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英语谚语大集合
英语谚语
A fall into the pit, a gain in your wit. 吃一堑，长一智
Facts speak louder than words. 事实胜于雄辩
Money can’t buy time. 寸金难买寸光阴
Failure is the mother of success. 失败乃成功之母。
The visitor arrives, it is as if returning home.宾至如归。
A good beginning is half the battle.良好的开端成功的一半。 To teach is to learn.教学相长。
Like father, like son.有其父，必有其子。
Pride goes before a fall.骄兵必败。
Fish in trouble water.混水摸鱼。
Business is business.公事公办。
The style is the man.文入其人。
More haste, less speed.欲速则不达。
Great minds think alike.英雄所见略同。
Misfortunes never come alone. 祸不单行。
Hedges have eyes, walls have ears.隔篱有眼，隔墙有耳。 Man proposes, God disposes.谋事在人，成事在天。
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.情人眼里出西施。
Time and tide wait for no man.时不待我/岁月无情。
A young idler, an old beggar. 少壮不努力，老大徒伤悲。
Out of office, out of danger.无官一身轻。
In time of peace prepare for war.居安思危。
The tongue cuts the throat.祸从口出。/言多必失。
Out of sight, out of mind./far from eye, far from heart.眼不见为净。 All shall be well, Jack shall be Jill. 有情人终成眷属。
Friends must part.聚散离合总有时。/天下无不散之宴席。
The remembrance of the past is the teacher of the future.前事不忘，后世之师。
Love me, love dog. 爱屋及乌。
Kill two birds with one stone.一箭双雕。/一石双鸟。
Speak the devil (and he will appear). 说曹操，曹操到。
A new broom sweeps clean.新官上任三把火。
Beat the dog before the lion.杀鸡儆猴。
Let sleeping dog lie.勿打草惊蛇。
Teach fish to swim.班门弄斧。
A word spoken is past recalling. 一言既出，驷马难追。 Once beaten, twice shy. 一朝被蛇咬，十年怕井绳。 Birds of a feather flock together.物以类分，人以群分。 In for a penny, in for a pound.一不做，二不休。
There is smoke without fire.无风不起浪。
Have a card up one’s sleeve.胸有成竹。
Put the cart before the horse.本末倒置。
Fine feathers make fine birds.佛要金装，人要衣装。 As a man sows, so he shall reap.种瓜得瓜，种豆得豆。 Much will have more.得陇望蜀。/得寸进尺。
The sauce is better than the fish.喧宾夺主。
He cries wine and sells vinegar.挂羊头，买狗肉。
Good wine needs no bush.酒香不怕巷子深。
Every potter praises his pot.王婆卖瓜，自卖自夸。
The pupil outdoes the master.青出于蓝而胜于蓝。
There are plenty of fish in the sea.天涯何处有芳草
Diamond cut diamont.强中更有强中手。
He take a spear to kill a fly.杀鸡用牛刀。
Gifts blind the eyes.拿了手软，吃了嘴软。
Don’t bite the hand that feeds you.不要将恩仇报。
Dogs bite in every country.天下乌鸦一般黑。
Peace on the forehead and war in the mind.口蜜腹剑。
Better an open enemy than a false friend.。明枪易躲，暗箭难防。 Do one thing under cover of another. 明修栈道，暗度陈仓。 The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.心有余而力不足。
Little strokes fell great oaks.滴水穿石。/只要功夫深，铁杵磨成针。 Judge not a book by its cover. 人不可貌相，海水不可斗量。 All roads lead to Rome./all rivers run into the sea..殊途同归。
A straight foot is not afraid of crooked shoe.身正不怕影子斜。
The knife cuts bread and fingers.水能载舟，亦能覆舟。
A sparrow cannot understand the ambition of a swan.燕雀安知鸿鹄之志哉。
It is better to be the head of a dog/lizard than the tail of lion.宁为鸡手，无为牛后。
Dogs bite in every countries.天下乌鸦一般黑。
A horse stumbles that has four legs.人非圣贤，熟能无过。
A clear conscience is a sure card.为人不做亏心事，半夜不怕鬼敲门。
A bad conscience is a snake in one’s heart.做贼心虚。
All your swans are greese.事与愿违。
Justice has long arms.天网恢恢，疏而不漏。
Late fruite keeps well.大器晚成。
Take things as they come.既来之，则安之。
A hedge between keeps friendship green.君子之交淡如水。 Rest breeds rust.生命在于运动。
Names are debts.树大招风。
Common fame is a liar.盛名之下，其实难附。{direction谚语}.
