英语成语大放送(二)

      英语杂谈 2005-2-27 21:36
Great talkers are commonly liars.    能言的人谎话多.
Great talkers are little doers.    人好说大话,并非实干家.
Great talkers are not great doers.    其人说得多,做得不会多.
Great trees are good for nothing but shade.    大树底下好乘凉。
Great winds blow upon high hills.    树大招风.
Great wits have short memories.    贵人多忘事。
Greatest genius often lies concealed.    大智若愚.
Greedy folks have long arms.    心贪手长。
Guilty consciences make men cowards.    做贼心虚。
Gut no fish till you get them.    [谚]没捉到鱼别忙着开肚取肠(勿操之过急)。
Habit cures habit.    新风移旧俗.
Habit is a second nature.    习惯成自然。
Habit is second nature.    习惯成自然.
Half a tale is enough for a wise man.    聪明人凡事只须听一半,就会明白究竟.
Half the world knows not how the other half lives.    富人不知穷人苦.
Handsome is he who does handsomely.    行为漂亮才算美。
Handsome is that handsome does.    心美貌亦美。
Hang up one's fiddle when one comes home.    在外谈笑风生,在家闷闷不乐.
Hang up one's hat in another's house.    在别人家里久留不去,长期居住.
Happiness consists in contentment.    知足常乐.
Happiness takes no account of time.    幸福不觉光阴过.
Happy is he that is happy in childhood.    童年时代快乐的人是幸福的.
Happy is he that is happy in his children.    对自己孩子感到高兴的,才是幸福的人.
Happy is he who knows his follies in his youth.    记得青年时所做的愚笨事的人是幸福的.
Happy is he who owes nothing.    无债一身轻.
Happy is the man that owes nothing.    无债一身轻.
Happy is the man who learns from the misfortunes of others.    吸取他人教训,自己才会走运。
Hard words break no bones, fine words butter no parsnips.    粗话无害,甘言无益.
Hardships never come alone.    祸不单行.
Hares may pull dead lions by the beard.    虎落平阳被犬欺.
Harm set, harm get.    自作自受.
Harm watch, harm catch.    害人反害己.
Haste makes waste.    拔苗助长.
Hasty climbers have sudden falls.    大起者有大落.
Hasty love is soon hot and soon cold.    草草率率谈恋爱,热得快也冷得快.
Hasty love, soon cold.    匆忙的爱情冷得快.
Hatred is blind as well as love.    爱情与仇恨同样是盲目的.
Have but few friends though many acquaintances.    朋友要少,熟人要多.
Hawks will not pick hawks' eyes out.    同类不相残.
He alone is happy who commands his passions.    只有控制感情的人,才会幸福.
He alone is poor who does not possess knowledge.    没有知识,才是贫穷.
He bears misery best who hides it most.    最会隐瞒痛苦者,乃是最善忍受痛苦人.
He dances well to whom fortune pipes.    鸿运来时,百事顺遂.
He deserves not the sweet that will not taste the sour.    吃过苦头,才配享受.
He dies like a beast who has done no good while he lived.    生时不做好事,死了像个畜生.
He gets it in the neck.    他大受惩罚。
He gives twice that gives in a trice.    即刻就给予,等于给两次.
He is a fool that forgets himself.    愚者忘乎所以。
He is a fool who cannot be angry, but he is a wise man who will not.    愚笨人不会发怒,聪明人不愿发怒.
He is a good friend that speaks well of us behind our backs.    背后说人好话的够朋友.
He is a good man whom fortune makes better.    好人走运人更好.
He is a wise man who speaks little.    聪明的人话不多.
He is down in the mouth.    他神色沮丧。
He is lifeless that is faultless.    人孰无过.
He is never alone that is in the company of noble thoughts.    思想崇高者,绝不会孤独.
He is not a wise man who cannot play the fool on occasion.    不能偶而装疯卖傻,就不是一个聪明人.
He is not fit to command others that cannot command himself.    正人先正己.
He is not laughed at that laughs at himself first.    自嘲者不会让人见笑。
He is rich enough who has true friends.    有真朋友的人是富翁.
He is rich enough who owes nothing.    无债就是富.
He is the wise man who is the honest man.    诚实的人就是聪明的人.
He is the wisest man who does not think himself so.    不自以为聪明的人是最聪明的人.
He is truly happy who makes others happy.    真正幸福的是使人幸福的人.
He is unfortunate who cannot bear misfortune.    不能承受不幸的就是不幸.
He is unworthy to live who lives only for himself.    为己而生,生而可耻.
He is wise that hath wit enough for his own affairs.    聪明的人有足够的才智处理自己的事情.
He is wise that is honest.    诚实者明智.
He is wise that knows when he's well enough.    知足的人是聪明的人.
He jests at scars, that never felt a wound.    富人不知穷人苦.
He knocks boldly at the door who brings good news.    彼叩门声响,必来报佳音.
He knows best what good is that has endured evil.    忍过痛受过苦,最知幸福是何物.
He knows enough that can live and hold his peace.    见多识广者沈默寡言.
He knows most who speaks least.    大智者寡于言.
He knows much who knows how to hold his tongue.    懂得缄默的是明白人.
He laughs best who laughs last.    谁笑在最后,谁笑得最好.
He lives from hand to mouth.    他的收入仅够糊口。
He lives long that lives well.    活得好等于活得长.
He lives twice who lives well.    生活得好的等于生活了两次.
He may well be contented who need neither borrow nor flatter.    一个既不用借债又不用奉承人的人,可以称得上心满意足.
He most lives who lives most for others.    活著对别人贡献最多的人,活得最有意义.
He must needs go whom the devil drives.    势在必行.
He must needs swim that is held up by the chin.    身不由己,只得从命.
He preaches best who lives best.    言教不如身教.
He sets the fox to keep the geese.    引狼入室。
He shows a clean pair of heels.    他溜之大吉。
He sticks his neck out.    他自找麻烦。
He that boasts of his own knowledge proclaims ignorance.    夸耀知识实乃无知.
He that cannot ask cannot live.    不会求者不会生.
He that climbs high falls heavily.    爬得高,跌得重.
He that commits a fault thinks everyone speaks of it.    做贼心虚.
He that converses not knows nothing.    不和人交谈的人一无所知.
He that deceives me once, shame fall him, if he deceives me twice, shame fall me.    受骗一次,别人可耻;受骗二次,自己该死.
He that doth lend, doth lose his friend.    失友都因借钱起.
He that doth most at once doth least.    想一次做完什麽事,结果一件也做不完.
He that doth what he will doth not what he ought.    为其所欲为者不为其所当为.
He that falls today may be up again tomorrow.    今天跌倒的人也许明天会站起来.
He that fears death lives not.    怕死者活不了.
He that fears every bush must never go a-birding.    疑神疑鬼,绝无收获.
He that fears you present, will hate you absent.    当面怕你的人背后会恨你.
He that gains time gains all things.    获得时间就是获得一切.
He that gains well and spends well needs no account book.    收支正当,无须记帐.
He that goes to bed thirsty rises healthy.    忍渴上床,起身健康.
He that has a full purse never wants a friend.    只要袋里有,不愁没朋友.
He that has a great nose thinks everybody is speaking of it.    做贼心虚.
He that has a tongue in his head may find his way anywhere.    遇事多问,随处可行.
He that has a wife has a master.    娶了妻娶了个主人.
He that has no children knows not what is love.    没有孩子的人,不懂什麽叫爱.
He that hath time hath life.    有时间,就有生活.
He that is angry is seldom at ease.    怒者寡宁.
He that is full of himself is very empty.    自满的人是很空虚的.
He that is ill to himself will be good to nobody.    不知自爱的人也不会爱别人.
He that is master must serve.    主人必须会服务.
He that is master of himself will soon be master of others.    能主宰自己的人不久就可以主宰别人.
He that knows not how to hold his tongue knows not how to talk.    不知缄口的不善言.
He that knows nothing, doubts nothing.    无知就无疑.
He that lies down with dogs must rise up with fleas.    近朱者赤,近墨者黑.
He that lives long suffers much.    长寿的人多忧患.
He that lives well is learned enough.    生活好者,博学多才.
He that liveth wickedly can hardly die honestly.    生而缺德,死必寡诚.
He that marries for wealth sells his liberty.    为财富而结婚就是出卖自由.
He that never climbed never fell.    不向上爬的也不会下跌.
He that never rode never fell.    不骑马就永不会从马上跌下.
He that once deceived is never suspected.    一次行诈骗,永远遇疑嫌.
He that promises too much means nothing.    轻诺必寡信.
He that returns good for evil obtains the victory.    以德报怨的人得到胜利.
He that runs fastest gets the ring.    捷足先登.
He that serves God for money will serve the devil for better wages.    求财而供神者必倍求而敬鬼.
He that spares the bad injures the good.    饶恕坏人便是伤害好人.
