There is no royal road to learning.
學無坦途。
Look before you leap. First think, then act.
三思而后行。
It is never too late to mend.
亡羊補牢，猶為未晚。
It is good to learn at another man's cost.
前車之鑒。
Keeping is harder than winning.
創業不易，守業更難。
Light come, light go.
來得容易，去得快。
Time is money.
時間就是金錢。
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
患難見真交。
Great hopes make great man.
遠大的希望，造就偉大的人物。
After a storm comes a calm.
雨過天晴。
All roads lead to Rome.
條條大路通羅馬。
Art is long, but life is short.
人生有限，學問無涯。
Stick to it, and you'll succeed.
只要人有恒，萬事都能成。
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
here there is a will, there is a way.
有志者，事竟成。
早睡早起，富裕、聰明、身體好。
A good medicine tastes bitter.
良藥苦口。
Well begun is half done.
好的開端是成功的一半。
East, west, home is best.
金窩、銀窩，不如自己的草窩。
Let's cross the bridge when we come to it.
船到橋頭自然直。
More haste, less speed.
欲速則不達。
No pains, no gains.
不勞則無獲。
Nothing is difficult to the man who will try.
世上無難事，只要肯登攀。
Where there is life, there is hope.
生命不息，希望常在。
An idle youth, a needy age.
少壯不努力，老大徒傷悲。
We must not lie down, and cry, "God help us."
求神不如求己。
A plant may produce new flowers; man is young but once.
花有重開日，人無再少年。
God helps those who help themselves.
自助者，天助之。
What may be done at any time will be done at no time.
明日待明日，明日不再來。
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
只工作，不玩耍，聰明孩子也變傻。
Diligence is the mother of success.
勤奮是成功之母。
Truth is the daughter of time.
時間見真理。
Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves.
積少自然成多。
No man is wise at all times.
智者千慮，必有一失。
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
今天能做的事絕不要拖到明天。
Live and learn.
活到老，學到老。
Kill two birds with one stone.
一石雙鳥。
It never rains but it pours.
禍不單行。
In doing we learn.
經一事，長一智。
Easier said than done.
說起來容易做起來難。
Sound in body, sound in mind.
有健全的身體才有健全的精神。
Seeing is believing.
百聞不如一見。
Dogs wave their tails not so much in, love to you as your bread.
狗搖尾巴，愛的是你的面包。
Money is a good servant but a bad master.
要做金錢的主人，莫作金錢的奴隸。
It's hard sailing when there is no wind.
無風難駛船。
The path to glory is always rugged.
通向光榮的道路常常是崎嶇的。
Living without an aim is like sailing without a compass.
沒有目標的生活如同沒有羅盤的航行。
Quality matters more than quantity.
質重于量。
The on-looker sees most of the game.
旁觀者清。
Wisdom is a good purchase though we pay dear for it .
為了求知識，代價雖高也值得。
Joys shared with others are more enjoyed.
與眾同樂，其樂更樂。
Happiness takes no account of time.
歡樂不覺日子長。
Time and tide waits for no man.
歲月不等人。
If you want knowledge, you must toil for it.
若要求知，必須刻苦。
Learn to walk before you run.
循序漸進。
Knowing something of everything, and everything of something.
通百藝而專一長。
From words to deeds is a great space.
言行之間，大有距離。
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
技能和信心是無敵的軍隊。
Habit is a second nature.
習慣成自然。
Lifeless, faultless.
只有死人才不會犯錯誤。
A book is the same today as it always was and it will never change.
好書千載常如新。
Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
讀書如擇友，宜少且宜精。
A book that remains shut is but a block.
書本不常翻，猶如一塊磚。
It's not the gay coat that makes the gentleman.
君子在德不在衣。
Two heads are better than one.
三個臭皮匠頂個諸葛亮。
Birth is much, but breeding is more.
出身重要，教養更重要。
Nothing is impossible to a willing mind.
世上無難事，只怕有心人。
You can't make something out of nothing.
巧婦難為無米之炊。
Nothing venture, nothing have.
不入虎穴，焉得虎子。
Nothing for nothing.
不費力氣，一無所得。
Of nothing comes nothing.
無中不能生有。
He who makes no mistakes makes nothing.
不犯錯誤者一事無成。
Better say nothing than nothing to the purpose.
話不中肯，不如不說。
Nothing succeeds like success.
一事如意，萬事順利。
Nothing stake, nothing draw.
不頂千里浪，哪來萬斤魚。
Nothing is as good as it seems beforehand.
期待比現實更美好。
Nothing is given so freely as advice.
勸人最容易。
Nothing is so certain as the unexpected.
天有不測風云，人有旦夕禍福。
Nothing seek, nothing find.
無所求則無所獲。
A little of every thing is nothing in the main.
每事淺嘗輒止，事事都告無成。
A great ship asks deep waters.
大船要走深水。（蛟龍要在海中游。）
The best physicians are Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet, and Dr. Merryman.
節食博士、精心博士、快樂博士，三人都是最好的醫生。
He that once deceives is ever suspected.
騙人一次，受疑一世。
Empty wagons rattle loudest.
空車響聲大。
Nothing so bad but might be a blessing.
塞翁失馬，焉知非福。
STUDY 學習篇
Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation . (Franklin Roosevelt , American president )
永恒的真理如果不在新的社會形勢下賦予新的意義,要么就不是真理,要么就不是永恒的。 (美國總統 羅斯福 . F.)
Histories make men wise ; poems witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep ; moral grave ; logic and rhetoric able to contend .
(Francis Bacon , British philosopher )
歷史使人明智；詩詞使人靈秀；數學使人周密；自然哲學使人深刻；倫理使人莊重；邏輯修辭學使人善辨。( 英國哲學家 培根. F.)
If you don't learn to think when you are young , you may never learn .(Thomas Edison , American inventor )
如果你年輕時就沒有學會思考，那么就永遠學不會思考。(美國發明家 愛迪生 . T.)
Natural abilities are like natural plants that need pruning by study.
(Francis Bacon , British philosopher )
天生的才干如同天生的植物一樣，需要靠學習來修剪。(英國哲學家 培根 . F.)
Don't gild the lily.
不要給百合花鍍金/畫蛇添足。 (英國劇作家 莎士比亞 . W .)
I can live for two months on a good compliment. (Mark Twain , American writer)
只憑一句贊美的話我就可以充實地活上兩個月。(美國作家 馬克·吐溫)
It is no use doing what you like ; you have got to like what you do .
(Winston Churchill , British prime minister)
不能愛哪行才干哪行，要干哪行愛哪行。 (美國首相 丘吉爾. W.)
My philosophy of life is work . (Thomas Alva Edison , American inventor)
我的人生哲學就是工作。 (美國發明家 愛迪生 . T . A .)
When work is a pleasure , life is joy ! When work is duty , life is slavery .(Maxim Gorky , Russian writer )
工作是一種樂趣時，生活是一種享受！工作是一種義務時，生活則是一種苦役。
(俄國作家 高爾基. M.)
Work banishes those three great evils : boredom , vice, and poverty.
(Voltaire , French philosopher )
工作攆跑三個魔鬼：無聊、墮落和貧窮。 (法國哲學家 伏爾基泰)
KNOWLEDGE 知識篇
Activity is the only road to knowledge .
(George Bernard Shaw , British dramatist)
行動是通往知識的唯一道路 。 (英國劇作家 肖伯納. G.)
A free man obtains knowledge from many sources 1 besides books .
(Thomas Jefferson , American president)
一個自由的人除了從書本上獲取知識外，還可以從許多別的來源獲得知識。(
美國總統 杰斐遜 . T.)
A great part to the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way .(Adams Franklin , American humorist )
我的大部分知識都是這樣獲得的：在尋找某個資料時意外的發現了另上的資料。
(美國幽默作家 富蘭克林. A.)
If a man empties his purse into his head , no man can take it away from him , an investment in knowledge always pays the best interest .
(Benjamin Franklin , American president )
傾已所有追求知識，沒有人能奪走它；向知識投資，收益最佳。(美國總統 富蘭克林. B.)
Imagination is more important than knowledge .(Albert Einstein , American scientist )
想象力比知識更為重要。 (美國科學家 愛因斯坦. A. )
Knowledge is power . (Francis Bacon , British philosopher )
知識就是力量。 (英國哲學家 培根. F.)
The empty vessels make the greatest sound . (William Shakespeare , British dramatist )
滿瓶不響，半瓶咣當。 (英國劇作家 莎士比亞. W.)
EDUCATION 教育篇
And gladly would learn , and gladly teach .( Chaucer , British poet)
勤于學習的人才能樂意施教。(英國詩人, 喬叟)
Better be unborn than untaught , for ignorance is the root of misfortune .(Plato , Ancient Greek philosopher)
與其不受教育,不如不生,因為無知是不幸的根源.(古希臘哲學家 柏拉圖)
Genius17 without education is like silver in the mine. (Benjamin Franklin , American president )
未受教育的天才，猶如礦中之銀。 (美國總統 富蘭克. B.)
The roots of education are bitter , but the fruit is sweet .(Aristotle , Ancient Greek philosopher )
教育的根是苦的，但其果實是甜的。( 古希臘哲學家 亞里士多德)
A great poem is a fountain forever overflowing with the waters of wisdom and delight .(P. B. Shelley , British poet )
偉大的詩篇即是永遠噴出智慧和歡欣之水的噴泉。(英國詩人 雪萊. P. B)
A novel is a mirror walking along a main road .( Stendhcl , French writer )
一部小說猶如一面在大街上走的鏡子。 (法國作家 司湯達)
Art is a lie that tells the truth .( Picasso , Spanish painter )
美術是揭示真理的謊言。 (西班牙畫家 畢加索)
Humor has been well defined as thinking in fun while feeling in earnest. (Mark Twain , American novelist )
幽默被人正確地解釋為“以誠摯表達感受，寓深思于嬉笑”。(美國小說家 馬克·吐溫)
The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation ; the two keep in their downward tendency.( Johan Wolfgang von Goethe , German poet )
文學的衰落表明一個民族的衰落。這兩者走下坡路的時間是齊頭并進的。(德國詩人 歌德 . J . W .)
When one loves one's art no service seems too hard .( O. Henry, American novelist )
一旦熱愛藝術，什么奉獻也不難。 (美國小說家 歐·亨利)
Experience is the best teacher.
經驗是最好的教師。
Experience is the father of wisdom and memory the mother.
經驗是知識之父，記憶是知識之母。
Dexterity comes by experience.
熟練來自經驗。
Practice makes perfect.
熟能生巧。
Experience keeps a dear school,but fools learn in no other.
經驗學校學費高，愚人旁處學不到。
Experience without learning is better than learning without experience.
有經驗而無學問，勝于有學問而無經驗。
Wit once bought is worth twice taught.
由經驗而得的智慧，勝于學習而得的智慧；一次親身的體會，勝過兩次的教師教導。
Seeing is believing.
百聞不如一見。
Business is the salt of life.
事業是生命之鹽。
Business before pleasure.
事業在先，享樂在后。
Business makes a man as well as tries him.
事業可以考驗人，也可以造就人。
Business neglected is business lost.
忽視職業便是放棄職業。
Never think yourself above business.
勿自視過高；不要眼高手低；永遠不要認為自己是大才小用。
Business may be troublesome,but idleness is pernicious.
事業雖擾人，懶惰害更大。
He that thinks his business below him will always be above his business.
自命大才小用，往往眼高手低。
Do business,but be not a slave to it.
要做事，但不要做事務的奴隸。
Everybody's business is nobody's business.
眾人的事就是無人過問的事。
Work makes the workman.
勤工出巧匠。
Better master one than engage with ten.
會十事，不如精一事。
A work ill done must be twice done.
首次做不好，必須重新搞。
They who cannot do as they would,must do as they can.
不能如愿而行，也須盡力而為。
If you would have a thing well done,do it yourself.
想把事情來做好，就得親自動手搞。
He that doth most at once doth least.
什么都想一次做完，結果一件也做不完；貪多嚼不爛。
Do as most men do and men will speak well of thee.
照大多數人那樣干，人們會把你稱贊。
What may be done at any time will be done at no time.
在任何時候都可做的事情，總是在任何時候都不
做的事情。
Better late than never.
遲做總比不做好。
Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.
凡是值得做的事，就值得做好。
The shortest answer is doing the thing.
最簡短的回答就是一個“干”字。
Action is the proper fruit of knowledge.
行動是知識之佳果。
Finished labours are pleasant.
完成工作是一樂。
It is lost labour to sow where there is no soil.
沒有土壤，播種也是徒勞。
It is right to put everything in its proper use.
凡事都應用得其所。
Affairs that are done by due degrees are soon ended.
按部就班，事情很快就做完。
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
只工作，不玩耍，聰明小孩也變傻。
Work bears witness who does well.
工作能證明誰做的好。
It is not work that kills,but worry.
工作不會傷身，傷身乃是憂慮。
He that will not work shall not eat.
不工作者不得食。
Business is business.
公事公辦。
Deliberate slowly,execute promptly.
慢慢酌量，快快行動。
Put your shoulder to the wheel.
努力工作。
Never do things by halves.
做事不要半途而廢。
In for a penny,in for a pound.
做事一開頭，就要做到底；一不做，二不休。
Many hands make quick work.
人多干活快。
Many hands make light work.
眾擎易舉。
A bad workman quarrels with his tools.
技術拙劣的工人抱怨自己的工具。
Diligence is the mohter of success.
勤奮是成功之母。
Idleness is the root of all evil.
懶惰乃萬惡之源。
Care and diligence bring luck.
謹慎和勤奮帶來好運。
Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
勤勉是好運之母。
Industry is fortune's right hand,and frugality her left.
勤勉是幸運的右手，世儉是幸運的左手。
Idleness is the key of beggary.
懶惰出乞丐。
No root,no fruit.
無根就無果。
Idle people (folks) have the most labour (take the most pains).
懶人做工作，越懶越費力。
Sloth is the key of poverty.
惰能致貧。
Sloth turneth the edge of wit.
懶散能磨去才智的鋒芒。
An idle brain is the devil's workshop.
懶漢的頭腦是魔鬼的工廠。
The secret of wealth lieth in the letters SAVE.
節儉是致富的秘訣。
An idle youth,a needy age.
少壯不努力，老大徒傷悲。
1. Waste not,want not.
儉以防匱。
2. From saving comes having.
富有來自節儉。
3. A penny saved is a penny gained.
省一文是一文。
4. Take care of the pence and the pound
will take care of themselves.
金錢積少便成多。
5. Frugality is an estate alone.
節儉本身就是一宗財產。
6. He that regards not a penny,will lavish a pound.
小錢不知節省，大錢將濫花。
7. Small gains bring great wealth.
積小利，成巨富。
8. Many a little makes a mickle.
積少便成多。
9. As the touchstone tries gold,so gold tries man.
試金之石可試金，正如黃金能試人。
10.Courage and resolution are the spirit
and soul of virtue.
勇敢和堅決是美德的靈魂。
11.The path to glory is always rugged.
光榮之路常坎坷。
12.Nothing is difficult to the man who will try.
世上無難事，只要人肯試。
13.The fire is the test of gold;adversity of strong man.
烈火試真金，困苦煉壯士。
14.Great hopes make great man.
遠大的希望造就偉大的人物。
15.No way is impossible to courage.
勇士面前無險路。
16.A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
平靜的大海決不能造就出熟練的水手。
17.The good seaman is known in bad weather.
壞天氣下才能識得出良好的海員；要識好海員，須憑
壞天氣。
18.The best hearts are always the bravest.
行為最勇敢的人心地總是最善良。
19.We must not lie down,and cry,God help us.
求神不如求己。
20.He that falls today may be up again tomorrow.
今天跌倒的人也許明天就會站起。
21.Rome was not built in a day.
羅馬并非一日可建成；堅持必成。
22.Success belongs to the persevering.
勝利屬于堅忍不拔的人。
23.We must repeat a thousand and one times that
perseverance is the only road to success.
我們要多次重申：不屈不撓是取得勝利的唯一道路。
24.Perseverance is failing nineteen times
and succeeding the twentieth.
