英文谚语大全(共16页).doc
精选优质文档-倾情为你奉上英文谚语大全Paddle your own canoe. 自立更生，自食其力。 Pain is forgotten where gain follows. 好了伤疤忘了痛。 Pardoning the bad is injuring the good. 饶了坏人便伤了好人。 Patience and application will carry us through. 忍耐和努力会使我们度过难关。 Patience is a flower that grows not in everyone's garden. 忍耐是朵花，并非人人园中都开发。 Patience is a plaster for all sores. 忍耐是治疗一切伤痛的药膏。 Patience is a virtue. 忍耐是一种美德。 Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. 忍耐是苦痛的，但它的果实是甜蜜的。 Patience is the best remedy (or medicine). 忍耐是最好的药物。 Patience, time, and money overcome everything. 耐心，时间和金钱可以征服一切。 Pay somebody back in his own coin. 一报还一报。 Peace on earth and good will towards men. 愿世界得太平，人间持善意。 Peace with sword in hand, 'tis safest making. 居安思危，此乃万全之策。 Pen and ink is wit's plough. 笔墨是才智之犁。 Penny and penny laid up will be many. 积少成多。 Penny wise and pound foolish. 小事聪明，大事糊涂。 People do not lack strength; they lack will. 人们不缺力量，缺的是决心。 Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth. 失败十九次，坚持而不动，待到二十次，大事就成功。 Perseverance is vital to success. 不屈不挠是成功之本。 Pitchers/Walls have ears. 隔墙有耳。 Pity is akin to love. 怜悯近乎爱情。 Plants of learning must be watered with the rain of tears. 知识的幼苗要用泪雨来浇灌。 Pleasant hours fly fast. 欢乐的时间过得快。 Pleasing everybody is pleasing nobody. 讨好每个人，人人不讨好。 Pleasure has a sting in its tail. 乐中必有苦。 Plenty is no plague. 富裕绝非灾祸。 Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive and widely effective mode of saying things, and hence its importance. 诗歌只不过是最美丽、最感人、最有力的说话方式，这也就是诗歌的价值。 Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. 诗人是世上没有得到承认的立法者。 Politeness costs nothing and gains everything. 礼貌不费分文而可赢得一切。 Politeness is to do and say the kindest thing in the kindest way. 文雅就是善良地做事，和善地说话。 Poor men's words have little weight. 人微言轻。 Poverty breeds strife. 贫穷引起斗争。 Poverty is apain, but no disgrace. 贫困是痛苦，但不是耻辱。 Poverty is no shame, laziness is. 贫穷不害羞，懒惰才可耻。 Poverty is no sin. 贫穷不是罪恶。 Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is. 贫非耻，耻贫乃耻。 Poverty is not a sufficient cause of disgrace, but poverty without resolution to help oneself is a disgrace. 贫穷并不可耻，穷而不争气才可耻。 Poverty is the mother of all arts. 贫困乃一切艺术之源。 Poverty is the mother of health. 缺乏是健康之母。 Poverty is the reward of idleness. 贫穷是游手好闲的报应。 Poverty is the root of all evils. 穷困是万恶之源。 Poverty on an old man's back is a heavy burden. 老而贫穷，负担沈重。 Poverty shows us who are our friends and who are our enemies. 贫困才能显出敌和友。 Poverty tries friends. 贫穷考验朋友。 Practice is better than precept. 身教胜于言教。 Practice makes perfect. 熟能生巧。 Practice what you preach. 言必行。 Praise is not pudding. 恭维不是布丁。 Praise makes good men better, and bad men worse. 赞扬使好人更好，坏人更坏。 Praise no man till he is dead. 盖棺论定。 Preachers can talk but never teach, Unless they practise what they preach. 说教的人不身体力行，就只能空谈，不能起教育作用。 Prepare for a rain day. 未雨绸缪。 Prevention is better than cure. 预防胜于治疗。 Pride and grace dwelt never in one place. 傲慢和温雅决不会共处在一起。 Pride apes humility. 大巧若拙。 Pride goes before a fall. (or destruction). 骄兵必败。 Pride goeth before, and shame cometh after. 骄傲一开始，耻辱接踵至。 Pride may lurk under a threadbare cloak. 