knot谚语

knot谚语篇一

英文谚语大全

英文谚语大全

1. Wade not in unknown water. 不知水的深浅，不可粗心趟水过河。

2. Walk groundly; talk profoundly; drink roundly; sleep soundly. 行路踏实，言谈深

刻，饮酒豪爽，睡眠酣畅。

3. Walls (or Pitchers) have ears. 隔墙有耳。

4. Want of care does us more damage than want of knowledge. 粗心比无知更为有害。

5. War is death's feast. 战争是死亡的筵席。

6. War is the business of barbarians. 战争是野蛮人干的事。

7. War makes thieves, and peace hangs them. 战争造成盗贼，和平把他们吊死。

8. Wash a dog, comb a dog, Still a dog, remains a dog. 本性难移。

9. Waste not, want not. 俭以防匮。

10. Waste of time is the most extravagant and costly of all expenses. 浪费时间是一切花

费中最奢侈豪华的费用。

11. Water afar quenches not fire. 远水难救近火。

12. Water dropping day by day wears the hardest rock away. 水滴天天滴不停，石头最

坚也磨损。

13. Weak men wait for opportunity, but the strong men make it. 若者等待机会，强者创

造机会。

14. We all do fade as a leaf. 我们都要像树叶一样枯萎。

15. Wealth is not his who has it, but his who enjoys it. 财富并不属于拥有的人，而是属

于享用的人。

16. Wealth makes worship. 财富能使人拜倒。

17. Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, leisure, and liberty. 财富可能