十九次失敗，到第二十次獲得成功，這就叫堅持。
25.Step by step the ladder is ascended.
登梯需要逐級登。
26.Adversity leads to prosperity.
困苦通向昌盛。
27.Patience and application will carry us through.
忍耐和專心會使我們度過難關。
28.Fortune often rewards with interest those
that have patience to wait for her.
做事只要有耐心，到頭總會有好運；耐心候好運，好
運常會來。
29.All things will come round to him who will but wait.
只要肯等待，一切都會按時來。
30.Constant dropping wears the stone.
滴水不絕可穿石。
31.Omelets are not made without breaking of eggs.
雞蛋不打破，蛋卷做不成；不甘愿吃苦，則預期效果達不到。
32.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。
33.There needs a long apprenticeship to understand
the mystery of the world's trade.
要知世事奧秘多，須要長期作學徒。
34.Life is sweet.
生活是可愛的；人無不好生(惡死)。
35.Where there is life,there is hope.
生命不息，希望長在。
36.Life is not all beer and skittles.
人生并不全是吃喝玩樂。
37.Much water runs by the mill that
the miller knows not of.
眼前發生許多事，有些我們并不知。
38.Fortune knocks once at least at every man's door.
人人都有走運的一天。
39.If you are too fortunate,you will not know yourself;
if you are too unfortunate,nobody will know you.
運氣太好，見人不睬；運氣太壞，無人理會。
40.Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
每一個人都是自身幸福的建筑師。
41.Happy is he who knows his follies in his youth.
記得年輕時所作蠢事的人是幸福的。
42.Misfortunes never (seldom) come alone (single).
禍不單行。
43.Misfortune is a good teacher.
不幸是良好的教師。
44.Misfortunes come at night.
禍常生于不測。
45.Misfortunes tell us what fortune is.
惡運臨頭后，才知幸運貴。
46.Adversity makes a man wise,not rich.
患難能使人聰明，但不能使人富有。
47.Live and learn.
活到老，學到老。
48.It is never too old to learn.
為學不怕年高。
49.A man becomes learned by asking questions.
要長學問，就得多問；多問則業精。
50.There is no royal road to learning.
學問無坦途。
51.He who is ashamed of asking is ashamed of learning.
畏問之人恥于學。
52.What is learned in the cradle lasts till the grave.
嬰孩時期學到的東西，老死不會忘記。
53.Learning makes a good man better and ill man worse.
知識能使好人更好，壞人更壞。
54.Soon learnt,soon forgotten.
學得快，忘得快。
55.Learn young,learn fair.
為學趁年青，既學須學好。
56.A lazy youth,a lousy age.
少時懶惰老來苦。
57.He that knows nothing,doubts nothing.
無知即無疑。
58.A good name keeps its luster in the dark.
良好的名聲在黑暗中也能閃閃發光。
59.Fame is a magnifying glass.
名譽是放大鏡。
60.A good fame is better than a good face.
美名勝于美貌。
61.Fame like a river is narrowest at its
source and broadest afar off.
名譽如河流，發源處最狹，愈遠愈寬廣。
62.Take honour from me and my life is done.
沒有名譽，就沒有了生命。
63.Beware of him who regards not his reputation.
要謹防不重名譽的人。
64.It is better to die with honour than to live in infamy.
光榮的死勝于羞辱的生。
65.Adversity successfully overcome is the highest glory.
成功地克服困難是最大的光榮。
66.Reputation is often got without merit
and lost without fault.
無功得名是常事，無過失名也是常事。
67.Your father's honour is to you
but a second-hand honour.
對于你來說，父親的榮譽只是間接的榮譽。
68.Never trust another what you should do yourself.
自己該做的事，決不要委托給旁人做。
69.It is an equal failing to trust everybody,
and to trust nobody.
信任一切與不信任任何人，同樣是弱點。
70.Eat a peck of salt with a man before you trust him.
在你信任一個人之前，先要深入了解他。
71.If you trust before you try,
you may repent before you die.
不經考驗就依賴，不到瞑目便的悔。
72.Never trust to fine words.
切勿輕信漂亮話。
73.Trust not a great weight to a slender thread.
細線掛重物，終究不可靠。
74.Be just to all,but trust not all.
要對一切人都公正，但不要對一切人都信任。
75.Trust thyself only,and another shall not betray thee.
只要信任你自己，旁人才不出賣你。
76.Self-trust is the essence of heroism.
自信為英雄品質之本。
77.Confidence is a plant of slow growth.
信任是一種生長緩慢的植物。
78.Truth is the daughter of time.
真理是時間的女兒。
79.Truth hath a good face,but ill clothes.
真理面目善良；但衣衫襤褸。
80.Truth and roses have thorns about them.
真理和玫瑰，身旁都有刺。
81.Truth may be blamed,but shall never be shamed.
真理可能會被責難，但絕不會受羞辱。
82.Though malice may darken truth,it cannot put it out.
惡意可以糟塌真理；但無法消滅真理。
83.Truth will prevail.
真理必勝。
84.Truth's best ornament is nakedness.
不加掩飾乃是真理的最好裝飾。
85.Facts are stubborn things.
事實是最頑強的東西。
86.Sooner or later,the truth comes to light.
真相遲早會大白。
87.The truths we least like to hear are those
which it is most to our advantage to know.
我們最不愿意聽到的事實，往往是我們知道了會
大有好處的事實。
88.Falsehood like a nettle stings those
who meddle with it.
謊言似蕁麻，玩弄會刺手。
89.There is many a fair thing full false.
有許多說得好聽的東西充滿了謬誤。
90.Though a lie be well drest,it is ever overcome.
謊言裝扮雖不錯，到頭總會被揭露。
91.A lie begets a lie till they come to generations.
謊言生謊言，謊言世代傳。
92.A false tongue will hardly speak truth.
假舌不會吐真言。
93.False with one can be false with two.
對一個人虛假，也會對兩個人虛假。
94.He that will lie will steal.
會說謊的人也就會偷竊。
95.Gossiping and lying go together.
流言常和謊話并行。
96.Equivocation is first cousin to a lie.
含糊其詞是謊話的近親。
97.A great talker is a great liar.
最會夸夸其談的人也最會說謊。
98.The greatest liars talk most of themselves.
最愛自吹自擂的人是最大的說謊者。
99.Lying rides upon debt's back.
負債的人謊話多。
100. Lying is the first step to the gallows.
說謊是上斷頭臺的第一步。
A bold attempt is half success．
大膽的嘗試等于一半成功。
A contented mind is a perpetual feast．
知足常樂。
A contented mind is always rich．
知足常富。
A life without a friend is a life without a sun．
人生沒有朋友，猶如人生沒有太陽。
Action speak louder than words．
行動比語言更響亮。／行動勝于言詞。
Adversity is a good disciPline．
逆境成才。
Adversity leads to prosperity．
逆境是通向成功之路。
A good beginning is half the battle．
良好的開端等于成功的一半。
A good example is the best sermon．
身教重于言教。
A life without a purpose is a ship without s rudder．
人生無目的，猶如船失舵。
A little(small)leak will sink a great ship．
千丈之堤潰于蟻穴。
All are not friends that speak us fair．
說我們好話的未必都是朋友。
All is not gold that glitters．
閃光的未必皆是金子。
All roads lead tO Rome．
條條道路通羅馬。
All things are difficult before they are easy．
萬事開頭難。
All things are easy to industry；all things difficult to sloth．
勤勞諸事易，懶惰萬事難。
All things will come round to him who will but wait．
只要耐心等待，一切都會如期到來。An eye finds more truth than two ears．
百聞不如一見。
An idle youth，a needy age．
少壯不努力，老大徒傷悲。
An inch in a miss is as good as an ell．
為山九仞，功虧一潰。
A stitch in time saves nine．
亡羊補牢，貴在及時。
A true friend is known in the day of adversity．
苦難才能看出真正的朋友。
Birds of a feather flock together．
一丘之貉。Oil and water don't mix．
水火不相容。
Believe not all that you see nor half what you hear．
過耳之言，未可盡信。
Better early than late．
寧早勿遲。
Be slow choosing a friend；slower in chaning．
擇友宜慎，棄友更宜慎。
Better be the head of an ass than the tail of a horse．
寧為雞頭，不為鳳尾。
Out of sight，out of mind．
眼不見心不煩。
Bitter pills may have wholesome effects．
良藥苦口利于病。
Business is business．
公事公辦。
Business before pleasure．
先苦后甜／先辦正事。
By uniting we stand；by dividing we fall．
團結則昌，分裂則亡。
Care and diligence bring luck．
細心勤奮，幸福之本。
Character iS the first and last word in the success．
品德是成功的決定因素。
Complacency is the root of loss,and modesty is the cause of gain.
滿招損，謙受益。
Confidence in yourself is the first step on the road to success．
自信是向成功之路邁開的第一步。
Conquer the desires，or they will conquer you．
人不克制欲望，欲望就克制人。
Constant dropping wears away a stone．
只要功夫深，鐵杵磨成針。／水滴石穿。
Do as you would be done by．
己所不欲，勿施于人。
Difficulties strengthen the mind，as labour does the boby.
勞動鍛煉身體，困難鍛煉意志。
Don’t put off till tomorrowwhat should be done today．
今日事，今日畢。
Don’t put the cart before the horse．
不要本末倒置。
Early start makes easy stages．
早點著手，事易成功。
Easier said than done．
說起來容易做起來難。
Error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future．
前車之覆，后車之鑒。
Every man has his faults．
金無足赤，人無完人。
Every little make a nickle．
積少成多／積沙成塔。
Example is bette rthan precept．
言傳不如身教。
Failure iS the mother of sucess．
失敗是成功之母。
Few words，many deeds．
少說多干。
Friendship multiplies joys and divides griefs．
友誼可以增添歡樂，減輕悲傷。
Fortune never helps the man whose courage fails．
運氣永遠不會幫助沒有勇氣的人。
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety—nine percent perpiration．
天才是一分靈感加九十九分血汗。
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance．
成大事不是靠力量大小，而是靠堅忍不拔。 ，
He is the wise man who is the honest man．
老實人才是聰明人。He laughs best who laughs last．
誰笑到最后，誰笑得最好。
He who does not advance falls backward．
不進則退。
He who has an art，has everywhere a part．
人有一技在身，到處都可立足。
Hope is life and life is hope．
希望才有人生，人生要有希望。
In doing we learn．
邊干邊學／認識源于實踐。
It is a good horse that never stumbles．
人有失手，馬有失蹄。
Knowledge is power．
知識就是力量。
Knowledge makes humble；ignorance makes proud．
知識使人謙虛；無知使人驕傲。
Knowledge advances by steps not by leaps．
學習只能循序漸進，不能一蹴而就。
Look before you leap；see before you go．
三思而后行。
Lost wealth can be replaced by industry，lost knowledge by study，lost health by temperance or
medicine，but lost time is gone forever．
失去的財富可由勤奮而恢復，失去的知識可由學習而恢復，失去的健康可由節制或藥物而恢復，但失去的時間一去永不復返。
Man proposes，God disposes．
謀事在人，成事在天。
Great minds think alike．
英雄所見略同。
Money answers all things．
金錢萬能(反面引用)。
Money makes the mare go．
有錢能使鬼推磨。(反面引用)
Money is a bottomless sea，in which honour，conscience，and truth may be drowned．
金錢是無底的海洋，榮譽、良心和真理都可以淹沒在其中。
More haste，less speed．
欲速則不達。 Necessity is the mother of invention．
需要是發明之母。
Never do things by halves．
凡事不可半途而廢。
Neverjudge from appearance．
人不可貌相。
Never put off till tomorrow what may be done today．
今日事，今日畢。
No man is wise at all times．
智者千慮，必有一失。
No practice，no gains in one's wit．
實踐出真知。
Nothing is difficult to a man who wills．
世上無難事，只怕有心人。
One false step will make a great difference，
失之毫厘，謬以千里。
Pay somebody back in his own coin．
以其人之道，還治其人之身。
Patience and application will carry us through．
忍耐和勤勉會使我們渡過難關。
Repetition is the mother of konwledge．
反復學習是知識之源。
Seek the truth from facts．
實事求是。
Standers—by see more than gamesters．
當局者迷，旁觀者清。
Strike while the iron is hot．
趁熱打鐵。
Still waters have deep bottoms．
靜水流深。
Take time when time comes lest time steal away．
機不可失，時不再來。
Take things as they are．
隨遇而安。
The first wealth is health．
健康是最重要的財富。There iS mo royal road to learning．
學習是沒有捷徑的。
The course of true love never did run smooth．
真正的愛情總是要經受波折的。
The secret of success is constancy of purpose．
成功之秘訣在于目標堅定不移。
Think much，speak little，and write less．
勤思考，寡發言，少落筆。
To a crazy ship all winds are contrary．
對于一只漫無目標的船來說，不論什么方向的風都是逆風。
Too much humility is pride．
過分謙遜就是驕傲。
Well begun is half done．
良好的開端等于成功的一半。
The people who get on this world are the people who get up and look for circumstances they want，
and if they cannot find them，make them．
在這個世界上取得成功的人，是那些努力尋找他們想要的機會的人，如果找不到機會，
人們就自己創造機會。
The most tragic blow for one is the death of his mind．
哀莫大于心死。
He who does not have a strong will can never achieve high intelligence· ．
志不強者智不達。
When Heaven is about to place a great burden on a man，it always tests his resolution first，
exhausts his body and makes him suffer great hardships，frustrates his efforts to recover from mental
lassitude．Then Heaven toughens his nature and makes good his deficiencies．
天將降大任于斯人也，必先苦其心志，勞其筋骨，餓其體膚，空乏其身，行拂亂其所為，所
以動心忍性，曾益其所不能。
How can a sparrow know the will of a swan?
燕雀安知鴻鵠之志哉!
Among three people I meet on the way，there will be at least ont from whom I can learn something．
I may follow his goodness or correct my own mistakes by learning from him．
三人行必有我師焉。擇其善者而從之，其不善者而改之。
Education should be for all，irrespective of their social status，
有教無類。
Too many cooks spoil the broth．
廚師多壞一鍋湯。A friend in need is a friend in deed.
患難見真交。 I
We would rather be short of books than believe all that they say。
盡信書則不如無書。 I
Long as the way is I will keep on searching above and below.
路漫漫其修遠兮，吾將上下而求索。
When a book is read a hundred times，its meanings will naturally become clear.
讀書百遍，其義自見。
He owns a gifted pen，who reads tremendously.
讀書破萬卷，下筆如有神。
A gentleman would rather be quick in action than talk a lot.
君子欲訥于言而敏于行。
Do not do evil things though they may be insignincant．Do not given up good things though they
may be minor matters．
勿以惡小而為之，勿以善小而不為。
One must stand by one's words and must not stop one's action until success is achieved．
言必信，行必果。
Never do to others what you would not like them to do to you．
己所不欲，勿施于人。
To surpass others，a person has to surpass himself first；to criticise others，he has to criticise himself
first；to make comments upon others，he has to make comments on himself first.
欲勝人者，必先自勝；欲論人者，必先自論；欲知人者，必先自知。
Where there's smoke，there's fire．
無風不起浪。
Where there’s a will，there’s a way．
有志者事竟成。
No fish can survive if the watert is too clean. For the same reason,no company can bear one whose requirements are too critical．
水至清則無魚，人至察則無徒。
The worst bankrupt is the person who has lost his enthusiasm.
--H.W. Arnold
最慘的破產就是喪失自己的熱情。
--H.W. 阿諾德
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
--Issac Asimoy
如果勇敢的正視困難， 困難就會消失， 這一直是我的人生哲學。
--艾薩克·阿西莫艾
Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.
—— Aristotle
學問在成功時是裝飾品，在失意時是庇護所，在年老時是供應品。—— 亞里士多德
Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.
--Francis Bacon
旅行對青年人而言是一種教育；對老年人來說則是一種經歷。
--培根
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
—— F. Bacon
一些書可以淺嘗輒止；一些書可以狼吞虎咽；而有些書則需要細嚼慢咽，好好消化。
—— F.培根
The best proof of love is trust.
