
85.True love kythes(=shows itself)in time of need.
患难显真情。
86.Sound love is not soon forgotten.
坚固的爱情不会顷刻忘怀。
87.The greatest hate springs from the greatest love.
最大的恨来自最大的爱。
88.No love is foul,nor prison fair.
没有肮脏的爱情，也没有美丽的监狱。
89.Labour is lihgt where love doth pay.
爱情付报酬，劳苦也轻松。
90.Love is the reward of love.
爱就是爱的报酬。
91.Love makes all hard hearts gentle.
爱情把一切冷酷之心变成温柔。
92.When love puts in,friendship is gone.
爱情进入，友情完结。
93.The course of true love never did run smooth.
真爱的道路绝不平坦。
94.Love is a sweet tyranny,because the lover endures his torment willingly.
爱情是可爱的虐政，情人们甘受它痛苦的折磨。
95.True love is giving,not taking.
真挚的爱是给，不是取。
96.Love makes obedience easy.
爱情使顺从成为易事。
97.Love is sweet in the beginning,but sour in the end.
爱情先甜后来酸。
98.Where love fails,we espy all faults.
爱情一失败，一切毛病都发现。
99.Follow love and it will flee,flee love and it will follow thee.
追求爱情它高飞，逃避爱情它跟随。
A bad workman always blames his tools."
直译：拙匠常怨工具差。
意译：劣工尤器。人笨怨刀钝。不会撑船怪河弯。拉不出屎来赖茅坑。 "A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush." 直译：双鸟在林不如一鸟在手。
意译：多得不如现得。 ! "Absence makes the heart grow fonder." 直译：别久情深。
意译：小别胜新婚。相聚爱益切，离别情更深。 "A cat may look at the king." 直译：猫也可以见国王。
意译：人人平等。小人物也应有权利。 "A chain is no stronger than its weakest link." 直译：链条的坚固程度取决于它最薄弱的环节。
意译：一环薄弱全局垮。一着不慎，满盘皆输。 "A creaking gate hangs long." 直译：吱吱响的门用得久。
意译：旧门久用，病夫长命。瑕不掩玉。户枢不蠹。 "Actions speak louder than words." 直译：行动比言语更响亮。
意译：事实胜于雄辩。 "A fool and his money are easily parted." 直译：愚人有钱留不住。
意译：笨蛋难聚财。 "A fox smells its own lair first." 直译：狐狸有恶臭，自己先嗅出。
意译：疑人先自疑，律人先律己。 "A friend in need is a friend indeed." 直译：患难朋友才是真朋友。
意译：患难见真情。 "After dinner sit a while, after supper walk a mile." 直译：午饭后坐一会，晚饭后走一里。 意译： "A good beginning makes a good ending." 直译：善始者必善其终。欲善其终必先善其始。
意译：善始者善终。 "A good man in an evil society seems the greatest villain of all." 直译：道德败坏社会的好人看起来像最坏的人。
意译：丑小鸭。近墨者黑，近朱者赤。 "A good surgeon has an eagle's eye, a lion's heart, and a lady's hand." 直译：优秀的外科医生必须眼疾如鹰，心强如狮，手巧如妇。
意译：出色的外科医生必须心明眼亮和有一双灵巧的手。 "A guilty conscience needs no accuser." 直译：有罪的良心不需要原告。
意译：做贼心虚，良心自诛。多行不义必自毙，多走夜路必遇鬼。 "A jack of all trades is master of none." 直译：万事通什么都不精通。
意译：样样通样样松。三脚猫无所长。博艺无所精。 "A lie has no legs." 直译：谎言站不住脚。 意译： "A lie can be halfway around the world before the truth gets its boots on." 直译：真理刚穿靴，谎言已在世界的中途。
意译：真理未出门，谎言传千里。好事不出门，坏事传千里。 "A little learning is a dangerous thing." 直译：一知半解最危险。
意译：浅学误人。一知半解，害已误人。一知半解，自欺欺人。 "All cats love fish but hate to get their paws wet." 直译：猫爱吃鱼怕爪湿。猫儿爱吃鱼，却怕爪弄湿。想吃鱼又怕腥。
意译：即想得好处，又不惹麻烦。名利双收。不劳而获。四肢不勤，一挛蕹伞? "All flowers are not in one garland." 直译：鲜花不全在一个花环上。
意译：人各有志, 不可强求一致。 "All good things come to an end." 直译：好景不长。
意译：天下无不散之宴席。花无百日红。 "All roads lead to Rome." 直译：条条大路通罗马。
意译：殊途同归。行行出状元。 "All is fair in love and war." 直译：在情场和战场上所有东西都是公平的。
意译：情不禁巧，兵不厌诈。情场战场，各显神通。恋爱与战争可不择手段。 "All is well that ends well." 直译：结局好才算好。
意译：善终为善。吉人天相。 "All that glitters is not gold." 直译：闪光的未必都是金子。
意译：虚有其表。中看不中用。金玉其外，未必皆善。人不可貌相。 "All things come to he who waits." 直译：事物总是留给耐心等待的人。只要肯耐心等待，一切都会按时来。
意译：好事多磨。 "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy." 直译：只工作不玩耍，聪明也变傻。 意译： "A merry heart makes a long life." 直译：心情愉快的人长寿。
意译：乐者寿长。 "A miss is as good as a mile." 直译：大错小错都是错。
意译：失之毫厘，谬以千里。 "An apple a day keeps the doctor away." 直译：一天一个苹果，医生不上门。
意译：每天一苹果，健康不求医。 "An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth." 直译：以眼还眼，以牙还牙。
意译：以彼之道，还施彼身。以其人之道，还治其人之身。一报还一报。 "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." 直译：预防胜于治疗。治病不如防病。
意译：未雨绸缪。惩罚于已然，不如警惕于未然。 "A penny saved is a penny earned." 直译：省一分就是赚一分。省一文等于挣一文。
意译：省钱就是赚钱。 "A person is known by the company he keeps." 直译：你常保持联系的人了解你。
意译：观其友知其人。观其交友,知其为人。 "A pot of milk is ruined by a drop of poison." 直译：一滴毒药毁了一罐奶。
意译：一颗老鼠屎坏了一锅粥。千里之堤，毁于蚁穴。 "April showers bring May flowers." 直译：四月雨带来五月花。
意译：苦尽甘来。否极泰来。宝剑锋从磨砺出，梅花香自苦寒来。阳光总在风雨后。不经历风雨怎么见彩虹。 "A rolling stone gathers no moss." 直译：滚石不生苔。
意译：心浮气躁，一事无成。转业不聚财。 "Ask and you shall receive." 直译：勤问必有所得。
意译：好学多问。 "Ask me no questions, I will tell you no lies." 直译：不问我问题，我就不说谎。
意译：少问少受骗。 "Ask no questions and hear no lies." 直译：不发问，就听不到谎言。
意译：是非终日有，不听自然无。 "A sound mind in a sound body." 直译：健全的头脑寓于健康的身体。 意译：身体好，头脑活。 "A stitch in time saves nine." 直译：一针及时省九针。
意译：及时行事，事半功倍。小洞不补，大洞吃苦。 "As you make your bed, so you must lie in it." 直译：自己做的床，自己躺。
意译：自作自受。自食其果。 "As you sow, so shall you reap." 直译：有播种才有收获。
意译：一分耕耘，一分收获。种瓜得瓜，种豆得豆。 "A woman's work is never done." 直译：女人事，做不完。妇女的活计做不完。
意译：女人事多。 "A word to the wise is enough." 直译：忠告无须太多。
意译：智者一言已足。 "A word spoken is past recalling." 直译：说出的话无法收回。
意译：一言既出，驷马难追。 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- B "Barking dogs seldom bite." 直译：爱叫的狗不咬人，咬人的狗不露齿。吠犬不咬人。
意译：外强中干。虚有其表。虚张声势。 "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder." 直译：生活不缺乏美，而在于发现美。
意译：情人眼里出西施。 "Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes straight to the bone." 直译：美丽流于肤浅，丑陋深邃入骨。红颜易变，丑陋难改。
意译：江山易改，本性难移。 "Beer before liquor, you'll never be sicker, but liquor before beer and you're in the clear." 直译：喝啤酒再喝白酒，你不会清醒；喝白酒再喝啤酒，你还清醒。
意译：由浅入深难，由深入浅易。由俭入奢易，由奢入俭难。 "Beggars can't be choosers." 直译：乞丐绝无挑选的权利。讨饭的不能挑肥拣瘦。
意译：饥不择食，寒不择衣，慌不择路，贫不择妻。 "Better late than never." 直译：迟做总比不做好。不怕慢，单怕站。
意译：宁迟勿缺。亡羊补牢，犹未晚也。 "Better safe than sorry." 直译：安全胜过遗憾。
意译：不怕一万，就怕万一。 "Better the devil you know than the devil you don't." 直译：已知的魔鬼比未知的好。
意译：明枪易躲，暗箭难防。 "Birds of a feather flock together." 直译：同种类的鸟聚集在一起。
意译：物以类聚，人以群分。一丘之貉。 "Bitter pills may have blessed effects." 直译：苦药功效强。
意译：良药苦口利于病。 "Blood is thicker than water." 直译：血浓于水。
意译：亲不亲一家人。 "Blood will out." 直译：谋杀终必败露。
意译：真相大白。纸包不住火。 "Boys will be boys." 直译：男孩子总是男孩子。男孩子总是淘气的。
意译：理应如此。 "Brain is better than brawn." 直译：智慧胜过力量。
意译：智胜莽勇。 "Bread is the staff of life." 直译：面包是生活的主食。
意译：民以食为天。 "Breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, dine like a pauper." 直译：早餐像国王，午餐像王子，晚餐像乞丐。
意译：早餐吃的好，午餐吃的饱，晚餐吃的少。 "Butter is gold in the morning, silver at noon, lead at night." 直译：黄油早餐是金，午餐是银，晚餐是铅。 意译：过犹不及。 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- C "Chance favors the prepared mind." 直译：机遇钟爱有准备的人。 意译：预则立，不预则废。胸有成竹。 "Cider on beer, never fear; beer upon cider, makes a bad rider." 直译：喝啤酒后再喝苹果酒不惧怕，喝苹果酒后再喝啤酒就不能开车。 意译：由浅入深难，由深入浅易。由俭入奢易，由奢入俭难。 "Close but no cigar." 直译：接近了，但不是雪茄。 意译：很接近，但还是错了。 "Clothes don't make the man." 直译：衣不合身。人不可貌相。不能以貌取人。 意译：好马不在鞍，人美不在衫。 "Cowards die many times, but a brave man only dies once." 直译：懦夫可死千百次，好汉一生死一回。 意译：风萧萧兮易水寒，壮士一去兮不复返。 "Cross the stream where it is the shallowest." 直译：渡溪当自浅处过。过河应走水浅处。 意译：从易处着手。凡事简单而为。 "Curiosity killed the cat." 直译：好奇心害死猫。 意译：好奇惹祸。 "Cut your coat according to your cloth." 直译：量体裁衣。 意译：量力而行。量入为出。 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- D "Desperate diseases must have desperate cures." 翻译：重病宜下重手治；死马也当活马医。[1] "Desperate diseases must have desperate remedies." 翻译：重病宜下重手治；死马也当活马医。[1] "Different sores must have different salves." "Different strokes for different folks." "Difficulty makes desire." 翻译：困苦制造愿望。 英国谚语 "Diseases come on horseback, but steal away on foot." Alternative: "Diseases come on horseback, but go away on foot." 翻译：病来如山倒, 病去如抽丝。 "Do as you would be done by." 翻译：做你该做的。 "Do unto others as you would have done to you." 翻译：推己及人。/将心比心。[1] "Doctors make the worst patients." "Don't burn your bridges before they're crossed." "Don't burn your bridges behind you." 翻译：不要过河拆桥。/为自己留条后路。[[1] "Don't change horses in midstream." 翻译：勿中途换将 "Don't count your chickens before they're hatched." "Don't cross a bridge until you come to it." 翻译：船到桥头自然直 Alternative: "Don't cross the bridge till you come to it." "Don't cry over spilt milk." 直译：不要为洒了的牛奶而哭泣。 意译：不要做无谓的后悔。覆水难收。 "Don't cut off your nose to spite your face." "Don't have too many irons in the fire." "Don't make a mountain out of a molehill." "Don't mend what ain't broken." "Don't put all your eggs in one basket." 别把鸡蛋摆在同一篮子里。 "Don't put the cart before the horse." 不要本末倒置。 "Don't shut the barn door after the horse is gone." "Don't shut the gate after the horse has bolted." "Don't spit into the wind." "Don't throw out the baby with the bathwater." 翻译：勿过河拆桥 "Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom."