He that sups with the devil must have a long spoon.    与恶人交往,须特别提防.
He that talks much erre much.    言多必失.
He that talks much lies much.    多嘴的人说谎也多.
"He that touch the pitch shall be defiled.
"    近墨者黑。
He that travels far knows much.    见多识广.
He that trusts in a lie shall perish in truth.    相信谎话的人必将在真理前灭亡.
He that walks with wise men should be wise.    与智者行即得其智.
He that will eat the nut must first crack the shell.    欲所得,必先劳.
He that will have his farm full, must keep an old cock and a young bull.    要使农家富又足,必须养鸡又养牛.
He that will lie will steal.    说谎者必行窃.
He that will not work shall not eat.    不工作者不得食.
He that will steal an egg will steal an ox.    会偷蛋的,也会偷牛.
He that will swear will lie.    赌咒的人是说谎的人.
He that will take the bird must not scare it.    欲捉鸟莫惊鸟.
He that will thrive must rise at five.    五更起床,百事兴旺.
He that would command must serve.    欲做先生,先做学生.
He that would eat the fruit must climb the tree.    不劳无获.
He that would have eggs must endure the cackling of hens.    欲图逸,得先劳.
He that would know what shall be must consider what has been.    欲知未然,须思已然.
He that would live in peace and rest must hear and see, and say the best.    要想太太平平,生活安定,必须耳聪目明,善言动听.
He that would the daughter win, must with the mother first begin.    欲得女儿欢,先遂其母意.
He travels the fastest who travels alone.     单独旅行的人走得最快。
He warms too near that burns.    取暖太近火,会被火灼伤.
He who avoids temptation avoids the sin.    避诱惑,免罪恶.
He who blames one to his face is a hero, but he who backbites is a coward.    当面责人是英雄,背后中伤是懦夫.
He who buys what he does not need will often need what he cannot buy.    平时随便买,需时无钱买.
He who can suppress a moment's anger may prevent a day of sorrow.    能忍一时气,可免一日优.
He who cannot hold his peace will never live at ease.    嘴巴不紧,生活不宁.
He who denies all confesses all.    欲盖弥彰.
He who despises small things seldom grows rich.    小钱不计,大钱不聚.
He who does no good does evil enough.    不为善者即已为恶。
He who does no good, does evil enough.    好事不做,坏事做绝.
He who does not advance falls backward.    不进则退.
He who does not advance loses ground.    逆水行舟,不进则退。
He who does not gain loses.    无所得即有所失.
He who does not honour his wife, dishonours himself.    人不贵妻,自我丢脸.
He who does not rise early never does a good day's work.    起身不早,一天的工作难做好.
He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.    怕吃败仗的就要打败仗.
He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.    怕吃苦头的反因怕而吃苦头.
He who follows two hares is sure to catch neither.    追逐两只兔,两头都落空.
He who handles a nettle tenderly is soonest stung.    与恶人交往而讲仁义,必受其害.
He who has a mind to beat his dog will easily find his stick.    欲加之罪,何患无辞.
He who has done ill once will do it again.    干了一次坏事的人会再干第二次.
He who has health has hope, and he who has hope everything.    有健康即有希望,有希望即有一切。
He who has health, has hope, and he who has hope, everything.    身体好就有希望,有希望就有一切.
He who has lost his good name is a dead man among the living.    丧失好名誉,犹如活死人.
He who has lost shame is lost to all virtue.    没有廉耻心,没有好德行.
He who has no shame has no conscience.    没有廉耻的人,没有良心.
He who has not tasted bitter knows not what sweet is.    不吃苦中苦,哪知甜中甜.
He who hesitates is lost.    举棋不定,坐失良机.
He who imagines that he has knowledge enough has none.    自以为学识丰富的人是没有什麽学问的人.
He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.    害怕问者耻于学.
He who is ashamed of asking is ashamed of learning.    耻于问者耻于学.
He who is born a fool is never cured.    生成的傻子总是治不好的.
He who knows most speaks least.    懂得多的说得少.
He who laughs at crooked men should need walk very straight.    正人先正己.
He who likes borrowing dislikes paying.    爱借钱者不爱还钱.
He who lives by hope will die by hunger.    靠希望生活的人将饥饿而死.
He who lives in glass house should not throw stones.    正人先正己.
He who makes constant complaint gets little compassion.    经常诉苦抱怨,难以博得同情.
He who makes himself a dove is eaten by the hawk.    弱肉强食.
He who makes no mistakes makes nothing.    想不犯错误,就一事无成。
He who makes no mistakes, makes nothing.    不犯错误,成不了事.
He who never was sick dics the first.    永不生病的人往往一病致命.
He who overcomes his anger subdues his greatest enemy.    克制火气就是克制强敌.
He who plays with fire gets burned.    玩火者必自焚.
He who pleased everybody died before he was born.    众口难调.
He who purposes to be an author, should first be a student.    想当作家,相当学生.
He who receives a benefit should never forget it; he who bestows one should never remember it.    受惠不忘,施恩不记.
He who rides a tiger is afraid to dismount.    骑虎者难下.
He who risks nothing gains nothing.    收获与风险并存。
He who risks nothing, gains nothing.    不入虎穴,焉得虎子.
He who says what he likes shall hear what he does not like.    欢喜说他欢喜的话者将要听到他不欢喜的话.
He who sees through life and death will meet with most success.    看破生死者,大多会成功.
He who shareth honey with the bear hath the least part of it.    与熊分蜜糖,得不到多少.
He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.    讲礼貌的得友情,好心肠的得感情.
He who spends more than he should, shall not have to spare when he would.    不该花的乱花,要花时没有花.
He who stands alone has no power.    孤掌难鸣.
He who touches pitch will be difiled.    近墨者黑
He who wants a mule without fault, must walk on foot.    如要骡子无缺点,只有自己徒步行.
He who wills success is half way to it.    下定决心成功的人是成功了一半.
He who would catch fish mush not mind getting wet.    欲擒龙王,就得下海.
He who would catch fish must not mind getting wet.    [谚]要抓鱼就不要怕沾水。
He who would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom.    爬梯必须从底层开始.
He who would search for pearls must dive below.    欲寻珍珠,须潜水下.
He will always be a slave who knows not how to earn and save.    不懂挣钱和积财,只能永远当奴才.
He works best who knows his trade.    内行的人做他的事一定会做得最好.
Health and cheerfulness mutually beget each other.    健康愉快,相生相成.
Health and understanding are the two great blessing of life.    健康和融洽是人生两大幸事.
Health and wealth create beauty.    健康和财富能创造美丽。
Health does not consist with intemperance.    健康和放纵,彼此不相容.
Health is above wealth.    健康胜于财富.
Health is better than wealth.    健康胜于财富.
Health is happiness.    健康就是幸福.
Health is not valued till sickness comes.    有病方知无病乐.
Healven helps those who help themselves.     自助者天助。
Hear all parties.    兼听则明。
Heaven helps those who help themselves.    天助自助者.
Heaven never helps the man who will not act.    自己不动,叫天何用。
Heaven's vengeance is slow but sure.    天网恢恢,疏而不漏.
Hedges have eyes, and walls have ears.    篱笆有眼,隔墙有耳.
He's having a hard time.    他处境不好.
Hide nothing from thy physician.    切莫讳疾忌医.
Hide one's talents in a napkin.    埋没自己的才能.
His heart cannot be pure whose tongue is not clear.    嘴不净者心不纯.
History repeats itself.    历史本身常重演.
Hoist your sail when the wind is fair.    随机应变.
Hold (or Run) with the hare and run (or hunt) with the hounds.    两面讨好.
Hold fast when you have it.    紧握你手中之物.
Home is home, though never so homely.    不如归去.
Honest men marry soon, wise men not at all.    诚实的人马上结婚,聪明的人就不这样.
Honesty is the best policy.    诚实是上策.
Honesty may be dear bought, but can never be an ill penny-worth.    出高价买来的诚实,不会永远没有价值.
Honey is sweet, but the bee stings.    蜜糖是甜的,但蜜蜂会螫人.
Honour and profit lie not in one sack.    荣誉和利益不能并存.
Honour to whom honour is due.    荣誉归于应得荣誉的人.
Honours change manners.    荣誉能改变人的礼貌.
Hope deferred makes the heart sick.    希望迟迟未实现,使人心烦意撩乱.
Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.    作最好的希望,作最坏的打算.
Hope is a good breakfast, but a bad supper.    希望是美味的早点,但又是难咽的晚餐.
Hope is but the dream of those that wake.    希望是清醒者的梦想.
Hope is life and life is hope.    希望才有人生,人生要有希望.
Hope often deludes the foolish man.    希望常欺愚笨汉.
Hope springs eternal.    希望会产生,永远无穷尽.
How shall I do to love? Believe. How shall I do to believe? Love.    怎样对待爱情?要相信.怎样才能相信?要有爱情.