Many kiss the baby for the nurse’s sake.醉翁之意不在酒。 Nothing venture, nothing have.不入虎穴，焉得虎子。 Do in Rome as the Romans do.如乡随俗。
Things done cannot be done.木已成舟。/覆水难收。
True blue will never stain.真金不怕火炼。
Everybody’s business is nobody’s busness.三个和尚没水吃。 The moon is not seen when the sun shines.小巫见大巫。 Penny wise and pound foolish.因小失大。
He knows most who speaks least./still water runs deep.大智若愚。 As you make the bed, so you must lie in it.自食其果。
The pot calls the kettle black.五十步笑百步。
Short pleasure,long lament.一失足成千古恨。
Don’t count the chichen before they are hatched.请勿盲目乐观。 What is done by night appears by day.若要人不知，除非己莫为。 Danger is next neighour to security.塞翁失马，安知非福。
Misfortue might be a blessing in disguise.祸兮福所倚，福兮祸所伏。
What we lose in hake we shall have in herring.失之东隅，收之桑榆。
Stick together through thick and thin.有福同享，有祸同当/祸患与共。/风雨同舟。
Save your breath to cool your porridge.个人自扫门前雪，莫管他人瓦上霜。
A watched pot never boils.心急吃不了热豆腐。/有心插花花不开，无心插柳柳成阴。
A leopard cannot change its spots./you cannot make a crab walk
英语常用谚语
I think the best attitude toward life is to keep your humor on and show your smile to what happens. 人生在世，八方风雨；不妨一笑，淡然处之。 When you're down and out, remember to keep your head up. When you're up and well, remember to keep your feet down. 穷困潦倒时，要抬头挺胸；春风得意时，要脚踏实地。 When work is a pleasure, life is joy! When work is duty, life is slavery.—Maxime Gorki 工作是一种乐趣时，生活是一种享受！工作是一种义务时，生活则是一种苦役。—马克西姆·高尔基 Life is more like a battlefield. If you want something, you have to fight your best for it. 生活就好比一个战场，如果你想得到一样东西，就必须拼命去争取。 If you weeped for the missing sunset,you would miss all the shining stars. 如果你为错过夕阳而哭泣，那么你就要错过群星了 Forget all the reason why it won't work and believe the one reason why it will. 忘掉所有那些“不可能”的借口，去坚持那一个“可能”。 Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own. —Jonathan Swift 讽刺是一面镜子，观看者通常从中看到每一个人的面容却看不到自己。 —斯威夫特.J. Literature is a kind of intellectual light which, like the light of the sun, may sometimes enable us to see what we do not like. —Samusel Johnson 文学是一种理智之光，它和阳光一样，有时能使我们看到我们不喜欢的东西。 —约翰逊.S. When an end is lawful and obligatory, the indispensable means to it are also lawful and obligatory. —Abraham Lincoln 如果一个目的是正当而必须做的，则达到这个目的的必要手段也是正当而必须采取的。 —林肯. A. Work is more that a necessary for most human beings; it is the focus of their lives, the source of their identity and creativity. —Leonard R.Sayles 对大多数人来说，工作不仅仅是一种必需，它还是人们生活的焦点，是他们的个性和创造性的源泉。 —塞尔斯.L.R. We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine cases out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety. —John Lubbock 我们常常听人说，人们因工作过度而垮下来，但是实际上十有八九是因为饱受担忧或焦虑的折磨。 —卢伯克.J. Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction. —Saint Exupery 爱情不在于相互凝视，而在于共同往外朝一个方向看。 —圣埃格•楚佩里 Life is made up of sobs, sniffles and smiles with sniffles predominating.