是一样好东西，因为它意味著权力，安逸和自由。

18. We are not born for ourselves. 人生非为己。

19. We can live without a brother, but not without a friend. 我们生活中可以没有兄弟，

但不能没有朋友。

20. We can live without our friends, but not without our neighbours. 生活可无友，邻居

不能无。

21. We first make our habits, and then our habits make us. 我们先养成习惯，然后习惯

又左右我们。

22. We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume

wealth without producing it. 如果不创造财富，就没有权力享用财富；同样地，如果不能创造幸福，就没有权利享受幸福。

23. We hope to grow old, yet we fear old age; that is, we are willing to live, and afraid to

die. 我们希望长大，但怕年老；就是，愿意生，而害怕死。

24. We know not what is good until we have lost it. 有的时候不爱惜，失了以后空叹息。

25. We learn not at school, but in life. 学习不在校，而在生活中。

26. Well begun is half done. 良好开端，功成一半。

27. Well fed, wed bred. 衣食足，知荣辱。

28. We must repeat a thousand and one times that perseverance is the only road to

success. 我们必须千百次地反覆说明，坚韧不拔是取得胜利的唯一道路。

29. We never know the worth (or value) of water till the well is dry. 井枯方知水可贵。

30. We only live once,, but if we work it right once is enough. 我们生命只一次，好自为

之一次足矣。

31. We shall lie all alike in our graves. 一进坟墓，大家一样。

32. We shall never have friends if we expect to find them without fault. 欲找朋友无缺

点，永远不会有朋友。

33. We should never remember the benefit we have offered nor forget the favour

received. 施惠莫记，受恩莫忘。

34. We should push our work, the work should not push us. 我们要推动工作，不要让工

作推动我们。

35. We should weep for men at their birth and not a t their death. 我们应在人降生时流

泪，而不该在人死亡时哭泣。

36. We soon believe what we desire. 一厢情愿。

37. What a sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. 不分畛域，一样对待。

38. What cannot be cured must be endured. 事已无法可救，只得耐心忍受。

39. What does the moon care if the dogs bark at her? 月亮岂怕狗来吠。

40. What do you expect from a pig but a grunt? 狗嘴里吐不出象牙。

41. Wahtever a man sow, that shall he also reap. 种瓜得瓜，种豆得豆。

42. Whatever I do, I will do in my power. 无论我做什么事，我都尽力而为之。

43. Whatever man has done man may do. 天下无难事。

44. Whatever you do, do with your might; Things done by halves are never done right.

不论做什么事要尽力去搞；事情做得不彻底，就不能算好。

45. What good shall I do this day? What good have I done today? 我今天要做些什么好

事？我今天做了些什么好事？

46. What I have done is due to patient thought. 我的成就是由于坚忍地思索。

47. What is bred in the bone will not go out of the flesh. 生于骨中者不会出肉外。

48. What is done by night appears by day. 若要人不知，除非己莫为。

49. What is done cannot be undone. 木已成舟。

50. What is known to three is known to everybody. 一件事情三个人知道就人人知道。

51. What is learnt in the cradle lasts (or is carried) to the grave. 小时学会的事情到老不

会忘记。

52. What is not wisdom is danger. 不智的事是危险的。

53. What is one man's cloud is another man's sunshine. 此人乌云盖顶，彼人艳阳满天。

54. What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. 适用于甲的，也适用于乙。

55. What is sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul. 教育之于心灵，犹

如雕刻之于大理石。

56. What is there sadder under the sun than a day that is gone and notyhing done. 世界

上没有什么事情，较之虚度年华，一事无成，更使人痛心。

57. What is wealth good for, if it brings melancholy? 财富如带忧郁来，有了财富有何

用？

58. What is worth doing at all is worth doing well. 事既值得做，就把事做好。

59. What makes life dreary is the want of motive. 没有目的，人生就黯淡无光。

60. What must be must be. 该怎么样的就怎么样。

61. What's bred in the bone will come out in the flesh. 生就的本性，总会暴露的。

62. What's done by night appears by day. 若要人不知，除非己莫为。

63. What's done can't be undone. 无可挽回。 泼水难收？

64. What's learnt in the cradle lasts till the tomb. 小时学过的，至死不忘记。

65. What's lost is lost. 流水落花春去也。

66. What's more miserable than discontent? 有什么比不知足更为痛苦？

67. What soberness conceals, drunkenness reveals. 醉汉口里露真言。

68. Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye ever so to them. 己所欲，施