--Joyce Brothers
愛的最好的證明就是信任。
-- 喬伊斯·布拉澤斯
What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
--Confucius
己所不欲，勿施于人。
-- 孔子
You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
—— Joseph Conrad
你可以通過一個人的朋友，也可以通過一個人的敵人來判斷他的為人。
—— 約瑟夫·康拉德
The three foundations of learning: seeing much, suffering much, and studying much.
—— Catherall
求學的三個基本條件是：多觀察，多吃苦，多研究。
—— 加塞羅爾
The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control thoughts.
--Charles Darwin
道德修養有可能達到的最高境界是認識到我們應該控制自己的思想。
--達爾
Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls must dive below.
--John Dryden
錯誤就像浮在水面的稻草；要想尋找珍珠就得潛到他的下面。
--約翰·德萊頓
The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
最深的思想或感情就如同深睡的礦藏，在等待著同樣深沉的頭腦與心靈去發現和開采。
--愛默生
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
--Emerson
缺乏熱情是完成不了偉業的。
--愛默生
Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow.
--Emerson
進步乃今日之努力，明日之保證。
-- 愛默生
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free, if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
-- Edmund Burke
如果我們能支配我們的財富，我們就會變得富裕而自由；如財富
支配了我們，我們就會變得貧窮。
--E·伯克
Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.
--Henry Ford
做好準備是成功的首要秘訣。
--亨利·福特
Silence is not always a sign of wisdom, but babbling is ever a folly.
--Benjamin Franklin
沉默并不是智慧的標志，但嘮叨永遠是一項蠢行。
--本杰明·富蘭克林
Love your neighbor--but don't pull down your hedge.
--Benjamin Franklin
愛你的鄰居--但不要拆掉你的籬笆。
-- 本杰明·富蘭克林
Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful
to others.
--Erich Fromm
只有對自己有信心的人才會對別人守信用。
-- 埃立克·弗洛姆
Love is an active power in man, a power which breaks through the walls which separate man from his fellow men, which unites
him with others; love makes him ovrecome the sense of isolation and separateness, yet it permits to be himself, to retain his integrity. --Erich Fromn
愛是活躍于人心中的一種力量，它沖破人與人之間的隔閡，使我們緊緊相連；它使我們戰勝孤獨無助，卻仍使我們保持自我個性的獨立完整。 -- 埃立克·弗洛姆
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence.
--Robert Frost
教育就是要使人具備一種能力， 可以聽到任何話都不動怒或喪失自信。
--羅伯特·弗羅斯特
Every person has two educations, one which he receives
from others, and one, more important, whch he gives himself. --E Gibbon
每個人都接受兩種教育， 一種來自別人，另一種更重要的來自自己。 --吉朋
Gunius is formed in quiet, character in the stream of life. --Goethe
平靜中產生天才，生活激流中創造個性。 --歌德
Saying and doing are two different things. --John Heywood (1497-1550)
言與行實乃兩碼事也。 --約翰·海伍德
The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
—— Thomas Hardy
一個希望的突然失落會留下一處傷痕，即使那希望最終會實現，也決不能完全平復。
—— 托馬斯·哈代
All great truths are obvious truths. But no all obvcious truths are great truths. —— A. Huxley
偉大的真理都是明擺著的事實，但并不是所有顯而易見的事實都是偉大的真理。——A·赫胥黎
Never buy what you do not want because it is cheap; it will be dear to you. --Thomas Jefferson
不要買雖然便宜但你并不需要的東西；因為它對你而言是非常昂貴的。 --托馬斯·杰弗遜
Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation on how it shall be spent.
--Samuel Johnson
人生不長，切不可花費太多的時間去考慮應該怎樣度過這一輩子。--塞繆爾·約翰遜
If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone.
—— Samuel Johnson
如果一個人在一生中不結交新朋友，他很快就會發現自己很孤獨。
—— 塞繆爾·約翰遜
As selfishness and complaint cloud the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
—— Helen Keller
自私和抱怨使心靈陰暗，愉悅的愛則使視野明朗開闊。
—— 海倫·凱勒
Civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof.
--John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
禮貌不是軟弱的表現，真誠有待驗證。
--約翰·肯尼迪
A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.
-- Doug larson
真正的朋友從不追究你的過錯，也從不嫉妒你的成功。
-- 道格·拉森
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
--Abraham Lincoln
永遠記住：你自己的取得成功的決心比什么都重要。
--林肯
Towering genius disdains a beaten path. He seeks regions hitherto unexplored.
--Abraham Lincoln
卓越的天才不屑走旁人走過的路。他尋找迄今未開拓的地區。
--林肯
It's difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
—— H.W. Longfellow
知道愛情開始是困難的，但知道愛情已經開始則不那么困難。
—— H.W.朗費羅
What is the man's first duty? The answer is brief: to be himself.
-- Henrik Ibsen
一個人的首要職責是什么？答案很簡單：做自己。
-- 易卜生
There is no situation in life but has its advantages and pleasures provided we will but take it as a joke when we find it.
--Washington Irving
人世間的任何境遇都有其優點和樂趣，只要我們愿意接受現實。
--華盛頓·歐文
It is strange that all great men should have some little grain of madness mingled with whatever genius they possess.
-- Moliere
很奇怪，大凡為人在他們所擁有的天分中都混雜著一些瘋狂的成分。
-- 莫里哀
There is only one success--- to be able to spend your life in your own way.
--Morley
只有一種成功，那就是能夠用自己的方式度過自己的一生。
--莫利
We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.
—— Martin Luther King
我們必須接受有限的失望，但我們絕不可失去無限的希望。
—— 馬丁·路德·金
The miracle is this--the more we share, the more we have.
--Leonard Nimoy
這真是奇跡-我們分享的越多，我們擁有的也就越多。
--倫納德·尼莫哀
Talking much about oneself may be a way of hiding oneself.
--Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
過多地談論自己可能是隱藏自己的方式。
--尼采
In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.
--William Osler
在科學上，功勞歸于使全世界信服的人，而不歸于首先有這種想法的人。
--威廉·奧斯勒
Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.
—— Blaise Pascal
人的偉大之處在于他的思想的力量。
—— B· 帕斯卡
Bodily exercise, when compulsory, dose no harm to body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
--Plato
體育運動如果是出于強迫，不會有害于身體，但在強迫之下獲得的知識，不能保留在頭腦中。
--柏拉圖
To err is human, to forgive, divine.
-- Pope
人孰無過？心存寬恕，就是圣潔。
--蒲柏
Joys are our wings, sorrows are our spurs.
--Richter
歡樂是我們的雙翼， 悲痛是我們的動力。
--里克特
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
--Franklin Roosevelt
我們唯一不得不害怕的就是害怕本身。
-- 富蘭克林·羅斯福
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
--Bertrand Russell
美好的生活是一種由愛所激勵和由知識所指導的生活。
--羅素
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，寧靜的時間又不多； 我們不應該浪費寶貴的時間 去讀毫無價值的書。
—— 約翰·拉斯金
Deliberate before you begin, then execute with vigor.
--Sallust
三思而后行，然后就全力投入行動。
-- 索盧斯特
Truth needs no colour; beauty , no pencil.
—— William Shakespeare
真理不需色彩，美麗不需涂飾。
——W·莎士比亞
Laziness is like a lock, which bolts you out of the storehouse of information and makes you an intellectual starveling.
--Bernard Shaw
懶惰就象一把鎖，鎖住了知識的倉庫，使你的智力便得匱乏。
--蕭伯納
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
--John Steinbeck
主意就象野兔，你若有一對，學會怎樣馴養它們，你很快就會有一打。
--約翰·斯坦貝克
the fox changes his skin but not his habits.
--Suetonius
江山易改，本性難移。
--史維都尼亞斯
The greatest of faults is to be conscious of none.
-- Thomas Carlyle
最嚴重的錯誤莫過于不覺得自己有任何錯誤。
-- 托馬斯·卡萊爾
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，世界就會讓步。如果有時它戰勝你，你要不斷地勇敢再勇敢，它就會屈服。
-- W.M. 薩克雷
Loveliness, needs not the foreign aid of ornament, but is when unadorn'd, adorn'd the most.
—— James Thompson
可愛，并不需要外來的裝飾，天然的可愛遠比雕飾的更可愛。
—— J· 湯普森
In this world, there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
--Oscar Wilde
世界上只有兩種悲劇：一種是得不到自己想要的東西，另一種是得到了。
-- 王爾德
Whenever you have an aim you must sacrifice something of freedom to attain it.
-- William Somerset Maugham
不論什么時候，只要你有一個目標，就得犧牲一定的自由去實現它。
--W·S·毛姆
He sits no sure that sits too high.
高處不勝寒。
He that respects not is not respected.
欲受人敬，要先敬人。
So said, so done.
說到做到。言出必行。
Haste makes waste.
忙亂易錯。欲速則不達。
Better be envied than pitied.
寧被人妒，不受人憐。
Although the sun shine, leave not your cloak at home.
未雨綢繆。
So the world wags.
這就是人生。
One can not be in two places at once.
一心不可二用。
No weal without woe.
福兮禍所伏, 禍兮福所倚。
Little chips light great fires.
星星之火，可以燎原。
Like knows like.
惺惺相惜。
It is a poor mouse that has only one hole.
狡兔三窟。
Dreams are lies.
夢不足信。
Do not teach fish to swim.
不要班門弄斧。
A light heart live long.
心情開朗壽命長。不惱不愁，活到白頭。
An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
日吃蘋果一只，身體健康不求醫。
Poverty is stranger to industry.
勤勞之人不受窮。
Deliberate in counsel, prompt in action.
考慮要仔細,行動要迅速.
One sin opens the door for another. ---German
犯了一次罪惡就會犯另一次罪。
One man's meat is another man's poison.
蘿卜青菜，各有所愛。
We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.
井干方知水珍貴
Less is more.
簡單就是美
A blessing in disguise.
因禍得福
Love me, love my dog.
愛屋及烏
Every dog has his day.
凡人皆有得意日
Sharpening your axe will not delay your job of cutting wood.
磨刀不誤砍柴功。
Seeing is believing.
眼見為實
Well begun is half done.
好的開端是成功的一半
Time flies never to be recalled.
光陰一去不復返
When in Rome, do as Roman do.
入鄉隨俗
He laughs best who laughs last.
誰笑到最后誰笑得最美
Deal with a man as he deals with you.
以其人之道還治其人之身
Look before you leap.
三思而后行
Two heads are better than one.
三個臭皮匠頂一個諸葛亮。
A good beginning makes a good ending.
善始善終
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
患難中的朋友才是真正的朋友。
First come, first served.
先來先招待。
Where there is s will，there is a way.
有志者事竟成。
No pains，no gains.
不勞則無獲
Time and tide wait for no man.
時不待人
Strike while the iron is hot.
趁熱打鐵
It's never too late to mend.
亡羊補牢
There is no smoke without fire.
無風不起浪
Kill two birds with one stone.
一箭雙雕
East or west，home is best.
走東串西，還是家里好
Equal pay for equal work.
同工同酬
Put the cart before the horse.
本末倒置
Pride goes before a fall.
驕兵必敗
Reading makes a full man.
讀書使人完善
Knowledge is power.
知識就是力量
Failure is the mother of success.
失敗是成攻之母
Practice makes perfect.
熟能生巧
All roads lead to Roma.
條條大道通羅馬
Don′t judge a person by the clothes he wears.
不能以貌取人
Don′t count your chickens before they are hatched.
切莫過于樂觀
Learn to walk before you run.
循序漸進
It′s easy to be wise after the event.
事后諸葛亮
As you make your bed,so you must lie in it.
自食其果
All that glitters is not gold.
閃光的東西并非都是金子
Many hands make light work.
人多力量大
Nothing is too difficult if you put your heart into it.
世上無難事只要肯登攀
Time is money.
時間就是金錢。
Like father, like son.
有其父必有其子。
Many hands make light work.
人多力量大。
Grasp all, lose all.
樣樣都要，全都失掉。
Better master one than engage with ten.
會十事不如精一事。
Silly child is soon taught.
要想孩子好，教育要趁早。
More haste, less speed.
欲速則不達。
Easier said than done.
說起來容易，做起來難。
The first step is the hardest.
萬事開頭難。
Who knows most says least.
懂的最多的人，說的最少。
Time and tide wait for no man.
歲月不待人。
Don't put off till tomorrow what should be done today.
今日事今日畢。
Diligence is the mother of success.
失敗是成功之母。
It's never too late to learn.
活到老，學到老。
Walls have ears.
隔墻有耳
Wash your dirty linen at home.
家丑不可外揚
Waste not, want not.
儉則不匱
Weak things united become strong.
一根筷子易折斷，十根筷子硬如鐵
Wealth is best known by want.
人窮方知錢可貴
We can't judge a person by what he says but by what he does.
判斷一個人，不聽言語看行動
We only live once, but if we work it right, once is enough.
年華沒虛度，一生也足矣。
What is done by night appears by day.
若要人不知，除非已莫為
When a man is going down-hill, everyone will give him a push.
墻倒眾人推
When children stand quiet, they have done some harm.
孩子不吭聲，一定闖了禍
When one will not, two cannot quarrel.
一個巴掌拍不響
When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out at the window.
貧窮進門來，愛情越窗飛
When the cat is away, the mice will play.
貓兒不在，鼠兒成精
When wine sinks, words swim.
美酒一下肚，話匣關不住
Where there's life there's hope.
留得青山在，不怕沒柴燒
Will is power.
意志就是力量
Wise men are silent; fools talk.
智者沉默寡言，愚者滔滔不絕
Wise men change their minds; fools never do.
智者通權達變，愚者剛愎自用
Wise men love truth, whereas fools shun it.
智者熱愛真理，愚者回避真理
Words are but wind, but seeing is believing.
耳聽為虛，眼見為實
a big fish in a small pond
小地方的大人物
In her hometown, she was a big fish in a small pond，but after she moved to New York, she was just only one among many millions.
在她家鄉，她很了不起。可是搬到紐約后，她就不過是蕓蕓眾生之一了。
a stone's throw
一箭之遙
He lives only a stone's throw from here.
他住的地方離這兒只有一箭之遙。
all gone
希望等的"消逝"， 物品等的"丟失"。
My goodness! My bag is all gone.
天呀！我的包不見了。
Our hopes were all gone.
我們的希望成泡影了。
all for it
對別人的看法或意見"完全同意"，"完全贊成"
Go ahead with your plan. I'm all for it.
進行你的計劃吧， 我完全贊成。
all in all
常用的片語，表示"總的來說"，"總而言之"，
He has his faults, but all in all, he is a good guy.
as clear as mud
不清晰，混亂
Your explanation is as clear as mud.
你的解釋一點都不清晰。
as soft as down
柔軟如絨毛
I lay fast asleep on the couch, which was as soft as down, and did not wake until late in the morning.
我在軟如絨毛般的長沙發椅上睡著了，一直睡到早晨很晚才醒來。
at full blast
全速地；大規模地
When we visited the place, work on the construction site was at full blast and all the workers seemed to be working very hard.
當我們去參觀時，建筑工地的工作已經全面展開，而且所有的人都在忙碌著。
be above board
光明正大的
be crazy about
愛的發狂
I am really crazy about Michael Jackson's rock'n'roll.
我對麥克杰克遜的搖滾愛的發狂。
be for the birds
荒唐可笑的；毫無價值的
Their opinions on art are simply for the birds.
他們對藝術的見解真是荒唐可笑。
beat it
叫人"走開"的口語，和"Be off!差不多，不過比后者更流行。
He kept on bothering me, so I told him to beat it.
他不停地煩我，因此我叫他走開。
beat ones brains (out)
指做事困難，"傷透了腦筋"
I beat my brains (out) to get a job.
為了找尋工作，我傷透了腦筋。
beat sb to the draw
搶先某人行動
Mary wanted to buy that painting by Picasso, but another millionaire beat her to the draw.
瑪麗想買畢加索的那幅畫，不過另一個百萬富翁捷足先登了。
beat someone by miles
遠強于某人
When it comes to fishing, I beat him by miles.
講到釣魚，我比他棒得多。
beef
口語上常用來指"抱怨"或"發牢騷"；作動詞時后面跟about.