—O Henry
人生是由呜咽，抽泣和微笑组成，而在三者之中，抽泣处于支配地位。 —欧•亨利 If you have great talents, industry will improve them; if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency. —Reynolds 如果你有天赋，勤勉会使其更加完善;如果你能力一般，勤勉会补足缺陷。 —雷诺兹 A man is not old as long as he is seeking something. A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams. 只要一个人还有追求，他就没有老。直到后悔取代了梦想，一个人才算老。 The size of your body is of little account, the size of your brain is of much account, the size of your heart is of the most account of all. 身体的大小无关紧要，头脑的大小非常重要，而最最重要的是心灵的大小。 Happy are the families where the government of parents is the reign of affection, and obedience of the children the submission to love. 幸福的家庭，父母靠慈爱当家，孩子也是出于对父母的爱而顺从大人。 Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them on reading valueless books. —Ruskin 生命是短暂的，生命中的宁静时刻更少，我们不应该浪费时间去读没有价值的书。 —罗斯金 Penitence enervates our spirit, causing a greater loss than loss itself and making a bigger mistake than mistake itself, so never regret. 后悔是一种耗费精神的情绪。后悔是比损失更大的损失，比错误更大的错误，所以不要后悔。 Everyone has his inherent potential which is easily concealed by habbits, blured by time, and eroded by inertia. 每个人都有潜在的能量，只是很容易被习惯所掩盖、被时间所迷离、被惰性所消磨。 Remember what should be remembered, and forget what should be forgotten. Alter what is changeable, and accept what is immutable. 记住该记住的，忘记该忘记的。改变能改变的，接受不能改变的。 Once we dreamt that we were strangers. We wake up to find that we were dear to each other. —Rabindranath Tagore 我们一度梦见彼此是陌生人，醒来时发现彼此是相亲相爱的。 —泰戈尔 I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal. —Jane Austen 我不希望遇到好相处的人，因为我会很喜欢他们，喜欢别人可是件大麻烦。 —简•奥斯汀 A woman, especially, if she has the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can. —Jane Austen 一个女人要是不幸聪明得什么都懂，那就必须同时懂得怎么伪装成什么都不懂。 —简•奥斯汀 A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment. —Jane Austen 女人的思维很有跳跃性：从仰慕到爱慕，从爱慕到结婚都是一眨眼间的事。 —简•奥斯汀 That is the thankless position of the father in the family - the provider for
all, and the enemy of all.
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。 父亲在家中处于吃力不讨好的位置——所有人的供养者，和所有人的敌人。 Those who eat most are not always fattest; those who read most, not always wisest. 吃得最多的人不一定最肥胖，读书最多的人不一定最聪明。 Now if you expand that to sicence and to practice and whatever. It's your pursuit of life. 如果你将之延展到科学或者实践或者其他什么,你那是你自己的生活追求。 So, there is that kind of a boundary as well, and that is a place where trouble is likely to emerge. 因此,也有那种边界,而边境线上恰恰是最容易发生争端的地方 Well assume that we're in a plurality election here, so the winner is the person who gets a plurality. 假设我们在进行一个多数制选举,所以当选者是获得票数最多的人 And scientists have been working on this for years and there's been progress, but it's still a very difficult challenge. 科学家们对此已经研究很久了,并取得了进展,但仍有很大挑战 Anyway, philosophers are not purely thinking machines but they are also human beings composed of reason, spiritedness, and appetite. 无论如何，哲学家并非只是思考机器,他们也是人类,拥有理性，意志与欲望 A life, a fulfilling life, a rich life includes ups and downs, includes pain and getting up again, includes failure and getting up again. 生活，令人满意的生活，丰富的生活包括了起起落落，包括了痛苦和再次振作，包括了失败和再次奋斗。 The polis makes, a good polis, following good laws, makes its citizens better. 一个良好的城邦,必会建立完善的法律,并施惠于民。 I'm inclined to think there's more to the best kind of life than just having pleasure and avoiding pain. 我倾向于认为人生有比享受快乐、避免痛苦更好的东西。 And eventually, we'll turn to some other value questions about if death really is the end, should we be afraid of death? 最终，我们会转向其他的关于价值的问题，比如如果死亡真的是终结，我们应该害怕吗？ The soul has a very intimate connection with the body, but the person is not the soul and the body. 灵魂和肉体有着非常亲密的联系,但是人并不是灵魂加肉体。 In the course of traveling, cultures encounter other culture and they often encounter cultures that are very different from their own. 在旅行过程中，文化与文化相互碰撞，人们常常会遇到，与其自身所处文化截然不同的另一些文化。 And obesity is a huge problem in the United States, especially in the
African American community and other minority communities.
