英语—谚语
A bad beginning makes a bad ending. 不善始者不善终。
A bad thing never dies. 遗臭万年。
A bad workman always blames his tools. 不会撑船怪河弯。
A bird in the hand is worth than two in the bush. 一鸟在手胜过双鸟在林。
A boaster and a liar are cousins-german. 吹牛与说谎本是同宗。
A bully is always a coward. 色厉内荏。
A burden of one's choice is not felt. 爱挑的担子不嫌重。
A candle lights others and consumes itself. 蜡烛照亮别人，却毁灭了自己。
A cat has 9 lives. 猫有九条命。
A cat may look at a king. 人人平等。
A close mouth catches no flies. 病从口入。
A constant guest is never welcome. 常客令人厌。
Actions speak louder than words. 事实胜于雄辩。
Adversity leads to prosperity. 穷则思变。
Adversity makes a man wise, not rich. 逆境出人才。
A fair death honors the whole life. 死得其所，流芳百世。
A faithful friend is hard to find. 知音难觅。
A fall into a pit, a gain in your wit. 吃一堑，长一智。
A fox may grow gray, but never good. 江山易改，本性难移。
A friend in need is a friend indeed. 患难见真情。
A friend is easier lost than found. 得朋友难，失朋友易。
A friend is never known till a man has need. 需要之时方知友。
A friend without faults will never be found. 没有十全十美的朋友。
"After you" is good manners.“您先请”是礼貌。
A good beginning is half done. 良好的开端是成功的一半。
A good beginning makes a good ending. 善始者善终。
A good book is a good friend. 好书如挚友。
A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.
一本好书，相伴一生。
A good conscience is a soft pillow. 不做亏心事，不怕鬼叫门。
A good fame is better than a good face. 美名胜过美貌。
A good husband makes a good wife. 夫善则妻贤。
A good medicine tastes bitter. 良药苦口。
A good wife health is a man's best wealth. 妻贤身体好是男人最大的财富。
A great talker is a great liar. 说大话者多谎言。
A hedge between keeps friendship green. 君子之交淡如水。
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。
A leopard cannot change its spots. 积习难改。
A liar is not believed when he speaks the truth.
说谎者即使讲真话也没人相信。
A light heart lives long. 静以修身。
A little body often harbors a great soul. 浓缩的都是精品。
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. 一知半解，自欺欺人。
A little pot is soon hot. 狗肚子盛不得四两油。
All are brave when the enemy flies. 敌人逃窜时，人人都成了勇士。
All good things come to an end. 天下没有不散的筵席。
All rivers run into sea. 海纳百川。
All roads lead to Rome. 条条大路通罗马。
All that ends well is well. 结果好，就一切都好。
All that glitters is not gold. 闪光的不一定都是金子。
All things are difficult before they are easy. 凡事总是由难而易。
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
只会用功不玩耍，聪明孩子也变傻。
A man becomes learned by asking questions. 不耻下问才能有学问。
A man can do no more than he can. 凡事都应量力而行。
A man cannot spin and reel at the same time. 一心不能二用。
A man is known by his friends. 什么人交什么朋友。
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。
A man without money is no man at all. 一分钱难倒英雄汉。
A merry heart goes all the way. 心旷神怡，事事顺利。
A miss is as good as a mile. 失之毫厘，差之千里。
A mother's love never changes. 母爱永恒。
An apple a day keeps the doctor away. 一天一苹果，不用请医生。
A new broom sweeps clean. 新官上任三把火。
An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. 以眼还眼，以牙还牙。
An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening. 一日之计在于晨。
An old dog cannot learn new tricks. 老狗学不出新把戏。
An ounce of luck is better than a pound of wisdom. 聪明才智，不如运气。
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. 预防为主，治疗为辅。
A rolling stone gathers no moss. 滚石不生苔，转业不聚财。
As a man sows, so he shall reap. 种瓜得瓜，种豆得豆。
A single flower does not make a spring. 一花独放不是春，百花齐放春满园。
A snow year, a rich year. 瑞雪兆丰年。
A sound mind in a sound body. 健全的精神寓于健康的身体。
A still tongue makes a wise head. 寡言者智。
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 wise head makes a close mouth. 真人不露相，露相非真人。
A word spoken is past recalling. 一言既出，驷马难追。
A year's plan starts with spring. 一年之计在于春。
A young idler, an old beggar. 少壮不努力，老大徒伤悲。
Bad news has wings. 好事不出门，坏事传千里。
Barking dogs seldom bite. 吠犬不咬人。
Beauty lies in the love's eyes. 情人眼里出西施。
Be swift to hear, slow to speak. 听宜敏捷，言宜缓行。
Better late than never. 不怕慢，单怕站。
Better to ask the way than go astray. 问路总比迷路好。
Between friends all is common. 朋友之间不分彼此。
Birds of a feather flock together. 物以类聚，人以群分。
Blood is thicker than water. 血浓于水。
Blood will have blood. 血债血偿。
Books and friends should be few but good. 读书如交友，应求少而精。
Business is business. 公事公办。
Business is the salt of life. 事业是人生的第一需要。
By reading we enrich the mind, by conversation we polish it.
读书使人充实，交谈使人精明。
Cannot see the wood for the trees. 一叶障目，不见泰山。
Care and diligence bring luck. 谨慎和勤奋才能抓住机遇。
Caution is the parent of safety. 小心驶得万年船。
Cheats never prosper. 骗人发不了财。
Children are what the mothers are. 耳濡目染，身教言传。
Choose an author as you choose a friend. 择书如择友。
Come what may, heaven won't fall. 做你的吧，天塌不下来。
Complacency is the enemy of study. 学习的敌人是自己的满足。
英语谚语500句（二）
Confidence in yourself is the first step on the road to success.
自信是走向成功的第一步。
Constant dripping wears away a stone. 水滴石穿，绳锯木断。
Content is better than riches. 知足者常乐。
Count one's chickens before they are hatched. 蛋未孵先数雏。
Courtesy on one side only lasts not long. 来而不往非礼也。
Creep before you walk. 循序渐进。
Cry for the moon. 海底捞月。
Custom is a second nature. 习惯是后天养成的。
Custom makes all things easy. 有个好习惯，事事皆不难。
Diamond cuts diamond. 强中自有强中手。
Do as the Romans do. 入乡随俗。
Do as you would be done by. 己所不欲，勿施于人。
Doing is better than saying. 与其挂在嘴上，不如落实在行动上。
Do it now. 机不可失，时不再来。
Do nothing by halves. 凡事不可半途而废。
Don't claim to know what you don't know. 不要不懂装懂。
Don't have too many irons in the fire. 不要揽事过多。
Don't make a mountain out of a molehill. 不要小题大做。
Don't put off till tomorrow what should be done today. 今日事，今日毕。
Don't put the cart before the horse. 不要本末倒置。
Don't trouble trouble until trouble troubles you. 不要自找麻烦。
Don't try to teach your grandmother to suck eggs. 不要班门弄斧。
Do well and have well. 善有善报。
Each bird love to hear himself sing. 孤芳自赏。
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
早睡早起身体好。
Easier said than done. 说得容易，做得难。
Easy come, easy go. 来也匆匆，去也匆匆。
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。
Empty vessels make the greatest sound. 实磨无声空磨响，满瓶不动半瓶摇。
Envy has no holidays. 忌妒之人无宁日。
Even Homer sometimes nods. 智者千虑，必有一失。
Even reckoning makes long friends. 亲兄弟，明算账。
Every advantage has its disadvantage. 有利必有弊。
Everybody's business is nobody's business. 人人负责，等于没人负责。
Every day is not Sunday. 好景不常在。
Every dog has his day. 谁都有得意的时候。
Every door may be shut, but death's door. 人生在世，唯死难逃。
Every heart has its own sorrow. 各人有各人的苦恼。
Every little helps a mickle. 聚沙成塔，集腋成裘。
Every man for himself, and the devil takes the hindmost.
人不为己，天诛地灭。
Every man has his faults. 金无足赤，人无完人。
Every man has his hobbyhorse. 萝卜青菜，各有所爱。
Every man has his weak side. 人人都有弱点。
Every man is the architect of his own fortune. 自己的命运自己掌握。
Every minute counts. 分秒必争。
Every mother's child is handsome. 孩子是自己的好。
Every potter praises hit pot. 王婆卖瓜，自卖自夸。
Everything is good when new, but friends when old.
东西是新的好，朋友是老的亲。
Example is better then percept. 说一遍，不如做一遍。
Experience is the father of wisdom and memory the mother.
经验是智慧之父，记忆是智慧之母。
Experience must be bought. 吃一堑，长一智。
Fact speak louder than words. 事实胜于雄辩。
Failure is the mother of success. 失败是成功之母。
False friends are worse than bitter enemies. 明枪易躲，暗箭难防。
Far from eye, far from heart. 眼不见，心不烦。
Far water does not put out near fire. 远水救不了近火。
Faults are thick where love is thin. 一朝情意淡，样样不顺眼。
Fear always springs from ignorance. 恐惧源于无知。
Fields have eyes, and woods have ears. 隔墙有耳。
Fire and water have no mercy. 水火无情。
Fire is a good servant but a bad master. 火是一把双刃剑。
First come, first served. 先来后到。
First impressions are half the battle. 初次见面，印象最深。
First think and then speak. 先想后说。
Fools grow without watering. 朽木不可雕。
Fool's haste is no speed. 欲速则不达。
Fools has fortune. 呆人有呆福。
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。
Forbidden fruit is sweet. 禁果格外香。
Fortune favors those who use their judgement. 机遇偏爱善断之人。
Fortune knocks once at least at every man's gate. 风水轮流转。
Four eyes see more than two. 集思广益。
Friends agree best at distance. 朋友之间也会保持距离。
Friends are thieves of time. 朋友是时间的窃贼。
Friends must part. 再好的朋友也有分手的时候。
Genius is nothing but labor and diligence. 天才不过是勤奋而已。
Give a dog a bad name and hang him. 众口铄金，积毁销骨。
God helps those who help themselves. 自助者天助。
Gold will not buy anything. 黄金并非万能。
Good for good is natural, good for evil is manly.
以德报德是常理，以德报怨大丈夫。
Good health is over wealth. 健康是最大的财富。
Good medicine for health tastes bitter to the mouth. 良药苦口利于病。
Good watch prevents misfortune. 谨慎消灾。
Great barkers are no biters. 好狗不挡道。
Great hopes make great man. 伟大的抱负造就伟大的人物。
Great minds think alike. 英雄所见略同。
Great men have great faults. 英雄犯大错误。
Great men's sons seldom do well. 富不过三代。
Great trees are good for nothing but shade. 大树底下好乘凉。
Great wits have short memories. 贵人多忘事。
Greedy folks have long arms. 心贪手长。
Guilty consciences make men cowards. 做贼心虚。
Habit cures habit. 心病还需心药医。
Handsome is he who does handsomely. 行为漂亮才算美。
Happiness takes no account of time. 欢乐不觉时光过。
Happy is he who owes nothing. 要想活得痛快，身上不能背债。
Happy is the man who learns from the misfortunes of others.
吸取他人教训，自己才会走运。
Harm set, harm get. 害人害己。
Hasty love, soon cold. 一见钟情难维久。
Health is better than wealth. 健康胜过财富。
英语谚语500句（三）
Health is happiness. 健康就是幸福。
Hear all parties. 兼听则明。
Heaven never helps the man who will not act. 自己不动，叫天何用。
He is a fool that forgets himself. 愚者忘乎所以。
He is a good friend that speaks well of us behind our backs.
背后说好话，才是真朋友。
He is a wise man who speaks little. 聪明不是挂在嘴上。
He is lifeless that is faultless. 只有死人才不犯错误。
He is not fit to command others that cannot command himself.正人先正己。
He is not laughed at that laughs at himself first. 自嘲者不会让人见笑。
He is wise that is honest. 诚实者最明智。
He knows most who speaks least. 大智若愚。
He laughs best who laughs last. 谁笑到最后，谁笑得最好。
He sets the fox to keep the geese. 引狼入室。
He that climbs high falls heavily. 爬得越高，摔得越重。
He that will not work shall not eat. 不劳动者不得食。
He who does not advance loses ground. 逆水行舟，不进则退。
He who makes constant complaint gets little compassion.
经常诉苦，没人同情。
He who makes no mistakes makes nothing. 想不犯错误，就一事无成。
He who risks nothing gains nothing. 收获与风险并存。
History repeats itself. 历史往往重演。
Honesty is the best policy. 做人诚信为本。
Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.
抱最好的愿望，做最坏的打算。
I cannot be your friend and your flatterer too. 朋友不能阿谀奉承。
If a man deceives me once, shame on him, if he deceives me twice, shame on me. 上当一回头，再多就可耻。
If you make yourself an ass, don't complain if people ride you.
人善被人欺，马善被人骑。
If your ears glow, someone is talking of you. 耳朵发烧，有人念叨。
If you run after two hares, you will catch neither.
脚踏两条船，必定落空。
If you sell the cow, you sell her milk too. 杀鸡取卵。
If you venture nothing, you will have nothing. 不入虎穴，焉得虎子。
If you want knowledge, you must toil for it. 要想求知，就得吃苦。
Industry is the parent of success. 勤奋是成功之母。
It is better to die when life is a disgrace. 宁为玉碎，不为瓦全。
It is easier to get money than to keep it. 挣钱容易攒钱难。
It is easy to be wise after the event. 事后诸葛亮好当。
It is easy to open a shop but hard to keep it always open.
创业容易守业难。
It is hard to please all. 众口难调。
It is never too old to learn. 活到老，学到老。
It is no use crying over spilt milk. 覆水难收。
It is the first step that costs troublesome. 万事开头难。
It is the unforeseen that always happens. 天有不测风云，人有旦夕祸福。
It is too late to grieve when the chance is past. 坐失良机，后悔已迟。
It never rains but it pours. 不鸣则已，一鸣惊人。
It takes three generations to make a gentleman. 十年树木，百年树人。
Jack of all trades and master of none. 门门精通，样样稀松。
Judge not from appearances. 人不可貌相，海不可斗量。
Justice has long arms. 天网恢恢，疏而不漏。
Keep good men company and you shall be of the number.近朱者赤,近墨者黑。
Kill two birds with one stone. 一箭双雕。
Kings go mad, and the people suffer for it. 君王发狂，百姓遭殃。
Kings have long arms. 普天之下，莫非王土。
Knowledge is power. 知识就是力量。
Knowledge makes humble, ignorance makes proud.
博学使人谦逊，无知使人骄傲。
Learn and live. 活着，为了学习。
Learning makes a good man better and ill man worse.
好人越学越好，坏人越学越坏。
Learn not and know not. 不学无术。
Learn to walk before you run. 先学走，再学跑。
Let bygones be bygones. 过去的就让它过去吧。
Let sleeping dogs lie. 别惹麻烦。
Let the cat out of the bag. 泄漏天机。
Lies can never changes fact. 谎言终究是谎言。
Lies have short legs. 谎言站不长。
Life is but a span. 人生苦短。
Life is half spent before we know what it is. 人过半生，方知天命。
Life is not all roses. 人生并不是康庄大道。
Life without a friend is death. 没有朋友，虽生犹死。
Like a rat in a hole. 瓮中之鳖。
Like author, like book. 文如其人。
Like father, like son. 有其父必有其子。
Like for like. 一报还一报。
Like knows like. 惺惺相惜。
Like mother, like daughter. 有其母必有其女。
Like teacher, like pupil. 什么样的老师教什么样的学生。
Like tree, like fruit. 羊毛出在羊身上。
Little things amuse little minds. 小人无大志。
Look before you leap. 摸清情况再行动。
Lookers-on see more than players. 当局者迷，旁观者清。
Losers are always in the wrong. 胜者为王，败者为寇。
Lost time is never found again. 岁月既往，一去不回。
Love at first sight. 一见钟情。
Love cannot be compelled. 爱情不能强求。
Love is blind. 爱情是盲目的。
Love is full of trouble. 爱情充满烦恼。
Love is never without jealousy. 没有妒忌就没有爱情。
Love me, love my dog. 爱屋及乌。
Make hay while the sun shines. 良机勿失。
Make your enemy your friend. 化敌为友。
Man is the soul of the universe. 人是万物之灵。
Man proposes, God disposes. 谋事在人，成事在天。
Many hands make light work. 众人拾柴火焰高。
Many heads are better than one. 三个臭皮匠，赛过诸葛亮。
Many things grow in the garden that were never sown there.
有心栽花花不发，无心插柳柳成荫。
Measure for measure. 针锋相对。
Misfortunes never come alone. 祸不单行。
Misfortune tests the sincerity of friends. 患难见真情。
Money isn't everything. 钱不是万能的。
Murder will out. 纸包不住火。
My son is my son till he has got him a wife, but my daughter is my daughter all the days of her life. 儿子婚前是儿子，女儿终生是女儿。
Nature is the true law. 天行有常，不为尧存，不为桀亡。
Necessity is the mother of invention. 需要是发明的动力。
Never fish in trouble water. 不要混水摸鱼。
Every tragedy makes heroes of common people.
(Normna Stephens, American writer)
每场悲剧都会在平凡的人中造就出英雄来。
(美国作家 斯蒂芬斯 N)
每日小格言：当你微笑时，世界会爱你；当你大笑时，世界则会害怕你！
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing; the freedom to choose his attitude in any given set of circumstances.
(Leonhard Frand , German novelist)
我可以拿走人的任何东西，但有一样东西不行，这就是在特定环境下选择自己的生活态度的自由。
(德国小说家 弗兰克 L)
Faith is the bird that feels the light when the down is still dark.
——R. Tagore
信念是黎明前天尚黑时感到光明的鸟。
——泰戈尔
The very reputation of being strong-willed, plucky, and indefatigable is of priceless value.
—— Charles Robert Darwin
意志坚强、胆量过人和不屈不挠的名声，乃是一种无价之宝。
—— 达尔文
If your ship doesn't come in , swim out to it!
—— Jonathan Winters
如果你的船不驶进来，那你就朝它游过去吧！
——J·温特斯
Whenever you have an aim you must sacrifice something of freedom to attain it.
—— William Somerset Maugham
不论什么时候，只要你有一个目标，就得牺牲一定的自由去实现它。
——W·S·毛姆
We always have time enough, if we will but use it alright.
——Wolfgang Von Goethe
只要我们能善用时间，就永远不愁时间不够用。
Have an aim in life, or your energies will all be wasted.
—— Richard Peters
人生应有目标，否则你的努力将成徒劳。
——理查·比德斯
There is no paradise on earth equal to the union of love and innocence.
—— Rousseau
人世间最大的幸福莫过于既有爱情又爱得纯洁无暇。
——卢梭
As fruit needs not only sunshine but cold nights and chilling showers to ripen it, so character needs not only joy but trial and difficulty to mellow it.
(Hugh Black, American writer)
水果不仅需要阳光，也需要凉夜。寒冷的雨水能使其成熟。人的性格陶冶不仅需要欢乐，也需要考验和困难。
(美国作家 布莱克 H)
Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.
(Hellen Keller, American writer)
虽然世界多苦难，但是苦难总是能战胜的。
(美国作家 海伦·凯勒)
Almost any situation---good or bad ---is affected by the attitude we bring to.
(Lucius Annaus Seneca, Ancient Roman philosopher)
差不多任何一种处境——无论是好是坏——都受到我们对待处境的态度的影响。
(古罗马哲学家 西尼加 L A)
Adversity reveals genius; fortune conceals it.
(Horace, ancient Roman poet)
苦难显才华，好运隐天资。
(古罗马诗人 贺拉斯)
Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to
explain it.
—— R. Tagore
爱是一个无穷无尽的谜，因为没有任何其他东西能够解释它。
——R·泰戈尔
Words may be false and full of arts ,sighs are the natural language of the heart.
(Thomas Shadwell, British dramatist)
言语可以是谎言并带有技巧；叹息才是心灵的自然流露。
(英国剧作家 沙德韦尔.T.)
Experience without learning is better than learning without excperi-ence.
(Bertuand Russell, British philosopher and mathematician)
有经验而无学问胜于有学问而无经验。
(英国哲学家、数学家罗素.B.)
Hope is itself a species of happiness, and perhaps the chief happiness which this world affords.
—— Samuel Johnson
希望本身就是一种幸福，也许还是这个世界提供给我们的最大幸福。
——约翰逊
To be without some of the things you wan is an indispensable part of happiness.
—— Bertrand Rossell
你追求不到的东西有时也是幸福不可缺少的一部分。
——罗素
A man dies often as he loses a friend. But we gain new life by new contacts, new friends.
—— Francis Bacon
一个人每逢失去一个朋友就等于经历一次死亡。但是取得新联系，结识新朋友却又使我们获得了新的生命。
——培根
We choose our friends by instinct, but we keep them by judgement.
—— Alfred Capus
我们选择朋友靠的是本能，而保持友谊靠的是判断。
——A·卡普斯
I do not like work ---no man does --but I like what is in the work -----the chance to find your self.
---Conrad Joseph
我不喜欢工作——没有人会喜欢工作。但是我喜欢在所从事的工作中——找到发现自己的机会。
---约瑟夫.C
I find life an exciting business and most exciting when it is lived for others.
(Helen Keller,Ameican writer)
我发现生活是令人激动的事情，尤其是为别人活着时。
(美国作家 海伦·凯勒)
No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.
——Moliere
任何人都不能免于诽谤。最好的方法是不理会，过着清白的生活，让人们去说好了。
——莫里哀
Coward die many times before their death.
—— William Shakespeare
懦夫在死之前,就已经死过很多次了.
—— 威廉·莎士比亚
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
——George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
不创造幸福的人无权享用幸福，正如不创造财富的人无权享用财富一样。
——萧伯纳
Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
——Andre Gide (1869-1951)
没有什么比回忆幸福更令人痛苦的了。
——安德烈·纪德
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
——Publilius Syrus
认为自己不幸福的人就不会幸福。
——普布利柳斯·西鲁斯
It is better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.
——George Courteline (1858-1926)
年轻时做一点儿事要比什么事也不做好。
——乔治·库特林
The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and the determination to attain it.
——Goethe (1749-1832)
人生中至关重要的事是在远大的目标和达到这个目标的雄心壮志。
——歌德
Life is not all cakes and ale.
——Thomas Hughes (1822-1896)
人生并不就是吃喝玩乐。
——托马斯·休斯
I succeeded because I willed it; I never hesitated.
——Napoleon I (1769-1821)
我成功是因为我有决心，从不踌躇。
——拿破仑一世
It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
——Dolores Ibarruri (1895-?)
宁愿站着死，决不跪着生。
——多洛雷斯·伊巴露丽
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.
——Mark Twain (1835-1910)
勇敢并非没有恐惧，而是克服恐惧，战胜恐惧。
——马克·吐温
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
——Martin Luther King Jr (1929-1968)
世界上再也没有比纯粹的无知和认真的愚蠢更危险的了。
——小马丁·路德·金
Appearances often are deceiving.
——Aesop, Fables
外表往往具有欺骗性。
——《伊索寓言》
Every man is the master of his own fortune.
—— R.Steels
每个人都主宰着自己的命运。
—— R·斯蒂尔斯
An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.
——Bible
以眼还眼， 以牙还牙。
——《圣经》
You should, like a candle, burn out yourself to give light to others.
——Mao Zedong
要像蜡烛一样燃烧自己，照亮别人。
——毛泽东
Happiness takes no account of time.