Human pride is human weakness.    骄傲是人类的弱点.
Humility is the beginning of wisdom.    智慧源于谦逊。
Humility is the foundation of all virtue.    谦逊是一切美德的基础.
Humility often gains more than pride.    谦逊往往比骄傲受益更多.
Hunger breaks stone wall.    饥饿不饶人.
Hunger fetches the wolf out of the woods.    饥饿引狼出森林.
Hunger finds no fault with the cookery.    饥不择食.
Hunger is the best sauce.    饥者口中尽佳肴.
Hunger is the best sause.     饥饿是最好的调味汁。
Hunger knows no friend.    饥难周友.
Hunger will relish the plainest fare.    饥不择食.
Hungry belies have no ears.    饥寒起盗心.
Hungry dogs will eat dirty puddings.    饥不择食.
I am behind you.    我再也肯定不过.
I am not a slave, I am not a captive, and by energy I can overcome the greater obstacles.    我不是奴隶,也不是俘虏,我有力量可以克服更大的艰难险阻.
I am not now that which I have been.    今日之我已非昔日之我.
I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.    我不仅要使自己有才智,而且也要使别人有才智.
I believe the first test of truly great man is his humility.    一个真正伟大的人,对他的第一个考验就是看他是否谦逊.
I bet my boots.    我敢打赌,保证没错。
I cannot be your friend and your flatterer too.    我不能既是你的朋友,而又对你阿?奉承.
I count myself in nothing else so happy as in a soul remem-bering my good friends.    我认为,只有在脑海中想起好朋友时我才会那样快乐.
I fear the Greeks, even when bringing gifts.    敌人献礼品,千万莫轻信.
I hate to see things done by halves. -- If it be right, do it boldly, --if it be wrong, leave it undone.    事情不要做一半;对的,就做下去,不对,就丢开.
I have no secret of success but hard work.    成功无秘诀,只是努力干.
I just couldn't help it.    我就是忍不住.
I know him not should I meet him in my pottage dish.    酒肉之交非朋友.
I know no such thing as genius, it is nothing but labour and diligence.    是上无天才,勤学加苦练.
I might say that success is won by three things: first, effort; second, more effort; third, still more effort.    成功之道唯三点∶努力、努力、再努力.
I now know that wars do not end wars.    如今我才弄明白,干戈不能化玉帛.
I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country.    我抱憾的是,只有一次生命能献给祖国.
I regard that man as lost, who has lost his sense of shame.    我认为,人丧失了廉耻就完了.
I say little but I think the more.    我说得少,但我想得多.
I slept, and dreamt that life was Beauty, I woke, and found that life was Duty.    睡时梦觉生活是美事,醒来发现生活是责任.
I succeeded because I willed it; I never hesitated.    我成功是因为有决心,从不犹豫.
I turned up my nose at him.    我对他嗤之以鼻。
I was born anAmerican; I live an American; I shall die an American.    我生下来是美国人,活著是美国人,死时也是美国人.
I wept when I was born,, and every day shows why.    我生下时啼哭,后来每天的生活说明了为什麽.
I would rather be a poor man in a garret with plenty of good books to read than a king who did not love reading    宁为穷汉住搁楼,拥有好书任我读,不愿身居帝王位,纵有好书不爱读.
I would rather have the affectionate regard of my fellow men than I would have heaps and mines of gold.    我宁愿得到人们的深情至爱,而不愿黄金成雄.
Ideals are like the stars -- we never reach them, but like mariners, we chart our course by them.    理想好像星星,不能摘到,但我们犹如水手,可借它指引航向.
Idle folks have most labour.    懒汉总嫌活太多.
Idle folks lack no excuses.    懒汉辩解,何患无词.
Idle young, needy old.    少壮不努力,老大徒伤悲.
Idleness is the key of beggary, and the root of all evil.    懒惰是行乞的敲门砖,是万恶的根源.
Idleness is the root (or mother) of all evil (or sin or vice).    懒惰是万恶之源.
Idleness is the rust of the mind.    懒惰使脑子生锈.
Idleness rusts the mind.    懒惰使人的头脑迟钝.
If a donkey bray at you, don't bray at him.    傻瓜惹著你,你别跟他缠.
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 a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him.    如果倒空钱袋,装入脑袋,那就无人能够把钱夺走.
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certaintics.    如果以肯定开始,必将以怀疑告终;如果愿以怀疑开始,必将以肯定告终.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.    初试不成功,努力勿懈怠.
If doctors fail thee, be these three thy doctors; rest, cheerful-ness, and moderate diet.    如果医药不能帮助,那麽注意三件事∶休息,愉快,饮食调和.
If each would sweep before his own door, we should have a clean city (or street).    众擎易举.
If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of itself.    注意好品行,自有美名声.
If it is not right, do not do it; if it is not true, do not say it.    不正确的事不做,不真实的话不说.
If it were not for hope, the heart would break.    人是靠希望活著的.
If matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.    重要的并不在于一个人怎样死,而是在于他怎样生.
If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.    不做金钱的主人,就会做金钱的奴隶.
If nobody loves you, be sure it is your own fault.    如果没有人爱你,肯定是你自己有问题.
If one desires to succeed in anything, he must pay the price.    如果想做成点事,就得付出代价一干.
If the beard were all, the goat might preach.    如果有了需就什麽都行,那麽山羊也可以说教了.
If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.    问道于盲,无益于事.
If the cap fits, wear it.     帽子若适合你,就戴上吧。
If the counsel be good no matter who gave it.    只要忠告中肯,谁提都行.
If the eye do no admire, the heart will not desire.    眼不馋,心不贪.
If the old dog barks, he gives counsel.    如果老狗叫,他是给忠告.
If the pills were pleasant, they would not be gilded.    丸药不苦不会加糖衣.
If the sky fll (or falls), we shall catch larks.    异想天开
If there be neither snow nor rain, then will be dear all sorts of grain.    雨雪不调,五谷价高.
If there were no clouds, we should not enjoy the sun.    吃得苦中苦,方知甜中甜.
If they say you are good, ask yourself if it be ture.    若有人称赞你,要自问对不对.
If things were to be done twice all would be wise.    事事倘能做两次,人人都可称明智.
If thou injurest conscience, it will have its revenge on thee.     伤害良心,将受到良心的严惩。
If two men ride on a horse, one must ride behind.    两人同骑一马,必有一人在后.
If we are bound to forgive an enemy we are not bound to trust him.    如果我们决定宽恕一个敌人,但决不能相信他.
If we cannot get what we like, we have to like what we can get.    随遇而安.
If wise men play the fool, they do it with a vengeance.    智者干傻事,愚蠢到极点.
If wishes were horses, beggars might ride.    愿望不等于事实.
If you agree to carry the calf, they'll make you carry the cow.    得寸进尺.
If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself; if you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.    运气太好,得意忘形;运气太坏,无人理会.
If you can be well without health you may be happy without virtue.    如果不健康而能强强壮壮,那麽无美德也可快快乐乐.
If you cannot bite, never show your teeth.    不能打仗,切莫出兵.
If you cannot have the best, make the best of what you have.    如果你不能有最好的,你就充分利用你现有的吧.
If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.    倘君指挥有方,人人欣然听命.
If you confer a benefit, never remember it; if you receive one, remember it always.    施恩勿记,受恩勿忘.
If you dance you must pay the fiddler.    要想寻欢作乐,代价非付不可.
If you don't aim high you will never hit high.    不立大志,难攀高峰.
If you have no hand, you cannot make a fist.    巧妇难为无米之炊.
If you lie upon roses when young, you'll lie upon thorns when old.    年青时躺在玫瑰上,老年时就会躺在荆棘上.
If you live with a lame person, you will learn to limp.    远朱者赤,近墨者黑.
If you make yourself an ass, don't complain if people ride you.    人善被人欺,马善被人骑。
If you remove stone by stone, even a mountain will be levelled.    一块一块把石移,高山也可变平地.
If you run after two hares, you will catch neither.    脚踏两条船,必定落空。
If you run after two heares, you will catch neither.    两头落空.
If you sell the cow, you sell her milk too.    蚀了本也输了利.
If you swear you will catch no fish.    咒骂无益,于事无济.
If you trust before you try, you may repent before you die.    不试就相信,死前要悔恨.
If you venture nothing, you will have nothing.    不入虎穴,焉得虎子。
If you want a pretence to whip a dog, say that he ate the frying-pam.    欲加之罪,何患无辞.
If you want a thing (well) done, do it yourself.    要想做好事情,就要自己动手.
If you want knowledge, you must toil for it.    要想求知,就得吃苦。
If you want knwledge, you must toil for it.    若要求知识,必须刻苦学习.
If you want peace, prepare for war.     欲求和平必先备战。
If you wish for peace, be prepared for war.    想要和平,必须备战.
If you wish good advice, consult an old man.    如要忠告向老人请教.