Tell me what's your beef?
你抱怨什么？
before you know it
口語為"很快"。
I come back before you know it.
我很快就會回來。
behave yourself
勸人要有禮貌和行為檢點，意思相同的口語還有"Watch you manner.""Watch your P's and Q's".和"Don't get fresh."
Please behave yourself before the guests.
在賓客之前你檢點一些。
behind bars
坐牢
The judge will put him behind bars for at least two years. 法官最低限度也會判他坐兩年牢。
behind the scenes（behind the curtain）
幕后
He is the man behind the scenes.
他是幕后人物。
between ourselves
秘密地說
Between ourselves, there are no secrets.
咱們私下說說，沒什么秘密。
beyond the seas
在國外，在海外
He had a good time when he was beyond the seas.
他在國外時曾過得很快活。
butt in
插手，介入
Pardon me for butting in on your conversation, but this is important.
請原諒我打斷了你們的談話，不過這件事非常重要。
by and large
大體上，總的看來
I cannot totally take your point，but by and large I think yours is reasonable.
我不能完全同意你的觀點，但大體上你的觀點是有道理的。
call the shots
做決斷
To be a leader, you should know how to call the shots.
作為領導，你應該知道怎么做決斷。
card up one's sleeve
錦囊妙計
Bill always has a card up one's sleeve, so whenever faced up with a puzzle, he could find a way.
比爾總有錦囊妙計，所以任何時候遇到難題，他總能找到方法解決。
clown around
胡鬧
That boy is seldom serious about anything. He's always clowning around.
這個男孩對任何事情都不認真，他總是胡鬧。
cook up
虛構
I have to cook up an excuse for being late for class.
我必須為上課遲到編個借口。
crocodile tears
鱷魚的眼淚，假慈悲
,Don't shed crocodile tears over his misfortune, I
know you hate him.
不要假惺惺的為他的厄運假慈悲了， 我知道你恨他。
cry over spilled milk
為打翻的牛奶流淚, 做無益的后悔
I know that you have lost your purse, but since it had happened, let it go, please don't cry over spilled milk.
我知道你丟了錢夾，不過既然這件事已經發生了，就讓它去，不要做無益的后悔。
down and out
窮困潦倒，孤苦無助
People should lend him a helpful hand；he's really down and out.
人們應該助他一臂之力，他已經窮困潦倒了。
eat like a bird
胃口小，吃的少
Lily is very slim bacause she eats like a bird.
百合十分苗條，因為她吃的少。
far and away
毋庸置疑
Tom is far and away the best lecturer in our department.
毋庸置疑，這是你們系最好的演講者。
fall behind
落后
Students who are falling behind their peers at middle school may not necessarily lag behind them at college.
在中學落后于同班同學的學生到了大學就不一定比其他同學差。
for good
永遠
smoke less everyday, then you might be able to quit smoking for good.
每天少吸煙一點， 你就可能會永遠戒掉煙。
from the bottom of one's heart
內心深處
Though he is being rude at times, he respects you from the bottom of his heart.
雖然他有時對你有些不禮貌，但在內心深處他還是尊敬你的。
get fired
炒魷魚
The anchorman of the BBC network's evening news got fired.
我聽說CBC電視網的晚間新聞主播被炒魷魚。
get it (all) together
不慌不忙；沉著冷靜
I hope he gets it all together soon. His life is a mess.
我希望他盡快地安定下來。他的生活一團糟。
get one's goat
使人發怒或厭惡
It really got Mr. Brown's goat when he had to wait two hours to get his plane tickets.
不得不等上兩個小時才拿到飛機票實在是讓布朗先生生氣。
get out of the bed on the wrong side
指平時脾氣好的人突然變得很暴躁，難以相處
What's the matter with you today? Have you got out of the bed on the wrong side.
你今天怎么啦？為什么亂發脾氣？
give an ear to
聽一聽
The owner of the factory gave an ear to the complaints
of the workers.
工廠老板傾聽了工人們的抱怨。
grasp at a straw
抓救命稻草
The criminal tried to grasp at a straw by feigning mental disorder.
罪犯裝瘋，企圖抓住一根救命稻草。
guts
勇氣。美國人習慣用的口語，英國人則多用courage。
hang in the balance
未見分曉
After the surgery, the patient became very sick and her life hung in the balance for nearly a week.
手術后，那個病人非常虛弱，將近一個星期他的生命在垂危中。
hang-up （情感上的）障礙, 大難題
Mary has a real hang-up about cats and doesn't like to be in the same room with them.
瑪麗對貓有一種擺脫不掉的厭煩，因此不愿意和貓在同一個房間。
high and dry 被拋棄的，處于痛苦之中的
George took all the money away and left his companions high and dry，with nothing to buy the tickets.
喬治帶走了所有的錢，把他的同事拋棄了，連買車票的錢也沒有。
high and low 到處
I looked high and low for my pen，but I couldn't find it anywhere.
我到處找我的鋼筆，但我怎么也找不到它。
hit upon 偶然想出
He crouched there for a long time before he hit upon a plan to defeat his antagonist.
他蹲在那里很長一段時間后，突然想出了一個挫敗他對手的計劃。
hit parade 流行歌曲排名
Tom was overjoyed when his new song was named on the hit parade
on the local radio station.
當湯姆得知他的新歌被列入當地電臺的流行歌曲榜時，他欣喜萬分。
in a bind 窘迫
when he asked me to marry him, I felt in a bind.
當他向我求婚時， 我感到很窘迫。
in the dog house 窘迫，陷入困境
The whole team was in the doghouse because they lost the game.
由于輸掉了比賽，整隊都陷入困境。
in luck 幸運
Mary dropped her glasses and they did not break, so she was in luck.
瑪麗的眼鏡掉在地上而沒有摔壞，所以她是幸運的。
ins and outs 錯綜復雜事物的因果
After careful investigation, he got to know the ins and outs of the accident.
經過仔細的調查，他終于弄清了事件的前因后果。
It's in God's hands 聽天由命
It's in God's hands and we have prepared for the worst.
聽天由命吧， 我們已經做最壞的準備了。
jump out of one's skin 欣喜若狂，大吃一驚
when i knew i just being hired,i jumped out of my skin.
當我被錄用時，我簡單欣喜若狂。
know one's beans 熟悉（精通）自己的業務
Though she is very clumsy at doing housework, she knows her beans in orking.
雖然她在做家務方面笨手笨腳的，在工作方面卻很精通。
Lay stress on / upon 著重，重視
In his speech Mr. Brown laid stress on the sagacity of cats.
布朗先生在他的講座里強調了貓的靈性。
let sleeping dogs lie 莫惹是非
Don't tell the teacher what you have done. Let
sleeping dogs lie.
不要告訴老師你做了什么。莫惹是非。
lose one's temper 發脾氣
he lost his temper when he broke the key in the lock.
他把鑰匙弄斷在鎖里了，就發起了脾氣。
make ends meet 使收支平衡
I have to take two part-time jobs at the same time to make ends meet.
為了收支平衡， 我不得不同時作兩份兼職。
make use of 使用，利用
He will make use of all the odds and ends.
他會利用所有這一切零碎東西。
make a case for 提出充分的理由
You need to make a case for your suggestions before you can get them pproved.
在你的建議得到批準之前，你必須提出充分的理由。
monkey business 胡鬧
he told the boys to quit their monkey business, or he would call a teacher.
他告訴那些男孩子不要再胡鬧，不然他就叫老師。
never say die 別灰心，別氣餒
Never say die. Try again and you'll probably succeed.
別灰心，再試一次，你會成功的。
on and off 間斷地
It rained on and off all day long。
今天斷斷續續地下著小雨。
on the up and up 坦率，誠實
How can we know whether a person is on the up and up by his appearance!
從一個人的外表我們怎么能知道他是坦率的呢！
out and about 戶外活動
Mr Smith recovers quickly，and he'll be out and about very soon.
史密斯先生復原得很好，很快他就能到戶外活動了。
out and out 完全地，徹底地
What I said is an out and out truth.
我說的全都是事實。
out of sorts 發脾氣的
Don't talk to him, he is out of sorts.
別跟他說話，他在發脾氣。
out of temper 發怒的，發脾氣
The children were frightened to find him out of temper.
孩子們一見他發脾氣，都嚇壞了。
over and over 多次地，重復地
The foreigner repeated what he said over and over，but I still couldn't understand him.
外國朋友一遍一遍地重復，但我仍然沒有聽懂他說什么。
play it by ear 隨機應變
Facing his enemy, he had to play it by ear.
面對敵人，他只有隨機應變了。
pull one's leg 愚弄
If you remain stuck-up, they will often try to pull your leg.
假如你還是目中無人的話，他們會常常想愚弄你的。
put away 把…收起來
Put away the heavy clothes. The weather is becoming much warmer.
把厚衣服收起來吧， 天氣越來越暖和了。
rack one's brain 絞盡腦汁，努力思索
Mr. Brown racked his brain trying to remember where he left the wallet.
布朗先生拼命思索，想記起他把錢包放在什么地方了。
rain cats and dogs 傾盆大雨
It's raining cats and dogs, so we can't go out to play right now.
外面正下著傾盆大雨，所以現在我們不能出去玩兒。
Rob Peter to pay Paul 借東還西；拆東墻補西墻
Trying to study a lesson for one class during another class is like
robbing Peter to pay Paul.
在一節課中讀另一節課的功課等于是拆東墻補西墻。
set the world on fire 做顯赫的事情
People do not count him as a hero for he has not set the world on fire.
人們并不把他看作民族英雄，因為他并未做出驚天動地的事情。
silly as a goose 像鵝一樣蠢
Since he is as silly as a goose, he will not get a promotion.
既然他如此的不開竅，他肯定得不到提升的。
slip of the tongue 說溜了嘴
The mayor really made a slip of the tongue!
市長可真是說溜了嘴了！
so long as 只要
Any man will be equal to the task, so long as he is careful.
任何人都會勝任這個工作，只要他細心。
stand one's ground 堅持己見；堅守陣地
John's friends said he was mistaken, but he stood his ground.
約翰的朋友都說他錯了，可是他仍然堅持己見。
sweep something under the carpet 掩蓋某事；無視某事
I would put it above the table instead of shoving my objection under the carpet.
我愿意把我的反對意見擺在桌面上來而不愿意把它壓在心里。
take a chance 冒險
We will take a chance on the weather and have the party outdoors.
我們將冒天氣的險在室外聚會。
through and through 完全地，充分地
You can trust him，for he's honest through and through.
你可以信任他，他是真正誠實的。
turn the cold shoulder on 冷淡
He will not turn the cold shoulder on me when I am in trouble.
他不會在我困難時疏遠我。
the apple of one's eye 某人的掌上明珠
Mary, as the youngest daughter, is the apple of her parents' eye.
作為家中最小的孩子，瑪麗是她父母的掌上明珠。
up and about 病愈
I'm much better now，I've been up and about for almost a week.
我現在感覺好多了，我已經病愈差不多一個星期了。
ups and downs 盛衰，浮沉
Life is hard．There are a lot of ups and downs in one's life.
生活是艱辛的，生活中充滿了大多的盛衰的浮沉。
waste one's breath 白費唇舌
it's no use talking to him, you'll only waste your breath.
和他談話沒有一點用處，你只是在白費唇舌。
You can't beat it. 這是第一流的，比不上的。
You can't beat me. 表示自己了不起。
When it comes to playing football, you can't beat Billy.
論踢足球，沒有人比得上比利。
The worst bankrupt is the person who has lost his enthusiasm.
--H.W. Arnold
最慘的破產就是喪失自己的熱情。
--H.W. 阿諾德
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
--Issac Asimoy
如果勇敢的正視困難， 困難就會消失， 這一直是我的人生哲學。
--艾薩克·阿西莫艾
Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.
--Francis Bacon
旅行對青年人而言是一種教育；對老年人來說則是一種經歷。
--培根
I would like live to study,and not study to live.
--Francis Bacon
我愿意為了學習而活著，不愿意為了活著而學習。
--培根
The best proof of love is trust.
--Joyce Brothers
愛的最好的證明就是信任。
-- 喬伊斯·布拉澤斯
What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
--Confucius
己所不欲，勿施于人。
-- 孔子
The safety of the people is the highest law. --Cicero
人民的利益高于一切。 --西塞羅
The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control thoughts.
--Charles Darwin
道德修養有可能達到的最高境界是認識到我們應該控制自己的思想。
--達爾
Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls must dive below.
--John Dryden
錯誤就像浮在水面的稻草；要想尋找珍珠就得潛到他的下面。
--約翰·德萊頓
The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
最深的思想或感情就如同深睡的礦藏，在等待著同樣深沉的頭腦與心靈去發現和開采。
--愛默生
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
--Emerson
缺乏熱情是完成不了偉業的。
--愛默生
Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow.
--Emerson
進步乃今日之努力，明日之保證。
-- 愛默生
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free, if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
-- Edmund Burke
如果我們能支配我們的財富，我們就會變得富裕而自由；如財富
支配了我們，我們就會變得貧窮。
--E·伯克
Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.
--Henry Ford
做好準備是成功的首要秘訣。
--亨利·福特
Silence is not always a sign of wisdom, but babbling is ever a folly.
--Benjamin Franklin
沉默并不是智慧的標志，但嘮叨永遠是一項蠢行。
--本杰明·富蘭克林
Love your neighbor--but don't pull down your hedge.
--Benjamin Franklin
愛你的鄰居--但不要拆掉你的籬笆。
-- 本杰明·富蘭克林
Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.
--Erich Fromm
只有對自己有信心的人才會對別人守信用。
-- 埃立克·弗洛姆
Love is an active power in man, a power which breaks through the walls which separate man from his fellow men, which unites
him with others; love makes him ovrecome the sense of isolation and separateness, yet it permits to be himself, to retain his integrity. --Erich Fromn
愛是活躍于人心中的一種力量，它沖破人與人之間的隔閡，使我們緊緊相連；它使我們戰勝孤獨無助，卻仍使我們保持自我個性的獨立完整。 -- 埃立克·弗洛姆
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence. --Robert Frost
教育就是要使人具備一種能力， 可以聽到任何話都不動怒或喪失自信。 --羅伯特·弗羅斯特
Every person has two educations, one which he receives from others, and one, more important, whch he gives himself.
--E Gibbon
每個人都接受兩種教育， 一種來自別人，另一種更重要的來自自己。
--吉朋
Gunius is formed in quiet, character in the stream of life.
--Goethe
平靜中產生天才，生活激流中創造個性。
To be a leader of men, one must turn one's back on men.
-- Havelock Ellis
如果想做人們的領導者，就必須以后背對他們。
-- 哈夫洛克·艾里斯
Saying and doing are two different things.
--John Heywood (1497-1550)
言與行實乃兩碼事也。
--約翰·海伍德
Everything passes-even regret.
-- James Huneker
一切都會成為過去-遺憾也是如此。
-- 詹姆斯·亨內克
Never buy what you do not want because it is cheap; it will be dear to you.
--Thomas Jefferson
不要買雖然便宜但你并不需要的東西；因為它對你而言是非常昂貴的。
--托馬斯·杰弗遜
Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation on how it shall be spent.
--Samuel Johnson
人生不長，切不可花費太多的時間去考慮應該怎樣度過這一輩子。
--塞繆爾·約翰遜
Conscience is an instinct to judge ourselves in the light of moral laws. It is not a mere faculty; it is an instinct.
--Immanuel Kant
良知是一種依靠道德準則來批判自己的本能。它不只是一種能力，還是一種本能。
--康德
Civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof.
--John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
禮貌不是軟弱的表現，真誠有待驗證。
--約翰·肯尼迪
A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.
-- Doug larson
真正的朋友從不追究你的過錯，也從不嫉妒你的成功。
-- 道格·拉森
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
--Abraham Lincoln
永遠記住：你自己的取得成功的決心比什么都重要。
--林肯
Towering genius disdains a beaten path. He seeks regions hitherto unexplored.
--Abraham Lincoln
卓越的天才不屑走旁人走過的路。他尋找迄今未開拓的地區。
--林肯
?b>ou can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.
