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英语谚语精选2

(2008-05-15 13:26:48)
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分类: 英语角

1.Jack of all trades is of no trade.
万事皆通,一无所长。
2.Joy Shared with others are more enjoyed.
与人同乐,其乐无穷。
3.Justice has long arms.
天网恢恢,疏而不漏。

1.Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open.
眼睛要睁大,嘴巴要紧闭。(要多看少讲。)
2.Kind hearts are more than coronets.
善良的心灵胜于显贵的地位。
3.Knowledge is a treasure, but practice the key to it.
知识是一座宝库,实践是打开宝库的钥匙。
4.Knowledge is power.
知识就是力量。
5.Know something like the palm of one's hand.
熟知其事,了如指掌。

1.Labour is light where love does pay.
爱情作酬劳,劳苦必轻松。
2.Laugh before breakfast you'll cry before supper.
乐极生悲。
3.Law makers should not be law breakers.
立法者应守法。(正人先正已。)
4.Learning is wealth to the poor, an honour to the rich, and 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。
5.Learning makes a good man better and ill man worse.
知识能使好人更好,坏人更坏。
6.Learn to creep before you leap.
先学爬,然后跳。(循序渐进。)(按部就班。)
7.Learn to walk before you run.
先学走路,然后奔跑。(按部就班。)(循序渐进。)
8.Let beggars match with beggars.
龙配龙,凤配凤。
9.Let every man praise the bridge be goes over.
饮水思源。
10.Let not the cobbler go beyond his last.
安分守已。
11.Let's cross the bridge when we come to it.
既到桥头,就走过去。(既来之,则安之。)
12.Let the cobbler stick to his last.
各守各业。(各安职守。)(安分守已)
13.Let the dead bury the dead.
既往不咎,捐弃旧嫌。
14.Let things take their course.
听其自然。(信马由缰。)
15.Let your yea be yea and your nay be nay.
赞成你就说赞成,不赞成你就说不赞成。(是就是,非就非。)
16.Liberty is not licence.
自由不是放纵。
17.Lie in the bed one has made.
自作自受。
18.Lies have short legs.
谎言是站不住脚的。
19.Life is short and time is fleeting.
人生短暂,光阴易逝。
20.Life without a friend is death without a witness.
在世无朋友,死后无证人。
21.Life is sweet.
人生是甜蜜的。
22.Lightly come, lightly go.
容易来,容易去。(来得容易,去得快。)
23.Like attracts like.
物以类聚。(呼朋引类。)
24.Like begets like.
龙生龙,凤生凤。(有其父必有其子。)
25.Like cures like.
以毒攻毒。
26.Like draws to like.
物以类聚。(同气相求。)(同声相应。)
27.Like father, like son.
有其父必有其子。
28.Like mother, like daughter.
有其母必有其女。
29.Little chips light great fires.
星星之火,可以燎原。
30.Little strokes fell great oaks.
轻击倾大树。(水滴石穿。)(千里之堤,溃于蚁穴。)
31.Loftiest trees most dread the thunder.
树大招风。(人怕出名猪怕壮。)
32.Lookers-on see more than players.
旁观者清。
33.Look for a needle in a bundle of hay.
干草堆里找一针。(大海捞针。)(海底捞月。)
34.Look not for musk in a dog's kennel.
别在狗窝里找麝香。(狗嘴里吐不出象牙。)
35.Losses make us more cautious.
损失使人更谨慎。(吃一堑,长一智。)
36.Love begets love.
爱爱相生。
37.Love cannot be forced.
爱情不能强求。
38.Love comes by looking.
处处留神,爱神降临。(情人眼里出西施。)
39.Love does much, money does everything.
爱情做许多事,金钱做任何事。
40.Love makes the world go round.
爱情使世界运转。
41.Love me, love my dog.
爱屋及屋。