于人。

69. What the eye does not see, the heart does not grieve over. 眼不见，心不烦。

70. What the eye sees not, the heart craves not. 目不瞬，心不乱。

71. What the heart thinks, the tongue speaks. 心直口快。

72. What we are ignorant of is immense. 我们不知道的东西多得不可胜数。

73. What we do willingly is easy. 世上无难事，只要肯登攀。

74. What we learn with pleasure we never forget. 乐意学的东西决不会忘记。

75. What we lose in hake we shall have in herring. 失之东隅，收之桑榆。

76. What you dislike in another, take care to correct in yourself. 别人身上你不喜欢的

东西，自己身上的也要注意改正。

77. What you lose on the swings you gain (or get back) on the roundabouts. 失之东隅，

收之桑榆。

78. What youth is used to, age remembers. 青年时经常做的事，老年时却能记得起。

79. When a dog is drowning everyone offers him drink. 落井下石。

80. When a friend asks, there is no tomorrow. 朋友的要求不要拖。

81. When ale (or drink or wine) is in wit is out. 贪杯丧智。

82. When all men speak no man hears. 人人都讲话，无人去听它。

83. When anger blinds the mind, truth disapears. 怒火中烧瞎心眼，真理在前看不见。

84. Whe angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred. 怒时数十再说话，

大怒数百方开言。

85. When an opportunity is neglected, it never comes back to you. 机不可失，时不再来。

86. When stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is

his duty. 蠢人做件羞愧事，总说义不容辞。

87. When flatterers meet, the devil goes to dinner. 马屁精会面，魔鬼去赴宴。

88. When Greek meets Greek, then comes the tug of war. 龙争虎斗。

89. When guns speak it is too late to argue. 待到炮声响，辩论已莫及。

90. When in doubt, play trumps. 举棋苟不定，何妨将一军。

91. When in Rome do as the Romans do. 入乡随俗。

92. When love puts in, friendship is gone. 爱情入，友谊出。

93. When one is about to act, one must reason first. 凡事要先思而后行。

94. When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out at the window. 贫穷进门来，爱情

飞窗外。

95. When riches increase, the body decreases. 财多体衰。

96. When rogues (or thieves) fall out, honest men come by their own. 盗贼一内哄，好人

就自在。

97. When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions. 祸不单行。

98. When the belly is full, the bones would be at rest. 饱暖图安逸。

99. When the belly is full the mind is among the maids. 逸则思淫。饱则思淫欲？

100. When the cat's away the mice will play. 猫儿不在，老鼠造反。

101. When the fight begins within himself a man's worth something, 内心开始斗争时，

为人就会有价值。

102. When the ffish is caught the net is laid aside. 鱼获网弃。

103. When the fox preaches, take care of your geese. 佛口蛇心。

104. When the fruit is scarcest, its taste is sweetest. 物以稀为贵。

105. When the heart is afire, some sparks will fly out at the mouth. 心中发火，口吐妄

言。

106. When the heart is full,, the tongue will speak. 胸有成竹，口若悬河。

107. When the sun comes in, the doctor goes out. 阳光入室，医生出屋。

108. When the well is full, it will run over. 井水满了要溢出。

109. When the wound is healed, the pain is forgotten. 好了伤疤忘了痛。

110. When three know it, all know it. 三人知，天下晓。

111. When two friends have a common purse, one sings and the other weeps. 两友合用

一钱包，一个悲来一个笑。

112. When two ride on one horse, one must sit behind. 两人共骑一匹马，总有一个背后

跨。

113. When war begins then hell opens. 战争一开始，地狱门敞开。

114. When we have gold we are in fear; when we have none we are in danger. 手头有黄

金，惶恐很担心；两手都空空，处在危急中。{knot谚语}.

115. When wine is in truth is out. 酒后露真言。

116. When you go to buy, use your eyes not your ears. 你去购买东西时，要用眼睛莫用

耳。

117. Where drums beat, laws are silent. 战鼓一打，法律无声。

118. Where love fails we espy all faults. 恋爱一旦遭失败，缺点全都看出来。 119. Where love is there is faith. 有爱情就有忠诚。

120. Where might is master, justice is servant. 有强权，就没有正义。

121. Where passion is high there reason is low. 感情高涨处，理智就低落。

122. Where the knot is loose the string slips. 结子一松掉，绳子就滑脱。

123. Where there is a will,, there is a way(or skill). 有决心，就有办法。

124. Where (or While) there is life there is hope. 留得青山在，不怕没柴烧。

125. Where there is no good within, no good comes out. 没有内心的美，就没有外在的

美。

126. Where there's reek there's heat. 无风不起浪。

127. Where the sun enterd, the doctor does not. 阳光照耀处，医生就不需。

128. Where they saw chance, we see law. 以前他们认为是偶然的，现在我们认为是必然

的。

129. Wherever he is satisfied with what he does, he has reached his culminating

point--he will progress no more. 一个人对所做的事感到自满的，就达到了顶点，不会再前进了。

130. Where your will is ready, your feet are light. 下定了决心，脚步就轻盈。决心一下，

脚下生风？

131. While the grass grows the horse (or steed) starves. 远水救不了近火。

132. While the priest climbs a post, the devil climbs ten. 道高一尺，魔高一丈。

133. While (or Where) there is life there is hope. 留得青山在，不怕没柴烧。 134. While the word is in your mouth, it is your own; when 'tis once spoken, 'tis

another's. 话未出口属于己，话一出口属别人。

135. While we breathe, there is hope. 只要活著，就有希望。

136. Who answers suddenly knows little. 答得迅速，懂得不多。

137. Who are ready to believe are easy to deceive. 轻信的人容易受骗。

138. Who has never tasted bitter, knows not what is sweet. 不尝黄连苦，怎知蜂蜜甜。 139. Who has no haste in his business mountains to him seem valleys. 做事不急，履险如

夷。

140. Who holds the purse rules the house. 钱可神通。

141. Who keeps company with the wolf will learn to howl. 近朱者赤，近墨者黑。 142. Who knows most speaks (or says) least. 大巧若拙。

143. Who knows not how to dissemble knows not how to live. 掩饰感情全不会，怎样生

活必不知。

144. Who lives by hope will die by hunger. 靠希望而生，必因饥饿而死。

145. Who loses liberty loses all. 失去自由即失去一切。

146. Who makes everything right must rise early. 要把事事都做好，必须坚持起得早。 147. Whom God would ruin, he first deprives of reason. 伤天害理，天诛地灭。

148. Who minds his own business has no time to mind other folks. 为人只顾自己事，就

无时间关心人。

149. Whom the gods love die young. 好人不长寿。

150. Whom we love best to them we can say least. 对我们的最爱的人，我们可说的话最

少。

151. Who serves everybody gets thanks from nobody. 人人都侍候，个个不见好。 152. Who swims in sin shall sink in sorrow. 在罪恶中游泳的人，必将在悲哀中沈没。 153. Who undertakes many things at once, seldom does anything well. 许多事情同时

干，一件事也办不成。

154. Who will not keep a penny, shall never have many. 不积少，不会成多。

155. Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love. 坏人服从出于怕，好人服从出于

爱。{knot谚语}.