-- Abraham Lincoln
你可以一時蒙騙所有人，也可以永遠蒙騙一些人，但不可能永遠蒙騙所有人。
--林肯
What is the man's first duty? The answer is brief: to be himself.
-- Henrik Ibsen
一個人的首要職責是什么？答案很簡單：做自己。
-- 易卜生
There is no situation in life but has its advantages and pleasures provided we will but take it as a joke when we find it.
--Washington Irving
人世間的任何境遇都有其優點和樂趣，只要我們愿意接受現實。
--華盛頓·歐文
It is strange that all great men should have some little grain of madness mingled with whatever genius they possess.
-- Moliere
很奇怪，大凡為人在他們所擁有的天分中都混雜著一些瘋狂的成分。
-- 莫里哀
There is only one success--- to be able to spend your life in your own way.
--Morley
只有一種成功，那就是能夠用自己的方式度過自己的一生。
--莫利
The miracle is this--the more we share, the more we have.
--Leonard Nimoy
這真是奇跡-我們分享的越多，我們擁有的也就越多。
--倫納德·尼莫哀
Talking much about oneself may be a way of hiding oneself.
--Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
過多地談論自己可能是隱藏自己的方式。
--尼采
In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.
--William Osler
在科學上，功勞歸于使全世界信服的人，而不歸于首先有這種想法的人。
--威廉·奧斯勒
All men have happiness as their object: There is no exception. However different the means they employ, they all aim at the same end.
--Blaise Pascal
所有的人都以快樂幸福作為他們的目的：沒有例外。不論他們所使用的方法是如何不同， 大家都在朝著這同一個目標前進。
-- 帕斯卡
Bodily exercise, when compulsory, dose no harm to body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
--Plato
體育運動如果是出于強迫，不會有害于身體，但在強迫之下獲得的知識，不能保留在頭腦中。
--柏拉圖
To err is human, to forgive, divine.
-- Pope
人孰無過？心存寬恕，就是圣潔。
--蒲柏
Joys are our wings, sorrows are our spurs.
--Richter
歡樂是我們的雙翼， 悲痛是我們的動力。
--里克特
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
--Franklin Roosevelt
我們唯一不得不害怕的就是害怕本身。
-- 富蘭克林·羅斯福
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
--Bertrand Russell
美好的生活是一種由愛所激勵和由知識所指導的生活。
--羅素
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge and the unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. --Bertrand Russell
三種情感，雖樸實卻無可抗拒的，主宰著我的生命：對愛的渴望，對知識的求索，以及對人類所遭受苦難的憐憫。
-- 羅素
Deliberate before you begin, then execute with vigor.
--Sallust
三思而后行，然后就全力投入行動。
-- 索盧斯特
The time of life is short, to spend that shortness basely, it would be too long.
--William Shakespeare
人生的時間很短促，如果把那短促的人生浪擲虛度，那就太長了。
--莎士比亞
The man who has never made a mistake wll never make anything else.
-- G.B. Shaw
從不作錯事的人其他事也作不成。
-- 蕭伯納
Laziness is like a lock, which bolts you out of the storehouse of information and makes you an intellectual starveling.
--Bernard Shaw
懶惰就象一把鎖，鎖住了知識的倉庫，使你的智力便得匱乏。
--蕭伯納
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
--John Steinbeck
主意就象野兔，你若有一對，學會怎樣馴養它們，你很快就會有一打。
--約翰·斯坦貝克
the fox changes his skin but not his habits.
--Suetonius
江山易改，本性難移。
--史維都尼亞斯
The greatest of faults is to be conscious of none.
-- Thomas Carlyle
最嚴重的錯誤莫過于不覺得自己有任何錯誤。
-- 托馬斯·卡萊爾
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，世界就會讓步。如果有時它戰勝你，你要不斷地勇敢再勇敢，它就會屈服。
-- W.M. 薩克雷
In this world, there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
--Oscar Wilde
世界上只有兩種悲劇：一種是得不到自己想要的東西，另一種是得到了。
-- 王爾德
Whenever you have an aim you must sacrifice something of freedom to attain it.
-- William Somerset Maugham
不論什么時候，只要你有一個目標，就得犧牲一定的自由去實現它。
--W·S·毛姆
Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. (Marie Curie)
生活中沒有什么可怕的東西，只有需要理解的東西。（居里夫人）
A man is not old as long as he is seeking something. A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams. (J. Barrymore)
只要一個人還有追求，他就沒有老。直到后悔取代了夢想，一個人才算老。（巴里摩爾）
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm. (C. M. Schwab)
只要有無限的熱情，一個人幾乎可以在任何事情上取得成功。（施瓦布）
One thing I know: The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve. (A. Schweizer)
有一點我是知道的：在你們之中，只有那些愿意尋求發現如何為別人服務的人，才是真正幸福的。（施韋策）
The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and the determination to attain it. (Goethe)
人生重要的在于確立一個偉大的目標，并有決心使其實現。（歌德）
To live is to function. That is all there is in living. (Holmes)
活著就要發揮作用，這就是生活的全部內容。（霍姆斯）
Man can only be free through mastery of himself. ( S. E. Morison)
只有通過掌握自己，才能使自己得到解放。（莫里森）
Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning. (J. H. Newman)
不要害怕你的生活將要結束，應該擔心你的生活永遠不曾真正開始。（紐曼）
Choose a life of action, not one of ostentation. ( C. Nepos)
要選擇行動的一生，而不是炫耀的一生。（內波斯）
When the fight begins within himself, a man's worth something. ( R. Browning)
當一個人內心開始斗爭時，他就有了價值。（布郎寧）
There is only one success --- to be able to spend your life in your own way. (C. Morley )
只有一種成功，那就是能夠用自己的方式度過自己的一生。（莫利）
We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.
( Martin Luther King, Jr.)
我們必須接受失望，因為它是有限的，但千萬不可失去希望，因為它是無窮的。（馬丁。路德。金）
We grow neither better nor worse as we grow old but more like ourselves. ( M. L. Becker )
隨著年齡的增長，我們并不變得更好也不變得更壞，而是變得更象我們自己。（貝克爾）
If a jewel falls into the mire, it remains as precious as before; and though dust should ascend to heaven, its former worthlessness will not be altered. ( AL Jaber )
寶石即使落在泥潭里，仍是一樣可貴；塵土縱然揚到天上，還是沒有價值。（賈比爾）
Better to light one candle than to curse the darkness. ( Strong)
與其詛咒黑暗，不如燃起蠟燭。（斯特郎）
A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
( J. Burroughs )
一個人可以失敗許多次，但是只要他沒有開始責怪別人，他還不是一個失敗者。（巴勒斯）
Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind. ( Carlyle )
工作是醫治人間一切病痛和疾苦的萬應良藥。（卡萊爾）
At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.
( B. Franklin)
二十歲時起支配作用的是意志，三十歲時是機智，四十歲時是判斷。（富蘭克林）
The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but what they miss. ( T. Carlyle )
生活的悲劇不在于人們受到多少苦，而在于人們錯過了什么。（卡萊爾）
To sensible men, every day is a day of reckoning. ( J. W. Gardner )
對聰明人來說，每一天的時間都是要精打細算的。（加德納）
Genius is formed in quiet, character in the stream of life. (Goethe )
天才形成于平靜中，性格來自于生活的激流。（歌德）
Wherever valour true is found, true modesty will there abound. ( W. S. Gilbert )
真正的勇敢，都包含謙虛。（吉爾伯特）
We can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by. (W. Roger )
我們不可能都成為英雄。總得有人在英雄走過的時候坐在路邊鼓掌。（羅杰）
Whom the gods destroy, they first make mad. (Euripides )
上帝要誰滅亡，必先讓他瘋狂。（歐里比德斯)
Life is a leaf of paper white, thereon each of us may write his word or two. ( A. Lowell )
生活是一張白紙，每個人都在上面寫上自己的一兩句話。（洛威爾）
On earth there is nothing great but man; in the man there is nothing great but mind. ( A. Hamilton )
地球上唯一偉大的是人，人身上唯一偉大的是心靈。（哈密爾頓）
Everything ought to be beautiful in a human being: face, and dress, and soul, and ideas. ( Chekhov )
人的一切——面貌、衣著、心靈和思想，都應該是美好的。（契訶夫）
Life is just a series of trying to make up your mind.( T. Fuller )
生活只是由一系列下決心的努力所構成的。（富勒）
Live as though you intend to live forever, and work as though your strength were limit less. ( S. Bernhardt )
要這樣生活，仿佛你壽命永恒；要這樣工作，仿佛你精力無窮。（波恩哈特）
Other man live to eat, while I eat to live. ( Socrates )
別人為食而生存，我為生存而食。（蘇格拉底）
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. ( S. Butler )
生活是一種藝術，要在不充足的前提下得出充足的結論。（巴特勒）
Life is not all beer and skittles. ( T. Hughes )
人生并非只是吃喝玩樂。（休斯）
For man is man and master of his fate. ( A. Tennyson )
人就是人，是自己命運的主人。（丁尼生）
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved. |( V. Hugo )
生活中最大的幸福是堅信有人愛我們。（雨果）
Have an aim in life, or your energies will all be wasted. ( R. Peters )
人生應該樹立目標，否則你的精力會白白浪費。（彼得斯）
None is of freedom or of life deserving unless he daily conquers it anew.( Erasmus )
只有每天再度戰勝生活并奪取自由的人，才配享受生活或自由。（伊拉斯漠）
What makes life dreary is the want of motive. (George Eliot )
沒有了目的，生活便郁悶無光。（艾略特）
Don't believe that winning is really everything. It's more important to stand for something. If you don't stand for something, what do you win? ( Lane Kirkland )
不要認為取勝就是一切，更重要的是要有信念。倘若你沒有信念，那勝利又有什么意義呢？（柯克蘭）
Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored. ( Lincoln )
卓越的天才不屑走旁人走過的路，他尋找迄今未開拓的地區。（林肯）
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.( Kierkergaard )
只有向后才能理解生活；但要生活好，則必須向前看。（克爾凱郭爾）
While there is one untrodden tractFor intellect or will.And men are free to think and act,Life is worth living. ( A. Austin )只要還有一塊知識和意志尚未征服的領域，只要人們能自由思考和行動，生活就是值得的。（奧斯汀）
Life is ten percent what you make it and ninety percent how you take it.( I. Berlin
)生活有百分之十在于你如何塑造它，有百分之九十在于你如何對待它。（柏林）
The great use of life is to spend it for something that overlasts it.( W. James )
生命的最大用處是將它用于能比生命更長久的事物上。（詹姆斯）
No man is useless in this world who lightens the burden of someone else. ( C. Dickens )
在這個世界上能為別人減輕負擔的人都是有用的。（狄更斯）
Life is measured by thought and action, not by time. ( J. Lubbock )
衡量生命的尺度是思想和行為，而不是時間。（盧伯克）
The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them. ( Montaigne )
生命的價值不在于能活多少天，而在于我們如何使用這些日子。（蒙田）
Ideas are like the stars --- we never reach them, but like mariners, we chart our course by them. ( C. Schurz )
理想就象是星星——我們永遠無法到達，但是我們象水手一樣，用它們指引航程。（舒爾茨）
I tell you hopeless grief is passionless. ( E. B. Browning )
我告訴你，沒有希望的悲傷是沒有感情的。（勃郎寧夫人）
He who has never hoped can never despair. ( Bernard Shaw )
從來沒有抱什么希望的人也永遠不會失望。（蕭伯納）
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value. ( A. Einstein )
不要為成功而努力，要為作一個有價值的人而努力。（愛因斯坦）
Our greatest glory consists not in never falling but in rising every time we fall. ( O. Goldsmith )
我們最值得自豪的不在于從不跌倒，而在于每次跌倒之后都爬起來。（哥德斯密斯）
It is not enough to be industrious, so are the ants. What are you industrious about?( H.D. Thoreau)光勤勞是不夠的，螞蟻也是勤勞的。要看你為什么而勤勞。（梭羅）
You have to believe in yourself. That's the secret of sucess. ( Charles Chaplin )
人必須相信自己，這是成功的秘訣。（卓別林）
A wise man never loses anything if he has himself. ( Nietzche )
聰明的人只要能掌握自己，便什么也不會失去。（尼采）
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. ( Russell )
有些東西你想要而沒有，這是幸福不可缺少的一部分。（羅素）
Something attempted, something done. ( Longfellow )
有所嘗試，就等于有所作為。（朗費羅）
Victory won't come to me unless I go to it. ( M. Moore )
勝利是不會向我們走來的，我必須自己走向勝利。（穆爾）
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for circumstances they want, and if they cannot find them, make them. ( Bernard Shaw )
在這個世界上取得成功的人，都努力去尋找他們想要的機會，如果找不到時，他們就自己創造機會。（蕭伯納）
A great man is always willing to be little. ( R. W. Emerson )
偉大的人物總是愿意當小人物的。（愛默生）
Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion. ( D. H. Lawrence )
死是偉大的激情的唯一的純潔、美麗的終結。（勞倫斯）
Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are summits of ranges. ( T. W. Higginson )偉人很少是突兀的山峰；它們是眾山中的最高峰。（希金森）
The crash of the whole solar and stellar systems could only kill you once.( T. Carlyle )
即使整個太陽系和星系崩潰，你也只死一次。（卡萊爾）
Many people's tombstones should read: " Died at 30, buried at 60." ( N. M. Butler )
許多人的墓碑上應該刻上：“三十而死，六旬而葬。”（巴特勒）
To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problem of content. ( G. Woodberry )
如果感覺到自己在生活中有了一個位置，滿足的問題就解決了一半。（伍德貝利）
We should so live and labor in our time that what came to us as seed may go to the next generation as blossom, and what came to us as blossom may go to them as fruit. This is what we mean by progress.( H. W. Beecher )
我們一生應該這樣地生活和勞動，使給予我們的種子能在下一代開花，使給予我們的花朵能在下一代結果，這就是我們所說的進步的意義。（比徹）
What's a man's first duty? The answer's brief: To be himself. ( Ibsen )
人的第一天職是什么？答案很簡單：不偽飾自己。（易卜生）
It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of great whole of life dawn on you. ( P. Brooks )
在你耐心地操勞于生活的瑣事的過程中，你才能領悟整個生活的偉大意義和形象。 （布魯克斯）
Dare and the world always yields. If it beats you sometimes, dare it again and again and it will succumb. ( W. M. Thackeray )
大膽挑戰，世界總會讓步。如果有時候你被它打敗了，不斷地挑戰，它總會屈服的。（薩克雷）
Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime, and a fool's excuse for failure. ( A. Bierce )
命運是暴君施虐的權威，傻瓜失敗的借口。（比爾斯）
Have no fear of perfection ---- you'll never reach it. ( S. Dali )
不要為十全十美擔心——你永遠作不到十全十美。（達里）
The sum of behaviour is to retain a man's own dignity, without intruding upon the liberty of others. ( F. Bacon )
人的行為準則是，維護自己的尊嚴，不妨礙他人的自由。（培根）
One may overcome a thousand men in battle, but he who conquers himself is the greatest victor.
( Nehru )一個人能在戰場上制勝千軍，但只有戰勝自己才是最偉大的勝利者。（尼赫魯）
The greater the man, the more restrained his anger. ( Ovid )
人越偉大，越能克制怒火。（奧維德）
It is easier to fight for principles than to live up to them. ( A. E. Stevenson )
為原則而斗爭容易，按原則的要求活著難。（史蒂文森）
There is nothing permanent except change. ( Heracleitus )
惟有變化才是永恒的。（赫拉克利特）
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
( T. Paine )
想要收獲自由之果的人，必須承受維護自由的勞苦。（潘恩）
No road of flowers lead to glory. ( La Fontaine )
沒有一條通向光榮的道路是鋪滿鮮花的。（拉封丹）
Do not, for one repulse, forgo the purpose that you resolved to effort. ( Shakespeare )
不要只因一次挫敗，就放棄你原來決心想達到的目的。（莎士比亞）
The man who has made up his mind to win will never say " Impossible".( Napoleon )
凡是決心取得勝利的人是從來不說“不可能”的。（拿破侖）
Miracles sometimes occur, but one has to work terribly for them. ( C. Weizmann )
奇跡有時候是會發生的，但是你得為之拼命蒂努力。（魏茨曼）
There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see. ( Muggeridge )
沒有黑暗這種東西，只有看不見而已。（馬格里奇）
It never will rain roses. When we want to have more roses we must plant trees. ( G. Eliot )
天上永遠不會掉下玫瑰來，如果想要更多的玫瑰，必須自己種植。（艾略特）
Time is a bird for ever on the wing. ( T. W. Robertson )
時間是一只永遠在飛翔的鳥。（羅伯遜）
If you do not learn to think when you are young, you may never learn. ( Edison )
如果你年輕時不學會思考，那就永遠不會。（愛迪生）
A day is a miniature of eternity. ( Emerson )
一天是永恒的縮影。（愛默生）
The course of true love never did run smooth. ( Shakespeare )
真誠的愛情之路永不會是平坦的。（莎士比亞）
Love is stronger than death.