——Jack London
幸福年华似流水。
——杰克·伦敦
Eat to live, but do not live to eat.
———Socrates
吃饭是为了活着，但活着不是为了吃饭。
——苏格拉底
Talking much about oneself may be a way of hiding oneself.
——Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
过多地谈论自己可能是隐藏自己的方式。
——尼采
Civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof.
——John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
礼貌不是软弱的表现，真诚有待验证。
——约翰·肯尼迪
An honest man's the noblest work of God.
——Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
诚实的人是上帝创造的最佳作品。
——亚历山大·蒲柏
Books are the ever-burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
——G. W. Curtis (1824-1892)
书籍是积累智慧的明灯。
—— G·W·柯蒂斯
Liberty is the right to do whatever the laws permit.
——Barohn De Montesquieu (1689-1755)
自由必须受法律约束
——孟德斯鸠
Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience.
——Samuel Smiles (1812-1904)
实用知识只有通过亲身体验才能学到。
——塞缪尔·斯迈尔斯
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.
——Cecil (1520-1598)
要想多做成一些事情的捷径是一次只做一件事情。
——塞西尔
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
——Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895)
人生的伟大目标不在于知，而在于行。
——托马斯·亨利·赫胥黎
Saying and doing are two different things.
——John Heywood (1497-1550)
言与行实乃两码事也。
——约翰·海伍德
He who would search for pearls must dive below.
——John Dryden (1631-1700)
欲采珍珠须潜深水。
——约翰·德莱顿
Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions.
——Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)
行动是可以慰藉的。它是思想的敌人，是幻想的朋友。
——约瑟夫·康拉德
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety – nine percent perspiration.
——Thomas Alve Edison (1847-1931)
天才来自百分之一的灵感和百分之九十九的血汗。
——托马斯·阿尔瓦·爱迪生。
He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, and he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.
—— Emerson
有千百个朋友也不嫌多，只有一个敌人却到处可见。
—— 爱默生
Almost anything is easier to get into than to get out of.
——Agnes Allen
几乎所有事情都是进去容易退出难。
——艾格尼丝·艾伦
It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
—— Samuel Johnson
一个人怎样死去并不重要，重要的在于他怎样活着。
—— 塞缪尔·约翰逊
Without art the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
—— G. B. Shaw
如果没有艺术，现实的粗陋将使世界无法忍受。
——萧伯纳
A great poem is a fountain forever overflowing with the waters of wisdom and delight.
—— Shelley
一首伟大的诗犹如一座喷泉，不断地喷出智慧和快乐的泉水。
——雪莱
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free, if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
—— Edmund Burke
如果我们能支配我们的财富，我们就会变得富裕而自由；如财富支配了我们，我们就会变得贫穷。
——E·伯克
If you get simple beauty and nought else, you get about the best things God invents.
—— Robert Browning
只要你拥有纯真的美，你就拥有了上帝创造的最好的东西。
——罗伯特·布朗宁
"Beauty is truth, truth beauty," ----that is all we know on earth, and all we need to know.
—— John Keats
“美就是真，真就是美。”——这就是我们在人间知道和应该知道的一切。
——约翰·济慈
Ideals are like stars --- we never reach them, but like
mariners, we chart our course by them.
—— C. Schurz
人之需要理想，犹如水手之需要星辰；星辰虽不可及，但可以指引我们的航程。
—— 舒尔茨
This communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary effects, for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth grief in half.
—— Francis Bacon
朋友之间的交往产生两种截然相反的结果：一份快乐两人分享，能成为双份的快乐；一份痛苦二人分担，就会只剩下一半痛苦。
——弗朗西斯·培根
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
—— Rene Descartes
读好书，如同与先哲们交谈。
——笛卡尔
New love is brightest, and long love is greatest; but revived love is the tenderest thing known upon earth.
—— Thomas Hardy
新生的爱情绚丽多彩，长久的爱情崇高伟大；但复苏的爱情则是世界上最温柔的事情。
——托马斯·哈代
Let the dead have the immortality of fame, but the living the immortality of love.
—— Tagore
让逝者拥有不朽的荣誉，让生者拥有不朽的爱情。
——泰戈尔
On the great clock of time there is but one word, "now".
—— William Shakespeare
伟大的时钟上，只有一个词：“现在”。
——莎士比亚
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
—— Henry D. Thoreau
友谊的语言不是词句，而是意义。
——H·D·梭罗
All great truths are obvious truths. But no all obvcious truths are great truths.
—— A. Huxley
伟大的真理都是明摆着的事实，但并不是所有显而易见的事实都是伟大的真理。
——A·赫胥黎
My honor is my life, both grow in one; take honor from me, and my life is done.
——Shakespeare
我的荣誉就是我的生命，两者共长一体；若取走我的荣誉， 我的生命也就结束了。
——莎士比亚
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of child.
——G.B. Shaw
我们希望看到孩子追求知识，而不是知识追求孩子。
——肖伯纳
In life, as in chess, forethought wins.
——Charles Buxton (1823-1871)
人生如下棋，多思则能胜。
——查尔斯·巴克斯顿
We may give advice, but we can't give conduct.
——Franklin
我们可以给忠告，但是我们不能给指挥。
——富兰克林
The safety of the people is the highest law.
——Cicero
人民的利益高于一切。
——西塞罗
Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.
——J. Andrew
做事应考虑，但时机既至，即须动手，切莫犹豫。
——安德鲁
"Beauty is truth, truth beauty," ----that is all we know on earth, and all we need to know.
—— John Keats
“美就是真，真就是美。”——这就是我们在人间知道和应该知道的一切。
——约翰·济慈
As selfishness and complaint cloud the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
—— Helen Keller
自私和抱怨使心灵阴暗，愉悦的爱则使视野明朗开阔。
—— 海伦·凯勒
Loveliness, needs not the foreign aid of ornament, but is when unadorn'd, adorn'd the most.
—— James Thompson
可爱，并不需要外来的装饰，天然的可爱远比雕饰的更可爱。
—— J· 汤普森
Love should be a tree whose roots are deep in the earth,but whose branches extend into heaven.
—— Bertrand Russell
爱情之树应该深深扎在泥土中，而其枝条则要伸展于广阔的天空。
—— B·罗素
If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances
through life, he will soon find himself alone.
—— Samuel Johnson
如果一个人在一生中不结交新朋友，他很快就会发现自己很孤独。
—— 塞缪尔·约翰逊
Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
—— Benjamin Franklin
早睡早起能使人健康，富有，明智。
—— 本杰明·富兰克林
He is the richest who is content with the least, for content
is the wealth of nature.
—— Socrates
知足常乐者最富有，因为知足本身就是财富。
—— 苏格拉底
It is wiser being good than bad; It is safer being meek than fierce; It is fitter being sane than mad.
—— Browning
为善比作恶来得聪明； 温顺比凶恶来得安全；清醒比狂热来得稳妥。
—— 勃郎宁
The three foundations of learning: seeing much, suffering
much, and studying much.
—— Catherall
求学的三个基本条件是：多观察，多吃苦，多研究。
—— 加塞罗尔
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed,and some few to be chewed and digested.
—— F. Bacon
一些书可以浅尝辄止；一些书可以狼吞虎咽；而有些书则需要细嚼慢咽，好好消化。
—— F.培根
He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; he who loses courage loses all.
—— Cervantes
一个人，损失了财富损失大，损失了朋友损失更大；若是损失了勇气就损失了一切。
—— 塞万提斯
Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
—— R. W. Emerson
只要符合你的人生方向，什么样的工作都不低下。
—— R.W.爱默生
Truth does not lie beyond humanity, but is one of the products of the human minded feelings.
—— D.H.Lowrence
真理不能超越人性，但它是创造人类感情的产物之一。
—— D.H.劳伦斯
It is hard for the human soul not to love something,and our mind must of necessity be drawn to some kind of affection.
—— Jerome
要使人的灵魂不去爱是很难的，而我们的思想也有必要被某种爱所吸引。
—— 杰罗姆
If you'd be loved, be worthy to be loved.
—— Ovid
要得到别人的爱，就必须有值得爱的地方。
—— 奥维德
It's difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
—— H.W. Longfellow
知道爱情开始是困难的，但知道爱情已经开始则不那么困难。
—— H.W.朗费罗
Shallow men believe in luck. Self-trust is the first secret of success.
—— Ralph Waldo Emerson
肤浅的人相信运气，而成功的首要秘诀是自信。
—— 爱默生
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life;love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.
—— Martin Luther King
恨使生活瘫痪无力，爱使它重获新生。恨使生活混乱不堪，爱使它变得和谐。恨使生活漆黑一片，爱使它光彩夺目。
—— 马丁·路德·金
From success you get a lot of things, but not that great
inside thing that love brings you.
—— Sam Goldwyn
从成功中，你可以得到很多东西，但无法得到爱情带给你的那种美妙的内在的东西。
—— 山姆·高德温
All love is sweet, given or returned. Common as light is loved, and its familiar voice wearies not ever.
—— Shelley
所有的爱都是甜蜜的，无论是给予还是回报。爱就象阳光一样无所不在，它那熟悉的嗓音永远不会消沉。
—— 雪莱
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
—— Alfred Tenneyson
要奋斗，要探索，要有所发现，但不要屈服。
—— 阿尔弗雷德·丁尼生
Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.
—— Benjamin Franklin
应该做的决心去做，决心做的就务必去做。
—— 本杰明·富兰克林
Hope is the thing with feather that perches in the soul.
—— Emily Dickinson
希望是栖息于灵魂中的一种会飞翔的东西。
—— 艾米莉·迪金森
Dare and the world always yields. If it beats you sometimes, dare it again and again and it will succumb.
—— W.M.Thackeray
你勇敢，世界就会让步。如果有时它战胜你，你要不断地勇敢再勇敢，它就会屈服。
—— W.M. 萨克雷
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
—— Charles M. Schwab
一个人，只要他有无限的热情，就几乎可以在任何事情上取得成功。
—— 查尔斯 M.施瓦布
All books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hour, and the books of all time.
—— John Ruskin
一切书籍都可以分为两类，即：一时之书与永久之书。
—— 约翰·罗斯金
To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
—— Sydney Smith
爱人和被人爱是人生最大的幸福。
—— 史密斯
Chance favours the minds that are prepared.
—— Pasteur
机会只愿意惠顾时刻做好准备的人。
—— 巴斯德
The horizon of life is broadened chiefly by the enlargement of the heart.
—— H. Blake
生活的视野主要是随着心胸的开阔而变得宽广的。
—— H. 布莱克
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, these three alone lead life to sovereign power.
——Tennyson
自尊，自知，自制，此三者可引致生命进入崇高的境界。
——丁尼生
Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.
—— Samuel Johnson
字典和时钟一样，最坏的一种也有胜于无，而最好的一种也不能认为是十分准确的。
—— 塞缪尔·约翰逊
Ideals are like stars --- we never reach them, but like
mariners, we chart our course by them.
—— C. Schurz
人之需要理想，犹如水手之需要星辰；星辰虽不可及，但可以指引我们的航程。
—— 舒尔茨
My honor is my life, both grow in one; take honor from me, and my life is done.
——Shakespeare
我的荣誉就是我的生命，两者共长一体；若取走我的荣誉，我的生命也就结束了。
——莎士比亚
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of child.
——G.B. Shaw
我们希望看到孩子追求知识，而不是知识追求孩子。
——肖伯纳
In life, as in chess, forethought wins.
——Charles Buxton (1823-1871)
人生如下棋，多思则能胜。
——查尔斯·巴克斯顿
We may give advice, but we can't give conduct.
——Franklin
我们可以给忠告，但是我们不能给指挥。
——富兰克林
The safety of the people is the highest law.
——Cicero
人民的利益高于一切。
——西塞罗
Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.
——J. Andrew
做事应考虑，但时机既至，即须动手，切莫犹豫。
——安德鲁
When all is consumed, repentance comes too late.
——Bible
待到一切消耗尽，悔悟来时已太迟。
——《圣经》
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle, old age a regret.
——Bemjamin Disraeli (1804-1881)
青年时冒失莽撞，成年时发奋图强，老年时悔恨懊恼。
——本杰明·迪斯累里
也可以译为古人语:少状不努力， 老大途伤悲。
There is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
——Paine
真理到谬误，相去只一步。
——佩恩
A stitch in time saves nine.
——Charles Read
一针不缝九针难补，及时处理事半功倍。
——里德
Appearances are not held to be a clue to the truth…. But we seem to have no other.
——Ivy Compton-Burnett(1884-1969)
表象不是追踪真理的线索，然而我们似乎别无选择。
——康普顿——伯内特夫人
No cross, no crown.
——Penn
吃得苦中苦，方为人上人。
——佩恩
A little of everything, and nothing at all.
——Saying
每事浅尝辄止，结果将一事无成。
——谚语
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.
——Robert Frost (1874-1963)
家就是永远向游子敞开大门的地方。
——罗伯特·弗罗斯特
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
——Heywood
心头有志愿，无事不可能。
——海伍德
He that can have patience, can have what he wills.
——Franklin
惟坚韧者才能遂其志。
——富兰克林
A good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters.
——George Herbert (1593-1633)
一个好母亲相当于上百个好教师。
——乔治·赫伯特
Virtue is to herself the best reward.
——Latin Proverb
善行本身即是对它自己的最好报酬。
——拉丁谚语
Be it ever so humble, there is no place like home.
——John Howard Payne (1791-1852)
金窝，银窝，不如自家的草窝。
——约翰·霍华德·佩恩
All happy families are like one another; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
——Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)
所有幸福的家庭都十分相似；每个不幸的家庭却各有各的不幸。
——列夫·托尔斯泰
A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you.
——Ramsey Clark
权利不是什么人施舍给你的东西；权利是任何人都不能从你手里夺走的东西。
——拉姆齐·克拉克
You could cover the whole world with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.
——Ilya Ehrenburg (1891-1967)
哪怕沥青覆盖了整个地球，绿草迟早会冲破障碍茁壮成长。
——伊里亚·爱伦堡
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
——George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
自由意味着责任。这就是多数人害怕自由的缘故。
——萧伯纳
As a rough rind sometimes covers the sweetest fruit, so a rough exterior often conceals a kindly and hearty nature.
——Samuel Smiles (1812-1904)
如同粗糙的果皮可以包裹最甜蜜的水果一样，丑陋的外表往往掩盖着善良和诚挚的本性。
——塞缪尔·斯迈尔斯
The countenance is the portrait of the mind, the eyes are its informers.
——Cicero (106 BC- 43BC)
表情是思想的写照，眼睛是心灵的窗户。
——西塞罗
God gives every bird its food, but does not throw it into the nest.
——J.G.Holland
天赐食物于鸟，但不投之于巢。
——霍兰
Riches are gotten with pain, kept with care, and lost with grief.
——Latin Proverb
财富从辛苦中得来，在忧虑中保持，在悲伤中失去。
——拉丁谚语
Almost anything is easier to get into than to get out of.
——Agnes Allen
几乎所有事情都是进去容易退出难。
——艾格尼丝·艾伦
Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.
—— Aristotle
学问在成功时是装饰品，在失意时是庇护所，在年老时是供应品。
—— 亚里士多德
If well used, books are the best of all things; if abused, among the worst.
—— Ralph Waldo Emerson
如果利用得当，书籍就是最好的朋友；反之，如果滥用，它就会变成最坏的东西了。
—— 拉尔夫·W·爱默生
Money can cure hunger, it cannot cure unhappiness.Food can satisfy the appetite, but not the soul.
—— G. B. Shaw
金钱可以充饥，但不能治愈不幸。食物可以饱腹，但却不能满足灵魂的需求。
—— G.B.萧伯纳
Be slow in choosing a friend; slower in changing.
—— Benjamin Franklin
选择朋友要慎重，改换朋友更要慎重。
—— 本杰明·富兰克林
Living without an aim is like sailing without a compass.
—— John Ruskin
生活没有目的，就好象航行没有指南针一样。
—— 约翰·罗斯金
Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust, the great name still lives.
—— Schiller
在人的所有财产中，名誉是最宝贵的；当躯体被埋葬了，名誉还依然存在。
—— 席勒
Lose not time; be always employed in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions.
—— Benjamin Franklin
不要浪费时间，做些有益的事情，停止一切不必要的行动。
—— 本杰明·富兰克林
It is more valuable to seek truth than to own it.
—— Albert Einstein
对真理的追求比对真理的占有更为可贵。
—— 阿尔伯特·爱因斯坦
Life being very short, and the quiet hour of it few; we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.
—— John Ruskin
人生十分短促，宁静的时间又不多； 我们不应该浪费宝贵的时间去读毫无价值的书。
—— 约翰·拉斯金
书籍是人类最宁静和最永恒的朋友，也是最易接近和最具智慧的顾问，还是最有耐心的良师益友。
—— 查尔斯·W·埃利奥特
Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.
—— Blaise Pascal
人的伟大之处在于他的思想的力量。
—— B· 帕斯卡
The brain can be developed just the same as the muscles can be developed, if one will only take the pains to train the mind to think.
—— Thomas Alva Edison
一个人的头脑可以象肌肉一样得到发展，只要你肯不辞辛苦的训练你的心智去思考。
—— 托马斯·A·爱迪生
Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
—— Mark Twain
每一个人都是一个月亮，都有他不可展示给别人的阴暗面。
—— 马克·吐温
Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
—— E. E. Cummings
对待爱情应该比其他任何事都更谨慎。
—— E. E. 卡明斯
We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.
—— Martin Luther King
我们必须接受有限的失望，但我们绝不可失去无限的希望。
—— 马丁·路德·金
The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
—— Thomas Hardy
一个希望的突然失落会留下一处伤痕，即使那希望最终会实现，也决不能完全平复。
—— 托马斯·哈代
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
—— Ralph Waldo Emerson
你每发怒一分钟，也就失去了六十秒的幸福。
—— R. W. 爱默生
If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.
—— Benjamin Franklin
如果一个人倾其所有以求学问，那么这些学问是没有人能拿走的。
—— 本杰明·富兰克林
You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
—— Joseph Conrad
你可以通过一个人的朋友，也可以通过一个人的敌人来判断他的为人。
—— 约瑟夫·康拉德
Life being very short, and the quiet hour of it few; we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.
—— John Ruskin
人生十分短促，宁静的时间又不多； 我们不应该浪费宝贵的时间去读毫无价值的书。
—— 约翰·拉斯金
great poem is a fountain forever overflowing with the waters of wisdom and delight.
—— Shelley
一首伟大的诗犹如一座喷泉，不断地喷出智慧和快乐的泉水。
——雪莱
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free, if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
—— Edmund Burke
如果我们能支配我们的财富，我们就会变得富裕而自由；如财富支配了我们，我们就会变得贫穷。
——E·伯克
If you get simple beauty and nought else, you get about the best things God invents.
—— Robert Browning
只要你拥有纯真的美，你就拥有了上帝创造的最好的东西。
——罗伯特·布朗宁
"Beauty is truth, truth beauty," ----that is all we know on earth, and all we need to know.
—— John Keats
“美就是真，真就是美。”——这就是我们在人间知道和应该知道的一切。
——约翰·济慈
Ideals are like stars --- we never reach them, but like
mariners, we chart our course by them.
—— C. Schurz
人之需要理想，犹如水手之需要星辰；星辰虽不可及，但可以指引我们的航程。
—— 舒尔茨
My honor is my life, both grow in one; take honor from me, and my life is done.
——Shakespeare
我的荣誉就是我的生命，两者共长一体；若取走我的荣誉， 我的生命也就结束了。
——莎士比亚
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of child.
——G.B. Shaw
我们希望看到孩子追求知识，而不是知识追求孩子。
——肖伯纳
In life, as in chess, forethought wins.
——Charles Buxton (1823-1871)
人生如下棋，多思则能胜。
——查尔斯·巴克斯顿
We may give advice, but we can't give conduct.
——Franklin
我们可以给忠告，但是我们不能给指挥。
——富兰克林
The safety of the people is the highest law.
——Cicero
人民的利益高于一切。
——西塞罗
Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.
——J. Andrew
做事应考虑，但时机既至，即须动手，切莫犹豫。
——安德鲁
The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do
good work today.
——Elbert Hubbard
为明天所做的最好的准备工作就是把今天的工作做好。
——E·哈伯德
All work is as seed sown; it grows and spreads, and
sows itself anew.
——Thomas Carlyle
一切工作都好象是播下的种子；它生长开花结籽，然后又重新
播种。
——托马斯·卡莱尔
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to
become a man of value.
——Albert Einstein
不要为成功而努力，要为做一个有价值的人而努力。
——爱因斯坦
Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you
love and believe in, and it will come naturally.
——David Frost
如果你想成功，不要去刻意地追求成功。只要你干自己热爱的工作
并相信它，成功就自然会到来。
——弗罗斯特
At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.
—— Benjamin Franklin
二十岁时起支配作用的是意志，三十岁时是机智，四十岁时是判断。
——富兰克林
Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
—— Shelly
诗歌是最快乐的、最高尚的心灵在最美好、最幸福的时刻的记录。
——雪莱
Without art the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
—— G. B. Shaw
如果没有艺术，现实的粗陋将使世界无法忍受。
——萧伯纳
A great poem is a fountain forever overflowing with the waters of wisdom and delight.
—— Shelley
一首伟大的诗犹如一座喷泉，不断地喷出智慧和快乐的泉水。
——雪莱
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free, if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
—— Edmund Burke
如果我们能支配我们的财富，我们就会变得富裕而自由；如财富支配了我们，我们就会变得贫穷。
——E·伯克
If you get simple beauty and nought else, you get about the best things God invents.
—— Robert Browning
只要你拥有纯真的美，你就拥有了上帝创造的最好的东西。
——罗伯特·布朗宁
"Beauty is truth, truth beauty," ----that is all we know on earth, and all we need to know.
—— John Keats
“美就是真，真就是美。”——这就是我们在人间知道和应该知道的一切。
——约翰·济慈
Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.
——David Frost
如果你想成功，不要去刻意地追求成功。只要你干自己热爱的工作并相信它，成功就自然会到来。
——弗罗斯特
There are two motives for reading a book: one that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
——Bertrand Russell
读书有两种动机：一是从中获得乐趣；另一种则是可以向人夸耀。
——罗素
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by
knowledge.
——Bertrand Russell
美好的生活是一种由爱所激励和由知识所指导的生活。
——罗素
It is with narrow-souled people as with narrow-necked bottles;
the less they have in them the more noise they make in pouring out.
——Pope
心胸狭窄的人就象细口瓶，里面装的东西越少，倒出时的噪音也就
越大。
——蒲伯
We have no right to consume happiness without
producing it than to consume wealth without prod-
ucing it.
——G. B. Shaw
如果我们不能创造幸福，我们就没有权利去享受幸福；正如
我们如果不能创造财富；也就没有权利去享用财富一样。
——萧伯纳
001.An idle youth,a needy age.
◎少壮不努力，老大徒伤悲。
002.Time flies.
◎时光易逝。
003.Time is money.
◎一寸光阴一寸金。
004.Time and tide wait for no man.
◎岁月无情；岁月易逝；岁月不待人。
005.Time tries all.
◎时间检验一切。
006.Time tries truth.
◎时间检验真理。
007.Time past cannot be called back again.
◎光阴一去不复返。
008.All time is no time when it is past.
◎光阴一去不复返。
009.No one can call back yesterday;Yesterday will not be called again.
◎昨日不复来。
010.Tomorrow comes never.