156. Wickedness does not go altogether unrequited. 恶有恶报。

157. Wilful waste makes woeful want. 浪费招致穷困。

158. Wine and judgement mature with age. 酒存放年代越久越香，判断力随年龄而增

长。

159. Wine in the bottle does not quench thirst. 瓶中之酒不解渴。

160. Wine is mirror of the mind. 酒后吐真言。

161. Wisdom in the mind is better than money in the hand. 手里有钱财，不如胸中有文

才。

162. Wisdom is a good purchase though we pay dear for it. 我们为了求知识，付出高价

也值得。

163. Wisdom is better than gold or silver. 智慧胜过金银。

164. Wisdom is more to be envied than riches. 才智比财富，令人更可羡。

165. Wisdom is only found in truth. 只有在真理中才能找到智慧。

knot谚语篇二

十分有用的30句谚语

十分有用的30句谚语

1、Whilewater can carry a boat,it can also overturn it.水能载舟，也能覆舟。

2、The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to botherabout whether you are happy or not. 痛苦的秘密在于有闲 功夫担心自己是否幸福。

3、A crooked stick will have a crooked shadow. 身不正，影必斜。

4、There are obviously two educations.One should teach us howto make a

living and the other how to live.教育显然有两种：一种是教人怎样谋生，另一种是教人怎样生活。

5、You never know what you can do till you try.惟有试过才知道自己的能力。

6、God make relatives; Thank God we can choose our

friends.神决定了谁是你的亲戚，幸运的是在选择朋友方面他给你留了余地。

7、Behind every successful man,there is a woman; behind everyunsuccessful

man,there aretwo.每个成功男人的背后都有一个女人，每个不成功男人的背后都有两个女人。

8、Anything that has been roped can be unroped. No knot ispermanent. 世上没有解不开的结。

9、A friend to all is a friend to none. 滥交者无友。

10、People who truly loved once are far more likely to loveagain.

真爱过的人更容易再恋爱。

11、If you pay peanuts,you get monkeys.微薪养蠢材。

12、Don’t count your chickens before they arehatched.别太早打如意算盘。

13、Birth is much, but breeding is more.教养比出身更重要。

14、They who know nothing fear nothing. 初生牛犊不怕虎。

15、Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.观者眼中出美景。

16、Beggars can’t be choosers. 要饭的哪能挑肥拣瘦。

17、Books and friends should be few but good. 书籍和朋友都要少而精。

18、There is time for all things. 凡事皆有时。

19、What may be done at any time will be done at no time. 常

将今日推明日，推到后来无影踪。

20、Money spent on the brain is never spent in vain.智力投资，绝非虚掷。

21、Wit and will strive for the victory. 智慧加毅力一定会成功。

22、To read without reflecting is like eating withoutdigesting.学而不思则惘。

23、A bad workman always quarrels with his tools.手艺不好赖家什。

24、Clothes make the man.人靠衣装。

25、He, who has an art, has everywhere apart.身有一技之长，走遍天下都不怕。

26、Health and cheerfulness mutually beget eachother.健康使人快乐，快乐使人健康。

27、Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weepalone.

