1.A bad beginning makes a bad ending.
不善始者不善终。
2.A bad thing never dies.
遗臭万年。
3.A bad workman always blames his tools.
不会撑船怪河弯。
4.A bird in the hand is worth than two in the bush.
一鸟在手胜过双鸟在林。
5.A boaster and a liar are cousins-german.
吹牛与说谎本是同宗。
6.A bully is always a coward.
色厉内荏。
7.A burden of one’s choice is not felt.
爱挑的担子不嫌重。
8.A candle lights others and consumes itself.
蜡烛照亮别人，却毁灭了自己。
9.A cat has 9 lives.
猫有九条命。
10.A cat may look at a king.
人人平等。
11.A close mouth catches no flies.
病从口入。
12.A constant guest is never welcome.
常客令人厌。
13.Actions speak louder than words.
事实胜于雄辩。
14.Adversity leads to prosperity.
穷则思变。
15.Adversity makes a man wise, not rich.
逆境出人才。
16.A fair death honors the whole life.
死得其所，流芳百世。
17.A faithful friend is hard to find.
知音难觅。
18.A fall into a pit, a gain in your wit.
吃一堑，长一智。
19.A fox may grow gray, but never good.
江山易改，本性难移。
20.A friend in need is a friend indeed.
21.A friend is easier lost than found.
得朋友难，失朋友易。
22.A friend is never known till a man has need.
需要之时方知友。
23.A friend without faults will never be found.
没有十全十美的朋友。
24.“After you” is good manners.
"您先请"是礼貌。
25.A good beginning is half done.
良好的开端是成功的一半。
26.A good beginning is half done.
善始者善终。
27.A good book is a good friend.
好书如挚友。
28.A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.
一本好书，相伴一生。
29.A good conscience is a soft pillow.
不做亏心事，不怕鬼叫门。
30.A good fame is better than a good face.
美名胜过美貌。
31.A good husband makes a good wife.
夫善则妻贤。
32.A good medicine tastes bitter.
良药苦口。
33.A good wife health is a man’s best wealth.
妻贤身体好是男人最大的财富。
34.A great talker is a great liar.
说大话者多谎言。
35.A hedge between keeps friendship green.
君子之交淡如水。
36.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。
37.A leopard cannot change its spots.
积习难改。
38.A liar is not believed when he speaks the truth.
说谎者即使讲真话也没人相信。
39.A light heart lives long.
静以修身。
40.A little body often harbors a great soul.
浓缩的都是精品。
41.A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
一知半解，自欺欺人。
42.A little pot is soon hot.
狗肚子盛不得四两油。
43.All are brave when the enemy flies.
敌人逃窜时，人人都成了勇士。
44.All good things come to an end.
天下没有不散的筵席。
45.All rivers run into sea.
海纳百川。
46.All roads lead to Rome.
条条大路通罗马。
47.All that ends well is well.
结果好，就一切都好。
48.All that glitters is not gold.
闪光的不一定都是金子。
49.All things are difficult before they are easy.
凡事总是由难而易。
50.All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
只会用功不玩耍，聪明孩子也变傻。
51.A man becomes learned by asking questions.
不耻下问才能有学问。
52.A man can do no more than he can.
凡事都应量力而行。
53.A man cannot spin and reel at the same time.
一心不能二用。
54.A man is known by his friends.
什么人交什么朋友。
55.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。
56.A man without money is no man at all.
一分钱难倒英雄汉。
57.A merry heart goes all the way.
心旷神怡，事事顺利。
58.A miss is as good as a mile.
失之毫厘，差之千里。
59.A mother’s love never changes.
母爱永恒。
60.An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
一天一苹果，不用请医生。
61.A new broom sweeps clean.
新官上任三把火。
62.An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.
以眼还眼，以牙还牙。
63.An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening.
一日之计在于晨。
64.An old dog cannot learn new tricks.
老狗学不出新把戏。
65.An ounce of luck is better than a pound of wisdom.
聪明才智，不如运气
66.An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
预防为主，治疗为辅。
67.A rolling stone gathers no moss.
滚石不生苔，转业不聚财。
68.As a man sows, so he shall reap.
种瓜得瓜，种豆得豆。
69.A single flower does not make a spring.
一花独放不是春，百花齐放春满园。
70.A snow year, a rich year.
瑞雪兆丰年。
71.A sound mind in a sound body.
健全的精神寓于健康的身体。
72.A still tongue makes a wise head.
寡言者智。
73.A stitch in time saves nine.
小洞不补，大洞吃苦。
74.A straight foot is not afraid of a crooked shoe.
身正不怕影子斜。
75.A wise head makes a close mouth.
真人不露相，露相非真人。
76.A word spoken is past recalling.
一言既出，驷马难追。
77.A year’s plan starts with spring.
一年之计在于春。
78.A young idler, an old beggar.
少壮不努力，老大徒伤悲。
79.Bad news has wings.
好事不出门，坏事传千里。
80.Barking dogs seldom bite.
吠犬不咬人。
81.Beauty lies in the love’s eyes.
情人眼里出西施。
82.Be swift to hear, slow to speak.
听宜敏捷，言宜缓行。
83.Better late than never.
不怕慢，单怕站。
84.Better to ask the way than go astray.
问路总比迷路好。
85.Between friends all is common.
朋友之间不分彼此。
86.Birds of a feather flock together.
物以类聚，人以群分。
87.Blood is thicker than water.
血浓于水。
121.Don’t trouble trouble until trouble troubles you.
不要自找麻烦。
122.Don’t try to teach your grandmother to suck eggs.
不要班门弄斧。
123.Do well and have well.
善有善报。
124.Each bird love to hear himself sing.
孤芳自赏。
125.Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
早睡早起身体好。
126.Easier said than done.
说得容易，做得难。
127.Easy come, easy go.
来得容易去得快。
128.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。
129.Empty vessels make the greatest sound.
实磨无声空磨响，满瓶不动半瓶摇。
130.Envy has no holidays.
忌妒之人无宁日。
131.Even Homer sometimes nods.
智者千虑，必有一失。
132.Even reckoning makes long friends.
亲兄弟，明算账。
133.Every advantage has its disadvantage.
有利必有弊。
134.Everybody’s business is nobody’s business.
人人负责，等于没人负责。
135.Every day is not Sunday.
好景不常在。
136.Every dog has his day.
谁都有得意的时候。
137.Every door may be shut, but death’s door.
人生在世，唯死难逃。
138.Every heart has its own sorrow.
各人有各人的苦恼。
139.Every little helps a mickle.
聚沙成塔，集腋成裘。
140.Every man for himself, and the devil takes the hindmost.
人不为己，天诛地灭。
141.Every man has his faults.
金无足赤，人无完人。
142.Every man has his hobbyhorse.
萝卜青菜，各有所爱。
156.Far water does not put out near fire.
远水救不了近火。
157.Faults are thick where love is thin.
一朝情意淡，样样不顺眼。
158.Fear always springs from ignorance.
恐惧源于无知。
159.Fields have eyes, and woods have ears.
隔墙有耳。
160.Fire and water have no mercy.
水火无情。
161.Fire is a good servant but a bad master.
火是一把双刃剑。
162.First come, first served.
先来后到。
163.First impressions are half the battle.
初次见面，印象最深。
154.First think and then speak.
先想后说。
165.Fools grow without watering.
朽木不可雕。
166.Fool’s haste is no speed.
欲速则不达。
167.Fools has fortune.
呆人有呆福。
168.Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much from fools.
愚者不学无术，智者不耻下问。
169.Forbidden fruit is sweet.
禁果格外香。
170.Fortune favors those who use their judgement.
机遇偏爱善断之人。
171.Fortune knocks once at least at every man’s gate.
风水轮流转。
172.Four eyes see more than two.
集思广益。
173.Friends agree best at distance.
朋友之间也会保持距离。
174.Friends are thieves of time.
朋友是时间的窃贼。
175.Friends must part.
再好的朋友也有分手的时候。
176.Genius is nothing but labor and diligence.
天才不过是勤奋而已。
177.Give a dog a bad name and hang him.
众口铄金，积毁销骨。
Great minds think alike.
英雄所见略同。
A bad beginning makes a bad ending.
恶其始者必恶其终。
A bad bush is better than the open field.
有胜於无。
A bad compromise is better than a good lawsuit.
吃亏的和解也比胜诉强。
A bad conscience is a snake in one’s heart.
做贼心虚。
A bad custom is like a good cake, better broken than kept.
坏习惯像鲜馅饼，分食要比保存好。
A bad padlock invites a picklock.
开门揖盗。
A bad thing never dies.
坏事传千年。
A bad workman quarrels with his tools.
拙匠常怨工具差。
A bargain is a bargain.
达成的协议不可撕毁。
A beggar’s purse is bottomless.
乞丐的钱袋是无底洞。
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
双鸟在林不如一鸟在手。
A bird is known by its note, and a man by his talk.
闻其歌知其鸟，听其言知其人。
A bird may be known by its song.
什麽鸟唱什麽歌。
A bit in the morning is better than nothing all day.
略有胜於全无。
A blind man who leans against a wall imagines that it’s the boundary of the world.
坐井观天。
A blind man will not thank you for a looking-glass.
秋波送盲，白费痴情。
A book is the same today as it always was and it will never change.
一本好书今天如此，将来也如此，永不改变。
A book that remains shut is but a block.
有书闭卷不阅读，无异是一块木头。
A borrowed cloak does not keep one warm.
借来的斗篷不暖身。
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
相聚爱益切，离别情更深。
A burden of one’s choice is not felt.
自己选的担子不嫌重。
A burnt child dreads the fire.
一朝被蛇咬，十年怕井绳。
A candle lights others and consumes itself.
蜡烛焚自身，光亮照别人。
A cat may look at a king.
猫也有权晋见国王。
Accidents will happen.
天有不测风云。
A change of work is as good as a rest.
调换一下工作是很好的休息。
A cheerful wife is the joy of life.
快乐的妻子是生活的乐事。
A clean hand wants no washing.
身正不怕影子斜。
A clear conscience is a soft pillow.
问心无愧，高枕无忧。
A clear conscience is a sure card.
光明磊落，胜券在握。
A clear conscience laughs at false accusations.
白日不做亏心事，夜半敲门心不惊。
A clear fast is better than a dirty breakfast.
宁为清贫，不为浊富。
A close mouth catches no flies.
病从口入，祸从口出。
A cock is valiant on his own dunghill.
夜郎自大。
A common danger causes common action.
同仇敌忾。
A constant guest is never welcome.
久住非佳宾，常来不欢迎。
A contented mind is perpetual feast.
知足常乐。
A covetous man is good to none but worse to himself.
贪婪的人对别人毫无好处，对自己却坏处更大。
A crafty knave needs no broker.
狡猾的流氓，不需居间人。
A creaking door hangs long on its hinges.
户枢不蠹。
Action is the proper fruit of knowledge.
行动是知识的巧果。
Actions speak louder than words.
事实胜於雄辩。
A discontented man knows not where to sit easy.
不满足者坐无宁时。
A disease known is half cured.
病情确诊断，治病好一半。
Admonish your friends in private, praise them in public.
在私底下要忠告你的朋友，在公开场合又表扬你的朋友。
A dog will not howl if you beat him with a bone.
骨头打狗狗不叫。
Adversity is a good discipline.
苦难是磨练人的好机会。
Adversity leads to prosperity.
逆境迎向昌盛。
Adversity makes a man wise, not rich.
患难使人聪明，但不能致富。
Adversity makes strange bedfellows.
身处逆境不择友。
Adversity successfully overcome is the highest glory.
成功地克服困难是最大的光荣。
A fair death honours the whole life.
死得光明，终身荣耀。
A fair face may hide a foul heart.
人不可貌相。
A faithful friend is hard to find.
益友难得。
A fall into the pit, a gain in your wit.
吃一堑，长一智。
A father is a treasure, a brother is a comfort, but a friend is both.
父亲是财富，兄弟是安慰，朋友兼而有之。
A fault confessed is half redressed.
承认错误，等於改正一半。
Affairs that are done by due degrees are soon ended.
事情要安步就班地做，就会很快地做完。
A flow of words is no proof of wisdom.
口若悬河不能作为才智的证明。
A fool always comes short of his reckoning.
愚人常缺算计。
A fool always rushes to the fore.
傻瓜总爱强出头。
A fool and his money are soon parted.
笨蛋难聚财。
A fool attempting to be witty is an object of profoundest pity.
蠢人装聪明，实在最可怜。
A fool can ask more questions than seven wise men can answer.
一愚发问，七智结舌。
A fool may ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years.
愚者所问，智者难答。
A fool may give a wise man counsel.
愚者千虑，必有一得。
A fool may throw a stone into a well which a hundred wise men cannot pull out.
一愚所失，百智难回。
A fool’s bolt may sometimes hit the mark.
愚者千虑，必有一得。
A fool’s heart dances on his lips.
愚人心坦荡，挂在嘴唇上。
A fox may grow grey, but never good.
狐狸会变，但本性难移。
A friend exaggerates a man’s virtue, an enemy his crimes.
朋友宣扬人的美德，敌人夸大人的罪过。
A friend in court is better than a penny in purse.
曩中有钱，不如朝中有友。
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
患难朋友才是真朋友。
A friend is a second self.
朋友是另一个我。
A friend is best found in adversity.
患难见真友。
A friend is never known till a man have need.
不到患难时，永远不能认识真正的朋友。
A friend is not so soon gotten as lost.
交友慢，失友快。
A friend to everybody is a friend to nobody.
广交友，无深交。
A friend without faults will never be found.
没有缺点的朋友是永远找不到的。
After a storm comes a calm.
否极泰来。
After black clouds, clear weather.
否极泰来。
After death, the doctor.
放马後炮。
After dinner comes the reckoning.
吃喝玩乐，该付代价。
After dinner sit a while; after supper walk a mile.
午餐之後坐片刻，晚饭之後走一里。
After meat, mustard.
雨後送伞。
A full belly counsels well.
衣食足而後知荣辱。
A full cup must be carried steadily.
杯满盈，须持稳。
A good anvil does not fear the hammer.
好砧不怕锤。
A good appetite is a good sauce.
饥不择食。
A good beginning is half the battle.
首战告捷等於一半胜利。
A good beginning makes a good ending.
善始者必善其终。
A good book is a best friend who never turns his back upon us.
一本好书，莫逆之交。
A good book is a light to the soul.
好书一本，照亮心灵。
A good conscience is a continual feast.
白日不做亏心事，夜半敲门心不惊。
A good conscience is a soft pillow.
白日不做亏心事，夜半敲门心不惊。
A good dog deserves a good bone.
有劳得奖。
A good example is the best sermon.
身教胜似言教。
A good face is a letter of recommendation.
好的相貌就是一封推荐的介绍信。
A good fame is better than a good face.
好的名望胜於好的相貌。
A good friend is my nearest relation.
良友如近亲。
A good head and an industrious hand are worth gold in any land.
聪明脑袋勤劳手，走遍天下贵如金。
A good healthy body is worth more a crown in gold.
健康的身体贵於黄金铸成的皇冠。
A good heart conquers ill fortune.
善心克厄运。
A good horse cannot be of a bad colour.
良马的毛色不会差。
A good horse often needs a good spur.
好马常要好靴刺。
A good marksman may miss.
智者千虑，必有一失。
A good maxim is never out of season.
至理名言不会过时。
A good medicine tastes bitter.
良药苦口，忠言逆耳。
A good name is better than riches.
好名誉胜过有财富。
A good name is earlier lost than won.
失去美名易，得到美名难。
A good name is sooner lost than won.
美誉难得而易失。
A good name keeps lustre in the dark.
好的名声在黑暗中也会光芒四射。
A good surgeon must have an eagle’s eye, a lion’s heart, and a lady’s hand.
出色的外科医生必须心明眼亮和有一双灵巧的手。
A good tale is none the worse for being twice told.
好故事百听不厌。
A good tongue is a good weapon.
伶俐的口齿是一种锐利的武器。
A good winter brings a good summer.
瑞雪兆丰年。
A great talker is a great liar.
最会饶舌的人也是最会说谎的人。
A guilty conscience is a self-accuser.
做贼心虚，良心自诛。
A guilty conscience needs no accuser.
贼胆心虚。
A handful of common sense is worth bushel of learning.
一点小常识常胜过很多有价值的学问。
A happy heart makes a blooming visage.
心花怒放，笑逐颜开。
A hasty man is seldom out of trouble.
性急难免出岔子。
A heavy purse makes a light heart.
腰包钱财足，心境自然宽。
A hero is known in the time of misfortune.
时势造英雄。
A horse is neither better nor worse for his trappings.
相马不可凭马的装饰。
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
家庭内讧难维系。
A Jack of all trades and master of none.
三脚猫无所长。
A joke never gains an enemy but often loses a friend.
开玩笑总不能化敌为友，反而有时会失去朋友。
A lamb is as dear to a poor man as an ox to the rich.
穷人的一只羔羊比富人的一头牛还要珍贵。
A lazy sheep thinks its wool heavy.
懒羊嫌毛重
A lazy youth, a lousy age.
少壮不努力，老大徒伤悲。
Ale will make a cat speak.
酒後吐真言。
A liar is not believed when he speaks the truth.
骗子说真话，也没人相信。
A liar is worse than a thief.
撒谎比偷窃更可恶。
A lie begets a lie till they come to generation.
谎言生谎言，谎言传万代。
A life without a friend is a life without a sun.
人生在世无朋友，犹如生活无太阳。
A life without a purpose is a ship without a rudder.
人生无目的，犹如船失去了舵。
A light purse is a heavy curse.
为人无钱处处难。
A light purse makes a heavy heart.
曩中无钱心事重。
A lion at home, a mouse abroad.
在家凶如狮，在外却如鼠。
A little body often harbours a great soul.
莫道身躯小，伟人寓其间。
A little child is the sweetest and purest thing in the world.
幼儿是世界上最可爱和最纯洁的。
A little fire is quickly trodden out.
小洞易补。
A little is better than none.
聊胜於无。
A little labour, much health.
适量劳动健身大有益。
A little leak will sink a great ship.
千丈之堤溃於蚁穴。
A little learning is a dangerous thing.
浅学误人。
A little neglect may breed great mischief.
小不忍则乱大谋。
A little pot is soon hot.
壶小水易热。
A little spark kindles a great fire.
星星之火，可以燎原。
A little wind kindles, much puts out the fire.
适可而止，过犹不及。
A living dog is better than a dead lion.
一条活狗胜过一头死狮。
All are brave when the enemy flies.