◎切莫依赖明天。
011.One today is worth two tomorrows.
◎一个今天胜似两个明天。
012.The morning sun never lasts a day.
◎好景不常；朝阳不能光照全日。
013.Christmas comes but once a year.
◎圣诞一年只一度。
014.Pleasant hours fly past.
◎快乐时光去如飞。
015.Happiness takes no account of time.
◎欢娱不惜时光逝。
016.Time tames the strongest grief.
◎时间能缓和极度的悲痛。
017.The day is short but the work is much.
◎工作多，光阴迫。
018.Never deter till tomorrow that which you can do today.
◎今日事须今日毕，切勿拖延到明天。
019.Have you somewhat to do tomorrow,do it today.
◎明天如有事，今天就去做。
020.To him that does everything in its proper time, one day is worth
three.
◎事事及时做，一日胜三日。
021.To save time is to lengthen life.
◎节省时间就是延长生命。
022.Everything has its time and that time must be watched.
◎万物皆有时，时来不可失。
023.Take time when time cometh,lest time steal away.
◎时来必须要趁时，不然时去无声息。
024.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。
025.Make hay while the sun shines.
◎晒草要趁太阳好。
026.Strike while the iron is hot.
◎趁热打铁。
027.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。
028.Punctuality is the soul of business.
◎守时为立业之要素。
029.Procrastination is the thief of time.
◎因循拖延是时间的大敌；拖延就是浪费时间。
030.Every tide hath ist ebb.
◎潮涨必有潮落时。
031.Knowledge is power.
◎知识就是力量。
032.Wisdom is more to be envied than riches.
◎知识可羡，胜于财富。
033.Wisdom is better than gold or silver.
◎知识胜过金银，
034.Wisdom in the mind is better than money in the hand.
◎胸中有知识，胜于手中有钱。
035.Wisdom is a good purchase though we pay dear for it.
◎为了求知识，代价虽高也值得。
036.Doubt is the key of knowledge.
◎怀疑是知识之钥。
037.If you want knowledge,you must toil for it.
◎若要求知识，须从勤苦得。
038.A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
◎浅学误人。
039.A handful of common sense is worth a bushel of learning.
◎少量的常识，当得大量的学问。
040.Knowledge advances by steps and not by leaps.
◎知识只能循序渐进，不能跃进。
041.Learn wisdom by the follies of others.
◎从旁人的愚行中学到聪明。
042.It is good to learn at another man's cost.
◎前车可鉴。
043.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。
044.Experience is the best teacher.
◎经验是最好的教师。
045.Experience is the father of wisdom and memory the mother.
◎经验是知识之父，记忆是知识之母。
046.Dexterity comes by experience.
◎熟练来自经验。
047.Practice makes perfect.
◎熟能生巧。
048.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。
049. 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。
050.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。
051.Seeing is believing.
◎百闻不如一见。
052.Business is the salt of life.
◎事业是生命之盐。
053.Business before pleasure.
◎事业在先，享乐在后。
054.Business makes a man as well as tries him.
◎事业可以考验人，也可以造就人。
055.Business neglected is business lost.
◎忽视职业便是放弃职业。
056.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。
057.Business may be troublesome,but idleness is pernicious.
◎事业虽扰人，懒惰害更大。
058.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。
059.Do business,but be not a slave to it.
◎要做事，但不要做事务的奴隶。
060.Everybody's business is nobody's business.
◎众人的事就是无人过问的事。
061.Work makes the workman.
◎勤工出巧匠。
062.Better master one than engage with ten.
◎会十事，不如精一事。
063.A work ill done must be twice done.
◎首次做不好，必须重新搞。
064.They who cannot do as they would,must do as they can.
◎不能如愿而行，也须尽力而为。
065.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。
066.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。
067.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。
068.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。
069.Better late than never.
◎迟做总比不做好。
070.Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.
◎凡是值得做的事，就值得做好。
071.The shortest answer is doing the thing.
◎最简短的回答就是一个“干”字。
072.Action is the proper fruit of knowledge.
◎行动是知识之佳果。
073.Finished labours are pleasant.
◎完成工作是一乐。
074.It is lost labour to sow where there is no soil.
◎没有土壤，播种也是徒劳。
075.It is right to put everything in its proper use.
◎凡事都应用得其所。
076.Affairs that are done by due degrees are soon ended.
◎按部就班，事情很快就做完。
077.All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
◎只工作，不玩耍，聪明小孩也变傻。
078.Work bears witness who does well.
◎工作能证明谁做的好。
079.It is not work that kills,but worry.
◎工作不会伤身，伤身乃是忧虑。
080.He that will not work shall not eat.
◎不工作者不得食。
081.Business is business.
◎公事公办。
082.Deliberate slowly,execute promptly.
◎慢慢酌量，快快行动。
083.Put your shoulder to the wheel.
◎努力工作。
084.Never do things by halves.
◎做事不要半途而废。
085.In for a penny,in for a pound.
◎做事一开头，就要做到底；一不做，二不休。
086.Many hands make quick work.
◎人多干活快。
087.Many hands make light work.
◎众擎易举。
088.A bad workman quarrels with his tools.
◎技术拙劣的工人抱怨自己的工具。
089.Diligence is the mohter of success.
◎勤奋是成功之母。
090.Idleness is the root of all evil.
◎懒惰乃万恶之源。
091.Care and diligence bring luck.
◎谨慎和勤奋带来好运。
092.Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
◎勤勉是好运之母。
093.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。
094.Idleness is the key of beggary.
◎懒惰出乞丐。
095.No root,no fruit.
◎无根就无果。
096.Idle people (folks) have the most labour (take the most pains).
◎懒人做工作，越懒越费力。
097.Sloth is the key of poverty.
◎惰能致贫。
098.Sloth turneth the edge of wit.
◎懒散能磨去才智的锋芒。
099.An idle brain is the devil's workshop.
◎懒汉的头脑是魔鬼的工厂。
100.The secret of wealth lieth in the letters SAVE.
◎节俭是致富的秘诀。
101. Lying is the first step to the gallows.
◎说谎是上断头台的第一步。
102. Waste not,want not.
◎俭以防匮。
103. From saving comes having.
◎富有来自节俭。
104. A penny saved is a penny gained.
◎省一文是一文。
105. Take care of the pence and the pound will take care of themselves.
◎金钱积少便成多。
106. Frugality is an estate alone.
◎节俭本身就是一宗财产。
107. He that regards not a penny,will lavish a pound.
◎小钱不知节省，大钱将滥花。
108. Small gains bring great wealth.
◎积小利，成巨富。
109. Many a little makes a mickle.
◎积少便成多。
110. As the touchstone tries gold,so gold tries man.
◎试金之石可试金，正如黄金能试人。
111.Courage and resolution are the spirit and soul of virtue.
◎勇敢和坚决是美德的灵魂。
112.The path to glory is always rugged.
◎光荣之路常坎坷。
113.Nothing is difficult to the man who will try.
◎世上无难事，只要人肯试。
114.The fire is the test of gold;adversity of strong man.
◎烈火试真金，困苦炼壮士。
115.Great hopes make great man.
◎远大的希望造就伟大的人物。
116.No way is impossible to courage.
◎勇士面前无险路。
117.A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
◎平静的大海决不能造就出熟练的水手。
118.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。
119.The best hearts are always the bravest.
◎行为最勇敢的人心地总是最善良。
120.We must not lie down,and cry,God help us.
◎求神不如求己。
121.He that falls today may be up again tomorrow.
◎今天跌倒的人也许明天就会站起。
122.Rome was not built in a day.
◎罗马并非一日可建成；坚持必成。
123.Success belongs to the persevering.
◎胜利属于坚忍不拔的人。
124.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。
125.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。
126.Step by step the ladder is ascended.
◎登梯需要逐级登。
127.Adversity leads to prosperity.
◎困苦通向昌盛。
128.Patience and application will carry us through.
◎忍耐和专心会使我们度过难关。
129.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。
130.All things will come round to him who will but wait.
◎只要肯等待，一切都会按时来。
131.Constant dropping wears the stone.
◎滴水不绝可穿石。
132.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。
133.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。
134.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。
135.Life is sweet.
◎生活是可爱的；人无不好生(恶死)。
136.Where there is life,there is hope.
◎生命不息，希望长在。
137.Life is not all beer and skittles.
◎人生并不全是吃喝玩乐。
138.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。
139.Fortune knocks once at least at every man's door.
◎人人都有走运的一天。
140.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。
141.Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
◎每一个人都是自身幸福的建筑师。
142.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。
143.Misfortunes never (seldom) come alone (single).
◎祸不单行。
144.Misfortune is a good teacher.
◎不幸是良好的教师。
145.Misfortunes come at night.
◎祸常生于不测。
146.Misfortunes tell us what fortune is.
◎恶运临头后，才知幸运贵。
147.Adversity makes a man wise,not rich.
◎患难能使人聪明，但不能使人富有。
148.Live and learn.
◎活到老，学到老。
149.It is never too old to learn.
◎为学不怕年高。
150.A man becomes learned by asking questions.
◎要长学问，就得多问；多问则业精。
151.There is no royal road to learning.
◎学问无坦途。
152.He who is ashamed of asking is ashamed of learning.
◎畏问之人耻于学。
153.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。
154.Learning makes a good man better and ill man worse.
◎知识能使好人更好，坏人更坏。
155.Soon learnt,soon forgotten.
◎学得快，忘得快。
156.Learn young,learn fair.
◎为学趁年青，既学须学好。
157.A lazy youth,a lousy age.
◎少时懒惰老来苦。
158.He that knows nothing,doubts nothing.
◎无知即无疑。
159.A good name keeps its luster in the dark.
◎良好的名声在黑暗中也能闪闪发光。
160.Fame is a magnifying glass.
◎名誉是放大镜。
161.A good fame is better than a good face.
◎美名胜于美貌。
162.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。
163.Take honour from me and my life is done.
◎没有名誉，就没有了生命。
164.Beware of him who regards not his reputation.
◎要谨防不重名誉的人。
165.It is better to die with honour than to live in infamy.
◎光荣的死胜于羞辱的生。
166.Adversity successfully overcome is the highest glory.
◎成功地克服困难是最大的光荣。
167.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。
168.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。
169.Never trust another what you should do yourself.
◎自己该做的事，决不要委托给旁人做。
170.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。
171.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。
172.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。
173.Never trust to fine words.
◎切勿轻信漂亮话。
174.Trust not a great weight to a slender thread.
◎细线挂重物，终究不可依靠。
175.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。
176.Trust thyself only,and another shall not betray thee.
◎只要信任你自己，旁人才不出卖你。
177.Self-trust is the essence of heroism.
◎自信为英雄品质之本。
178.Confidence is a plant of slow growth.
◎信任是一种生长缓慢的植物。
179.Truth is the daughter of time.
◎真理是时间的女儿。
180.Truth hath a good face,but ill clothes.
◎真理面目善良；但衣衫褴褛。
181.Truth and roses have thorns about them.
◎真理和玫瑰，身旁都有刺。
182.Truth may be blamed,but shall never be shamed.
◎真理可能会被责难，但绝不会受羞辱。
183.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。
184.Truth will prevail.
◎真理必胜。
185.Truth's best ornament is nakedness.
◎不加掩饰乃是真理的最好装饰。
186.Facts are stubborn things.
◎事实是最顽强的东西。
187.Sooner or later,the truth comes to light.
◎真相迟早会大白。
188.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。
189.Falsehood like a nettle stings those who meddle with it.
◎谎言似荨麻，玩弄会刺手。
190.There is many a fair thing full false.
◎有许多说得好听的东西充满了谬误。
191.Though a lie be well drest,it is ever overcome.
◎谎言装扮虽不错，到头总会被揭露。
192.A lie begets a lie till they come to generations.
◎谎言生谎言，谎言世代传。
193.A false tongue will hardly speak truth.
◎假舌不会吐真言。
194.False with one can be false with two.
◎对一个人虚假，也会对两个人虚假。
195.He that will lie will steal.
◎会说谎的人也就会偷窃。
196.Gossiping and lying go together.
◎流言常和谎话并行。
197.Equivocation is first cousin to a lie.
◎含糊其词是谎话的近亲。
198.A great talker is a great liar.
◎最会夸夸其谈的人也最会说谎。
199.The greatest liars talk most of themselves.
◎最爱自吹自擂的人是最大的说谎者。
200.Lying rides upon debt's back.
◎负债的人谎话多。
201. All is not gold that glitters.
◎闪光未必尽黄金。
202. Money is the root of evil.
◎金钱是罪恶的根源。
203. Money makes the mare go.
◎有钱能使鬼推磨。
204. All things are obedient to money.
◎一切事物都服从于金钱。
205. Before gold,even kings take off their hats.
◎在黄金面前，国王也要脱帽。
206. Money is the key that opens all doors.
◎金钱是打开一切门户的钥匙。
207. Beauty is potent,but money is more potent.
◎美貌固有力，金钱力更大。
208. Avarice increases with wealth.
◎越有钱，越贪钱。
209. The money the miser hoards will do him no good.
◎守财奴积财，对自己毫无好处。
210. 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。
212.The chief aim of man is not to get money.
◎人的主要目的并不是赚钱。
213.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。
214.Wealth makes worship.
◎财富能使人拜倒。
215.Little wealth,little care.
◎财富少，烦恼也少。
216.A moneyless man goes fast through the market.
◎身上无钱过市快。
217.Poverty is not a crime.
◎贫非罪。
218.Poverty is not a disgrace,but theft is a disgrace.
◎贫穷不可耻，偷窃乃足羞。
219.Better be poor than wicked.
◎宁可做穷人，不可做坏人。
220.Poverty is not a sufficient cause for disgrace, but poverty without resolution to help oneself, is a disgrace.
◎贫穷不足为耻，穷而不能自立方可耻。
221.Poverty is the mother of health.
◎贫穷是健康之母。
222.Be considerate toward the poor.
◎应常为穷人着想。
223.Poor and content is rich and rich enough.
◎人能安贫就是富。
224.Poverty parteth fellowship.
◎贫穷断友情。
225.Poverty makes a man mean.
◎贫困使人小气。
226.Nothing to be got without pains but poverty.
◎只有贫穷是可以不劳而获的东西。
227.Do not through fear of poverty surrender liberty.
◎不要因为怕贫困而舍去自由。
228.Poverty and love are hard to hide.
◎贫困与爱情，都难瞒过人。
229.Poverty breeds strife.
◎贫困引起冲突。
230.The poor man wants much,the miser everything.
◎穷人要求多，财迷则样样都要。
231.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。
232.Poverty on an old man's back is a heavy burden.
◎老而贫困，负担最沉。
233.Beggars must (should) be no choosers.
◎行乞的<>哪能挑肥拣瘦；饥不择食。
234.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。
235.A light purse makes a heavy heart.
◎钱袋轻时心事重。
236.Poor without debt is better than a prince.
◎穷人无债胜王子。
237.Happy is he who owes nothing.
◎无债一身轻。
238.Money borrowed is soon sorrowed.
◎借钱才到手，立刻便担忧。
239.He that goes a borrowing,goes a sorrowing.
◎向人借债是自寻烦恼。
240.Better go to bed supperless than rise in debt.
◎与其负债起身，不如空腹上床。
241.Out of debt,out of danger.
◎脱债就脱险。
242.A pound of care will not pay an ounce of debt.
◎深忧偿不了小债。
243.He is the wisest man who does not think himself so.
◎不自作聪明便是最聪明。
244.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。
245.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。
246.He is wise that knows when he's well enough.
◎知足为智者。
247.A wise man cares not for what he cannot have.
◎智者不强求。
248.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。
249.No man is born wise.
◎聪明非天生。
250.A wise man will make tools of what comes to hand.
◎能随机应变的人是聪明人。
251.A word is enough to the wise.
◎对明智者一言已足。
252.He is the wise man who is the honest man.
◎正直的人就是有见识的人。
253.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。
254.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。
255.A flow of words is no proof of wisdom.
◎口若悬河，不能证明真有才智。
256.It is easy to be wise after the event.
◎事后的诸葛亮容易做。
257.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。
258.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。
259.A fool always comes short of his reckoning.
◎愚人常短于心计。
260.A fool's heart dances on his lips.
◎愚人的心挂在唇边。
261.A fool always finds a greater fool than himself.
◎愚人总以为旁人比自己更傻。
262.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。
263.The more riches a fool hath,the greater fool he is.
◎愚人越富越蠢。
264.Never challenge a fool to do wrong.
◎不要怂恿愚人干错事。
265.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。
266.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。
267.'Tis altogether vain to learn wisdom and yet live foolishly.
◎枉自学聪明，却做愚蠢事。
268.Wit without learning is like a tree without fruit.
◎没有学识的机智，犹如没有果实的树。
269.No man is wise at all times.
◎世上无一贯明智的人。
270.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。
271.Virtue never grows old.
◎美德永不老。
272.Virtue is the only true nobility.
◎万事不如美德高。
273.Virtue is a jewel of great price.
◎美德乃是无价宝。
274.He that soweth virtue shall reap fame.
◎播下美德，收获名望。
275.To be virtuous is to do good.
◎行善即是有德。
276.Glory is the shadow of virtue.
◎荣誉是美德的影子。
277.There is no virtue that poverty destroyeth not.
◎没有贫穷不能破坏的美德。
278.The first step to virtue is to abstrain from vice.
◎不作恶是走向美德的第一步。
279.No good building without a good foundation.
◎基础不良的好建筑物是没有的。
280.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。
281.He that returns good for evil obtains the victory.
◎胜利属于以德报怨的人。
282.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。
283.If they say you are good,ask yourself if it be true.
◎若有人称赞，自问对不对。
284.He who avoids temptation avoids the sin.
◎不受诱惑就免于罪恶。
285.A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder.
◎问心无愧，打雷也能睡。
286.Never be weary of well doing.
◎不要厌倦做好事。
287.Of evil grain,no good seed can come.
◎坏谷无好种。
288.That which is evil is soon learnt.
◎恶行易学。
289.No vice goes alone.
◎恶事不单行。
290.An evil lesson is soon learned.
◎恶习易染。
291.A bad thing never dies.
◎坏事传千年。
292.Evil comes to us by ells and goes away by inches.
◎罪恶于人，尺进寸退。
293.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。
294.They that do nothing learn to do ill.
◎游手好闲，容易学坏。
295.A wicked man is his own hell.
◎坏人作恶，自造地狱。
296.Those who eat best and drink best often do worst.
◎吃得好，喝得好，坏事常常免不了。
297.He who has done ill once will do it again.
◎一次干坏事，便有第二次。
298.There is no going heaven in a sedan.
◎坐轿上天堂，从来无此事。
299.An ill life,an ill end.
◎恶有恶报。
300.A wilful fault has no excuse and deserves no pardon.
◎不能宽恕故意犯下的错误。
301. Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.
◎没有知识的热心，犹如有火而无光。
302. Pardoning the bad is injuring the good.
◎隐恶败善；原谅坏人即是伤害好人。
303. The evil wound is cured but not the evil name.
◎重伤可治，恶名难去。
304. Evil communications corrupt good manners.
◎不良的交往败坏良好的举止。
305. No wrong without remedy.
◎有过皆可补。
306. Virtue flies from the heart of a mercenary man.
◎唯利是图者，胸中无美德。
307. First think,and then speak.
◎动口先动脑。
308. A word spoken is past recalling(The words once spoken can never be recalled).
◎一言既出，驷马难追。
309. 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。
310. Speech is silver,silence is gold.
◎言语是银，沉默是金。
311.Few words are best.
◎寡言为贵。
312.No wisdom like silence.
◎聪明莫过沉默。
313.Least said,soonest mended.
◎少说为妙。
314.Second thoughts are best.
◎再思而后行。
315.Look before you leap.
◎慎思而后行。
316.He is a wise man who speaks little.
◎智多言语少。
317.Fair words butter no parsnips.
◎美言无补实际。
318.The tongue is not made of steel,yet it cuts.
◎舌头不是钢，一动把人伤。
319.Sometimes words hurt more than swords.
◎言语能伤人，有时胜刀剑。
320.A good tongue is a good weapon.
◎口齿伶俐，是件利器。
321.A wise head makes a close mouth.
◎头脑灵，嘴巴紧。
322.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。
323.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。
324.Better say nothing than nothing to the purpose.
◎与其说话不中肯，不如半句也莫吭。
325.Many a true word is spoken in jest.
◎笑语之中吐真言。
326.Few words,many deeds.
◎少说话，多做事。
327.Actions speak louder than words.
◎行动比言语响亮；百说不如一干。
328.From words to deeds is a great space.
◎言行之间，大有距离。
329.Deeds,not words.
◎要行动，不要言词。
330.Bare words,no bargain.
◎空言不能成交易。
331.Deeds are fruits,words are but leaves.
◎行动是果实，言语只是叶子。
332.Ill deeds cannot honour.
◎坏行为不受尊敬。
333.Fine words dress ill deeds.
◎漂亮的言词装饰着恶劣的行为。
334.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。
335.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。
336.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。
337.A man is not good or bad for one action.
◎不能凭一件事判断人的好坏。
338.A man apt to promise is apt to forget.
◎易于许诺的人也易于忘记。
339.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。
340.Easier said than done.
◎说易行难。
341.The greatest talkers are always the least doers.
◎大言不惭的总是行动最少的人。
342.The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
◎布丁好坏，一尝便知；空谈不如实践。
343.Pride goes before a fall.
◎骄者必败。
344.Pride goes before destruction.
◎骄者必败。
345.Pride goeth before,and shame cometh after.
◎骄傲走在前，羞耻跟在后。
346.Pride and grace dwelt never in one place.
◎傲慢和温雅，永难住一处。
347.He that climbs high falls heavily.
◎爬得高，跌得重。
348.Pride must be pinched.
◎骄傲应收敛。
349.The more noble the more humble.
◎越高贵，越应谦逊。
350.Humility often gains more than pride.
◎谦逊常比傲慢受益更多。
351.He who imagines that he has knowledge enough has none.
◎自命万事通，腹中常空空。
352.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。
353.Pride may lurk under a threadbare cloak.
◎骄傲可能会潜藏在穿旧的斗篷下。
354.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。
355.He that is full of himself is very empty.
◎自满之人腹内空。
356.Honesty is the best policy.
◎诚实为上策。
357.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。
358.Poor but honest.
◎虽贫穷，要诚实。
359.Honesty may be dear bought,but can never be an ill pennyworth.
◎高价买诚实，永远也值得。
360.Knavery may serve,but honesty is best.
◎欺诈可能有用，诚实却是上策。
361.Every man has his weak side.
◎人人都有自己的弱点。
362.He who has no shame has no conscience.
◎不知羞耻的人不知自疚。
363.An honest look covereth many faults.
◎一副诚实的外表掩盖着许多缺点。
364.Once a knave,ever a knave.
◎一次成无赖，永远是无赖。
365.A crafty knave needs no broker.
◎狡猾的无赖不需要有中间人。
366.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。
367.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。
368.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。
369.Love is blind.
◎爱情是盲目的。
370.Love is without reason.
◎爱情无理智。
371.Love is full of trouble.
◎爱情充满了烦恼。
372.Love cannot be compelled.
◎爱情不能强迫。
373.Love begets love.
◎爱爱相生。
374.Love needs no teaching.
◎爱情不需教导。
375.Love at first sight.
◎一见倾心。
376.Love asks faith,and faith firmness.
◎爱情要求信任，信任要求坚定。
377.Love is the touchstone of virtue.