骄傲可能披著老一套的外衣出现。 Pride must be pinched. 骄傲必须收敛。 Pride will have a fall. 骄者必败。 Procrastination is the thief of time. 拖延即浪费时间。 Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow. 进展即今日的活动和明日的保证。 Promise is debt. 许愿就是债，欠了不容赖。 Promise little but do much. 少许愿，多做事。 Prosperity discovers vices and adversity virtues. 顺境显邪恶，逆境见善性。 Prosperity gains (or makes) friends, and adversity tries them. 顺境交朋友，逆境试真情。 Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience. 谚语言短简，得自老经验。 Proverbs are the cream of a nation's thought. 谚语是一国的思想精华。 Proverbs are the wisdom of the ages. 谚语是时代的智慧。 Prove thy friends ere thou have need. 需要朋友之前，先要加以考验。 Provide for the worst, the best will save itself. 作最坏的准备，可以得到最好的结果。 Providence is always on the side of the strongest battalions. 天公总是佑强者。 Punctuality is the soul of business. 严守时间是办事情的重要原则。 Purpose supposes foresight. 深谋远虑。 Put not your hand between the bark and the tree. 少管闲事。 Put (or Lay or Set) one's shoulder to the wheel. 出一把力。 Put the cart before the horse. 本末倒置。 Put the shoe on the right foot. 责备应受责备者，表扬应受表扬者。Obedience is the first duty of a soldier军人以服从命令为天职。 Observation is the best teacher.观察是最好的老师。 Offense is the best defense.进攻是最好的防御。 Old friends and old wines are best.陈酒味醇，老友情深。 Old sin makes new shame.一失足成千古恨。 Once a man and twice a child.一次老，两次小。 Once a thief, always a thief.偷盗一次，做贼一世。 Once bitten, twice shy.一朝被蛇咬，十年怕井绳。 One boy is a boy, two boys half a boy, three boys no boy. 一个和尚挑水喝，两个和尚抬水喝，三个和尚没水喝。 One cannot put back the clock.时钟不能倒转。 One eyewitness is better than ten hearsays.百闻不如一见。 One false move may lose the game.一着不慎，满盘皆输。 One good turn deserves another.行善积德。 One hour today is worth two tomorrow.争分夺秒效率高。 One mans fault is other mans lesson.前车之鉴。 One never loses anything by politeness.讲礼貌不吃亏。 One swallow does not make a summ一燕不成夏。 Ones words reflect ones thinking.言为心声。 Out of debt, out of danger.无债一身轻。 Out of office, out of danger.无官一身轻。 Out of sight, out of mind.眼不见，心为静。 Patience is the best remedy.忍耐是良药。 Penny wise, pound foolish.贪小便宜吃大亏。 Plain dealing is praised more than practiced. 正大光明者，说到的多，做到的少。 Please the eye and plague the heart. 贪图一时快活，必然留下隐祸。 Pleasure comes through toil.苦尽甘来。 Pour water into a sieve.竹篮子打水一场空。 Practice makes perfect.熟能生巧。 Praise is not pudding.恭维话不能当饭吃。 Praise makes good men better, and bad men worse. 好人越夸越好，坏人越夸越糟。 Prefer loss to unjust gain.宁可吃亏，不贪便宜。 Prevention is better than cure.预防胜于治疗。 Pride goes before, and shame comes after.骄傲使人落后。 Promise is debt.一诺千金。 Proverbs are the daughters of daily experience.谚语是日常经验的结晶。 Pull the chestnut out of fire.火中取栗。 Put the cart before the horse.本末倒置。 Put your shoulder to the wheel.鼎力相助。 Reading enriches the mind.开卷有益。 Reading is to the mind while exercise to the body.读书健脑，运动强身。 Respect yourself, or no one else will respect you.要人尊敬，必须自重。 Rome is not built in a day冰冻三尺，非一日之寒。 Saying is one thing and doing another.言行不一。 Seeing is believing.眼见为实。Seek the truth from facts.实事求是。 Send a wise man on an errand, and say nothing to him. 智者当差，不用交代。 Set a thief to catch a thief.以贼捉贼。 