敌人逃跑时，个个都勇敢。
All are not hunters that blow the horn.
吹号角的未必都是猎人。
All are not merry that dance lightly.
表面高兴的，未必都快乐。
All are not saints that go to church.
去做礼拜者，未必皆圣人。
All are not thieves that dogs bark at.
犬之所吠，并非皆贼。
All asses wag their ears.
傻子总爱装聪明。
All bread is not baked in one oven.
人心不同，犹如其面。
All cats love fish but fear to wet their paws.
猫都爱吃鱼，却怕爪弄湿。
All covet, all lose.
贪多必失。
All is fair in war.
兵不厌诈。
All is fish that comes to one’s net.
捉到网里都是鱼。
All is flour that comes to his mill.
到他的磨里都能碾成粉。
All is not at hand that helps.
有用的东西并不都是垂手可得的。
All is not gain that is put in the purse.
放入钱包的钱财，并非都是应得的。
All is not gold that glitters.
闪光的东西并不都是黄金。
All is not lost that is in danger.
在危险中的东西未必都会损失。
All is well that ends well.
结果美满都是好的。
All men are mortal.
人孰无死。
All men cannot be first.
不可能人人都得第一名。
All one’s geese are swans.
自吹自擂。
All rivers run into the sea.
百川入海。
All roads lead to Rome.
条条道路通罗马。
All’s fair in love and war.
爱情和战争是不择手段的。
All’s fish that comes to his net.
到了网中都是鱼。
All shall be well, Jack shall have Jill.
有情人终成眷属。
All the treasures of the earth would not bring back one lost moment.
机会失去不再来，千贯万贯难赎回。
All the wit in the world is not in one head.
世界上所有的智慧不可能集中於一个脑袋。
All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.
整个世界是个舞台，男男女女，演员而已。
All things are difficult before they are easy.
凡事都是先难後易。
All things are easy that are done willingly.
做事乐意，诸事容易。
All things are obedient to money.
有钱能使鬼推磨。
All things will come round to him who will but wait.
只要耐心肯等待，一切都会按时来。
All time is no time when it is past.
光阴一去不复返。
All truths are not to be told.
真理并不都能说得清。
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy; all play and no work makes Jack a mere boy.
只工作，不玩耍，聪明孩子要变傻；尽玩耍，不学习，聪明孩子没出息。
Although it rains, throw not away your watering pot.
纵然天下雨，休把水壶丢。
Always taking out of the meal-tub and never putting in, soon comes to the bottom.
坐吃山空。
A maiden with many wooers often chooses the worst.
少女有了许多求婚者往往选中了最差的一个。
A maid that laughs is half taken.
少女露笑脸，婚事半成全。
A man alone is either a saint or a devil.
孤身独处的人可以为圣哲，也可为恶魔。
A man apt to promise is apt to forget.
轻诺者易忘。
A man can die but once.
人生只有一次死。
A man can do no more than he can.
凡事只能量力而行。
A man can never thrive who had a wasteful wife.
妻子浪费无度，丈夫不会出头。
A man cannot serve two masters.
一仆不能事二主。
A man can not spin and reel at the same time.
一心不能二用。
A man cannot whistle and drink at he same time.
一心不能二用。
A man has two ears and one mouth that he may hear much and speak little.
人有两只耳朵一张嘴，就是为了多听少说话。
A man is as old as he feels.
老不老，自己晓。
A man is known by the company he keeps.
察其友知其人。
A man is not a horse because he was born in a stable.
人并不因为生在马厩里就成了马。
A man is not good or bad for one action.
判断人的好坏不能凭一次行为。
A man knows his companion in a long journey and a little inn.
路遥知马力，日久见人心。
A man may dig his grave with his teeth.
祸从口出。
A man may lead a horse to the water, but he cannot make him drink.
牵马到河易，强马饮水难。
A man may love his house well without riding on the ridge.
有宝何必人前夸。
A man may smile and smile and be villain.
笑里藏奸。
A man may talk like a wise man and yet act like a fool.
一个人可能说话像个聪明人，而行为像个大笨蛋。
A man of gladness seldom falls into madness.
生性乐天的人极少会变成疯子。
A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds.
讲而不做，犹如花园里长满了荒草。
A man’s actions show his character.
行为可显出一个人的品性。
A man who has friend must show himself friendly.
与朋友交，必须友好相处。
A man without a smiling face must not open a shop.
人无笑脸，不要开店。
A man without money is a bow without an arrow.
人无钱，犹如弓无箭。
A man without reason is a beast in season.
人无理智就像是一头发情的野兽。
A match will set fire to a large building.
星星之火，可以燎原。
Ambition never dies until there is no way out.
不到黄河心不死。
A merry heart goes all the way.
生性乐天，终身受用。
A middle course is the safest.
中庸之道最保险。
A miserly father makes a prodigal son.
爱钱如命的父亲生个儿子挥金如土。
A miss is as good as a mile.
失之毫厘，差之千里。
A moneyless man goes fast through the market.
一个没钱的人很快穿过市场。
Among the blind the one-eyed man is king.
山中无老虎，猴子称霸王。
A mother’s love never changes.
母爱永恒。
An artist lives everywhere.
艺人处处可安家。
An ass endures his burden but not more than his burden.
驴子能负重，但不堪超过力之所及。
A near friend is better than a far-dwelling kinsman.
远亲不如近邻。
An empty hand is no lure for a hawk.
空手诱不来老鹰。
An empty purse frightens many friends.
曩中无分文，亲友不上门。
An empty sack cannot stand upright.
空麻袋，立不直。
An enemy’s mouth seldom speaks well.
狗嘴里吐不出象牙。
An evening red and a morning grey, is a sign of a fair day.
晚霞红如火，晓色青如灰，定是晴朗天。
An evil chance seldom comes alone.
祸不单行。
An evil lesson is soon learned.
学坏容易。
A new broom sweeps clean.
新官上任三把火。
Anger is a short madness.
发火是短暂的疯狂。
Anger rests in the bosom of folly.
怒火常寓於蠢人的胸中。
An honest man’s word is as good as his bond.
诚实人的话像他的契约一样靠得住。
An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening.
一日之计在於晨。
An idle brain is the devil’s workshop.
游手好闲是万恶之源。
An idle youth, a needy age.
少壮不努力，老大徒伤悲。
An ill workman quarrels with his tools.
拙匠常怪工具差。
An inch in a miss is as good as an ell.
错无分大小，有错皆不好。
An nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse.
对牛弹琴。
An oak is not felled at one stroke.
万事不能一蹴而就。
An occasion lost cannot be redeemed.
时机失了无法挽回。
An old dog barks not in vain.
老犬不空吠。
An old dog bites sore.
老狗咬人痛得很。
An old dog cannot alter its way of barking.
老狗难改吠声。
An old dog will learn no new tricks.
老家夥学不出新名堂。
An old physician, and a young lawyer.
医生年老的好，律师年轻的俏。
An old poacher makes the best keeper.
老偷猎者是最好的看守人。
An open door may tempt a saint.
一扇开著的大门可诱惑一个圣徒。
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity; a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
乐观的人在灾难中看到希望；悲观的人在希望中看到灾难。
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
预防胜於治疗。
An ox is taken by the horns, and the man by the tongue.
牛因有脚而被抓，人因有舌而遭殃。
Answer a fool according to his folly.
以其人之道，还治其人之身。
An upright judge has more regard to justice than to men.
正直的法官重法胜於重人。
A penny saved is a penny earned.
省钱就是赚钱。
A pet lamb makes a cross ram.
宠坏的小羊将成为脾气坏的大羊。
A poor man who takes a rich wife has a ruler, not a wife.
穷汉娶富妻，必受老婆欺。
Apothecaries would not sugar their pills unless they were bitter.
好药不苦不会加糖衣。
Apparel makes the man.
马靠鞍装，人靠衣装。
Appearances are deceitful.
人不可貌相，海水不可斗量。
Appetite comes with eating.
食欲越吃越旺。
A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder.
白日不做亏心事，夜半不怕鬼敲门。
A ragged coat may cover an honest man.
不能以衣著取人。
A ready way to lose friend is to lend him money.
失友都因借钱起。
A road of a thousand miles begins with one step.
千里之行始於足下。
A rolling stone gathers no moss.
滚石不生苔，转业不聚财。
Art lies in concealing art.
隐而不露即艺术。
As a man lives so shall he die.
有生必有死。
As a man’s heart is, so does he speak.
言为心声。
As a man sows, so he shall reap.
种瓜得瓜，种豆得豆。
A secret between more than two is no secret.
两人以上知道的秘密就不算秘密。
A servant is known by his master’s absence.
主人不在可以看出仆人的品行来。
A silent tongue and true heart are the most admirable things on earth.
缄默的嘴，真诚的心，是世界上最令人赞美的东西。
A single spark can start a prairie fire.
星星之火，可以燎原。
As is the workman so is the work.
什麽工人出什麽活。
Ask no questions and you will be told no lies.
如果你少问，谎言就难进。
A smart coat is a good letter of introduction.
人要衣装，佛要金装。
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
平静的海洋练不出熟练的水手。
A sow, when washed; returns to the muck.
江山易改，本性难移。
A spot is most seen on the finest cloth.
最清洁的布上，污点特别显眼。
A staff is quickly found to beat a dog with.
欲加之罪，何患无辞。
As the best wine makes the sharpest vinegar, so the deepest love turns to the deadliest hatred.
美酒可制成烈醋，热爱能变为深仇。
As the call, so the echo.
发什麽声音，有什麽回声。
As the fool thinks, so the bell clinks.
一厢情愿。
As the inner life is, so will be the language.
言为心声。
As the old cock crows, so doth the young.
有其父必有其子。
As the touchstone tries gold, so gold tries man.
试金石可以试金，正如黄金可以试人。
As the tree falls, so shall it lie.
自作自受。
As the tree, so the fruit.
长什麽树，结什麽果。
As they sow, so let them reap.
种瓜得瓜，种豆得豆。
A still tongue makes a wise head.
智者寡言。
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 straw shows which way the wind blows.
一叶便知秋。
A stumble may prevent a fall.
小惩大诫。
As well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamb.
偷大偷小都是贼。
As worms are bred in a stagnant pool, so are evil thoughts in idleness.
虫蛆在死水中孵化，邪念在懒惰中养成。
As you brew, so must you drink.
自搬石头自压脚。
As you make your bed so you must lie on it.
自食其果。
As you sow you shall mow.
种瓜得瓜，种豆得豆。
A tall tree catches the wind.
树大招风。
A tattler is worse than a thief.
搬弄是非者，恶劣甚於贼。
A thief is a thief, whether he steals a diamond or a cucumber.
偷多偷少都是贼。
A thief knows a thief as a wolf knows a wolf.
贼了解贼，正如狼了解狼。
A thing is bigger for being shared.
插手人一多，事态就扩大。
A thousand friends are few, one enemy is too many.
朋友千人尚觉少，仇敌一人犹嫌多。
A thousand probabilities do not make one truth.
一千个“或有”不能造成一个事实。
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
千言万语不如一个行动。
A threatened blow is seldom given.
虚张声势，吓唬而已。
At open doors dogs come in.
狗从开著的门中进来。
A tree is known by its fruit.
观其行而知其人。
A true friend is known in the day of adversity.
疾风知劲草，患难知友情。
A true friend is one soul in two bodies.
真正的朋友好似两个身子长著一颗心。
A true jest is no jest.
真正的笑话不是笑话。
A true man and a thief think not the same.
君子和窃贼的思想不同。
A useful trade is a mine of gold.
一样有用的手艺是取之不尽的财富。
A valiant man’s look is more than a coward’s sword.
勇士的神色胜过懦夫的刀剑。
Avarice blinds our eyes.
财迷心窍。
Avarice increases with wealth.
越富越贪。
A wanderer who is determined to reach his destination does not fear the rain.
决心赶到目的地，浪汉何惧雨来淋。
A watched pot is long in boiling.
心急水不沸。
A wicked book is the wickeder because it cannot repent.
一本坏书危害无穷。
A wilful man will have his way.
有志者是竟成。
A wise head makes a close mouth.
智者寡言。
A wise man cares not for what he cannot have.
智者不作非凡之想。
A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will.
智者通权达变，愚者刚愎自用。
A wise man needs not blush for changing his purpose.
智者不耻於改变初衷。
A wise man thinks all that he says, a fool says all that he thinks.
智者思其所言，愚者言其所思。
A wise man will make tools of what comes to hand.
聪明的人能随机应变。
A woman’s work is never at an end.
妇女的活计做不完。
A word is enough to the wise.
对明智者一言已足。
A word spoken is an arrow let fly.
一言既出，驷马难追。
A word spoken is past recalling.
一言既出，驷马难追。
A work ill done must be twice done.
未做好的活，需要重新做。
A young man married is a man that’s marred.
男子早婚，种下祸根。
Bacchus has drowned more men than Nepture.
酒神淹死的人比海神多。
Bad news has wings.
坏事传千里。
Bad workmen often blame their tools.
拙匠常怪工具差。
Bare words, no bargain.
空言不能成交易。
Barking dogs seldom bite.
善吠的狗很少咬人。
Be always as merry as ever you can, for no-one delights in a sorrowful man.
务请心情常欢畅，只因无人喜忧伤。
Beauty is but a blossom.
美丽只是盛开的花朵。
Beauty is but skin-deep.
红颜易变。
Beauty is in the eye of the gazer.
情人眼里出西施。
Beauty is potent; but money is omnipotent.
美丽是有力量的，但金钱更有权威。
Beauty is truth, truth beauty.
美就是真，真就是美。
Beauty lies in lover’s eyes.
情人眼里出西施。
Beauty may have fair leaves, but bitter fruit.
美丽的花或许长好叶，结苦果。
Beauty, unaccompanied by virtue, is as a flower without perfume.
美而无德犹如花之无香。
Be considerate towards the poor.
要为穷人著想。
Bees that have honey in their mouths have stings in their tails.
口蜜腹剑。
Before gold, even kings take off their hats.
有钱能使鬼推磨。
Beggars cannot be choosers.
饥不择食。
Beggars must be no choosers.
饥不择食。
Behind bad luck comes good luck.
塞翁失马，焉知非福。
Be honest rather clever.
诚实比聪明更要紧。
Being on sea, sail; being on land, settle.
随遇而安。
Be just to all, but trust not all.
要公正对待所有的人，但不要轻信所有的人。
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Believe no tales from the enemy.
切莫轻信敌人。
Believe not all that you see nor half what you hear.
眼见的不能全信，耳闻的也不能半信。
Believe somebody on his bare word.
人言无据，切勿轻信。
Benefits please like flowers, while they are fresh.
恩泽让人欣喜，犹如鲜花使人心醉。
Be prepared to put one’s hand in one’s pocket.
准备慷慨解囊。
Be slow in choosing a friend; slower in changing.
选择朋友要审慎，摒弃更要审又慎。
Be slow to promise and quick to perform.
不轻诺，诺必果。
Be swift to hear, slow to speak.
多听少说。
Better a bachelor’s life than a slovenly wife.
过光棍生活，胜过有一个邋遢老婆。
Better a glorious death than a shameful life.
忍辱贪生不如死得光荣。
Better a little fire to warm us, than a great one to burn us.
适量的火好取暖，熊熊烈火能焚身。
Better an egg today than a hen tomorrow.
前程虽远大，现实尤可贵。
Better an empty purse than an empty head.
宁可钱袋瘪，不要脑袋空。
Better an open enemy than a false friend.
明枪易躲，暗箭难防。
Better are small fish than an empty dish.
有胜於无。
Better be alone than in bad company.
交损友不如无友。
Better be out of the world than out of fashion.
不合潮流不如脱离尘世。
Better be poor than wicked.
宁可做穷人，不要做坏人。
Better be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion.
宁为犬首，不作狮尾。
Better be the head of an ass than the tail of a horse.
宁为驴头，不为马尾。
Better deny at once than promise long.
轻诺必寡信。
Better die with honour than live with shame.
与其忍辱偷生，不如光荣而死。
Better eye sore than all blind.
眼痛总比瞎眼好。
Better good neighbours near than relations far away.
远亲不如近邻。
Better go to bed supperless than rise in debt.
宁可饿肚子，切莫去借债。
Better half an egg than empty shell.
半只蛋也比空壳好。
Better is the neighbour’s hen than mine.
人莫知其苗之硕。
Better late than never.
迟做总比不做好。
Better lose a jest than a friend.
宁可不说一句俏皮话，以免得罪朋友们。
Better lose the saddle than the horse.
吃小亏占大便宜。
Better master one than engage with ten.
精通一事胜於会十事。
Better one-eyed than stone-blind.
独眼总比全瞎好。
Better poor with honour than rich with shame.
穷得光荣，胜过富得可耻。
Better say nothing than nothing to the purpose.
与其说话不中肯，不如一言不发好。
Better some of a pudding than none of a pie.
聊胜於无。
Better the foot slip than the tongue trip.
宁可滑跤，不可失言。
Better to do well than to say well.
说得好不如做得好。
Better wear out than rust out.
与其闲散不如忙碌。
Better wit than wealth.
智力胜於财富。
Between friends all is common.
朋友之间不分彼此。
Between the cup and the lip a morsel may slip.
功亏一篑。
Between two stools one falls to the ground.
脚踏两头要落空。
Beware beginnings.
慎始为上。
Beware of a man of one book.
不要与一个有专业知识的人争论。
Beware of a silent dog and still water.
警惕无声之狗会咬人，平静之水会覆舟。
Beware of him who regards not his reputation.
要谨防不重自己名誉的人。
Big mouthfuls ofter choke.
贪多嚼不烂。
Bind the sack before it be full.
做事应适可而止。
Birds of a feather flock together.
物以类聚，人以群分。
Birth is much, but breeding is more.
出身固然重要，教养更且重要。
Bite off more than one can chew.
贪多咽不下。
Bite the hand that feeds one.
恩将仇报。
Bitter pills may have wholesome effects.
良药苦口利於病。
Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
人无所求最享福，因他不为失望苦。
Blind men can judge no colours.
不宜问道於盲。
Blood is thicker than water.
血浓於水。
Blood will have blood.
血债要用血来还。
Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
书籍如朋友，应该少而精。
Borrowed garments never fit well.
借来的衣服不合身。
Brave actions never want a trumpet.
勇敢的行为不须要吹号。
Bread is the staff of life.
民以食为天。
Brevity is the soul of wit.
言以简洁为贵。
Bring up a raven and he’ll pick out your eyes.