If you would build for your happiness a sure foundation, let the stone for the corner be a good reputation.    若想为快乐奠立可靠的基础,美好的名声便是奠基的石头.
If you would have a good wife marry one who has been a good daughter.    想得贤妻子,须娶好女儿.
If you would have a thing well done, do it yourself.    如要是情做得好,你须亲自动手搞.
If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some, for the that goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing.    欲知金钱价,不妨把钱借;借钱味难尝,使人心悲伤.
If you would make an enemy, lend a man money and ask it of him again.    你若想与人成仇结怨,只要借钱给人再催还.
If your ears glow, someone is talking of you.    耳朵发烧,有人念叨。
Ignorance is the mother of impudence.    厚颜无耻由于愚昧无知.
Ignorance is the mother of suspicions.    无知会多疑.
Ignorance of the law excuses no man.    对法律不知不能免罪.
Ill (or Evil) gotten, ill (or evil) spent.    悖入悖出.
Ill air slays sooner thant the sword.    污浊的空气杀人比刀还要快.
Ill news comes space.    恶事传千里.
Ill news flies fast.    恶事传千里.
Ill news never comes too late    坏消息来得快.
Ill news travels fast.    坏事传千里.
Ill-gotten goods never prosper.    发横财,家不发
Ill-gotten wealth never thrives.    悖入悖出.
I'm hard up.    我经济很困难.
I'm really dead.    我真要累死了.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.    想像力比知识更重要.
Imagination is sometimes more vivid than reality.    想像有时比现实生动得多.
Improve your time and your time will improve you.    珍惜时间,时间才会珍惜你.
In a calm sea, every man is a pilot.    平静的海上易驶船.
In a great river great fish are found; but take heed lest you be drowned.    发现大河有大鱼,可得注意别溺毙.
In all things, it is better to hope than to despair.    凡事抱希望为佳,不应悲观而失望.
In an enemy spots are soon seen.    敌人的缺点容易找.
In books, are embalmed the greatest thoughts of all ages.    历代最伟大的思想都载入史册而不朽.
In doing we learn.    行而知.
In every beginning think of the end.    思前顾后.
In every country dogs bite.    天下的狗都要咬人.
In every rank, great or small, 'Tis industry supports us all.    不论高的低的各级人士,所持的都是勤劳.
In for a penny, in for a pound    一不做,二不休.
In good years corn is hay, in ill years straw is corn.    丰年五谷贱如草,荒年稻草贵如粮.
In life, as in chess, forethought wins    人生如下棋,多谋得胜利.
In life's earnest battle they only prevail, who daily march onward and never say fail.    在人生的搏斗中,只有日日前进不甘失败的人,才能获胜.
In moderating, not satisfying, desires, lies peace.    节欲不纵情,心情得安宁.
In prosperity caution, in adversity patience.    处顺境时要小心,处逆境时要耐心.
In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.    顺利时要快乐,不利时要思索.
In the deepest water is the best fishing.    绝处能逢生.
In the election of a wife, as in a project of war, to err but once is to be undone for ever.    选择妻子也象策画战争,一时之错将成终身之恨.
In the end things will mend.    船到桥头自会直.
In the evening one may praise the day.    入夜方能赞美白昼.
In the grave the rich and poor lie equal.    人到黄泉,贫富同眠.
In the kingdom of blind men the one-eyed man is king.    盲人国里,独眼称王.
In the mirror we see the face; in wine, the heart.    明镜照容颜,醇酒见人心.
In the multitude of counsellors there is safety.    谋士多,保安全.
In the world, who knows not to swim goes to the bottom.    处世似游泳,不会即下沈.
In time of peace prepare for war.    居安思危.
In time of prosperity, friends will be plenty; In time of adversity, not one amongst twenty.    富在深山有远亲,穷在闹市无人问.
In water you may see your own face; in wine, the heart of another    水中可见自己的脸,酒中可见别人的心.
In wine there is truth.    酒后吐真言.
In youth the hours are golden in mature years they are silver, in old age they are leaden.    青年时代是黄金的,壮年时代是白银的,老年时代是灰铅的.
Industry if fortune's right hand, and frugality her left.    勤勉是幸福的右手,节俭是幸福的左手.
Industry is the parent of success.    勤奋是成功之母。
Industry keeps the body healthy, the mind clear, the heart whole, the purse full.    勤奋使身体健康,使心情开朗,使思想专注,使经济充裕.
Interest will not lie.    兴趣不会说谎.
It costs an arm and a leg.    它贵得要命。
It is a good horse that never stumbles.    良马不失蹄.
It is a good tongue that says no ill, and a better heart that thinks none.    善心不想坏事,好舌不出恶声.
It is a great art to laugh at your own misfortune.    对己之不幸付之一笑,这是一门伟大的艺术.
It is a long lane that has no turning.    路必有弯.
It is a poor heart that never rejoices.    不知世间有乐者最可怜.
It is a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait.    智者不上两回当。
It is a silly fish, that is caught twice with the same bait.    蠢人才吃两次亏.
It is a silly goose that comes to the fox's sermon.    只有呆鹅才去听狐狸说教.
It is a small flock that has not a black sheep.    家家难免有败类.
It is a wise father that knows his own child.    父贤知其子.
It is an equal failing to trust everybody and trust nobody.    信任任何人和不信任任何人,同样是缺点.
It is an evil sign too see a fox lick a lamb.    狐狸舔羔羊,这是凶迹象.
It is an ill bird that fouls its own nest.    家丑不可外扬.
It is better to be alone than in bad company.    无友要比交坏友好.
It is better to be clothed in rags, than to be clothed with shame.    宁可穿破衣,不可蒙羞耻.
It is better to be safe than sorry.    事后追悔不如事前稳妥.
It is better to die when life is a disgrace.    宁为玉碎,不为瓦全。
It is better to do well than to say well.    理论好不如实际好.
It is better to fight for good than to rail at the ill.    与其抱怨,不如积善.
It is better to please a fool than to anger him.    惹得傻瓜发火,不如使他快活.
It is better to wear out than to rust out.    与其锈掉,不如用坏.
It is dangerous crisis when a proud heart meets with flattering lips    骄傲的心碰上献媚的嘴,是最危险不过的.
It is dogged (that) does it.    天下无难事,只怕有心人.
It is easier to descend than to ascend.    下降容易上升难.
It is easier to get money than to keep it.    挣钱容易攒钱难。
It is easier to give good counsel than to follow it.    提出忠告易,照著办事难.
It is easier to pull down than build.    败事容易成事难.
It is easier to raise the devil than to lay him.    养虎易,驯虎难.
It is easy to be wise after the event.    当事后诸葛亮容易.
It is easy to learn something about everything, but difficult to learn everything about anything.    对每一件事知道一些是容易的,对任何一件事详细知道是困难的.
It is easy to open a shop but hard to keep it always open.    开设店铺易,维持常开难.
It is easy to prophesy after the event.    事后诸葛亮,预言顶便当.
It is easy to swim if another holds up your head.    有人扶着头,容易学游泳。
It is good fishing in troubled waters.    混水之中好摸鱼.
It is good to be merry at meal.    席间心情愉快是为上策.
It is good to have friends in trouble.    在患难时得到朋友是幸运的.
It is good to learn at another man's cost.    前车之覆,后车之鉴.
It is hard to please all parties.    取悦各方,谈何容易.
It is hard to please all.    众口难调。
It is hard to teach an old dog tricks.    人老则守旧。
It is harder to marry a daughter well than to bring her up well.    养女容易嫁女难.
It is impossible that a man who is false to his friends should be true to his country.    对朋友不义,不可能对国家效忠.
It is more blessed to give than to receive.    施恩比受惠更有福.
It is more pain to do nothing than something.    什麽都不做要比做一点更不好受.
It is my own fault if I am deceived by the same man twice.    在同一个人那里上两次当只能怪自己.
It is never too old to learn.    活到老,学到老。
It is no honour for an eagle to vanquish a dove.    老鹰胜鸽,不足为荣.
It is no use crying over spilt milk.    泼水难收.
It is not every couple that is a pair.    成双并非皆配偶.
It is not helps, but obstaceles, not facilities but difficulties, that make men.    造就人的,不是帮助,而是磨难,不是方便,而是困难.
It is not how long but how well we live.    问题不是活得长不长而是活得好不好.
It is not shame for a man to learn that which he knows not, whatever be his age.    一个人不论年龄多大,都要学习不懂的东西,这不是羞耻.
It is not the beard that makes the philosopher.    并不是一个人长了胡子,就可以成为哲学家。
It is not the coat that makes the gentleman.    衣服不能使人成为君子。
It is not the gay coat that makes the gentleman.    君子在德不在衣.
It is not work that kills, but worry.    劳动不伤人,忧虑才伤人.
It is one thing to speak much and another to speak pertinently.    话讲得多是一回事,讲得恰当是另一回事.