1.Make hay while the sun shines.
晒草要趁太阳好。(趁热打铁。)(见机行事。)
2.Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
人最大的敌人就是自己。
3.Man is mortal.
人总是会死的。(人生谁无死。)
4.Manners make the man.
礼貌造就人。
5.Man's best possession is a loving wife.
男人最可贵的是有一个贤淑的妻子。
6.Many a fine dish has nothing on it.
绣花枕头一包草。(虚有其表。)
7.Many a little makes a mickle.
积铢累寸。(积少成多。)(集腋成裘。)
8.Many ants kill the horse.
蚁多可杀马。(千里之堤,溃于蚁穴。)
9.Many drops makes a shower.
水滴多了就成雨。(积少成多。)(积羽沉舟。)(聚沙成塔。)(积土为山,积水成海。)
10.Many hands are better than one.
众擎易举。(众人拾柴火焰高。)
11.Many heads are better than one.
众人智慧胜一人。(集思广益。)
12.Men may meet but mountains never.
人生何处不相逢。
13.Misery loves company.
同病相怜。(患难相助。)(同舟共济。)
14.Misfortunes never come alone .
祸不单行。
15.Misfortunes test the sincerity of friends.
患难见友情。
16.Money can buy the devil himself.
有钱能使鬼推磨。
17.Money can move even the gods.
有钱能使鬼推磨。
18.Money talks.
有钱能使鬼推磨。(金钱万能。)
19.More haste, less speed.
欲速则不达。(越急越慢。)
20.Much cry and little wool.
干打雷,不下雨。(雷声大,雨声小。)(空话多,实行少。)
21.Much will have more.
贪多务得。(得寸进尺。)(贪得无厌。)
22.Music is the medicine of the breaking heart.
音乐是医治心灵创伤的妙药。

1.Never cast dirt into that fountain of which you have sometime drunk.
饮水之源莫污染。(休将恩德报以怨。)(不要过河拆桥。)
2.Never do things by halves.
做事情不要半途而废。
3.Never neglect an opportunity for improvement.
抓住大好时机,切莫等闲错过。(切莫忽视利用时机。)
4.Never put off till tomorrow what may be done today.
今天可以做的事情,不要拖到明天。(今日事,今日毕。)
5.Never put the plow before the oxen.
不要本末倒置。
6.Never say die! Up man, and try.
不要气馁,朋友, 振作起来,干!
7.Never think yourself above your business.
无论如何不要认为自己是大才小用。切莫自视过高。
8.Never too late to repent.
悔悟从善,决不嫌晚。(过则勿惮改。)
9.Never too old to learn.
学习决不嫌老。(活到老,学到老。)
10.New brooms sweep clean.
新官上任三把火。
11.No answer is also answer.
不回答也是一种回答。
12.No bees, no honey; no work, no money.
没有蜜蜂就没有蜜,没有劳动就没有钱。
13.No cross, no crown.
无苦即无乐。(没有困难就没有成功。)(吃得苦中苦,方为人上人。)(苦尽甘来。)
14.No gains without pains.
不劳无获。(不劳动不得食。)
15.No garden without its weeds.
没有不长野草的花园。(有利必有弊。)
16.No great loss without some small gain.
塞翁失马,安知非福。(有所失必有所得。)
17.No joy without annoy.
没有快乐中不含烦恼的。(快乐之中有烦恼。)(喜中有忧。)(乐中有悲。)
18.No living man all things can.
世界上没有万能的人。(世上无全能。)
19.No longer pipe, no longer dance.
运不逢时,事不得意。
20.No love is foul, nor prison fair.
没有肮脏的爱情,也没有美丽的监狱。
21.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。
22.No man can do two things at once.
心无二用。
23.No man ever became thoroughly bad at once.
没有一个人是一下子就坏透的。
24.No man is a hero to his valet.
没有一个人在他的仆从的眼里是个英雄。(仆从目中无英雄。)
25.No man(或one) is born wise or learned.
人非生而知之。(人不是生来就是有聪明才智的。)
26.No man is content.
没有人是心满意足的。(人心是不满足的。)
27.No man is so old, but thinks he may yet live another year.
人越活越想活。
28.No man(或one) is wise at all times.
聪明一世糊涂一时。(智者千虑必有一失。)
29.No man knows when he shall die, although he knows he must die.
人虽知总有一死,却不知何时死到临头。
30.No money, no honey.
没有金钱,就没有爱情。
31.None but the brave deserve the fair.
勇敢之人才能配美人。
32.None so blind as those who won't see.
视而不见的人是真瞎子。(最瞎莫如视而不见。)
33.No news is good news.
没有消息就是好消息。
34.No one can disgrace us but ourselves.
除了我们自己,别人是不能羞辱我们的。
35.No one can have all he desires.
没有人能想什么有什么。
36.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。
37.No pains, no gains.
不劳则无获。
38.No pleasure without alloy.
没有十全十美的幸福。(高兴事中有扫兴。)(乐中有悲。)(没有无痛苦的快乐。)
39.No possession, but use, is the only riches.
真正的财富不是占有,而是使用。
40.No practice, no gain in one's wit.
吃一堑,长一智。(实践出真知。)
41. No road is long with good company.
途有好伴,不觉路远。
42.No root, no fruit.
没有根,就没有果。
43.No safe wading in an unknown water.
未知水深浅,涉水有危险。
44.No smoke without some fire.
没有不冒烟的火。(无风不起浪。)
45.No song, no super.
不劳动不得食。(不劳无获。)
46.No sooner said than done.
说到做到。(言而必行。)
47.No sweet without some sweat.
吃得苦中苦,方知甜中甜。
48.Nothing brave, nothing have.
不入虎穴,焉得虎子。(不敢冒风险,必然无所得。)
49.Nothing comes amiss to a hungry man.
饥不择食。
50.Nothing comes from nothing.
无风不起浪。
51.Nothing for nothing and very little for a half penny.
一分钱,一分货。
52.Nothing is difficult to a man who wills.
世上无难事,只怕有心人。
53.Nothing is impossible to a willing mind.
世上无难事,只怕有心人。(有志者事竟成。)
54.Nothing is really beautiful but truth.
只有真理才是真美。
55.Nothing seek, nothing find.
无所求,则无所获。
56.Nothing so bad, as not to be good for something.
塞翁失马,安知非福。(祸中有福。)
57.Noting venture, nothing win(或have或gain).
不入虎穴,焉得虎子。
58.Nothing will come of nothing.
无风不起浪。
59.No vice goes alone.
祸不单行。(恶习非偶成。)
60.No wisdom like silence.
智者寡言。(沉默即智慧。)