The fire is the test of gold; adversity is the test of a strong man.
火对金子是考验，逆境对人是磨练。
Bad times make a good man.
艰难困苦出能人。
There is no royal road to learning.
求知无坦途。
Doubt is the key to knowledge.
怀疑是知识的钥匙。
Sharp tools make good work.
工欲善其事，必先利其器。
Wasting time is robbing oneself.
浪费时间就是掠夺自己。
Nurture passes nature.
教养胜过天性。
There is no garden without its weeds.
没有不长杂草的花园。
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。
Wealth is the test of a man's character.
财富是对一个人品格的试金石。
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.
礼貌和美貌是分不开的伴侣。
Plain living and high thinking.
生活要朴素，情操要高尚。
Good is good, but better carries it.
精益求精，善益求善。
Honesty is the best policy.
诚实为上策。
Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.
感恩是精神高尚的标志。
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。
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。
Delays are dangerous.
因拖出危险。
Let bygones be bygones.
既往宜不咎。
Look on both sides of the shield.
看问题要从两面看。
You cannot burn the candle at both ends.
蜡烛不能两头点。
All men can't be first.
不可能人人得冠军。
Never is a long word.
不要轻易说“决不”。
The overturned cast ahead is a warning to the carts behind.
前车之覆，后车之鉴。
Spare the rod and spoil the child.
不打不成器。
Too many cooks spoil the broth.
厨师太多烧坏汤。
Standers-by see more than gamesters.
旁观者清，当局者迷。
Self-praise is no recommendation.
自夸不足为自荐。
They brag most who can do least.
本领最小的人最会吹牛。
The good is the enemy of the best.
过得去是精益求精的敌人。
Politeness costs nothing and gains everything.
礼貌不用花一分钱，却能赢得一切。
A man can't ride your back unless it is bent.
你的腰不弯，别人就不能骑在你的背上。
Conceit is the quicksand of success.
自负是成功的流沙。
He that makes a good war makes a good peace.
正义的战争创造持久的和平。
There is no disputing about tastes.
人各有所好。
It is easy to be wise after the event.
事后诸葛亮容易当。
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。
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.
甜言蜜语会使愚者得意忘形。
Please all and you please none.
要面面俱到者，面面不到。
The noblest vengeance is to forgive.
最高尚的复仇是宽容。
A soft answer turneth away wrath.
温和的回答可以息怒。
Advice when most needed is least heeded.
最容易忽视的建议往往是最重要的。
Be just before you are generous.
要慷慨必先求公正。
Make the best of a bad bargain.
已知吃亏，尽力而为。
He that makes a thing too fine, breaks it.
做事过于苛求，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。
The world is his who enjoys it.
活着感到快乐，世界就属于你。
A little labor, much health.
适量的劳动有益于健康。
Laugh and grow fat.
心宽体胖。
Work won't kill but worry will.
劳动无害，忧愁伤身。
He is rich that has few wants.
寡欲者富。
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。
He is wise that knows when he is well enough.
知足为智者。
A good conscience is a continuous feast.
问心无愧天天乐。
Prevention is better than cure.
治病不如防病。
Cleanliness is next to godliness.
清洁仅次于圣洁。
An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
一日一苹果，医生远离我。
In sports and journeys men are known.
从体育和旅行中可以看出男子的品德。
No man is happy but by comparison.
人的幸福都是比较而言的。
There is no joy without alloy.
世界上没有十全十美的快乐。
Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow.
进步是今天的活动，明天的保证。
Good order is the foundation of all things.
良好的秩序是一切的基础。
He that plants trees loves others besides himself.
植树的人，不但爱己，而且爱人。
The world is but a little place, after all.
天涯原咫尺，何处不相逢。
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.
有团结就有胜利。
United we stand, divided we fall.
团结则存，分裂则亡。
Love is the mother of love.
情生情，爱生爱。
Love lives in cottages as well as in courts.
爱情不分贵贱。
True love never grows old.
真正的爱永不衰老。
Hope is a lover's staff.
希望是爱者的手扶之杖。
It is better to give than to take.
施比受更有福。
Example is better than precept.
身教胜于言传。
Diligence is the mother of success.
勤勉是成功之母。
From saving comes having.
富有来自勤俭。
Cut your coat according to your cloth.
看布裁衣。
Human pride is human weakness.
人类的骄傲即是人类的弱点。
Man proposes, God disposes.
谋事在人，成事在天。
No one but the wearer knows where the shoe pinches.
穿鞋的人自己知道哪里夹脚。
Vainglory blossoms but never bears.
虚荣光开花，永远不结果。
Anger is the wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
愤怒是吹灭心中之灯的风。
Every cloud has a silver lining.
乌云背后有阳光。
Sometimes the best gain is to lose.
有时吃亏就是最大的便宜。
Don't trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.
麻烦没有来找你，不要去找麻烦。
You cannot step twice into the same river.
你不能两次踏入同一条河流。
It is always morning somewhere in the world.
世界上总是有某个地方可以看到阳光。
This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.
真正的勇气是：无所畏惧地接受上天给你的一切。
Life is a roller coaster, you have your ups and downs unless you fall off.
人生就像坐过山车，只要不掉下来，就会有起有伏。
At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgement.
20岁我们按意愿做事；30岁我们凭智慧做事；40岁我们靠判断做事。
Adversity is the first path to truth.
逆境是通向真理的第一条道路。
Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.
爱你的敌人吧，因为他们让你知道自己的缺点。
We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.
维持现状不能让我们有所进步。
Behind an able man there are always other able men.
山外有山，人外有人。
Well done is better than well said.
说得好不如做得好。 We must either find a way or make one.
找到一条路，否则走出一条路。
Barking dogs don't bite.
吠狗不咬人。
What is done by night appears by day.
若要人不知，除非已莫为。
It's never too late to mend.
改过不嫌晚。
Man proposes, God disposes.
谋事在人，成事在天。
Running water does not get stale; a door-hinge is never worm-eaten.
流水不腐，户枢不蠹
Sweep before your own door.
正人先正已。
A hero is nothing but a product of his time.
时势造英雄。
It is better to trust to valour than to luck.
靠运气不如靠勇气。
Ignorance is the mother of impudence.
无知是鲁莽之源。
One careless move may lose the whole game.
一步不慎，满盘皆输。
Words are like bees, they have honey and a sting.
言语象蜜蜂，有蜜也有刺。
It's only the idle will be tired.
只有闲人才会感到疲倦。
There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire, the other is to gain it.
失去心中所欲的和得到心中所欲的，是人生的两大悲剧。
Strong in action, gentle in method.
行动要坚强，方式要温和。
He who mistrusts most should be trusted least.
最不信任别人的人最不应该得到信任。
Idleness is the root of all evils.
懒惰是万恶之源。
Diligence redeems stupidity.
勤能补拙。
Beware beginning.
以谨慎开始。
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
患难见真情。
Strike the iron while it is hot.
趁热打铁。
It takes two to make a quarrel.
一个巴掌拍不响。
When shepherds quarrel, the wolf has a winning game.
鹬蚌相争，渔翁得利。
A single spark can start a prairie fire.
星星之火，可以燎原。
One's sin will find one out.
坏事终归要败露。
A good name is better than riches.
声誉胜于财富。
Haste trips over its own heels.
忙易出错。
A watched pot never boils.
心急喝不了热粥。
The greater the man, the more restrained his anger.
人越伟大，越能克制怒火。
Speech is the image of actions.
语言是行动的反映。
Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know.
明枪易躲，暗箭难防。
Each man is the architect of his own fate.
每个人都是自己命运的建筑师。
Birds of a feather flock together.
物以类聚，人以群分。
Talents come from diligence, and knowledge is gained by accumulation.
天才在于勤奋，知识在于积累。
An open enemy is better than a hollow friend.
宁有公开的敌人，不要虚伪的朋友。
A still tongue makes a wise head.
沉默者有智慧。
It is but a step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
从崇高到荒谬只有一步之遥。
Ordinary people think merely of 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。
Anger begins with folly, and ends in repentance.
愤怒以愚蠢开始，以后悔告终。
All lay load on the willing horse.
人善被人欺，马善被人骑。
He who commences many things finishes but a few.
样样都搞，完成者少。
Courage and resolution are the spirit and soul of virtue.
勇气和坚定是美德的精神与灵魂。
Fish begins to stink at the head.
上梁不正下梁歪。
First come, first served.
先来先招待。
Easy come, easy go.
来得容易去得快。
More haste, less speed.
欲速则不达。
No pains, no gains.
不劳无获。
Nothing venture, nothing gain.
不入虎穴，焉得虎子。
Once bit, twice shy.
一朝被蛇咬，十年怕草绳。
Out of sight, out of mind.
眼不见，心不烦。
Well fed, well bred.
衣食足而后知廉耻。
In for a penny, in for a pound.
一不作，二不休。
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。
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。
Pride hurts, modesty benefits.
满招损，谦受益。
A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
害怕痛苦的人其实已经在承受他所害怕的痛苦了
Adversity is a good disciple.
逆境是锻炼人的最好场所。
Art is long, life is short.
人生有涯艺无涯。
Well begun, half done.
好的开始是成功的一半。
You can't eat your cake and have it also.
世事两难全。
Calamity is man's true touchstone.
患难是人的试金石。
Who keeps company with the wolf will learn to howl.
近墨者黑。
Constant dropping wears away a stone.
滴水穿石。
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。
The first step is as good as half over.
第一步是最关键的一步。
You never know your luck.
命运好坏不由己。
Sow nothing, reap nothing.
春不播，秋不收。
The wealth of the mind is the only wealth.
精神的财富是唯一的财富。
You can't judge a tree by its bark.
人不可貌相。
Clothes do not make the man.
人不在衣装。
To be both a speaker of words and a doer of deeds.
既当演说家，又做实干家。
Variety is the spice of life.
变化是生活的调味品。
Little goods, little care.
钱财少，不烦恼。
Man struggles upwards; water flows downwards.
人往高处走，水往低处流。
A little pot is soon hot.
壶小易沸，量小易怒。
No sweet without sweat.
幸福来自汗水。
Better the last smile than the first laughter.
宁可最后微笑，不要首先狂喜。
One for all, all for one.
我为人人，人人为我。
Truth needs no color.
真理不需要打扮。
Every why has a wherefore.
凡事必有因。
Keeping is harder than winning.
创业难，守业更难。
Never do things by halves.
做事不可半途而废。
No cross, no crown.
未经苦难，得不到荣冠。
Work won't kill but worry will.
劳动无害，忧愁伤身。
He is rich that has few wants.
寡欲者富。
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。
He is wise that knows when he is well enough.
知足为智者。
A good conscience is a continuous feast.
问心无愧天天乐。
Prevention is better than cure.
治病不如防病。
Cleanliness is next to godliness.
清洁仅次于圣洁。
An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
一日一苹果，医生远离我。
In sports and journeys men are known.
从体育和旅行中可以看出男子的品德。
No man is happy but by comparison.
人的幸福都是比较而言的。
There is no joy without alloy.
世界上没有十全十美的快乐。
Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow.
进步是今天的活动，明天的保证。
Good order is the foundation of all things.
良好的秩序是一切的基础。
He that plants trees loves others besides himself.
植树的人，不但爱己，而且爱人。
The world is but a little place, after all.
天涯原咫尺，何处不相逢。
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.
有团结就有胜利。
United we stand, divided we fall.
团结则存，分裂则亡。
Love is the mother of love.
情生情，爱生爱。
Love lives in cottages as well as in courts.
爱情不分贵贱。
True love never grows old.
真正的爱永不衰老。
Hope is a lover's staff.
希望是爱者的手扶之杖。
It is better to give than to take.
施比受更有福。
Example is better than precept.
身教胜于言传。
Diligence is the mother of success.
勤勉是成功之母。
From saving comes having.
富有来自勤俭。
Cut your coat according to your cloth.
看布裁衣。
Human pride is human weakness.