在美国, 肥胖是一个严重的问题，尤其在非裔美国人和其它少数民族群体中。 So it's the work of biomedical engineers, really, to take these innovations make them so that everybody can take advantage of it. 生物医学工程师的工作就是将药物转化为所有人都能用得上的产品。 A hedge between keeps friendship green 君子之交淡如水 贤者之间的交情，平淡如水，不尚虚华 The only legitimate fighting is man against man, shield against shield, chest against chest, everybody else is a pussy. 唯一合法的战斗方式是人对人,盾对盾,胸对胸,其他的就是孬种 But when you asked them why they didn't try it the answers tended to be "I would look silly." 但当你问他们为什么不尝试时，他们的答案往往是“这样做会很傻”。 In the country of China,the most widely recognized corporate logo, other than from Chinese companies, is KFC. 在中国，最为人们熟知的公司标识不是来自于中国的公司，而是肯德基。 You can be passive if it isn't any good but if you are more active, you may find things. 如果没什么好处你确实可以被动点，但如果你主动些，也许会发现意外的惊喜。 If you're just spending your life floating in the scientist's lab, you're not actually accomplishing anything. 如果你只是在科学实验室里做些浅显的事，你实际上没有完成任何事情。 So it's not just merely the case that in fact we are all going to die; it's a necessary truth that we're all going to die. 我们都会死去，这不仅是一个事实,还是必然的真理. Celebrate your gifts, enjoy them, but don' t take pride in them, take pride in your decision and hardwork. 庆幸你的天赋并好好利用吧，但不要因为天赋而沾沾自喜，应该为自己的勤奋和决断而自豪。 The sounds of sense are all part of language in use, which people are using to do things with. 理性的声音蕴含在所有在运用的语言中，人们利用它来处理事情。 Again, when you traveling around Europe, if you're lucky to do that, you'll see these big fortified towns. 如果你有幸能周游欧洲的话，你会见到那些大型的要塞城镇。 Positive emotions not only contribute to our success, they don't just contribute to our feeling good, they also contribute to our wellbeing. 积极情绪不仅有助我们成功，让我们感觉良好，还能让我们获得幸福。 Is Milton powerful for the very straightforward reason that he's in possession of this tremendous literary strength, this unimaginable talent? 弥尔顿如此强大的直接原因，是否因为他拥有无穷的文学力量这一难以想象的天赋？ It's one of the things about God: he knows good and evil and has
chosen the good.
这就是上帝的一个特别之处：他能够分辨善恶并且择善而从。
Then this moving this around here, and it will give us a sense of the difference in style between pop music and classical music. 两种音乐萦绕在四周,让我们感受到古典音乐与流行音乐的差异。 How do we get people to flourish, intellectually, emotionally, psychologically, interpersonally, intra-personally? 我们如何让人们从智力，情感，心理，人际关系，人格上全面发展？ And happier people are more successful, because they have more energy and work harder. 越快乐的人越成功，因为他们有更多精力，工作更努力。 The sounds of sense are all part of language in use, which people are using to do things with. 理性的声音蕴含在所有的正在运用的语言中，人们也正利用此来处理事情。 The final exam: you should do well if you read, and if you come to lecture and if you attend section. 如果你好好读书、积极听课、参与讨论，期末考试就轻而易举。 People somehow got the idea that Los Angeles is just this wonderful city and so they started bidding up real estate prices. 不知道为什么，人们总认为洛杉矶是一个美好的城市,他们开始竞相抬升房地产价格 Let's try to have some cooperation, so we build, so we become constructive. 让我们试着合作，从而筑造未来，让我们变得具有建设性。 They make the markets work because if you didn't have this there would be all kinds of crooks and bad actors. 监管使得市场有序运行,如果缺乏监管,市场就会充斥着不法商人 They're a couple whose marital blessing had been granted by none other than God himself. 一对步入了婚姻殿堂的新人，得到了上帝的祝福。 You have to have the courage to examine who you really are, to come to terms with the dark corner of your own soul. 你必须有审视自己的勇气，面对并接受你灵魂中的黑暗角落。 And it's actually critically important to get used to things because it's a useful adaptive mechanism to keep track on new events and objects. 习惯化实际上也是至关重要的,因为这是一种非常有用的适应机制，可以让你注意到新鲜事物。 The one real objective of education is to leave a man in the condition of continually asking questions. 教育的真正目的，是让一个人可以连续发问。 A life, a fulfilling life, a rich life includes ups and downs, includes pain and getting up again, includes failure and getting up again. 生活，令人满意的生活，丰富的生活包括了起起落落，包括了痛苦和再次振作，包括了失败和再次奋斗。 It's important to take responsibilities, because no one else is going to do it for you. 重点是，你要自己承担责任，因为没人会来帮你。 There is a lot of research showing how difficult it is to change happiness
based on external factors.
