西方谚语(中英对照本)

Let the world slide.人世沧桑,听其自然.It is not by the grey of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.白发多少并不能告诉你一个人心灵的年龄.An unambitious man is easily carried away by victory; a short-sighted man would have an exaggerated opinion of his abilities after being praised a little.胸无大志的人容易被胜利冲昏头脑；鼠目寸光的人稍受表扬就不知天高地厚。Christmas comes but once a year，But when it comes it brings good cheer.圣诞节一年只来一次，但每次来临却都带来喜悦。He that tells a secret is anothers servant.泄漏机密的人，就成为别人的奴仆。Theres only a step form the sublime to the ridiculous, but theres no road leading back form the ridiculous to the sublime.从崇高到荒谬只有一步之差,可是从荒谬却没有路能回到崇高.The used key is always bright.常用的钥匙不长锈.Home is home,be it never so homely.金窝银窝,不如自家的草窝.The man who saves when young will have more to spend when he is old.年少节俭,年老不愁.When someone is beating a gong，listen to its overtones；when someone is talking，listen to his voice。锣鼓听音，说话听声。Learn form the bee busy collecting honey; dont copy the example of the cicada hanging around doing nothing.要学蜜蜂勤采蜜,不做悠闲的知了.The usual excuse of those who cause others trouble is that they wish them well.给别人造成麻烦的人通常的借口是出于好意。I have so many things to do before I leave.我走之前还有很多事情要做。As truth is like the sun, it cannot be shadad up by ones palm.真理象太阳,一手难遮挡.Civility costs nothing.礼貌不费分文.Think more, and youll become wiser.多思出智慧.Do not do to others what you would not have them do to you.己所不欲，勿施于人。Deeds are fruits,words are but leaves.行动是果实,言论不过是叶子.Anger is a brief madness.愤怒是短暂的疯狂。While there is life there is hope.一息尚存,希望不灭.The greatest talkers are the least doers.语言的巨人常是行动的矮子.He is not fit to command others that cannot command himself.不能指挥自己，就不能指挥别人。Theres only one kind of tax that would please everybody-one that nobody but the other guy has to pay.只有一种税人人欢迎，那就是只有别人必须缴纳的税。Better master one than engage with ten.十事半通,不如一事精通.Genius only means hard-working all ones life.天才只意味着终生不懈的努力.Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.在酒里淹死的人比在海里淹死的人多。Love is blind.爱情是盲目的.Here you are.给。In every beginning think of the end。凡事一开始就要想到结果.Establishing goals is all right if your dont let them deprive you of interesting detours.不妨订立目标,只要你不让它阻挡你兜有趣的圈子.I once took a part-time job delivering the Evening Post。我曾干过送晚报的兼职。Look before you leap。三思而后行。He is not a wise man who cannot play the fool on occasion.不会偶尔装傻的人算不得聪明。A small leak will sink a great ship.小漏能沉大船.We may give advice，but we cannot give conduct.别人可以相劝,做人还靠自己./ 别人可以给你忠告,但不能给你品行.Haste and wisdom are things far odd.轻率与智慧相距遥远。He that would have eggs must endure the cackling of hens.想吃鸡蛋就不要讨厌母鸡咯咯叫.He that lives in hope danceth without music.生活在希望中的人,没有音乐照样跳舞.Accidents will happen in the best regulated families。家规再严，事端难免。It is with narrow-souled people as with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them the more noise they make in pouring out.心胸狭隘的人就象小口瓶子;里面装的东西越少,倒出时噪音越大.To know that we know what we know，and that we do not know what we do not know，that is true knowledge.知之为知之,不知为不知,是知也.Pride and grace dwell never in one place.傲慢与优雅决不共存。Time lost may be repented but never recalled.失去时间可以后悔,但无法追回.Pen and ink is wits plough。笔墨是才智之犁。Correct the mistakes if you have committed them, and avoid them if you have not.有则改之,无则加勉.Thats ok/fine.挺好的。