欢笑，世界与你一同欢笑；哭泣,你自己一个人哭泣。

28、What interests me is living and dying for what

oneloves.我感到兴趣的是：为所爱而生，为所爱而死。

29、Miracles sometimes occur,but one has to work terribly

forthem.奇迹有时候是会发生的，但是你得为之拼命努力。

30、A day is a miniature of eternity.一天是永恒的缩影。

英语作文中最常引用36个名句

1.Practice makes perfect. 熟能生巧。

2.God helps those who help themselves. 天助自助者。

3.Easier said than done. 说起来容易做起来难。

4.Where there is a will,there is a way. 有志者事竟成。

5.One false step will make a great difference. 失之毫厘，谬之千里。

6.Slow and steady wins the race. 稳扎稳打无往而不胜。

7.A fall into the pit,a gain in your wit. 吃一堑，长一智。

8.Experience is the mother of wisdom. 实践出真知。

9.All work and no play makes jack a dull boy. 只工作不玩耍，聪明孩子也变傻。

10.Beauty without virtue is a rose without fragrance。无德之美犹如没有香味的玫瑰，徒有其表。

11.More hasty,less speed. 欲速则不达。

12.Its never too old to learn. 活到老，学到老。

13.All that glitters is not gold. 闪光的未必都是金子。

14.A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step。千里之行始于足下。

15.Look before you leap. 三思而后行。

16.Rome was not built in a day. 伟业非一日之功。

17.Great minds think alike. 英雄所见略同。

18.well begun,half done. 好的开始等于成功的一半。

19.It is hard to please all. 众口难调。

20.Out of sight,out of mind. 眼不见，心不念。

21.Facts speak plainer than words. 事实胜于雄辩。

22.Call back white and white back. 颠倒黑白。

23.First things first. 凡事有轻重缓急。

24.Ill news travels fast. 坏事传千里。

25.A friend in need is a friend indeed. 患难见真情。

26.live not to eat,but eat to live. 活着不是为了吃饭，吃饭为了活着。

27.Action speaks louder than words. 行动胜过语言。

28.East or west,home is the best. 金窝银窝不如自家草窝。

29.Its not the gay coat that makes the gentleman. 君子在德不在衣。

30.Beauty will buy no beef. 漂亮不能当饭吃。

31.Like and like make good friends. 趣味相投。

32.The older, the wiser. 姜是老的辣。

33.Do as Romans do in Rome. 入乡随俗。

34.An idle youth,a needy age. 少壮不努力，老大徒伤悲。

35.As the tree,so the fruit. 种瓜得瓜，种豆得豆。

36.To live is to learn,to learnistobetterlive。活着为了学习，学习为了更好的活着

knot谚语篇三

英语习语谚语集锦

英语习语

一、Idioms的定义：

广义的idioms包括：1. set phrase短语，2. proverbs谚语，3. sayings俗语, 4. epigrams警句，5. slang俚语，

6. colloquialisms 口语，7. quotations名言/语录，8. two-part allegorical sayings寓言 9. allusions典故 汉语中包括：1. 成语set phrases， 2. 谚语proverbs， 3. 俗语colloquialism, 4. 歇后语allegorical saying

二、英语idioms的来源

1．From the Bible圣经故事:

1) Cast pearls before swine对牛弹琴；白费好意

这个成语源自《新约。马太福音》第7章：“Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you”.

2）Don’t you see the writing on the wall? 难道你没有看出大难临头了吗？（writing on the wall意为“不

详之兆”，典出《旧约全书》）

2. From the fables寓言故事:

1) Veper and File出自《伊索寓言》，说的是一条蝰蛇（Viper）发现一把铁锉（File），以为是一顿美餐。但铁锉说，它的天职是咬别人，而不是被别人咬。后人借此比喻“骗人者反受人骗”，汉译时要作直译或意译处理。

2) kill the goose to get the eggs，源于希腊寓言，说的是曾有一个乡下人，因为发财心切杀死了自己饲养的那只能下金蛋的鹅，以为如此就可一次获得全部想象中的金块，但其结果一无所获。

3．From fairy tales神话故事：

1) rain cats and dogs，源于北欧神话，猫对天气有很大影响，英国水手至今说：“猫尾巴藏大风”。据说驾暴风雨的巫士化为猫形。狗是风的信号，狗和狼都是暴风雨神奥丁的随从。在德国古画中，风被画成狗头和狼头。因此，猫被年作暴雨的象征，狗是伴随暴雨的强风，to rain cats and dogs就是to rain heavily/hard，汉译便为“下倾盆大到雨”。

2) Analthea’s horn，汉译常为“丰饶的羊角”。阿玛尔忒亚（Amalthea），希腊祖籍中一神女，是宙斯（Zeus为主神，相当于罗马神话中的朱庇特Jupiter）的保姆。婴儿时宙斯由神女阿玛尔忒亚喂以羊乳。为了感思，宙斯敲下一羊角送给她。许诺让羊角主人永远丰饶。

3) the sword of Damocles达摩克利斯的剑，临头的危险（希腊神话，廷臣达摩克利斯羡慕国王狄奥尼修斯的国王生活，国王于是用一根头发将一把到件剑悬挂在王位上，让达摩克利斯坐在上面） 4。From history allusion /legend历史典故/传说

1) burn one’s boats（bridges），此成语中的bridges为美国人所使用，原指古罗马朱力斯·凯撒大军乘船越过Rubicon后就把船烧了，以此向士兵指明后路已断，不可能后退。现借用来比喻“不留后路，下定决心干到底”，同汉语的“破釜沉舟“。