英语谚语大全
Proverbs
A fall into the pit, a gain in your wit. 吃一堑，长一智
Facts speak louder than words. 事实胜于雄辩
Money can’t buy time. 寸金难买寸光阴
Failure is the mother of success. 失败乃成功之母。
The visitor arrives, it is as if returning home.宾至如归。
A good beginning is half the battle.良好的开端成功的一半。 To teach is to learn.教学相长。
Like father,like son.有其父，必有其子。
Pride goes before a fall.骄兵必败。
Fish in trouble water.混水摸鱼。
Business is business.公事公办。
The style is the man.文入其人。
More haste,less speed.欲速则不达。
Great minds think alike.英雄所见略同。
Misfortunes never come alone. 祸不单行。
Hedges have eyes,walls have ears.隔篱有眼，隔墙有耳。 Man proposes,God disposes.谋事在人，成事在天。
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.情人眼里出西施。
Time and tide wait for no man.时不待我/岁月无情。
A young idlder,an old beggar. 少壮不努力，老大徒伤悲。
Out of office,out of danger.无官一身轻。
In time of peace prepare for war.居安思危。
The tongue cuts the throat.祸从口出。/言多必失。
Out of sight,out of mind./far from eye,far from heart.眼不见为净。 All shall be well,Jack shall be Jill. 有情人终成眷属。
Friends must part.聚散离合总有时。/天下无不散之宴席。
The remenbrance of the past is the teacher of the future.前事不忘，后世之师。
Love me,love dog. 爱屋及乌。
Kill two birds with one stone.一箭双雕。/一石双鸟。
Speak the devil(and he will appear). 说曹操，曹操到。
A new broom sweeps clean.新官上任三把火。
Beat the dog before the lion.杀鸡儆猴。
Let sleeping dog lie.勿打草惊蛇。
Teach fish to swim.班门弄斧。
A word spoken is past recallling. 一言既出，驷马难追。 Once beaten, twice shy. 一朝被蛇咬，十年怕井绳。
Birds of a feather flock together.物以类分，人以群分。 In for a penny, in for a pound.一不做，二不休。
There is smoke without fire.无风不起浪。
Have a card up one’s sleeve.胸有成竹。
Put the cart before the horse.本末倒置。{direction谚语}.
Fine feathers make fine birds.佛要金装，人要衣装。 As a man sows, so he shall reap.种瓜得瓜，种豆得豆。 Much will have more.得陇望蜀。/得寸进尺。
The sauce is better than the fish.喧宾夺主。
He cries wine and sells vinegar.挂羊头，买狗肉。
Good wine needs no bush.酒香不怕巷子深。
Every potter praises his pot.王婆卖瓜，自卖自夸。
The pupil outdoes the master.青出于蓝而胜于蓝。
There are plenty of fish in the sea.天涯何处有芳草
Diamond cut diamont.强中更有强中手。
He take a spear to kill a fly.杀鸡用牛刀。{direction谚语}.
Gifts blind the eyyes.拿了手软，吃了嘴软。
Don’t bite the hand that feeds you.不要将恩仇报。
Dogs bite in every country.天下乌鸦一般黑。
Peace on the forehead and war in the mind.口蜜腹剑。
Better an open enemy than a false friend.。明枪易躲，暗箭难防。 Do one thing under cover of another. 明修栈道，暗度陈仓。 The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.心有余而力不足。
Little strokes fell great oaks.滴水穿石。/只要功夫深，铁杵磨成针。 Judge not a book by its cover. 人不可貌相，海水不可斗量。 All roads lead to Rome./all riversrun into the sea..殊途同归。
A straight foot is not afraid of crooked shoe.身正不怕影子斜。
The knife cuts bread and fingers.水能载舟，亦能覆舟。
A sparrow cannot understand the ambition of a swan.燕雀安知鸿鹄之志哉。
It is better to be the head of a dog/lizard than the tail of lion.宁为鸡手，无为牛后。
It is better to die than to live when life is a disgrace./Better die.with hounor than live with shame.
Dogs bite in every countries.天下乌鸦一般黑。
A horse stumbles that has four legs.人非圣贤，熟能无过。
A clear conscience is a sure card.为人不做亏心事，半夜不怕鬼敲门。
A bad conscience is a snake in one’s heart.做贼心虚。
All your swans are greese.事与愿违。
Justice has long arms.天网恢恢，疏而不漏。
Late fruite keeps well.大器晚成。
Take things as they come.既来之，则安之。
A hedge between keeps friendship green.君子之交淡如水。 Rest breeds rust.生命在于运动。
Names are debts.树大招风。
Common fame is a liar.盛名之下，其实难附。
Many kiss the baby for the nurse’s sake.醉翁之意不在酒。 Nothing venture, nothing have.不入虎穴，焉得虎子。
Do in Rome as the Romans do.如乡随俗。
Things done cannot be done.木已成舟。/覆水难收。
True blue will never stain.真金不怕火炼。