It is right to put everything in its proper use.    凡事都应该用得其所.
It is the first step that costs troublesome.    万事开头难。
It is the first step that costs.    万事开头难.
It is the general rule, that all superior men inherit the elements ofsuperiority from their mother.    一切优秀的人通常都从他们母亲那里继承优良的因素.
It is the nature of every man to err, but only the fool perseveres in the error.    人总不免要犯错误,只有蠢人才坚持不改.
It is the nature of folly to see the faults of others and forget his own.    愚蠢的本质是只看到别人的错处而忘却了自己的过失.
It is the peculiarity of knowledge that those who really thirst for it always get it.    只要真正渴求知识,都能得到,这是知识的特点.
It is the unforeseen that always happens.    天有不测风云,人有旦夕祸福。
It is too late to cast anchor when the ship is on the rock.    船触礁后在抛锚,为时已经太晚了.
It is too late to come with the water when the house is burnt down.    马后炮.
It is too late to grieve when the chance is past.    坐失良机,后悔已迟。
It is too late to lock the stable door when the steed is stolen.    贼出关门.
It is wisdom sometimes to seem a fool.    大智若愚.
It matters not how long we live but how.    问题不是活得多麽长,而是活得怎麽样.
It never rains but it pours.    祸不单行.
It suits our palate.    它正合我们的口味。
It takes all sorts to make a world.    万千事物,形成世界.
It takes three generations to make a gentleman.    十年树木,百年树人。
It takes two to make a quarrel.    要有两个人才吵得起来.
It’s a day after the fair.    错过良机,为时已晚。
"It’s dogged that does it.
"    世上无难事,只怕有心人。
It’s never too late to mend.    亡羊补牢,犹为未晚。
It’s no use crying over spilt milk.    覆水难收。
It's a good horse that never stumbles, A good wife that never grumbles.    良马不失蹄,贤妻不聒絮.
It's a poor heart that never rejoices.    不知人间有乐趣者最可怜.
It's a poor mouse that has only on hole.    鼠只有一洞,必先把命送.
It's all Greek to me.    我全不懂.
It's easy to fall into a trap, but hard to get out again.    堕入陷阱易,脱离陷阱难.
It's hard sailing when there is no wind.    没有风难航行.
It's no use pumping a dry well.    徒劳无益.
It's not the gay coat that makes the gentleman.    君子重德不重衣.
Jack is making a meal out of a simple job.    杰克小题大作。
Jack of all trades and master of none.    什麽都会,样样不精
Jack of all trades is of no trade.    万事皆通,一无所长.
Jadge not a book by its cover.    人不可貌相.
Jest with an ass and he will flap you in the face with his tail.    你跟驴子开玩笑,将被驴尾打耳光.
Joy and sorrow are next-door neighbours.    是喜是忧难以分.
Joy often comes after sorrow, like morning after night.    暮去必将朝至,苦尽常会甜来.
Joy shared with others are more enjoyed.    与人同乐,其乐无穷.
Judge not according to the appearance.    不要以貌取人.
Judge not from appearances.    人不可貌相,海不可斗量。
Judge not of men and things at first sight.    审人论事宜谨慎,一见之下莫断定.
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。
Keep good men company, and you shall be of the number.    近朱者赤.
Keep some till more come.    更多的到手以前,要保持手里的一点.
Keep thing seven years and you will find a use for it.    备而不用.
Keep your breath to cool your porridge.    少管闲事.
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.    婚前张开眼,婚后半闭月.
Keep your mouth shut and your ears open.    多听少讲。
Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open.    要多看少说.
Keeping is harder than winning.    创业不易,守业更难.
Kill the goose that laid the golden egg.    杀鸡取蛋
Kill two birds with one stone.    一箭双雕。
Kind hearts are more than coronets.    善良的心灵胜于显贵的地位.
Kind hearts are the gardens; kind thoughts are the roots; kind words are the flowers; kind deeds are the fruits.    善良的心是花园,善良的思想是根径,善良的话语是花朵,善良的行动就是果子。
Kind words are the music of the world.    善言是世上的音乐.
Kind words are worth much and cost little.    口头方便不费力.
Kind words butter no parsnips.    画饼充饥.
Kindness always begets kindness.    善有善根.
Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.    善良是连结社会的金链.
Kindness is the language that the deaf can hear and the dumb understand.    善良为语言,聋子能天见哑巴懂心间.
Kindness is the sunshine of social life.    仁慈是社会生活中的阳光.
Kindness will creep where it may not go.    仁慈可进入任何禁地.
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。
Kinsman helps kinsman, but woe to him that hath nothing.    亲帮亲,邻帮邻,无亲无助你倒霉.
Knavery may serve, but honestyis best.    欺诈可能得计,但诚实总是上策.
Knock, and the door shall be opened.    只要敲门,就会有人来开。
Know something like the palm of one's hand.    熟知其事,了如指掌.
Know something of everything and everything of something.    既要有一般常识,又要有专业知识.
Know thyself.    知道你自己.
Knowledge advances by steps not by leaps.    知识的获得是循序渐进而不是突飞猛进的.
Knowledge comes from diligence.    知识源于勤奋。
Knowledge comes from experience alone.    知识来自经验.
Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.    知识是一座宝库,实践是打开宝库的钥匙.
Knowledge is of two kinds, we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.    知识有两种,一种是我们自己知道的东西,另一种是知道哪里可以找到有关的资料.
Knowledge is power.    知识就是力量.
Knowledge is the antidote to fear.    知识可以解除恐惧.
Knowledge is the most precious treasure of all things, because it can never be given away, nor stolen nor consumed.    知识是万物中最珍贵的财宝,丢不掉,偷不走,也不会损耗.
Knowledge makes humble, ignorance makes proud.    博学使人谦逊,无知使人骄傲。
Knowledge makes humble; ignorance makes proud.    知识令人谦虚;无知使人骄傲.
Knowledge makes one laugh, but wealth makes one dance.    知识使人笑逐言开,财富使人手舞足蹈。
Knowledge will not be aquired without pain and application.    不花力气,不下功夫是得不到知识的.
Knowledge without practice makes but half an artist.    只有知识而无实践,只能造就半瓢水的艺术家.
Labour is light where love doth pay.    爱情作酬报,劳苦必轻松.
Labour is often the father of pleasure.    勤劳常为快乐之源.
Labour is the capital of our working men.    劳动力是劳动人民的资本.
Late repentance is seldom true.    后悔少有诚意.
Laugh and grow fat.    心宽体胖.
Laugh at your ills, And save doctors' bills.    生病不忧虑,节省医药费.
Laugh before breakfast you'll cry before supper.    乐极生悲.
Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone.    你笑,人人陪你笑;你哭,惟独你自哭.
Law makers should not be law breakers.    正人先正己.
Laws catch flies but let hornets go free.    法网只捉苍蝇,不捉黄蜂.
Lawsuits consume time, and money, and rest, and friends.    诉讼将消耗时间、金钱、休息和失去朋友.
Lazy folks take the most pains.    懒汉多吃苦.
Learn and live.    活着,为了学习。
Learn not and know not.    不学无术。
Learn to creep before you leap.    循序渐进.
Learn to say before you sing.    按部就班.
Learn to suffer without complaining; that is the best thing I can teach you.    要学会受痛苦而不怨,这是我教你的至要之事.
Learn to walk before you run.    循序渐进.
"Learn to walk before you run.
"    人要学走,先得学爬。
Learn wisdom by the follies of others.    要从别人的愚行中学到聪明.
Learn young, learn fair.    学习趁年轻,既学就学好.
Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.    学问在得意时是装饰品,失意时是庇护所,年老时是供应品.
Learning is the eye of the mind.    知识是心灵的慧眼。
Learning is wealth to the poor, an honour to the rich, an aid to the young, and a support and comfort to the aged.    学问是穷人的财富,是富人的荣誉,是青年的帮助,是老年的支持和安慰.
Learning makes a good man better and ill man worse.    知识能使好人更好,坏人更坏.
Learning without thought is labor lost.    学而不思,白费力气。
Learning without thought is labour lost; thought without learning is perilous.    学而不思则罔,思而不学则殆.
Least said, soonest mended.    多说反坏事.
Lend your money and lose your friend.    赔了夫人又折兵.
Let beggars match with beggars.    龙配龙,凤配凤.
Let bygones be bygones.    既往不昝.
Let difficulties occur but not the loss of courage.    纵使困难重重,也不丧失勇气.
Let every man praise the bridge he goes over.    饮水思源.
Let every man speak well of the bridge theat carries him over.    饮水思源.
Let every tub stand on its own bottom.    各人管各人自己.
Let not the cobbler go beyond his last.    安分守己.
Let not the sun go down upon thy wrath.    日落之前,平息你的怒火吧.
Let our object be our courtry, our whole country, and nothing but our country.    我们的心目中要有国家,要有整个国家,而且只有我们的国家别如其他.