愛的力量大于死亡。（《圣經》）
When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people. ( A. J. Heschel )少時喜歡聰明人，老來喜歡仁厚人。（赫歇爾）
All good things are cheap, all bad things are very dear. ( H. D. Thoreau )
一切好的東西都是便宜的，所有壞的東西都是非常貴的。（梭羅）
Patience! The windmill never strays in search of the wind. ( Andy J. Sklivis )
耐心等待！風車從不跑去找風。（斯克利維斯）
Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice. ( L. Blum )
品德可能僅僅在于有勇氣作出抉擇。（布魯斯）
Fame usually comes to those who are thinking something else. ( O. W. Holmes )
通常是沒想到成名的人反而成了名。（霍姆斯）
The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves. ( W. Penn)
妒忌者對別人是煩惱，對他們自己卻是折磨。（佩恩）
If there were less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world. ( O. Wilde )如果世界上少一些同情，世界上也就會少一些麻煩。（王爾德）
Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. ( E. Hubbard )
許多人的名聲如果在街上遇到自己的品德會互相不認識。（哈伯德）
Don't waste life in doubts and fears. ( Emerson )
不要把生命浪費于懷疑與恐懼中。（愛默生）
The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere. ( A. M. Lindbergh )
生活中最使人筋疲力盡的事是弄虛作假。（林德伯格）
It is discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
( N. Coward )
令人沮喪的是，有那么多人對誠實感到吃驚，而對欺騙感到吃驚的人卻那么的少。（科沃德）
I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about
with them. ( George Eliot )
我從不憐惜自負的人們，因為我覺得他們無處不能自我安慰。（艾略特）
Man can climb to the highest summit, but he cannot dwell there long. ( Bernard Shaw )
人可以爬到最高峰，但他不能在那兒久住。（蕭伯納）
The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins. (Kierkegaard)
暴君死了，他的統治就結束了；烈士死了，他的統治剛開始。（克爾凱郭爾）
Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important. ( T. S. Eliot )
世界上大部分的麻煩都是要想成為偉大人物的人搞出來的。（艾略特）
The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything --- or nothing.
( Lady Astor )
生活中的主要危險來自那些想要改變一切或什么也不想改變的人。（阿斯特子爵夫人）
Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step a time. ( Mark Twain )
習慣就是習慣，誰也不能將其扔出窗外，只能一步一步地引它下樓。（馬克吐溫）
Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions. ( C. K. Chesterton )
可以給偏執下一個粗略的定義：沒有觀點的人的憤怒。（切斯特頓）
Optimist: A man who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery. ( W. Winchell )
樂觀主義者：被獅子逼上了樹但仍能欣賞風景的人。（溫切爾）
You know what charm is : A way of getting the answer "yes" without having asked any clear question. ( A. Camus )
你知道什么是魅力：一種不用明白地提出問題而能得到肯定答復的辦法。（加謬）
The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood. ( J. Cocteau )
對于詩人來說，最大的悲劇莫過于由于誤解而受到欽佩。（科克托）
The essence of language is human activity. ( O. Jesperson )
語言的本質是人類活動。（耶斯佩森）
Animals are such agreeable friends ----they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
( George Eliot )
動物是極容易相處的，它們從不提問，也從不會批評。（艾略特）
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. ( W. Durant )
教育是一個逐步發現自己無知的過程。（杜蘭特）
In education we are striving not to teach youth to make a living, but to make a life.
( W. A. White )
教育不是為了教會青年人謀生，而是教會他們創造生活。（懷特）
I would rather see a young man blush than turn pale. ( M. P. Cato )
我寧可看到青年人臉紅，也不愿看到它臉色變得蒼白。（加圖）
It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument. ( W. G. McAdoo )
在爭論中是無法擊敗無知者的。（麥卡杜）
A long dispute means that both parties are wrong. ( Voltaire )
持久的爭論意味著雙方都是錯的。（伏爾泰）
People generally quarrel because they cannot argue. ( Chesterton )
通常人們是因為不會辯理才吵架的。（切斯特頓）
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. ( Bernard Shaw )
明白事理的人使自己適應世界；不明事理的人想使世界適應自己。（蕭伯鈉）
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism. ( C. G. Jung )
任何形式的癮都是不好的，不管上癮的是酒精、嗎啡還是唯心主義。（榮格）
As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever. ( C. Darrow )
只要世界還存在，就會有錯誤，如果沒有人反叛，這些錯誤將永遠存在下去。（達羅）
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. ( Voltaire )我不同意你說的話，但我愿意誓死捍衛你說話的權利。（伏爾泰）
The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving any excuse. ( J. Renard )
唯一真正自由的人是能夠拒絕宴會的邀請而不用提出理由的人。（勒納爾）
The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.( Mark Twain )
具有新想法的人在其想法被接受之前是怪人。（馬克吐溫）
1.Barking dogs seldom bite.
吠犬不咬人
2.Beggars‘ bags are bottom less.
乞丐永遠不知足
3.Better go to heaven in rags than to hell in embroidery.
寧可窮而有志，不可富而失節
4.Better late than never.
遲做總比不做好
5.Between two stools you fall to the ground.
腳踩兩條凳，早晚要墜地(意同：腳踏兩條船)
6.Birds of a feather of lock together.
物以類聚，人以群分
7.Blood is thicker than water.
血濃于水(意指：親人總比外人親）
1． Pain past is pleasure.
（過去的痛苦就是快樂。）[無論多么艱難一定要咬牙沖過去，將來回憶起來 一定甜蜜無比。]
2． Wisdom in the mind is better than money in the hand.
（腦中有知識，勝過手中有金錢。）[從小灌輸給孩子的堅定信念。]
3． Nothing is impossible for a willing heart.
（心之所愿，無所不成。）[堅持一個簡單的信念就一定會成功。]
4． All things are difficult before they are easy.
（凡事必先難后易。）[放棄投機取巧的幻想。]
5． Great hopes make great man.
（偉大的理想造就偉大的人。）
6． God helps those who help themselves.
（天助自助者。）
7． Four short words sum up what has lifted most successful individuals above the crowd: a little bit more.
（四個簡短的詞匯概括了成功的秘訣：多一點點！） [比別人多一點努力、多一點自律、多一點決心、多一點反省、多一點學習、多一點實踐、多一點瘋狂，多一點點就能創造奇跡！]
8． In doing we learn.
（實踐長才干。）
9． East or west, home is best.
（東好西好，還是家里最好。）
10． Two heads are better than one.
（三個臭皮匠，頂個諸葛亮。）
11． Good company on the road is the shortest cut.
（行路有良伴就是捷徑。）
12． Constant dropping wears the stone.
（滴水穿石。）
A bad beginning makes a bad ending.
不善始者不善終。
A bad thing never dies.
遺臭萬年。
A bad workman always blames his tools.
不會撐船怪河彎。
A bird in the hand is worth than two in the bush.
一鳥在手勝過雙鳥在林。
A boaster and a liar are cousins-german.
吹牛與說謊本是同宗。
A bully is always a coward.
色厲內荏。
A burden of one's choice is not felt.
愛挑的擔子不嫌重。
A candle lights others and consumes itself.
蠟燭照亮別人，卻毀滅了自己。
A cat has 9 lives.
貓有九條命。
A cat may look at a king.
人人平等。
A close mouth catches no flies.
病從口入。
A constant guest is never welcome.
常客令人厭。
Actions speak louder than words.
事實勝于雄辯。
Adversity leads to prosperity.
窮則思變。
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.
知音難覓。
A fall into a pit, a gain in your wit.
吃一塹，長一智。
A fox may grow gray, but never good.
江山易改，本性難移。
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
患難見真情。
A friend is easier lost than found.
得朋友難，失朋友易。
A friend is never known till a man has need.
需要之時方知友。
A friend without faults will never be found.
沒有十全十美的朋友。
'After you' is good manners.
“您先請”是禮貌。
A good beginning is half done.
良好的開端是成功的一半。
A good beginning makes a good ending.
善始者善終。
A good book is a good friend.
好書如摯友。
A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.
一本好書，相伴一生。
A good conscience is a soft pillow.
不做虧心事，不怕鬼叫門。
A good fame is better than a good face.
美名勝過美貌。
A good husband makes a good wife.
夫善則妻賢。
A good medicine tastes bitter.
良藥苦口。
A good wife health is a man's best wealth.
妻賢身體好是男人最大的財富。
A great talker is a great liar.
說大話者多謊言。
A hedge between keeps friendship green.
君子之交淡如水。
A joke never gains an enemy but loses a friend.
戲謔不能化敵為友，只能使人失去朋友。
A leopard cannot change its spots.
積習難改。
A liar is not believed when he speaks the truth.
說謊者即使講真話也沒人相信。
A light heart lives long.
靜以修身。
A little body often harbors a great soul.
濃縮的都是精品。
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
一知半解，自欺欺人。
A little pot is soon hot.
狗肚子盛不得四兩油。
All are brave when the enemy flies.
敵人逃竄時，人人都成了勇士。
All good things come to an end.
天下沒有不散的筵席。
All rivers run into sea.
海納百川。
All roads lead to Rome.
條條大路通羅馬。
All that ends well is well.
結果好，就一切都好。
All that glitters is not gold.
閃光的不一定都是金子。
All things are difficult before they are easy.
凡事總是由難而易。
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
只會用功不玩耍，聰明孩子也變傻。
A man becomes learned by asking questions.
不恥下問才能有學問。
A man can do no more than he can.
凡事都應量力而行。
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.
光說空話不做事，猶如花園光長刺。
A man without money is no man at all.
一分錢難倒英雄漢。
A merry heart goes all the way.
心曠神怡，事事順利。
A miss is as good as a mile.
失之毫厘，差之千里。
A mother's love never changes.
母愛永恒。
An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
一天一蘋果，不用請醫生。
A new broom sweeps clean.
新官上任三把火。
An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.
以眼還眼，以牙還牙。
An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening.
一日之計在于晨。
An old dog cannot learn new tricks.
老狗學不出新把戲。
An ounce of luck is better than a pound of wisdom.
聰明才智，不如運氣。
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
預防為主，治療為輔。
A rolling stone gathers no moss.
滾石不生苔，轉業不聚財。
As a man sows, so he shall reap.
種瓜得瓜，種豆得豆。
A single flower does not make a spring.
一花獨放不是春，百花齊放春滿園。
A snow year, a rich year.
瑞雪兆豐年。
A sound mind in a sound body.
健全的精神寓于健康的身體。
A still tongue makes a wise head.
寡言者智。
A stitch in time saves nine.
小洞不補，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，駟馬難追。
A year's plan starts with spring.
一年之計在于春。
A young idler, an old beggar.
少壯不努力，老大徒傷悲。
Bad news has wings.
好事不出門，壞事傳千里。
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.
聽宜敏捷，言宜緩行。
Better late than never.
不怕慢，單怕站。
Better to ask the way than go astray.
問路總比迷路好。
Between friends all is common.
朋友之間不分彼此。
Birds of a feather flock together.
物以類聚，人以群分。
Blood is thicker than water.
血濃于水。
Blood will have blood.
血債血償。
Books and friends should be few but good.
讀書如交友，應求少而精。
Business is business.
公事公辦。
Business is the salt of life.
事業是人生的第一需要。
By reading we enrich the mind, by conversation we polish it.
讀書使人充實，交談使人精明。
Cannot see the wood for the trees.
一葉障目，不見泰山。
Care and diligence bring luck.
謹慎和勤奮才能抓住機遇。
Caution is the parent of safety.
小心駛得萬年船。
Cheats never prosper.
騙人發不了財。
Children are what the mothers are.
耳濡目染，身教言傳。
Choose an author as you choose a friend.
擇書如擇友。
Come what may, heaven won't fall.
做你的吧，天塌不下來。
Complacency is the enemy of study.
學習的敵人是自己的滿足。
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，繩鋸木斷。
Content is better than riches.
知足者常樂。
Count one's chickens before they are hatched.
蛋未孵先數雛。
Courtesy on one side only lasts not long.
來而不往非禮也。
Creep before you walk.
循序漸進。
Cry for the moon.
海底撈月。
Custom is a second nature.
習慣是后天養成的。
Custom makes all things easy.
有個好習慣，事事皆不難。
Diamond cuts diamond.
強中自有強中手。
Do as the Romans do.
入鄉隨俗。
Do as you would be done by.
己所不欲，勿施于人。
Doing is better than saying.
與其掛在嘴上，不如落實在行動上。
Do it now.
機不可失，時不再來。
Do nothing by halves.
凡事不可半途而廢。
Don't claim to know what you don't know.
不要不懂裝懂。
Don't have too many irons in the fire.
不要攬事過多。
Don't make a mountain out of a molehill.
不要小題大做。
Don't put off till tomorrow what should be done today.
今日事，今日畢。
Don't put the cart before the horse.
不要本末倒置。
Don't trouble trouble until trouble troubles you.
不要自找麻煩。
Don't try to teach your grandmother to suck eggs.
不要班門弄斧。
Do well and have well.
善有善報。
Each bird love to hear himself sing.
孤芳自賞。
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
早睡早起身體好。
Easier said than done.
說得容易，做得難。
Easy come, easy go.
來也匆匆，去也匆匆。
Eat to live, but not live to eat.
人吃飯是為了活著，但活著不是為了吃飯。
Empty vessels make the greatest sound.
實磨無聲空磨響，滿瓶不動半瓶搖。
Envy has no holidays.
忌妒之人無寧日。
Even Homer sometimes nods.
智者千慮，必有一失。
Even reckoning makes long friends.
親兄弟，明算賬。
Every advantage has its disadvantage.
有利必有弊。
Everybody's business is nobody's business.
人人負責，等于沒人負責。
Every day is not Sunday.
好景不常在。
Every dog has his day.
誰都有得意的時候。
Every door may be shut, but death's door.
人生在世，唯死難逃。
Every heart has its own sorrow.
各人有各人的苦惱。
Every little helps a mickle.
聚沙成塔，集腋成裘。
Every man for himself, and the devil takes the hindmost.
人不為己，天誅地滅。
Every man has his faults.
金無足赤，人無完人。
Every man has his hobbyhorse.
蘿卜青菜，各有所愛。
Every man has his weak side.
人人都有弱點。
Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
自己的命運自己掌握。
Every minute counts.
分秒必爭。
Every mother's child is handsome.
孩子是自己的好。
Every potter praises hit pot.
王婆賣瓜，自賣自夸。
Everything is good when new, but friends when old.
東西是新的好，朋友是老的親。
Example is better then percept.
說一遍，不如做一遍。
Experience is the father of wisdom and memory the mother.
經驗是智慧之父，記憶是智慧之母。
Experience must be bought.
吃一塹，長一智。
Fact speak louder than words.
事實勝于雄辯。
Failure is the mother of success.
失敗是成功之母。
False friends are worse than bitter enemies.
明槍易躲，暗箭難防。
Far from eye, far from heart.
眼不見，心不煩。
Far water does not put out near fire.
遠水救不了近火。
Faults are thick where love is thin.
一朝情意淡，樣樣不順眼。
Fear always springs from ignorance.
恐懼源于無知。
Fields have eyes, and woods have ears.