1.Oaks may fall when reeds stand the storm.
正当芦苇顶风暴,或许橡树要倾倒。(树大招风。)
2.Of earthly goods the best is a good wife. A bad the bitterest curse of human life.
贤妻最可贵,恶妇是灾星。(世上财和宝,贤妻为最好。)(妻子是恶妇,人生最苦恼。)
3.Offence is the best defence.
进攻是最好的防御。
4.Of nothing comes nothing.
无中不能生有。
5.Often and little eating makes a man fat.
少吃多餐,身强体胖。
6.Old bees yield no honey.
老蜂不酿蜜。(人老珠黄不值钱。)
7.Older and wiser.
越老越聪明。(越老经验越丰富。)
8.Old love will not be forgotten.
旧情永难忘。
9.Omelets are not made without breaking eggs.
欲有所得,必有所失。(有失才有得。)
10.Once a devil, always a devil.
一次做魔鬼,永远做魔鬼。
11.Once a man and twice a child.
做成人只有一次,做孩子却有两次。(一次为成人,两度当小孩。)
12.Once bit, twice shy.
一回被咬,下回胆小。(一朝被蛇咬,十年怕井绳。)
13.Once is no custom.
一次不成例。(只此一遭,下不为例。)
14.Once a knave, ever a knave.
一次做流氓,永远是流氓。(一失足成千古恨。)
15.One beats the bush, and another catches the birds.
一人敲树,别人得鸟。(坐享其成。)(一人种树,他人摘桃。)
16.One cannot eat one's cake and have it.
人不可能既把饼吃掉而又留在手里。(两者不可兼得。)(事难两全其美。)(不能又要马儿好,又要马儿不吃草。)
17.One cannot make bricks without straw.
没有稻草烧不成砖。(巧妇难为无米之炊。)
18.One cannot make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
巧妇难为无米之炊。(朽木不可雕。)
19.One cannot put back the clock.
时光不能倒退。(光阴一去不复返。)
20.One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
光辉生活中忙迫的一个小时抵得上无为的一世。(人生一时的飞黄腾达,抵得上一世的庸庸碌碌。)
21.One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
十个朋友做的好事抵不上一个敌人造成的危害。
22.One good turn deserves another.
好心要用好心报。(以德报德。)
23.One half of the world does not know how the other half lives.
贫富不相知。(饱人不知饿人饥。)(一家不知一家难。)
24.One love drives out another.
新爱逐旧欢。
25.One man makes a chair and another man sits in it.
坐享其成。
26.One man may steal a horse while another may not look over a hedge.
只许州官放火,不许百姓点灯。
27.One may sooner fall than rise.
跌倒容易爬起难。
28.One misfortune comes on the neck of another.
祸不单行。
29.One must drink as one brews.
自作自受。(自食其果。)
30.One must howl with the wolves.
入乡随俗。(和狼打交道,人须学嚎叫。)
31.One rotten apple spoils the whole barrel.
一只烂苹果烂一萝苹果。
32.One should eat to live, not live to eat.
吃饭为了生存,生存不是为了吃饭。(人为生而食,非为食而生。)
33.One's mantle fails on somebody.
春风化雨。(衣钵相传。)(将衣钵传授与人。)(把事业传给某人。)
34.One sows another reaps.
不劳而获。(一人播种,别人收获。)(一人种树,他人摘果。)
35.One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
一次痛苦的经验抵得上千百次的告诫。
36.One today is worth two tomorrows.
今天一天抵明天两天。(一个“今天”抵两个“明天”。)
37.One woe does tread upon another's heels.
祸不单行。(灾难接踵而至。)
38.One wrong(或false) move can lose the whole game.
棋错一着,全盘皆输。
39.On the choise of friends, our good or evil name depends.
朋友的选择可影响名誉的好坏。
40.Out of sight, out of mind.
眼不见,心不想。(久违情疏。)(不见则易忘。)
41.Overdone is worse than undone.
过犹不及。