A clean fast is better than a dirty breakfast.宁为清贫，不为浊富。The worst wheel of the cart creaks most.最差的车轮吱嘎声最大。Hunger is the best sauce.饥者口中尽佳肴.The talents of an individual are limited; the wisdom of the collective is boundless.个人的聪明有限,集体的智慧无穷.Kind hearts are more than coronets.好心胜过高帽子.A knowing man is hot in arguing for truths sake; an ignorant man for opinions sake.有知识的人激烈争论是为了辩明真理;无知的人激烈争论是为了固执己见.Real friendship does not freeze in winter.真正的友谊遇到寒冬也不会冻结.Curiosity is ill manners in anothers house.在别人家里显得好奇是没礼貌的表现。He who has never hoped can never despair.从来没有抱过什么希望的人也永远不会失望.Im lost我给搞糊涂了。Youve got a point there你说的有道理。The treacherous, unexplored areas of the world are not in continents or the seas; they are in the minds and hearts of men.世上未经勘探的险恶之境，不是在大陆上，也不是在海洋中，而是在人们的头脑和心里。Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with.与人相处切忌卖弄聪明与学识。A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will.智者通权达变，愚者坚持己见。Let the sleeping dogs lie.莫惹是非。The world is a looking-glass,and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.世界是一面镜子，每个人都在上面照到自己。Good wine needs no bush.酒好无需挂幌子。New brooms sweep clean. / A new official applies strict measures.新官上任三把火.One tree does not make a forest.独木不成林.Your liberty to swing your arms ends where my nose begins.你有挥舞手臂的自由，但这自由必须止于我的鼻端。Tell all that you know and tell it without reserve.知无不言，言无不尽。A money lender serves you in the present tense, lends you in the conditional mood, keeps you in the subjuctive,and ruins you in the future.放债的人为你服务时用现在时态,借钱给你时用条件语气,使你常处于虚拟语气之中,并于将来时态中毁掉你.Experience keeps no school； she teaches her pupils singly。经验不由学校教，亲身实践才得到。A lie begets a lie。谎言生谎言。Learn form the bee busy collecting honey; dont copy the example of the cicada hanging around doing nothing.要学蜜蜂勤采蜜,不做悠闲的知了.Work wont kill but worry will.劳动无害，忧愁伤身。Diseases are the interests of pleasures.疾病是为享乐付出的债息。Life is made up of little things.生活是由许多小事构成的.Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow.进步乃今日之努力,又为明日的保证.Once a beggar, always a beggar.一次做乞丐，永远是乞丐。Sloth makes all things diffiicult, but industry all things easy.懒惰使一切都难办;勤奋使凡事皆顺利.Fair and softly to far in a day。从容不慌，办事顺当。Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be，since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be。不要由于别人不能成为你所希望的人而恼怒，因为你自己也不能成为自己所希望的人。Do not do to others what you would not have them do to you.己所不欲，勿施于人。Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.忠言虽难听,必须记在心。He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet。有想象力而无学问的人,等于有翅无脚.Love is the mother of love.情生情,爱生爱.Adventure is just a romantic name for trouble.冒险是自找麻烦的浪漫说法。An undeserved success is like a medal that is found lying in the street.有名无实的功绩, 就象在街上拾到的奖章.A cat in gloves catches no mice.带手套的猫捉不到老鼠.In the coldest flint there is hot fire.冰冷的燧石里有烈火.Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you havent planted.不努力而求成功,无异于不栽种而求收获.Be steady in doing your work; be resolute in correcting your mistakes.做事要稳，改错要狠。Wise men seek instruction, fools fall for applause.聪明人喜欢别人指教,蠢人则喜欢别人赞美.Life is a leaf of paper white,thereon each of us may write his word or two.生活是一张白纸,每个人都在上面写上自己的一两句话.Write it on your heart that every day is the best of the year.把这铭记在你心里:每一天都是一年中最好的日子.He who would search pearls dive below.