英语谚语

英语谚语 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，

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英语谚语 无心插柳柳成阴。

A leopard cannot change its spots./you cannot make a crab walk straight.江山易改，本性难移。

Don’t trouble touble until trouble troubles you.车到山前必有路。 Accidents will happen./Every tide has its ebb.天有不测风云，人有旦夕祸福。

Even Homer sometimes nods./The best horse stumbles.智者千虑，必有一失。

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

The shephered would rather lose the wool than the sheep.留得青山在，不怕没柴烧。

A little leak will sink a great ship./a stitch in time saves nine.亡羊补牢。

Silence is golden.沉默是金。

A rolling stone gathers no moss.滚石不生苔。 One swallow does not make a summer.一燕不成夏。 All is not gold that glitters. 闪闪发光物，并非皆金子。

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.双鸟在林，不如一鸟在手。

A bird in known by its note and a man by his talk.闻啼知鸟，闻言知人。

Safety and danger alternate with each other. Misfortune and fortune

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英语谚语 generate each other. Slowness and promptness follow each other. Gathering and scatering complement each other.安危相宜，祸福相生，缓急相争，聚散相成。

When full,remember someone elso is suffering hunger, when warm, remember someone elso is suffering cold, when in case, remembe someone else is suffering fatigue.

饱而知人之饥，温而知人之寒，逸而知人之劳。

Man seeks before gains, toils before succeeds, accumulates before increases, and exhausts his efforts before he becomes a sage. Thus, a sage grows out of accumulation.

彼求之而后得，为之而后成，积之而后高，尽之而后圣。故圣人也者，人之所积也。 Learn

extensively,

inquire

thoroughly,

ponder

prudently,

discriminate clearly, and practice diligently.博学之，审问之，慎思之，明辩之，笃行之。

One can never be aware of the height of the sky or the depth of the earth, if he does not climb up a high mountain or look down into a deep abyss.不登高山，不知天之厚；不临深渊，不知地之厚也。

It is better to hear something than not to hear it.still better to see it than hear it. Still better to know it than to see it. Still better to practice it than to now it. Learning will not stop until it is put into

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英语谚语 practice. 不闻不若闻之，闻之不若见之，见之不若知之。学至行之而止矣。

Wealth and rank attained through imoral means are as empty as floating clouds to me.不义而富贵，于我如浮云。

It makes a moral man to ask for what he doesn’t know, to learn what he can’t do, and to restrain himself from what he is capable of.不之则问，不能则学，虽能必让，然后为德。

Brave and courageours you are the most. Till your death you stick to your post.诚既勇兮又以武，终刚强兮不可凌。

A public spirit will rule all under the heaven when the great Way prevails.大道之行也，天下为公。

The endless river flows eastward, with its huge waves,gone are all those gallant heroes of bygone years. 大江东去，浪淘尽，千古风流人物。

What is most perfect seems to have something missing, yet its use in unimpaired. What is most full seems empty, yet its use will neer fail. What is most straight appears crooked, what is most skilled appears clumsy, and what is most eloquent appears incoherent.大成若缺，其用大弊，大盈若冲，其用不穷，大直若曲，大巧若掘。 Absorbed in paiting, you knnow not old age is coming, indeed, to me wealth and rank are like clouds drifting away.丹青不知老将至，富贵于我如浮云。

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