Let sleeping dogs lie.    不要惹事生非.
Let the cat out of the bag.    泄漏天机。
Let the cobbler stick to his last.    安分守己.
Let the dead bury the dead.    往事不重提.
Let the hands get busy, not the mouth.    手要勤劳,嘴莫多说.
Let things take their course.    听其自然.
Let your yea be yea and your nay be nay.    是就是,非就非.
Let's cross the bridge when we come to it.    既来之,则安之.
Liars have need of good memories.    谎言者要有好的记忆力.
Liars should have good memories.    说谎的人应有好的记性.
Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by law.    自由就是做法律许可做的事情的权力.
Liberty is not licence.    自由不是放纵.
Liberty often degenerates into lawlessness.    自由随便,经常堕落到无法无天.
Lie in (oron) the bed one has made.    自作自受.
Lies can never changes fact.    谎言终究是谎言。
Lies have short legs.    谎言是站不住脚的.
Life if made up of little things.    生活是由琐事构成的.
Life is a battle from cradle to grave.    人生是一场从生到死的战斗.
Life is a comedy to him who thinks and a tragedy to him who feels.    对善思考者,人生为喜剧;对凭感觉者,人生为悲剧.
Life is a flower of which love is the honey.    人生是花朵,爱情是花蜜.
Life is a shuttle    生活犹如梭子.
Life is but a span.    人生如朝露.
Life is compared to a voyage.    人生好比一次航程。
Life is compared to voyage.    人生好比是航海.
Life is for one generation, a good name is forever.    生命只有一代之久,而美名永存于世。
Life is great if you don’t weaken.    有了坚强意志,生活才有意义。
Life is half spent before we know what it is.    等到认识人生,已经一半过去了.
Life is like the moon: now dark, now full.    生活如同月亮,时有阴晴圆缺。
Life is long if you know how to use it.    如果懂得好好利用,生命就长了.
Life is made up of little things.    生活是由许多琐事构成的。
Life is measured by thought and action, not by time.    生命的价值是用思想和行为来衡量的,而不是寿命的长短.
Life is not a bed of roses.    人生并非处处鸟语花香。
Life is not all beer and skittles.    人生并不全是吃喝玩乐.
Life is not all roses.    人生并不是康庄大道。
Life is not so short but there is time enougn for courtesy.    人生虽短,但表示礼貌的时间还是足够的.
Life is short and time is fleeting    人生短暂,光阴易逝.
Life is sweet.    生命是甜美的。
Life means struggle.    生活就是斗争。
Life without a friend is death without a witness.    在世无朋友,死后无证人.
Life without a friend is death.    没有朋友,虽生犹死。
Life, to be worthy of a rational being, must be always in progression.    人生必须永远前进,才不愧为有理智的人.
Light troubles speak; great troubles are silent.    小困难,大声叫嚷;大困难,闷生不响.
Lightly come, lightly go.    易得易失.
Like a rat in a hole.    瓮中之鳖。
Like attracts like.    物以类聚.
Like author, like book.    书如其人.
Like begets like.    有其父必有其子.
Like cow, like calf.    有其父必有其子.
Like cures like.    以毒攻毒.
Like draws to like the whole world over.    物以类聚,世间皆如此.
Like draws to like.    物以类聚.
Like father, like son.    有其父必有其子.
Like for like.    一报还一报。
Like knows like.    英雄识英雄.
Like mother, like daughter.    有其母必有其女.
Like teacher, like pupil.    有其师必有其徒.
Like tree, like fruit.    有其因必有其果.
Littel chips light great fires.    星星之火,可以燎原.
Little and little and bit by bit.    一点一滴,积沙成塔。
Little boats must keep the shores.    小船不能航行远.
Little bodies may have great souls.    小小的躯体会有伟大的心灵.
Little pigeons can carry great messages.    少年也可以成大事.
Little pitchers have a big ears.    小孩子耳朵尖。
Little pitchers have great (or large) ears.    小孩子耳朵长.
Little strokes fell great oaks.    水滴石穿.
"Little strokes fell great oaks.
"    滴水穿石。
Little thieves are hanged, but great one's escape.    窃钩者诛,窃国者侯.
Little things amuse little minds.    小人志卑.
Little things please little minds.    胸无大志,事事称心。
Little wealth, little care.    财少寡忧.
Live and learn.    活到老,学到老。
"Live and learn.
"    活到老,学到老。
Live and let live.    自己生活,也要让他人生活.
Live not to eat, but eat to live.    不要为了吃饭活着,而要为了活着吃饭。
Live to learn and learn to live.    生而学之,学而生之.
Living without an aim is like sailing without a compass.    生活没有目标,犹如航海没有罗盘.
Lock the stable door before the steed is stolen.    马未偷走前,厩门先锁上.
Loftiest trees most dread the thunder.    树大招风.
Long absent, soon forgotten.    长久不在的人,很快被忘怀.
Long tarrying takes all the thanks away.    事情耽搁太久就没有人会感谢了.
Look at the world through rose-coloured glasses.    对万事要乐观.
Look before you leap.    摸清情况再行动。
Look before you leap; see before you go.    三思而行.
Look for a needle in a bundle (or bottle) of hay.    海底捞月.
Look not for musk in dog's kennel.    狗嘴里吐不出象牙.
"Look on both sides of the shield.
"    看问题要表里俱到。
Lookers-on see more than players.    旁观者清.
Lookers-on see most of the games.    旁观者清.
Lose not time; be always employed in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions.    不要浪费时间,做些有益的事情,停止一切不必要的行动.
Losers are always in the wrong.    失败者总是错的.
Losses make us more cautious    损失使人更谨慎.
Lost time is never found again, and what we call time enough always proves little enough.    时间一去不再来,我们常说时间充足,实际.总是不够.
Lost time is never found again.    岁月既往,一去不回。
Lost wealth can be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone for ever.    
Love all, trust a few, be false to none.    要爱一切人,相信少数人,不要负于任何人.
Love and business teach eloquence.    爱情和买卖可以培养口才.
Love and cough cannot be hid.    爱情和咳嗽是不能掩饰的.
Love and poverty are hard to hide.    爱和穷难隐瞒.
Love asks faith, and faith asks firmness.    爱情要求忠诚,而忠诚要求坚贞.
Love at first sight.    一见钟情。
Love begets love.    爱爱相生.
Love can turn the cottage into a golden palace.    爱情可使茅屋成为金碧辉煌的宫殿.
Love cannot be compelled.    爱情不能强求。
Love cannot be forced    爱情不强求.
Love comes by looking.    情人眼里出西施.
Love does much, money does everything (ormore).    爱情做许多事,金钱做任何事.
Love fears no danger.    爱情不怕危险.
Love grows with obstacles.    磨折越多,爱情越深.
Love is a sweet torment.    爱情是一种甜蜜的折磨.
Love is a sweet tyranny, because the lover endures his torment willingly.    爱情是甜蜜的虐政,情人心甘情愿地受它的折磨.
Love is blind.    爱情是盲目的.
Love is full of trouble.    爱情多烦恼.
Love is like the moon; when it does not increase it decreases.    爱情像月亮,不营即亏.
Love is never without jealousy.    爱情莫不忌妒.
Love is not to be found in the market.    爱情在市场上是找不到的.
Love is sweet in the beginning but sour in the ending.    爱情始甜而终苦.
Love is the mother oflove.    爱产生爱情.
Love is the reward of love.    爱情就是爱的报答.
Love is the touchstone of virtue.    爱情是美德的试金石.
Love is the true price of love.    爱情只能用爱情来报答.
Love is without reason.    爱情是没理智的.
Love laughs at locksmith    春闺锁不住.
Love lives in cottages as well as in courts.    爱情无贵贱,贫负皆有之.
Love looks with telescope; envy with microscope.    爱情大处著眼,忌妒吹毛求疵.
Love makes all equal.    恋爱不分贵贱.
Love makes all hard hearts gentle.    爱情把一切冷酷的心变得温柔.
Love makes obedience easy.    爱情使服从变为易事.
Love makes one fit for any work.    爱情使人适合任何工作.
Love makes the world go round.    爱情使世界运转.
Love me little and love me long.    不求情意浓,但愿情义长.
Love me, love my dog.    爱屋及乌.
Love needs no teaching.    爱情无需教导.
Love not at the first look.    切莫一见钟情.
Love rules his kingdom without a word.    维持爱情,不用强力.
Love rules without a sword and bind without a cord.    爱的统治不用刀枪,捆绑不用绳索.
Love should not be all on one side.    爱情不应是单方面的.
Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.    追求而得的爱情固然美好,但不经追求而得的爱情更为美好.
Love thy neighbours as thyself.    爱邻如爱己.
Love understands love; it needs no talk.    爱情可以意会,无需言传.
Love will find out the way.    爱情会自找出路.