Everybody’s business is nobody’s busness.三个和尚没水吃。 The moon is not seen when the sun shines.小巫见大巫。 Penny wise and pound foolish.因小失大。
He knows most who speaks least./still water runs deep.大智若愚。 As you make the bed, so you must lie in it.自食其果。
The pot calls the kettle black.五十步笑百步。
Short pleasure,long lament.一失足成千古恨。
Don’t count the chichen before they are hatched.请勿盲目乐观。 What is done by night appears by day.若要人不知，除非己莫为。 Danger is next neighour to security.塞翁失马，安知非福。
Misfortue might be a blessing in disguise.祸兮福所倚，福兮祸所伏。
What we lose in hake we shall have in herring.失之东隅，收之桑榆。
Stick together through thick and thin.有福同享，有祸同当/祸患与共。/风雨同舟。
Save your breath to cool your porridge.个人自扫门前雪，莫管他人瓦上霜。
A watched pot never boils.心急吃不了热豆腐。/有心插花花不开，
常用英语谚语
英语谚语
A fall into the pit, a gain in your wit. 吃一堑，长一智
Facts speak louder than words. 事实胜于雄辩
Money can’t buy time. 寸金难买寸光阴
Failure is the mother of success. 失败乃成功之母。
The visitor arrives, it is as if returning home.宾至如归。
A good beginning is half the battle.良好的开端成功的一半。 To teach is to learn.教学相长。
Like father,like son.有其父，必有其子。
Pride goes before a fall.骄兵必败。
Fish in trouble water.混水摸鱼。
Business is business.公事公办。
The style is the man.文入其人。
More haste,less speed.欲速则不达。
Great minds think alike.英雄所见略同。
Misfortunes never come alone. 祸不单行。
Hedges have eyes,walls have ears.隔篱有眼，隔墙有耳。 Man proposes,God disposes.谋事在人，成事在天。
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.情人眼里出西施。
Time and tide wait for no man.时不待我/岁月无情。
A young idler,an old beggar. 少壮不努力，老大徒伤悲。
Out of office,out of danger.无官一身轻。
In time of peace prepare for war.居安思危。
The tongue cuts the throat.祸从口出。/言多必失。
Out of sight,out of mind./far from eye,far from heart.眼不见为净。 All shall be well,Jack shall be Jill. 有情人终成眷属。
Friends must part.聚散离合总有时。/天下无不散之宴席。
The remenbrance of the past is the teacher of the future.前事不忘，后世之师。
Love me,love my dog. 爱屋及乌。
Kill two birds with one stone.一箭双雕。/一石双鸟。
Speak the devil(and he will appear). 说曹操，曹操到。
A new broom sweeps clean.新官上任三把火。
Beat the dog before the lion.杀鸡儆猴。
Let sleeping dog lie.勿打草惊蛇。
Teach fish to swim.班门弄斧。
A word spoken is past recalling. 一言既出，驷马难追。 Once beaten, twice shy. 一朝被蛇咬，十年怕井绳。 Birds of a feather flock together.物以类分，人以群分。 In for a penny, in for a pound.一不做，二不休。
There is smoke without fire.无风不起浪。
Have a card up one’s sleeve.胸有成竹。
Put the cart before the horse.本末倒置。
Fine feathers make fine birds.佛要金装，人要衣装。 As a man sows, so he shall reap.种瓜得瓜，种豆得豆。 Much will have more.得陇望蜀。/得寸进尺。
The sauce is better than the fish.喧宾夺主。
He cries wine and sells vinegar.挂羊头，买狗肉。
Good wine needs no bush.酒香不怕巷子深。
Every potter praises his pot.王婆卖瓜，自卖自夸。
The pupil outdoes the master.青出于蓝而胜于蓝。
There are plenty of fish in the sea.天涯何处有芳草
Diamond cut diamond.强中更有强中手。
He take a spear to kill a fly.杀鸡用牛刀。
Gifts blind the eyes.拿了手软，吃了嘴软。
Don’t bite the hand that feeds you.不要将恩仇报。
Dogs bite in every country.天下乌鸦一般黑。
Peace on the forehead and war in the mind.口蜜腹剑。
Better an open enemy than a false friend.。明枪易躲，暗箭难防。 Do one thing under cover of another. 明修栈道，暗度陈仓。 The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.心有余而力不足。{direction谚语}.
Little strokes fell great oaks.滴水穿石。/只要功夫深，铁杵磨成针。 Judge not a book by its cover. 人不可貌相，海水不可斗量。 All roads lead to Rome./all rivers run into the sea..殊途同归。
A straight foot is not afraid of crooked shoe.身正不怕影子斜。
The knife cuts bread and fingers.水能载舟，亦能覆舟。
A sparrow cannot understand the ambition of a swan.燕雀安知鸿鹄之志哉。
It is better to be the head of a dog/lizard than the tail of lion.宁为鸡手，无为牛后。
It is better to die than to live when life is a disgrace./Better die.with hounor than live with shame.