◎爱情是美德的试金石。
378.Love not at the first look.
◎不要一见钟情。
379.Hasty love,soon cold.
◎爱得匆忙冷得快。
380.Love is a sweet torment.
◎爱情是一种甜蜜的痛苦。
381.Love rules his kingdom without a sword.
◎爱情的王国不用刀剑来统治。
382.Love will find out the way.
◎爱情自会寻出路。
383.Love is not to be found in the market.
◎爱情在市场上找不到。
384.Lovers live by love,as larks live by leeks.
◎情侣依靠爱情生活，正象云雀依靠韭葱生活一样。
385.Old love will not be forgotten.
◎旧情永难忘；往日的爱情难以忘怀。
386.True love kythes(=shows itself)in time of need.
◎患难显真情。
387.Sound love is not soon forgotten.
◎坚固的爱情不会顷刻忘怀。
388.The greatest hate springs from the greatest love.
◎最大的恨来自最大的爱。
389.No love is foul,nor prison fair.
◎没有肮脏的爱情，也没有美丽的监狱。
390.Labour is lihgt where love doth pay.
◎爱情付报酬，劳苦也轻松。
391.Love is the reward of love.
◎爱就是爱的报酬。
392.Love makes all hard hearts gentle.
◎爱情把一切冷酷之心变成温柔。
393.When love puts in,friendship is gone.
◎爱情进入，友情完结。
394.The course of true love never did run smooth.
◎真爱的道路绝不平坦。
395.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。
396.True love is giving,not taking.
◎真挚的爱是给，不是取。
397.Love makes obedience easy.
◎爱情使顺从成为易事。
398.Love is sweet in the beginning,but sour in the end.
◎爱情先甜后来酸。
399.Where love fails,we espy all faults.
◎爱情一失败，一切毛病都发现。
400.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。
401. When poverty comes in at the door,love flies out of the window.
◎贫穷一进门，爱情跳窗走。
402. Faults are thick while love is thin.
◎一朝情义淡，样样不顺眼。
403. Hatred is blind as well as love.
◎爱情和仇恨，二者皆盲目。
404. Marriage is a lottery.
◎婚姻是一桩难于预测的事。
405. Marry thy like.
◎跟你情投意合的人结婚。
406. Marriage makes or mars a man.
◎婚姻成全人，也能损害人。
407. It is good to marry late or never.
◎晚婚或不婚，都是好事情。
408. Early wed,early dead.
◎早婚者早夭。
409. They that marry in green,their sorrow is soon seen.
◎年纪轻轻就结婚，为时不久便悔恨。
410. A young man married is a man that's marred.
◎男子早婚，种下祸根。
411.Marry in haste,and repent at leisure.
◎匆匆结婚，时时悔恨。
412.Marry in lent,and you'll live to repent.
◎借债结婚，一生悔恨。
413.He that marries for wealth,sells his liberty.
◎为财富而结婚的人，出卖了自己的自由。
414.An ill marriage is a spring of ill fortune.
◎不良的婚姻是恶运的来源。
415.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。
416.If you always say "NO",never be married.
◎常常说“不”字，永远难结婚。
417.Honest men marry soon,wise men not at all.
◎老实的人早成婚，聪明的人不结婚。
418.A good wife and health is a man's best wealth.
◎贤妻和健康是男子的至宝。
419.A good wife makes a good husband.
◎有好妻子就有好丈夫；妻贤夫自良。
420.Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.
◎选择妻子，最好用耳不用眼。
421.Better be half hanged than ill wed.
◎与其成怨偶，不如守单身。
422.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。
423.The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives.
◎有懦弱的丈夫，就有凶悍的妻子。
424.It is a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.
◎母鸡司晨家不兴。
425.The wife is the key of the house.
◎妻子是一家之钥；妻贤一家兴。
426.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。
427.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。
428.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。
429.One father is more than a hundred school-masters.
◎一个父亲胜于一百个教师。
430.Like father,like son.
◎有其父，必有其子。
431.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。
432.The mother's breath is aye sweet.
◎母亲的低语总是甜蜜的。
433.Like mother,like daughter.
◎有其母，必有其女。
434.Children are the parents' riches.
◎子女是父母的至宝。
435.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。
436.He that hath no children,knows not what is love.
◎没有孩子的人，不知道什么叫做爱。
437.Children learn to creep ere they can go.
◎孩子要走路，先得学爬行。
438.Silly(=good) child is soon ylered(=taught).
◎好小孩，学得快。
439.Boys will be boys.
◎孩子终归是孩子。
440.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。
441.Spare the rod and spoil the child.
◎省了棍子，惯坏了孩子。
442.Naughty boys sometimes make good men.
◎淘气的男孩有时会成为争气的孩子。
443.The child is father of the man.
◎三岁定到老。
444.Happy is he that is happy in childhood.
◎童年时快乐的人是幸福的。
445.Children and fools cannot lie.
◎孩子和愚人不会扯谎。
446.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。
447.It is harder to marry a daughter well than to bring her up well.
◎养女容易嫁女难。
448.A maid that laughs is half taken.
◎少女笑口开，婚事成一半。
449.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。
450.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。
451.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。
452.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。
453.Life without friend is death.
◎没有朋友的生活便等于死亡。
454.Without a friend,the world is wilderness.
◎没有朋友，世界成了荒野。
455.Friendless is the dead.
◎死者无友。
456.A good friend is my nearest relation.
◎好友即至亲。
457.A near friend is better than a fardwelling kinsman.
◎近友胜远亲。
458.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。
459.In time of prosperity,friends will be plenty.
◎走运时候朋友多。
460.It is good to have friends in trouble.
◎在患难中能有朋友是好事。
461.Prosperity makes friends and adversity tries them.
◎富裕招致朋友，困苦考验朋友。
462.A friend in need is a friend indeed.
◎患难时的朋友才是真正的朋友。
463.Poverty tries friends.
◎贫穷考验朋友；人贫见友情。
464.Try your friend ere you trust him.
◎对朋友要先考验，后信任。
465.Prove thy friend ere thou have need.
◎在你需要朋友帮助前，先要考验他们。
466.A friend is never known till a man have need.
◎不到困窘时，永难识真友。
467.A faithful friend is hard to find.
◎忠实朋友实难求。
468.Friends are like fiddle-strings,they must not be screwed too tight.
◎朋友有如琴弦，不能上的太紧。
469.Have but few frieds,though many acquaintances.
◎结交可以多，朋友应宜少。
470.All are not friends that speak us fair.
◎向我们说好话的并不都是好朋友。
471.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。
472.A friend in court is better than a penny in purse.
◎朝中有友，胜如囊中有钱。
473.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。
474.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。
475.A friend without faults will never be found.
◎没有缺点的朋友永不可得。
476.A man without a friend is only half a man.
◎无友的人只能算半个人。
477.A friend is not so soon gotten as lost.
◎失友快，交友慢。
478.Friendship cannot stand always on one side.
◎友谊不能总是在一方。
479.Old acquaintance will soon be remembered.
◎故人一见便相亲。
480.He is a good friend that speaks well of us behind our backs.
◎背后称我好，才算好朋友。
481.Friends (the best of friends) must part.
◎好友终有分手时。
482.A friend is best found in adversity.
◎患难见真交。
483.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。
484.False friends are worse than open enemies.
◎假朋友比真敌人更坏。
485.Short acquaintance brings repentance.
◎浅交致后悔。
486.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。
487.Better be alone than in bad company.
◎交损友不如无友。
488.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。
489.Hunger knows no friend.
◎饥饿不认朋友。
490.Misery makes strange bedfellows.
◎难中不择友。
491.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。
492.An enemy's mouth seldom speaks well.
◎敌人嘴里无好话。
493.Believe no tales from the enemy.
◎敌人之言不可信。
494.One enemy is too much.
◎一个敌人已太多。
495.Mickle power makes many enemies.
◎权高树敌多。
496.Do not despise your enemy.
◎不可轻敌。
497.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。
498.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。
499.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。
500.In an enemy spots are soon seen.
◎敌人身上求疵易。
501. 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。
502. A courageous foe is better than a cowardly friend.
◎勇敢的敌人胜过懦怯的朋友。
503. 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。
504. Make your enemy your friend.
◎要化敌为友。
505. Live and let live.
◎自己活也让别人活。
506. As a man lives,so shall he die.
◎有生必有死。
507. We are not born for ourselves.
◎人生天地间，并非为自己。
508. He that hath time hath life.
◎有时间就有生活。
509. He that lives long suffers much.
◎寿长忧患多。
510. They who live longest will see most.
◎寿命最长的人见识也最广。
511.He was born with a silver spoon in his mouth.
◎他生在富贵人家。
512.A man can die but once.
◎人生只有一回死。
513.He that liveth in court dieth upon straw.
◎生于安乐者常死于贫贱。
514.He that liveth wickedly can hardly die honestly.
◎过着邪恶生活的人不会正直地死去。
515.Death pay all debts.
◎一死了百债。
516.Six feet of earth makes all men equal.
◎墓穴之中，人人平等。
517.Death is the grand leveller.
◎死亡面前，不分贵贱。
518.Death meets us everywhere.
◎人生到处皆可死；死亡和我们到处相遇。
519.Death frees us from ills.
◎死亡使我们解脱不幸。
520.We shall lie all alike in our graves.
◎一朝进坟场，大家都一样。
521.In the grave the rich and poor lie equal.
◎一朝入暮穴，贫富皆一律。
522.Death defies the doctor.
◎死亡蔑视医生。
523.There is no medicine against death.
◎人间哪有不死（回春）药。
524.Light come,light go.
◎易得则易失；来得容易去得快。
525.Sometimes gain is to lose.
◎有时得即是失。
526.Merry is he that hath nought to lose.
◎无物可失的人最逍遥自在。
527.Grasp all,lose all.
◎样样都要，全部失掉。
528.What we lose in hake we shall have in herring.
◎失鳕得鲱；失之东隅，收之桑榆。
529.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。
530.For a lost thing care nothing.
◎一物已失，计较无益。
531.He who does not gain loses.
◎不能得益，就是损失。
532.Losses make us more cautious.
◎损失使人更谨慎。
533.Who loseth liberty loseth all.
◎失去自由即失去一切。
534.Either win the horse or lose the saddle.
◎不是全赢，就是全输；孤注一掷。
535.All is not lost that is in danger.
◎在危险中的东西未必全会损失。
536.Do not run too fast after gain.
◎不要见利便狂追。
537.Prefer loss to unjust gain.
◎宁可受损失，休取不义财。
538.Lightly gain,quickly lost.
◎来得容易去得快；不义之财，理无久享。
539.Only that which is honestly got is gain.
◎正当的收入才是真正的收入。
540.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。
541.Gain got by a lie will burn one's fingers.
◎依靠欺骗得利，准要吃亏。
542.One never loses anything by politeness.
◎礼多不吃亏；礼多人不怪。
543.Hold fast when you have it.
◎手中之物应紧握。
544.There are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it.
◎海中好鱼取不尽（意指虽然失去一个机会，还有很多机会）。
545.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。
546.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。
547.Health is better than wealth.
◎健康胜于财富。
548.Health is happiness.
◎健康便是幸福。
549.A good healthy body is worth more a crown in gold.
◎健全的身体比金冕更有价值。
550.A sound mind in a sound body.
◎健康的思想寓于健康的身体。
551.A light heart lives long.
◎心胸开朗，使人寿长。
552.A happy heart makes a blooming visage.
◎心中快乐，容光焕发。
553.He who hath good health is young,and he is rich who owes nothing.
◎健康葆青春，无债即富有。
554.Study sickness while you are well.
◎无病应思有病时。
555.The healthful man can give counsel to the sick.
◎健康的人可以对生病的人提出忠告。
556.By the side of sickness health becomes sweet.
◎和疾病相比较，才能识得健康的可爱。
557.Health is not valued till sickness comes.
◎有病方知健康贵。
558.Feed by measure and defy physician.
◎饮食有节，医生绝迹。
559.Often and little eating makes a man fat.
◎多餐少吃，使人壮硕。
560.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。
561.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。
562.He that will thrive must rise at five.
◎五点起床，百事兴旺。
563.He that goes to bed thirsty rises healthy.
◎忍渴上床，起身健康。
564.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。
565.Who makes everything right must rise early.
◎想把事事都做好，就得坚持起身早。
566.Go to bed with the lamb and rise with the lark.
◎随羔羊就寝，与云雀同起。
567.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。
568.A little labour,much health.
◎适量的劳动大有益于健康。
569.Enough is as good as a feast.
◎饱食有如赴宴。
570.Many dishes,many diseases.
◎食多病多。
571.Diseases are the Price of ill pleasures.
◎疾病是纵欲的代价。
572.Desperate diseases must have desperate cures.
◎毒病要用毒药医。
573.He who never was sick dies the first.
◎小病不生，一病致命。
574.Sickness shows us what we are.
◎疾病使人显本相。
575.What can't be cured must be endured.
◎不治之症，必须坚忍。
576.Hide nothing from thy physician.
◎不要讳疾忌医。
577.Medicines are not meant to live on.
◎不要依靠吃药过生活。
578.A disease known is half cured.
◎病情弄清楚，病根除一半。
579.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。
580.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。
581.Feed sparingly and defy the physician.
◎饮食有节，医生绝迹。
582.Prevention is better than cure.
◎预防胜于治疗。
583.An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
◎一分预防胜似十分治疗。
584.Bitter pills may have wholesome effect.
◎良药苦口利于病。
585.A good medicine tastes bitter.
◎良药苦口。
586.There is no friend so faithful as a good book.
◎最忠实的朋友莫过于一本好书。
587.Books,like friends,should be few and well chosen.
◎书籍如朋友，宜少宜精选。
588.A book is the same today as it always was and it will never change.
◎好书千载常如新。
589.A good book is a best friend who never turns his back upon us.
◎好书如至友，永远不相负。
590.In books,are embalmed the greatest thoughts of all ages.
◎伟大思想古今有，载入书中成不朽。
591.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。
592.Old wood is best to burn,old book to read.
◎老柴好烧，老书宜读。
593.A book that remains shut is but a block.
◎书本不去翻，犹如一木块。
594.Judge not a book by its cover.
◎评定一本书，不能凭封面。
595.A wicked book is the wickeder because it cannot repent.
◎坏书因其不能改正错误而更坏。
596.A good tale is none the worse for being twice told.
◎故事好，再讲一遍还是好。
597.Law is a bottomless pit.
◎法律是无底的深渊。
598.Ignorance of the law excuses no man.
◎对法律无知，不能成为任何人的借口。
599.Law makers should not be law breakers.
◎立法者不应成为犯法者；立法应守法。
600.Wrong laws make short governance.
◎不健全的法律统治时间不会长。
601. 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。
602. New lords,new laws.
◎新君立新法。
603. Laws catch flies and let hornets go free.
◎法网只捕蝇，黄蜂由它去。
604. Where drums beat,laws are silent.
◎战鼓一响，法律无声。
605. An upright judge has more regard to justice than to men.
◎法官能公正，重法不重人。
606. That trial is not fair where affection is the judge.
◎法官动感情，审判难公正。
607. A good lawyer,an evil neighbour.
◎好律师不是好邻居。
608. An old physician,and a young lawyer.
◎医生老的好，律师年轻的好。
609. Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.
◎鸡蛋还未孵，先别数鸡雏；莫过早乐观。
610. Though the fox run,the chicken hath wings.
◎狐狸虽会跑，小鸡有翅膀。
611.Young cocks love no coops.
◎小公鸡不恋笼。
612.A cock is bold on his dunghill.
◎站在粪堆上，公鸡也称王。
613.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。
614.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。
615.If the hen does not prate,she will not lay.
◎不叨叨的母鸡不下蛋。
616.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。
617.Fat hens lay few eggs.
◎肥鸡下蛋稀。
618.Grain by grain,and the hen fills her belly.
◎一颗接一颗，母鸡填饱肚。
619.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。
620.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。
621.What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
◎适用于甲的也适用于乙。
622.All his geese are swans.
◎他喜欢夸大其词；敝帚自珍。
623.All your swans are geese.
◎你的美好希望（或诺言），全部成了泡影。
624.Each bird likes to hear himself sing.
◎每一只鸟都爱听自己歌唱。
625.The bird loves her nest.
◎鸟爱自己的窝。
626.Birds of a feather flock together.
◎物以类聚，人以群分。
627.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。
628.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。
629.He that will take the bird must not scare it.
◎捕鸟休惊鸟。
630.The noisy fowler catches no bird.
◎捕禽人大肆声张，鸟儿就不会落网。
631.Old birds are not caught with new nests.
◎新网难捕老鸟。
632.'Tis the early bird that catches the worm.
◎早起的鸟先得虫；捷足先登。
633.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。
634.A bird is known by its note,and a man by his talk.
◎鸟以声闻，人以言知。
635.It is an ill bird that fouls its own nest.
◎家丑不可外扬。
636.Eagles fly alone,but sheep flock together.
◎鹰爱独飞羊爱群。
637.A kite will never be a good hawk.
◎鸢永不会变成隼。
638.Empty hands no hawk allure.
◎空手不能诱鹰来。
639.The crow thinks his own bird fairest.
◎乌鸦总以为自己的雏鸟最美。
640.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。
641.Wheresoever the carcase is, there will the ravens be gathered together.
◎哪里有死尸，乌鸦就成群。
642.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）。
643.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。
644.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。
645.If the sky falls,we shall catch larks.
◎天垮正好抓云雀；不要杞人忧天。
646.An owl is the king of the night.
◎猫头鹰是黑夜之王。
647.When the owl sings,the nightingale will hold her peace.
◎枭鸟唱歌，夜莺屏息。
648.Cats hide their paws.
◎猫儿不露爪。
649.A gloved cat catches no mice.
◎戴手套的猫抓不到老鼠。
650.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。
651.Ale will make cat speak.
◎喝了淡啤酒，猫也会开口；酒后使人说话多。
652.A blate cat makes a proud mouse.
◎猫儿腼腆，老鼠翻天。
653.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。
654.The cat and dog may kiss,yet are none the better friends.
◎猫狗虽相吻，总难成好友。
655.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。
656.A cat may look at a king.
◎猫也有权看国王；小人物也该有些权利。
657.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。
658.An old dog bites sore.
◎老狗咬人咬得狠。
659.Beware of a silent dog and still water.
◎哑狗和静水，二者都得防。
660.Barking dogs seldom bite.
◎爱吠的狗不咬人。
661.A dog will not howl if you beat him with a bone.
◎肉骨头打狗狗不叫。
662.Dogs that bark at a distance bite not at hand.
◎远处狗就叫，近身不会咬。
663.If the old dog barks,he gives counsel.
◎老狗叫，是忠告。
664.In every country dogs bite.
◎天下有狗都咬人。
665.Hungry dogs will eat dirty puddings.
◎饿狗也吃脏布丁；饥不择食。
666.Dogs wag their tails not so much in love to you as your bread.
◎狗儿把尾摇，爱的是面包。
667.All are not thieves that dogs bark at.
◎狗吠的人并非都是小偷。
668.Every dog is valiant at his own door.
◎站在家门口，狗也雄纠纠。
669.Every dog is a lion at home.
◎狗在家中，八面威风。
670.While the dog gnaws bone,companions would be none.
◎狗啃骨头无同伴。
671.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。
672.Mad dog bites his master.
◎疯狗咬主人。
673.Too much pudding will choke dog.
◎布丁太多噎死狗。
674.Do not give a dog bread every time he wags his tail.
◎莫因狗尾摇，次次丢面包。
675.A living dog is better than a dead lion.
◎活狗胜于死狮。
676.Love me,love my dog.
◎爱屋及乌。
677.Let sleeping dog lie.
◎勿惊卧狗；切莫惹是生非。
678.Help the dog over the stile.
◎助人度过难关。
679.Every dog has his day.
◎片瓦也有翻身日；人人都有得意时。
680.Give a dog a bad name and hang him.
◎欲加之罪，何患无辞。
681.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。
682.An old dog cannot alter its way of barking.
◎老狗难改常吠声。
683.When a dog is drowning,every one offers him drink.
◎待到狗溺水，众人给水喝。
684.A swine over fat is the cause of his own bane.
◎猪死都因身过肥；象以齿焚。
685.Pigs may fly,but they are very unlikely birds.
◎猪儿纵会飞，终究不是鸟。
686.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。
687.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。
688.The cow that's first up gets the first of the dew.
◎早起母牛先得露。
689.Not all butter that the cow yields.
◎母牛所产的未必全是黄油。
690.Many good cows have evil calves.
◎很多好母牛，会生坏小犊。
691.You cannot sell the cow and sup the milk.
◎不能既要卖母牛，又想喝牛奶。
692.Old oxen have stiff horns.
◎牛老角硬。
693.The ox is never woe,till he to the harrow go.
◎挂耙去耕地，牛才知辛苦。
694.An ox is taken by the horns,and the man by the tongue.
◎牛因角被执，人因舌陷身。
695.If the ox falls,whet your knife.
◎牛一倒，快磨刀；人遭难，众人踩。
696.The black ox has trod on his foot.
◎祸事临头。
697.The ox when weariest treads surest.
◎牛困走得稳。
698.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。
699.A horse that will not carry a saddle must have no oats.
◎不愿加鞍的马，不得吃燕麦。
700.A good horse oft needs a good spur.
◎好马常需好靴刺。
701. It is the bridle and spur that makes a good horse.
◎要把马练好，缰绳靴刺少不了。
702. A boisterous horse must have a rough bridle.
◎烈马要套粗笼头。
703. He is a gentle horse that never cast his rider.
◎驯良的马绝不会把骑手甩倒。
704. 'Tis a good horse that never stumbles.
◎好马不失蹄。
705. The fault of the horse is put on the saddle.
◎马劣动怪马鞍坏。
706. Mettle is dangerous in a blind horse.
◎瞎马鼓勇气，正是危险事。
707. Old wood is best to burn,old horse to ride.
◎老柴好烧，老马好骑。
708. Every horse thinks his sack heaviest.
◎每匹马都认为自己驮的袋子最重。
709. You may know the horse by his harness.
◎观马具可知马性。
710. A galled horse will not endure the comb.
◎擦伤的马不耐梳。
711.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。
712.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。
713.An ass endures his burden,but not more than his burden.
◎驴子能负重，过重也难负。
714.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。
715.The braying of an ass does not reach heaven.
◎驴子的叫声传不到天上。
716.The fault of the ass must not be laid upon the packsaddle.
◎驴子不乖，休怪驮鞍。
717.A horse is neither better nor worse for his trappings.
◎相马不可凭马饰。
718.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。
719.A colt you may break,but an old horse you never can.
◎小驹犹可练，老马最难驯。
720.One sheep follows another.
◎一羊跟一羊（指盲从）。
721.If one sheep leap o'er the dyke,all the rest will follow.
◎一羊跳过沟，众羊跟着跳。
722.There is a black sheep in every flock.
◎败类处处有；害群之马处处有。
723.One scabbed sheep will mar a whole flock.
◎一羊生癣，群羊受害。
724.Every time the sheep bleats it loses a mouthful.
◎羊每叫一次，就少吃一口。
725.One butcher does not fear many sheep.
◎屠夫不怕羊多。
726.It is a foolish sheep that makes the wolf his confessor.
◎蠢羊才向狼忏悔。
727.The dust raised by the sheep does not choke the wolf.
◎羊踩起的灰尘挡不住狼。
728.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。
729.The life of the wolf is the death of the lamb.