养虎贻患。
Burn not your house to rid it of the mouse.
投鼠忌器。
Burnt child dreads the fire.
一朝被蛇咬，十年怕井绳。
Business before pleasure.
事业在先，享乐在後。
Business is business.
公事公办。
Business is the salt of life.
事业事人生之盐。
Business makes a man as well as tries him.
事业既考验人，也造就人。
Business may be troublesome, but idleness is pernicious.
事业虽扰烦，懒惰更害人。
Business neglected is business lost.
玩忽事业等於丢失事业。
Business sweetens pleasure, and labour sweetens rest.
工作後消遣更愉快，劳动後休息更舒畅。
Butter to butter is no relish.
千篇一律的东西令人生厌。
By doing nothing we learn to do ill.
懒散学为非。
By doing we learn.
经一事，长一智。
By falling we learn to go safely.
吃一堑，长一智。
By gambling we lose both time and treasure, two things most precious to the life of man.
赌博使我们丢失时间和金钱，这两样人生最珍贵的东西。
By other’s faults, wise men correct their own.
他山之石，可以攻玉。
By reading we enrich the mind; by conversation we polish it.
读书可以使我门的思想充实，谈话使其更臻完美。
By the hands of many a great work made light.
众擎易举。
By the side of sickness health becomes sweet.
和疾病相比较，才显得健康的可贵。
By the street of “Bye and bye” one arrives at the house of “Never”.
迁延因循，一事无成。
By writing you learn to write.
从写作中学写作。
Call a spade a spade.
据实而言。
Call me not olive till thou see me gathered.
盖棺论定。
Call no man happy until he dies.
盖棺才能定论。
Can the leopard change his spots?
江山易改，本性难移。
Care and diligence bring luck.
谨慎和勤奋，带来好运气。
Care killed the cat.
忧虑伤身。
Cast not out the foul water till you bring in the clean.
清水未来，莫泼赃水。
Cast not your pearls before swine.
明珠莫投暗。
Catch the bear before you sell his skin.
大事未成时，莫开庆功宴。
Cats hide their paws.
大智若愚，大巧若拙。
Caution is the parent of safety.
谨慎小心是安全之源。
Chains of gold are stronger than chains of iron.
金链锁人比铁炼更牢靠。
Change lays not her hand upon truth.
真理不变。
Charity begins at home, but should not end there.
仁爱须由近及远。
Cheat’s never proper.
欺骗决非正当事。
Cheek brings success.
和气生财。
Cheerful company shortens the miles.
旅有好旅伴，不觉行程远。
Cheerfulness and goodwill make labour light.
欢快与好意，劳动不觉累。
Childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.
看人看年少，看天看破晓。
Children and fools cannot lie.
孩子和傻子，不会说谎话。
Children are the parents’s riches.
子女是父母之财富。
Choice of the end covers choice of the means.
选择目的包含著选择手段。
Choose an author as you choose a friend.
选书如择友。
Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.
选妻，最好用耳莫用眼。
Christmas comes but once a year.
佳节良辰，机会难得。
Circumstances are the rulers of the weak, instrument of the wise.
弱者困於环境，智者利用环境。
Civility costs nothing.
礼貌不须什麽代价。
Cleanliness is next to godliness.
清净近乎神圣。
Clothes make the man.
人要衣装，佛要金装。
Come what may, heaven won’t fall.
船到桥头自会直。
Comfort is better than pride.
安慰胜过傲慢。
Coming events cast their shadows before them.
山雨欲来风满楼。
Compare your grievs with other men’s and they will seem less.
你的悲痛与人比，悲痛就会轻一些。
Comparisons are odious.
人比人，气死人。
Confession is the first step to repentance.
悔罪先须认罪。
Confidence of success is almost success.
对成功抱有信心，就近乎成功。
Conquer of fear of death and you are put into possession of your life.
不怕死，然後才能生。
Constant dropping wears away a stone.
滴水穿石。
Content is better than riches.
知足常乐。
Conversation makes one what he is.
言如其人。
Councils of war never fight.
主战者不打仗。
Counsel after action is like rain after harvest.
放马後炮。
Counsel must be followed, not praised.
忠告必须照办，而不是赞美。
Count not your chickens before they are hatched.
不要过早乐观。
Courage and resolution are the spirit and soul of virtue.
勇敢和决心是美德的灵魂。
Courtesy costs nothing.
谦虚恭敬，不用分文。
Cowards are cruel.
懦夫不仁。
Credit, like a looking-glass, broken once, is gone, alas!
信誉像镜子，破碎无法补。
Creditors have better memories than debtors.
放债人的记性比借债人好。
Crows do not pick crow’s eyes.
同室不操戈。
Cry up wine and sell vinegar.
挂羊头，卖狗肉。
Cry with one eye and laugh with the other.
口不应心。
Curiosity killed the cat.
好奇心，惹祸根。
Custom is a second nature.
习惯是第二天性。
Custom is the guide of the ignorant.
习俗是无知者的向导。
Custom makes all things easy.
若照习惯办，万事皆不难。
Custom rules the law.
习俗影响法律。
Custom without reason is but ancient error.
习俗没有道理，古代谬误而已。
Cut short the nonsense and return to one’s muttons.
闲话少说，言归正传。
Cut the coat according to the cloth.
量布裁衣。
Danger is next neighbour to security.
危险是安全的近邻。
Danger itself is the best remedy for danger.
危险本身就是对付危险的最好办法。
Dead men tell no tales.
死人不会搬弄是非。
Death is the grand leveller.
凡人都要死，大家都一样。
Death meets us everywhere.
死亡到处和我门相遇。
Death pays all debts.
人死百债了。
Death when it comes will have no denial.
死亡来临时，无可抗拒之。
Debt is better than death.
负债总比死亡强。
Deeds are fruits; words are but leaves.
行动是果实，言语只是树叶而已。
Deeds are males, and words are females.
言柔弱无能，行刚强有力。
Deep rivers move in silence, shallow brooks are noisy.
深水静静流，浅溪潺潺流。
Delays are dangerous.
坐失良机必有忧患。
Deliberate before you begin, then execute with vigour.
著手前要深思熟虑，执行要果断有力。
Deliberate in counsel, prompt in action.
考虑要仔细，行动要迅速。
Deliberating is not delaying.
慎思不是拖延。
Deliver not your words by number but by weight.
言不在多，而在有物。
Depend on others and you always repent.
依靠别人总要後悔。
Despair gives courage to a coward.
人急造反，狗急跳墙。
Destruction pursues the great.
树大招风。
Devil must be driven out with devils.
以毒攻毒。
Dexterity comes by experience.
熟练来自经验。
Diamond cut diamond.
强中更有强中手。
Diet cures more than the doctor.
药补不如食补。
Diligence is near success.
勤奋近乎成功。
Diligence is the mother of good luck.
刻苦是成功之母。
Diligence is the mother of success.
勤奋是成功之母。
Discontent is the first step in progress.
不知足是前进中的第一步。
Discretion is the better part of valour.
小心即大勇。
Disease, enemy, and debt --these three must be cut off as soon as they begin to grow.
病，仇与债这三者，一露苗头就砍掉。
Disease of the soul are more dangerous than those of the body.
心灵上的疾病比肉体上的疾病更危险。
Diseases are the price of ill pleasures.
疾病是不正当娱乐的代价。
Diseases come on horseback, but go away on foot.
病来如山倒，病去如抽丝。
Disgraced may be he who thinks ill.
心怀不端的人是可耻的。
Do as most men do and men will speak well of thee.
为众之所为，受众之所夸。
Do as the Romans do.
入乡要随俗。
Do as you would be done by.
推己及人。
Do business, but be not a slave to it.
要做事，但不要做事务的奴隶。
Dog does not eat dog.
物不伤其类。
Dogs that bark at a distance bite not at hand.
远处叫得凶的狗，不会近身来咬人。
Dogs that run after many hares kill none.
多谋寡成。
Dogs wag their tails not so much in love to you as your bread.
狗摇尾巴，爱的是面包。
Doing is better than saying.
行胜於言。
Do in Rome as the Romans do.
入乡随俗。
Do not all you can, spend not all you have; believe not all you hear; and tell not all you know.
不要为所能为，不要花尽所有，不要全信所闻，不要言尽所知。
Do not cut down the tree that gives you shade.
不要忘恩负义。
Do not despise your enemy.
万勿轻敌。
Do not give a dog bread every time he wags his tail.
不要有求必应。
Do not praise a day before sunset.
切勿褒贬过早。
Do not run too fast after gain.
不要见利就拼命追。
Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
不要向不如你幸运的人述说你的幸福。
Do not swap horses when crossing a stream.
处在危难中，不宜大更动。
Do no through fear of poverty surrender liberty.
不要因为怕贫苦而放弃自由。
Do not to others what you do not wish them to do to you.
己所不欲，勿施於人。
Do not wash dirty linen in public.
家丑不可外扬。
Don’t cast out the foul water till you bring in the clean.
清水未来，莫泼赃水。
Don’t cross the bridge till you get to it.
不要杞人忧天。
Don’t fly till you wings are feathered.
羽毛未丰不要飞。
Don’t halloo till you are out of the wood.
没有脱离危险不要先欢呼。
Don’t have thy cloak to make when it begins to rain.
切莫临时抱佛脚。
Don’t put off till tomorrow what should be done today.
今日事，今日毕。
Don’t speak all you know, but know all you speak.
不要尽言所知，而要尽知所言。
Don’t teach your grandmother to suck eggs.
休要班门弄斧。
Don’t throw out your dirty water before you get in fresh.
清水未打来，赃水莫倒掉。
Don’t trouble trouble until trouble troubles you.
不要自寻烦恼。
Don’t whistle until you are out of the wood.
没有脱离险境，不要过早高兴。
Do one’s level best.
尽力而为。
Dot the i’s and cross the t’s.
一点一划，循规蹈矩。
Doubt is the key of knowledge.
怀疑乃知识的钥匙。
Do well is better than say well.
说得好不如做得好。
Downy lips make thoughtless slips.
嘴上没毛，办事不牢。
Draw not your bow till your arrow is fixed.
事未齐备，切莫妄动。
Draw water with a sieve.
竹篮子打水一场空。
Dreams go by contraries.
梦想总与现实相反。
Drive your business, do not let it drive you.
要推动事业，不要让事业来推动你。
Drop by drop the oceans are filled; stone by stone the walls are built.
滴水汇大海，垒石诛高墙。
Drowning man will catch at a straw.
溺水的人一根草也要抓。
Drunken days have all their tomorrows.
今日花天酒地，明日潦倒穷途。
Drunkenness reveals what soberness conceals.
酒後露真言。
Dumb dogs are dangerous.
哑犬最凶恶。
Dying is as natural as living.
死亡与生存一样自然。
Each bird loves to hear himself sing.
鸟儿都爱听自己唱歌。
Each day brings its own bread.
天无绝人之路。
Eagles catch no flies.
大人物不计较小事情。
Eagles fly alone, but sheep flock together.
鹰单飞，羊群集。
Early mistakes are the seeds of future trouble.
早期的错误可以酿成日後的麻烦。
Early sow, early mow.
播种早的收获早。
Early start makes easy stages.
早开始是成功的保证。
Early wed, early dead.
早婚早夭。
Easier said than done.
说话容易做事难。
East or west, home is best.
在家千日好，出门时时难。
Easy come, easy go.
易得易失。
Eat at pleasure, drink with measure.
随意吃饭，适度饮酒。
Eat one’s cake and have it.
又要马儿好，又要马儿不吃草。
Eat to live, but not live to eat.
吃饭是为了生存，但生存不是为了吃饭。
Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.
吃是使自己受用，穿是使别人受用。
Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.
人的教养始於教育，成於社交。
Education has for its object the formation of character.
教育的目的在於培养品德。
Elbow grease gives the best polish.
只要功夫深，铁杵磨成针。
Empty vessels make the greatest sound.
空桶响声大。
Enough is as good as a feast.
知足常乐。
Envy assails the noblest, the winds howl around the highest peak.
高位遭人妒，高峰招风吹。
Equivocation is first cousin to a lie.
支支吾吾，其言必诈。
Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; he who would search for pearls must dive below.
错误像稻草，漂浮在水面。欲觅珍珠者，须往水下潜。
Even Homer sometimes nods.
人非圣贤，孰能无过。
Even the walls have ears.
隔墙有耳。
Every advantage has its disadvantage.
有利必有币。
Every bean has its black.
人人有其缺点。
Every bird likes its own nest.
人爱其家。
Everybody’s business is nobody’s business.
人人都管，大家不管。
Every brave man is a man of his word.
勇敢的人都是信守诺言的人。
Every bullet has its billet.
无风不起浪。
Every cloud has a silver lining.
山穷水尽疑无路，柳暗花明又一村。
Every cock crows on its own dunghill.
夜郎自大。
Every cook praises his own broth.
自吹自擂。
Every country has its customs.
乡有乡俗。
Every couple is not a pair.
同床异梦，貌合神离。
Every day is not Sunday.
好景不常在，好花不常开。
Every day of thy life is a leaf in thy history.
生命中的一天就是你历史上的一页。
Every dog has his day.
凡人都有得意之日。
Every dog has his day, and every man his hour.
人人都有得意的日子。
Every dog is a lion at home.
夜郎自大。
Every dog is valiant at his won door.
狗在家门前条条都凶悍。
Every door may be shut but death’s door.
除了死门外，每门都可关。
Every extremity is a fault.
万事过分都差误。
Every fool can find faults that wise man cannot remedy.
蠢人也能找出聪明人无法弥补的岔子来的。
Every heart has its own sorrow.
人人都有伤心处。
Every horse thinks his sack heaviest.
每疋马认为自己驮的袋子重。
Every Jack has his Jill.
有情人终成眷属。
Every little makes a mickle.
积少成多。
Every lover sees a thousand graces in the beloved object.
情人眼里出西施。
Every man has a fool in his sleeve.
聪明一世，糊涂一时。
Every man has his faults.
人孰无过。
Every man has his hobby-horse.
人各有所好。
Every man has his liking.
人各有所好。
Every man has his weak side.
人人都有自己的弱点。
Every man has the defects of his qualities.
一个人的好品质上也有不足之处。
Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
每个人都是他自己命运的建诛师。
Every man is the master of his own fortune.
每个人都是他自己的命运的主宰。
Every man is the son of his own works.
种瓜得瓜，种豆得豆。
Every man thinks his own geese swans.
每个人都以为自己的东西了不起。
Every mother’s child is handsome.
老王卖瓜，自卖自夸。
Everyone is dissatisfied with his own fortune.
人对自己的命运总不感满足。
Every one’s faults are not written in their foreheads.
知人知面不知心。
Every pleasure has a pain.
乐中必有苦。
Every potter praises his own pot.
老王卖瓜，自卖自夸。
Every salesman boasts of his own wares.
老王卖瓜，自卖自夸。
Every shoe fits not every foot.
不能以己度人。
Everything comes to him who waits.
安心等待必有好处。
Everything has its seed.
无风不起浪。
Everything has its time and that time must be watched.
任何事情都有好的时机，不要随意放过。
Everything hath an end.
任何事物都有它的结果。
Everything is good in its season.
万物逢时皆美好。
Everything is good when new, but friend when old.
东西新的好，朋友老的好。
Everything is nice in your garden.
老王卖瓜，自卖自夸。
Everything must have a beginning.
凡是都有起源。
Everything new is fine.
新事物总是美好的。
Every tide hath its ebb.
兴盛之日必有衰退之时。
Every tree is known by its own fruit.
观其言行，知其为人。
Every why has a wherefore.
事出有因。
Evil comes to us by ells and goes away by inches.
罪恶来时，尺进寸退。
Evil communications corrupt good manners.
交往恶劣，有损风度。
Evil gotten, evil spent.
悖入悖出。
Example is better than precept.
言教不如身教。
Exchange is no robbery.
公平交易并非强行夺取。
Exercise, temperance, fresh air, and needful rest are the best of all physicians.
锻链、节制、新鲜空气和必要的休息是最好的医生。
Experience is a school from which one can never graduate.
经验无止境。
Experience is the best teacher.
经验是良师。
Experience is the father of wisdom and memory the mother.
经验是知识之父，记忆是知识之母。
Experience is the mother of wisdom.
智慧来自经验。
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools learn in no other.
吃亏学乖代价高，笨汉非此学不好。
Experience keeps no school, she teaches her pupils singly.
亲身经验，才是经验。
Experience must be bought.
若要得经验，必须化代价。
Experience teaches.
经验给人教训。
Experience without learning is better than learning without experience.
有经验而无学问，胜於有学问而无经验。
Extremes are dangerous.
物极必反。
Extremes meet.
否极泰来。
Facts are stubborn things.
事实是不容改变的东西。
Failure is the mother of success.
失败是成功之母。
Fair and softly go far in a day.
谦和稳重，前程远大。
Fair faces need no paint.
貌美毋须修饰。
Faith will move mountains.
精诚所至，金石为开。
Fall sick and you will see who is your friend and who is not.
困难见友情。
False friends are worse than open enemies.
明枪易躲，暗箭难防。
False tongue will hardly speak truth.
虚伪者不肯说真话。
False with one can be false with two.
对一个人虚伪，也会对两个人虚伪。
Fame is a magnifying glass.
名誉是放大镜。
Fame like a river is narrowest at its source and broadest afar off.
名誉像条河，源头最狭窄，远处最宽阔。
Familiar paths and old friends are the best.
熟路好遵循，老友最可珍。
Far from eye, far from heart.
离远而情疏。
Fast bind, fast find.
保存得好，东西好找。
Fasting comes after feasting.
今日有酒今日醉，明日无钱不揭锅。
Fat hens lay few eggs.
肥鸡不下蛋。
Faults are thick where love is thin.
一朝情意淡，样样不顺眼。
Fear is often greater than the danger.
杞人忧天。
Fear not the future; weep not for the past.
不要为未来担忧，不要为过去悲泣。
Feed a cold and starve a fever.
伤风时宜吃，发热时宜饿。
Feed a pig and you’ll have a hog.
种瓜得瓜，种豆得豆。
Feed by measure and defy physician.
饮食有节制，医生无用处。
Few words are best.
少说为妙。
Few words, many deeds.
少说话，多做事。
Fine clothes make the man.
人要衣装。
Fine feathers make fine birds.
人要衣装，佛要金装。
Fine words butter no parsnips.
画饼充饥。
Fine words dress ill deeds.
漂亮的言词可以掩饰恶劣的行为。
Finished labours are pleasant.
大功告成，好不高兴。
Fire and water are good servants, but bad masters.