不潜深水则不得珠.Gossiping and lying go hand in hand.流言蜚语和谎言总是连一起。Little chips light great fires.星星之火,可以燎原.From small profits and many expenses comes whole life of sad consequences.嫌得少,花得多,一世日子不好过.Words are like bees, they have honey and a sting.言语象蜜蜂,有蜜也有刺.Deeds, not words.行动胜于空谈.Failure is the mother of success.失败乃成功之母.It is mans duty to be courageous enough to seek for truth.勇于探索真理是人的天职.Nurture passes nature.教养胜过天性.Never let your feet run faster than your shoes.不要让你的脚跳得比你的鞋子快。He that promises too much means nothing.许诺过多等于零。Modesty helps one to make progress; conceit makes one lag behind.谦虚使人进步，骄傲使人落后。Know something of everything and everything of something.通百艺而精于一.It is the last straw that breaks the camels back.骆驼负载过重时，加根草也能把它压倒。A fool and his money are soon parted.傻瓜花钱快.He that has patience may compass anything.有耐心的人事事做得到。Happiness is being married to your best friend.同自己最好的朋友结婚是谓幸福.The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.经济预测的唯一作用是使占星术看起来体面一些。He works best who knows his trade.万事怕行家.Diligence overcomes difficulties. Sloth makes them.勤劳克服困难,懒惰制造困难.Time is victory for strategists.对军事家来说,时间就是胜利.Birth is much, but breeding is more.教养重于出身。If you cannot bite, never show your teeth.不能咬人就别龇牙。Perseverance is the only road to success.百折不挠是通向成功的唯一道路.A thing you dont want is dear at any price.不需要的东西,无论买价多少都贵.Patience! The windmill never strays in search of the wind.耐心等待! 风车从不跑去找风.No man is content with his lot.没有人对自己的境遇感到满足.If we are bound to forgive an enemy,we are not bound to trust him.敌人可恕不可信。It is not the lofty sails but the unseen wind that moves the ship.推动船的不是高大的帆，而是无形的风Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.完全的理解有时几乎会使乐趣消失.Learning is the light that leads into everything lovely.学识是照亮通往各种美好事物的道路的明灯.A boaster and a liar are all one.吹牛撒谎一家亲。Gratitude is the least of virtues; ingratitude the worst of vices.感恩是小德；忘恩是大恶。To wait for luck is the same thing as waiting for death.等待走运无异于等待死亡.A good name is better than riches.美名胜过金钱。Time flies.光阴似箭.A drowning man will catch at a straw.快淹死的人连草也要抓。Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action.最可怕的事莫过于无知而行动.You cant judge a tree by its bark.人不可貌相.He who mistrusts most should be trusted least.最不信任别人的人最不应该得到信任.Fortune is good to him who knows to make good use of her.知道用福的人才有福。By his claw, you may know the lion.要知狮子看脚爪。Self-discipline is when your conscience tells you to do something and you dont talk back.听从良心劝告不违背良心办事即谓之有自约能力。Fortune favours the brave.天佑勇士。If there is no future for our country, where can we look for our individual love and happiness.如果没有国家的前途命运,哪有个人的爱情和幸福.Among the blind the one-eye man is king.瞎子国里，独眼称王。He that gains well and spends well needs no account book.挣得多花得恰当的人用不着帐本.When all else is lost the future still remains.就是失去了一切别的，也还有未来。A friend is known in necessity.患难见友情.A wilful man will have his way.顽强者定会成功.Many a grain of sand piled up will make a pagoda.聚沙成塔.Better rely on yourself than look to others for help.与其求人,不如求已.He who commences many things finishes but few.样样都搞, 完成者少.A thing of beauty is a joy for ever.美的事物永远令人喜悦.Gear is easier gained than guided.生财容易理财难.We cannot wait for favours from nature; we must take them from her-that is our task.