2）Leave no stone unturned，相传公元前447年波斯奖军马多尼奥斯在希腊的普拉蒂亚兵败被杀后，留下一大批财宝在军帐里。底比斯的波利克拉特斯搜寻却一无所获，请示德尔斐神谕后知道要“翻转所有的石头”，最后找到了财宝。现借此比喻想方设法等，汉译为“千方百计，想尽办法”

3）a Spartan look 简朴的; 艰苦的 （古希腊斯巴达人以简朴和不畏艰辛著称）

4）a Trojan Horse 内奸, 暗藏之敌

5）the heel of Achilles 致命的弱点

6）Gordian Knot 难题；僵局

7）have an axe to grind别有用心,另有企图

5. From literature works文学作品:

1) Simon Legree“残暴之徒，尖酸刻薄、好吹毛求疵的人”

Simon Legree是美国女作家斯陀夫人所著《汤姆大伯的小屋》一书中管黑奴的工头，此人既凶狠又尖酸刻薄，将心地善良的汤姆大伯活活打死。

2) Life is but an empty dream，其汉译为“人生如梦”。源于美国诗人Longfellow的诗文

3) as busy as a bee (From Chaucer's Canterbury Tales)

4）Catch-22 situation 不可逾越的障碍（源自美国作家约瑟夫·赫勒的小说Catch-22）

6. From social custom社会风俗:

1) a feather in your cap，汉译为“值得荣耀的事、荣誉”。源于广泛流行于亚洲和美洲印第安人当中的一种风俗：每杀死一个敌人就在头饰或帽子上加插一根羽毛，以此来显示战绩与荣誉。

2) have a ball at one’s foot，汉译为“有成功的机会”，源于足球运动。

3）When you are down, you are not necessarily out.遇到挫折，并不一定丧失成功的机会。（拳击规则，被击倒还有10秒可爬起来）

三、汉语成语的分类：

1． 联合式：山盟海誓，粗枝大叶，昂首阔步，

2．动宾式：为所欲为，闻所未闻，

3．主谓式：盛气凌人，想入非非，心怀叵测，忠心耿耿，自惭形秽，

4．偏正式：泰然自若，洋洋得意（得意洋洋），小心翼翼，半途而废，奋不顾身，泰然处之，

5．连动式：投笔从戎，见异思迁，挖肉补疮，触类旁通，无地自容，

6．兼语式：引狼入室，调虎离山，

7．紧缩式：脍炙人口

联合结构：不学无术，

四、Idioms的翻译方法：

1． 直译法：按原语字面意义翻译（异化译法）

1）kill two birds with one stone一石双鸟

2) Forbidden fruit is sweet.禁果格外香。

3) Friends are thieves of time.朋友是时间的窃贼。

4) Truth is the daughter of time. 真理是时间的女儿。

5) One swallow does not make a summer.一燕不成夏。

1) 薛蟠也来上学，不过是Xue Pan enrolled as a student. But he was like the

fisherman who

2) 他对乡里的情况，He 3) 旁边一人鼓掌大笑曰：“此事 （《三国演义》）Then one of those about him suddenly clapped his hands, crying, Ït’s ”

4) 他这一去如再无消息。He left like and has never been heard of.

6) 这工作花了我九牛二虎之力。The work cost me the strength of nine bulls and two tigers.

7）中国有句古话是这样说的：“”

An ancient Chinese saying goes that “Any mountain can be famous with the presence of an immortal, and any river can be holy with the presence of a dragon.”

7) 山不在高，有仙则名 "No matter how high the mountain is, its name will spread far and wide if there is a

fairy; "

8）城门失火，殃及池鱼。A fire on the city wall brings disaster to the fish in the moat.

9) 木已成舟The wood is already made into a boat.

10）十年树木，百年树人。

It takes ten years to grow trees, but one hundred years to rear people.

It takes three generations to make a gentleman. (套译)

画饼充饥to draw a cake to satisfy one’s hunger

犬马之劳to serve like a dog or a horse

声东击西to shout in the east and strike in the west

刻骨铭心to be engraved on one’s heart and bones

井底之蛙to be like a frog at the bottom of a well

调虎离山to lure the tiger from the mountain

口蜜腹剑to be honey-mouthed and dagger-hearted

2. 意译法

1）There is a skeleton in the cupboard.家家有本难念的经。

(the family skeleton / the skeleton in the cupboard家丑)

2）The die is cast.木已成舟。

3）Experience must be bought.吃一堑，长一智。

5）Let the cat out of the bag.泄漏天机。

6）Put the cart before the horse.本末倒置。

7）The eye is bigger than the belly.贪多嚼不烂。

8）When Greek meets Greek , then comes the tug of war.