水火是忠仆，造灾成元凶。
Fire proves gold, adversity proves men.
烈火显真金，逆境识英雄。
Fire that’s closest kept burns most of all.
关得最紧的火，燃烧得最炽烈。
Fire, water, and money are good servants, but bad masters.
水火金钱是忠仆，使用不当是祸首。
First catch your hare, then cook him.
不要谋之过早。
First come, first served.
先来先卖。
First impressions are most lasting.
最初的印象最为持久。
First think, and then speak.
先想後说。
First try, and then trust.
试了才能相信。
Fish begins to stink at the head.
上梁不正下梁歪。
Flattery brings friends, but the truth begets enmity.
奉承惹人喜，直言招人仇。
Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.
追求爱情，它要逃走；逃避爱情，它会跟你。
Fools grow without watering.
笨蛋自然成，无需浇水勤。
Fool’s haste is no speed.
欲速则不达。
Fools have fortune.
戆人有戆福。
Fools make feasts and wise men eat them.
愚者设筵，智者赴宴。
Fools never know when they are well off.
傻瓜永远不知道他们何时能享福。
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
智者裹足不前，愚者铤而走险。
Fools will be fools.
笨蛋总是笨蛋。
Fools will be meddling.
愚者总好无事生非。
For age and want save while you may; no morning sun lasts a whole day.
为了年老和急须，要及时积蓄，因为早晨的太阳，不会整天照耀。
For a lost thing care nothing.
一事之失，不必介意。
Forbidden fruit is sweet.
禁果分外甜。
Force can never destroy right.
暴力绝不能摧毁正义。
Forget not that you are a man.
不要忘记你是一个人。
Forget others’ faults by remembering your own.
想想自己的错，就会忘却别人的过。
Forgive and forget.
不念旧恶。
Forgive others but not yourself.
待人宽，对己严。
Fortune favours fools.
傻子有傻福。
Fortune favours the bold.
勇者天佑。
Fortune is fickle.
天有不测风云，人有旦夕祸福。
Fortune is good to him who knows to make good use of her.
知道利用幸福的人才有幸福。
Fortune knocks once at least at every man’s door.
人人都有鸿运高照之日。
Fortune often rewards with interest those that have patience to wait for her.
只要有耐心，总会走好运。
Fortune smiles upon the brave and frowns upon the coward.
幸运喜欢勇敢的人，而不喜欢怯懦的人。
Fortune to one is mother, to another is stepmother.
命运对一种人如亲娘，对另一种人却是晚娘。
Four eyes see more than two.
人多识广。
Friendless is the dead.
没有朋友者，等於是死人。
Friends are like fiddle-strings, they must not be screwed too tight.
朋友像琴弦，不能太拧紧。
Friends are lost by calling often and calling seldom.
交往过密过疏，都会失去朋友。
Friends are thieves of time.
交朋友，费时间。
Friendship cannot stand always on one side.
来而不往非礼也。
Friendship is love with understanding.
友谊是爱加上谅解。
Friendship multiplies joys and divides griefs.
友谊可以增添欢乐，可以分担忧愁。
Friendship ---- one soul in two bodies.
友谊是两人一条心。
Friendship should not be all on one side.
友谊不该只是单方面的事。
Friendship the older it grows the stronger it is.
友谊地久天长。
Friends may meet, but mountains never greet.
朋友可相逢，高山永分离。
Friends must part.
天下无不散之筵席。
From a little spark may burst a mighty flame.
星星之火可以燎原。
From hearing comes wisdom; from speaking, repentance.
多听增智慧，多言生後悔。
From saving comes having.
富有来自节约。
From short pleasure long repentance.
痛快一时，悔恨终身。
From the father comes honour; from the mother, comfort.
荣誉由父次，安慰由母与。
Frugality is an estate alone.
仅仅节约就是一笔财产。
Fruit ripens not well in the shade.
阴凉处的果子不会成熟。
Full belies make empty skulls.
大腹便便，头脑空虚。
Gain got by a lie will burn one’s fingers.
靠欺骗得来的利益会使自己受害。
Gather ye rosebuds while ye may.
有花堪折直须折。
Genius often betrays itself into great errors.
天才常被天才误。
Gifts from enemies are dangerous.
敌人礼，藏危险。
Give a dog a bad name and hang him.
欲加之罪，何患无词。
Give a fool rope enough and he will hang himself.
授绳与愚，愚能自傅。
Give a lark to catch a kite.
得不偿失。
Give as good as one gets.
以其人之道，还治其人之身。
Give a thief rope enough and he will hang himself.
多行不义必自毙。
Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice.
要多听少说。
Give hostages to fortune.
听天由命。
Glory, honour, wealth, and rank, such things are nothing but shadows.
富贵如浮云。
Glory is the shadow of virtue.
光荣是美德的影子。
God defend me from my friends; form my enemy I can defend myself.
防友靠天，防敌靠己。
God helps those who help themselves.
自助者天助之。
God never shuts one door but he opens another.
天无绝人之路。
God sends fortune to fools.
蠢人有蠢福。
God sends meat and the devil sends cooks.
鲜肉由天次，劣厨乃鬼遣。
Go farther and fare worse.
一动不如一静。
Go for wool and come home shorn.
求得反失。
Gold will not buy everything.
黄金不能购买一切。
Good children make glad parents.
孩子好，父母笑。
Good counsel does no harm.
忠言无害。
Good counsel never comes amiss.
忠言有利无害。
Good counsel never comes too late.
忠言绝不嫌迟。
Good deeds will shine as the stars of heaven.
善行如日月经天。
Good fame is better than a good face.
美名胜美貌。
Good for good every man can do, good for bad only a noble man can do.
以德报德，人人都能做到；以德报怨只有高尚的人才能办到。
Good health is above wealth.
健康重於财富。
Good news goes on crutches.
好事不出门。
Goods are theirs that enjoy them.
能享受自己财产的人是财产的真正主人。
Good to begin well, better to end well.
善始好，善终更好。
Good watch prevents misfortune.
有备无患。
Good wine needs no bush.
酒好客自来。
Good words and ill deeds decieve wise men and fools.
话好行为劣，欺骗智和愚。
Good words without deeds are rushes and reeds.
光说好话而不见行动，一文不值。
Gossiping and lying go hand in hand.
搬事弄非者，必是撒谎人。
Go to bed with the lamb and rise with the lark.
早睡早起。
Govern your thoughts when alone, and your tongue when in company.
一人独处慎於思，与人相处慎於言。
Grain by grain and hen fills her belly.
一粒一粒啄米，母鸡填饱肚皮。
Grasp all, lose all.
贪多必失。
Grasp the nettle and it won’t sting you.
困难像弹簧，你硬它就软。
Grasp the shadow and let go the substance.
舍本逐末。
Grasp the thistle firmly.
毅然处理困难局面。
Great barkers are no biters.
吠犬不咬。
Great boast, small roast.
说得天花乱坠，成事微乎其微。
Great designs require great consideration.
宏伟的计划须要慎重考虑。
Greatest genius often lies concealed.
大智若愚。
Great hopes make great man.
大希望造就大人物。
Great men are not always wise.
伟大的人物未必总是英明的。
Great men have great faults.
伟人也会铸大错。
Great minds think alike.
英雄所见略同。
Great oaks from little acorns grow.
万丈高楼平地起。
Great souls suffer in silence.
伟人受苦，声色不露。
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 winds blow upon high hills.
树大招风。
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 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。
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。
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。
Idle young, needy old.
少壮不努力，老大徒伤悲。
If a donkey bray at you, don’t bray at him.
傻瓜惹著你，你别跟他缠。
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。
I fear the Greeks, even when bringing gifts.
敌人献礼品，千万莫轻信。
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.
重要的并不在於一个人怎样死，而是在於他怎样生。
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.
问道於盲，无益於事。
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 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 the sky fll (or falls), we shall catch larks.
异想天开
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 two men ride on a horse, one must ride behind.
两人同骑一马，必有一人在後。
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.
愿望不等於事实。
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 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 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，於事无济。
If you trust before you try, you may repent before you die.
不试就相信，死前要悔恨。
If you 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 knwledge, you must toil for it.
若要求知识，必须刻苦学习。
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。
Ignorance is the mother of impudence.
厚颜无耻由於愚昧无知。
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。
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 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。
Ill air slays sooner thant the sword.
污浊的空气杀人比刀还要快。
Ill-gotten goods never prosper.
发横财，家不发
Ill (or Evil) gotten, ill (or evil) spent.
悖入悖出。
Ill-gotten wealth never thrives.
悖入悖出。
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。
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。
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。
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。
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 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。
In every beginning think of the end.
思前顾後。
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。
I now know that wars do not end wars.
如今我才弄明白，干戈不能化玉帛。
In prosperity caution, in adversity patience.
处顺境时要小心，处逆境时要耐心。
Interest will not lie.
兴趣不会说谎。
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.
酒後吐真言。
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。
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。
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 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 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 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.
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 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.
事後追悔不如事前稳妥。
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 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 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.
当事後诸葛亮容易。
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.
事後诸葛亮，预言顶便当。
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，後车之鉴。
It is harder to marry a daughter well than to bring her up well.
养女容易嫁女难。
It is hard to please all parties.
取悦各方，谈何容易。
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 no honour for an eagle to vanquish a dove.
老鹰胜鸽，不足为荣。
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 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 no use crying over spilt milk.
泼水难收。
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.
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 too late to cast anchor when the ship is on the rock.
船触礁後在抛锚，为时已经太晚了。
It is too late to come with the water when the house is burnt down.
马後炮。
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’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 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 not the gay coat that makes the gentleman.
君子重德不重衣。
It’s no use pumping a dry well.
徒劳无益。
It takes all sorts to make a world.
万千事物，形成世界。
It takes two to make a quarrel.
要有两个人才吵得起来。
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，後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。
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。
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。
Jadge not a book by its cover.
人不可貌相。
Judge not according to the appearance.
不要以貌取人。
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 thing seven years and you will find a use for it.
备而不用。
Keep good men company, and you shall be of the number.
近朱者赤。
Keeping is harder than winning.
创业不易，守业更难。
Keep some till more come.
更多的到手以前，要保持手里的一点。
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，婚後半闭月。
Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open.
要多看少说。
Kill the goose that laid the golden egg.
杀鸡取蛋
Kind hearts are more than coronets.
善良的心灵胜於显贵的地位。
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。
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。
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。
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 experience alone.
知识来自经验。
Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in an advanced age; and if we do not plant it when young, it will give us no shade when we grow old.
学识可使老年时舒适地退隐和有所寄托；但如果年青时不使它扎下根，老年就得不到它的庇护。
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.
知识令人谦虚；无知使人骄傲。
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。
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。
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.
後悔少有诚意。
Laugh and grow fat.
心宽体胖。
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。
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。
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。
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 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 labour lost; thought without learning is perilous.
学而不思则罔，思而不学则殆。
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 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。
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’s cross the bridge when we come to it.
既来之，则安之。
Let sleeping dogs lie.
不要惹事生非。
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。
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 have short legs.
谎言是站不住脚的。
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 voyage.
人生好比是航海。
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 long if you know how to use it.
如果懂得好好利用，生命就长了。
Life if made up of little things.
生活是由琐事构成的。
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 all beer and skittles.
人生并不全是吃喝玩乐。
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, 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。
Life without a friend is death without a witness.
在世无朋友，死後无证人。
Lightly come, lightly go.
易得易失。
Light troubles speak; great troubles are silent.
小困难，大声叫嚷；大困难，闷生不响。
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.
物以类聚。
Like draws to like the whole world over.
物以类聚，世间皆如此。
Like father, like son.
有其父必有其子。
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。
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。
Littel chips light great fires.
星星之火，可以燎原。
Little pigeons can carry great messages.
少年也可以成大事。
Little pitchers have great (or large) ears.
小孩子耳朵长。
Little strokes fell great oaks.
水滴石穿。
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 wealth, little care.
财少寡忧。
Live and let live.
自己生活，也要让他人生活。
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; see before you go.
三思而行。
Lookers-on see more than players.
旁观者清。
Lookers-on see most of the games.
旁观者清。
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。
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 wealth can be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone for ever.
失去的财富可由勤奋而恢复，失去的知识可由学习而恢复，失去的健康可由节制或药物而恢复，但失去的时间却一去永不复返。
Love all, trust a few, be false to none.
要爱一切人，相信少数人，不要负於任何人。
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 begets love.
爱爱相生。
Love cannot be forced
爱情不强求。
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 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。
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。
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。
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，敏於听而慎於言。
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 haste slowly.
从容赶急。
Make hay while the sun shines.
趁热打铁。
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.
使你有益於人。
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。
Manners make the man.
礼貌造就人。
Man proposes, God disposes.
谋事在天，成事在人。
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 ants kill the horse.
蚁多可杀马。
Many a true word is spoken in jest.
戏言寓真理。
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 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 straws may bind an elephant.
草多可缚象。
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。
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.
婚姻是一件难於预料的事。
Marriage is a lottery with more blanks than prizes.
结婚如同摸彩票，空票多而中票少。
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 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.
草率结婚後悔多。
Marry in lent, and you’ll live to repent.
借债结婚，後悔一生。
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 thrice before you cut once.
三思而後行。
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, at soome time, are masters of their fates.
人有时是自己命运的主人。
Men know where they were born, not where they shall die.
人能知其生於何地，不能知其死於何方。
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。
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。
Misfortunes come at night.
灾祸常生於不测。
Misforunes come on horseback and go away on foot.
遭灾易，消灾难。
Misfortunes (or Hardships) never (or seldom) come alone (or singly).
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。
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 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.
往往由於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 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.
有钱能讲话。
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.
烦恼发乎内者多於发乎外。
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。
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 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 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, time, and patience are the three great physicians.
自然，时间和耐心，是三大伟大的医生。
Nature will have its course.
天行其道。
Naughty boys sometimmmes make good men.
顽皮淘气的男孩子有时成为仁人君子。
Necessity and oportunity may make a coward valient.
需要和机会可能使懦夫变成勇士。
Necessity (or Need) has (or knows) no law.
需要面前无法律。
Necessity is the mother of invention
穷则变，变则通。
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。
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 fry a fish till it’s caught.
捉到鱼，才煎鱼。
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 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 (or Don’t) trouble trouble till trouble troulbes you.
切莫自寻麻烦。
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。
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 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 (or one) is born wise or learned.
人非生而知之者。
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 (or one) 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。
None are so deaf as those who will not hear.
不愿倾听意见者最聋。
None but a wise man can employ leisure well.
唯智者善於利用空闲。
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，但最善於说教。
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。
No news is good news.
没有消息就是好消息。
No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectlymoral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.
所有的人自由後，才能完全自由；所有的人都有道德，才能完全合乎道德；所有的人都幸福了，才能真正幸福。
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 (or man) is born wise or learned.
人非生而知之者。
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 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。
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。
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 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。
Nothing brave, nothing have.
不入虎穴，焉得虎子。
Nothing comes amiss to a hungry man.
饥不择食。
Nothing comes from (or of) nothing.
无风不起浪。
Nothing comes out of the sack but what was in it.
无风不起浪。
Nothing comes wrong to a hungry man.
饥不择食。
Nothing crave, nothing have.
有求才有应。
Nothing for nothing and very little for a half penny.
一分钱，一分货。
Nothing is difficult to a man who wills.
世上无难事，只怕有心人。
Nothing is impossible to willing mind (or heart).
有志者事竟成。
Nothing is impossible (or difficult) to the man who will try.
天下无难事，只怕不努力。
Nothing is really beautiful but truth.
只有真理才是真美。
Nothing is stolen without hands.
无风不起浪。
Nothing must be done hastily but killing of fleas.
除非消灭跳蚤，做事不必急躁。
Nothing seek, nothing find.
无所求，则无所获。
Nothing so bad, as not to be good for something.
塞翁失马，安知非福。
Nothing so necessary for travellers as languages.
旅行者最需要的是几种语言。
Nothing succeeds like success.
一事成功，事事顺利。
Nothing to be got without pains but poverty.
只有贫困可以不劳而获得。
Nothing venture, nothing win (or have or gain).
不入虎穴，焉得虎子。
Nothing will come of nothing.
无风不起浪。
No time like the present.
只争朝夕。
Not let the grass grow under one’s feet.
不失时机。
Novelty is the great parent of pleasure.
新奇生乐趣。
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 wisdom like silence.
智者寡言。
No wrong without remedy.
无错不可纠。
Oaks may fall when reeds stand the storm.
树大招风。
Obedience is the first duty of a soldier.
服从是军人的第一职责。
Observation is the best teacher.
观察为良师。
Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.
人生最可宝贵的是声誉，躯体入土後，声誉犹存。
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。
Offence is the best defence.
进攻是最好的防御。
Of nothing comes nothing.
无中不能生有。
Often and little eating makes a man fat.
少吃多餐，身强体胖。
Of two evils choose the least.
权衡两害，取其轻者。
Of young men die many, of old men escape not any.
年轻人死得不少，而年迈者是在劫难逃。
Old bees yield no honey.
老蜂不酿蜜。
Old birds are not caught with new nests.
新巢捉不到老鸟。
Old birds are not to be caught with shaff.
老谋是不会失算的。
Older and wiser.
越老越聪明。
Old foxes want no tutors.
老狐狸不需要教师。
Old friends and old wine are best.
古交友情深，陈酒香味醇。
Old love will not be forgotten.
旧情永难忘。
Old vessels must leak.
旧船必漏。
Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
老柴最好烧，陈酒最好饮，老友最可靠，老作家的书最好读。
Old wood is best to burn, old book to read.
老柴好烧，老书宜读。
Old wood is best to burn, old horse to ride.
老柴好烧，老马好骑。
O liberty, how many crimes have been committed in thy name!
自由啊！假你的名义犯了多少罪啊！
Omelets are not made without breaking eggs.
有失才有得。
Once a devil, always a devil.
一次做魔鬼，永远是魔鬼。
Once a knave, ever a knave.
一朝失足，铸成千古恨。
Once a man and twice a child.
一次为成人，两度当小孩。
Once bit, twice shy.
一朝被蛇咬，三年怕草绳。
Once is no custom.
一次不成例。
Once on shore, we pray no more.
一旦上了岸，就不再祈祷。
One barking dog sets all street a-barking.
一狗吠声响，狗吠满街坊。
One beats the bush, and another catches the birds.
坐享其成。
One boy is more trouble than a dozen girls.
一个男孩比十二个女孩还要麻烦。
One cannot always be a hero, but one can always be a man.