Short accounts make long friends.好朋友勤算账。 Something is better than nothing.聊胜于无。 Soon learn, soon forgotten.学得快，忘得快。 Soon ripe, soon rotten.熟得快，烂得快。 Speech is silver, silence is gold.能言是银，沉默是金。 Still water run deep.静水常深。 Strike the iron while it is hot.趁热打铁。 Success belongs to the persevering.坚持就是胜利。 Take things as they come.既来之，则安之。 Talking mends no holes. 空谈无补。 Talk of the devil and he will appear.说曹操，曹操就到。 Tall trees catch much wind.树大招风。 Teach others by your example.躬亲示范。 The best hearts are always the bravest.无私者无畏。 The best man stumbles.伟人也有犯错时。 The cat shuts its eyes when stealing.掩耳盗铃。 The danger past and God forgotten.过河拆桥。 The darkest hour is nearest the dawn.黎明前的黑暗。 The darkest place is under the candlestick.烛台底下最暗。 The devil knows many things because he is old.老马识途。 The devil sometimes speaks the truth魔鬼有时也会说真话。 The die is cast.木已成舟。 The early bird catches the worm.早起的鸟儿有虫吃。 The end justifies the means.只要目的正当，可以不择手段。 The end makes all equal.死亡面前，人人平等。 The eye is bigger than the belly.贪多嚼不烂。 The farthest way about is the nearest way home.抄近路反而绕远路。 The finest diamond must be cut.玉不琢，不成器。 The fire is the test of gold, adversity of strong man.烈火验真金，艰难磨意志。 The first step is the only difficulty.迈出第一步是最艰难的。 The fox knew too much, thats how he lost his tail.机关算尽太聪明，反误了卿卿 性命。 The fox preys farthest from home.兔子不吃窝边草。 The frog in the well knows nothing of the great ocean.坐井观天。 The grass is greener on the other side.这山望着那山高。 The greatest talkers are always least doers.语言的巨人总是行动的矮子。 The higher up, the greater the fall.爬得高，摔得惨。 The leopard cannot change its spots.本性难移。 The more noble, the more humble.人越高尚，越谦虚。 The more wit, the less courage. 初生牛犊不怕虎。 The outsider sees the most of the game.旁观者清。 The pen is mightier than the sword.笔能杀人。 The pot calls the kettle black.五十步笑百步。 There are spots in the sun.太阳也有黑点。 There are two sides to every question.问题皆有两面。 There is a skeleton in the cupboard.家家有本难念的经。 There is kindness to be found everywhere.人间处处有温情。 There is no general rule without some exception.任何法规均有例外。 There is no medicine against death.没有长生不老药。 There is no place like home.金窝银窝不如咱的狗窝。 There is no royal road to learning.书山有路勤为径，学海无涯苦作舟。 The style is the man.字如其人。 The tongue is not steel, yet it cuts.人言可畏。 The water that bears the boat is the same that swallows it up. 水能载舟，亦能覆舟。 The wise man knows he knows nothing, the fool thinks he knows all.清者自清，浊者自浊。 The wolf has a winning game when the shepherds quarrel. 螳螂捕蝉，黄雀在后 The world is a ladder for some to go up and others to go down.世界如阶梯，有人上有人下。 The world is but a little place, after all.海内存知己，天涯若比邻。 Think twice before you do.三思而后行。 Things at the worst will mend.否极泰来。 Time and tide wait for no man.时不我待。 Time cures all things.时间是医治一切创伤的良药。 Time flies.光阴似箭。Time is money.时间就是金钱。 Time lost cannot be won again.时光流逝，不可复得。 Time past cannot be called back again.时间不能倒流。 Time tries all.路遥知马力，日久见人心。 Tit for tat is fair play.人不犯我，我不犯人；人若犯我，我必犯人。 To err is human.人非圣贤，孰能无过。 To know everything is to know nothing.什么都知道，一如什么都不知道。 To know oneself is true progress.人贵有自知之明。 Tomorrow never comes.