人类的骄傲即是人类的弱点。
Man proposes, God disposes.
谋事在人，成事在天。
No one but the wearer knows where the shoe pinches.
穿鞋的人自己知道哪里夹脚。
Vainglory blossoms but never bears.
虚荣光开花，永远不结果。
Anger is the wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
愤怒是吹灭心中之灯的风。
Every cloud has a silver lining.
乌云背后有阳光。
Sometimes the best gain is to lose.
有时吃亏就是最大的便宜。
Don't trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.
麻烦没有来找你，不要去找麻烦。
You cannot step twice into the same river.
你不能两次踏入同一条河流。
It is always morning somewhere in the world.
世界上总是有某个地方可以看到阳光。
This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.
真正的勇气是：无所畏惧地接受上天给你的一切。
Life is a roller coaster, you have your ups and downs unless you fall off.
人生就像坐过山车，只要不掉下来，就会有起有伏。
At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgement.
20岁我们按意愿做事；30岁我们凭智慧做事；40岁我们靠判断做事。
Adversity is the first path to truth.
逆境是通向真理的第一条道路。
Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.
爱你的敌人吧，因为他们让你知道自己的缺点。
We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.
维持现状不能让我们有所进步。
Behind an able man there are always other able men.
山外有山，人外有人。
Well done is better than well said.
说得好不如做得好。 We must either find a way or make one.
找到一条路，否则走出一条路。
Barking dogs don't bite.
吠狗不咬人。
What is done by night appears by day.
若要人不知，除非已莫为。
It's never too late to mend.
改过不嫌晚。
Man proposes, God disposes.
谋事在人，成事在天。
Running water does not get stale; a door-hinge is never worm-eaten.
流水不腐，户枢不蠹
Sweep before your own door.
正人先正已。
A hero is nothing but a product of his time.
时势造英雄。
It is better to trust to valour than to luck.
靠运气不如靠勇气。
Ignorance is the mother of impudence.
无知是鲁莽之源。
One careless move may lose the whole game.
一步不慎，满盘皆输。
Words are like bees, they have honey and a sting.
言语象蜜蜂，有蜜也有刺。
It's only the idle will be tired.
只有闲人才会感到疲倦。
There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire, the other is to gain it.
失去心中所欲的和得到心中所欲的，是人生的两大悲剧。
Strong in action, gentle in method.
行动要坚强，方式要温和。
He who mistrusts most should be trusted least.
最不信任别人的人最不应该得到信任。
Idleness is the root of all evils.
懒惰是万恶之源。
Diligence redeems stupidity.
勤能补拙。
Beware beginning.
以谨慎开始。
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
患难见真情。
Strike the iron while it is hot.
趁热打铁。
It takes two to make a quarrel.
一个巴掌拍不响。
When shepherds quarrel, the wolf has a winning game.
鹬蚌相争，渔翁得利。
A single spark can start a prairie fire.
星星之火，可以燎原。
One's sin will find one out.
坏事终归要败露。
A good name is better than riches.
声誉胜于财富。
Haste trips over its own heels.
忙易出错。
A watched pot never boils.
心急喝不了热粥。
The greater the man, the more restrained his anger.
人越伟大，越能克制怒火。
Speech is the image of actions.
语言是行动的反映。
Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know.
明枪易躲，暗箭难防。
Each man is the architect of his own fate.
每个人都是自己命运的建筑师。
Birds of a feather flock together.
物以类聚，人以群分。
Talents come from diligence, and knowledge is gained by accumulation.
天才在于勤奋，知识在于积累。
An open enemy is better than a hollow friend.
宁有公开的敌人，不要虚伪的朋友。
A still tongue makes a wise head.
沉默者有智慧。
It is but a step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
从崇高到荒谬只有一步之遥。
Ordinary people think merely of 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。
Anger begins with folly, and ends in repentance.
愤怒以愚蠢开始，以后悔告终。
All lay load on the willing horse.
人善被人欺，马善被人骑。
He who commences many things finishes but a few.
样样都搞，完成者少。
Courage and resolution are the spirit and soul of virtue.
勇气和坚定是美德的精神与灵魂。
Fish begins to stink at the head.
上梁不正下梁歪。
First come, first served.
先来先招待。
Easy come, easy go.
来得容易去得快。
More haste, less speed.
欲速则不达。
No pains, no gains.
不劳无获。
Nothing venture, nothing gain.
不入虎穴，焉得虎子。
Once bit, twice shy.
一朝被蛇咬，十年怕草绳。
Out of sight, out of mind.
眼不见，心不烦。
Well fed, well bred.
衣食足而后知廉耻。
In for a penny, in for a pound.
一不作，二不休。
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。
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。
Pride hurts, modesty benefits.
满招损，谦受益。
A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
害怕痛苦的人其实已经在承受他所害怕的痛苦了
Adversity is a good disciple.
逆境是锻炼人的最好场所。
Art is long, life is short.
人生有涯艺无涯。
Well begun, half done.
好的开始是成功的一半。
You can't eat your cake and have it also.
世事两难全。
Calamity is man's true touchstone.
患难是人的试金石。
Who keeps company with the wolf will learn to howl.
近墨者黑。
Constant dropping wears away a stone.
滴水穿石。
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。
The first step is as good as half over.
第一步是最关键的一步。
You never know your luck.
命运好坏不由己。
Sow nothing, reap nothing.
春不播，秋不收。
The wealth of the mind is the only wealth.
精神的财富是唯一的财富。
You can't judge a tree by its bark.
人不可貌相。
Clothes do not make the man.
人不在衣装。
To be both a speaker of words and a doer of deeds.
既当演说家，又做实干家。
Variety is the spice of life.
变化是生活的调味品。
Little goods, little care.
钱财少，不烦恼。
Man struggles upwards; water flows downwards.
人往高处走，水往低处流。
A little pot is soon hot.
壶小易沸，量小易怒。
No sweet without sweat.
幸福来自汗水。
Better the last smile than the first laughter.
宁可最后微笑，不要首先狂喜。
One for all, all for one.
我为人人，人人为我。
Truth needs no color.
真理不需要打扮。
Every why has a wherefore.
凡事必有因。
Keeping is harder than winning.
创业难，守业更难。
Never do things by halves.
做事不可半途而废。
No cross, no crown.
未经苦难，得不到荣冠。
不善始者不善终。
A bad thing never dies.
遗臭万年。
A bad workman always blames his tools.
不会撑船怪河弯。
A bird in the hand is worth than two in the bush.
一鸟在手胜过双鸟在林。
A boaster and a liar are cousins-german.
吹牛与说谎本是同宗。
A bully is always a coward.
色厉内荏。
A burden of one’s choice is not felt.
爱挑的担子不嫌重。
A candle lights others and consumes itself.
蜡烛照亮别人，却毁灭了自己。
A cat has 9 lives.
猫有九条命。
A cat may look at a king.
人人平等。
A close mouth catches no flies.
病从口入。
A constant guest is never welcome.
常客令人厌。
Actions speak louder than words.
事实胜于雄辩。
Adversity leads to prosperity.
穷则思变。
Adversity makes a man wise, not rich.
逆境出人才。
A fair death honors the whole life.
死得其所，流芳百世。
A faithful friend is hard to find.
知音难觅。
A fall into a pit, a gain in your wit.
吃一堑，长一智。
A fox may grow gray, but never good.
江山易改，本性难移。
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
患难见真情。
A friend is easier lost than found.
得朋友难，失朋友易。
A friend is never known till a man has need.
需要之时方知友。
A friend without faults will never be found.
没有十全十美的朋友。
’After you’ is good manners.
“您先请”是礼貌。
A good beginning is half done.
良好的开端是成功的一半。
A good beginning makes a good ending.
善始者善终。
A good book is a good friend.
好书如挚友。
A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.
一本好书，相伴一生。
A good conscience is a soft pillow.
不做亏心事，不怕鬼叫门。
A good fame is better than a good face.
美名胜过美貌。
A good husband makes a good wife.
夫善则妻贤。
A good medicine tastes bitter.
良药苦口。
A good wife health is a man’s best wealth.
妻贤身体好是男人最大的财富。
A great talker is a great liar.
说大话者多谎言。
A hedge between keeps friendship green.
君子之交淡如水。
A joke never gains an enemy but loses a friend.
戏谑不能化敌为友，只能使人失去朋友。
A leopard cannot change its spots.
积习难改。
A liar is not believed when he speaks the truth.
说谎者即使讲真话也没人相信。
A light heart lives long.
静以修身。
A little body often harbors a great soul.
浓缩的都是精品。
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
一知半解，自欺欺人。
A little pot is soon hot.
狗肚子盛不得四两油。
All are brave when the enemy flies.
敌人逃窜时，人人都成了勇士。
All good things come to an end.
天下没有不散的筵席。
All rivers run into sea.
海纳百川。
All roads lead to Rome.
条条大路通罗马。
All that ends well is well.
结果好，就一切都好。
All that glitters is not gold.
闪光的不一定都是金子。
All things are difficult before they are easy.
凡事总是由难而易。
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
只会用功不玩耍，聪明孩子也变傻。
A man becomes learned by asking questions.
不耻下问才能有学问。
A man can do no more than he can.
凡事都应量力而行。
A man cannot spin and reel at the same time.
一心不能二用。
A man is known by his friends.
什么人交什么朋友。
A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds.
光说空话不做事，犹如花园光长刺。
A man without money is no man at all.
一分钱难倒英雄汉。
A merry heart goes all the way.
心旷神怡，事事顺利。
A miss is as good as a mile.
失之毫厘，差之千里。
A mother’s love never changes.
母爱永恒。
An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
一天一苹果，不用请医生。
A new broom sweeps clean.
新官上任三把火。
An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.
以眼还眼，以牙还牙。
An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening.
一日之计在于晨。
An old dog cannot learn new tricks.
老狗学不出新把戏。
An ounce of luck is better than a pound of wisdom.
聪明才智，不如运气。
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
预防为主，治疗为辅。
A rolling stone gathers no moss.
滚石不生苔，转业不聚财。
As a man sows, so he shall reap.
种瓜得瓜，种豆得豆。
A single flower does not make a spring.
一花独放不是春，百花齐放春满园。
A snow year, a rich year.
瑞雪兆丰年。
A sound mind in a sound body.
健全的精神寓于健康的身体。
A still tongue makes a wise head.
寡言者智。
A stitch in time saves nine.
小洞不补，大洞吃苦。
A straight foot is not afraid of a crooked shoe.
身正不怕影子斜。
A wise head makes a close mouth.
真人不露相，露相非真人。
A word spoken is past recalling.
一言既出，驷马难追。
A year’s plan starts with spring.
一年之计在于春。
A young idler, an old beggar.
少壮不努力，老大徒伤悲。
Bad news has wings.
好事不出门，坏事传千里。
Barking dogs seldom bite.
吠犬不咬人。
Beauty lies in the love’s eyes.
情人眼里出西施。
Be swift to hear, slow to speak.
听宜敏捷，言宜缓行。
Better late than never.
不怕慢，单怕站。
Better to ask the way than go astray.
问路总比迷路好。
Between friends all is common.
朋友之间不分彼此。
Birds of a feather flock together.
物以类聚，人以群分。
Blood is thicker than water.
血浓于水。
Blood will have blood.
血债血偿。
Books and friends should be few but good.
读书如交友，应求少而精。
Business is business.
公事公办。
Business is the salt of life.
事业是人生的第一需要。
By reading we enrich the mind, by conversation we polish it.
读书使人充实，交谈使人精明。
Cannot see the wood for the trees.
一叶障目，不见泰山。
Care and diligence bring luck.
谨慎和勤奋才能抓住机遇。
Caution is the parent of safety.
小心驶得万年船。
Cheats never prosper.
骗人发不了财。
Children are what the mothers are.
耳濡目染，身教言传。
Choose an author as you choose a friend.
择书如择友。
Come what may, heaven won’t fall.
做你的吧，天塌不下来。
Complacency is the enemy of study.
学习的敌人是自己的满足。
Confidence in yourself is the first step on the road to success.
自信是走向成功的第一步。
Constant dripping wears away a stone.
水滴石穿，绳锯木断。
Content is better than riches.
知足者常乐。
Count one’s chickens before they are hatched.
蛋未孵先数雏。
Courtesy on one side only lasts not long.
来而不往非礼也。
Creep before you walk.