◎有活的狼就有死的羔羊。
A bad thing never dies. 遗臭万年。
A bad workman always blames his tools. 不会撑船怪河弯。
A bird in the hand is worth than two in the bush. 一鸟在手胜过双鸟在林。
A boaster and a liar are cousins-german. 吹牛与说谎本是同宗。
A bully is always a coward. 色厉内荏。
A burden of one's choice is not felt. 爱挑的担子不嫌重。
A candle lights others and consumes itself. 蜡烛照亮别人，却毁灭了自己。
A cat has 9 lives. 猫有九条命。
A cat may look at a king. 人人平等。
A close mouth catches no flies. 病从口入。
A constant guest is never welcome. 常客令人厌。
Actions speak louder than words. 事实胜于雄辩。
Adversity leads to prosperity. 穷则思变。
Adversity makes a man wise, not rich. 逆境出人才。
A fair death honors the whole life. 死得其所，流芳百世。
A faithful friend is hard to find. 知音难觅。
A fall into a pit, a gain in your wit. 吃一堑，长一智。
A fox may grow gray, but never good. 江山易改，本性难移。
A friend in need is a friend indeed. 患难见真情。
A friend is easier lost than found. 得朋友难，失朋友易。
A friend is never known till a man has need. 需要之时方知友。
A friend without faults will never be found. 没有十全十美的朋友。
"After you" is good manners.“您先请”是礼貌。
A good beginning is half done. 良好的开端是成功的一半。
A good beginning makes a good ending. 善始者善终。
A good book is a good friend. 好书如挚友。
A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.
一本好书，相伴一生。
A good conscience is a soft pillow. 不做亏心事，不怕鬼叫门。
A good fame is better than a good face. 美名胜过美貌。
A good husband makes a good wife. 夫善则妻贤。
A good medicine tastes bitter. 良药苦口。
A good wife health is a man's best wealth. 妻贤身体好是男人最大的财富。
A great talker is a great liar. 说大话者多谎言。
A hedge between keeps friendship green. 君子之交淡如水。
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。
A leopard cannot change its spots. 积习难改。
A liar is not believed when he speaks the truth.
说谎者即使讲真话也没人相信。
A light heart lives long. 静以修身。
A little body often harbors a great soul. 浓缩的都是精品。
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. 一知半解，自欺欺人。
A little pot is soon hot. 狗肚子盛不得四两油。
All are brave when the enemy flies. 敌人逃窜时，人人都成了勇士。
All good things come to an end. 天下没有不散的筵席。
All rivers run into sea. 海纳百川。
All roads lead to Rome. 条条大路通罗马。
All that ends well is well. 结果好，就一切都好。
All that glitters is not gold. 闪光的不一定都是金子。
All things are difficult before they are easy. 凡事总是由难而易。
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
只会用功不玩耍，聪明孩子也变傻。
A man becomes learned by asking questions. 不耻下问才能有学问。
A man can do no more than he can. 凡事都应量力而行。
A man cannot spin and reel at the same time. 一心不能二用。
A man is known by his friends. 什么人交什么朋友。
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。
A man without money is no man at all. 一分钱难倒英雄汉。
A merry heart goes all the way. 心旷神怡，事事顺利。
A miss is as good as a mile. 失之毫厘，差之千里。
A mother's love never changes. 母爱永恒。
An apple a day keeps the doctor away. 一天一苹果，不用请医生。
A new broom sweeps clean. 新官上任三把火。
An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. 以眼还眼，以牙还牙。
An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening. 一日之计在于晨。
An old dog cannot learn new tricks. 老狗学不出新把戏。
An ounce of luck is better than a pound of wisdom. 聪明才智，不如运气。
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. 预防为主，治疗为辅。
A rolling stone gathers no moss. 滚石不生苔，转业不聚财。
As a man sows, so he shall reap. 种瓜得瓜，种豆得豆。
A single flower does not make a spring. 一花独放不是春，百花齐放春满园。
A snow year, a rich year. 瑞雪兆丰年。
A sound mind in a sound body. 健全的精神寓于健康的身体。
A still tongue makes a wise head. 寡言者智。
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 wise head makes a close mouth. 真人不露相，露相非真人。
A word spoken is past recalling. 一言既出，驷马难追。
A year's plan starts with spring. 一年之计在于春。
A young idler, an old beggar. 少壮不努力，老大徒伤悲。
Bad news has wings. 好事不出门，坏事传千里。
Barking dogs seldom bite. 吠犬不咬人。
Beauty lies in the love's eyes. 情人眼里出西施。
Be swift to hear, slow to speak. 听宜敏捷，言宜缓行。
Better late than never. 不怕慢，单怕站。
Better to ask the way than go astray. 问路总比迷路好。
Between friends all is common. 朋友之间不分彼此。
Birds of a feather flock together. 物以类聚，人以群分。
Blood is thicker than water. 血浓于水。
Blood will have blood. 血债血偿。
Books and friends should be few but good. 读书如交友，应求少而精。
Business is business. 公事公办。
Business is the salt of life. 事业是人生的第一需要。
By reading we enrich the mind, by conversation we polish it.
读书使人充实，交谈使人精明。
Cannot see the wood for the trees. 一叶障目，不见泰山。
Care and diligence bring luck. 谨慎和勤奋才能抓住机遇。
Caution is the parent of safety. 小心驶得万年船。
Cheats never prosper. 骗人发不了财。
Children are what the mothers are. 耳濡目染，身教言传。
Choose an author as you choose a friend. 择书如择友。
Come what may, heaven won't fall. 做你的吧，天塌不下来。
Complacency is the enemy of study. 学习的敌人是自己的满足。
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Confidence in yourself is the first step on the road to success.
自信是走向成功的第一步。
Constant dripping wears away a stone. 水滴石穿，绳锯木断。
Content is better than riches. 知足者常乐。
Count one's chickens before they are hatched. 蛋未孵先数雏。
Courtesy on one side only lasts not long. 来而不往非礼也。
Creep before you walk. 循序渐进。
Cry for the moon. 海底捞月。
Custom is a second nature. 习惯是后天养成的。
Custom makes all things easy. 有个好习惯，事事皆不难。
Diamond cuts diamond. 强中自有强中手。
Do as the Romans do. 入乡随俗。
Do as you would be done by. 己所不欲，勿施于人。
Doing is better than saying. 与其挂在嘴上，不如落实在行动上。
Do it now. 机不可失，时不再来。
Do nothing by halves. 凡事不可半途而废。
Don't claim to know what you don't know. 不要不懂装懂。
Don't have too many irons in the fire. 不要揽事过多。
Don't make a mountain out of a molehill. 不要小题大做。
Don't put off till tomorrow what should be done today. 今日事，今日毕。
Don't put the cart before the horse. 不要本末倒置。
Don't trouble trouble until trouble troubles you. 不要自找麻烦。
Don't try to teach your grandmother to suck eggs. 不要班门弄斧。
Do well and have well. 善有善报。
Each bird love to hear himself sing. 孤芳自赏。
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
早睡早起身体好。
Easier said than done. 说得容易，做得难。
Easy come, easy go. 来也匆匆，去也匆匆。
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。
Empty vessels make the greatest sound. 实磨无声空磨响，满瓶不动半瓶摇。
Envy has no holidays. 忌妒之人无宁日。
Even Homer sometimes nods. 智者千虑，必有一失。
Even reckoning makes long friends. 亲兄弟，明算账。
Every advantage has its disadvantage. 有利必有弊。
Everybody's business is nobody's business. 人人负责，等于没人负责。
Every day is not Sunday. 好景不常在。
Every dog has his day. 谁都有得意的时候。
Every door may be shut, but death's door. 人生在世，唯死难逃。
Every heart has its own sorrow. 各人有各人的苦恼。
Every little helps a mickle. 聚沙成塔，集腋成裘。
Every man for himself, and the devil takes the hindmost.
人不为己，天诛地灭。
Every man has his faults. 金无足赤，人无完人。
Every man has his hobbyhorse. 萝卜青菜，各有所爱。
Every man has his weak side. 人人都有弱点。
Every man is the architect of his own fortune. 自己的命运自己掌握。
Every minute counts. 分秒必争。
Every mother's child is handsome. 孩子是自己的好。
Every potter praises hit pot. 王婆卖瓜，自卖自夸。
Everything is good when new, but friends when old.
东西是新的好，朋友是老的亲。
Example is better then percept. 说一遍，不如做一遍。
Experience is the father of wisdom and memory the mother.
经验是智慧之父，记忆是智慧之母。
Experience must be bought. 吃一堑，长一智。
Fact speak louder than words. 事实胜于雄辩。
Failure is the mother of success. 失败是成功之母。
False friends are worse than bitter enemies. 明枪易躲，暗箭难防。
Far from eye, far from heart. 眼不见，心不烦。
Far water does not put out near fire. 远水救不了近火。
Faults are thick where love is thin. 一朝情意淡，样样不顺眼。
Fear always springs from ignorance. 恐惧源于无知。
Fields have eyes, and woods have ears. 隔墙有耳。
Fire and water have no mercy. 水火无情。
Fire is a good servant but a bad master. 火是一把双刃剑。
First come, first served. 先来后到。
First impressions are half the battle. 初次见面，印象最深。
First think and then speak. 先想后说。
Fools grow without watering. 朽木不可雕。
Fool's haste is no speed. 欲速则不达。
Fools has fortune. 呆人有呆福。
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。
Forbidden fruit is sweet. 禁果格外香。
Fortune favors those who use their judgement. 机遇偏爱善断之人。
Fortune knocks once at least at every man's gate. 风水轮流转。
Four eyes see more than two. 集思广益。
Friends agree best at distance. 朋友之间也会保持距离。
Friends are thieves of time. 朋友是时间的窃贼。
Friends must part. 再好的朋友也有分手的时候。
Genius is nothing but labor and diligence. 天才不过是勤奋而已。
Give a dog a bad name and hang him. 众口铄金，积毁销骨。
God helps those who help themselves. 自助者天助。
Gold will not buy anything. 黄金并非万能。
Good for good is natural, good for evil is manly.
以德报德是常理，以德报怨大丈夫。
Good health is over wealth. 健康是最大的财富。
Good medicine for health tastes bitter to the mouth. 良药苦口利于病。
Good watch prevents misfortune. 谨慎消灾。
Great barkers are no biters. 好狗不挡道。
Great hopes make great man. 伟大的抱负造就伟大的人物。
Great minds think alike. 英雄所见略同。
Great men have great faults. 英雄犯大错误。
Great men's sons seldom do well. 富不过三代。
Great trees are good for nothing but shade. 大树底下好乘凉。
Great wits have short memories. 贵人多忘事。
Greedy folks have long arms. 心贪手长。
Guilty consciences make men cowards. 做贼心虚。
Habit cures habit. 心病还需心药医。
Handsome is he who does handsomely. 行为漂亮才算美。
Happiness takes no account of time. 欢乐不觉时光过。
Happy is he who owes nothing. 要想活得痛快，身上不能背债。
Happy is the man who learns from the misfortunes of others.
吸取他人教训，自己才会走运。
Harm set, harm get. 害人害己。
Hasty love, soon cold. 一见钟情难维久。
Health is better than wealth. 健康胜过财富。
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Health is happiness. 健康就是幸福。
Hear all parties. 兼听则明。
Heaven never helps the man who will not act. 自己不动，叫天何用。
He is a fool that forgets himself. 愚者忘乎所以。
He is a good friend that speaks well of us behind our backs.
背后说好话，才是真朋友。
He is a wise man who speaks little. 聪明不是挂在嘴上。
He is lifeless that is faultless. 只有死人才不犯错误。
He is not fit to command others that cannot command himself.正人先正己。
He is not laughed at that laughs at himself first. 自嘲者不会让人见笑。
He is wise that is honest. 诚实者最明智。
He knows most who speaks least. 大智若愚。
He laughs best who laughs last. 谁笑到最后，谁笑得最好。
He sets the fox to keep the geese. 引狼入室。
He that climbs high falls heavily. 爬得越高，摔得越重。
He that will not work shall not eat. 不劳动者不得食。
He who does not advance loses ground. 逆水行舟，不进则退。
He who makes constant complaint gets little compassion.
经常诉苦，没人同情。
He who makes no mistakes makes nothing. 想不犯错误，就一事无成。
He who risks nothing gains nothing. 收获与风险并存。
History repeats itself. 历史往往重演。
Honesty is the best policy. 做人诚信为本。
Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.
抱最好的愿望，做最坏的打算。
I cannot be your friend and your flatterer too. 朋友不能阿谀奉承。
If a man deceives me once, shame on him, if he deceives me twice, shame on me. 上当一回头，再多就可耻。
If you make yourself an ass, don't complain if people ride you.
人善被人欺，马善被人骑。
If your ears glow, someone is talking of you. 耳朵发烧，有人念叨。
If you run after two hares, you will catch neither.
脚踏两条船，必定落空。
If you sell the cow, you sell her milk too. 杀鸡取卵。
If you venture nothing, you will have nothing. 不入虎穴，焉得虎子。
If you want knowledge, you must toil for it. 要想求知，就得吃苦。
Industry is the parent of success. 勤奋是成功之母。
It is better to die when life is a disgrace. 宁为玉碎，不为瓦全。
It is easier to get money than to keep it. 挣钱容易攒钱难。
It is easy to be wise after the event. 事后诸葛亮好当。
It is easy to open a shop but hard to keep it always open.
创业容易守业难。
It is hard to please all. 众口难调。
It is never too old to learn. 活到老，学到老。
It is no use crying over spilt milk. 覆水难收。
It is the first step that costs troublesome. 万事开头难。
It is the unforeseen that always happens. 天有不测风云，人有旦夕祸福。
It is too late to grieve when the chance is past. 坐失良机，后悔已迟。
It never rains but it pours. 不鸣则已，一鸣惊人。
It takes three generations to make a gentleman. 十年树木，百年树人。
Jack of all trades and master of none. 门门精通，样样稀松。
Judge not from appearances. 人不可貌相，海不可斗量。
Justice has long arms. 天网恢恢，疏而不漏。
Keep good men company and you shall be of the number.近朱者赤,近墨者黑。
Kill two birds with one stone. 一箭双雕。
Kings go mad, and the people suffer for it. 君王发狂，百姓遭殃。
Kings have long arms. 普天之下，莫非王土。
Knowledge is power. 知识就是力量。
Knowledge makes humble, ignorance makes proud.
博学使人谦逊，无知使人骄傲。
Learn and live. 活着，为了学习。
Learning makes a good man better and ill man worse.
好人越学越好，坏人越学越坏。
Learn not and know not. 不学无术。
Learn to walk before you run. 先学走，再学跑。
Let bygones be bygones. 过去的就让它过去吧。
Let sleeping dogs lie. 别惹麻烦。
Let the cat out of the bag. 泄漏天机。
Lies can never changes fact. 谎言终究是谎言。
Lies have short legs. 谎言站不长。
Life is but a span. 人生苦短。
Life is half spent before we know what it is. 人过半生，方知天命。
Life is not all roses. 人生并不是康庄大道。
Life without a friend is death. 没有朋友，虽生犹死。
Like a rat in a hole. 瓮中之鳖。
Like author, like book. 文如其人。
Like father, like son. 有其父必有其子。
Like for like. 一报还一报。
Like knows like. 惺惺相惜。
Like mother, like daughter. 有其母必有其女。
Like teacher, like pupil. 什么样的老师教什么样的学生。
Like tree, like fruit. 羊毛出在羊身上。
Little things amuse little minds. 小人无大志。
Look before you leap. 摸清情况再行动。
Lookers-on see more than players. 当局者迷，旁观者清。
Losers are always in the wrong. 胜者为王，败者为寇。
Lost time is never found again. 岁月既往，一去不回。
Love at first sight. 一见钟情。
Love cannot be compelled. 爱情不能强求。
Love is blind. 爱情是盲目的。
Love is full of trouble. 爱情充满烦恼。
Love is never without jealousy. 没有妒忌就没有爱情。
Love me, love my dog. 爱屋及乌。
Make hay while the sun shines. 良机勿失。
Make your enemy your friend. 化敌为友。
Man is the soul of the universe. 人是万物之灵。
Man proposes, God disposes. 谋事在人，成事在天。
Many hands make light work. 众人拾柴火焰高。
Many heads are better than one. 三个臭皮匠，赛过诸葛亮。
Many things grow in the garden that were never sown there.
有心栽花花不发，无心插柳柳成荫。
Measure for measure. 针锋相对。
Misfortunes never come alone. 祸不单行。
Misfortune tests the sincerity of friends. 患难见真情。
Money isn't everything. 钱不是万能的。
Murder will out. 纸包不住火。
My son is my son till he has got him a wife, but my daughter is my daughter all the days of her life. 儿子婚前是儿子，女儿终生是女儿。
Nature is the true law. 天行有常，不为尧存，不为桀亡。
Necessity is the mother of invention. 需要是发明的动力。
Never fish in trouble water. 不要混水摸鱼。
Every tragedy makes heroes of common people.
(Normna Stephens, American writer)
每场悲剧都会在平凡的人中造就出英雄来。
(美国作家 斯蒂芬斯 N)
每日小格言：当你微笑时，世界会爱你；当你大笑时，世界则会害怕你！
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing; the freedom to choose his attitude in any given set of circumstances.
(Leonhard Frand , German novelist)
我可以拿走人的任何东西，但有一样东西不行，这就是在特定环境下选择自己的生活态度的自由。
(德国小说家 弗兰克 L)
Faith is the bird that feels the light when the down is still dark.
——R. Tagore
信念是黎明前天尚黑时感到光明的鸟。
——泰戈尔
The very reputation of being strong-willed, plucky, and indefatigable is of priceless value.
—— Charles Robert Darwin
意志坚强、胆量过人和不屈不挠的名声，乃是一种无价之宝。
—— 达尔文
If your ship doesn't come in , swim out to it!
—— Jonathan Winters
如果你的船不驶进来，那你就朝它游过去吧！
——J·温特斯
Whenever you have an aim you must sacrifice something of freedom to attain it.
—— William Somerset Maugham
不论什么时候，只要你有一个目标，就得牺牲一定的自由去实现它。
——W·S·毛姆
We always have time enough, if we will but use it alright.
——Wolfgang Von Goethe
只要我们能善用时间，就永远不愁时间不够用。
Have an aim in life, or your energies will all be wasted.
—— Richard Peters
人生应有目标，否则你的努力将成徒劳。
——理查·比德斯
There is no paradise on earth equal to the union of love and innocence.
—— Rousseau
人世间最大的幸福莫过于既有爱情又爱得纯洁无暇。
——卢梭
As fruit needs not only sunshine but cold nights and chilling showers to ripen it, so character needs not only joy but trial and difficulty to mellow it.
(Hugh Black, American writer)
水果不仅需要阳光，也需要凉夜。寒冷的雨水能使其成熟。人的性格陶冶不仅需要欢乐，也需要考验和困难。
(美国作家 布莱克 H)
Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.
(Hellen Keller, American writer)
虽然世界多苦难，但是苦难总是能战胜的。
(美国作家 海伦·凯勒)
Almost any situation---good or bad ---is affected by the attitude we bring to.
(Lucius Annaus Seneca, Ancient Roman philosopher)
差不多任何一种处境——无论是好是坏——都受到我们对待处境的态度的影响。
(古罗马哲学家 西尼加 L A)
Adversity reveals genius; fortune conceals it.
(Horace, ancient Roman poet)
苦难显才华，好运隐天资。
(古罗马诗人 贺拉斯)
Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to
explain it.
—— R. Tagore
爱是一个无穷无尽的谜，因为没有任何其他东西能够解释它。
——R·泰戈尔
Words may be false and full of arts ,sighs are the natural language of the heart.
(Thomas Shadwell, British dramatist)
言语可以是谎言并带有技巧；叹息才是心灵的自然流露。
(英国剧作家 沙德韦尔.T.)
Experience without learning is better than learning without excperi-ence.
(Bertuand Russell, British philosopher and mathematician)
有经验而无学问胜于有学问而无经验。
(英国哲学家、数学家罗素.B.)
Hope is itself a species of happiness, and perhaps the chief happiness which this world affords.
—— Samuel Johnson
希望本身就是一种幸福，也许还是这个世界提供给我们的最大幸福。
——约翰逊
To be without some of the things you wan is an indispensable part of happiness.
—— Bertrand Rossell
你追求不到的东西有时也是幸福不可缺少的一部分。
——罗素
A man dies often as he loses a friend. But we gain new life by new contacts, new friends.
—— Francis Bacon
一个人每逢失去一个朋友就等于经历一次死亡。但是取得新联系，结识新朋友却又使我们获得了新的生命。
——培根
We choose our friends by instinct, but we keep them by judgement.
—— Alfred Capus
我们选择朋友靠的是本能，而保持友谊靠的是判断。
——A·卡普斯
I do not like work ---no man does --but I like what is in the work -----the chance to find your self.
---Conrad Joseph
我不喜欢工作——没有人会喜欢工作。但是我喜欢在所从事的工作中——找到发现自己的机会。
---约瑟夫.C
I find life an exciting business and most exciting when it is lived for others.
(Helen Keller,Ameican writer)
我发现生活是令人激动的事情，尤其是为别人活着时。
(美国作家 海伦·凯勒)
No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.
——Moliere
任何人都不能免于诽谤。最好的方法是不理会，过着清白的生活，让人们去说好了。
——莫里哀
Coward die many times before their death.
—— William Shakespeare
懦夫在死之前,就已经死过很多次了.
—— 威廉·莎士比亚
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
——George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
不创造幸福的人无权享用幸福，正如不创造财富的人无权享用财富一样。
——萧伯纳
Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
——Andre Gide (1869-1951)
没有什么比回忆幸福更令人痛苦的了。
——安德烈·纪德
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
——Publilius Syrus
认为自己不幸福的人就不会幸福。
——普布利柳斯·西鲁斯
It is better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.
——George Courteline (1858-1926)
年轻时做一点儿事要比什么事也不做好。
——乔治·库特林
The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and the determination to attain it.
——Goethe (1749-1832)
人生中至关重要的事是在远大的目标和达到这个目标的雄心壮志。
——歌德
Life is not all cakes and ale.
——Thomas Hughes (1822-1896)
人生并不就是吃喝玩乐。
——托马斯·休斯
I succeeded because I willed it; I never hesitated.
——Napoleon I (1769-1821)
我成功是因为我有决心，从不踌躇。
——拿破仑一世
It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
——Dolores Ibarruri (1895-?)
宁愿站着死，决不跪着生。
——多洛雷斯·伊巴露丽
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.
——Mark Twain (1835-1910)
勇敢并非没有恐惧，而是克服恐惧，战胜恐惧。
——马克·吐温
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
——Martin Luther King Jr (1929-1968)
世界上再也没有比纯粹的无知和认真的愚蠢更危险的了。
——小马丁·路德·金
Appearances often are deceiving.
——Aesop, Fables
外表往往具有欺骗性。
——《伊索寓言》
Every man is the master of his own fortune.
—— R.Steels
每个人都主宰着自己的命运。
—— R·斯蒂尔斯
An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.
——Bible
以眼还眼， 以牙还牙。
——《圣经》
You should, like a candle, burn out yourself to give light to others.
——Mao Zedong
要像蜡烛一样燃烧自己，照亮别人。
——毛泽东
Happiness takes no account of time.
——Jack London
幸福年华似流水。
——杰克·伦敦
Eat to live, but do not live to eat.