人难一世称雄，但可一生为人。
One cannot do a foolish thing once in one’s life, but one must hear of it a hundred times.
为人一生一件蠢事也不做，但要听到上百遍蠢事。
One cannot eat one’s cake and have it.
事难两全其美。
One cannot get blood from a stone.
石头里抽不出血。
One cannot make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.
朽木不可雕。
One cannot make bricks without straw.
巧妇难为无米之炊。
One cannot put back the clock.
光阴一去不复返。
One chick keeps a hen busy.
一只小鸡已够母鸡辛忙。
One cloud is enough to eclipse all the sun.
一叶可障目。
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。
One drop of poison infects the whole tun of wine.
一滴之毒，毒染整桶之酒。
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。
One enemy is too much.
一个敌人也太多。
One false move may lose the game.
一著不慎，满盘皆输。
One false step will make a great difference.
失之毫厘，谬以千里。
One father can support ten children, ten children cannot support one father.
一个父亲能扶养十个孩子，十个孩子却不能赡养一个父亲。
One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
一个父亲胜於一百个教师。
One flower makes no garland.
一木不能成林。
One foe is too many; and a hundred friends too few.
朋友成百犹觉少，仇敌一人已嫌多。
One fool makes many.
一人傻，傻大家。
One foot is better than two crutches.
一只脚胜过两根拐杖。
One good head is better than a hundred strong hands.
上百双有力的手，不如一个聪明的头脑。
One good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters.
一个好的母亲顶得上一百个教师。
One good turn deserves another.
以德报德。
One half of the world does not know how the other half lives.
贫富不相知。
One has lived too near a wood to be frightened by owls.
深知底蕴，不以为怪。
One honest word is better than two oaths.
两句誓言不如一句实话。
One hour’s sleep before midnight is worth three after.
午夜前睡一小时抵得上午夜後睡三小时。
One hour today is worth two tomorrow.
今天的一个小时抵得上明天的两个小时。
One love drives out another.
新爱逐旧欢。
One man makes a chair and another man sits in it.
坐享其成。
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。
One man’s meat is another man’s poison.
一个人的佳肴常为另一人的毒药。
One may sooner fall than rise.
跌倒容易爬起难。
One may think that dares not speak.
人可思其不敢言者。
One misfortune comes on the neck of another.
祸不单行。
One must draw the line somewhere.
人之所为，总有限度。
One must drink as one brews.
自作自受。
One must howl with the wolves.
入乡随俗。
One never loses anything by politeness.
有礼貌对自己不会吃亏。
One never loses by doing a good turn.
行善者决无一失。
One penny witgh right is better than a thousand without right.
合法得来一个钱，胜过非法钱一千。
One ploughs, another sow; who will reap no one knows.
有的耕，有的播，谁来收获很难说。
One rotten apple spoils the whole barrel.
一只烂苹果烂一萝苹果。
One should eat to live, not live to eat.
人为生而食，非为食而生。
One sin opens the door for another.
一个罪恶常为另一个罪恶开门。
One’s mantle falls on somebody.
春风化雨。
One sows another reaps.
不劳而获。
One swallow does not make a summer.
一燕不成夏。
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。
One today is worth two tomorrows.
今天一天抵明天两天。
One who can do everything can do nothing.
什麽都能做，什麽都不行。
One woe doth tread upon another’s heels.
祸不单行。
One wrong (or false) move can lose the whole game.
棋错一著，全盘皆输。
One wrong thought may cause a lifelong regret.
一念之错可铸终生之恨。
Only that which is honestly got is gain.
正当的收入才是真正的收入。
Only they who fulfill their duty in everday matters will fulfill them on great occasions.
只有在日常事务上尽责的人，才能在重大事情上尽责。
On the choice of friends. Our good or evil name depends.
朋友的选择可影响名誉的好坏。
On the great clock of time there is but one word, “Now.”
在伟大的时钟上，只有一个词，就是“现在”。
Open confession is good for the soul.
坦白交代，身心愉快。
Open not your door when the devil knocks.
不要受人的诱惑。
Opportunity makes the thief.
疏忽招盗贼。
Opportunity, sooner or later, comes to all who work and wish.
只要努力工作而有志向，机会迟早终会来临。
Other men live to eat, while I eat to live.
别人为食而生活，我为生活而食。
Our affections are our life. – We live by them; they supply our warmth.
我们的感情，是我们的生命，我们靠它生存，我们的温暖是它供应。
Our best friends are they who tell us our faults and help us to mend them.
最好的朋友是指出我们的缺点并帮助改正的人。
Our bravest and best lessons are not learnt through success, but through misadventure.
最美好的教训不是得之於成功，而是来之於不幸。
Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
我们最大的光荣并不在於永不跌倒，而在於每次跌倒後能起来。
Our happiness consists not in killing others, but in sacrificing ourselves for others.
我们最大幸福并不是杀害别人，而是为别人而牺牲自己。
Our own actions are our security, not others’ judgements.
我们的行为是自己的保证而不是别人的鉴定。
Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
最甜美的的歌是诉说最悲伤的哀思。
Out of debt, out of danger.
无债一身轻。
Out of sight, out of mind.
久违情疏。眼不见，心不烦？
Overdone is worse than undone.
过犹不及。
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。
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.
身教胜於言教。
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。
Prevention is better than cure.
预防胜於治疗。
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。
Quality is better than quantity.
质重於量。
Quarrels of lovers but renew their love.
情人争争吵吵，自会言归於好。
Quick at meal, quick at work.
吃得快，做得快。
Quick feet and busy hands fill the mouth.
手勤脚快，嘴里吃饱。
Quietness is best.
宁静最好。
Quietude is the crown of life.
安静是生命的皇冠。
Rain before seven; fine before eleven.
雨过天晴。
Rain comes after sunshine, and after a dark cloud, a clear sky.
晴日之後有雨水，乌云过去见青天。
Rats leave (or desert or forsake) a sinking ship.
船沈鼠先窜。
Readiness is all.
有备无患。
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
读书养神，锻链健身。
Reading makes a full amn, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.
博览群书使人完美无瑕，冥思苦想让人深刻精邃，论证阐述让人头脑清晰。
Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.
读书使人渊博，交谈使人机敏，写作使人严谨。
Read not books alone, but men.
不要光是读书，还要识人。
Ready money is a ready medicine.
现钱等於成药。
Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily, it must be worked for, studied for, thought for, and more than all, must be prayed for.
真正的学问，像其他一切有价值的东西一样，是不容易得到的，必须学习、钻研、思考，最重要的是必须有迫切的要求。
Reap as (or what) one has sown.
自食其果。
Rear sons for help in old age; and store up grains against famine.
养儿防老。
Reason binds the man.
理智约束著人。
Reason deceives us often, conscience never.
理性常骗人，良心永不欺。
Reason governs the wise man a cudgels the fool.
理智指导聪明人，而且打击愚蠢汉。
Reason is the guide and light of life.
理智是人生的响导和光辉。
Reason rules all things.
情理管万事。
Reckless youth makes rueful age.
虚度青春，悔恨无已。
Remember thou are but a man.
记住你自己只不过是一个人。
Repentance is good, but innocence is better.
悔罪虽好，无罪更佳。
Repetition is the mother of knowledge.
反覆学习是知识之源。
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。
Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.
应该做的决心做，决心做的务必做。
Respect yourself, or no one else will respect you.
君须自敬，人乃敬之。
Responsibility must be shouldered; you cannot carry it under your arms.
责任必须负在肩上，不能挟在腋下。
Rest breeds rust.
停止须生锈。
Revolutions are not made with rose water.
革命不是绣花。
Riches do not always bring happiness.
富未必永远带幸福。
Riches either serve or govern the possessor.
财富可以侍候主人，也可以支配主人。
Riches have wings.
财富难保。
Riches serve a wise man but command a fool.
财富事智者，却又驭蠢人。
Rivers need a spring.
大河要有源头。
Roll my log and I’ll roll yours.
互相吹嘘。
Rome was not built in a (or one) day.
罗马不是一日建成的。
Run (or Hold) with the hare and hunt (or run) with the hounds.
两面讨好。
Being on sea, sail; being on land, settle.
随遇而安。
希望偶能做到啦。
受教！
Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.
有热情而无知识，犹如有火焰而无光芒。
Lying is the first step to the gallows.
说谎是上断头台的第一步。
Waste not,want not.
俭以防匮。
From saving comes having.
富有来自节俭。
A penny saved is a penny gained.
省一文是一文。
Take care of the pence and the pound will take care of themselves.
金钱积少便成多。
Frugality is an estate alone.
节俭本身就是一宗财产。
He that regards not a penny,will lavish a pound.
小钱不知节省，大钱将滥花。
Small gains bring great wealth.
积小利，成巨富。
Many a little makes a mickle.
积少便成多。
As the touchstone tries gold,so gold tries man.
试金之石可试金，正如黄金能试人。
Courage and resolution are the spirit and soul of virtue.
勇敢和坚决是美德的灵魂。
The path to glory is always rugged.
光荣之路常坎坷。
Nothing is difficult to the man who will try.
世上无难事，只要人肯试。
The fire is the test of gold;adversity of strong man.
烈火试真金，困苦炼壮士。
Great hopes make great man.
远大的希望造就伟大的人物。
No way is impossible to courage.
勇士面前无险路。
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
平静的大海决不能造就出熟练的水手。
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。
The best hearts are always the bravest.
行为最勇敢的人心地总是最善良。
We must not lie down,and cry,God help us.
求神不如求己。
He that falls today may be up again tomorrow.
今天跌倒的人也许明天就会站起。
Rome was not built in a day.
罗马并非一日可建成；坚持必成。
Success belongs to the persevering.
胜利属于坚忍不拔的人。
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。
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。
Step by step the ladder is ascended.
登梯需要逐级登。
Adversity leads to prosperity.
困苦通向昌盛。
Patience and application will carry us through.
忍耐和专心会使我们度过难关。
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。
All things will come round to him who will but wait.
只要肯等待，一切都会按时来。
Constant dropping wears the stone.
滴水不绝可穿石。
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。
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。
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。
Life is sweet.
生活是可爱的；人无不好生(恶死)。
Where there is life,there is hope.
生命不息，希望长在。
Life is not all beer and skittles.
人生并不全是吃喝玩乐。
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。
Fortune knocks once at least at every man’s door.
人人都有走运的一天。
If you are too fortunate,you will not know yourself;if you are too unfortunate,nobody will know you.
运气太好，见人不睬；运气太坏，无人理会。
Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
每一个人都是自身幸福的建筑师。
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。
Misfortunes never (seldom) come alone (single).
祸不单行。
Misfortune is a good teacher.
不幸是良好的教师。
Misfortunes come at night.
祸常生于不测。
Misfortunes tell us what fortune is.
恶运临头后，才知幸运贵。
Adversity makes a man wise,not rich.
患难能使人聪明，但不能使人富有。
Live and learn.
活到老，学到老。
It is never too old to learn.
为学不怕年高。
A man becomes learned by asking questions.
要长学问，就得多问；多问则业精。
There is no royal road to learning.
学问无坦途。
He who is ashamed of asking is ashamed of learning.
畏问之人耻于学。
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。
Learning makes a good man better and ill man worse.
知识能使好人更好，坏人更坏。
Soon learnt,soon forgotten.
学得快，忘得快。
Learn young,learn fair.
为学趁年青，既学须学好。
A lazy youth,a lousy age.
少时懒惰老来苦。
He that knows nothing,doubts nothing.
无知即无疑。
A good name keeps its luster in the dark.
良好的名声在黑暗中也能闪闪发光。
Fame is a magnifying glass.
名誉是放大镜。
A good fame is better than a good face.
美名胜于美貌。
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。
Take honour from me and my life is done.
没有名誉，就没有了生命。
Beware of him who regards not his reputation.
要谨防不重名誉的人。
It is better to die with honour than to live in infamy.
光荣的死胜于羞辱的生。
Adversity successfully overcome is the highest glory.
成功地克服困难是最大的光荣。
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。
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。
Never trust another what you should do yourself.
自己该做的事，决不要委托给旁人做。
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。
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。
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。
Never trust to fine words.
切勿轻信漂亮话。
Trust not a great weight to a slender thread.
细线挂重物，终究不可靠。
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。
Trust thyself only,and another shall not betray thee.
只要信任你自己，旁人才不出卖你。
Self-trust is the essence of heroism.
自信为英雄品质之本。
Confidence is a plant of slow growth.
信任是一种生长缓慢的植物。
Truth is the daughter of time.
真理是时间的女儿。
Truth hath a good face,but ill clothes.
真理面目善良；但衣衫褴褛。
Truth and roses have thorns about them.
真理和玫瑰，身旁都有刺。
Truth may be blamed,but shall never be shamed.
真理可能会被责难，但绝不会受羞辱。
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。
Truth will prevail.
真理必胜。
Truth’s best ornament is nakedness.
不加掩饰乃是真理的最好装饰。
Facts are stubborn things.
事实是最顽强的东西。
Sooner or later,the truth comes to light.
真相迟早会大白。
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。
Falsehood like a nettle stings those who meddle with it.
谎言似荨麻，玩弄会刺手。
There is many a fair thing full false.
有许多说得好听的东西充满了谬误。
Though a lie be well drest,it is ever overcome.
谎言装扮虽不错，到头总会被揭露。
A lie begets a lie till they come to generations.
谎言生谎言，谎言世代传。
A false tongue will hardly speak truth.
假舌不会吐真言。
False with one can be false with two.
对一个人虚假，也会对两个人虚假。
He that will lie will steal.
会说谎的人也就会偷窃。
Gossiping and lying go together.
流言常和谎话并行。
Equivocation is first cousin to a lie.
含糊其词是谎话的近亲。
A great talker is a great liar.
最会夸夸其谈的人也最会说谎。
The greatest liars talk most of themselves.
最爱自吹自擂的人是最大的说谎者。
Lying rides upon debt’s back.
负债的人谎话多。
All is not gold that glitters.
闪光未必尽黄金。
Money is the root of evil.
金钱是罪恶的根源。
Money makes the mare go.
有钱能使鬼推磨。
All things are obedient to money.
一切事物都服从于金钱。
Before gold,even kings take off their hats.
在黄金面前，国王也要脱帽。
Money is the key that opens all doors.
金钱是打开一切门户的钥匙。
Beauty is potent,but money is more potent.
美貌固有力，金钱力更大。
Avarice increases with wealth.
越有钱，越贪钱。
The money the miser hoards will do him no good.
守财奴积财，对自己毫无好处。
What is wealth good for,If it brings melancholy?
财富如带忧郁来，有了财富有何用？。
Gold will not buy anything.
黄金不能买尽一切。
The chief aim of man is not to get money.
人的主要目的并不是赚钱。
Those who believe money can do everything are frequently prepared to do everything for money.
相信金钱万能的人，往往会一切为了金钱。
Wealth makes worship.
财富能使人拜倒。
Little wealth,little care.
财富少，烦恼也少。
A moneyless man goes fast through the market.
身上无钱过市快。
Poverty is not a crime.
贫非罪。
Poverty is not a disgrace,but theft is a disgrace.
贫穷不可耻，偷窃乃足羞。
Better be poor than wicked.
宁可做穷人，不可做坏人。
Poverty is not a sufficient cause for disgrace,but poverty without resolution to help onself,is a disgrace.
贫穷不足为耻，穷而不能自立方可耻。
Poverty is the mother of health.
贫穷是健康之母。
Be considerate toward the poor.
应常为穷人着想。
Poor and content is rich and rich enough.
人能安贫就是富。
Poverty parteth fellowship.
贫穷断友情。
Poverty makes a man mean.
贫困使人小气。
Nothing to be got without pains but poverty.
只有贫穷是可以不劳而获的东西。
Do not through fear of poverty surrender liberty.
不要因为怕贫困而舍去自由。
Poverty and love are hard to hide.
贫困与爱情，都难瞒过人。
Poverty breeds strife.
贫困引起冲突。
The poor man wants much,the miser everything.
穷人要求多，财迷则样样都要。
The dainties of the great are the tears of the poor.
富人口中的美味是穷人眼中的泪水。
Poverty on an old man’s back is a heavy burden.
老而贫困，负担最沉。
Beggars must (should) be no choosers.
行乞的哪能挑肥拣瘦；饥不择食。
A lamb is as dear to a poor man as an ox to the rich.
穷人眼中的一只羊，贵似富人一头牛。
A light purse makes a heavy heart.
钱袋轻时心事重。
Poor without debt is better than a prince.
穷人无债胜王子。
Happy is he who owes nothing.
无债一身轻。
Money borrowed is soon sorrowed.
借钱才到手，立刻便担忧。
He that goes a borrowing,goes a sorrowing.
向人借债是自寻烦恼。
Better go to bed supperless than rise in debt.
与其负债起身，不如空腹上床。
Out of debt,out of danger.
脱债就脱险。
A pound of care will not pay an ounce of debt.
深忧偿不了小债。
He is the wisest man who does not think himself so.
不自作聪明便是最聪明。
Wise men have their mouth in their heart,fools their heart in their mouth.
聪明人嘴在心里，愚蠢人心在嘴边。
Wise men learn by other men’s mistakes;fools by their own.
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。
He is wise that knows when he’s well enough.
知足为智者。
A wise man cares not for what he cannot have.
智者不强求。
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。
No man is born wise.
聪明非天生。
A wise man will make tools of what comes to hand.
能随机应变的人是聪明人。
A word is enough to the wise.
对明智者一言已足。
He is the wise man who is the honest man.
正直的人就是有见识的人。
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。
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。
A flow of words is no proof of wisdom.
口若悬河，不能证明真有才智。
It is easy to be wise after the event.
事后的诸葛亮容易做。
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。
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。
A fool always comes short of his reckoning.
愚人常短于心计。
A fool’s heart dances on his lips.
愚人的心挂在唇边。
A fool always finds a greater fool than himself.
愚人总以为旁人比自己更傻。
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。
The more riches a fool hath,the greater fool he is.
愚人越富越蠢。
Never challenge a fool to do wrong.
不要怂恿愚人干错事。
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。
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。
‘Tis altogether vain to learn wisdom and yet live foolishly.
枉自学聪明，却做愚蠢事。
Wit without learning is like a tree without fruit.
没有学识的机智，犹如没有果实的树。
No man is wise at all times.
世上无一贯明智的人。
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。
Virtue never grows old.
美德永不老。
Virtue is the only true nobility.
万事不如美德高。
Virtue is a jewel of great price.
美德乃是无价宝。
He that soweth virtue shall reap fame.