循序渐进。
Cry for the moon.
海底捞月。
Custom is a second nature.
习惯是后天养成的。
Custom makes all things easy.
有个好习惯，事事皆不难。
Diamond cuts diamond.
强中自有强中手。
Do as the Romans do.
入乡随俗。
Do as you would be done by.
己所不欲，勿施于人。
Doing is better than saying.
与其挂在嘴上，不如落实在行动上。
Do it now.
机不可失，时不再来。
Do nothing by halves.
凡事不可半途而废。
Don’t claim to know what you don’t know.
不要不懂装懂。
Don’t have too many irons in the fire.
不要揽事过多。
Don’t make a mountain out of a molehill.
不要小题大做。
Don’t put off till tomorrow what should be done today.
今日事，今日毕。
Don’t put the cart before the horse.
不要本末倒置。
Don’t trouble trouble until trouble troubles you.
不要自找麻烦。
Don’t try to teach your grandmother to suck eggs.
不要班门弄斧。
Do well and have well.
善有善报。
Each bird love to hear himself sing.
孤芳自赏。
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
早睡早起身体好。
Easier said than done.
说得容易，做得难。
Easy come, easy go.
来也匆匆，去也匆匆。
Eat to live, but not live to eat.
人吃饭是为了活着，但活着不是为了吃饭。
Empty vessels make the greatest sound.
实磨无声空磨响，满瓶不动半瓶摇。
Envy has no holidays.
忌妒之人无宁日。
Even Homer sometimes nods.
智者千虑，必有一失。
Even reckoning makes long friends.
亲兄弟，明算账。
Every advantage has its disadvantage.
有利必有弊。
Everybody’s business is nobody’s business.
人人负责，等于没人负责。
Every day is not Sunday.
好景不常在。
Every dog has his day.
谁都有得意的时候。
Every door may be shut, but death’s door.
人生在世，唯死难逃。
Every heart has its own sorrow.
各人有各人的苦恼。
Every little helps a mickle.
聚沙成塔，集腋成裘。
Every man for himself, and the devil takes the hindmost.
人不为己，天诛地灭。
Every man has his faults.
金无足赤，人无完人。
Every man has his hobbyhorse.
萝卜青菜，各有所爱。
Every man has his weak side.
人人都有弱点。
Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
自己的命运自己掌握。
Every minute counts.
分秒必争。
Every mother’s child is handsome.
孩子是自己的好。
Every potter praises hit pot.
王婆卖瓜，自卖自夸。
Everything is good when new, but friends when old.
东西是新的好，朋友是老的亲。
Example is better then percept.
说一遍，不如做一遍。
Experience is the father of wisdom and memory the mother.
经验是智慧之父，记忆是智慧之母。
Experience must be bought.
吃一堑，长一智。
Fact speak louder than words.
事实胜于雄辩。
Failure is the mother of success.
失败是成功之母。
False friends are worse than bitter enemies.
明枪易躲，暗箭难防。
Far from eye, far from heart.
眼不见，心不烦。
Far water does not put out near fire.
远水救不了近火。
Faults are thick where love is thin.
一朝情意淡，样样不顺眼。
Fear always springs from ignorance.
恐惧源于无知。
Fields have eyes, and woods have ears.
He that will not work shall not eat.
不劳动者不得食。
He who does not advance loses ground.
逆水行舟，不进则退。
He who makes constant complaint gets little compassion.
经常诉苦，没人同情。
He who makes no mistakes makes nothing.
想不犯错误，就一事无成。
He who risks nothing gains nothing.
收获与风险并存。
History repeats itself.
历史往往重演。
Honesty is the best policy.
做人诚信为本。
Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.
抱最好的愿望，做最坏的打算。
I cannot be your friend and your flatterer too.
朋友不能阿谀奉承。
If a man deceives me once, shame on him, if he deceives me twice, shame on me.
上当一回头，再多就可耻。
If you make yourself an ass, don’t complain if people ride you.
人善被人欺，马善被人骑。
If your ears glow, someone is talking of you.
耳朵发烧，有人念叨。
If you run after two hares, you will catch neither.
脚踏两条船，必定落空。
If you sell the cow, you sell her milk too.
杀鸡取卵。
If you venture nothing, you will have nothing.
不入虎穴，焉得虎子。
If you want knowledge, you must toil for it.
要想求知，就得吃苦。
Industry is the parent of success.
勤奋是成功之母。
It is better to die when life is a disgrace.
宁为玉碎，不为瓦全。
It is easier to get money than to keep it.
挣钱容易攒钱难。
It is easy to be wise after the event.
事后诸葛亮好当。
It is easy to open a shop but hard to keep it always open.
创业容易守业难。
It is hard to please all.
众口难调。
It is never too old to learn.
活到老，学到老。
It is no use crying over spilt milk.
覆水难收。
It is the first step that costs troublesome.
万事开头难。
It is the unforeseen that always happens.
天有不测风云，人有旦夕祸福。
It is too late to grieve when the chance is past.
坐失良机，后悔已迟。
It never rains but it pours.
不鸣则已，一鸣惊人。
It takes three generations to make a gentleman.
十年树木，百年树人。
Jack of all trades and master of none.
门门精通，样样稀松。
Judge not from appearances.
人不可貌相，海不可斗量。
Justice has long arms.
天网恢恢，疏而不漏。
Keep good men company and you shall be of the number.
近朱者赤，近墨者黑。
Kill two birds with one stone.
一箭双雕。
Kings go mad, and the people suffer for it.
君王发狂，百姓遭殃。
Kings have long arms.
普天之下，莫非王土。
Knowledge is power.
知识就是力量。
Knowledge makes humble, ignorance makes proud.
博学使人谦逊，无知使人骄傲。
Learn and live.
活着，为了学习。
Learning makes a good man better and ill man worse.
好人越学越好，坏人越学越坏。
Learn not and know not.
不学无术。
Learn to walk before you run.
先学走，再学跑。
Let bygones be bygones.
过去的就让它过去吧。
Let sleeping dogs lie.
别惹麻烦。
Let the cat out of the bag.
泄漏天机。
Lies can never changes fact.
谎言终究是谎言。
Lies have short legs.
谎言站不长。
Life is but a span.
人生苦短。
Life is half spent before we know what it is.
人过半生，方知天命。
Life is not all roses.
人生并不是康庄大道。
Life without a friend is death.
没有朋友，虽生犹死。
Like a rat in a hole.
瓮中之鳖。
Like author, like book.
文如其人。
Like father, like son.
有其父必有其子。
Like for like.
一报还一报。
Like knows like.
惺惺相惜。
0. An idle youth,a needy age.
少壮不努力，老大徒伤悲。
1. Time flies.
时光易逝。
2. Time is money.
一寸光阴一寸金。
3. Time and tide wait for no man.
岁月无情；岁月易逝；岁月不待人。
4. Time tries all.
时间检验一切。
5. Time tries truth.
时间检验真理。
6. Time past cannot be called back again.
光阴一去不复返。
7. All time is no time when it is past.
光阴一去不复返。
8. No one can call back yesterday;Yesterday will not be called again.
昨日不复来。
9. Tomorrow comes never.
切莫依赖明天。
10.One today is worth two tomorrows.
一个今天胜似两个明天。
11.The morning sun never lasts a day.
好景不常；朝阳不能光照全日。
12.Christmas comes but once a year.
圣诞一年只一度。
13.Pleasant hours fly past.
快乐时光去如飞。
14.Happiness takes no account of time.
欢娱不惜时光逝。
15.Time tames the strongest grief.
时间能缓和极度的悲痛。
16.The day is short but the work is much.
工作多，光阴迫。
17.Never deter till tomorrow that which you can do today.
今日事须今日毕，切勿拖延到明天。
18.Have you somewhat to do tomorrow,do it today.
明天如有事，今天就去做。
19.To him that does everything in its proper time,one day is worth three.
事事及时做，一日胜三日。
20.To save time is to lengthen life.
节省时间就是延长生命。
21.Everything has its time and that time must be watched.
万物皆有时，时来不可失。
22.Take time when time cometh,lest time steal away.
时来必须要趁时，不然时去无声息。
23.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。
24.Make hay while the sun shines.
晒草要趁太阳好。
25.Strike while the iron is hot.
趁热打铁。
26.Work today,for you know not how much you may be hindered tomrrow.
今朝有事今朝做，明朝可能阻碍多。
27.Punctuality is the soul of business.
守时为立业之要素。
28.Procrastination is the thief of time.
因循拖延是时间的大敌；拖延就是浪费时间。
29.Every tide hath ist ebb.
潮涨必有潮落时。
30.Knowledge is power.
知识就是力量。
31.Wisdom is more to be envied than riches.
知识可羡，胜于财富。
32.Wisdom is better than gold or silver.
知识胜过金银，
33.Wisdom in the mind is better than money in the hand.
胸中有知识，胜于手中有钱。
34.Wisdom is a good purchase though we pay dear for it.
为了求知识，代价虽高也值得。
35.Doubt is the key of knowledge.
怀疑是知识之钥。
36.If you want knowledge,you must toil for it.
若要求知识，须从勤苦得。
37.A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
浅学误人。
38.A handful of common sense is worth a bushel of learning.
少量的常识，当得大量的学问。
39.Knowledge advances by steps and not by leaps.
知识只能循序渐进，不能跃进。
40.Learn wisdom by the follies of others.
从旁人的愚行中学到聪明。
41.It is good to learn at another man's cost.
前车可鉴。
42.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。
43.Experience is the best teacher.
经验是最好的教师。
44.Experience is the father of wisdom and memory the mother.
经验是知识之父，记忆是知识之母。
45.Dexterity comes by experience.
熟练来自经验。
46.Practice makes perfect.
熟能生巧。
0. Lying is the first step to the gallows.
说谎是上断头台的第一步。
1. Waste not,want not.
俭以防匮。
2. From saving comes having.
富有来自节俭。
3. A penny saved is a penny gained.
省一文是一文。
4. Take care of the pence and the pound will take care of themselves.
金钱积少便成多。
5. Frugality is an estate alone.
节俭本身就是一宗财产。
6. He that regards not a penny,will lavish a pound.
小钱不知节省，大钱将滥花。
7. Small gains bring great wealth.
积小利，成巨富。
8. Many a little makes a mickle.
积少便成多。
9. As the touchstone tries gold,so gold tries man.
试金之石可试金，正如黄金能试人。
10.Courage and resolution are the spirit and soul of virtue.
勇敢和坚决是美德的灵魂。
11.The path to glory is always rugged.
光荣之路常坎坷。
12.Nothing is difficult to the man who will try.
世上无难事，只要人肯试。
13.The fire is the test of gold;adversity of strong man.
烈火试真金，困苦炼壮士。
14.Great hopes make great man.
远大的希望造就伟大的人物。
15.No way is impossible to courage.
勇士面前无险路。
16.A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
平静的大海决不能造就出熟练的水手。
17.The good seaman is known in bad weather.
坏天气下才能识得出良好的海员；要识好海员，须凭
坏天气。
18.The best hearts are always the bravest.
行为最勇敢的人心地总是最善良。
19.We must not lie down,and cry,God help us.
求神不如求己。
20.He that falls today may be up again tomorrow.
今天跌倒的人也许明天就会站起。
21.Rome was not built in a day.
罗马并非一日可建成；坚持必成。
22.Success belongs to the persevering.
胜利属于坚忍不拔的人。
23.We must repeat a thousand and one times that perseverance is the only road to success.
我们要多次重申：不屈不挠是取得胜利的唯一道
路。
24.Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth.
十九次失败，到第二十次获得成功，这就叫坚持。
25.Step by step the ladder is ascended.
登梯需要逐级登。
26.Adversity leads to prosperity.
困苦通向昌盛。
27.Patience and application will carry us through.
忍耐和专心会使我们度过难关。
28.Fortune often rewards with interest those that have patience to wait for her.
运气太好，见人不睬；运气太坏，无人理会。
40.Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
每一个人都是自身幸福的建筑师。
41.Happy is he who knows his follies in his youth.
记得年轻时所作蠢事的人是幸福的。
42.Misfortunes never (seldom) come alone (single).
祸不单行。
43.Misfortune is a good teacher.
不幸是良好的教师。
44.Misfortunes come at night.
祸常生于不测。
45.Misfortunes tell us what fortune is.
恶运临头后，才知幸运贵。
46.Adversity makes a man wise,not rich.