———Socrates
吃饭是为了活着，但活着不是为了吃饭。
——苏格拉底
Talking much about oneself may be a way of hiding oneself.
——Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
过多地谈论自己可能是隐藏自己的方式。
——尼采
Civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof.
——John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
礼貌不是软弱的表现，真诚有待验证。
——约翰·肯尼迪
An honest man's the noblest work of God.
——Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
诚实的人是上帝创造的最佳作品。
——亚历山大·蒲柏
Books are the ever-burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
——G. W. Curtis (1824-1892)
书籍是积累智慧的明灯。
—— G·W·柯蒂斯
Liberty is the right to do whatever the laws permit.
——Barohn De Montesquieu (1689-1755)
自由必须受法律约束
——孟德斯鸠
Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience.
——Samuel Smiles (1812-1904)
实用知识只有通过亲身体验才能学到。
——塞缪尔·斯迈尔斯
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.
——Cecil (1520-1598)
要想多做成一些事情的捷径是一次只做一件事情。
——塞西尔
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
——Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895)
人生的伟大目标不在于知，而在于行。
——托马斯·亨利·赫胥黎
Saying and doing are two different things.
——John Heywood (1497-1550)
言与行实乃两码事也。
——约翰·海伍德
He who would search for pearls must dive below.
——John Dryden (1631-1700)
欲采珍珠须潜深水。
——约翰·德莱顿
Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions.
——Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)
行动是可以慰藉的。它是思想的敌人，是幻想的朋友。
——约瑟夫·康拉德
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety – nine percent perspiration.
——Thomas Alve Edison (1847-1931)
天才来自百分之一的灵感和百分之九十九的血汗。
——托马斯·阿尔瓦·爱迪生。
He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, and he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.
—— Emerson
有千百个朋友也不嫌多，只有一个敌人却到处可见。
—— 爱默生
Almost anything is easier to get into than to get out of.
——Agnes Allen
几乎所有事情都是进去容易退出难。
——艾格尼丝·艾伦
It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
—— Samuel Johnson
一个人怎样死去并不重要，重要的在于他怎样活着。
—— 塞缪尔·约翰逊
Without art the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
—— G. B. Shaw
如果没有艺术，现实的粗陋将使世界无法忍受。
——萧伯纳
A great poem is a fountain forever overflowing with the waters of wisdom and delight.
—— Shelley
一首伟大的诗犹如一座喷泉，不断地喷出智慧和快乐的泉水。
——雪莱
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free, if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
—— Edmund Burke
如果我们能支配我们的财富，我们就会变得富裕而自由；如财富支配了我们，我们就会变得贫穷。
——E·伯克
If you get simple beauty and nought else, you get about the best things God invents.
—— Robert Browning
只要你拥有纯真的美，你就拥有了上帝创造的最好的东西。
——罗伯特·布朗宁
"Beauty is truth, truth beauty," ----that is all we know on earth, and all we need to know.
—— John Keats
“美就是真，真就是美。”——这就是我们在人间知道和应该知道的一切。
——约翰·济慈
Ideals are like stars --- we never reach them, but like
mariners, we chart our course by them.
—— C. Schurz
人之需要理想，犹如水手之需要星辰；星辰虽不可及，但可以指引我们的航程。
—— 舒尔茨
This communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary effects, for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth grief in half.
—— Francis Bacon
朋友之间的交往产生两种截然相反的结果：一份快乐两人分享，能成为双份的快乐；一份痛苦二人分担，就会只剩下一半痛苦。
——弗朗西斯·培根
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
—— Rene Descartes
读好书，如同与先哲们交谈。
——笛卡尔
New love is brightest, and long love is greatest; but revived love is the tenderest thing known upon earth.
—— Thomas Hardy
新生的爱情绚丽多彩，长久的爱情崇高伟大；但复苏的爱情则是世界上最温柔的事情。
——托马斯·哈代
Let the dead have the immortality of fame, but the living the immortality of love.
—— Tagore
让逝者拥有不朽的荣誉，让生者拥有不朽的爱情。
——泰戈尔
On the great clock of time there is but one word, "now".
—— William Shakespeare
伟大的时钟上，只有一个词：“现在”。
——莎士比亚
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
—— Henry D. Thoreau
友谊的语言不是词句，而是意义。
——H·D·梭罗
All great truths are obvious truths. But no all obvcious truths are great truths.
—— A. Huxley
伟大的真理都是明摆着的事实，但并不是所有显而易见的事实都是伟大的真理。
——A·赫胥黎
My honor is my life, both grow in one; take honor from me, and my life is done.
——Shakespeare
我的荣誉就是我的生命，两者共长一体；若取走我的荣誉， 我的生命也就结束了。
——莎士比亚
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of child.
——G.B. Shaw
我们希望看到孩子追求知识，而不是知识追求孩子。
——肖伯纳
In life, as in chess, forethought wins.
——Charles Buxton (1823-1871)
人生如下棋，多思则能胜。
——查尔斯·巴克斯顿
We may give advice, but we can't give conduct.
——Franklin
我们可以给忠告，但是我们不能给指挥。
——富兰克林
The safety of the people is the highest law.
——Cicero
人民的利益高于一切。
——西塞罗
Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.
——J. Andrew
做事应考虑，但时机既至，即须动手，切莫犹豫。
——安德鲁
"Beauty is truth, truth beauty," ----that is all we know on earth, and all we need to know.
—— John Keats
“美就是真，真就是美。”——这就是我们在人间知道和应该知道的一切。
——约翰·济慈
As selfishness and complaint cloud the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
—— Helen Keller
自私和抱怨使心灵阴暗，愉悦的爱则使视野明朗开阔。
—— 海伦·凯勒
Loveliness, needs not the foreign aid of ornament, but is when unadorn'd, adorn'd the most.
—— James Thompson
可爱，并不需要外来的装饰，天然的可爱远比雕饰的更可爱。
—— J· 汤普森
Love should be a tree whose roots are deep in the earth,but whose branches extend into heaven.
—— Bertrand Russell
爱情之树应该深深扎在泥土中，而其枝条则要伸展于广阔的天空。
—— B·罗素
If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances
through life, he will soon find himself alone.
—— Samuel Johnson
如果一个人在一生中不结交新朋友，他很快就会发现自己很孤独。
—— 塞缪尔·约翰逊
Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
—— Benjamin Franklin
早睡早起能使人健康，富有，明智。
—— 本杰明·富兰克林
He is the richest who is content with the least, for content
is the wealth of nature.
—— Socrates
知足常乐者最富有，因为知足本身就是财富。
—— 苏格拉底
It is wiser being good than bad; It is safer being meek than fierce; It is fitter being sane than mad.
—— Browning
为善比作恶来得聪明； 温顺比凶恶来得安全；清醒比狂热来得稳妥。
—— 勃郎宁
The three foundations of learning: seeing much, suffering
much, and studying much.
—— Catherall
求学的三个基本条件是：多观察，多吃苦，多研究。
—— 加塞罗尔
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed,and some few to be chewed and digested.
—— F. Bacon
一些书可以浅尝辄止；一些书可以狼吞虎咽；而有些书则需要细嚼慢咽，好好消化。
—— F.培根
He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; he who loses courage loses all.
—— Cervantes
一个人，损失了财富损失大，损失了朋友损失更大；若是损失了勇气就损失了一切。
—— 塞万提斯
Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
—— R. W. Emerson
只要符合你的人生方向，什么样的工作都不低下。
—— R.W.爱默生
Truth does not lie beyond humanity, but is one of the products of the human minded feelings.
—— D.H.Lowrence
真理不能超越人性，但它是创造人类感情的产物之一。
—— D.H.劳伦斯
It is hard for the human soul not to love something,and our mind must of necessity be drawn to some kind of affection.
—— Jerome
要使人的灵魂不去爱是很难的，而我们的思想也有必要被某种爱所吸引。
—— 杰罗姆
If you'd be loved, be worthy to be loved.
—— Ovid
要得到别人的爱，就必须有值得爱的地方。
—— 奥维德
It's difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
—— H.W. Longfellow
知道爱情开始是困难的，但知道爱情已经开始则不那么困难。
—— H.W.朗费罗
Shallow men believe in luck. Self-trust is the first secret of success.
—— Ralph Waldo Emerson
肤浅的人相信运气，而成功的首要秘诀是自信。
—— 爱默生
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life;love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.
—— Martin Luther King
恨使生活瘫痪无力，爱使它重获新生。恨使生活混乱不堪，爱使它变得和谐。恨使生活漆黑一片，爱使它光彩夺目。
—— 马丁·路德·金
From success you get a lot of things, but not that great
inside thing that love brings you.
—— Sam Goldwyn
从成功中，你可以得到很多东西，但无法得到爱情带给你的那种美妙的内在的东西。
—— 山姆·高德温
All love is sweet, given or returned. Common as light is loved, and its familiar voice wearies not ever.
—— Shelley
所有的爱都是甜蜜的，无论是给予还是回报。爱就象阳光一样无所不在，它那熟悉的嗓音永远不会消沉。
—— 雪莱
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
—— Alfred Tenneyson
要奋斗，要探索，要有所发现，但不要屈服。
—— 阿尔弗雷德·丁尼生
Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.
—— Benjamin Franklin
应该做的决心去做，决心做的就务必去做。
—— 本杰明·富兰克林
Hope is the thing with feather that perches in the soul.
—— Emily Dickinson
希望是栖息于灵魂中的一种会飞翔的东西。
—— 艾米莉·迪金森
Dare and the world always yields. If it beats you sometimes, dare it again and again and it will succumb.
—— W.M.Thackeray
你勇敢，世界就会让步。如果有时它战胜你，你要不断地勇敢再勇敢，它就会屈服。
—— W.M. 萨克雷
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
—— Charles M. Schwab
一个人，只要他有无限的热情，就几乎可以在任何事情上取得成功。
—— 查尔斯 M.施瓦布
All books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hour, and the books of all time.
—— John Ruskin
一切书籍都可以分为两类，即：一时之书与永久之书。
—— 约翰·罗斯金
To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
—— Sydney Smith
爱人和被人爱是人生最大的幸福。
—— 史密斯
Chance favours the minds that are prepared.
—— Pasteur
机会只愿意惠顾时刻做好准备的人。
—— 巴斯德
The horizon of life is broadened chiefly by the enlargement of the heart.
—— H. Blake
生活的视野主要是随着心胸的开阔而变得宽广的。
—— H. 布莱克
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, these three alone lead life to sovereign power.
——Tennyson
自尊，自知，自制，此三者可引致生命进入崇高的境界。
——丁尼生
Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.
—— Samuel Johnson
字典和时钟一样，最坏的一种也有胜于无，而最好的一种也不能认为是十分准确的。
—— 塞缪尔·约翰逊
Ideals are like stars --- we never reach them, but like
mariners, we chart our course by them.
—— C. Schurz
人之需要理想，犹如水手之需要星辰；星辰虽不可及，但可以指引我们的航程。
—— 舒尔茨
My honor is my life, both grow in one; take honor from me, and my life is done.
——Shakespeare
我的荣誉就是我的生命，两者共长一体；若取走我的荣誉，我的生命也就结束了。
——莎士比亚
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of child.
——G.B. Shaw
我们希望看到孩子追求知识，而不是知识追求孩子。
——肖伯纳
In life, as in chess, forethought wins.
——Charles Buxton (1823-1871)
人生如下棋，多思则能胜。
——查尔斯·巴克斯顿
We may give advice, but we can't give conduct.
——Franklin
我们可以给忠告，但是我们不能给指挥。
——富兰克林
The safety of the people is the highest law.
——Cicero
人民的利益高于一切。
——西塞罗
Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.
——J. Andrew
做事应考虑，但时机既至，即须动手，切莫犹豫。
——安德鲁
When all is consumed, repentance comes too late.
——Bible
待到一切消耗尽，悔悟来时已太迟。
——《圣经》
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle, old age a regret.
——Bemjamin Disraeli (1804-1881)
青年时冒失莽撞，成年时发奋图强，老年时悔恨懊恼。
——本杰明·迪斯累里
也可以译为古人语:少状不努力， 老大途伤悲。
There is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
——Paine
真理到谬误，相去只一步。
——佩恩
A stitch in time saves nine.
——Charles Read
一针不缝九针难补，及时处理事半功倍。
——里德
Appearances are not held to be a clue to the truth…. But we seem to have no other.
——Ivy Compton-Burnett(1884-1969)
表象不是追踪真理的线索，然而我们似乎别无选择。
——康普顿——伯内特夫人
No cross, no crown.
——Penn
吃得苦中苦，方为人上人。
——佩恩
A little of everything, and nothing at all.
——Saying
每事浅尝辄止，结果将一事无成。
——谚语
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.
——Robert Frost (1874-1963)
家就是永远向游子敞开大门的地方。
——罗伯特·弗罗斯特
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
——Heywood
心头有志愿，无事不可能。
——海伍德
He that can have patience, can have what he wills.
——Franklin
惟坚韧者才能遂其志。
——富兰克林
A good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters.
——George Herbert (1593-1633)
一个好母亲相当于上百个好教师。
——乔治·赫伯特
Virtue is to herself the best reward.
——Latin Proverb
善行本身即是对它自己的最好报酬。
——拉丁谚语
Be it ever so humble, there is no place like home.
——John Howard Payne (1791-1852)
金窝，银窝，不如自家的草窝。
——约翰·霍华德·佩恩
All happy families are like one another; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
——Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)
所有幸福的家庭都十分相似；每个不幸的家庭却各有各的不幸。
——列夫·托尔斯泰
A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you.
——Ramsey Clark
权利不是什么人施舍给你的东西；权利是任何人都不能从你手里夺走的东西。
——拉姆齐·克拉克
You could cover the whole world with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.
——Ilya Ehrenburg (1891-1967)
哪怕沥青覆盖了整个地球，绿草迟早会冲破障碍茁壮成长。
——伊里亚·爱伦堡
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
——George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
自由意味着责任。这就是多数人害怕自由的缘故。
——萧伯纳
As a rough rind sometimes covers the sweetest fruit, so a rough exterior often conceals a kindly and hearty nature.
——Samuel Smiles (1812-1904)
如同粗糙的果皮可以包裹最甜蜜的水果一样，丑陋的外表往往掩盖着善良和诚挚的本性。
——塞缪尔·斯迈尔斯
The countenance is the portrait of the mind, the eyes are its informers.
——Cicero (106 BC- 43BC)
表情是思想的写照，眼睛是心灵的窗户。
——西塞罗
God gives every bird its food, but does not throw it into the nest.
——J.G.Holland
天赐食物于鸟，但不投之于巢。
——霍兰
Riches are gotten with pain, kept with care, and lost with grief.
——Latin Proverb
财富从辛苦中得来，在忧虑中保持，在悲伤中失去。
——拉丁谚语
Almost anything is easier to get into than to get out of.
——Agnes Allen
几乎所有事情都是进去容易退出难。
——艾格尼丝·艾伦
Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.
—— Aristotle
学问在成功时是装饰品，在失意时是庇护所，在年老时是供应品。
—— 亚里士多德
If well used, books are the best of all things; if abused, among the worst.
—— Ralph Waldo Emerson
如果利用得当，书籍就是最好的朋友；反之，如果滥用，它就会变成最坏的东西了。
—— 拉尔夫·W·爱默生
Money can cure hunger, it cannot cure unhappiness.Food can satisfy the appetite, but not the soul.
—— G. B. Shaw
金钱可以充饥，但不能治愈不幸。食物可以饱腹，但却不能满足灵魂的需求。
—— G.B.萧伯纳
Be slow in choosing a friend; slower in changing.
—— Benjamin Franklin
选择朋友要慎重，改换朋友更要慎重。
—— 本杰明·富兰克林
Living without an aim is like sailing without a compass.
—— John Ruskin
生活没有目的，就好象航行没有指南针一样。
—— 约翰·罗斯金
Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust, the great name still lives.
—— Schiller
在人的所有财产中，名誉是最宝贵的；当躯体被埋葬了，名誉还依然存在。
—— 席勒
Lose not time; be always employed in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions.
—— Benjamin Franklin
不要浪费时间，做些有益的事情，停止一切不必要的行动。
—— 本杰明·富兰克林
It is more valuable to seek truth than to own it.
—— Albert Einstein
对真理的追求比对真理的占有更为可贵。
—— 阿尔伯特·爱因斯坦
Life being very short, and the quiet hour of it few; we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.
—— John Ruskin
人生十分短促，宁静的时间又不多； 我们不应该浪费宝贵的时间去读毫无价值的书。
—— 约翰·拉斯金
书籍是人类最宁静和最永恒的朋友，也是最易接近和最具智慧的顾问，还是最有耐心的良师益友。
—— 查尔斯·W·埃利奥特
Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.
—— Blaise Pascal
人的伟大之处在于他的思想的力量。
—— B· 帕斯卡
The brain can be developed just the same as the muscles can be developed, if one will only take the pains to train the mind to think.
—— Thomas Alva Edison
一个人的头脑可以象肌肉一样得到发展，只要你肯不辞辛苦的训练你的心智去思考。
—— 托马斯·A·爱迪生
Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
—— Mark Twain
每一个人都是一个月亮，都有他不可展示给别人的阴暗面。
—— 马克·吐温
Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
—— E. E. Cummings
对待爱情应该比其他任何事都更谨慎。
—— E. E. 卡明斯
We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.
—— Martin Luther King
我们必须接受有限的失望，但我们绝不可失去无限的希望。
—— 马丁·路德·金
The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
—— Thomas Hardy
一个希望的突然失落会留下一处伤痕，即使那希望最终会实现，也决不能完全平复。
—— 托马斯·哈代
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
—— Ralph Waldo Emerson
你每发怒一分钟，也就失去了六十秒的幸福。
—— R. W. 爱默生
If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.
—— Benjamin Franklin
如果一个人倾其所有以求学问，那么这些学问是没有人能拿走的。
—— 本杰明·富兰克林
You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
—— Joseph Conrad
你可以通过一个人的朋友，也可以通过一个人的敌人来判断他的为人。
—— 约瑟夫·康拉德
Life being very short, and the quiet hour of it few; we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.
—— John Ruskin
人生十分短促，宁静的时间又不多； 我们不应该浪费宝贵的时间去读毫无价值的书。
—— 约翰·拉斯金
great poem is a fountain forever overflowing with the waters of wisdom and delight.
—— Shelley
一首伟大的诗犹如一座喷泉，不断地喷出智慧和快乐的泉水。
——雪莱
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free, if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
—— Edmund Burke
如果我们能支配我们的财富，我们就会变得富裕而自由；如财富支配了我们，我们就会变得贫穷。
——E·伯克
If you get simple beauty and nought else, you get about the best things God invents.
—— Robert Browning
只要你拥有纯真的美，你就拥有了上帝创造的最好的东西。
——罗伯特·布朗宁
"Beauty is truth, truth beauty," ----that is all we know on earth, and all we need to know.
—— John Keats
“美就是真，真就是美。”——这就是我们在人间知道和应该知道的一切。
——约翰·济慈
Ideals are like stars --- we never reach them, but like
mariners, we chart our course by them.
—— C. Schurz
人之需要理想，犹如水手之需要星辰；星辰虽不可及，但可以指引我们的航程。
—— 舒尔茨
My honor is my life, both grow in one; take honor from me, and my life is done.
——Shakespeare
我的荣誉就是我的生命，两者共长一体；若取走我的荣誉， 我的生命也就结束了。
——莎士比亚
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of child.
——G.B. Shaw
我们希望看到孩子追求知识，而不是知识追求孩子。
——肖伯纳
In life, as in chess, forethought wins.
——Charles Buxton (1823-1871)
人生如下棋，多思则能胜。
——查尔斯·巴克斯顿
We may give advice, but we can't give conduct.
——Franklin
我们可以给忠告，但是我们不能给指挥。
——富兰克林
The safety of the people is the highest law.
——Cicero
人民的利益高于一切。
——西塞罗
Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.
——J. Andrew
做事应考虑，但时机既至，即须动手，切莫犹豫。
——安德鲁
The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do
good work today.
——Elbert Hubbard
为明天所做的最好的准备工作就是把今天的工作做好。
——E·哈伯德
All work is as seed sown; it grows and spreads, and
sows itself anew.
——Thomas Carlyle
一切工作都好象是播下的种子；它生长开花结籽，然后又重新
播种。
——托马斯·卡莱尔
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to
become a man of value.
——Albert Einstein
不要为成功而努力，要为做一个有价值的人而努力。
——爱因斯坦
Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you
love and believe in, and it will come naturally.
——David Frost
如果你想成功，不要去刻意地追求成功。只要你干自己热爱的工作
并相信它，成功就自然会到来。
——弗罗斯特
At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.
—— Benjamin Franklin
二十岁时起支配作用的是意志，三十岁时是机智，四十岁时是判断。
——富兰克林
Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
—— Shelly
诗歌是最快乐的、最高尚的心灵在最美好、最幸福的时刻的记录。
——雪莱
Without art the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
—— G. B. Shaw
如果没有艺术，现实的粗陋将使世界无法忍受。
——萧伯纳
A great poem is a fountain forever overflowing with the waters of wisdom and delight.
—— Shelley
一首伟大的诗犹如一座喷泉，不断地喷出智慧和快乐的泉水。
——雪莱
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free, if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
—— Edmund Burke
如果我们能支配我们的财富，我们就会变得富裕而自由；如财富支配了我们，我们就会变得贫穷。
——E·伯克
If you get simple beauty and nought else, you get about the best things God invents.
—— Robert Browning
只要你拥有纯真的美，你就拥有了上帝创造的最好的东西。
——罗伯特·布朗宁
"Beauty is truth, truth beauty," ----that is all we know on earth, and all we need to know.
—— John Keats
“美就是真，真就是美。”——这就是我们在人间知道和应该知道的一切。
——约翰·济慈
Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.
——David Frost
如果你想成功，不要去刻意地追求成功。只要你干自己热爱的工作并相信它，成功就自然会到来。
——弗罗斯特
There are two motives for reading a book: one that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
——Bertrand Russell
读书有两种动机：一是从中获得乐趣；另一种则是可以向人夸耀。
——罗素
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by
knowledge.
——Bertrand Russell
美好的生活是一种由爱所激励和由知识所指导的生活。
——罗素
It is with narrow-souled people as with narrow-necked bottles;
the less they have in them the more noise they make in pouring out.
——Pope
心胸狭窄的人就象细口瓶，里面装的东西越少，倒出时的噪音也就
越大。
——蒲伯
We have no right to consume happiness without
producing it than to consume wealth without prod-
ucing it.
——G. B. Shaw
如果我们不能创造幸福，我们就没有权利去享受幸福；正如
我们如果不能创造财富；也就没有权利去享用财富一样。
——萧伯纳
001.An idle youth,a needy age.
◎少壮不努力，老大徒伤悲。
002.Time flies.
◎时光易逝。
003.Time is money.
◎一寸光阴一寸金。
004.Time and tide wait for no man.
◎岁月无情；岁月易逝；岁月不待人。
005.Time tries all.
◎时间检验一切。
006.Time tries truth.
◎时间检验真理。
007.Time past cannot be called back again.
◎光阴一去不复返。
008.All time is no time when it is past.
◎光阴一去不复返。
009.No one can call back yesterday;Yesterday will not be called again.
◎昨日不复来。
010.Tomorrow comes never.
◎切莫依赖明天。
011.One today is worth two tomorrows.