1.Paddle your own canoe.
划你自己的独木舟。(自立更生,自食其力。)
2.Pain is forgotten where gain follows.
有了好处忘了痛。(好了伤疤忘了痛。)(尝到甜头,忘了苦头。)(得了利益,忘记辛苦。)
3.Patience is the best remedy(或medicine).
忍耐是最好的药物。
4.Patience, time, and money overcome everything.
耐心、时间和金钱可以征服一切。
5.Pay somebody back in his own coin.
以其人之道,还治其人之身。(一报还一报。)
6.Penny and penny laid up will be many.
积少成多。
7.Penny wise and pound foolish.
舍本逐末。(小钱精打细算,大钱挥霍浪费。)(小处精明,大处糊涂。)
8.Pitchers have ears.
隔墙有耳。
9.Pleasure has a sting in its tail.
乐中必有苦。(喜中会生悲。)
10.Poverty is the root of all evils.
穷困是万恶之源。
11.Poverty tries friends.
贫穷考验朋友。(患难遇知已,贫穷见友情。)
12.Practice is better than precept.
身教胜于言教。
13.Practice makes perfect.
熟能生巧。
14.Pride goes before a fall.
骄者必败。
15.Pride will have a fall.
骄者必败。
16.Proverbs are the wisdom of the ages.
谚语是时代的智慧。
17.Put not your hand between the bark and the tree.
别人家务事,切莫去插手。(外人休管家内事。)(少管闲事。)
18.Put the cart before the horse.
本末倒置。(颠倒次序。)(倒果为因。)
1.Quality is better than quantity.
质重于量。(质量好胜于数量多。)
2.Quarrels of lovers but renew their love.
情人争争吵吵,自会言归于好。

 

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