隔墻有耳。
Fire and water have no mercy.
水火無情。
Fire is a good servant but a bad master.
火是一把雙刃劍。
First come, first served.
先來后到。
First impressions are half the battle.
初次見面，印象最深。
First think and then speak.
先想后說。
Fools grow without watering.
朽木不可雕。
Fool's haste is no speed.
欲速則不達。
Fools has fortune.
呆人有呆福。
Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much from fools.
愚者不學無術，智者不恥下問。
Forbidden fruit is sweet.
禁果格外香。
Fortune favors those who use their judgement.
機遇偏愛善斷之人。
Fortune knocks once at least at every man's gate.
風水輪流轉。
Four eyes see more than two.
集思廣益。
Friends agree best at distance.
朋友之間也會保持距離。
Friends are thieves of time.
朋友是時間的竊賊。
Friends must part.
再好的朋友也有分手的時候。
Genius is nothing but labor and diligence.
天才不過是勤奮而已。
Give a dog a bad name and hang him.
眾口鑠金，積毀銷骨。
God helps those who help themselves.
自助者天助。
Gold will not buy anything.
黃金并非萬能。
Good for good is natural, good for evil is manly.
以德報德是常理，以德報怨大丈夫。
Good health is over wealth.
健康是最大的財富。
Good medicine for health tastes bitter to the mouth.
良藥苦口利于病。
Good watch prevents misfortune.
謹慎消災。
Great barkers are no biters.
好狗不擋道。
Great hopes make great man.
偉大的抱負造就偉大的人物。
Great minds think alike.
英雄所見略同。
Great men have great faults.
英雄犯大錯誤。
Great men's sons seldom do well.
富不過三代。
Great trees are good for nothing but shade.
大樹底下好乘涼。
Great wits have short memories.
貴人多忘事。
Greedy folks have long arms.
心貪手長。
Guilty consciences make men cowards.
做賊心虛。
Habit cures habit.
心病還需心藥醫。
Handsome is he who does handsomely.
行為漂亮才算美。
Happiness takes no account of time.
歡樂不覺時光過。
Happy is he who owes nothing.
要想活得痛快，身上不能背債。
Happy is the man who learns from the misfortunes of others.
吸取他人教訓，自己才會走運。
Harm set, harm get.
害人害己。
Hasty love, soon cold.
一見鐘情難維久。
Health is better than wealth.
健康勝過財富。
Health is happiness.
健康就是幸福。
Hear all parties.
兼聽則明。
Heaven never helps the man who will not act.
自己不動，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.
背后說好話，才是真朋友。
He is a wise man who speaks little.
聰明不是掛在嘴上。
He is lifeless that is faultless.
只有死人才不犯錯誤。
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.
自嘲者不會讓人見笑。
He is wise that is honest.
誠實者最明智。
He knows most who speaks least.
大智若愚。
He laughs best who laughs last.
誰笑到最后，誰笑得最好。
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.
不勞動者不得食。
He who does not advance loses ground.
逆水行舟，不進則退。
He who makes constant complaint gets little compassion.
經常訴苦，沒人同情。
He who makes no mistakes makes nothing.
想不犯錯誤，就一事無成。
He who risks nothing gains nothing.
收獲與風險并存。
History repeats itself.
歷史往往重演。
Honesty is the best policy.
做人誠信為本。
Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.
抱最好的愿望，做最壞的打算。
I cannot be your friend and your flatterer too.
朋友不能阿諛奉承。
If a man deceives me once, shame on him, if he deceives me twice, shame on me.
上當一回頭，再多就可恥。
If you make yourself an ass, don't complain if people ride you.
人善被人欺，馬善被人騎。
If your ears glow, someone is talking of you.
耳朵發燒，有人念叨。
If you run after two hares, you will catch neither.
腳踏兩條船，必定落空。
If you sell the cow, you sell her milk too.
殺雞取卵。
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.
勤奮是成功之母。
It is better to die when life is a disgrace.
寧為玉碎，不為瓦全。
It is easier to get money than to keep it.
掙錢容易攢錢難。
It is easy to be wise after the event.
事后諸葛亮好當。
It is easy to open a shop but hard to keep it always open.
創業容易守業難。
It is hard to please all.
眾口難調。
It is never too old to learn.
活到老，學到老。
It is no use crying over spilt milk.
覆水難收。
It is the first step that costs troublesome.
萬事開頭難。
It is the unforeseen that always happens.
天有不測風云，人有旦夕禍福。
It is too late to grieve when the chance is past.
坐失良機，后悔已遲。
It never rains but it pours.
不鳴則已，一鳴驚人。
It takes three generations to make a gentleman.
十年樹木，百年樹人。
Jack of all trades and master of none.
門門精通，樣樣稀松。
Judge not from appearances.
人不可貌相，海不可斗量。
Justice has long arms.
天網恢恢，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.
一箭雙雕。
Kings go mad, and the people suffer for it.
君王發狂，百姓遭殃。
Kings have long arms.
普天之下，莫非王土。
Knowledge is power.
知識就是力量。
Knowledge makes humble, ignorance makes proud.
博學使人謙遜，無知使人驕傲。
Learn and live.
活著，為了學習。
Learning makes a good man better and ill man worse.
好人越學越好，壞人越學越壞。
Learn not and know not.
不學無術。
Learn to walk before you run.
先學走，再學跑。
Let bygones be bygones.
過去的就讓它過去吧。
Let sleeping dogs lie.
別惹麻煩。
Let the cat out of the bag.
泄漏天機。
Lies can never changes fact.
謊言終究是謊言。
Lies have short legs.
謊言站不長。
Life is but a span.
人生苦短。
Life is half spent before we know what it is.
人過半生，方知天命。
Life is not all roses.
人生并不是康莊大道。
Life without a friend is death.
沒有朋友，雖生猶死。
Like a rat in a hole.
甕中之鱉。
Like author, like book.
文如其人。
Like father, like son.
有其父必有其子。
Like for like.
一報還一報。
Like knows like.
惺惺相惜。
Like mother, like daughter.
有其母必有其女。
Like teacher, like pupil.
什么樣的老師教什么樣的學生。
Like tree, like fruit.
羊毛出在羊身上。
Little things amuse little minds.
小人無大志。
Look before you leap.
摸清情況再行動。
Lookers-on see more than players.
當局者迷，旁觀者清。
Losers are always in the wrong.
勝者為王，敗者為寇。
Lost time is never found again.
歲月既往，一去不回。
Love at first sight.
一見鐘情。
Love cannot be compelled.
愛情不能強求。
Love is blind.
愛情是盲目的。
Love is full of trouble.
愛情充滿煩惱。
Love is never without jealousy.
沒有妒忌就沒有愛情。
Love me, love my dog.
愛屋及烏。
Make hay while the sun shines.
良機勿失。
Make your enemy your friend.
化敵為友。
Man is the soul of the universe.
人是萬物之靈。
Man proposes, God disposes.
謀事在人，成事在天。
Many hands make light work.
眾人拾柴火焰高。
Many heads are better than one.
三個臭皮匠，賽過諸葛亮。
Many things grow in the garden that were never sown there.
有心栽花花不發，無心插柳柳成蔭。
Measure for measure.
針鋒相對。
Misfortunes never come alone.
禍不單行。
Misfortune tests the sincerity of friends.
患難見真情。
Money isn't everything.
錢不是萬能的。
Murder will out.
紙包不住火。
My son is my son till he has got him a wife, but my daughter is my daughter all the days of her life.
兒子婚前是兒子，女兒終生是女兒。
Nature is the true law.
天行有常，不為堯存，不為桀亡。
Necessity is the mother of invention.
需要是發明的動力。
Never fish in trouble water.
不要混水摸魚。
Never judge from appearances.
不可以貌取人。
Never say die.
永不言敗。
Never too old to learn, never too late to turn.
亡羊補牢，為時未晚。
New wine in old bottles.
舊瓶裝新酒。
No cross, no crown.
不經歷風雨，怎么見彩虹。
No garden without its weeds.
沒有不長草的園子。
No living man all things can.
世上沒有萬事通。
No man can do two things at once.
一心不可二用。
No man is born wise or learned.
沒有生而知之者。
No man is content.
人心不足蛇吞象。
No man is wise at all times.
聰明一世，糊涂一時。
None are so blind as those who won't see.
視而不見。
None are so deaf as those who won't hear.
充耳不聞。
No news is good news.
沒有消息就是好消息。
No one can call back yesterday.
昨日不會重現。
No pains, no gains.
沒有付出就沒有收獲。
No pleasure without pain.
沒有苦就沒有樂。
No rose without a thorn.
沒有不帶刺的玫瑰。
No sweet without sweat.
先苦后甜。
No smoke without fire.
無風不起浪。
Nothing brave, nothing have.
不入虎穴，焉得虎子。
Nothing dries sooner than a tear.
眼淚干得最快。
Nothing in the world is difficult for one who sets his mind to it.
世上無難事，只怕有心人。
Nothing is difficult to the man who will try.
世上無難事，只要肯登攀。
Nothing seek, nothing find.
沒有追求就沒有收獲。
Nothing is so necessary for travelers as languages.
外出旅行，語言最要緊。
Nothing is to be got without pains but poverty.
世上唯有貧窮可以不勞而獲。
Not to advance is to go back.
不進則退。
Not to know what happened before one was born is always to be a child.
不懂世故，幼稚可笑。
No way is impossible to courage.
勇者無懼。
Obedience is the first duty of a soldier.
軍人以服從命令為天職。
Observation is the best teacher.
觀察是最好的老師。
Offense is the best defense.
進攻是最好的防御。
Old friends and old wines are best.
陳酒味醇，老友情深。
Old sin makes new shame.
一失足成千古恨。
Once a man and twice a child.
一次老，兩次小。
Once a thief, always a thief.
偷盜一次，做賊一世。
Once bitten, twice shy.
一朝被蛇咬，十年怕井繩。
One boy is a boy, two boys half a boy, three boys no boy.
一個和尚挑水喝，兩個和尚抬水喝，三個和尚沒水喝。
One cannot put back the clock.
時鐘不能倒轉。
One eyewitness is better than ten hearsays.
百聞不如一見。
One false move may lose the game.
一著不慎，滿盤皆輸。
One good turn deserves another.
行善積德。
One hour today is worth two tomorrow.
爭分奪秒效率高。
One man's fault is other man's lesson.
前車之鑒。
One never loses anything by politeness.
講禮貌不吃虧。
One swallow does not make a summer.
一燕不成夏。
One's words reflect one's thinking.
言為心聲。
Out of debt, out of danger.
無債一身輕。
Out of office, out of danger.
無官一身輕。
Out of sight, out of mind.
眼不見，心為靜。
Patience is the best remedy.
忍耐是良藥。
Penny wise, pound foolish.
貪小便宜吃大虧。
Plain dealing is praised more than practiced.
正大光明者，說到的多，做到的少。
Please the eye and plague the heart.
貪圖一時快活，必然留下隱禍。
Pleasure comes through toil.
苦盡甘來。
Pour water into a sieve.
竹籃子打水一場空。
Practice makes perfect.
熟能生巧。
Praise is not pudding.
恭維話不能當飯吃。
Praise makes good men better, and bad men worse.
好人越夸越好，壞人越夸越糟。
Prefer loss to unjust gain.
寧可吃虧，不貪便宜。
Prevention is better than cure.
預防勝于治療。
Pride goes before, and shame comes after.
驕傲使人落后。
Promise is debt.
一諾千金。
Proverbs are the daughters of daily experience.
諺語是日常經驗的結晶。
Pull the chestnut out of fire.
火中取栗。
Put the cart before the horse.
本末倒置。
Put your shoulder to the wheel.
鼎力相助。
Reading enriches the mind.
開卷有益。
Reading is to the mind while exercise to the body.
讀書健腦，運動強身。
Respect yourself, or no one else will respect you.
要人尊敬，必須自重。
Rome is not built in a day.
冰凍三尺，非一日之寒。
Saying is one thing and doing another.
言行不一。
Seeing is believing.
眼見為實。
Seek the truth from facts.
實事求是。
Send a wise man on an errand, and say nothing to him.
智者當差，不用交代。
Set a thief to catch a thief.
以賊捉賊。
Short accounts make long friends.
好朋友勤算賬。
Something is better than nothing.
聊勝于無。
Soon learn, soon forgotten.
學得快，忘得快。
Soon ripe, soon rotten.
熟得快，爛得快。
Speech is silver, silence is gold.
能言是銀，沉默是金。
Still water run deep.
靜水常深。
Strike the iron while it is hot.
趁熱打鐵。
Success belongs to the persevering.
堅持就是勝利。
Take things as they come.
既來之，則安之。
Talking mends no holes.
空談無補。
Talk of the devil and he will appear.
說曹操，曹操就到。
Tall trees catch much wind.
樹大招風。
Teach others by your example.
躬親示范。
The best hearts are always the bravest.
無私者無畏。
The best man stumbles.
偉人也有犯錯時。
The cat shuts its eyes when stealing.
掩耳盜鈴。
The danger past and God forgotten.
過河拆橋。
The darkest hour is nearest the dawn.
黎明前的黑暗。
The darkest place is under the candlestick.
燭臺底下最暗。
The devil knows many things because he is old.
老馬識途。
The devil sometimes speaks the truth.
魔鬼有時也會說真話。
The die is cast.
木已成舟。
The early bird catches the worm.
早起的鳥兒有蟲吃。
The end justifies the means.
只要目的正當，可以不擇手段。
The end makes all equal.
死亡面前，人人平等。
The eye is bigger than the belly.
貪多嚼不爛。
The farthest way about is the nearest way home.
抄近路反而繞遠路。
The finest diamond must be cut.
玉不琢，不成器。
The fire is the test of gold, adversity of strong man.
烈火驗真金，艱難磨意志。
The first step is the only difficulty.
邁出第一步是最艱難的。
The fox knew too much, that's how he lost his tail.
機關算盡太聰明，反誤了卿卿性命。
The fox preys farthest from home.
兔子不吃窩邊草。
The frog in the well knows nothing of the great ocean.
坐井觀天。
The grass is greener on the other side.
這山望著那山高。
The greatest talkers are always least doers.
語言的巨人總是行動的矮子。
The higher up, the greater the fall.
爬得高，摔得慘。
The leopard cannot change its spots.
本性難移。
The more noble, the more humble.
人越高尚，越謙虛。
The more wit, the less courage.
初生牛犢不怕虎。
The outsider sees the most of the game.
旁觀者清。
The pen is mightier than the sword.
筆能殺人。
The pot calls the kettle black.
五十步笑百步。
There are spots in the sun.
太陽也有黑點。
There are two sides to every question.
問題皆有兩面。
There is a skeleton in the cupboard.
家家有本難念的經。
There is kindness to be found everywhere.
人間處處有溫情。
There is no general rule without some exception.
任何法規均有例外。
There is no medicine against death.
沒有長生不老藥。
There is no place like home.
金窩銀窩不如咱的狗窩。
There is no royal road to learning.
書山有路勤為徑，學海無涯苦作舟。
The style is the man.
字如其人。
The tongue is not steel, yet it cuts.
人言可畏。
The water that bears the boat is the same that swallows it up.
水能載舟，亦能覆舟。
The wise man knows he knows nothing, the fool thinks he knows all.
清者自清，濁者自濁。
The wolf has a winning game when the shepherds quarrel.
螳螂捕蟬，黃雀在后。
The world is a ladder for some to go up and others to go down.
世界如階梯，有人上有人下。
The world is but a little place, after all.
海內存知己，天涯若比鄰。
Think twice before you do.
三思而后行。
Things at the worst will mend.
否極泰來。
Time and tide wait for no man.
時不我待。
Time cures all things.
時間是醫治一切創傷的良藥。
Time flies.
光陰似箭。
Time is money.
時間就是金錢。
Time lost cannot be won again.
時光流逝，不可復得。
Time past cannot be called back again.
時間不能倒流。
Time tries all.
路遙知馬力，日久見人心。
Tit for tat is fair play.
人不犯我，我不犯人；人若犯我，我必犯人。
To err is human.
人非圣賢，孰能無過。
To know everything is to know nothing.