我们不能等待大自然的恩赐,我们必须向它索取-这就是我们的任务.Pride breakfasted with Plenty, dined with Poverty,and supped with Infamy.骄者往往早餐丰盛,午餐寒酸,晚餐时声名狼藉.The wise man knows he knows nothing; the dunce thinks he knows all.聪明人知道自己不懂什么,蠢人则认为自己什么都懂.He who laughs at crooked men should need walk very straight.讥笑别人驼背的人，自己先得挺直身子。Bear with evil,and expect good.坏事要忍，好事要等。A true jest is no jest.真正的笑语决非笑话。Lazy folk take the most pains.懒人躲懒最费力.After wind comes rain.风是雨的头。Wishes never can fill a sack.愿望装不满口袋。It is not lost that a friend gets.东西给了朋友并不是损失.Beauty is but skin-deep.美只是外表, /不能以貌取人.A little body doth often harbour a great soul.伟大的心灵常寓于矮小的身躯之中.Two heads are better than one.两人智慧胜一人.The noblest vengeance is to forgive.最高尚的复仇是宽容。One pound of learning requires ten pounds of common sense to apply it.一分学问,要辅以十分见识才能运用.Men may meet but mountains never.人生何处不相逢.Wish you an endless view to cheer your eyes? Then one more story mount and higher rise.欲穷千里目,更上一层楼.It is discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.令人沮丧的是，有那么多人对诚实感到吃惊，而对欺骗感到吃惊的人却那么少。Where it concerns himself, whos angry at a slander makes it true.一涉及自己，忿怒便会使诽谤成真。Injuring all of a mans ten fingers is not as effective as chopping off one.伤其十指,不如断其一指.A good surgeon must have an eagles eye,a lions heart,and a ladys hand.一个好外科医生要有鹰的眼、狮子的胆和女性的手。Reward lies ahead of diligence,but nothing is gained by indolence.勤有功,嬉无益.The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.最快乐的人似乎是那些并没有特别原因觉得快乐而只是快乐的人。Forbidden fruit is sweet.禁果分外甜。If youth knew what age would crave, it would both get and save.青年若知老来苦,勤俭两字永不丢.Whosoever understands the times is great man. / A wise man submits to circumstances.识时务者为俊杰。A brave man may fall, but he cannot yield.勇者可能跌倒,但不会屈服.A watched pot never boils.心急锅不开.Chains do not hold a marriage together, It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.锁链系不住婚姻;是线 无数的细线经年累月把人们缝合在一起.A covetous man is good to none, but worst to himself.贪心不足的人对他人无益，对自己最有害。Let me seeThats good wisdom which is wisdom in the end.最后正确才是真正确.Fools look to tomorrow,and wise men use tonight.蠢人指望明天,智者利用今晚.A bully is always a coward.恃强欺弱者均是懦夫。Life is like music. It must be composed by ear,feeling and instinct,not by rule.人生如一首乐曲,要用乐感,感情和直觉去谱写.不能只按乐律行事.Hesitation signifies wavering of will.犹豫说明意志的动摇。It is dogged that does it.有志者事竞成.Give losers leave to speak.要允许失败者讲话。Time is often said to be mondy,but it is more-it is life.人们常说时间就是金钱,但不如说-时间就是生命.Life is not all beer and skittles.人生并非只是啤酒和九柱戏./ 人生并不全是吃喝玩乐.What one loses on the swings one makes up on the roundabouts.失之东隅，收之桑榆。Whether the pitcher strikes the stone, or the stone the pitcher, it is bad for the pitcher.不论是水罐敲石头，还是石头敲水罐，都是水罐遭殃。Conquer the fear of death and you are put into possession of your life.征服对死的恐惧,你就占有了生命.A glass at supper is not amiss.晚酌一杯也无妨。Water is a boon in the desert,but the drowning man curses it.水是沙漠里的恩物，快淹死的人却诅咒它。Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.青年鲁莽灭裂,中年奋斗不止;老年后悔无穷.Knowledge is no burden.知识再多不压身.There is one thing which give radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.有一样东西可给任何事物添上光彩，那就是好事即将来临的想法。Life is real,life is earnest.人生真实,人生诚挚.Good company on the road is the shortest cut.良伴同行路不遥.Never let your feet run faster than your shoes.不要让你的脚跳得比你的鞋子快。The wages of sin is death.为恶者应灭亡。Dexterity comes by experience.