患难能使人聪明，但不能使人富有。
47.Live and learn.
活到老，学到老。
48.It is never too old to learn.
为学不怕年高。
49.A man becomes learned by asking questions.
要长学问，就得多问；多问则业精。
50.There is no royal road to learning.
学问无坦途。
51.He who is ashamed of asking is ashamed of learning.
畏问之人耻于学。
52.What is learned in the cradle lasts till the grave.
婴孩时期学到的东西，老死不会忘记。
53.Learning makes a good man better and ill man worse.
知识能使好人更好，坏人更坏。
54.Soon learnt,soon forgotten.
学得快，忘得快。
55.Learn young,learn fair.
为学趁年青，既学须学好。
56.A lazy youth,a lousy age.
少时懒惰老来苦。
57.He that knows nothing,doubts nothing.
无知即无疑。
58.A good name keeps its luster in the dark.
良好的名声在黑暗中也能闪闪发光。
59.Fame is a magnifying glass.
名誉是放大镜。
60.A good fame is better than a good face.
美名胜于美貌。
61.Fame like a river is narrowest at its source and broadest afar off.
名誉如河流，发源处最狭，愈远愈宽广。
62.Take honour from me and my life is done.
没有名誉，就没有了生命。
63.Beware of him who regards not his reputation.
要谨防不重名誉的人。
64.It is better to die with honour than to live in infamy.
光荣的死胜于羞辱的生。
65.Adversity successfully overcome is the highest glory.
成功地克服困难是最大的光荣。
66.Reputation is often got without merit and lost without fault.
无功得名是常事，无过失名也是常事。
67.Your father's honour is to you but a second-hand honour.
对于你来说，父亲的荣誉只是间接的荣誉。
68.Never trust another what you should do yourself.
自己该做的事，决不要委托给旁人做。
69.It is an equal failing to trust everybody,and to trust nobody.
信任一切与不信任任何人，同样是弱点。
70.Eat a peck of salt with a man before you trust him.
在你信任一个人之前，先要深入了解他。
71.If you trust before you try,you may repent before you die.
不经考验就依赖，不到瞑目便的悔。
72.Never trust to fine words.
切勿轻信漂亮话。
73.Trust not a great weight to a slender thread.
细线挂重物，终究不可靠。
74.Be just to all,but trust not all.
要对一切人都公正，但不要对一切人都信任。
75.Trust thyself only,and another shall not betray thee.
只要信任你自己，旁人才不出卖你。
76.Self-trust is the essence of heroism.
自信为英雄品质之本。
77.Confidence is a plant of slow growth.
信任是一种生长缓慢的植物。
78.Truth is the daughter of time.
真理是时间的女儿。
79.Truth hath a good face,but ill clothes.
真理面目善良；但衣衫褴褛。
80.Truth and roses have thorns about them.
真理和玫瑰，身旁都有刺。
81.Truth may be blamed,but shall never be shamed.
真理可能会被责难，但绝不会受羞辱。
82.Though malice may darken truth,it cannot put it out.
恶意可以糟塌真理；但无法消灭真理。
83.Truth will prevail.
真理必胜。
84.Truth's best ornament is nakedness.
不加掩饰乃是真理的最好装饰。
85.Facts are stubborn things.
事实是最顽强的东西。
86.Sooner or later,the truth comes to light.
真相迟早会大白。
87.The truths we least like to hear are those which it is most to our advantage to know.
我们最不愿意听到的事实，往往是我们知道了会
大有好处的事实。
88.Falsehood like a nettle stings those who meddle with it.
谎言似荨麻，玩弄会刺手。
89.There is many a fair thing full false.
有许多说得好听的东西充满了谬误。
90.Though a lie be well drest,it is ever overcome.
谎言装扮虽不错，到头总会被揭露。
91.A lie begets a lie till they come to generations.
谎言生谎言，谎言世代传。
92.A false tongue will hardly speak truth.
假舌不会吐真言。
93.False with one can be false with two.
对一个人虚假，也会对两个人虚假。
94.He that will lie will steal.
会说谎的人也就会偷窃。
95.Gossiping and lying go together.
流言常和谎话并行。
96.Equivocation is first cousin to a lie.
含糊其词是谎话的近亲。
97.A great talker is a great liar.
最会夸夸其谈的人也最会说谎。
98.The greatest liars talk most of themselves.
最爱自吹自擂的人是最大的说谎者。
99.Lying rides upon debt's back.
负债的人谎话多。
0. Lying is the first step to the gallows.
说谎是上断头台的第一步。
1. Waste not,want not.
俭以防匮。
2. From saving comes having.
富有来自节俭。
3. A penny saved is a penny gained.
省一文是一文。
4. Take care of the pence and the pound will take care of themselves.
金钱积少便成多。
5. Frugality is an estate alone.
节俭本身就是一宗财产。
6. He that regards not a penny,will lavish a pound.
小钱不知节省，大钱将滥花。
7. Small gains bring great wealth.
积小利，成巨富。
8. Many a little makes a mickle.
积少便成多。
9. As the touchstone tries gold,so gold tries man.
试金之石可试金，正如黄金能试人。
10.Courage and resolution are the spirit and soul of virtue.
勇敢和坚决是美德的灵魂。
11.The path to glory is always rugged.
光荣之路常坎坷。
12.Nothing is difficult to the man who will try.
世上无难事，只要人肯试。
13.The fire is the test of gold;adversity of strong man.
烈火试真金，困苦炼壮士。
14.Great hopes make great man.
远大的希望造就伟大的人物。
15.No way is impossible to courage.
勇士面前无险路。
16.A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
平静的大海决不能造就出熟练的水手。
17.The good seaman is known in bad weather.
坏天气下才能识得出良好的海员；要识好海员，须凭
坏天气。
18.The best hearts are always the bravest.
行为最勇敢的人心地总是最善良。
19.We must not lie down,and cry,God help us.
求神不如求己。
20.He that falls today may be up again tomorrow.
今天跌倒的人也许明天就会站起。
21.Rome was not built in a day.
罗马并非一日可建成；坚持必成。
22.Success belongs to the persevering.
胜利属于坚忍不拔的人。
23.We must repeat a thousand and one times that perseverance is the only road to success.
我们要多次重申：不屈不挠是取得胜利的唯一道
路。
24.Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth.
十九次失败，到第二十次获得成功，这就叫坚持。
25.Step by step the ladder is ascended.
登梯需要逐级登。
26.Adversity leads to prosperity.
困苦通向昌盛。
27.Patience and application will carry us through.
忍耐和专心会使我们度过难关。
28.Fortune often rewards with interest those that have patience to wait for her.
做事只要有耐心，到头总会有好运；耐心候好运，好
运常会来。
29.All things will come round to him who will but wait.
只要肯等待，一切都会按时来。
30.Constant dropping wears the stone.
滴水不绝可穿石。
31.Omelets are not made without breaking of eggs.
鸡蛋不打破，蛋卷做不成；不甘愿吃苦，则预期效果
达不到。
32.The world is a ladder for some to go up and others to go down.
世界好似一把梯，有人上去有人下。
33.There needs a long apprenticeship to understand the mystery of the world's trade.
要知世事奥秘多，须要长期作学徒。
34.Life is sweet.
生活是可爱的；人无不好生(恶死)。
35.Where there is life,there is hope.
生命不息，希望长在。
36.Life is not all beer and skittles.
人生并不全是吃喝玩乐。
37.Much water runs by the mill that the miller knows not of.
眼前发生许多事，有些我们并不知。
38.Fortune knocks once at least at every man's door.
人人都有走运的一天。
39.If you are too fortunate,you will not know yourself;if you are too unfortunate,nobody will know you.
聪明人从旁人的错误中吸取教训，愚笨人则从自身
的错误中吸取教训。
45.He is wise that knows when he's well enough.
知足为智者。
46.A wise man cares not for what he cannot have.
智者不强求。
47.He is wise that hath wit enough for his own affairs.
明智者有足够的机智处理自己的事情。
48.No man is born wise.
聪明非天生。
49.A wise man will make tools of what comes to hand.
能随机应变的人是聪明人。
50.A word is enough to the wise.
对明智者一言已足。
51.He is the wise man who is the honest man.
正直的人就是有见识的人。
52.A wise man thinks all that he says,a fool says all that he thinks.
聪明人想了才说，愚笨的人想着就说。
53.The wise hand doth not all that the foolish mouth speaks.
聪明的手不做愚蠢的嘴所说的事。
54.A flow of words is no proof of wisdom.
口若悬河，不能证明真有才智。
55.It is easy to be wise after the event.
事后的诸葛亮容易做。
56.The wise man knows he knows nothing,the fool thinks the knows all.
聪明人自认一无所知，愚笨人自负无所不晓。
57.Fools learn nothing from wise men;but wise men learn much from fools.
愚人不能从智者那里学到什么；而智者却能从愚
人那里学到很多。
58.A fool always comes short of his reckoning.
愚人常短于心计。
59.A fool's heart dances on his lips.
愚人的心挂在唇边。
60.A fool always finds a greater fool than himself.
愚人总以为旁人比自己更傻。
61.A man may talk like a wise man and yet act like a fool.
一个人可能说话如智者，而行为象愚人。
62.The more riches a fool hath,the greater fool he is.
愚人越富越蠢。
63.Never challenge a fool to do wrong.
不要怂恿愚人干错事。
64.It is better to please a fool than to anger him.
对愚人最好是使他高兴，而不是惹他发怒。
65.He is a fool who cannot be angry,but he is a wise man who will not.
不会发怒是蠢人，不愿发怒是聪明人。
66.'Tis altogether vain to learn wisdom and yet live foolishly.
枉自学聪明，却做愚蠢事。
67.Wit without learning is like a tree without fruit.
没有学识的机智，犹如没有果实的树。
68.No man is wise at all times.
世上无一贯明智的人。
69.Many heads are better than one.
几个脑袋总比一个脑袋强；三个臭皮匠，顶个诸葛
亮。
70.Virtue never grows old.
美德永不老。
71.Virtue is the only true nobility.
万事不如美德高。
72.Virtue is a jewel of great price.
美德乃是无价宝。
73.He that soweth virtue shall reap fame.
播下美德，收获名望。
74.To be virtuous is to do good.
行善即是有德。
75.Glory is the shadow of virtue.
荣誉是美德的影子。
76.There is no virtue that poverty destroyeth not.
没有贫穷不能破坏的美德。
77.The first step to virtue is to abstrain from vice.
不作恶是走向美德的第一步。
78.No good building without a good foundation.
基础不良的好建筑物是没有的。
79.One good turn deserves another.
善行应有善报；善良的行为应得善良行为的报答。
80.He that returns good for evil obtains the victory.
胜利属于以德报怨的人。
81.We should never remember the benefits we have offered nor forget the favor received.
我有德于人不应记；人有德于我不可忘。
82.If they say you are good,ask yourself if it be true.
若有人称赞，自问对不对。
83.He who avoids temptation avoids the sin.
不受诱惑就免于罪恶。
84.A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder.
问心无愧，打雷也能睡。
85.Never be weary of well doing.
不要厌倦做好事。
86.Of evil grain,no good seed can come.
坏谷无好种。
87.That which is evil is soon learnt.
恶行易学。
88.No vice goes alone.
恶事不单行。
89.An evil lesson is soon learned.
恶习易染。
90.A bad thing never dies.
坏事传千年。
91.Evil comes to us by ells and goes away by inches.
罪恶于人，尺进寸退。
92.The maintaining of one vice costs more than ten virtues.
保持一桩恶事的代价超过于十件好事。
93.They that do nothing learn to do ill.
游手好闲，容易学坏。
94.A wicked man is his own hell.
坏人作恶，自造地狱。
95.Those who eat best and drink best often do worst.
吃得好，喝得好，坏事常常免不了。
96.He who has done ill once will do it again.
一次干坏事，便有第二次。
97.There is no going heaven in a sedan.
坐轿上天堂，从来无此事。
98.An ill life,an ill end.
恶有恶报。
99.A wilful fault has no excuse and deserves no pardon.
不能宽恕故意犯下的错误。
0. Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.