播下美德，收获名望。
To be virtuous is to do good.
行善即是有德。
Glory is the shadow of virtue.
荣誉是美德的影子。
There is no virtue that poverty destroyeth not.
没有贫穷不能破坏的美德。
The first step to virtue is to abstrain from vice.
不作恶是走向美德的第一步。
No good building without a good foundation.
基础不良的好建筑物是没有的。
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。
He that returns good for evil obtains the victory.
胜利属于以德报怨的人。
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。
If they say you are good,ask yourself if it be true.
若有人称赞，自问对不对。
He who avoids temptation avoids the sin.
不受诱惑就免于罪恶。
A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder.
问心无愧，打雷也能睡。
Never be weary of well doing.
不要厌倦做好事。
Of evil grain,no good seed can come.
坏谷无好种。
That which is evil is soon learnt.
恶行易学。
No vice goes alone.
恶事不单行。
An evil lesson is soon learned.
恶习易染。
A bad thing never dies.
坏事传千年。
Evil comes to us by ells and goes away by inches.
罪恶于人，尺进寸退。
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。
They that do nothing learn to do ill.
游手好闲，容易学坏。
A wicked man is his own hell.
坏人作恶，自造地狱。
Those who eat best and drink best often do worst.
吃得好，喝得好，坏事常常免不了。
He who has done ill once will do it again.
一次干坏事，便有第二次。
There is no going heaven in a sedan.
坐轿上天堂，从来无此事。
An ill life,an ill end.
恶有恶报。
A wilful fault has no excuse and deserves no pardon.
不能宽恕故意犯下的错误。
Pardoning the bad is injuring the good.
隐恶败善；原谅坏人即是伤害好人。
The evil wound is cured but not the evil name.
重伤可治，恶名难去。
Evil communications corrupt good manners.
不良的交往败坏良好的举止。
No wrong without remedy.
有过皆可补。
Virtue flies from the heart of a mercenary man.
唯利是图者，胸中无美德。
First think,and then speak.
动口先动脑。
A word spoken is past recalling(The words once spoken can never be recalled).
一言既出，驷马难追。
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。
Speech is silver,silence is gold.
言语是银，沉默是金。
Few words are best.
寡言为贵。
No wisdom like silence.
聪明莫过沉默。
Least said,soonest mended.
少说为妙。
Second thoughts are best.
再思而后行。
Look before you leap.
慎思而后行。
He is a wise man who speaks little.
智多言语少。
Fair words butter no parsnips.
美言无补实际。
The tongue is not made of steel,yet it cuts.
舌头不是钢，一动把人伤。
Sometimes words hurt more than swords.
言语能伤人，有时胜刀剑。
A good tongue is a good weapon.
口齿伶俐，是件利器。
A wise head makes a close mouth.
头脑灵，嘴巴紧。
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。
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。
Better say nothing than nothing to the purpose.
与其说话不中肯，不如半句也莫吭。
Many a true word is spoken in jest.
笑语之中吐真言。
Few words,many deeds.
少说话，多做事。
Actions speak louder than words.
行动比言语响亮；百说不如一干。
From words to deeds is a great space.
言行之间，大有距离。
Deeds,not words.
要行动，不要言词。
Bare words,no bargain.
空言不能成交易。
Deeds are fruits,words are but leaves.
行动是果实，言语只是叶子。
Ill deeds cannot honour.
坏行为不受尊敬。
Fine words dress ill deeds.
漂亮的言词装饰着恶劣的行为。
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。
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。
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。
A man is not good or bad for one action.
不能凭一件事判断人的好坏。
A man apt to promise is apt to forget.
易于许诺的人也易于忘记。
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。
Easier said than done.
说易行难。
The greatest talkers are always the least doers.
大言不惭的总是行动最少的人。
The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
布丁好坏，一尝便知；空谈不如实践。
Pride goes before a fall.
骄者必败。
Pride goes before destruction.
骄者必败。
Pride goeth before,and shame cometh after.
骄傲走在前，羞耻跟在后。
Pride and grace dwelt never in one place.
傲慢和温雅，永难住一处。
He that climbs high falls heavily.
爬得高，跌得重。
Pride must be pinched.
骄傲应收敛。
The more noble the more humble.
越高贵，越应谦逊。
Humility often gains more than pride.
谦逊常比傲慢受益更多。
He who imagines that he has knowledge enough has none.
自命万事通，腹中常空空。
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。
Pride may lurk under a threadbare cloak.
骄傲可能会潜藏在穿旧的斗篷下。
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。
He that is full of himself is very empty.
自满之人腹内空。
Honesty is the best policy.
诚实为上策。
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。
Poor but honest.
虽贫穷，要诚实。
Honesty may be dear bought,but can never be an ill pennyworth.
高价买诚实，永远也值得。
Knavery may serve,but honesty is best.
欺诈可能有用，诚实却是上策。
Every man has his weak side.
人人都有自己的弱点。
He who has no shame has no conscience.
不知羞耻的人不知自疚。
An honest look covereth many faults.
一副诚实的外表掩盖着许多缺点。
Once a knave,ever a knave.
一次成无赖，永远是无赖。
A crafty knave needs no broker.
狡猾的无赖不需要有中间人。
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。
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。
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。
Love is blind.
爱情是盲目的。
Love is without reason.
爱情无理智。
Love is full of trouble.
爱情充满了烦恼。
Love cannot be compelled.
爱情不能强迫。
Love begets love.
爱爱相生。
Love needs no teaching.
爱情不需教导。
Love at first sight.
一见倾心。
Love asks faith,and faith firmness.
爱情要求信任，信任要求坚定。
Love is the touchstone of virtue.
爱情是美德的试金石。
Love not at the first look.
不要一见钟情。
Hasty love,soon cold.
爱得匆忙冷得快。
Love is a sweet torment.
爱情是一种甜蜜的痛苦。
Love rules his kingdom without a sword.
爱情的王国不用刀剑来统治。
Love will find out the way.
爱情自会寻出路。
Love is not to be found in the market.
爱情在市场上找不到。
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。
Old love will not be forgotten.
旧情永难忘；往日的爱情难以忘怀。
True love kythes(=shows itself)in time of need.
患难显真情。
Sound love is not soon forgotten.
坚固的爱情不会顷刻忘怀。
The greatest hate springs from the greatest love.
最大的恨来自最大的爱。
No love is foul,nor prison fair.
没有肮脏的爱情，也没有美丽的监狱。
Labour is lihgt where love doth pay.
爱情付报酬，劳苦也轻松。
Love is the reward of love.
爱就是爱的报酬。
Love makes all hard hearts gentle.
爱情把一切冷酷之心变成温柔。
When love puts in,friendship is gone.
爱情进入，友情完结。
The course of true love never did run smooth.
真爱的道路绝不平坦。
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。
True love is giving,not taking.
真挚的爱是给，不是取。
Love makes obedience easy.
爱情使顺从成为易事。
Love is sweet in the beginning,but sour in the end.
爱情先甜后来酸。
Where love fails,we espy all faults.
爱情一失败，一切毛病都发现。
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。
When poverty comes in at the door,love flies out of the window.
贫穷一进门，爱情跳窗走。
Faults are thick while love is thin.
一朝情义淡，样样不顺眼。
Hatred is blind as well as love.
爱情和仇恨，二者皆盲目。
Marriage is a lottery.
婚姻是一桩难于预测的事。
Marry thy like.
跟你情投意合的人结婚。
Marriage makes or mars a man.
婚姻成全人，也能损害人。
It is good to marry late or never.
晚婚或不婚，都是好事情。
Early wed,early dead.
早婚者早夭。
They that marry in green,their sorrow is soon seen.
年纪轻轻就结婚，为时不久便悔恨。
A young man married is a man that’s marred.
男子早婚，种下祸根。
Marry in haste,and repent at leisure.
匆匆结婚，时时悔恨。
Marry in lent,and you’ll live to repent.
借债结婚，一生悔恨。
He that marries for wealth,sells his liberty.
为财富而结婚的人，出卖了自己的自由。
An ill marriage is a spring of ill fortune.
不良的婚姻是恶运的来源。
Who marrieth for love without money,hath good nights and sorry days.
为了爱情，无钱结婚，夜来欢娱，白天悔恨。
If you always say “NO”,never be married.
常常说“不”字，永远难结婚。
Honest men marry soon,wise men not at all.
老实的人早成婚，聪明的人不结婚。
A good wife and health is a man’s best wealth.
贤妻和健康是男子的至宝。
A good wife makes a good husband.
有好妻子就有好丈夫；妻贤夫自良。
Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.
选择妻子，最好用耳不用眼。
Better be half hanged than ill wed.
与其成怨偶，不如守单身。
He who does not honour his wife,dishonours himself.
不尊重自己妻子的人，自己也不会受人尊重。
The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives.
有懦弱的丈夫，就有凶悍的妻子。
It is a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.
母鸡司晨家不兴。
The wife is the key of the house.
妻子是一家之钥；妻贤一家兴。
The more women look in their glass,the less they look to their house.
妇女照镜越多，照管家务就越少。
East or west,home is best.
东也好，西也好，还是家中最好；金窝银窝，不如家里的草窝。
One father can support ten children; ten children cannot support one father.
一个父亲可以供养十个孩子，十个孩子却不能供养一个父亲。
One father is more than a hundred school-masters.
一个父亲胜于一百个教师。
Like father,like son.
有其父，必有其子。
The father buys,the son bigs,the grandchild sells,and his son thigs.
父买、子修建、孙儿卖，重孙街上当乞丐。
The mother’s breath is aye sweet.
母亲的低语总是甜蜜的。
Like mother,like daughter.
有其母，必有其女。
Children are the parents’ riches.
子女是父母的至宝。
A little child is the sweetest and purest thing in the world.
孩童是世界上最可爱和最纯洁的东西。
He that hath no children,knows not what is love.
没有孩子的人，不知道什么叫做爱。
Children learn to creep ere they can go.
孩子要走路，先得学爬行。
Silly(=good) child is soon ylered(=taught).
好小孩，学得快。
Boys will be boys.
孩子终归是孩子。
One boy is more trouble than a dozen girls.
一个男孩比十二个女孩增添的麻烦还多。
Spare the rod and spoil the child.
省了棍子，惯坏了孩子。
Naughty boys sometimes make good men.
淘气的男孩有时会成为争气的孩子。
The child is father of the man.
三岁定到老。
Happy is he that is happy in childhood.
童年时快乐的人是幸福的。
Children and fools cannot lie.
孩子和愚人不会扯谎。
My son is my son till he hath got him a wife, but my daughter’s my daughter all the days of her life.
儿子娶妻后就不是自己的儿子，可是女儿终身都是自己的女儿。
It is harder to marry a daughter well than to bring her up well.
养女容易嫁女难。
A maid that laughs is half taken.
少女笑口开，婚事成一半。
A maiden with many wooers often chooses the worst.
有许多人向她求婚的少女，往往选中最差的一个。
Maids want nothing but husbands,but when they have them they want everything.
未婚女子不要别的，只要丈夫，有了丈夫以后，一切都要。
Would you know your daughter,see her in company.
你若想了解女儿，只要看她和什么样的人交往。
He that would the daughter win,must with the mother first begin.
要想赢得女儿的欢心，必须先从她母亲着手。
Life without friend is death.
没有朋友的生活便等于死亡。
Without a friend,the world is wilderness.
没有朋友，世界成了荒野。
Friendless is the dead.
死者无友。
A good friend is my nearest relation.
好友即至亲。
A near friend is better than a fardwelling kinsman.
近友胜远亲。
A friend to everybody is a friend to nobody.
和任何人都认朋友，结果和任何人都交不成朋友；友多无好友。
In time of prosperity,friends will be plenty.
走运时候朋友多。
It is good to have friends in trouble.
在患难中能有朋友是好事。
Prosperity makes friends and adversity tries them.
富裕招致朋友，困苦考验朋友。
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
患难时的朋友才是真正的朋友。
Poverty tries friends.
贫穷考验朋友；人贫见友情。
Try your friend ere you trust him.
对朋友要先考验，后信任。
Prove thy friend ere thou have need.
在你需要朋友帮助前，先要考验他们。
A friend is never known till a man have need.
不到困窘时，永难识真友。
A faithful friend is hard to find.
忠实朋友实难求。
Friends are like fiddle-strings,they must not be screwed too tight.
朋友有如琴弦，不能上的太紧。
Have but few frieds,though many acquaintances.
结交可以多，朋友应宜少。
All are not friends that speak us fair.
向我们说好话的并不都是好朋友。
He that hath a full purse never wanted a friend.
金钱满袋，朋友盈门；钱袋装得饱，朋友不会少。
A friend in court is better than a penny in purse.
朝中有友，胜如囊中有钱。
It is good to have some friends both in heaven and hell.
天堂上和地狱中都有几个朋友，这乃是一件好事。
We shall never have friends if we expect to find them without fault.
指望朋友无缺点，永远休想交朋友。
A friend without faults will never be found.
没有缺点的朋友永不可得。
A man without a friend is only half a man.
无友的人只能算半个人。
A friend is not so soon gotten as lost.
失友快，交友慢。
Friendship cannot stand always on one side.
友谊不能总是在一方。
Old acquaintance will soon be remembered.
故人一见便相亲。
He is a good friend that speaks well of us behind our backs.
背后称我好，才算好朋友。
Friends (the best of friends) must part.
好友终有分手时。
A friend is best found in adversity.
患难见真交。
I will be thy friend,but not thy vices’ friend.
我愿意做你的朋友，但不做你那些恶习的朋友。
False friends are worse than open enemies.
假朋友比真敌人更坏。
Short acquaintance brings repentance.
浅交致后悔。
He that lies down (sleeps) with dogs must rise up with fleas.
与恶人交终会变恶；近朱者赤，近墨者黑。
Better be alone than in bad company.
交损友不如无友。
Write down the advice of him who loves you,though you like it not at present.
爱你的人的忠告，即使你当时并不喜欢，也得把它记下。
Hunger knows no friend.
饥饿不认朋友。
Misery makes strange bedfellows.
难中不择友。
One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
一个敌人为害，胜过十个朋友行好。
An enemy’s mouth seldom speaks well.
敌人嘴里无好话。
Believe no tales from the enemy.
敌人之言不可信。
One enemy is too much.
一个敌人已太多。
Mickle power makes many enemies.
权高树敌多。
Do not despise your enemy.
不可轻敌。
Though thy enemy seem a mouse,yet watch him like a lion.
敌人即使小如鼠，防他也要如防狮。
If we are bound to forgive an enemy,we are not bound to trust him.
即便我们决心宽恕敌人，也决不能相信敌人。
He that dallies with enemy gives him leave to kill him.
把敌人看儿戏，无异于准许敌人杀害自己。
In an enemy spots are soon seen.
敌人身上求疵易。
If you would make an enemy,lend a man money and ask it of him again.
你若想与人结怨，只须先借钱给他，再向他催讨。
A courageous foe is better than a cowardly friend.
勇敢的敌人胜过懦怯的朋友。
An enemy who lies at thy feet begging forgi-veness must not feel thy sword.
对俯伏在你脚下乞怜的敌人，绝不可使他触及你的剑。
Make your enemy your friend.
要化敌为友。
Live and let live.
自己活也让别人活。
As a man lives,so shall he die.
有生必有死。
We are not born for ourselves.
人生天地间，并非为自己。
He that hath time hath life.
有时间就有生活。
He that lives long suffers much.
寿长忧患多。
They who live longest will see most.
寿命最长的人见识也最广。
He was born with a silver spoon in his mouth.
他生在富贵人家。
A man can die but once.
人生只有一回死。
He that liveth in court dieth upon straw.
生于安乐者常死于贫贱。
He that liveth wickedly can hardly die honestly.
过着邪恶生活的人不会正直地死去。
Death pay all debts.
一死了百债。
Six feet of earth makes all men equal.
墓穴之中，人人平等。
Death is the grand leveller.
死亡面前，不分贵贱。
Death meets us everywhere.
人生到处皆可死；死亡和我们到处相遇。
Death frees us from ills.
死亡使我们解脱不幸。
We shall lie all alike in our graves.
一朝进坟场，大家都一样。
In the grave the rich and poor lie equal.
一朝入暮穴，贫富皆一律。
Death defies the doctor.
死亡蔑视医生。
There is no medicine against death.
人间哪有不死（回春）药。
Light come,light go.
易得则易失；来得容易去得快。
Sometimes gain is to lose.
有时得即是失。
Merry is he that hath nought to lose.
无物可失的人最逍遥自在。
Grasp all,lose all.
样样都要，全部失掉。
What we lose in hake we shall have in herring.
失鳕得鲱；失之东隅，收之桑榆。
What is lost in the hundred will be found in the shire.
在区里失去的可在州里找回来。
For a lost thing care nothing.
一物已失，计较无益。
He who does not gain loses.
不能得益，就是损失。
Losses make us more cautious.
损失使人更谨慎。
Who loseth liberty loseth all.
失去自由即失去一切。
Either win the horse or lose the saddle.
不是全赢，就是全输；孤注一掷。
All is not lost that is in danger.
在危险中的东西未必全会损失。
Do not run too fast after gain.
不要见利便狂追。
Prefer loss to unjust gain.
宁可受损失，休取不义财。
Lightly gain,quickly lost.
来得容易去得快；不义之财，理无久享。
Only that which is honestly got is gain.
正当的收入才是真正的收入。
All is not gain that is put in the purse.
装进钱包里的不一定都是正当的收入。
Gain got by a lie will burn one’s fingers.
靠欺骗得利，准要吃亏。
One never loses anything by politeness.
礼多不吃亏；礼多人不怪。
Hold fast when you have it.
手中之物应紧握。
There are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it.
海中好鱼取不尽（指：虽然失去一个机会，还有很多机会）。
Many a slip (many things fall) between the cup and the lip.
酒杯来到嘴唇边，得饮与否未可知；物未到手前，未能算己有；凡事难以十拿九稳。
It is an ill wind that blows nobody good.
使人人倒霉的风才是恶风；此失则彼得；害于此则利于彼；没有使所有的人都受害的坏事。
Health is better than wealth.
健康胜于财富。
Health is happiness.
健康便是幸福。
A good healthy body is worth more a crown in gold.
健全的身体比金冕更有价值。
A sound mind in a sound body.
健康的思想寓于健康的身体。
A light heart lives long.
心胸开朗，使人寿长。
A happy heart makes a blooming visage.
心中快乐，容光焕发。
He who hath good health is young,and he is rich who owes nothing.