Dogs bite in every countries.天下乌鸦一般黑。
A horse stumbles that has four legs.人非圣贤，熟能无过。
A clear conscience is a sure card.为人不做亏心事，半夜不怕鬼敲门。
A bad conscience is a snake in one’s heart.做贼心虚。
All your swans are greese.事与愿违。
Justice has long arms.天网恢恢，疏而不漏。
Late fruite keeps well.大器晚成。
Take things as they come.既来之，则安之。
A hedge between keeps friendship green.君子之交淡如水。 Rest breeds rust.生命在于运动。
Names are debts.树大招风。
Common fame is a liar.盛名之下，其实难附。
Many kiss the baby for the nurse’s sake.醉翁之意不在酒。 Nothing venture, nothing have.不入虎穴，焉得虎子。
Do in Rome as the Romans do.如乡随俗。
Things done cannot be done.木已成舟。/覆水难收。
True blue will never stain.真金不怕火炼。
Everybody’s business is nobody’s busness.三个和尚没水吃。 The moon is not seen when the sun shines.小巫见大巫。 Penny wise and pound foolish.因小失大。
He knows most who speaks least./still water runs deep.大智若愚。 As you make the bed, so you must lie in it.自食其果。
The pot calls the kettle black.五十步笑百步。
Short pleasure,long lament.一失足成千古恨。
Don’t count the chichen before they are hatched.请勿盲目乐观。 What is done by night appears by day.若要人不知，除非己莫为。 Danger is next neighour to security.塞翁失马，安知非福。
Misfortune might be a blessing in disguise.祸兮福所倚，福兮祸所伏。
What we lose in hake we shall have in herring.失之东隅，收之桑榆。
Stick together through thick and thin.有福同享，有祸同当/祸患与共。/风雨同舟。
Save your breath to cool your porridge.个人自扫门前雪，莫管他人瓦上霜。
A watched pot never boils.心急吃不了热豆腐。/有心插花花不开，
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英语专业四级写作必备名言谚语
个人修养类
道德爱情
1. A candle lights others and consumes itself. 蜡烛照亮别人，燃烧了自己。
2. A fair death honors the whole life. 死得其所，流芳百世。
3. A fox may grow gray, but never good. 江山易改，本性难移。
4. Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds. 抱负是一切高尚操行的萌芽。
5. A good conscience is a soft pillow. 不做亏心事，不怕鬼叫门。
6. A good fame is better than a good face. 美名胜过美貌。
7. A liar is not believed when he speaks the truth. 说谎者即使讲真话也没人相信。
8. A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. 浅学误人。
9. A man is not old as long as he is seeking something. A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams. (J. Barrymore) 只要一个人还有追求，他就没有老。直到后悔取代了梦想，一个人才算老。（J·巴里摩尔）
10. A word spoken is past recalling. 一言既出，驷马难追。
11. All that glitters is not gold. 闪光的不一定都是金子。
12. Beauty lies in the lover’s eyes. 情人眼里出西施。
13. Do as you would be done by. 己所不欲，勿施于人。
14. Doing is better than saying. 与其挂在嘴上，不如落实在行动上。（行动胜于言语。）
15. Don’t try to teach your grandmother to suck eggs. 不要班门弄斧。
16. Friendship is like earthenware: once broken, it can be mended; love is like a mirror: once broken, that ends it. (Josh Billings，American humorist) 友谊就像陶器，破了可以修补；爱情好比镜子，一旦打破就难重圆。（美国幽默作家乔什·比林斯）
17. Friendship is love without his wings. (George Gordon Byron, British poet) 友谊是没有羽翼的爱。（英国诗人G·G·拜伦）
18. Handsome is he who does handsomely. 行为漂亮才算美。
19. Hasty love, soon cold. 一见钟情难持久。
20. He is not fit to command others that cannot command himself. 正人先正己。
21. If you run after two hares, you will catch neither. 脚踏两条船，必定落空。
22. Love cannot be compelled. 爱情不能强求。
23. Love is never without jealousy. 没有妒忌就没有爱情。
24. Love me, love my dog. 爱屋及乌。
25. On earth there is nothing great but man; in the man there is nothing great but mind. (A. Hamilton) 地球上唯一伟大的是人，人身上唯一伟大的是心灵。（A·哈密尔顿） ?