◎一个今天胜似两个明天。
012.The morning sun never lasts a day.
◎好景不常；朝阳不能光照全日。
013.Christmas comes but once a year.
◎圣诞一年只一度。
014.Pleasant hours fly past.
◎快乐时光去如飞。
015.Happiness takes no account of time.
◎欢娱不惜时光逝。
016.Time tames the strongest grief.
◎时间能缓和极度的悲痛。
017.The day is short but the work is much.
◎工作多，光阴迫。
018.Never deter till tomorrow that which you can do today.
◎今日事须今日毕，切勿拖延到明天。
019.Have you somewhat to do tomorrow,do it today.
◎明天如有事，今天就去做。
020.To him that does everything in its proper time, one day is worth
three.
◎事事及时做，一日胜三日。
021.To save time is to lengthen life.
◎节省时间就是延长生命。
022.Everything has its time and that time must be watched.
◎万物皆有时，时来不可失。
023.Take time when time cometh,lest time steal away.
◎时来必须要趁时，不然时去无声息。
024.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。
025.Make hay while the sun shines.
◎晒草要趁太阳好。
026.Strike while the iron is hot.
◎趁热打铁。
027.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。
028.Punctuality is the soul of business.
◎守时为立业之要素。
029.Procrastination is the thief of time.
◎因循拖延是时间的大敌；拖延就是浪费时间。
030.Every tide hath ist ebb.
◎潮涨必有潮落时。
031.Knowledge is power.
◎知识就是力量。
032.Wisdom is more to be envied than riches.
◎知识可羡，胜于财富。
033.Wisdom is better than gold or silver.
◎知识胜过金银，
034.Wisdom in the mind is better than money in the hand.
◎胸中有知识，胜于手中有钱。
035.Wisdom is a good purchase though we pay dear for it.
◎为了求知识，代价虽高也值得。
036.Doubt is the key of knowledge.
◎怀疑是知识之钥。
037.If you want knowledge,you must toil for it.
◎若要求知识，须从勤苦得。
038.A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
◎浅学误人。
039.A handful of common sense is worth a bushel of learning.
◎少量的常识，当得大量的学问。
040.Knowledge advances by steps and not by leaps.
◎知识只能循序渐进，不能跃进。
041.Learn wisdom by the follies of others.
◎从旁人的愚行中学到聪明。
042.It is good to learn at another man's cost.
◎前车可鉴。
043.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。
044.Experience is the best teacher.
◎经验是最好的教师。
045.Experience is the father of wisdom and memory the mother.
◎经验是知识之父，记忆是知识之母。
046.Dexterity comes by experience.
◎熟练来自经验。
047.Practice makes perfect.
◎熟能生巧。
048.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。
049. 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。
050.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。
051.Seeing is believing.
◎百闻不如一见。
052.Business is the salt of life.
◎事业是生命之盐。
053.Business before pleasure.
◎事业在先，享乐在后。
054.Business makes a man as well as tries him.
◎事业可以考验人，也可以造就人。
055.Business neglected is business lost.
◎忽视职业便是放弃职业。
056.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。
057.Business may be troublesome,but idleness is pernicious.
◎事业虽扰人，懒惰害更大。
058.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。
059.Do business,but be not a slave to it.
◎要做事，但不要做事务的奴隶。
060.Everybody's business is nobody's business.
◎众人的事就是无人过问的事。
061.Work makes the workman.
◎勤工出巧匠。
062.Better master one than engage with ten.
◎会十事，不如精一事。
063.A work ill done must be twice done.
◎首次做不好，必须重新搞。
064.They who cannot do as they would,must do as they can.
◎不能如愿而行，也须尽力而为。
065.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。
066.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。
067.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。
068.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。
069.Better late than never.
◎迟做总比不做好。
070.Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.
◎凡是值得做的事，就值得做好。
071.The shortest answer is doing the thing.
◎最简短的回答就是一个“干”字。
072.Action is the proper fruit of knowledge.
◎行动是知识之佳果。
073.Finished labours are pleasant.
◎完成工作是一乐。
074.It is lost labour to sow where there is no soil.
◎没有土壤，播种也是徒劳。
075.It is right to put everything in its proper use.
◎凡事都应用得其所。
076.Affairs that are done by due degrees are soon ended.
◎按部就班，事情很快就做完。
077.All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
◎只工作，不玩耍，聪明小孩也变傻。
078.Work bears witness who does well.
◎工作能证明谁做的好。
079.It is not work that kills,but worry.
◎工作不会伤身，伤身乃是忧虑。
080.He that will not work shall not eat.
◎不工作者不得食。
081.Business is business.
◎公事公办。
082.Deliberate slowly,execute promptly.
◎慢慢酌量，快快行动。
083.Put your shoulder to the wheel.
◎努力工作。
084.Never do things by halves.
◎做事不要半途而废。
085.In for a penny,in for a pound.
◎做事一开头，就要做到底；一不做，二不休。
086.Many hands make quick work.
◎人多干活快。
087.Many hands make light work.
◎众擎易举。
088.A bad workman quarrels with his tools.
◎技术拙劣的工人抱怨自己的工具。
089.Diligence is the mohter of success.
◎勤奋是成功之母。
090.Idleness is the root of all evil.
◎懒惰乃万恶之源。
091.Care and diligence bring luck.
◎谨慎和勤奋带来好运。
092.Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
◎勤勉是好运之母。
093.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。
094.Idleness is the key of beggary.
◎懒惰出乞丐。
095.No root,no fruit.
◎无根就无果。
096.Idle people (folks) have the most labour (take the most pains).
◎懒人做工作，越懒越费力。
097.Sloth is the key of poverty.
◎惰能致贫。
098.Sloth turneth the edge of wit.
◎懒散能磨去才智的锋芒。
099.An idle brain is the devil's workshop.
◎懒汉的头脑是魔鬼的工厂。
100.The secret of wealth lieth in the letters SAVE.
◎节俭是致富的秘诀。
101. Lying is the first step to the gallows.
◎说谎是上断头台的第一步。
102. Waste not,want not.
◎俭以防匮。
103. From saving comes having.
◎富有来自节俭。
104. A penny saved is a penny gained.
◎省一文是一文。
105. Take care of the pence and the pound will take care of themselves.
◎金钱积少便成多。
106. Frugality is an estate alone.
◎节俭本身就是一宗财产。
107. He that regards not a penny,will lavish a pound.
◎小钱不知节省，大钱将滥花。
108. Small gains bring great wealth.
◎积小利，成巨富。
109. Many a little makes a mickle.
◎积少便成多。
110. As the touchstone tries gold,so gold tries man.
◎试金之石可试金，正如黄金能试人。
111.Courage and resolution are the spirit and soul of virtue.
◎勇敢和坚决是美德的灵魂。
112.The path to glory is always rugged.
◎光荣之路常坎坷。
113.Nothing is difficult to the man who will try.
◎世上无难事，只要人肯试。
114.The fire is the test of gold;adversity of strong man.
◎烈火试真金，困苦炼壮士。
115.Great hopes make great man.
◎远大的希望造就伟大的人物。
116.No way is impossible to courage.
◎勇士面前无险路。
117.A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
◎平静的大海决不能造就出熟练的水手。
118.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。
119.The best hearts are always the bravest.
◎行为最勇敢的人心地总是最善良。
120.We must not lie down,and cry,God help us.
◎求神不如求己。
121.He that falls today may be up again tomorrow.
◎今天跌倒的人也许明天就会站起。
122.Rome was not built in a day.
◎罗马并非一日可建成；坚持必成。
123.Success belongs to the persevering.
◎胜利属于坚忍不拔的人。
124.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。
125.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。
126.Step by step the ladder is ascended.
◎登梯需要逐级登。
127.Adversity leads to prosperity.
◎困苦通向昌盛。
128.Patience and application will carry us through.
◎忍耐和专心会使我们度过难关。
129.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。
130.All things will come round to him who will but wait.
◎只要肯等待，一切都会按时来。
131.Constant dropping wears the stone.
◎滴水不绝可穿石。
132.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。
133.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。
134.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。
135.Life is sweet.
◎生活是可爱的；人无不好生(恶死)。
136.Where there is life,there is hope.
◎生命不息，希望长在。
137.Life is not all beer and skittles.
◎人生并不全是吃喝玩乐。
138.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。
139.Fortune knocks once at least at every man's door.
◎人人都有走运的一天。
140.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。
141.Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
◎每一个人都是自身幸福的建筑师。
142.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。
143.Misfortunes never (seldom) come alone (single).
◎祸不单行。
144.Misfortune is a good teacher.
◎不幸是良好的教师。
145.Misfortunes come at night.
◎祸常生于不测。
146.Misfortunes tell us what fortune is.
◎恶运临头后，才知幸运贵。
147.Adversity makes a man wise,not rich.
◎患难能使人聪明，但不能使人富有。
148.Live and learn.
◎活到老，学到老。
149.It is never too old to learn.
◎为学不怕年高。
150.A man becomes learned by asking questions.
◎要长学问，就得多问；多问则业精。
151.There is no royal road to learning.
◎学问无坦途。
152.He who is ashamed of asking is ashamed of learning.
◎畏问之人耻于学。
153.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。
154.Learning makes a good man better and ill man worse.
◎知识能使好人更好，坏人更坏。
155.Soon learnt,soon forgotten.
◎学得快，忘得快。
156.Learn young,learn fair.
◎为学趁年青，既学须学好。
157.A lazy youth,a lousy age.
◎少时懒惰老来苦。
158.He that knows nothing,doubts nothing.
◎无知即无疑。
159.A good name keeps its luster in the dark.
◎良好的名声在黑暗中也能闪闪发光。
160.Fame is a magnifying glass.
◎名誉是放大镜。
161.A good fame is better than a good face.
◎美名胜于美貌。
162.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。
163.Take honour from me and my life is done.
◎没有名誉，就没有了生命。
164.Beware of him who regards not his reputation.
◎要谨防不重名誉的人。
165.It is better to die with honour than to live in infamy.
◎光荣的死胜于羞辱的生。
166.Adversity successfully overcome is the highest glory.
◎成功地克服困难是最大的光荣。
167.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。
168.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。
169.Never trust another what you should do yourself.
◎自己该做的事，决不要委托给旁人做。
170.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。
171.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。
172.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。
173.Never trust to fine words.
◎切勿轻信漂亮话。
174.Trust not a great weight to a slender thread.
◎细线挂重物，终究不可依靠。
175.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。
176.Trust thyself only,and another shall not betray thee.
◎只要信任你自己，旁人才不出卖你。
177.Self-trust is the essence of heroism.
◎自信为英雄品质之本。
178.Confidence is a plant of slow growth.
◎信任是一种生长缓慢的植物。
179.Truth is the daughter of time.
◎真理是时间的女儿。
180.Truth hath a good face,but ill clothes.
◎真理面目善良；但衣衫褴褛。
181.Truth and roses have thorns about them.
◎真理和玫瑰，身旁都有刺。
182.Truth may be blamed,but shall never be shamed.
◎真理可能会被责难，但绝不会受羞辱。
183.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。
184.Truth will prevail.
◎真理必胜。
185.Truth's best ornament is nakedness.
◎不加掩饰乃是真理的最好装饰。
186.Facts are stubborn things.
◎事实是最顽强的东西。
187.Sooner or later,the truth comes to light.
◎真相迟早会大白。
188.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。
189.Falsehood like a nettle stings those who meddle with it.
◎谎言似荨麻，玩弄会刺手。
190.There is many a fair thing full false.
◎有许多说得好听的东西充满了谬误。
191.Though a lie be well drest,it is ever overcome.
◎谎言装扮虽不错，到头总会被揭露。
192.A lie begets a lie till they come to generations.
◎谎言生谎言，谎言世代传。
193.A false tongue will hardly speak truth.
◎假舌不会吐真言。
194.False with one can be false with two.
◎对一个人虚假，也会对两个人虚假。
195.He that will lie will steal.
◎会说谎的人也就会偷窃。
196.Gossiping and lying go together.
◎流言常和谎话并行。
197.Equivocation is first cousin to a lie.
◎含糊其词是谎话的近亲。
198.A great talker is a great liar.
◎最会夸夸其谈的人也最会说谎。
199.The greatest liars talk most of themselves.
◎最爱自吹自擂的人是最大的说谎者。
200.Lying rides upon debt's back.
◎负债的人谎话多。
201. All is not gold that glitters.
◎闪光未必尽黄金。
202. Money is the root of evil.
◎金钱是罪恶的根源。
203. Money makes the mare go.
◎有钱能使鬼推磨。
204. All things are obedient to money.
◎一切事物都服从于金钱。
205. Before gold,even kings take off their hats.
◎在黄金面前，国王也要脱帽。
206. Money is the key that opens all doors.
◎金钱是打开一切门户的钥匙。
207. Beauty is potent,but money is more potent.
◎美貌固有力，金钱力更大。
208. Avarice increases with wealth.
◎越有钱，越贪钱。
209. The money the miser hoards will do him no good.
◎守财奴积财，对自己毫无好处。
210. 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。
212.The chief aim of man is not to get money.
◎人的主要目的并不是赚钱。
213.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。
214.Wealth makes worship.
◎财富能使人拜倒。
215.Little wealth,little care.
◎财富少，烦恼也少。
216.A moneyless man goes fast through the market.
◎身上无钱过市快。
217.Poverty is not a crime.
◎贫非罪。
218.Poverty is not a disgrace,but theft is a disgrace.
◎贫穷不可耻，偷窃乃足羞。
219.Better be poor than wicked.
◎宁可做穷人，不可做坏人。
220.Poverty is not a sufficient cause for disgrace, but poverty without resolution to help oneself, is a disgrace.
◎贫穷不足为耻，穷而不能自立方可耻。
221.Poverty is the mother of health.
◎贫穷是健康之母。
222.Be considerate toward the poor.
◎应常为穷人着想。
223.Poor and content is rich and rich enough.
◎人能安贫就是富。
224.Poverty parteth fellowship.
◎贫穷断友情。
225.Poverty makes a man mean.
◎贫困使人小气。
226.Nothing to be got without pains but poverty.
◎只有贫穷是可以不劳而获的东西。
227.Do not through fear of poverty surrender liberty.
◎不要因为怕贫困而舍去自由。
228.Poverty and love are hard to hide.
◎贫困与爱情，都难瞒过人。
229.Poverty breeds strife.
◎贫困引起冲突。
230.The poor man wants much,the miser everything.
◎穷人要求多，财迷则样样都要。
231.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。
232.Poverty on an old man's back is a heavy burden.
◎老而贫困，负担最沉。
233.Beggars must (should) be no choosers.
◎行乞的<>哪能挑肥拣瘦；饥不择食。
234.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。
235.A light purse makes a heavy heart.
◎钱袋轻时心事重。
236.Poor without debt is better than a prince.
◎穷人无债胜王子。
237.Happy is he who owes nothing.
◎无债一身轻。
238.Money borrowed is soon sorrowed.
◎借钱才到手，立刻便担忧。
239.He that goes a borrowing,goes a sorrowing.
◎向人借债是自寻烦恼。
240.Better go to bed supperless than rise in debt.
◎与其负债起身，不如空腹上床。
241.Out of debt,out of danger.
◎脱债就脱险。
242.A pound of care will not pay an ounce of debt.
◎深忧偿不了小债。
243.He is the wisest man who does not think himself so.
◎不自作聪明便是最聪明。
244.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。
245.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。
246.He is wise that knows when he's well enough.
◎知足为智者。
247.A wise man cares not for what he cannot have.
◎智者不强求。
248.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。
249.No man is born wise.
◎聪明非天生。
250.A wise man will make tools of what comes to hand.
◎能随机应变的人是聪明人。
251.A word is enough to the wise.
◎对明智者一言已足。
252.He is the wise man who is the honest man.
◎正直的人就是有见识的人。
253.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。
254.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。
255.A flow of words is no proof of wisdom.
◎口若悬河，不能证明真有才智。
256.It is easy to be wise after the event.
◎事后的诸葛亮容易做。
257.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。
258.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。
259.A fool always comes short of his reckoning.
◎愚人常短于心计。
260.A fool's heart dances on his lips.
◎愚人的心挂在唇边。
261.A fool always finds a greater fool than himself.
◎愚人总以为旁人比自己更傻。
262.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。
263.The more riches a fool hath,the greater fool he is.
◎愚人越富越蠢。
264.Never challenge a fool to do wrong.
◎不要怂恿愚人干错事。
265.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。
266.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。
267.'Tis altogether vain to learn wisdom and yet live foolishly.
◎枉自学聪明，却做愚蠢事。
268.Wit without learning is like a tree without fruit.
◎没有学识的机智，犹如没有果实的树。
269.No man is wise at all times.
◎世上无一贯明智的人。
270.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。
271.Virtue never grows old.
◎美德永不老。
272.Virtue is the only true nobility.
◎万事不如美德高。
273.Virtue is a jewel of great price.
◎美德乃是无价宝。
274.He that soweth virtue shall reap fame.
◎播下美德，收获名望。
275.To be virtuous is to do good.
◎行善即是有德。
276.Glory is the shadow of virtue.
◎荣誉是美德的影子。
277.There is no virtue that poverty destroyeth not.
◎没有贫穷不能破坏的美德。
278.The first step to virtue is to abstrain from vice.
◎不作恶是走向美德的第一步。
279.No good building without a good foundation.
◎基础不良的好建筑物是没有的。
280.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。
281.He that returns good for evil obtains the victory.
◎胜利属于以德报怨的人。
282.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。
283.If they say you are good,ask yourself if it be true.
◎若有人称赞，自问对不对。
284.He who avoids temptation avoids the sin.
◎不受诱惑就免于罪恶。
285.A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder.
◎问心无愧，打雷也能睡。
286.Never be weary of well doing.
◎不要厌倦做好事。
287.Of evil grain,no good seed can come.
◎坏谷无好种。
288.That which is evil is soon learnt.
◎恶行易学。
289.No vice goes alone.
◎恶事不单行。
290.An evil lesson is soon learned.
◎恶习易染。
291.A bad thing never dies.
◎坏事传千年。
292.Evil comes to us by ells and goes away by inches.
◎罪恶于人，尺进寸退。
293.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。
294.They that do nothing learn to do ill.
◎游手好闲，容易学坏。
295.A wicked man is his own hell.
◎坏人作恶，自造地狱。
296.Those who eat best and drink best often do worst.
◎吃得好，喝得好，坏事常常免不了。
297.He who has done ill once will do it again.
◎一次干坏事，便有第二次。
298.There is no going heaven in a sedan.
◎坐轿上天堂，从来无此事。
299.An ill life,an ill end.
◎恶有恶报。
300.A wilful fault has no excuse and deserves no pardon.
◎不能宽恕故意犯下的错误。
301. Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.
◎没有知识的热心，犹如有火而无光。
302. Pardoning the bad is injuring the good.
◎隐恶败善；原谅坏人即是伤害好人。
303. The evil wound is cured but not the evil name.
◎重伤可治，恶名难去。
304. Evil communications corrupt good manners.
◎不良的交往败坏良好的举止。
305. No wrong without remedy.
◎有过皆可补。
306. Virtue flies from the heart of a mercenary man.
◎唯利是图者，胸中无美德。
307. First think,and then speak.
◎动口先动脑。
308. A word spoken is past recalling(The words once spoken can never be recalled).
◎一言既出，驷马难追。
309. 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。
310. Speech is silver,silence is gold.
◎言语是银，沉默是金。
311.Few words are best.
◎寡言为贵。
312.No wisdom like silence.
◎聪明莫过沉默。
313.Least said,soonest mended.
◎少说为妙。
314.Second thoughts are best.
◎再思而后行。
315.Look before you leap.
◎慎思而后行。
316.He is a wise man who speaks little.
◎智多言语少。
317.Fair words butter no parsnips.
◎美言无补实际。
318.The tongue is not made of steel,yet it cuts.
◎舌头不是钢，一动把人伤。
319.Sometimes words hurt more than swords.
◎言语能伤人，有时胜刀剑。
320.A good tongue is a good weapon.
◎口齿伶俐，是件利器。
321.A wise head makes a close mouth.
◎头脑灵，嘴巴紧。
322.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。
323.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。
324.Better say nothing than nothing to the purpose.
◎与其说话不中肯，不如半句也莫吭。
325.Many a true word is spoken in jest.
◎笑语之中吐真言。
326.Few words,many deeds.
◎少说话，多做事。
327.Actions speak louder than words.
◎行动比言语响亮；百说不如一干。
328.From words to deeds is a great space.
◎言行之间，大有距离。
329.Deeds,not words.
◎要行动，不要言词。
330.Bare words,no bargain.
◎空言不能成交易。
331.Deeds are fruits,words are but leaves.
◎行动是果实，言语只是叶子。
332.Ill deeds cannot honour.
◎坏行为不受尊敬。
333.Fine words dress ill deeds.
◎漂亮的言词装饰着恶劣的行为。
334.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。
335.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。
336.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。
337.A man is not good or bad for one action.
◎不能凭一件事判断人的好坏。
338.A man apt to promise is apt to forget.
◎易于许诺的人也易于忘记。
339.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。
340.Easier said than done.
◎说易行难。
341.The greatest talkers are always the least doers.
◎大言不惭的总是行动最少的人。
342.The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
◎布丁好坏，一尝便知；空谈不如实践。
343.Pride goes before a fall.
◎骄者必败。
344.Pride goes before destruction.
◎骄者必败。
345.Pride goeth before,and shame cometh after.
◎骄傲走在前，羞耻跟在后。
346.Pride and grace dwelt never in one place.
◎傲慢和温雅，永难住一处。
347.He that climbs high falls heavily.
◎爬得高，跌得重。
348.Pride must be pinched.
◎骄傲应收敛。
349.The more noble the more humble.
◎越高贵，越应谦逊。
350.Humility often gains more than pride.
◎谦逊常比傲慢受益更多。
351.He who imagines that he has knowledge enough has none.
◎自命万事通，腹中常空空。
352.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。
353.Pride may lurk under a threadbare cloak.
◎骄傲可能会潜藏在穿旧的斗篷下。
354.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。
355.He that is full of himself is very empty.
◎自满之人腹内空。
356.Honesty is the best policy.
◎诚实为上策。
357.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。
358.Poor but honest.
◎虽贫穷，要诚实。
359.Honesty may be dear bought,but can never be an ill pennyworth.
◎高价买诚实，永远也值得。
360.Knavery may serve,but honesty is best.
◎欺诈可能有用，诚实却是上策。
361.Every man has his weak side.
◎人人都有自己的弱点。
362.He who has no shame has no conscience.
◎不知羞耻的人不知自疚。
363.An honest look covereth many faults.
◎一副诚实的外表掩盖着许多缺点。
364.Once a knave,ever a knave.
◎一次成无赖，永远是无赖。
365.A crafty knave needs no broker.
◎狡猾的无赖不需要有中间人。
366.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。
367.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。
368.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。
369.Love is blind.
◎爱情是盲目的。
370.Love is without reason.
◎爱情无理智。
371.Love is full of trouble.
◎爱情充满了烦恼。
372.Love cannot be compelled.
◎爱情不能强迫。
373.Love begets love.
◎爱爱相生。
374.Love needs no teaching.
◎爱情不需教导。
375.Love at first sight.
◎一见倾心。
376.Love asks faith,and faith firmness.
◎爱情要求信任，信任要求坚定。
377.Love is the touchstone of virtue.
◎爱情是美德的试金石。
378.Love not at the first look.