健康葆青春，无债即富有。
Study sickness while you are well.
无病应思有病时。
The healthful man can give counsel to the sick.
健康的人可以对生病的人提出忠告。
By the side of sickness health becomes sweet.
和疾病相比较，才能识得健康的可爱。
Health is not valued till sickness comes.
有病方知健康贵。
Feed by measure and defy physician.
饮食有节，医生绝迹。
Often and little eating makes a man fat.
多餐少吃，使人壮硕。
After dinner sit awhile,after supper walk a mile.
正餐以后，休息片刻；晚餐以后，步行一哩。
Early to bed and early to rise,makes a man healthy,wealthy and wise.
早睡早起，使人健康、富有而聪明。
He that will thrive must rise at five.
五点起床，百事兴旺。
He that goes to bed thirsty rises healthy.
忍渴上床，起身健康。
He who does not rise early never does a good day’s work.
起床不早，一天的工作干不好。
Who makes everything right must rise early.
想把事事都做好，就得坚持起身早。
Go to bed with the lamb and rise with the lark.
随羔羊就寝，与云雀同起。
Cover your head by day as much as you will,by night as much as you can.
白天戴帽可随意，夜里戴帽是必须。
A little labour,much health.
适量的劳动大有益于健康。
Enough is as good as a feast.
饱食有如赴宴。
Many dishes,many diseases.
食多病多。
Diseases are the Price of ill pleasures.
疾病是纵欲的代价。
Desperate diseases must have desperate cures.
毒病要用毒药医。
He who never was sick dies the first.
小病不生，一病致命。
Sickness shows us what we are.
疾病使人显本相。
What can’t be cured must be endured.
不治之症，必须坚忍。
Hide nothing from thy physician.
不要讳疾忌医。
Medicines are not meant to live on.
不要靠吃药过生活。
A disease known is half cured.
病情弄清楚，病根除一半。
The best physicians are Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet,and Dr. Merryman.
节食博士，静心博士，欢喜博士，三者都是最好的医师；饮食少，休息好，快乐多是却病延年之方。
A good surgeon must have an eagle’s eye,a lion’s heart,and a lady’s hand.
良好的外科医生应具有鹰眼、狮心和女性的手。
Feed sparingly and defy the physician.
饮食有节，医生绝迹。
Prevention is better than cure.
预防胜于治疗。
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
一分预防胜似十分治疗。
Bitter pills may have wholesome effect.
良药苦口利于病。
A good medicine tastes bitter.
良药苦口。
There is no friend so faithful as a good book.
最忠实的朋友莫过于一本好书。
Books,like friends,should be few and well chosen.
书籍如朋友，宜少宜精选。
A book is the same today as it always was and it will never change.
好书千载常如新。
A good book is a best friend who never turns his back upon us.
好书如至友，永远不相负。
In books,are embalmed the greatest thoughts of all ages.
伟大思想古今有，载入书中成不朽。
Some books are to be tasted,others to be swallowed,and some few to be chewed and digested.
一些书可以品味，另外一些书可以吞食，少数的一些可以咀嚼、消化。
Old wood is best to burn,old book to read.
老柴好烧，老书宜读。
A book that remains shut is but a block.
书本不去翻，犹如一木块。
Judge not a book by its cover.
评定一本书，不能凭封面。
A wicked book is the wickeder because it cannot repent.
坏书因其不能改正错误而更坏。
A good tale is none the worse for being twice told.
故事好，再讲一遍还是好。
Law is a bottomless pit.
法律是无底的深渊。
Ignorance of the law excuses no man.
对法律无知，不能成为任何人的借口。
Law makers should not be law breakers.
立法者不应成为犯法者；立法应守法。
Wrong laws make short governance.
不健全的法律统治时间不会长。
The law is not the same at morning and at night.
早上的法令跟晚上的不一样；朝令夕改。
New lords,new laws.
新君立新法。
Laws catch flies and let hornets go free.
法网只捕蝇，黄蜂由它去。
Where drums beat,laws are silent.
战鼓一响，法律无声。
An upright judge has more regard to justice than to men.
法官能公正，重法不重人。
That trial is not fair where affection is the judge.
法官动感情，审判难公正。
A good lawyer,an evil neighbour.
好律师不是好邻居。
An old physician,and a young lawyer.
医生老的好，律师年轻的好。
Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.
鸡蛋还未孵，先别数鸡雏；莫过早乐观。
Though the fox run,the chicken hath wings.
狐狸虽会跑，小鸡有翅膀。
Young cocks love no coops.
小公鸡不恋笼。
A cock is bold on his dunghill.
站在粪堆上，公鸡也称王。
A barley-corn is better than a diamond to a cock.
对一只公鸡来说，一颗麦粒优于一颗钻石。
He that will have his farm full,must keep an old cock and a young bull.
想使农庄充裕，就得养一只老公鸡和一头小公牛。
If the hen does not prate,she will not lay.
不叨叨的母鸡不下蛋。
It is no good hen that cackles in your house and lays in another’s.
这样的母鸡可不好：在你家里咯咯叫，却到别家去下蛋。
Fat hens lay few eggs.
肥鸡下蛋稀。
Grain by grain,and the hen fills her belly.
一颗接一颗，母鸡填饱肚。
A duck will not always dabble in the same gutter.
一只鸭子不会常在同一条沟中玩水。
It is a blind silly gooes that comes to the fox’s sermon.
只有盲目的笨鹅才会去听狐狸讲道。
What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
适用于甲的也适用于乙。
All his geese are swans.
他喜欢夸大其词；敝帚自珍。
All your swans are geese.
你的美好希望（或诺言），全部成了泡影。
Each bird likes to hear himself sing.
每一只鸟都爱听自己歌唱。
The bird loves her nest.
鸟爱自己的窝。
Birds of a feather flock together.
物以类聚，人以群分。
The bird that can sing and won’t sing must be made to sing.
生来能唱的鸟，不愿唱也得叫它唱。
The fowler’s pipe sounds sweet until the bird is caught.
捕禽人笛声悠扬，直吹得鸟儿落网。
He that will take the bird must not scare it.
捕鸟休惊鸟。
The noisy fowler catches no bird.
捕禽人大肆声张，鸟儿就不会落网。
Old birds are not caught with new nests.
新网难捕老鸟。
'Tis the early bird that catches the worm.
早起的鸟先得虫；捷足先登。
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
双鸟在林，不如一鸟在手；十赊不如一现。
A bird is known by its note,and a man by his talk.
鸟以声闻，人以言知。
It is an ill bird that fouls its own nest.
家丑不可外扬。
Eagles fly alone,but sheep flock together.
鹰爱独飞羊爱群。
A kite will never be a good hawk.
鸢永不会变成隼。
Empty hands no hawk allure.
空手不能诱鹰来。
The crow thinks his own bird fairest.
乌鸦总以为自己的雏鸟最美。
A crow is never the whiter for washing herself often.
乌鸦不管怎样经常洗澡，也不会变白。
Wheresoever the carcase is,there will the ravens be gathered together.
哪里有死尸，乌鸦就成群。
One swallow does not make a summer.
一燕不能成夏天（不可仅凭一种现象而遽作判断）。
The snail slides up the tower at last though the swallow mounteth it sooner.
燕子一飞就上塔，蜗牛悄悄爬，最后也上塔。
The cuckoo comes in April,and stays the month of May;sings a song at Midsummer,and then goes away.
布谷鸟，四月来，五月一直在，仲夏唱支歌，然后就离开。
If the sky falls,we shall catch larks.
天垮正好抓云雀；不要杞人忧天。
An owl is the king of the night.
猫头鹰是黑夜之王。
When the owl sings,the nightingale will hold her peace.
枭鸟唱歌，夜莺屏息。
Cats hide their paws.
猫儿不露爪。
A gloved cat catches no mice.
戴手套的猫抓不到老鼠。
When the cat’s away,the mice will play.
猫儿不在家，老鼠就玩耍；猫儿不在耗子闹。
Ale will make cat speak.
喝了淡啤酒，猫也会开口；酒后使人说话多。
A blate cat makes a proud mouse.
猫儿腼腆，老鼠翻天。
When the weasel and the cat make a marriage,it is a very ill presage.
黄鼠狼跟猫儿成亲，预兆不佳。
The cat and dog may kiss,yet are none the better friends.
猫狗虽相吻，总难成好友。
All cats love fish but fear to wet their paws.
猫儿性爱鱼，却怕爪弄湿；想获得珍品的人不愿冒必要的风险。
A cat may look at a king.
猫也有权看国王；小人物也该有些权利。
It is said that “cat hath nine lives”,yet care would wear them all out.
据说猫儿有九命，忧虑多时也伤身。
An old dog bites sore.
老狗咬人咬得狠。
Beware of a silent dog and still water.
哑狗和静水，二者都得防。
Barking dogs seldom bite.
爱吠的狗不咬人。
A dog will not howl if you beat him with a bone.
肉骨头打狗狗不叫。
Dogs that bark at a distance bite not at hand.
远处狗就叫，近身不会咬。
If the old dog barks,he gives counsel.
老狗叫，是忠告。
In every country dogs bite.
天下有狗都咬人。
Hungry dogs will eat dirty puddings.
饿狗也吃脏布丁；饥不择食。
Dogs wag their tails not so much in love to you as your bread.
狗儿把尾摇，爱的是面包。
All are not thieves that dogs bark at.
狗吠的人并非都是小偷。
Every dog is valiant at his own door.
站在家门口，狗也雄纠纠。
Every dog is a lion at home.
狗在家中，八面威风。
While the dog gnaws bone,companions would be none.
狗啃骨头无同伴。
Two dogs strive for a bone,the third runs away with it.
两狗相争一骨头，第三只狗衔起走。
Mad dog bites his master.
疯狗咬主人。
Too much pudding will choke dog.
布丁太多噎死狗。
Do not give a dog bread every time he wags his tail.
莫因狗尾摇，次次丢面包。
A living dog is better than a dead lion.
活狗胜于死狮。
Love me,love my dog.
爱屋及乌。
Let sleeping dog lie.
勿惊卧狗；切莫惹是生非。
Help the dog over the stile.
助人度过难关。
Every dog has his day.
片瓦也有翻身日；人人都有得意时。
Give a dog a bad name and hang him.
欲加之罪，何患无辞。
He who has a mind to beat his dog will easily find a stick.
有心打狗好找棍；欲加之罪，何患无辞。
An old dog cannot alter its way of barking.
老狗难改常吠声。
When a dog is drowning,every one offers him drink.
待到狗溺水，众人给水喝。
A swine over fat is the cause of his own bane.
猪死都因身过肥；象以齿焚。
Pigs may fly,but they are very unlikely birds.
猪儿纵会飞，终究不是鸟。
Never cast your pearls before swine.
不要把珍贵之物送给不识货的人；勿明珠暗投；勿对牛弹琴。
You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.
猪耳朵做不成丝钱包；巧妇难为无米之炊。
The cow that’s first up gets the first of the dew.
早起母牛先得露。
Not all butter that the cow yields.
母牛所产的未必全是黄油。
Many good cows have evil calves.
很多好母牛，会生坏小犊。
You cannot sell the cow and sup the milk.
不能既要卖母牛，又想喝牛奶。
Old oxen have stiff horns.
牛老角硬。
The ox is never woe,till he to the harrow go.
挂耙去耕地，牛才知辛苦。
An ox is taken by the horns,and the man by the tongue.
牛因角被执，人因舌陷身。
If the ox falls,whet your knife.
牛一倒，快磨刀；人遭难，众人踩。
The black ox has trod on his foot.
祸事临头。
The ox when weariest treads surest.
牛困走得稳。
The best horse needs breaking,and the aptest child needs teaching.
最好的马儿要人驯，最伶俐的孩子要人训。
A horse that will not carry a saddle must have no oats.
不愿加鞍的马，不得吃燕麦。
A good horse oft needs a good spur.
好马常需好靴刺。
It is the bridle and spur that makes a good horse.
要把马练好，缰绳靴刺少不了。
A boisterous horse must have a rough bridle.
烈马要套粗笼头。
He is a gentle horse that never cast his rider.
驯良的马绝不会把骑手甩倒。
'Tis a good horse that never stumbles.
好马不失蹄。
The fault of the horse is put on the saddle.
马劣动怪马鞍坏。
Mettle is dangerous in a blind horse.
瞎马鼓勇气，正是危险事。
Old wood is best to burn,old horse to ride.
老柴好烧，老马好骑。
Every horse thinks his sack heaviest.
每匹马都认为自己驮的袋子最重。
You may know the horse by his harness.
观马具可知马性。
A galled horse will not endure the comb.
擦伤的马不耐梳。
You can take a horse to the water,but you cannot make him drink.
牵马河边易，逼马饮水难；不要逼人做他不愿做的事。
Don’t swap horses when crossing a stream.
行至中流不换马；危难之时不宜作大变动。
An ass endures his burden,but not more than his burden.
驴子能负重，过重也难负。
Wherever an ass falleth,there will he never fall again.
驴子绝不会在同样的地点跌倒两次。
The braying of an ass does not reach heaven.
驴子的叫声传不到天上。
The fault of the ass must not be laid upon the packsaddle.
驴子不乖，休怪驮鞍。
A horse is neither better nor worse for his trappings.
相马不可凭马饰。
He who wants a mule without fault,must walk on foot.
指望驴子无缺点，只有自己徒步行。
A colt you may break,but an old horse you never can.
小驹犹可练，老马最难驯。
One sheep follows another.
一羊跟一羊（指盲从）。
If one sheep leap o’er the dyke,all the rest will follow.
一羊跳过沟，众羊跟着跳。
There is a black sheep in every flock.
败类处处有；害群之马处处有。
One scabbed sheep will mar a whole flock.
一羊生癣，群羊受害。
Every time the sheep bleats it loses a mouthful.
羊每叫一次，就少吃一口。
One butcher does not fear many sheep.
屠夫不怕羊多。
It is a foolish sheep that makes the wolf his confessor.
蠢羊才向狼忏悔。
The dust raised by the sheep does not choke the wolf.
羊踩起的灰尘挡不住狼。
Carrion crows bewail the dead sheep and then eat them.
乌鸦吃死羊，先要哭一场；猫哭老鼠假慈悲。
The life of the wolf is the death of the lamb.
有活的狼就有死的羔羊。
As soon goes the young lamb’s skin to the market as the old ewe’s.
老羊皮上了市，小羊皮也跟着来。
You have no goats,and yet you sell kids.
没有老山羊，还把小羊卖。
If the beard were all,the goat might preach.
如果长胡就好，山羊也可讲道。
A lazy sheep thinks its wool heavy.
懒羊自觉羊毛重。
He that will have a hare to breakfast must hunt overnight.
早餐想吃野兔肉，头晚就须去捕捉。
If you run after two hares,you will catch neither.
同时追两兔，一只也难捕。
One should not run with the hare and hunt with the hounds.
不应两面讨好。
The tortoise wins the race while the hare is sleeping.
兔子睡大觉，乌龟跑第一。
First catch your hare then cook him.
要兔子肉，先要把兔捉；先抓兔子后烹调（勿谋之过早）。
The fox is known by his brush.
狐狸只因尾巴大，所以人人认识他。
The fox smells his own stink first.
狐狸有恶臭，自己先嗅出。
The fox may grow grey, but never good.
狐狸活到老，永远难变好。
The tail does often catch the fox.
狐狸被抓，都因尾巴。
It is an evil sign to see a fox lick a lamb.
狐狸舔羔羊，不是好迹象。
When the fox preacheth,then beware your geese.
每逢狐狸讲道，当心鹅儿遭殃。
An old fox is not easily snared.
老狐狸难得陷罗网。
Old foxes want no tutors.
老狐不须教师教。
The sleeping fox catches no poultry.
睡着的狐狸捉不到鸡。
You can have no more of the fox than the skin.
狐狸除了皮，旁的全无用。
The fox that had lost its tail would persuade others out of theirs.
一条狐狸丢尾巴，就劝旁的也丢它。
A fox should not be of the jury at a goose’s trial.
审鹅不应狐陪审。
The fox’s wiles will never enter the lion’s head.
狐狸的诡计永远进不了狮子的头脑。
The old goose plays not with foxes.
老鹅不跟狐狸耍。
The wolf and fox are both privateers.
狐狸与狼，抢劫大王。
The wolf may lose his teeth, but never his nature.
狼牙会掉，狼性难改。
A thief knows a thief as a wolf knows a wolf.
小偷识小偷，正象狼识狼。
Hunger fetches the wolf out of the woods.
饥饿引狼出森林。
Give never the wolf the wether.
莫把阉羊送给狼。
Who keeps company with the wolf will learn to howl.
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A little pot is soon hot.
壶小易热，量小易怒。
All are brave when the enemy flies.
敌人遁逃时，人人皆勇士。
All is fish that comes to his net.
到了网中都是鱼；只要到手全都要。
All is well that ends well.
结果好，就一切都好。
All roads lead to Rome.
条条大路通罗马。
Always taking out the meal-tub, and never putting in,soon comes to the bottom.
取粮不储粮，桶底粮也光；坐吃山空。
A miss is as good as a mile.
失之毫厘，差以千里。
An empty bag cannot stand upright.
空袋不能直立。
A new broom sweeps clean.
新官上任三把火。
A rolling stone gathers no moss.
滚石不粘青苔；转业不积财。
Art is long, life is short.
艺术恒久，生命短暂。
A small leak will sink a great ship.
小漏沉大船。
A stitch in time saves nine.
一针及时省九针；一针不补，十针难缝。
As the wind blows, you must set your sail.
趁风启帆。
As we sow, so shall we reap.
种瓜得瓜，种豆得豆。
A valiant man’s look is more than a coward’s sword.
勇士的神色胜过懦夫的刀剑。
A vaunter and a liar are near akin.
自诩和说谎，二者正相仿。
Avarice blinds our eyes.
贪婪障人目。
A watched pot(pan) is long in boiling.
心急水不沸；盼得越切，来得越迟。
A wonder lasts but nine days.
新鲜事儿不久长。
Beard the lion in his den.
老虎头上捉虱；太岁头上动土。
Beauty is but skin deep.
美丽只是皮相（指：不能以貌取人）。
Better be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion.
宁为犬首，不作狮尾。
Better be the head of the yeomanry than the tail of the gentry.
宁作自由民之首，不为贵族之尾。
Between two stools one goes the ground.
脚踩两只船，早晚要落水。
Beware beginnings.
慎始为上。
Blood is thicker than water.
血浓于水（指：亲人比外人亲）。
Caesar’s wife must be above suspicion.