两雄相争,其斗必烈。/张飞杀岳飞，杀得满天飞

9）get the sack（To be dismissed from a job，to be told to leave your job）解雇

① He got the sack when they found out that he'd lied about his qualifications.

② After only 2 weeks she was given the sack for being rude to a customer.

take a French leave不辞而别 break the ice打破僵局（沉默、拘束）

drive pig to the market 鼾声如雷 under the rose，秘密地、私下地

baker’s dozen一打零一、十三 keep one’s nose down to the grindstone埋头苦干

1) 他把老谢的话

He recounted everything Lao Xie had said 2) 你要有个三长两短，我也不想活了. ’t want to live.

3) ，也只好如此了。’t be undone.

4)“你真是,她低声说,无可奈何地摇摇头。(《寒夜》)

“You really do refuse to give until all hope is gone. ”She murmured , shaking her head

helplessly

6) 我对他简直佩服得。I simply admire him 7）你这人真是“狗嘴里长不出象牙”。

A filthy mouth cannot utter decent language. You are really such a person.

8）他He is a green hand.

9) 祸兮福所依，福兮祸所伏fortune or misfortune may lead to the opposite

（直译：misfortunes may promise fortunes while fortunes may promise misfortunes）

两袖清风to remain uncorrupted

望子成龙 --- to expect one's son to become a great personage

3. 借译（套译）法：套用目的语现成的成语、谚语、熟语（归化译法）

1) Every potter praises his pot.王婆卖瓜，自卖自夸。 9) hold a wolf by the ears骑虎难下

2) After praising the wine they sell us vinegar.挂羊头卖狗肉 10) hang by a hair千钧一发

3) to cast pearls before swine对牛弹琴/明珠投暗11）kill two birds with one stone一箭双雕

4）kill the goose that lays the eggs沙鸡取卵/竭泽而渔12）show the cloven hoof露出马脚

5）Six of one and half a dozen of the other半斤八两 13）ay sixes and sevens乱七八糟、

6）Time tries all.路遥知马力，日久见人心。 14）to laugh off one’s head笑掉大牙{knot谚语}.

7）It is easy to be wise after the event.事后诸葛亮好当。

8）The pot calls the kettle black.五十步笑百步。

15）Rome is not built in a day.冰冻三尺，非一日之寒。

16）Too much knowledge makes the head bald.学问太多催人老/聪明的头脑不长毛。

17）Two is company but three is none.一个和尚挑水喝，两个和尚没水喝。

18）You cannot eat your cake and have it.鱼与熊掌，不可得兼。

19）Be just to all, but trust not all.害人之心不可有，防人之心不可无。

20）Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.初生牛犊不怕虎。

21）我没有想到他对同志们的批评竟

I didn’t expect him to ’s criticism.

22) 又要马儿好，又要马儿不吃草. You can’t eat your cake and have it!

23) 难怪他数学那么好，他父母都是大学教授。“”嘛！

No wonder he is good at maths---his parents are professors of maths. “” indeed.

24) 酒后吐真言Truth lies at the bottom of a decanter./ In wine there is truth.Wine in, truth out.（三杯下肚，

真话出口 。 ）

25) 遗憾的是我们的呼吁如石沉大海。It is regrettable that our appeal。

26) 三思而后行。Look before you leap.(直译：Think twice and then do it.)

44) 吃一堑，长一智 a fall in pit, a gain in wit; experience teaches/ Experience must be bought.

27) 不入虎穴，焉得虎子Nothing venture, nothing have.

28) 有眼不识泰山Entertain an angel unawares. 良机勿失。Make hay while the sun shines.

贪多嚼不烂。The eye is bigger than the belly. 如坐针毡 like a fish out of water

过河拆桥kick down the ladder 水中捞月to fish in the air

不辞而别take a French leave 洗心革面turn over a new leaf

小题大做make a mountain out of a molehill 赴汤蹈火go through fire and water

木已成舟。The die is cast. （直译：What’s done is done.）

鼾声如雷drive pig to the market

① I heard you driving your pigs to market last night

② “The whole house shook when you drove your pigs to market,” Mrs. Leung said to her husband.