◎不要一见钟情。
379.Hasty love,soon cold.
◎爱得匆忙冷得快。
380.Love is a sweet torment.
◎爱情是一种甜蜜的痛苦。
381.Love rules his kingdom without a sword.
◎爱情的王国不用刀剑来统治。
382.Love will find out the way.
◎爱情自会寻出路。
383.Love is not to be found in the market.
◎爱情在市场上找不到。
384.Lovers live by love,as larks live by leeks.
◎情侣依靠爱情生活，正象云雀依靠韭葱生活一样。
385.Old love will not be forgotten.
◎旧情永难忘；往日的爱情难以忘怀。
386.True love kythes(=shows itself)in time of need.
◎患难显真情。
387.Sound love is not soon forgotten.
◎坚固的爱情不会顷刻忘怀。
388.The greatest hate springs from the greatest love.
◎最大的恨来自最大的爱。
389.No love is foul,nor prison fair.
◎没有肮脏的爱情，也没有美丽的监狱。
390.Labour is lihgt where love doth pay.
◎爱情付报酬，劳苦也轻松。
391.Love is the reward of love.
◎爱就是爱的报酬。
392.Love makes all hard hearts gentle.
◎爱情把一切冷酷之心变成温柔。
393.When love puts in,friendship is gone.
◎爱情进入，友情完结。
394.The course of true love never did run smooth.
◎真爱的道路绝不平坦。
395.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。
396.True love is giving,not taking.
◎真挚的爱是给，不是取。
397.Love makes obedience easy.
◎爱情使顺从成为易事。
398.Love is sweet in the beginning,but sour in the end.
◎爱情先甜后来酸。
399.Where love fails,we espy all faults.
◎爱情一失败，一切毛病都发现。
400.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。
401. When poverty comes in at the door,love flies out of the window.
◎贫穷一进门，爱情跳窗走。
402. Faults are thick while love is thin.
◎一朝情义淡，样样不顺眼。
403. Hatred is blind as well as love.
◎爱情和仇恨，二者皆盲目。
404. Marriage is a lottery.
◎婚姻是一桩难于预测的事。
405. Marry thy like.
◎跟你情投意合的人结婚。
406. Marriage makes or mars a man.
◎婚姻成全人，也能损害人。
407. It is good to marry late or never.
◎晚婚或不婚，都是好事情。
408. Early wed,early dead.
◎早婚者早夭。
409. They that marry in green,their sorrow is soon seen.
◎年纪轻轻就结婚，为时不久便悔恨。
410. A young man married is a man that's marred.
◎男子早婚，种下祸根。
411.Marry in haste,and repent at leisure.
◎匆匆结婚，时时悔恨。
412.Marry in lent,and you'll live to repent.
◎借债结婚，一生悔恨。
413.He that marries for wealth,sells his liberty.
◎为财富而结婚的人，出卖了自己的自由。
414.An ill marriage is a spring of ill fortune.
◎不良的婚姻是恶运的来源。
415.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。
416.If you always say "NO",never be married.
◎常常说“不”字，永远难结婚。
417.Honest men marry soon,wise men not at all.
◎老实的人早成婚，聪明的人不结婚。
418.A good wife and health is a man's best wealth.
◎贤妻和健康是男子的至宝。
419.A good wife makes a good husband.
◎有好妻子就有好丈夫；妻贤夫自良。
420.Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.
◎选择妻子，最好用耳不用眼。
421.Better be half hanged than ill wed.
◎与其成怨偶，不如守单身。
422.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。
423.The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives.
◎有懦弱的丈夫，就有凶悍的妻子。
424.It is a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.
◎母鸡司晨家不兴。
425.The wife is the key of the house.
◎妻子是一家之钥；妻贤一家兴。
426.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。
427.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。
428.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。
429.One father is more than a hundred school-masters.
◎一个父亲胜于一百个教师。
430.Like father,like son.
◎有其父，必有其子。
431.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。
432.The mother's breath is aye sweet.
◎母亲的低语总是甜蜜的。
433.Like mother,like daughter.
◎有其母，必有其女。
434.Children are the parents' riches.
◎子女是父母的至宝。
435.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。
436.He that hath no children,knows not what is love.
◎没有孩子的人，不知道什么叫做爱。
437.Children learn to creep ere they can go.
◎孩子要走路，先得学爬行。
438.Silly(=good) child is soon ylered(=taught).
◎好小孩，学得快。
439.Boys will be boys.
◎孩子终归是孩子。
440.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。
441.Spare the rod and spoil the child.
◎省了棍子，惯坏了孩子。
442.Naughty boys sometimes make good men.
◎淘气的男孩有时会成为争气的孩子。
443.The child is father of the man.
◎三岁定到老。
444.Happy is he that is happy in childhood.
◎童年时快乐的人是幸福的。
445.Children and fools cannot lie.
◎孩子和愚人不会扯谎。
446.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。
447.It is harder to marry a daughter well than to bring her up well.
◎养女容易嫁女难。
448.A maid that laughs is half taken.
◎少女笑口开，婚事成一半。
449.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。
450.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。
451.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。
452.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。
453.Life without friend is death.
◎没有朋友的生活便等于死亡。
454.Without a friend,the world is wilderness.
◎没有朋友，世界成了荒野。
455.Friendless is the dead.
◎死者无友。
456.A good friend is my nearest relation.
◎好友即至亲。
457.A near friend is better than a fardwelling kinsman.
◎近友胜远亲。
458.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。
459.In time of prosperity,friends will be plenty.
◎走运时候朋友多。
460.It is good to have friends in trouble.
◎在患难中能有朋友是好事。
461.Prosperity makes friends and adversity tries them.
◎富裕招致朋友，困苦考验朋友。
462.A friend in need is a friend indeed.
◎患难时的朋友才是真正的朋友。
463.Poverty tries friends.
◎贫穷考验朋友；人贫见友情。
464.Try your friend ere you trust him.
◎对朋友要先考验，后信任。
465.Prove thy friend ere thou have need.
◎在你需要朋友帮助前，先要考验他们。
466.A friend is never known till a man have need.
◎不到困窘时，永难识真友。
467.A faithful friend is hard to find.
◎忠实朋友实难求。
468.Friends are like fiddle-strings,they must not be screwed too tight.
◎朋友有如琴弦，不能上的太紧。
469.Have but few frieds,though many acquaintances.
◎结交可以多，朋友应宜少。
470.All are not friends that speak us fair.
◎向我们说好话的并不都是好朋友。
471.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。
472.A friend in court is better than a penny in purse.
◎朝中有友，胜如囊中有钱。
473.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。
474.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。
475.A friend without faults will never be found.
◎没有缺点的朋友永不可得。
476.A man without a friend is only half a man.
◎无友的人只能算半个人。
477.A friend is not so soon gotten as lost.
◎失友快，交友慢。
478.Friendship cannot stand always on one side.
◎友谊不能总是在一方。
479.Old acquaintance will soon be remembered.
◎故人一见便相亲。
480.He is a good friend that speaks well of us behind our backs.
◎背后称我好，才算好朋友。
481.Friends (the best of friends) must part.
◎好友终有分手时。
482.A friend is best found in adversity.
◎患难见真交。
483.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。
484.False friends are worse than open enemies.
◎假朋友比真敌人更坏。
485.Short acquaintance brings repentance.
◎浅交致后悔。
486.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。
487.Better be alone than in bad company.
◎交损友不如无友。
488.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。
489.Hunger knows no friend.
◎饥饿不认朋友。
490.Misery makes strange bedfellows.
◎难中不择友。
491.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。
492.An enemy's mouth seldom speaks well.
◎敌人嘴里无好话。
493.Believe no tales from the enemy.
◎敌人之言不可信。
494.One enemy is too much.
◎一个敌人已太多。
495.Mickle power makes many enemies.
◎权高树敌多。
496.Do not despise your enemy.
◎不可轻敌。
497.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。
498.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。
499.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。
500.In an enemy spots are soon seen.
◎敌人身上求疵易。
501. 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。
502. A courageous foe is better than a cowardly friend.
◎勇敢的敌人胜过懦怯的朋友。
503. 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。
504. Make your enemy your friend.
◎要化敌为友。
505. Live and let live.
◎自己活也让别人活。
506. As a man lives,so shall he die.
◎有生必有死。
507. We are not born for ourselves.
◎人生天地间，并非为自己。
508. He that hath time hath life.
◎有时间就有生活。
509. He that lives long suffers much.
◎寿长忧患多。
510. They who live longest will see most.
◎寿命最长的人见识也最广。
511.He was born with a silver spoon in his mouth.
◎他生在富贵人家。
512.A man can die but once.
◎人生只有一回死。
513.He that liveth in court dieth upon straw.
◎生于安乐者常死于贫贱。
514.He that liveth wickedly can hardly die honestly.
◎过着邪恶生活的人不会正直地死去。
515.Death pay all debts.
◎一死了百债。
516.Six feet of earth makes all men equal.
◎墓穴之中，人人平等。
517.Death is the grand leveller.
◎死亡面前，不分贵贱。
518.Death meets us everywhere.
◎人生到处皆可死；死亡和我们到处相遇。
519.Death frees us from ills.
◎死亡使我们解脱不幸。
520.We shall lie all alike in our graves.
◎一朝进坟场，大家都一样。
521.In the grave the rich and poor lie equal.
◎一朝入暮穴，贫富皆一律。
522.Death defies the doctor.
◎死亡蔑视医生。
523.There is no medicine against death.
◎人间哪有不死（回春）药。
524.Light come,light go.
◎易得则易失；来得容易去得快。
525.Sometimes gain is to lose.
◎有时得即是失。
526.Merry is he that hath nought to lose.
◎无物可失的人最逍遥自在。
527.Grasp all,lose all.
◎样样都要，全部失掉。
528.What we lose in hake we shall have in herring.
◎失鳕得鲱；失之东隅，收之桑榆。
529.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。
530.For a lost thing care nothing.
◎一物已失，计较无益。
531.He who does not gain loses.
◎不能得益，就是损失。
532.Losses make us more cautious.
◎损失使人更谨慎。
533.Who loseth liberty loseth all.
◎失去自由即失去一切。
534.Either win the horse or lose the saddle.
◎不是全赢，就是全输；孤注一掷。
535.All is not lost that is in danger.
◎在危险中的东西未必全会损失。
536.Do not run too fast after gain.
◎不要见利便狂追。
537.Prefer loss to unjust gain.
◎宁可受损失，休取不义财。
538.Lightly gain,quickly lost.
◎来得容易去得快；不义之财，理无久享。
539.Only that which is honestly got is gain.
◎正当的收入才是真正的收入。
540.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。
541.Gain got by a lie will burn one's fingers.
◎依靠欺骗得利，准要吃亏。
542.One never loses anything by politeness.
◎礼多不吃亏；礼多人不怪。
543.Hold fast when you have it.
◎手中之物应紧握。
544.There are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it.
◎海中好鱼取不尽（意指虽然失去一个机会，还有很多机会）。
545.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。
546.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。
547.Health is better than wealth.
◎健康胜于财富。
548.Health is happiness.
◎健康便是幸福。
549.A good healthy body is worth more a crown in gold.
◎健全的身体比金冕更有价值。
550.A sound mind in a sound body.
◎健康的思想寓于健康的身体。
551.A light heart lives long.
◎心胸开朗，使人寿长。
552.A happy heart makes a blooming visage.
◎心中快乐，容光焕发。
553.He who hath good health is young,and he is rich who owes nothing.
◎健康葆青春，无债即富有。
554.Study sickness while you are well.
◎无病应思有病时。
555.The healthful man can give counsel to the sick.
◎健康的人可以对生病的人提出忠告。
556.By the side of sickness health becomes sweet.
◎和疾病相比较，才能识得健康的可爱。
557.Health is not valued till sickness comes.
◎有病方知健康贵。
558.Feed by measure and defy physician.
◎饮食有节，医生绝迹。
559.Often and little eating makes a man fat.
◎多餐少吃，使人壮硕。
560.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。
561.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。
562.He that will thrive must rise at five.
◎五点起床，百事兴旺。
563.He that goes to bed thirsty rises healthy.
◎忍渴上床，起身健康。
564.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。
565.Who makes everything right must rise early.
◎想把事事都做好，就得坚持起身早。
566.Go to bed with the lamb and rise with the lark.
◎随羔羊就寝，与云雀同起。
567.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。
568.A little labour,much health.
◎适量的劳动大有益于健康。
569.Enough is as good as a feast.
◎饱食有如赴宴。
570.Many dishes,many diseases.
◎食多病多。
571.Diseases are the Price of ill pleasures.
◎疾病是纵欲的代价。
572.Desperate diseases must have desperate cures.
◎毒病要用毒药医。
573.He who never was sick dies the first.
◎小病不生，一病致命。
574.Sickness shows us what we are.
◎疾病使人显本相。
575.What can't be cured must be endured.
◎不治之症，必须坚忍。
576.Hide nothing from thy physician.
◎不要讳疾忌医。
577.Medicines are not meant to live on.
◎不要依靠吃药过生活。
578.A disease known is half cured.
◎病情弄清楚，病根除一半。
579.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。
580.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。
581.Feed sparingly and defy the physician.
◎饮食有节，医生绝迹。
582.Prevention is better than cure.
◎预防胜于治疗。
583.An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
◎一分预防胜似十分治疗。
584.Bitter pills may have wholesome effect.
◎良药苦口利于病。
585.A good medicine tastes bitter.
◎良药苦口。
586.There is no friend so faithful as a good book.
◎最忠实的朋友莫过于一本好书。
587.Books,like friends,should be few and well chosen.
◎书籍如朋友，宜少宜精选。
588.A book is the same today as it always was and it will never change.
◎好书千载常如新。
589.A good book is a best friend who never turns his back upon us.
◎好书如至友，永远不相负。
590.In books,are embalmed the greatest thoughts of all ages.
◎伟大思想古今有，载入书中成不朽。
591.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。
592.Old wood is best to burn,old book to read.
◎老柴好烧，老书宜读。
593.A book that remains shut is but a block.
◎书本不去翻，犹如一木块。
594.Judge not a book by its cover.
◎评定一本书，不能凭封面。
595.A wicked book is the wickeder because it cannot repent.
◎坏书因其不能改正错误而更坏。
596.A good tale is none the worse for being twice told.
◎故事好，再讲一遍还是好。
597.Law is a bottomless pit.
◎法律是无底的深渊。
598.Ignorance of the law excuses no man.
◎对法律无知，不能成为任何人的借口。
599.Law makers should not be law breakers.
◎立法者不应成为犯法者；立法应守法。
600.Wrong laws make short governance.
◎不健全的法律统治时间不会长。
601. 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。
602. New lords,new laws.
◎新君立新法。
603. Laws catch flies and let hornets go free.
◎法网只捕蝇，黄蜂由它去。
604. Where drums beat,laws are silent.
◎战鼓一响，法律无声。
605. An upright judge has more regard to justice than to men.
◎法官能公正，重法不重人。
606. That trial is not fair where affection is the judge.
◎法官动感情，审判难公正。
607. A good lawyer,an evil neighbour.
◎好律师不是好邻居。
608. An old physician,and a young lawyer.
◎医生老的好，律师年轻的好。
609. Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.
◎鸡蛋还未孵，先别数鸡雏；莫过早乐观。
610. Though the fox run,the chicken hath wings.
◎狐狸虽会跑，小鸡有翅膀。
611.Young cocks love no coops.
◎小公鸡不恋笼。
612.A cock is bold on his dunghill.
◎站在粪堆上，公鸡也称王。
613.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。
614.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。
615.If the hen does not prate,she will not lay.
◎不叨叨的母鸡不下蛋。
616.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。
617.Fat hens lay few eggs.
◎肥鸡下蛋稀。
618.Grain by grain,and the hen fills her belly.
◎一颗接一颗，母鸡填饱肚。
619.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。
620.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。
621.What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
◎适用于甲的也适用于乙。
622.All his geese are swans.
◎他喜欢夸大其词；敝帚自珍。
623.All your swans are geese.
◎你的美好希望（或诺言），全部成了泡影。
624.Each bird likes to hear himself sing.
◎每一只鸟都爱听自己歌唱。
625.The bird loves her nest.
◎鸟爱自己的窝。
626.Birds of a feather flock together.
◎物以类聚，人以群分。
627.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。
628.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。
629.He that will take the bird must not scare it.
◎捕鸟休惊鸟。
630.The noisy fowler catches no bird.
◎捕禽人大肆声张，鸟儿就不会落网。
631.Old birds are not caught with new nests.
◎新网难捕老鸟。
632.'Tis the early bird that catches the worm.
◎早起的鸟先得虫；捷足先登。
633.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。
634.A bird is known by its note,and a man by his talk.
◎鸟以声闻，人以言知。
635.It is an ill bird that fouls its own nest.
◎家丑不可外扬。
636.Eagles fly alone,but sheep flock together.
◎鹰爱独飞羊爱群。
637.A kite will never be a good hawk.
◎鸢永不会变成隼。
638.Empty hands no hawk allure.
◎空手不能诱鹰来。
639.The crow thinks his own bird fairest.
◎乌鸦总以为自己的雏鸟最美。
640.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。
641.Wheresoever the carcase is, there will the ravens be gathered together.
◎哪里有死尸，乌鸦就成群。
642.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）。
643.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。
644.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。
645.If the sky falls,we shall catch larks.
◎天垮正好抓云雀；不要杞人忧天。
646.An owl is the king of the night.
◎猫头鹰是黑夜之王。
647.When the owl sings,the nightingale will hold her peace.
◎枭鸟唱歌，夜莺屏息。
648.Cats hide their paws.
◎猫儿不露爪。
649.A gloved cat catches no mice.
◎戴手套的猫抓不到老鼠。
650.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。
651.Ale will make cat speak.
◎喝了淡啤酒，猫也会开口；酒后使人说话多。
652.A blate cat makes a proud mouse.
◎猫儿腼腆，老鼠翻天。
653.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。
654.The cat and dog may kiss,yet are none the better friends.
◎猫狗虽相吻，总难成好友。
655.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。
656.A cat may look at a king.
◎猫也有权看国王；小人物也该有些权利。
657.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。
658.An old dog bites sore.
◎老狗咬人咬得狠。
659.Beware of a silent dog and still water.
◎哑狗和静水，二者都得防。
660.Barking dogs seldom bite.
◎爱吠的狗不咬人。
661.A dog will not howl if you beat him with a bone.
◎肉骨头打狗狗不叫。
662.Dogs that bark at a distance bite not at hand.
◎远处狗就叫，近身不会咬。
663.If the old dog barks,he gives counsel.
◎老狗叫，是忠告。
664.In every country dogs bite.
◎天下有狗都咬人。
665.Hungry dogs will eat dirty puddings.
◎饿狗也吃脏布丁；饥不择食。
666.Dogs wag their tails not so much in love to you as your bread.
◎狗儿把尾摇，爱的是面包。
667.All are not thieves that dogs bark at.
◎狗吠的人并非都是小偷。
668.Every dog is valiant at his own door.
◎站在家门口，狗也雄纠纠。
669.Every dog is a lion at home.
◎狗在家中，八面威风。
670.While the dog gnaws bone,companions would be none.
◎狗啃骨头无同伴。
671.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。
672.Mad dog bites his master.
◎疯狗咬主人。
673.Too much pudding will choke dog.
◎布丁太多噎死狗。
674.Do not give a dog bread every time he wags his tail.
◎莫因狗尾摇，次次丢面包。
675.A living dog is better than a dead lion.
◎活狗胜于死狮。
676.Love me,love my dog.
◎爱屋及乌。
677.Let sleeping dog lie.
◎勿惊卧狗；切莫惹是生非。
678.Help the dog over the stile.
◎助人度过难关。
679.Every dog has his day.
◎片瓦也有翻身日；人人都有得意时。
680.Give a dog a bad name and hang him.
◎欲加之罪，何患无辞。
681.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。
682.An old dog cannot alter its way of barking.
◎老狗难改常吠声。
683.When a dog is drowning,every one offers him drink.
◎待到狗溺水，众人给水喝。
684.A swine over fat is the cause of his own bane.
◎猪死都因身过肥；象以齿焚。
685.Pigs may fly,but they are very unlikely birds.
◎猪儿纵会飞，终究不是鸟。
686.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。
687.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。
688.The cow that's first up gets the first of the dew.
◎早起母牛先得露。
689.Not all butter that the cow yields.
◎母牛所产的未必全是黄油。
690.Many good cows have evil calves.
◎很多好母牛，会生坏小犊。
691.You cannot sell the cow and sup the milk.
◎不能既要卖母牛，又想喝牛奶。
692.Old oxen have stiff horns.
◎牛老角硬。
693.The ox is never woe,till he to the harrow go.
◎挂耙去耕地，牛才知辛苦。
694.An ox is taken by the horns,and the man by the tongue.
◎牛因角被执，人因舌陷身。
695.If the ox falls,whet your knife.
◎牛一倒，快磨刀；人遭难，众人踩。
696.The black ox has trod on his foot.
◎祸事临头。
697.The ox when weariest treads surest.
◎牛困走得稳。
698.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。
699.A horse that will not carry a saddle must have no oats.
◎不愿加鞍的马，不得吃燕麦。
700.A good horse oft needs a good spur.
◎好马常需好靴刺。
701. It is the bridle and spur that makes a good horse.
◎要把马练好，缰绳靴刺少不了。
702. A boisterous horse must have a rough bridle.
◎烈马要套粗笼头。
703. He is a gentle horse that never cast his rider.
◎驯良的马绝不会把骑手甩倒。
704. 'Tis a good horse that never stumbles.
◎好马不失蹄。
705. The fault of the horse is put on the saddle.
◎马劣动怪马鞍坏。
706. Mettle is dangerous in a blind horse.
◎瞎马鼓勇气，正是危险事。
707. Old wood is best to burn,old horse to ride.
◎老柴好烧，老马好骑。
708. Every horse thinks his sack heaviest.
◎每匹马都认为自己驮的袋子最重。
709. You may know the horse by his harness.
◎观马具可知马性。
710. A galled horse will not endure the comb.
◎擦伤的马不耐梳。
711.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。
712.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。
713.An ass endures his burden,but not more than his burden.
◎驴子能负重，过重也难负。
714.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。
715.The braying of an ass does not reach heaven.
◎驴子的叫声传不到天上。
716.The fault of the ass must not be laid upon the packsaddle.
◎驴子不乖，休怪驮鞍。
717.A horse is neither better nor worse for his trappings.
◎相马不可凭马饰。
718.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。
719.A colt you may break,but an old horse you never can.
◎小驹犹可练，老马最难驯。
720.One sheep follows another.
◎一羊跟一羊（指盲从）。
721.If one sheep leap o'er the dyke,all the rest will follow.
◎一羊跳过沟，众羊跟着跳。
722.There is a black sheep in every flock.
◎败类处处有；害群之马处处有。
723.One scabbed sheep will mar a whole flock.
◎一羊生癣，群羊受害。
724.Every time the sheep bleats it loses a mouthful.
◎羊每叫一次，就少吃一口。
725.One butcher does not fear many sheep.
◎屠夫不怕羊多。
726.It is a foolish sheep that makes the wolf his confessor.
◎蠢羊才向狼忏悔。
727.The dust raised by the sheep does not choke the wolf.
◎羊踩起的灰尘挡不住狼。
728.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。
729.The life of the wolf is the death of the lamb.
◎有活的狼就有死的羔羊。