身为凯撒（罗马大将）妻，必须无可疑（指：与伟大的人物交往的人不可有秽名）。
Charity begins at home, but should not end there.
施舍先及亲友，但不应限于亲友。
Companions are odious.
人比人，气死人。
Content is happiness.
知足常乐。
Custom is a second nature.
习惯是第二天性。
Cut your coat according to your cloth.
量布裁衣。
Danger is next neighbour to security.
危险是安全的紧邻。
Do as the Romans do.
入境要问俗。
Do as you would be done by.
你愿别人怎样对待你，你就应该怎样对待别人；己所不欲，勿施于人。
Do not hallo till you are out of the wood.
未出险境，先莫高兴。
Don’t put the cart before the horse.
勿本末倒置；勿倒果为因。
Don’t throw out the baby with the bath water.
切勿良莠不分一起抛。
Envy assails the noblest, the winds howl around the highest peak.
位高遭人妒，峰高招风怒。
Every advantage has its disadvantage.
有利必有弊。
Every cloud has a silver lining.
黑暗之中总有一线光明；祸中有福。
Every man has his liking.
人各有所好。
Every one’s faults are not written in their foreheads.
人人有错，隐藏不露。
Everything hath an end.
万物有始必有终。
Everything must have a beginning.
凡事皆有始。
Example is better than precept.
范例胜于教训。
Fine feathers make fine birds.
好鸟要靠好羽毛；人要衣装，佛靠金装。
Fire and water have no mercy.
水火无情。
First come, first served.
先到先招待。
Fish begins to stink at the head.
鱼腐头先臭（上梁不正下梁歪）。
Forbidden fruit is sweet.
禁果味甜。
Force can never destory right.
暴力决不能摧毁正义。
God’s mill grinds slow but sure.
天网恢恢，疏而不漏。
Great designs require great consideration.
大计划要慎重考虑。
Great men have great faults.
伟大的人物也会有巨大的过失。
Great men’s sons seldom do well.
大人物的子孙少出息。
Half a loaf is better than no bread.
半片面包总比没有好；有胜于无。
Haste makes waste.
欲速则不达。
Hear all parties.
兼听则明。
He laughs best who laughs last.
谁笑在最后，谁笑的最好（指：不要高兴得过早）。
He measures another’s corn by his own bushel.
用自己的标准衡量别人；以己度人。
He should have a long spoon that sups with the devil.
跟坏人打交道，要特别小心。
He that never rode never fell.
不骑马就不会落马。
He that would eat the kernel must crack the nut.
要把果仁吃，就得碎果壳。
History repeats itself.
历史自身常重演。
Hoist your sail when the wind is fair.
风顺便扯篷。
Honey is sweet, but the bee stings.
蜜甜蜂螫人。
Hunger is the best sauce.
饥者口中尽佳肴；饥饿之时，样样好吃。
If the mountain will not come to Mahomet,Mahomet must go to the mountain.
大山从不向穆罕默德移来，穆罕默德只好向大山走去；他若不迁就你，你只好迁就他。
If wishes were horses,beggars might ride.
愿望若是马，乞丐也可乘；愿望难成事实。
Ill air slays sooner than the sword.
污浊的空气杀人比刀还快。
Ill news never comes too late.
坏消息总是来得快。
In the kingdom of blind men, the oneeyed is king.
生在盲人国，独眼也称王。
It is better to be a martyr than a confessor.
与其做忏悔，不如做殉道者。
It is too late to shut the stalbe door when the steed is stolen.
失马锁厩，为时已晚；贼去关门，为时已迟。
It never rains but it pours.
不雨则已，一雨倾盆。
It takes two to make a quarrel.
吵架要有两个人。
Jack of all trades and master of none.
万事皆通，事事不精（指：杂而不精的人）。
Joy and sorrow are next-door neighbours.
快乐是忧愁的紧邻。
Keeping is harder than winning.
成功不易，保持更难。
Kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.
杀鸡取金蛋；只图眼前需要，断绝将来财源。
Kill two birds with one stone.
一石双鸟；一箭双雕。
Kinsman helps kinsman,but woe to him that hath nothing.
亲人帮亲人，无亲来帮愁煞人。
Like tree, like fruit.
有什么样的树，就有什么样的果。
Little thieves are hanged, but great ones escape.
大贼脱身去，小贼被吊死。
Long absent, soon forgotten.
久别易忘。
Long looked for comes at last.
久久寻找，终会找到。
Long tarrying takes all thands away.
耽搁太久，会把人家的谢意全送走。
Losers are always in the wrong.
失败之人受咎多。
Man is a god or a devil to his neighbour.
一个人对邻居来说，不是上帝，便是魔鬼。
Many men have many minds.
人多意见多；人多口杂。
Many wells, many buckets.
井多桶也多。
Mercy to the eriminal may be eruelty to the people.
对罪犯的仁慈，就是对人民的残忍。
Merry meet, merry part.
好聚好散。
Messengers should neither be headed nor hanged.
两国相争，不斩来使。
Might is right.
强权即公理。
Might overcomes right.
强权压倒公理。
Mischief has swift wings.
祸害长有飞翅。
Misery loves company.
同病相怜。
Mock not a cobbler for his black thumbs.
莫笑皮匠拇指黑。
Most things have two handles.
多数事物有两种解释。
Music is the eye of the ear.
音乐是耳朵的眼睛。
Necessity and opportunity may make a coward valiant.
需要和机会，可使懦夫变勇敢。
Necessity is the mother of invention.
需要是发明之母。
Neither fish nor flesh (nor good red herring).
非驴非马；不伦不类。
Never judge from appearances.
不可根据外貌判断；不可以貌取人。
Never too late to mend.
补过不嫌晚。
No cross, no crown.
没有十字架，就没有王冠；无苦即无乐。
No man can do two things at once.
一人不能同时做两件事；心无二用。
No man ever became thoroughly bad all at once.
从来没有骤然变得极坏的人。
No man is content.
知足的人世上无。
No mill, no meal.
不磨面就没有面包吃。
No pleasure without pain.
没有无痛苦的欢乐。
No rose without a thorn.
玫瑰皆有刺（没有尽善尽美的幸福）。
No smoke without some fire.
无火不生烟；无风不起浪。
Nothing venture, nothing have.
不入虎穴，焉得虎子。
Obedience is the first duty of a soldier.
服从是军人的第一职责。
Older and wiser.
老而益精；越老越聪明。
Old bees yield no honey.
老蜂不产蜜。
Old vessels must leak.
船旧必漏。
Once a devil, always a devil.
一次做魔鬼，永远是魔鬼。
One flower makes no garland.
一朵花做不成一个花环。
One foot is better than two crutches.
一只脚胜过两条拐仗。
Oppression maketh a wise man mad.
人处压迫下，聪明也会疯。
Out of sitght, out of mind.
眼不见，心不想。
Pain is forgotten where gain follows.
一朝得了利，痛苦便忘记。
Patience is the plaster of all sores.
忍耐是一切痛苦的止痛膏。
Patient men win the day.
能忍者胜。
Peace with sword in hand, 'Tis safest making.
和平时期手执剑，这样做来最保险；有备无患。
Pen and ink is wit’s plough.
笔墨是才智之犁。
Penny wise and pound foolish.
小事聪明，大事糊涂。
Poison is poison though it comes in a golden cup.
纵然装入金杯，毒药还是毒药。
Pouring oil on the fire is no way to quench it.
加油不是灭火法。
Praise is not pudding.
恭维不等于布丁；恭维不是实惠。
Promises are like piecrust, made to be broken.
诺言好似馅饼皮，做来便是为咬碎。
Promise is debt.
许愿要还，欠债要清；许愿如欠债，欠了便要还。
Public money is like holy water, every one helps himself to it.
公款如圣水，人人都要尝一嘴。
Quietness is best.
宁静最好。
Rain before seven: fine before eleven.
早雨不过午。
Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man,and writing an exact man.
阅读使人渊博，会谈使人机敏，写作使人严谨。
Remember thou art but a man.
记住：你只不过是个“人”而已。
Revolutions are not made with rosewater.
革命不是玫瑰香水做成的（指：革命不能采用温和的办法）。
Satan reproves sin.
魔鬼责人之罪（责备他人有罪过，自己同样有过失）。
Scanderbeg’s sword must have Scanderbeg’s arm.
斯坎德培（阿尔巴尼亚15世纪的民族英雄）的剑，必须要有斯坎德培的臂才能举；宝剑须由烈士擎。
Shallow streams make most din.
浅流水声响。
Short pleasure, long lament.
眼前片刻欢，日后长悲痛。
Silence gives consent.
沉默表示同意。
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
技能和信心是无敌的军队。
Something is better than nothing.
有总比没有强。
Soon ripe, soon rotten.
早熟早烂；早慧早夭。
Sorrow comes unsent for.
悲哀来时不须邀。
Sport is sweetest when there be no spectators.
旁边无观众，运动最轻松。
Still waters run deep.
静水流深。
Straws show which way the wind blows.
草动示风向。
Talk of the devil, and he is sure to appear.
讲着某人，某人就到；说起曹操，曹操就到。
Teach your grandmother to suck eggs.
班门弄斧。
Temperance is the best physic.
节欲是最好的药品。
The best (greatest) fish keep (swim near) the bottom.
好鱼游水底（指：有价值之物不能轻易得到）。
The best is oftentimes the enemy of the good.
要求过高，反难成功。
The mountains have brought forth a mouse.
大山生小鼠（指：费力大而收效小）。
The pot calls the kettle black.
锅子嫌罐黑；责人严而责己宽；自己有过失而申斥他人。
There are two sides to every question.
每个问题都有两个方面。
There is a crook(=affliction,trial) in the lot of every one.
人生总有倒楣事；人生总有不如意处。
The swan sings when death comes.
死期来到，天鹅歌声美妙。
The thread breaks where it is weakest.
线断常在最细处。
The tongue ever turns to the aching teeth.
舌头总是碰着疼牙。
The used key is always bright.
常用的钥匙常光亮。
The weakest goes to the wall.
弱者败北。
The wish is father to the thought.
愿望为思想之父；所望之事，每易信之为真。
Things done cannot be undone.
事已定局，不能挽回；覆水难收。
Things unreasonable are never durable.
不合理的事不会长久。
Too many cooks spoil the broth.
厨子成群，煮坏肉羹。
Too much liberty spoils all.
自由过了头，一切乱了套。
Too much spoils, too little is nothing.
过多会坏事，过少不济事。
Tread on a worm and it will turn.
蚯蚓被踩也会动（指：被逼过甚，最温顺者也会反抗）。
True praise roots and spreads.
赞词真实，根深传远。
Two of a trade seldom agree.
同行是冤家；同行相妒。
Two wrongs don’t make a right.
两个错加不出一个正确来。
Union is strength.
联合即是力量。
Vain glory blossoms but never bears.
虚荣能开花，但不会结果。
Vows made in storms are forgotten in calms.
激动时的誓约，平静时便忘却。
Walls have ears.
隔墙有耳。
War is death’s feast.
战争是死亡的筵席。
War makes thieves, and peace hangs them.
战争造成窃贼，和平把他们吊死。
Water afar quencheth not fire.
远水救不了近火。
Weeds want no sowing.
杂草不需种。
We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.
井干方知水可贵。
What youth is used to, age remembers.
少年惯为事，老时常记起。
When Greek meets Greek, then comes the bug of war.
两雄相争，难解难分。
When the tree is fallen, every one runs to it with his axe.
大树一倒下，人人持斧来。
When the well is full, it will run over.
井满则水溢。
When war begins, then hell openeth.
战争一开始，地狱便打开。
Where there are reeds, there is water.
有芦苇处必有水。
Where there is a will, there is a way.
有志者事竟成。
Where the water is shallow, no vessel will ride.
水浅无船行。
Who swims in sin shall sink in sorrow.
在罪恶中游泳的人，必将在悲哀中沉没。
Wine in the bottle does not quench thirst.
瓶中之酒不解渴。
Woe to him that is alone.
孤独的人最可悲。
You cannot see the wood for trees.
见树不见林。
An idle youth,a needy age.
少壮不努力，老大徒伤悲。
Time flies.
时光易逝。
Time is money.
一寸光阴一寸金。
Time and tide wait for no man.
岁月无情；岁月易逝；岁月不待人。
Time tries all.
时间检验一切。
Time tries truth.
时间检验真理。
Time past cannot be called back again.
光阴一去不复返。
All time is no time when it is past.
光阴一去不复返。
No one can call back yesterday;Yesterday will not be called again.
昨日不复来。
Tomorrow comes never.
切莫依赖明天。
One today is worth two tomorrows.
一个今天胜似两个明天。
The morning sun never lasts a day.
好景不常；朝阳不能光照全日。
Christmas comes but once a year.
圣诞一年只一度。
Pleasant hours fly past.
快乐时光去如飞。
Happiness takes no account of time.
欢娱不惜时光逝。
Time tames the strongest grief.
时间能缓和极度的悲痛。
The day is short but the work is much.
工作多，光阴迫。
Never deter till tomorrow that which you can do today.
今日事须今日毕，切勿拖延到明天。
Have you somewhat to do tomorrow,do it today.
明天如有事，今天就去做。
To him that does everything in its proper time,one day is worth three.
事事及时做，一日胜三日。
To save time is to lengthen life.
节省时间就是延长生命。
Everything has its time and that time must be watched.
万物皆有时，时来不可失。
Take time when time cometh,lest time steal away.
时来必须要趁时，不然时去无声息。
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。
Make hay while the sun shines.
晒草要趁太阳好。
Strike while the iron is hot.
趁热打铁。
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。
Punctuality is the soul of business.
守时为立业之要素。
Procrastination is the thief of time.
因循拖延是时间的大敌；拖延就是浪费时间。
Every tide hath ist ebb.
潮涨必有潮落时。
Knowledge is power.
知识就是力量。
Wisdom is more to be envied than riches.
知识可羡，胜于财富。
Wisdom is better than gold or silver.
知识胜过金银，
Wisdom in the mind is better than money in the hand.
胸中有知识，胜于手中有钱。
Wisdom is a good purchase though we pay dear for it.
为了求知识，代价虽高也值得。
Doubt is the key of knowledge.
怀疑是知识之钥。
If you want knowledge,you must toil for it.
若要求知识，须从勤苦得。
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
浅学误人。
A handful of common sense is worth a bushel of learning.
少量的常识，当得大量的学问。
Knowledge advances by steps and not by leaps.
知识只能循序渐进，不能跃进。
Learn wisdom by the follies of others.
从旁人的愚行中学到聪明。
It is good to learn at another man’s cost.
前车可鉴。
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。
Experience is the best teacher.
经验是最好的教师。
Experience is the father of wisdom and memory the mother.
经验是知识之父，记忆是知识之母。
Dexterity comes by experience.
熟练来自经验。
Practice makes perfect.
熟能生巧。
Experience keeps a dear school,but fools learn in no other.
经验学校学费高，愚人旁处学不到。
Experience without learning is better than learning without experience.
有经验而无学问，胜于有学问而无经验。
Wit once bought is worth twice taught.
由经验而得的智慧，胜于学习而得的智慧；一次亲身的体会，胜过两次的教师教导。
Seeing is believing.
百闻不如一见。
Business is the salt of life.
事业是生命之盐。
Business before pleasure.
事业在先，享乐在后。
Business makes a man as well as tries him.
事业可以考验人，也可以造就人。
Business neglected is business lost.
忽视职业便是放弃职业。
Never think yourself above business.
勿自视过高；不要眼高手低；永远不要认为自己是大才小用。
Business may be troublesome,but idleness is pernicious.
事业虽扰人，懒惰害更大。
He that thinks his business below him will always be above his business.
自命大才小用，往往眼高手低。
Do business,but be not a slave to it.
要做事，但不要做事务的奴隶。
Everybody’s business is nobody’s business.
众人的事就是无人过问的事。
Work makes the workman.
勤工出巧匠。
Better master one than engage with ten.
会十事，不如精一事。
A work ill done must be twice done.
首次做不好，必须重新搞。
They who cannot do as they would,must do as they can.
不能如愿而行，也须尽力而为。
If you would have a thing well done,do it yourself.
想把事情来做好，就得亲自动手搞。
He that doth most at once doth least.
什么都想一次做完，结果一件也做不完；贪多嚼不烂。
Do as most men do and men will speak well of thee.
照大多数人那样干，人们会把你称赞。
What may be done at any time will be done at no time.
在任何时候都可做的事情，总是在任何时候都不做的事情。
Better late than never.
迟做总比不做好。
Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.
凡是值得做的事，就值得做好。
The shortest answer is doing the thing.
最简短的回答就是一个“干”字。
Action is the proper fruit of knowledge.
行动是知识之佳果。
Finished labours are pleasant.
完成工作是一乐。
It is lost labour to sow where there is no soil.
没有土壤，播种也是徒劳。
It is right to put everything in its proper use.
凡事都应用得其所。
Affairs that are done by due degrees are soon ended.
按部就班，事情很快就做完。
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
只工作，不玩耍，聪明小孩也变傻。
Work bears witness who does well.
工作能证明谁做的好。
It is not work that kills,but worry.
工作不会伤身，伤身乃是忧虑。
He that will not work shall not eat.
不工作者不得食。
Business is business.
公事公办。
Deliberate slowly,execute promptly.
慢慢酌量，快快行动。
Put your shoulder to the wheel.
努力工作。
Never do things by halves.
做事不要半途而废。
In for a penny,in for a pound.
做事一开头，就要做到底；一不做，二不休。
Many hands make quick work.
人多干活快。
Many hands make light work.
众擎易举。
A bad workman quarrels with his tools.
技术拙劣的工人抱怨自己的工具。
Diligence is the mohter of success.
勤奋是成功之母。
Idleness is the root of all evil.
懒惰乃万恶之源。
Care and diligence bring luck.
谨慎和勤奋带来好运。
Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
勤勉是好运之母。
Industry is fortune’s right hand,and frugality her left.
勤勉是幸运的右手，世俭是幸运的左手。
Idleness is the key of beggary.
懒惰出乞丐。
No root,no fruit.
无根就无果。
Idle people (folks) have the most labour (take the most pains).
懒人做工作，越懒越费力。
Sloth is the key of poverty.
惰能致贫。
Sloth turneth the edge of wit.
懒散能磨去才智的锋芒。
An idle brain is the devil’s workshop.
懒汉的头脑是魔鬼的工厂。
The secret of wealth lieth in the letters SAVE.
节俭是致富的秘诀。
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