没有知识的热心，犹如有火而无光。
1. Pardoning the bad is injuring the good.
隐恶败善；原谅坏人即是伤害好人。
2. The evil wound is cured but not the evil name.
重伤可治，恶名难去。
3. Evil communications corrupt good manners.
不良的交往败坏良好的举止。
4. No wrong without remedy.
有过皆可补。
5. Virtue flies from the heart of a mercenary man.
唯利是图者，胸中无美德。
6. First think,and then speak.
动口先动脑。
7. A word spoken is past recalling(The words once spoken can never be recalled).
一言既出，驷马难追。
8. While the word is in your mouth,it is your own;when 'tis once spoken, 'tis another's.
话在嘴里，属于自己；话一出口，人家所有。
9. Speech is silver,silence is gold.
言语是银，沉默是金。
10.Few words are best.
寡言为贵。
11.No wisdom like silence.
聪明莫过沉默。
12.Least said,soonest mended.
少说为妙。
13.Second thoughts are best.
再思而后行。
14.Look before you leap.
慎思而后行。
15.He is a wise man who speaks little.
智多言语少。
16.Fair words butter no parsnips.
美言无补实际。
17.The tongue is not made of steel,yet it cuts.
舌头不是钢，一动把人伤。
18.Sometimes words hurt more than swords.
言语能伤人，有时胜刀剑。
19.A good tongue is a good weapon.
口齿伶俐，是件利器。
20.A wise head makes a close mouth.
头脑灵，嘴巴紧。
21.It is one thing to speak much and another to speak pertinently.
说得多是一回事，讲得中肯又是一回事。
22.Unprofitable eloquence is like the cypress,which is great and tall,but bears no fruit.
无益的雄辩犹如高大的柏树，不会结果。
23.Better say nothing than nothing to the purpose.
与其说话不中肯，不如半句也莫吭。
24.Many a true word is spoken in jest.
笑语之中吐真言。
25.Few words,many deeds.
少说话，多做事。
26.Actions speak louder than words.
行动比言语响亮；百说不如一干。
27.From words to deeds is a great space.
言行之间，大有距离。
28.Deeds,not words.
要行动，不要言词。
29.Bare words,no bargain.
空言不能成交易。
30.Deeds are fruits,words are but leaves.
行动是果实，言语只是叶子。
31.Ill deeds cannot honour.
坏行为不受尊敬。
32.Fine words dress ill deeds.
漂亮的言词装饰着恶劣的行为。
33.Good words and ill deeds deceive wise and fools.
动听的话和坏行为同样欺骗聪明和愚人。
34.Our own actions are our security,not others' judgements.
我们的行为是自己的保证，并不是旁人的鉴定。
35.A man of words and not deeds is like a garden full of weeds.
空有言语而无行动的人，犹如杂草丛生的花园。
36.A man is not good or bad for one action.
不能凭一件事判断人的好坏。
37.A man apt to promise is apt to forget.
易于许诺的人也易于忘记。
38.A man that breaks his word,bids others to be false to him.
人不守信，无异于叫旁人对他失信。
39.Easier said than done.
说易行难。
40.The greatest talkers are always the least doers.
大言不惭的总是行动最少的人。
41.The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
布丁好坏，一尝便知；空谈不如实践。
42.Pride goes before a fall.
骄者必败。
43.Pride goes before destruction.
骄者必败。
44.Pride goeth before,and shame cometh after.
骄傲走在前，羞耻跟在后。
45.Pride and grace dwelt never in one place.
傲慢和温雅，永难住一处。
46.He that climbs high falls heavily.
爬得高，跌得重。
47.Pride must be pinched.
骄傲应收敛。
48.The more noble the more humble.
越高贵，越应谦逊。
49.Humility often gains more than pride.
谦逊常比傲慢受益更多。
50.He who imagines that he has knowledge enough has none.
自命万事通，腹中常空空。
51.No man is the worst for knowing the worst of himself.
人并不因为他自知很差就是很差。
52.Pride may lurk under a threadbare cloak.
骄傲可能会潜藏在穿旧的斗篷下。
53.It is not a sign of humility to declaim against pride.
用慷慨激昂的言语攻击傲慢并不是谦逊的标志。
54.He that is full of himself is very empty.
自满之人腹内空。
55.Honesty is the best policy.
诚实为上策。
56.An honest man's word is as good as his bond.
诚实人的诺言实际上就是他的保证书。
57.Poor but honest.
虽贫穷，要诚实。
58.Honesty may be dear bought,but can never be an ill pennyworth.
高价买诚实，永远也值得。
59.Knavery may serve,but honesty is best.
欺诈可能有用，诚实却是上策。
60.Every man has his weak side.
人人都有自己的弱点。
61.He who has no shame has no conscience.
不知羞耻的人不知自疚。
62.An honest look covereth many faults.
一副诚实的外表掩盖着许多缺点。
63.Once a knave,ever a knave.
一次成无赖，永远是无赖。
64.A crafty knave needs no broker.
狡猾的无赖不需要有中间人。
65.The honest penny is better than the stolen dollar.
正当得到的一分钱胜于偷来的一元钱。
66.One penny with right is better than a thousand without right.
合法取得的一辨士，胜于非法取得的一千辨士。
67.The unrighteous penny corrupts the righteous pound.
不正当得来的辨士使正当得来的英镑也受到沾污。
68.Love is blind.
爱情是盲目的。
69.Love is without reason.
爱情无理智。
70.Love is full of trouble.
爱情充满了烦恼。
71.Love cannot be compelled.
爱情不能强迫。
72.Love begets love.
爱爱相生。
73.Love needs no teaching.
爱情不需教导。
74.Love at first sight.
一见倾心。
75.Love asks faith,and faith firmness.
爱情要求信任，信任要求坚定。
76.Love is the touchstone of virtue.
爱情是美德的试金石。
77.Love not at the first look.
不要一见钟情。
78.Hasty love,soon cold.
爱得匆忙冷得快。
79.Love is a sweet torment.
爱情是一种甜蜜的痛苦。
80.Love rules his kingdom without a sword.
爱情的王国不用刀剑来统治。
81.Love will find out the way.
爱情自会寻出路。
82.Love is not to be found in the market.
爱情在市场上找不到。
83.Lovers live by love,as larks live by leeks.
情侣靠爱情生活，正象云雀靠韭葱生活一样。
84.Old love will not be forgotten.
旧情永难忘；往日的爱情难以忘怀。
85.True love kythes(=shows itself)in time of need.
患难显真情。
86.Sound love is not soon forgotten.
坚固的爱情不会顷刻忘怀。
87.The greatest hate springs from the greatest love.
最大的恨来自最大的爱。
88.No love is foul,nor prison fair.
没有肮脏的爱情，也没有美丽的监狱。
89.Labour is lihgt where love doth pay.
爱情付报酬，劳苦也轻松。
90.Love is the reward of love.
爱就是爱的报酬。
91.Love makes all hard hearts gentle.
爱情把一切冷酷之心变成温柔。
92.When love puts in,friendship is gone.
爱情进入，友情完结。
93.The course of true love never did run smooth.
真爱的道路绝不平坦。
94.Love is a sweet tyranny,because the lover endures his torment willingly.
爱情是可爱的虐政，情人们甘受它痛苦的折磨。
95.True love is giving,not taking.
真挚的爱是给，不是取。
96.Love makes obedience easy.
爱情使顺从成为易事。
97.Love is sweet in the beginning,but sour in the end.
爱情先甜后来酸。
98.Where love fails,we espy all faults.
爱情一失败，一切毛病都发现。
99.Follow love and it will flee,flee love and it will follow thee.
追求爱情它高飞，逃避爱情它跟随。
A bad workman always blames his tools."
直译：拙匠常怨工具差。
意译：劣工尤器。人笨怨刀钝。不会撑船怪河弯。拉不出屎来赖茅坑。 "A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush." 直译：双鸟在林不如一鸟在手。
意译：多得不如现得。 ! "Absence makes the heart grow fonder." 直译：别久情深。
意译：小别胜新婚。相聚爱益切，离别情更深。 "A cat may look at the king." 直译：猫也可以见国王。
意译：人人平等。小人物也应有权利。 "A chain is no stronger than its weakest link." 直译：链条的坚固程度取决于它最薄弱的环节。
意译：一环薄弱全局垮。一着不慎，满盘皆输。 "A creaking gate hangs long." 直译：吱吱响的门用得久。
意译：旧门久用，病夫长命。瑕不掩玉。户枢不蠹。 "Actions speak louder than words." 直译：行动比言语更响亮。
意译：事实胜于雄辩。 "A fool and his money are easily parted." 直译：愚人有钱留不住。
意译：笨蛋难聚财。 "A fox smells its own lair first." 直译：狐狸有恶臭，自己先嗅出。
意译：疑人先自疑，律人先律己。 "A friend in need is a friend indeed." 直译：患难朋友才是真朋友。
意译：患难见真情。 "After dinner sit a while, after supper walk a mile." 直译：午饭后坐一会，晚饭后走一里。 意译： "A good beginning makes a good ending." 直译：善始者必善其终。欲善其终必先善其始。
意译：善始者善终。 "A good man in an evil society seems the greatest villain of all." 直译：道德败坏社会的好人看起来像最坏的人。
意译：丑小鸭。近墨者黑，近朱者赤。 "A good surgeon has an eagle's eye, a lion's heart, and a lady's hand." 直译：优秀的外科医生必须眼疾如鹰，心强如狮，手巧如妇。
意译：出色的外科医生必须心明眼亮和有一双灵巧的手。 "A guilty conscience needs no accuser." 直译：有罪的良心不需要原告。
意译：做贼心虚，良心自诛。多行不义必自毙，多走夜路必遇鬼。 "A jack of all trades is master of none." 直译：万事通什么都不精通。
意译：样样通样样松。三脚猫无所长。博艺无所精。 "A lie has no legs." 直译：谎言站不住脚。 意译： "A lie can be halfway around the world before the truth gets its boots on." 直译：真理刚穿靴，谎言已在世界的中途。
意译：真理未出门，谎言传千里。好事不出门，坏事传千里。 "A little learning is a dangerous thing." 直译：一知半解最危险。
意译：浅学误人。一知半解，害已误人。一知半解，自欺欺人。 "All cats love fish but hate to get their paws wet." 直译：猫爱吃鱼怕爪湿。猫儿爱吃鱼，却怕爪弄湿。想吃鱼又怕腥。
意译：即想得好处，又不惹麻烦。名利双收。不劳而获。四肢不勤，一挛蕹伞? "All flowers are not in one garland." 直译：鲜花不全在一个花环上。
意译：人各有志, 不可强求一致。 "All good things come to an end." 直译：好景不长。
意译：天下无不散之宴席。花无百日红。 "All roads lead to Rome." 直译：条条大路通罗马。
意译：殊途同归。行行出状元。 "All is fair in love and war." 直译：在情场和战场上所有东西都是公平的。
意译：情不禁巧，兵不厌诈。情场战场，各显神通。恋爱与战争可不择手段。 "All is well that ends well." 直译：结局好才算好。
意译：善终为善。吉人天相。 "All that glitters is not gold." 直译：闪光的未必都是金子。
意译：虚有其表。中看不中用。金玉其外，未必皆善。人不可貌相。 "All things come to he who waits." 直译：事物总是留给耐心等待的人。只要肯耐心等待，一切都会按时来。
意译：好事多磨。 "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy." 直译：只工作不玩耍，聪明也变傻。 意译： "A merry heart makes a long life." 直译：心情愉快的人长寿。
意译：乐者寿长。 "A miss is as good as a mile." 直译：大错小错都是错。
意译：失之毫厘，谬以千里。 "An apple a day keeps the doctor away." 直译：一天一个苹果，医生不上门。
意译：每天一苹果，健康不求医。 "An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth." 直译：以眼还眼，以牙还牙。
意译：以彼之道，还施彼身。以其人之道，还治其人之身。一报还一报。 "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." 直译：预防胜于治疗。治病不如防病。
意译：未雨绸缪。惩罚于已然，不如警惕于未然。 "A penny saved is a penny earned." 直译：省一分就是赚一分。省一文等于挣一文。
意译：省钱就是赚钱。 "A person is known by the company he keeps." 直译：你常保持联系的人了解你。
意译：观其友知其人。观其交友,知其为人。 "A pot of milk is ruined by a drop of poison." 直译：一滴毒药毁了一罐奶。
意译：一颗老鼠屎坏了一锅粥。千里之堤，毁于蚁穴。 "April showers bring May flowers." 直译：四月雨带来五月花。
意译：苦尽甘来。否极泰来。宝剑锋从磨砺出，梅花香自苦寒来。阳光总在风雨后。不经历风雨怎么见彩虹。 "A rolling stone gathers no moss." 直译：滚石不生苔。
意译：心浮气躁，一事无成。转业不聚财。 "Ask and you shall receive." 直译：勤问必有所得。
意译：好学多问。 "Ask me no questions, I will tell you no lies." 直译：不问我问题，我就不说谎。
意译：少问少受骗。 "Ask no questions and hear no lies." 直译：不发问，就听不到谎言。
意译：是非终日有，不听自然无。 "A sound mind in a sound body." 直译：健全的头脑寓于健康的身体。 意译：身体好，头脑活。 "A stitch in time saves nine." 直译：一针及时省九针。
意译：及时行事，事半功倍。小洞不补，大洞吃苦。 "As you make your bed, so you must lie in it." 直译：自己做的床，自己躺。
意译：自作自受。自食其果。 "As you sow, so shall you reap." 直译：有播种才有收获。