什么都知道，一如什么都不知道。
To know oneself is true progress.
人貴有自知之明。
Tomorrow never comes.
我生待明日，萬事成蹉跎。
Too much familiarity breeds contempt.
過分熟悉會使人互不服氣。
Too much knowledge makes the head bald.
學問太多催人老。
Too much liberty spills all.
自由放任，一事無成。
Too much praise is a burden.
過多夸獎，反成負擔。
To save time is to lengthen life.
節約時間就是延長生命。
Touch pitch, and you will be defiled.
常在河邊走，哪有不濕鞋。
Troubles never come singly.
福無雙至，禍不單行。
Truth never grows old.
真理永存。
Turn over a new leaf.
洗心革面，改過自新。
Two dogs strive for a bone, and a third runs away with it.
鷸蚌相爭，漁翁得利。
Two heads are better than one.
一個好漢三個幫。
Two of a trade seldom agree.
同行是冤家。
Two wrongs do not make a right.
別人錯了，不等于你對了。
Unity is strength.
團結就是力量。
Unpleasant advice is a good medicine.
忠言逆耳利于行。
Until all is over one's ambition never dies.
不到黃河心不死。
Venture a small fish to catch a great one.
吃小虧占大便宜。
Virtue is fairer far than beauty.
美德遠遠勝過美貌。
Walls have ears.
小心隔墻有耳。
Wash your dirty linen at home.
家丑不可外揚。
Water dropping day by day wears the hardest rock away.
滴水穿石。
Wealth is nothing without health.
失去健康，錢再多也沒用。
We know not what is good until we have lost it.
好東西，失去了才明白。
Well begun is half done.
好的開始，是成功的一半。
We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.
井干方知水可貴。
We shall never have friends if we expect to find them without fault.
欲求完美無缺的朋友必然成為孤家寡人。
We should never remember the benefits we have offered nor forget the favor received.
自己的好事別去提，別人的恩惠要銘記。
Wet behind the ears.
乳臭未干。
Whatever you do, do with all your might.
不管做什么，都要一心一意。
What is learned in the cradle is carried to the grave.
兒時所學，終生難忘。
What's done cannot be undone.
生米煮成熟飯了。
What's lost is lost.
失者不可復得。
What we do willingly is easy.
愿者不難。
When in Rome, do as the Romans do.
入國問禁，入鄉隨俗。
When everybody's somebody then nobody's anybody.
人人都偉大，世間沒豪杰。
When sorrow is asleep, wake it not.
傷心舊事別重提。
When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.
新仇舊恨，齊上心頭。
When the fox preaches, take care of your geese.
黃鼠狼給雞拜年，沒安好心。
You can take a horse to the water but you cannot make him drink.
強扭的瓜不甜。
You may know by a handful the whole sack.
由一斑可知全貌。
You never know what you can till you try.
是驢子是馬，拉出來遛遛。
A blind man will not thank you for a looking-glass. 秋波送盲，白費癡情。
A book is the same today as it always was and it will never change. 一本好書今天如此，將來也如此，永不改變。
A book that remains shut is but a block. 有書閉卷不閱讀，無異是一塊木頭。
A borrowed cloak does not keep one warm. 借來的斗篷不暖身。
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it. 相聚愛益切，離別情更深。
A burden of one's choice is not felt. 自己選的擔子不嫌重。
A burnt child dreads the fire. 一朝被蛇咬，十年怕井繩。
A candle lights others and consumes itself. 蠟燭焚自身，光亮照別人。
A cat may look at a king. 貓也有權晉見國王。
A cat has nine lives. 貓有九條命。
Accidents will happen. 天有不測風云。
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link. 鏈條的堅固程度取決于它最薄弱的環節。
A change of work is as good as a rest. 調換一下工作是很好的休息。
A cheerful wife is the joy of life. 快樂的妻子是生活的樂事。
A clean hand wants no washing. 身正不怕影子斜。
A clear conscience is a soft pillow. 問心無愧，高枕無憂。
A clear conscience is a sure card. 光明磊落，勝券在握。
A clear conscience laughs at false accusations. 白日不做虧心事，夜半敲門心不驚。
A clear fast is better than a dirty breakfast. 寧為清貧，不為濁富。
A close mouth catches no flies. 病從口入，禍從口出。
A cock is valiant on his own dunghill. 夜郎自大。
A common danger causes common action. 同仇敵愾。
A constant guest is never welcome. 久住非佳賓，常來不歡迎。
A contented mind is perpetual feast. 知足常樂。
A covetous man is good to none but worse to himself. 貪婪的人對別人毫無好處，對自己卻壞處更大。
A crafty knave needs no broker. 狡猾的流氓，不需居間人。
A creaking door hangs long on its hinges. 戶樞不蠹。
Action is the proper fruit of knowledge. 行動是知識的巧果。
Actions speak louder than words. 事實勝于雄辯。
A discontented man knows not where to sit easy. 不滿足者坐無寧時。
A disease known is half cured. 病情確診斷，治病好一半。
Admonish your friends in private, praise them in public. 在私底下要忠告你的朋友，在公開場合又表揚你的朋友。
A dog will not howl if you beat him with a bone. 骨頭打狗狗不叫。
Adversity is a good discipline. 苦難是磨練人的好機會。
Adversity leads to prosperity. 逆境迎向昌盛。
Adversity makes a man wise, not rich. 患難使人聰明，但不能致富。
Adversity makes strange bedfellows. 身處逆境不擇友。
Adversity successfully overcome is the highest glory. 成功地克服困難是最大的光榮。
A fair death honours the whole life. 死得光明，終身榮耀。
A fair face may hide a foul heart. 人不可貌相。
A faithful friend is hard to find. 益友難得。
A fall into the pit, a gain in your wit. 吃一塹，長一智。
After dinner sit a while, after supper walk a while. 午飯后要坐，晚飯后要走。
A father is a treasure, a brother is a comfort, but a friend is both. 父親是財富，兄弟是安慰，朋友兼而有之。
A fault confessed is half redressed. 承認錯誤，等于改正一半。
Affairs that are done by due degrees are soon ended. 事情要安步就班地做，就會很快地做完。
A flow of words is no proof of wisdom. 口若懸河不能作為才智的證明。
A fool always comes short of his reckoning. 愚人常缺算計。
A fool always rushes to the fore. 傻瓜總愛強出頭。
A fool and his money are soon parted. 笨蛋難聚財。
A fool attempting to be witty is an object of profoundest pity. 蠢人裝聰明，實在最可憐。
A fool can ask more questions than seven wise men can answer. 一愚發問，七智結舌。
A fool may ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years. 愚者所問，智者難答。
A fool may give a wise man counsel. 愚者千慮，必有一得。
A fool may throw a stone into a well which a hundred wise men cannot pull out. 一愚所失，百智難回。
A fool knows more in his own house than a wise man in another. 一個蠢材在他自己家里所知的事比一個聰明人在別人家里所知的事要多。
A fool's bolt may sometimes hit the mark. 愚者千慮，必有一得。
A fool's heart dances on his lips. 愚人心坦蕩，掛在嘴唇上。
A fox may grow grey, but never good. 狐貍會變，但本性難移。
A friend exaggerates a man's virtue, an enemy his crimes. 朋友宣揚人的美德，敵人夸大人的罪過。
A friend in court is better than a penny in purse. 曩中有錢，不如朝中有友。
A friend in need is a friend indeed. 患難朋友才是真朋友。
A friend is a second self. 朋友是另一個我。
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A friend is best found in adversity. 患難見真友。
A friend is never known till a man have need. 不到患難時，永遠不能認識真正的朋友。
A friend is not so soon gotten as lost. 交友慢，失友快。
A friend to everybody is a friend to nobody. 廣交友，無深交。
A friend without faults will never be found. 沒有缺點的朋友是永遠找不到的。
After a storm comes a calm. 否極泰來。
After black clouds, clear weather. 否極泰來。
After death, the doctor. 放馬后炮。
After dinner comes the reckoning. 吃喝玩樂，該付代價。
After dinner sit a while; after supper walk a mile. 午餐之后坐片刻，晚飯之后走一里。
After meat, mustard. 雨后送傘。
A full belly counsels well. 衣食足而后知榮辱。
A full cup must be carried steadily. 杯滿盈，須持穩。
A good anvil does not fear the hammer. 好砧不怕錘。
A good appetite is a good sauce. 饑不擇食。
A good beginning is half the battle. 首戰告捷等于一半勝利。
A good beginning makes a good ending. 善始者必善其終。
A good book is a best friend who never turns his back upon us. 一本好書，莫逆之交。
A good book is a light to the soul. 好書一本，照亮心靈。
A good conscience is a continual feast. 白日不做虧心事，夜半敲門心不驚。
A good conscience is a soft pillow. 白日不做虧心事，夜半敲門心不驚。
A good dog deserves a good bone. 有勞得獎。
A good example is the best sermon. 身教勝似言教。
A good face is a letter of recommendation. 好的相貌就是一封推薦的介紹信。
A good face needs no paint. 美貌無需擦脂抹粉。
A good fame is better than a good face. 好的名望勝于好的相貌。
A good friend is my nearest relation. 良友如近親。
A good head and an industrious hand are worth gold in any land. 聰明腦袋勤勞手，走遍天下貴如金。
A good healthy body is worth more a crown in gold. 健康的身體貴于黃金鑄成的皇冠。
A good heart cant's lie. 有仁心者不說謊話。
A good heart conquers ill fortune. 善心克厄運。
A good horse cannot be of a bad colour. 良馬的毛色不會差。
A good horse often needs a good spur. 好馬常要好靴刺。
A good marksman may miss. 智者千慮，必有一失。
A good maxim is never out of season. 至理名言不會過時。
A good medicine tastes bitter. 良藥苦口，忠言逆耳。
A good name is better than riches. 好名譽勝過有財富。
A good name is earlier lost than won. 失去美名易，得到美名難。
A good name is sooner lost than won. 美譽難得而易失。
A good name keeps lustre in the dark. 好的名聲在黑暗中也會光芒四射。
A good neighbour is better than a bother in the next village. 遠親不如近鄰。
A good surgeon must have an eagle's eye, a lion's heart, and a lady's hand. 出色的外科醫生必須心明眼亮和有一雙靈巧的手。
A good tale is none the worse for being twice told. 好故事百聽不厭。
A good tongue is a good weapon. 伶俐的口齒是一種銳利的武器。
A good wife makes a good husband. 有好妻子就有好丈夫。
A good winter brings a good summer. 瑞雪兆豐年。
A great talker is a great liar. 最會饒舌的人也是最會說謊的人。
A great ship asks deep water. 巨輪尋深水而航行。
A guilty conscience is a self-accuser. 做賊心虛，良心自誅。
A guilty conscience needs no accuser. 賊膽心虛。
A handful of common sense is worth bushel of learning. 一點小常識常勝過很多有價值的學問。
A happy heart makes a blooming visage. 心花怒放，笑逐顏開。
A hasty man is seldom out of trouble. 性急難免出岔子。
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A heavy purse makes a light heart. 腰包錢財足，心境自然寬。
A heavy snow promise a good harvest. 瑞雪兆豐年。
A hero is known in the time of misfortune. 時勢造英雄。
A horse is neither better nor worse for his trappings. 相馬不可憑馬的裝飾。
A house divided against itself cannot stand. 家庭內訌難維系。
A Jack of all trades and master of none. 三腳貓無所長。
A joke never gains an enemy but often loses a friend. 開玩笑總不能化敵為友，反而有時會失去朋友。
A journey of a thousand miles begains with a single step. 千里之行，始于足下。
A lamb is as dear to a poor man as an ox to the rich. 窮人的一只羔羊比富人的一頭牛還要珍貴。
A lazy sheep thinks its wool heavy. 懶羊嫌毛重
A lazy youth, a lousy age. 少壯不努力，老大徒傷悲。
Ale will make a cat speak. 酒后吐真言。
A liar is not believed when he speaks the truth. 騙子說真話，也沒人相信。
A liar is worse than a thief. 撒謊比偷竊更可惡。
A lie begets a lie till they come to generation. 謊言生謊言，謊言傳萬代。
A life without a friend is a life without a sun. 人生在世無朋友，猶如生活無太陽。
A life without a purpose is a ship without a rudder. 人生無目的，猶如船失去了舵。
A light purse is a heavy curse. 為人無錢處處難。
A light purse makes a heavy heart. 曩中無錢心事重。
A lion at home, a mouse abroad. 在家兇如獅，在外卻如鼠。
A little body often harbours a great soul. 莫道身軀小，偉人寓其間。
A little child is the sweetest and purest thing in the world. 幼兒是世界上最可愛和最純潔的。
A little fire is quickly trodden out. 小洞易補。
A little is better than none. 聊勝于無。
A little labour, much health. 適量勞動健身大有益。
A little leak will sink a great ship. 千丈之堤潰于蟻穴。
A little learning is a dangerous thing. 淺學誤人。
A little neglect may breed great mischief. 小不忍則亂大謀。
A little of everything, nothing at all. 每事淺嘗輒止，結果將一事無成。
A little pot is soon hot. 壺小水易熱。
A little spark kindles a great fire. 星星之火，可以燎原。
A little wind kindles, much puts out the fire. 適可而止，過猶不及。
A living dog is better than a dead lion. 一條活狗勝過一頭死獅。
All are brave when the enemy flies. 敵人逃跑時，個個都勇敢。
All are not hunters that blow the horn. 吹號角的未必都是獵人。
All are not merry that dance lightly. 表面高興的，未必都快樂。
All are not saints that go to church. 去做禮拜者，未必皆圣人。
All are not thieves that dogs bark at. 犬之所吠，并非皆賊。
All asses wag their ears. 傻子總愛裝聰明。
All bread is not baked in one oven. 人心不同，猶如其面。
All cats love fish but fear to wet their paws. 貓都愛吃魚，卻怕爪弄濕。
All covet, all lose. 貪多必失。
All good things came to an end. 天下無不散之宴席。
All is fair in war. 兵不厭詐。
All is fish that comes to one's net. 捉到網里都是魚。
All is flour that comes to his mill. 到他的磨里都能碾成粉。
All is not at hand that helps. 有用的東西并不都是垂手可得的。
All is not gain that is put in the purse. 放入錢包的錢財，并非都是應得的。
When wine is in truth, wit is out.
酒后吐真言。
Where there is a will, there is a way.
有志者事竟成。
Where there is life, there is hope.
留得青山在，不怕沒柴燒。
Where there is smoke, there is fire.
事出有因。
While the priest climbs a post, the devil climbs ten.
道高一尺，魔高一丈。
Who chatters to you, will chatter of you.
搬弄口舌者必是小人。
Whom the gods love die young.
好人不長命。
Wise man have their mouths in their hearts, fools have their hearts in their mouths.
智者嘴在心里，愚者心在嘴里。
Work makes the workman.
勤工出巧匠。
You cannot burn the candle at both ends.
蠟燭不能兩頭點，精力不可過分耗。
You cannot eat your cake and have it.
魚與熊掌，不可得兼。
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
一分預防勝似十分治療。
Industry is fortune's right hand, and frugality her left.
勤勉是幸運的右手，節約是幸運的左手。
Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration.
天才一分來自靈感，九十九分來自勤奮。
He who laughs last laughs best.
誰笑在最后，誰笑得最好。
He who pays the piper, calls the tune.2
誰負擔費用，誰加以控制。
He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.
身體健壯就有希望，有了希望就有了一切。
No man is born wise or learned.
人非生而知之。
Action speak louder than words.
事實勝于雄辯。
Courage and resolution are the spirit and soul of virtue.
勇敢和堅決是美德的靈魂。
United we stand, divided we fall.
合即立，分即垮。
There is no smoke without fire.
無風不起浪。
Many hands make light work.
人多好辦事。
Reading makes a full man.
讀書長見識。
The best horse needs breeding, and the aptest child needs teaching.
最好的馬要馴，最伶俐的孩子要教。
Learn young, learn fair.
學習趁年輕，學就要學好。
Wisdom in the mind is better than money in the hand.
胸中有知識，勝于手中有金錢。
Once bitten, twice shy.
一次被咬，下次膽小。
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