“你打鼾时，整座房子都在晃动。”梁太太对丈夫说。

洗耳恭听all ears

① Go ahead and explain, I’m all ears.=Go ahead and explain, I am fully listening.你解释吧，我洗耳恭听。 乳臭未干be wet behind the ear没有经验的；无知的

① Forgive her, she’s still wet behind the ears! 原谅她吧，她毕竟还不成熟老练。

左右为难/进退维谷/骑虎难下/进退两难/无所适从/莫衷一是/腹背受敌between the devil and deep sea/between two fires/between Scylla and Charybdis /hold a wolf by the ear/with one’s back to the wall/stick in the mud

4. 增补法：

A. 直译加解释 :

1）a bull in a china shop公牛闯进瓷器店──肆意捣乱/一动就闯祸

2）to shed crocodile tears流鳄鱼眼泪──假慈悲

3) The best fish swim (are) near the bottom. 好鱼居水底--有价值的东西不能轻易得到。

4）Fish begins to stink at the end.鱼要腐烂头先烂--上梁不正下梁歪。

5）拔苗助长try to help the shoots grow by pulling them upward—spoil things by excessive enthusiasm

6）盲人瞎马 A blind man on a blind horse—rushing headlong to disaster.

7）黄鼠狼给鸡拜年 The weasel goes to pay his respect to the hen--not with the best of intention./Greek gift

B. 意译加解释 :

1）throw in the sponge 认输，投降 （注：若拳击运动员的副手把擦身用的海绵抛向空中，则表示这个运动员认输因而不进入下一轮比赛。）

2）pour oil on troubled waters 平息风波，息事宁人（注：传说航海遇到风浪时，若把油倒进海里，可起到使海浪平息的作用。）

D. 直意结合:

1) 初生牛犊不怕虎 a newborn calf isn’t afraid of the tiger; a youngster is a daredevil 2) 磨刀不误砍柴工sharpening your knife won’t waste your time for cutting your faggot; preparation may quicken the process

4) 人不可貌相，海水不可斗量•don’t judge a man by his appearance and don’t measure the sea with a dou or bucket; he may be more capable than he looks; a man may have more potential than you know

5) 老马识途•an old horse recognizes the way back; an old hand is a good guide• 6) 生姜还是老的辣 old ginger proves more pungent; an old hand has more experience

7) 不怕一万，就怕万一 not afraid of ten thousands but afraid of a ten-thousandth; always prepared for the

unexpected risk in a million doings; take every care just in case

E. 为了意思完整而加词：:

1）A little pot is soon hot 壶小易热,量小易怒。

2）Lock the stable door after the horse is stolen.亡羊补牢，为时已晚

3）A rolling stone gathers no moss.滚石不生苔，转业不聚财

4）Every bird likes its own nest .鸟爱自己的巢, 人爱自己的家。

5．减译法

汉语中有许多语义重复的成语，重复部分省去不译。如：打躬作揖、经久耐用、鬼鬼祟祟（stealthily/sneak around）、断断续续（disjointedly）、慌里慌张（be flustered）、糊里糊涂(confused)等。

1）冷淡的阳光照着他们和长发白眼。The cold, pale sunlight fell on their and lusterless eyes.

2）忽然有人在牡丹亭畔，长吁短叹。Suddenly he heard a rustle in the peony pavilion and someone 3）“这的阿Q！“远远地听得小尼姑的带哭的声音。（鲁迅《阿Q正传》）

“Ah Q, may you ” sounded the little nun’s voice tearfully in the distance.

４）在长期的革命历程中，个民主当派与中国共产党同呼吸共命运。

In the protracted process of the Chinese revolution, the various democratic parties 5) 那条小径The path up the hill.

6）创一溜服务，迎四海佳宾。First class service to all guests.（*Welcoming our honored guests from all over

the world with the first-class service.）

粗枝大叶careless / carelessly，南腔北调a mixed accent狼吞虎咽to wolf sth down, 同心同德with one mind, 清规戒律taboos/regulations, 惊心动魄soul-stirring,

五、（一）意译法：

family skeleton / skeleton in the cupboard(closet) 家丑

① Many old families have a number of skeletons in their closets which they are loath to disc