我生待明日，万事成蹉跎。 Too much familiarity breeds contempt.过分熟悉会使人互不服气。 Too much knowledge makes the head bald.学问太多催人老。 Too much liberty spills all.自由放任，一事无成。 Too much praise is a burden.过多夸奖，反成负担。 To save time is to lengthen life.节约时间就是延长生命。 Touch pitch, and you will be defiled.常在河边走，哪有不湿鞋。 Troubles never come singly.福无双至，祸不单行。 Truth never grows old.真理永存。 Turn over a new leaf.洗心革面，改过自新。 Two dogs strive for a bone, and a third runs away with it. 鹬蚌相争，渔翁得利。 Two heads are better than one.一个好汉三个帮。 Two of a trade seldom agree.同行是冤家。 Two wrongs do not make a right.别人错了，不等于你对了。 Unity is strength.团结就是力量。 Unpleasant advice is a good medicine.忠言逆耳利于行。 Until all is over ones ambition never dies.不到黄河心不死。 Venture a small fish to catch a great one.吃小亏占大便宜。 Virtue is fairer far than beauty.美德远远胜过美貌。 Walls have ears.小心隔墙有耳。 Wash your dirty linen at home.家丑不可外扬。 Water dropping day by day wears the hardest rock away.滴水穿石。 Wealth is nothing without health.失去健康，钱再多也没用。 We know not what is good until we have lost it.好东西，失去了才明白。 Well begun is half done.好的开始，是成功的一半。 We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.井干方知水可贵。 We shall never have friends if we expect to find them without fault 欲求完美无缺的朋友必然成为孤家寡人。 We should never remember the benefits we have offered nor forget the favor received. 自己的好事别去提，别人的恩惠要铭记。 Whatever you do, do with all your might.不管做什么，都要一心一意 What is learned in the cradle is carried to the grave.儿时所学，终生难忘。 Whats done cannot be undone.生米煮成熟饭了。 Whats lost is lost.失者不可复得。What we do willingly is easy.愿者不难。When in Rome, do as the Romans do.入国问禁，入乡随俗。 When everybodys somebody then nobodys anybody.人人都伟大，世间没豪杰。 When sorrow is asleep, wake it not.伤心旧事别重提。 When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions. 新仇旧恨，齐上心头。 When the fox preaches, take care of your geese.黄鼠狼给鸡拜年，没安好心。 When wine is in truth, wit is out.酒后吐真言。 Where there is a will, there is a way.有志者事竟成。 Where there is life, there is hope.留得青山在，不怕没柴烧。 Where there is smoke, there is fire.事出有因。 While the priest climbs a post, the devil climbs ten.道高一尺，魔高一丈。 Who chatters to you, will chatter of you.搬弄口舌者必是小人。 Whom the gods love die young.好人不长命。 Wise man have their mouths in their hearts, fools have their hearts in their mouths.智者嘴在心里，愚者心在嘴里。 Work makes the workman.勤工出巧匠。Wet behind the ears.乳臭未干。 You cannot burn the candle at both ends.蜡烛不能两头点，精力不可过分耗。 You cannot eat your cake and have it.鱼与熊掌，不可得兼。 You can take a horse to the water but you cannot make him drink. 强扭的瓜不甜 You may know by a handful the whole sack.由一斑可知全貌。 You never know what you can till you try.是驴子是马，拉出来遛遛。A bad beginning makes a bad ending. 不善始者不善终。 A bad thing never dies. 遗臭万年。 A bad workman always blames his tools. 不会撑船怪河弯。 A bird in the hand is worth than two in the bush. 一鸟在手胜过双鸟在林。 A boaster and a liar are cousins-german. 吹牛与说谎本是同宗。 A bully is always a coward. 色厉内荏。 A burden of one's choice is not felt. 爱挑的担子不嫌重。 A candle lights others and consumes itself. 蜡烛照亮别人，却毁灭了自己。 A cat has 9 lives. 猫有九条命。 A cat may look at a king. 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