Love your neighbour, yet pull not down your hedge.    爱你的左邻右舍,但不要拆去你们之间的藩篱.
Lovers live by love, as larks live by leeks.    情侣靠爱情生活,正像云雀靠韭葱生活一样.
Lying is the first step to the gallows.    说谎是上断头台的第一步.
Lying rides upon debt's back.    负债的人谎话多.
Maidens should (or must) be mild and meek, swift to hear and slow to speak.    少女应温良谦恭,敏于听而慎于言.
Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can.    尽力而为,尽力节约,尽力施舍.
make fish of one and fowl/flesh of another.    厚此薄彼。
Make haste slowly.    从容赶急.
Make hay while the sun shines.    趁热打铁.
Make money your servant, not your master.    要让金钱做你的仆人,不要让它做你的主人。
Make the best of a bad bargain.    "善处逆境

"
Make the best of a bad business (or job or bargain)    身处山穷水尽,力争柳暗花明.
Make the night night, and the day day, and you will have a pleasant time of it.    白天当白天,夜晚当夜晚,生活过得好,愉快而多欢.
Make your enemy your friend.    要化敌为友.
Make yourself necessary to someone.    使你有益于人.
Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.    只有人,生下时啼哭,活著时抱怨,去世时失望.
Man has not a greater enemy than himself.    人之大敌,自己而已.
Man is a tool-using animal.    人是用器之兽.
Man is mortal.    人生谁无死.
Man is not the creature of circumstances; circumstances are the creature of man.    并非时势造人,而是人造时势.
Man is the artificer of his own happiness.    人之幸福,自己创造.
Man is the soul of the universe.    人是万物之灵。
Man proposes and God disposes.    谋事在人,成事在天。
Man proposes, God disposes.    谋事在天,成事在人.
Man struggles upwards; water flows downwards.    人往高处走,水往低处流。
Manners make the man.    礼貌造就人.
Man's best plans often miscrarry.    神机妙算,常常失算.
Man's best possession is a loving wife.    男人最可贵的是有一个贤淑的妻子.
Many a fine dish has nothing on it.    虚有其表.
Many a flower is born to blush unseen.    有许多花儿生来就开著没有人欣赏.
Many a good cow hath a bad calf.    虎父生犬子.
Many a good father hath but a bad son.    好父亲偏生不肖子.
Many a little (or pickle) makes a mickle.    积少成多.
Many a true word is spoken in jest.    戏言寓真理.
Many ants kill the horse.    蚁多可杀马.
Many dishes make many diseases.    少吃多滋味,多吃坏肠胃。
Many dishes, many diseases.    多吃多病.
Many drops makes a shower.    积少成多.
Many great men have arisen from humble beginnings.    有许多伟人出身卑微.
Many hands are better than one.    众擎易举.
Many hands make a burden lighter.    众擎易举.
Many hands make light (or quick) work.    人多活儿轻.
Many hands make light work.    众人拾柴火焰高。
Many have suffered for talking, none ever suffered for keeping silence.    多言吃苦,缄默少祸.
Many heads are better than one.    集思广益.
Many kiss the baby for the nurse's sake.    醉翁之意不在酒.
Many men, many minds.    人多意见多.
Many one says well that thinks ill.    口蜜腹剑者不乏其人.
Many receive advice only the wise profit by it.    聆忠言者众,智者独获益.
Many sands will sink a ship.    积沙沈船.
Many small make a great.    积少成多。
Many straws may bind an elephant.    草多可缚象.
Many things grow in the garden that were never sown there.    有心栽花花不发,无心插柳柳成荫。
Many wells, many buckets.    井多吊桶也多.
Many words cut (or hurt) more than swords.    恶语伤人胜刀见.
March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb.    三月来如雄狮,去如绵羊.
Marriaage is the bloom or blight of all men's happiness.    结婚是人生的幸福花朵开放的时候,也可能是凋谢的时候.
Marriage comes by destiny.    姻缘命中定.
Marriage goes by contrasts.    夫妻之间难免有差异.
Marriage is a lottery with more blanks than prizes.    结婚如同摸彩票,空票多而中票少.
Marriage is a lottery.    婚姻是一件难于预料的事.
Marriage makes or mars a man.    婚姻能成全人也能损害人.
Marriage! Nothing else demands so much from a man!    结婚!没有什麽比结婚对人要求更多的了.
Marry in haste, and repent at leisure.    草率结婚后悔多.
Marry in lent, and you'll live to repent.    借债结婚,后悔一生.
Marry your son when you will, your daughter when you .    给儿子娶亲,想在什麽时候皆可;把女儿嫁人要在有力量时才行.
Master should be soetimes blind and sometimes deaf.    不痴不聋,不作阿家翁.
Measure another's corn by one's own bushel.    以己度人.
Measure for measure.    针锋相对。
Measure thrice before you cut once.    三思而后行.
Medicines are not meant to live on.    不能靠药物度日子.
Men are mortal.    人生自古谁无死.
Men know where they were born, not where they shall die.    人能知其生于何地,不能知其死于何方.
Men love to hear well of themselves.    阿?奉承话,人们皆爱听.
Men may meet but mountains never.    人生何处不相逢.
Men of courage, men of sense, and menof letters are frequent: but a true gentleman is what one seldom seen.    有勇气,有见识,有学问的人易遇,可是真正的君子难逢.
Men too seldom see their own faults.    人们很少能看到自己的过错.
Men, at soome time, are masters of their fates.    人有时是自己命运的主人.
Mere words will not fill a bushel.    空言无补.
Merry is he that hath nought to lose.    人无所失,不亦乐乎.
Merry meet, merry part.    好聚好散.
Method will teach you to win time    方法可教会你赢得时间.
Mickle power makes many enemies.    权高树敌多.
Might is (or makes or overcomes) right.    强权就是公理.
Mills of God grind slowly but sure.    天网恢恢,疏而不漏.
Miracels are to those who believe in them.    妖由人兴.
Mischief has swift wings.    飞来横祸.
Misers put their back and their belly into their pockets.    爱财如命.
Misery acquaints men with strange bedfellows.    落难时不择伙伴.
Misery loves company.    同病相怜.
Misery makes strange bedfellows.    患难时不择友.
Misfortune comes on wings and departs on foot.    遭灾易,消灾难.
Misfortune is a good teacher.    不幸是良师.
Misfortune tests the sincerity of friends.    患难见真情。
Misfortunes (or Hardships) never (or seldom) come alone (or singly).    祸不单行.
Misfortunes come at night.    灾祸常生于不测.
Misfortunes never come alone.    祸不单行。
Misfortunes tell us what fortune is.    经过灾难方知福.
Misfortunes test the sincerity of friends.    患难见友情.
Misforunes come on horseback and go away on foot.    遭灾易,消灾难.
Mock not a cobbler for his black thumbs.    不要嘲笑皮匠的黑拇指.
Moderation in all things is the best of rules.    中庸之道是最好的准则.
Modesty helps one to make progress; conceit makes one lag behind.    谦虚使人进步,骄傲使人落后。
Modesty is not only and ornament, but also a guard to virtue.    谦逊不仅可增添光彩也可以维护美德.
Modesty is the ornament of woman.    端庄可为妇女增添光彩.
Money answers all things.    金钱是万能的.
Money begets (or breeds or gets) money.    钱产生钱.
Money borrowed is soon sorrowed    债台高筑,愁上心头.
Money burns a hole in his pocket.    钱到袋里留不住.
Money calls, but does not stay: It is round and rolls sway.    金钱会上门,不会留下来,因为是圆的,所以会滚开.
Money can buy the devil himself.    有钱能使鬼推磨.
Money can move even the gods.    有钱能使鬼推磨.
Money has no smell.    金钱无所谓香臭.
Money is a bottomless sea, in which honour, conscience, and truth may be drowned.    金钱是无底的海洋,荣誉、良心和真理都可以淹没在其中.
Money is a good servant, but a bad master.    金钱是好的仆役,坏的主人.
Money is neither good nor bad, but all depends on what use is made of it.    金钱本身无好坏,要看怎样利用它.
Money is often lost for want of money.    往往由于缺乏金钱而丧失金钱.
Money is the key that opens all doors.    金钱是打开一切门户的钥匙.
Money is the root of all evil.    金钱是万恶之源.
Money is the sinews of war.    无钱莫打仗.
Money isn't everything.    钱不是万能的。
Money makes the mare to go.    钱可通神.
Money often unmakes the men who make it.    为富不仁.
Money spent on the brain is never spent in vain.    智力投资,决非虚掷.
Money talks.    钱能通神.
More die by food than by famine.    饥馑而死的少,饱食而死的多.
More haste, less speed.    欲速则不达.
More of our worries come from within than from without.    烦恼发乎内者多于发乎外.
More worship the rising than the setting sun.    人都向旭日膜拜,不向夕阳顶礼.
Most things have two handles.    大多数事物总有两种解释.