理想现实
1. Complacency is the enemy of study. 学习的敌人是自满。
2. A young idler, an old beggar. 少壮不努力，老大徒伤悲。
3. Living without an aim is like sailing without a compass.（Alexander Dumas, French writer) 生活没有目标就像航海没有指南针。 （法国作家亚历山大·大仲马)
4. An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.(Robert Louis Stevenson ) 生活的目标，是唯一值得寻找的财富。（R·L·史蒂文森）
5. Between the ideal and the reality, between the motion and the act, falls the shadow.(Thomas Stearns Eliot) 理想与现实之间， 动机与行为之间，总有一道阴影。 （T·S·艾略特）
6. Every minute counts. 分秒必争。
7. Confidence in yourself is the first step on the road to success. 自信是走向成功的第一步。
8. Do not, for one repulse, give up the purpose that you resolved to effect.(William Shakespeare) 不要只因一次失败，就放弃你原来决心想要达到的目的。 （莎士比亚）
9. Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. (Mark Twain) 不要放弃你的幻想。当幻想没有了以后，你虽然还可以生存，但是你虽生犹死。（马克·吐温）
10. A willful man will have his way. 有志者事竟成。
11. God helps those who help themselves. 自助者天助。
12. Goals determine what you’re going to be. (Julius Irving) 人生的奋斗目标决定你将成为怎样的人。（朱利斯·欧文）
13. Have an aim in life, or your energies will all be wasted.(R. Peters, American jurist)人生应该树立目标，否则你的精力会白白浪费。 （美国法学家彼得斯）
14. He who makes no mistakes makes nothing. 想不犯错误，就一事无成。
15. Ideal are like the stars—we never reach them, but like mariners, we chart our course by them.(Carl Schulz, American statesman) 理想犹如天上的星星，我们犹如水手，虽不能达到天上，但是我们的航程可凭借它指引。（美国政治家卡尔·舒尔茨）
16. Ideal is the beacon. Without ideal, there is no secure direction; without direction, there is no life.(Tolstoy, Russian writer）理想是指路明灯。没有理想，就没有坚定的方向；没有方向，就没有生活。 （俄国作家托尔斯泰）
17. If winter comes, can spring be far behind? (P.B. Shelley, British poet) 冬天来了，春天还会远吗？（英国诗人P·B·雪莱）
18. If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.(Ibsen, Norwegian dramatist) 如果你怀疑自己，那么你的立足点确实不稳固了。 （挪威剧作家易卜生）
19. It is at our mother’s knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest, but there is seldom any money in them. (Mark Twain, American writer) 就是在我们母亲的膝上，我们获得了最高尚、最真诚和最远大的理想，但是里面很少有金钱的成分。（美国作家马克·吐温）
20. It is the first step that costs troublesome. 万事开头难。
21. It never will rain roses. When we want to have more roses we must plant trees.(G. Eliot, British novelist) 天上不会掉下玫瑰来，如果想要更多的玫瑰，必须自己种植。 （英国小说家G·艾略特）
22. Make hay while the sun shines. 良机勿失。
23. The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and the determination to attain it.(Goethe, German poet and dramatist) 人生重要的事情是确定一个伟大的目标，并决心实现它。 （德国诗人、剧作家歌德）
24. The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.(Franklin Roosevelt, American President) 实现明天理想的唯一障碍是今天的疑虑。 （美国总统富兰克林·罗斯福）
25. Time and tide wait for no man. 时不我待。
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人生逆境
1. A good seaman is known in bad weather. 惊涛骇浪，方显英雄本色。
2. A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.(J. Burroughs, American natural historian) 一个人可以失败多次，但是只要他没有开始责怪旁人，他还不是一个失败者。 （美国博物学家J·巴勒斯）
3. A strong man will struggle with the storms of fate.(Addison) 强者能同命运的风暴抗争。 (爱迪生)
4. A thousand-mile journey is started by taking the first step. 千里之行，始于足下。
5. Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst. 抱最好的愿望，做最坏的打算。
6. All things in their being are good for something. 天生我才必有用。
7. Cease to struggle and you cease to live.(Thomas Carlyle) 生命不息，奋斗不止。（托马斯·卡莱尔）
8. Constant dripping wears away a stone.水滴石穿。
9. Difficult circumstances serve as a textbook of life for people. 困难坎坷是人们的生活教科书。
10. Energy and persistence conquer all things.(Benjamin Franklin) 能量加毅力可以征服一切。 （本杰明·富兰克林）
11. No cross, no crown. 不经历风雨，怎么见彩虹。
12. Fear not that the life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning. (J.H. Newman) 不要害怕你的生活将要结束，应该担心你的生活永远没有真正开始。 （J·H·纽曼）
13. He who seizes the right moment, is the right man. (Goethe) 谁把握机遇，谁就心想事成。（歌德）
14. Man errs as long as he strives. (Goethe) 失误是进取的代价。（歌德）
15. Man is man and master of his fate. 人就是人，是自己命运的主人。
16. Man struggles upwards; water flows downwards. 人往高处走，水往低处流。
17. Miracles sometimes occur, but one has to work terribly for them. (C. Weitzman, Irish President）奇迹有时候是会发生的，但是你得为之拼命地努力。 （爱尔兰总统C·魏茨曼）
18. It is wise to learn at another man’s cost. 前车之鉴。
19. Our destiny offers not the cup of despair, but the chalice of opportunity. (Richard Nixon, American President) 命运给予我们的不是失望之酒，而是机会之杯。 （美国总统理查德·尼克松）
20. Our greatest glory consists not in never falling but in rising every time