意译：一分耕耘，一分收获。种瓜得瓜，种豆得豆。 "A woman's work is never done." 直译：女人事，做不完。妇女的活计做不完。
意译：女人事多。 "A word to the wise is enough." 直译：忠告无须太多。
意译：智者一言已足。 "A word spoken is past recalling." 直译：说出的话无法收回。
意译：一言既出，驷马难追。 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- B "Barking dogs seldom bite." 直译：爱叫的狗不咬人，咬人的狗不露齿。吠犬不咬人。
意译：外强中干。虚有其表。虚张声势。 "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder." 直译：生活不缺乏美，而在于发现美。
意译：情人眼里出西施。 "Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes straight to the bone." 直译：美丽流于肤浅，丑陋深邃入骨。红颜易变，丑陋难改。
意译：江山易改，本性难移。 "Beer before liquor, you'll never be sicker, but liquor before beer and you're in the clear." 直译：喝啤酒再喝白酒，你不会清醒；喝白酒再喝啤酒，你还清醒。
意译：由浅入深难，由深入浅易。由俭入奢易，由奢入俭难。 "Beggars can't be choosers." 直译：乞丐绝无挑选的权利。讨饭的不能挑肥拣瘦。
意译：饥不择食，寒不择衣，慌不择路，贫不择妻。 "Better late than never." 直译：迟做总比不做好。不怕慢，单怕站。
意译：宁迟勿缺。亡羊补牢，犹未晚也。 "Better safe than sorry." 直译：安全胜过遗憾。
意译：不怕一万，就怕万一。 "Better the devil you know than the devil you don't." 直译：已知的魔鬼比未知的好。
意译：明枪易躲，暗箭难防。 "Birds of a feather flock together." 直译：同种类的鸟聚集在一起。
意译：物以类聚，人以群分。一丘之貉。 "Bitter pills may have blessed effects." 直译：苦药功效强。
意译：良药苦口利于病。 "Blood is thicker than water." 直译：血浓于水。
意译：亲不亲一家人。 "Blood will out." 直译：谋杀终必败露。
意译：真相大白。纸包不住火。 "Boys will be boys." 直译：男孩子总是男孩子。男孩子总是淘气的。
意译：理应如此。 "Brain is better than brawn." 直译：智慧胜过力量。
意译：智胜莽勇。 "Bread is the staff of life." 直译：面包是生活的主食。
意译：民以食为天。 "Breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, dine like a pauper." 直译：早餐像国王，午餐像王子，晚餐像乞丐。
意译：早餐吃的好，午餐吃的饱，晚餐吃的少。 "Butter is gold in the morning, silver at noon, lead at night." 直译：黄油早餐是金，午餐是银，晚餐是铅。 意译：过犹不及。 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- C "Chance favors the prepared mind." 直译：机遇钟爱有准备的人。 意译：预则立，不预则废。胸有成竹。 "Cider on beer, never fear; beer upon cider, makes a bad rider." 直译：喝啤酒后再喝苹果酒不惧怕，喝苹果酒后再喝啤酒就不能开车。 意译：由浅入深难，由深入浅易。由俭入奢易，由奢入俭难。 "Close but no cigar." 直译：接近了，但不是雪茄。 意译：很接近，但还是错了。 "Clothes don't make the man." 直译：衣不合身。人不可貌相。不能以貌取人。 意译：好马不在鞍，人美不在衫。 "Cowards die many times, but a brave man only dies once." 直译：懦夫可死千百次，好汉一生死一回。 意译：风萧萧兮易水寒，壮士一去兮不复返。 "Cross the stream where it is the shallowest." 直译：渡溪当自浅处过。过河应走水浅处。 意译：从易处着手。凡事简单而为。 "Curiosity killed the cat." 直译：好奇心害死猫。 意译：好奇惹祸。 "Cut your coat according to your cloth." 直译：量体裁衣。 意译：量力而行。量入为出。 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- D "Desperate diseases must have desperate cures." 翻译：重病宜下重手治；死马也当活马医。[1] "Desperate diseases must have desperate remedies." 翻译：重病宜下重手治；死马也当活马医。[1] "Different sores must have different salves." "Different strokes for different folks." "Difficulty makes desire." 翻译：困苦制造愿望。 英国谚语 "Diseases come on horseback, but steal away on foot." Alternative: "Diseases come on horseback, but go away on foot." 翻译：病来如山倒, 病去如抽丝。 "Do as you would be done by." 翻译：做你该做的。 "Do unto others as you would have done to you." 翻译：推己及人。/将心比心。[1] "Doctors make the worst patients." "Don't burn your bridges before they're crossed." "Don't burn your bridges behind you." 翻译：不要过河拆桥。/为自己留条后路。[[1] "Don't change horses in midstream." 翻译：勿中途换将 "Don't count your chickens before they're hatched." "Don't cross a bridge until you come to it." 翻译：船到桥头自然直 Alternative: "Don't cross the bridge till you come to it." "Don't cry over spilt milk." 直译：不要为洒了的牛奶而哭泣。 意译：不要做无谓的后悔。覆水难收。 "Don't cut off your nose to spite your face." "Don't have too many irons in the fire." "Don't make a mountain out of a molehill." "Don't mend what ain't broken." "Don't put all your eggs in one basket." 别把鸡蛋摆在同一篮子里。 "Don't put the cart before the horse." 不要本末倒置。 "Don't shut the barn door after the horse is gone." "Don't shut the gate after the horse has bolted." "Don't spit into the wind." "Don't throw out the baby with the bathwater." 翻译：勿过河拆桥 "Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom."
The fire is the test of gold; adversity is the test of a strong man.
火对金子是考验，逆境对人是磨练。
Bad times make a good man.
艰难困苦出能人。
There is no royal road to learning.
求知无坦途。
Doubt is the key to knowledge.
怀疑是知识的钥匙。
Sharp tools make good work.
工欲善其事，必先利其器。
Wasting time is robbing oneself.
浪费时间就是掠夺自己。
Nurture passes nature.
教养胜过天性。
There is no garden without its weeds.
没有不长杂草的花园。
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。
Wealth is the test of a man's character.
财富是对一个人品格的试金石。
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.
礼貌和美貌是分不开的伴侣。
Plain living and high thinking.
生活要朴素，情操要高尚。
Good is good, but better carries it.
精益求精，善益求善。
Honesty is the best policy.
诚实为上策。
Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.
感恩是精神高尚的标志。
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。
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。
Delays are dangerous.
因拖出危险。
Let bygones be bygones.
既往宜不咎。
Look on both sides of the shield.
看问题要从两面看。
You cannot burn the candle at both ends.
蜡烛不能两头点。
All men can't be first.
不可能人人得冠军。
Never is a long word.
不要轻易说“决不”。
The overturned cast ahead is a warning to the carts behind.
前车之覆，后车之鉴。
Spare the rod and spoil the child.
不打不成器。
Too many cooks spoil the broth.
厨师太多烧坏汤。
Standers-by see more than gamesters.
旁观者清，当局者迷。
Self-praise is no recommendation.
自夸不足为自荐。
They brag most who can do least.
本领最小的人最会吹牛。
The good is the enemy of the best.
过得去是精益求精的敌人。
Politeness costs nothing and gains everything.
礼貌不用花一分钱，却能赢得一切。
A man can't ride your back unless it is bent.
你的腰不弯，别人就不能骑在你的背上。
Conceit is the quicksand of success.
自负是成功的流沙。
He that makes a good war makes a good peace.
正义的战争创造持久的和平。
There is no disputing about tastes.
人各有所好。
It is easy to be wise after the event.
事后诸葛亮容易当。
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。
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.
甜言蜜语会使愚者得意忘形。
Please all and you please none.
要面面俱到者，面面不到。
The noblest vengeance is to forgive.
最高尚的复仇是宽容。
A soft answer turneth away wrath.
温和的回答可以息怒。
Advice when most needed is least heeded.
最容易忽视的建议往往是最重要的。
Be just before you are generous.
要慷慨必先求公正。
Make the best of a bad bargain.
已知吃亏，尽力而为。
He that makes a thing too fine, breaks it.
做事过于苛求，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。
The world is his who enjoys it.
活着感到快乐，世界就属于你。
A little labor, much health.
适量的劳动有益于健康。
Laugh and grow fat.
心宽体胖。
Work won't kill but worry will.
劳动无害，忧愁伤身。
He is rich that has few wants.
寡欲者富。
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。
He is wise that knows when he is well enough.
知足为智者。
A good conscience is a continuous feast.
问心无愧天天乐。
Prevention is better than cure.
治病不如防病。
Cleanliness is next to godliness.
清洁仅次于圣洁。
An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
一日一苹果，医生远离我。
In sports and journeys men are known.
从体育和旅行中可以看出男子的品德。
No man is happy but by comparison.
人的幸福都是比较而言的。
There is no joy without alloy.
世界上没有十全十美的快乐。
Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow.
进步是今天的活动，明天的保证。
Good order is the foundation of all things.
良好的秩序是一切的基础。
He that plants trees loves others besides himself.
植树的人，不但爱己，而且爱人。
The world is but a little place, after all.
天涯原咫尺，何处不相逢。
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.
有团结就有胜利。
United we stand, divided we fall.
团结则存，分裂则亡。
Love is the mother of love.
情生情，爱生爱。
Love lives in cottages as well as in courts.
爱情不分贵贱。
True love never grows old.
真正的爱永不衰老。
Hope is a lover's staff.
希望是爱者的手扶之杖。
It is better to give than to take.
施比受更有福。
Example is better than precept.
身教胜于言传。
Diligence is the mother of success.
勤勉是成功之母。
From saving comes having.
富有来自勤俭。
Cut your coat according to your cloth.
看布裁衣。
Human pride is human weakness.
人类的骄傲即是人类的弱点。
Man proposes, God disposes.
谋事在人，成事在天。
No one but the wearer knows where the shoe pinches.
穿鞋的人自己知道哪里夹脚。
Vainglory blossoms but never bears.
虚荣光开花，永远不结果。
Anger is the wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
愤怒是吹灭心中之灯的风。
Every cloud has a silver lining.
乌云背后有阳光。
Sometimes the best gain is to lose.
有时吃亏就是最大的便宜。
Don't trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.
麻烦没有来找你，不要去找麻烦。
You cannot step twice into the same river.
你不能两次踏入同一条河流。
It is always morning somewhere in the world.
世界上总是有某个地方可以看到阳光。
This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.
真正的勇气是：无所畏惧地接受上天给你的一切。
Life is a roller coaster, you have your ups and downs unless you fall off.
人生就像坐过山车，只要不掉下来，就会有起有伏。
At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgement.
20岁我们按意愿做事；30岁我们凭智慧做事；40岁我们靠判断做事。
Adversity is the first path to truth.
逆境是通向真理的第一条道路。
Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.
爱你的敌人吧，因为他们让你知道自己的缺点。
We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.
维持现状不能让我们有所进步。
Behind an able man there are always other able men.
山外有山，人外有人。
Well done is better than well said.
说得好不如做得好。 We must either find a way or make one.
找到一条路，否则走出一条路。
Barking dogs don't bite.
吠狗不咬人。
What is done by night appears by day.
若要人不知，除非已莫为。
It's never too late to mend.
改过不嫌晚。
Man proposes, God disposes.