Mother's darlings are but milksop heroes.    奶水泡出懦弱汉.
Mountains look beautiful from a distance.    远处看山山更美.
Much water runs by the mill that the miller knows not of.    当前发生诸种事,大多为人所不知.
Much will have more.    贪得无厌.
Murder will out.    纸包不住火。
Music hath charms to soothe the savage beast.    音乐有抚凶暴心灵的魅力.
Music is the eye of the ear.    音乐是耳朵的眼睛.
Music is the medicine of the breaking heart.    音乐是医治心灵创伤的妙药.
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.    音乐可洗去灵魂中日常生活所沾染的污垢.
My son is my son till he has got him a wife, but my daughter is my daughter all the days of her life.    儿子婚前是儿子,女儿终生是女儿。
My son is my son, till he hath got him a wife; but my daughter's my daughter all the days of her life.    儿子只有在娶妻前是儿子,女儿则终生是女儿.
Napolean himself was once a crying baby.    即使是拿破仑,过去也是啼哭的婴孩.
Nature abhors a vacuum.    自然界里是没有真空的.
Nature has given us two ears, two eyes, and but one tongue, to the end that we should hear and see more than we speak.    天赋我们两耳,两眼,一张嘴巴,归根到底该多听,多看,少说话.
Nature is the glass reflecting truth.    大自然是反应真理的一面镜子.
Nature is the true law.    天行有常,不为尧存,不为桀亡。
Nature teaches us to love our friends but religion our enemies.    自然教我们爱朋友,宗教却教我们爱敌人.
Nature will have its course.    天行其道.
Nature, time, and patience are the three great physicians.    自然,时间和耐心,是三大伟大的医生.
Naughty boys sometimmmes make good men.    顽皮淘气的男孩子有时成为仁人君子.
Necessity (or Need) has (or knows) no law.    需要面前无法律.
Necessity and oportunity may make a coward valient.    需要和机会可能使懦夫变成勇士.
Necessity is the mother of invention    穷则变,变则通.
Necessity is the mother of invention.    需要是发明的动力。
Necessity knows no law.    铤而走险.
Need makes the old wife trot.    人急造反,狗急跳墙.
Needs must when the devil drives.    情势所迫,只好如此.
Neglect of health is doctor's wealth.    忽视健康,医生财旺.
neither fish, flesh, fowl, nor good red herring.    不伦不类.
Never (or Don't) trouble trouble till trouble troulbes you.    切莫自寻麻烦.
Never be weary of well doing.    行善莫厌烦.
Never cackle till your egg is laid.    事竟成,才声张.
Never cast dirt into that fountain of which thou hast sometime durnk.    不要过河拆桥.
Never do things by halves.    做事情不要半途而废.
Never embark on what comes after without having mastered what goes before.    如未掌握好已学过的东西,切莫从事更深的学习.
Never fish in trouble water.    不要混水摸鱼。
Never forget a kindness.    别人的好意要永记在心。
Never fry a fish till it's caught.    捉到鱼,才煎鱼.
Never judge from appearances.    不可以貌取人。
"Never make two bites of a cherry.
"    做事不要拖泥带水。
Never neglect an opportunity for improvement.    抓住大好时机,切莫等闲错过.
Never offer to teach fish to swim.    切莫教鱼游泳.
Never put off till tomorrow what may be done today.    今日事,今日毕.
Never put the plow before the oxen.    不要本末倒置.
Never say die! Up man, and try.    不要气馁,朋友,振作起来,干!
Never say die.    永不言败。
Never say of another what you would not have him hear.    莫说不想让人听见的话.
Never show the bottom of your purse or your mind.    钱包不露底,思想需保留.
Never swap (or swop) horses while crossing the stream.    骑渡中流莫换马.
Never think yourself above your business.    切莫自视过高.
Never too late to mend.    过则勿惮改.
Never too late to repent.    过则勿惮改.
Never too old (or late) to learn.    学到老,学不了.
Never too old to learn, never too late to turn.    亡羊补牢,为时未晚。
Never trust another what you should do yourself.    自己应该做的事,决不要委托别人做.
Never trust of fine words.    切勿轻信漂亮的言词.
New brooms sweep clean.    新官上任三把火.
New lords, new laws.    新官新法.
New wine in old bottles.    旧瓶装新酒。
Newspapers are the world's mirrors.    报纸是世界之镜.
Nightingales will not sing in a cage.    夜莺困笼不唱歌.
No answer is also answer.    不回答也是一种回答.
No bees, no honey; no work, no money.    没有蜜蜂就没有蜜,没有劳动就没有钱.
No cross, no crown.    无苦即无乐.
No gains without pains.    不劳无获.
No garden without its weeds.    有利必有弊.
No good building without a good foundation.    基础不好,建筑不牢.
No great loss without some small gain.    塞翁失马,安知非福.
No herb will cure love.    想思病,无药医.
No joy without annoy.    喜中有忧.
No living man all things can.    世上无全能.
No longer pipe, no longer dance.    运不逢时,事不得意.
No love is foul, nor prison fair.    没有肮脏的爱情,也没有美丽的监狱.
No man (or one) is born wise or learned.    人非生而知之者.
No man (or one) is wise at all times.    聪明一世糊涂一时.
No man can be a good ruler unless he has first been ruled.    没受过他人的统治,就不能很好地统治他人.
No man can do two things at once.    心无二用.
No man can make a good coat with bad cloth.    巧匠难以劣布制美服.
No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.    不犯千般错误,难成伟大人物.
No man ever became thoroughly bad at once.    没有一个人是一下子就坏透的.
No man ever yet became great by imitation.    笑颦不能成西施.
No man is a hero to his valet.    仆从目中无英雄.
No man is born wise or learned.    没有生而知之者。
No man is content.    人心是不满足的.
No man is so old, but thinks he may yet live another year.    人越活越想活.
No man is the worst for knowing the worst of himself.    没有一个人因为他自知最糟就是最糟.
No man is wise at all times.    聪明一世,糊涂一时。
No man knows when he shall die, although he knows he must die.    纵然知其难免一死,人却难料何时身亡.
No man learns but by pain or shame.    不经痛苦羞辱,难以取得教训.
No man loves his fetters be they made of gold.    即使脚镣黄金铸,无人爱上这刑具.
No money, no honey.    没有金钱,就没有爱情.
No news is good news.    没有消息就是好消息.
No one (or man) is born wise or learned.    人非生而知之者.
No one can call back yesterday.    往日不复返.
No one can disgrace us but ourselves.    除非羞耻自由取,他人岂能辱吾?.
No one can have all he desires.    无人能有所欲有.
No one is a fool always, every one sometimes.    无人总是当傻瓜,人人有时当傻瓜.
No one is wise at all times.    人总有一时之失.
No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.    不劳则无获,共难才得福,有荣必有辱,无苦即无乐.
No pains, no gains.    不劳则无获.
No piper can please all ears.    众口难调.
No pleasure without alloy (or pain or repentance).    乐中有悲.
No pleasure without pain.    没有苦就没有乐。
No possession, but use, is the only riches.    真正的财富不是占有,而是使用.
No practice, no gain in one's wit.    吃一堑,长一智.
No road is long with good company.    途有好伴,不觉路远.
No root, no fruit.    没有根,就没有果.
No rose without a thorn.    玫瑰都有刺.
No rule without an exception.    没有一条规则没有例外.
No safe wading in an unknown water.    未知水深浅,涉水有危险.
No smoke without fire.    无风不起浪。
No smoke without some fire.    无风不起浪.
No song, no supper.    不劳无获.
No sooner said than done.    言而必行.
No sunshine but bath some shadow.    有明必有暗.
No sweet without some sweat.    不劳则无获.
No sweet without sweat.    先苦后甜。
No time like the present.    只争朝夕.
No vice goes alone.    坏事不单行.
No way is impossible to courage    勇敢面前没有通不过的路.
No way is impossible to courage.    勇者无惧。
No wisdom like silence.    智者寡言.
No wrong without remedy.    无错不可纠.
None are so blind as those who won't see.    视而不见。
None are so deaf as those who will not hear.    不愿倾听意见者最聋.
None are so deaf as those who won't hear.    充耳不闻。
None but a wise man can employ leisure well.    唯智者善于利用空闲.
None but the brave deserve the fair.    英雄才能配美人.
None but the wearer knows where the shoe pinches.    只有那个穿鞋人,才知哪里鞋轧脚.
None knows the weight of another's burden.    看人挑担不吃力.
None preaches better than the ant, and she says nothing.    蚂蚁不说话,但最善于说教.
None so blind as those who won't see.    最瞎莫如视而不见.
None so deaf as those that won't hear.    置若罔闻.
Nor fame I slight, nor for her favours call; she come unlooked for, if she comes at all.    我不轻蔑名誉,也不需要她的青睐;如果她竟来的话,也是不求而自来的.
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