谋事在人，成事在天。
Running water does not get stale; a door-hinge is never worm-eaten.
流水不腐，户枢不蠹
Sweep before your own door.
正人先正已。
A hero is nothing but a product of his time.
时势造英雄。
It is better to trust to valour than to luck.
靠运气不如靠勇气。
Ignorance is the mother of impudence.
无知是鲁莽之源。
One careless move may lose the whole game.
一步不慎，满盘皆输。
Words are like bees, they have honey and a sting.
言语象蜜蜂，有蜜也有刺。
It's only the idle will be tired.
只有闲人才会感到疲倦。
There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire, the other is to gain it.
失去心中所欲的和得到心中所欲的，是人生的两大悲剧。
Strong in action, gentle in method.
行动要坚强，方式要温和。
He who mistrusts most should be trusted least.
最不信任别人的人最不应该得到信任。
Idleness is the root of all evils.
懒惰是万恶之源。
Diligence redeems stupidity.
勤能补拙。
Beware beginning.
以谨慎开始。
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
患难见真情。
Strike the iron while it is hot.
趁热打铁。
It takes two to make a quarrel.
一个巴掌拍不响。
When shepherds quarrel, the wolf has a winning game.
鹬蚌相争，渔翁得利。
A single spark can start a prairie fire.
星星之火，可以燎原。
One's sin will find one out.
坏事终归要败露。
A good name is better than riches.
声誉胜于财富。
Haste trips over its own heels.
忙易出错。
A watched pot never boils.
心急喝不了热粥。
The greater the man, the more restrained his anger.
人越伟大，越能克制怒火。
Speech is the image of actions.
语言是行动的反映。
Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know.
明枪易躲，暗箭难防。
Each man is the architect of his own fate.
每个人都是自己命运的建筑师。
Birds of a feather flock together.
物以类聚，人以群分。
Talents come from diligence, and knowledge is gained by accumulation.
天才在于勤奋，知识在于积累。
An open enemy is better than a hollow friend.
宁有公开的敌人，不要虚伪的朋友。
A still tongue makes a wise head.
沉默者有智慧。
It is but a step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
从崇高到荒谬只有一步之遥。
Ordinary people think merely of 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。
Anger begins with folly, and ends in repentance.
愤怒以愚蠢开始，以后悔告终。
All lay load on the willing horse.
人善被人欺，马善被人骑。
He who commences many things finishes but a few.
样样都搞，完成者少。
Courage and resolution are the spirit and soul of virtue.
勇气和坚定是美德的精神与灵魂。
Fish begins to stink at the head.
上梁不正下梁歪。
First come, first served.
先来先招待。
Easy come, easy go.
来得容易去得快。
More haste, less speed.
欲速则不达。
No pains, no gains.
不劳无获。
Nothing venture, nothing gain.
不入虎穴，焉得虎子。
Once bit, twice shy.
一朝被蛇咬，十年怕草绳。
Out of sight, out of mind.
眼不见，心不烦。
Well fed, well bred.
衣食足而后知廉耻。
In for a penny, in for a pound.
一不作，二不休。
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。
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。
Pride hurts, modesty benefits.
满招损，谦受益。
A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
害怕痛苦的人其实已经在承受他所害怕的痛苦了
Adversity is a good disciple.
逆境是锻炼人的最好场所。
Art is long, life is short.
人生有涯艺无涯。
Well begun, half done.
好的开始是成功的一半。
You can't eat your cake and have it also.
世事两难全。
Calamity is man's true touchstone.
患难是人的试金石。
Who keeps company with the wolf will learn to howl.
近墨者黑。
Constant dropping wears away a stone.
滴水穿石。
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。
The first step is as good as half over.
第一步是最关键的一步。
You never know your luck.
命运好坏不由己。
Sow nothing, reap nothing.
春不播，秋不收。
The wealth of the mind is the only wealth.
精神的财富是唯一的财富。
You can't judge a tree by its bark.
人不可貌相。
Clothes do not make the man.
人不在衣装。
To be both a speaker of words and a doer of deeds.
既当演说家，又做实干家。
Variety is the spice of life.
变化是生活的调味品。
Little goods, little care.
钱财少，不烦恼。
Man struggles upwards; water flows downwards.
人往高处走，水往低处流。
A little pot is soon hot.
壶小易沸，量小易怒。
No sweet without sweat.
幸福来自汗水。
Better the last smile than the first laughter.
宁可最后微笑，不要首先狂喜。
One for all, all for one.
我为人人，人人为我。
Truth needs no color.
真理不需要打扮。
Every why has a wherefore.
凡事必有因。
Keeping is harder than winning.
创业难，守业更难。
Never do things by halves.
做事不可半途而废。
No cross, no crown.
未经苦难，得不到荣冠。
Work won't kill but worry will.
劳动无害，忧愁伤身。
He is rich that has few wants.
寡欲者富。
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。
He is wise that knows when he is well enough.
知足为智者。
A good conscience is a continuous feast.
问心无愧天天乐。
Prevention is better than cure.
治病不如防病。
Cleanliness is next to godliness.
清洁仅次于圣洁。
An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
一日一苹果，医生远离我。
In sports and journeys men are known.
从体育和旅行中可以看出男子的品德。
No man is happy but by comparison.
人的幸福都是比较而言的。
There is no joy without alloy.
世界上没有十全十美的快乐。
Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow.
进步是今天的活动，明天的保证。
Good order is the foundation of all things.
良好的秩序是一切的基础。
He that plants trees loves others besides himself.
植树的人，不但爱己，而且爱人。
The world is but a little place, after all.
天涯原咫尺，何处不相逢。
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.
有团结就有胜利。
United we stand, divided we fall.
团结则存，分裂则亡。
Love is the mother of love.
情生情，爱生爱。
Love lives in cottages as well as in courts.
爱情不分贵贱。
True love never grows old.
真正的爱永不衰老。
Hope is a lover's staff.
希望是爱者的手扶之杖。
It is better to give than to take.
施比受更有福。
Example is better than precept.
身教胜于言传。
Diligence is the mother of success.
勤勉是成功之母。
From saving comes having.
富有来自勤俭。
Cut your coat according to your cloth.
看布裁衣。
Human pride is human weakness.
人类的骄傲即是人类的弱点。
Man proposes, God disposes.
谋事在人，成事在天。
No one but the wearer knows where the shoe pinches.
穿鞋的人自己知道哪里夹脚。
Vainglory blossoms but never bears.
虚荣光开花，永远不结果。
Anger is the wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
愤怒是吹灭心中之灯的风。
Every cloud has a silver lining.
乌云背后有阳光。
Sometimes the best gain is to lose.
有时吃亏就是最大的便宜。
Don't trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.
麻烦没有来找你，不要去找麻烦。
You cannot step twice into the same river.
你不能两次踏入同一条河流。
It is always morning somewhere in the world.
世界上总是有某个地方可以看到阳光。
This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.
真正的勇气是：无所畏惧地接受上天给你的一切。
Life is a roller coaster, you have your ups and downs unless you fall off.
人生就像坐过山车，只要不掉下来，就会有起有伏。
At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgement.
20岁我们按意愿做事；30岁我们凭智慧做事；40岁我们靠判断做事。
Adversity is the first path to truth.
逆境是通向真理的第一条道路。
Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.
爱你的敌人吧，因为他们让你知道自己的缺点。
We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.
维持现状不能让我们有所进步。
Behind an able man there are always other able men.
山外有山，人外有人。
Well done is better than well said.
说得好不如做得好。 We must either find a way or make one.
找到一条路，否则走出一条路。
Barking dogs don't bite.
吠狗不咬人。
What is done by night appears by day.
若要人不知，除非已莫为。
It's never too late to mend.
改过不嫌晚。
Man proposes, God disposes.
谋事在人，成事在天。
Running water does not get stale; a door-hinge is never worm-eaten.
流水不腐，户枢不蠹
Sweep before your own door.
正人先正已。
A hero is nothing but a product of his time.
时势造英雄。
It is better to trust to valour than to luck.
靠运气不如靠勇气。
Ignorance is the mother of impudence.
无知是鲁莽之源。
One careless move may lose the whole game.
一步不慎，满盘皆输。
Words are like bees, they have honey and a sting.
言语象蜜蜂，有蜜也有刺。
It's only the idle will be tired.
只有闲人才会感到疲倦。
There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire, the other is to gain it.
失去心中所欲的和得到心中所欲的，是人生的两大悲剧。
Strong in action, gentle in method.
行动要坚强，方式要温和。
He who mistrusts most should be trusted least.
最不信任别人的人最不应该得到信任。
Idleness is the root of all evils.
懒惰是万恶之源。
Diligence redeems stupidity.
勤能补拙。
Beware beginning.
以谨慎开始。
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
患难见真情。
Strike the iron while it is hot.
趁热打铁。
It takes two to make a quarrel.
一个巴掌拍不响。
When shepherds quarrel, the wolf has a winning game.
鹬蚌相争，渔翁得利。
A single spark can start a prairie fire.
星星之火，可以燎原。
One's sin will find one out.
坏事终归要败露。
A good name is better than riches.
声誉胜于财富。
Haste trips over its own heels.
忙易出错。
A watched pot never boils.
心急喝不了热粥。
The greater the man, the more restrained his anger.
人越伟大，越能克制怒火。
Speech is the image of actions.
语言是行动的反映。
Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know.
明枪易躲，暗箭难防。
Each man is the architect of his own fate.
每个人都是自己命运的建筑师。
Birds of a feather flock together.
物以类聚，人以群分。
Talents come from diligence, and knowledge is gained by accumulation.
天才在于勤奋，知识在于积累。
An open enemy is better than a hollow friend.
宁有公开的敌人，不要虚伪的朋友。
A still tongue makes a wise head.
沉默者有智慧。
It is but a step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
从崇高到荒谬只有一步之遥。
Ordinary people think merely of 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。
Anger begins with folly, and ends in repentance.
愤怒以愚蠢开始，以后悔告终。
All lay load on the willing horse.
人善被人欺，马善被人骑。
He who commences many things finishes but a few.
样样都搞，完成者少。
Courage and resolution are the spirit and soul of virtue.
勇气和坚定是美德的精神与灵魂。
Fish begins to stink at the head.
上梁不正下梁歪。
First come, first served.
先来先招待。
Easy come, easy go.
来得容易去得快。
More haste, less speed.
欲速则不达。
No pains, no gains.
不劳无获。
Nothing venture, nothing gain.
不入虎穴，焉得虎子。
Once bit, twice shy.
一朝被蛇咬，十年怕草绳。
Out of sight, out of mind.
眼不见，心不烦。
Well fed, well bred.
衣食足而后知廉耻。
In for a penny, in for a pound.
一不作，二不休。
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。
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。
Pride hurts, modesty benefits.
满招损，谦受益。
A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
害怕痛苦的人其实已经在承受他所害怕的痛苦了
Adversity is a good disciple.
逆境是锻炼人的最好场所。
Art is long, life is short.
人生有涯艺无涯。
Well begun, half done.
好的开始是成功的一半。
You can't eat your cake and have it also.
世事两难全。
Calamity is man's true touchstone.
患难是人的试金石。
Who keeps company with the wolf will learn to howl.
近墨者黑。
Constant dropping wears away a stone.
滴水穿石。
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。
The first step is as good as half over.
第一步是最关键的一步。
You never know your luck.
命运好坏不由己。
Sow nothing, reap nothing.
春不播，秋不收。
The wealth of the mind is the only wealth.
精神的财富是唯一的财富。
You can't judge a tree by its bark.
人不可貌相。
Clothes do not make the man.
人不在衣装。
To be both a speaker of words and a doer of deeds.
既当演说家，又做实干家。
Variety is the spice of life.
变化是生活的调味品。
Little goods, little care.
钱财少，不烦恼。
Man struggles upwards; water flows downwards.
人往高处走，水往低处流。
A little pot is soon hot.
壶小易沸，量小易怒。
No sweet without sweat.
幸福来自汗水。
Better the last smile than the first laughter.
宁可最后微笑，不要首先狂喜。
One for all, all for one.
我为人人，人人为我。
Truth needs no color.
真理不需要打扮。
Every why has a wherefore.
凡事必有因。
Keeping is harder than winning.
创业难，守业更难。
Never do things by halves.
做事不可半途而废。
No cross, no crown.
未经苦难，得不到荣冠。