换取经验要付出代价.I have seen the sea when it is stormy and wild. when it is quiet and serene, when it is dark and moody. And in all its moods, I see myself.我见过汹涌澎湃的海，风平浪静的海，阴郁易怒的海。我在它的种种变化中见到了我自己。A good beginning is half the battle.好的开端等于成功了一半.Know the enemy and know yourself. and you can fight a hundred battles with no danger of defeat.知己知彼,百战不殆.Beware of the fury of a patient man.要小心脾气好的人发火。He that goeth far hath many encounters.走得远,见得多.The force of the wind tests the strength of the grass.疾风知劲草.He is happy that thinks himself so.自乐者常乐。It is madness for a sheep to treat of peace with a wolf.羊跟狼讲和平，是羊发了疯。It is love that makes the world go round.爱是推动世界的力量.Time marches on.岁月如流Is long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.只要世界还存在，就会有错误，如果没有人反叛，这些错误将永远存在下去。There is no royal road to sciece, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits.在科学上没有平坦的大道,只有不畏劳苦沿着陡峭山路攀登的人,才有希望达到光辉的顶点.An energetic middle life is, I think, the only safe precursor of a vitally happy old age.我认为,精力旺盛的中年生活是生气勃勃的幸福晚年的唯一可靠预兆.Like begets like.龙生龙，凤生凤。Success belongs to the persevering.成功属于不屈不挠的人.They brag most who can do least.本领最小的人，最会吹牛。Pride, the most dangerous of all faults, proceeds from want of sense, or want of thought.骄傲是最危险的过错，它产生于缺乏见识，或缺乏思考。The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.给人最大的帮助，不单是让他分享你的富有，而是向他指明他的富有。Its great to be great, but its greater to be human.成为伟人是美好的,做一个真正的人更美好.It is a bad cloth that will take no colour.布再坏也能染色。At court,everyone for himself.在法庭上人人都要为自己。It is discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.令人沮丧的是，有那么多人对诚实感到吃惊，而对欺骗感到吃惊的人却那么少。When someone is beating a gong,listen to its overtones;when someone is talking,listen to his voice.锣鼓听音，说话听声。If the blind lead the blind,both shall fall into the ditch.盲人领盲人,双双掉沟里.Good acts are better than good intentions.好的行动胜过好的意向.Is life so dear, or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?难道生命是如此珍贵,和平是如此甜美,以至于不惜为此戴锁链,当奴隶吗?You cant judge a tree by its bark.人不可貌相.Youth is not being 20 years old. A young man is one who is moved by any injustice in the world.并非韶华二十便算年轻，一个人能为世上的不公平感到不平才是年轻。He that is master of himself will soon be master of others.能自制者方能制人.If there is no future for our country, where can we look for our individual love and happiness.如果没有国家的前途命运,哪有个人的爱情和幸福.A birbe will enter without knocking.贿赂毋须敲门而入。You cannot make a crab walk straight.你无法叫螃蟹直着走。/不要做不可能的事。One may overcome a thousand men in battle.but he who conquers himself is the greatest victor.一个人能在战场上制胜千军,但只有战胜自己才是最伟大的胜利者.Novelists should never allow themselves to weary of the study of real life.小说家们永远不应对研究真实的生活感到厌烦。As devotion unites lovers so perfidy estranges friends.忠诚是爱情的桥梁,欺诈是友谊的敌人.A good neighbor，a good morrow。邻居好,日子好.Young people must equip themselves for lifes duties and guard against its temptations.年轻人必须为履行生活所赋予他们的职责充实自己,同时要抵制生活的诱惑.The pen is mightier than the sword.笔锋利于剑。A guilty conscience needs no accuser.自己问心有愧,无需别人责备.Whats done cannot be undone.木已成舟，覆水难收。It is a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait.蠢人才上两回当。Ive never any pity for conceited people,because Ithink they carry their comfort about with them.我从不怜惜自负的人们，因为我觉得他们无处不能自我安慰。A good wife and health is a mans best wealth.男子的最大财富,在于妻子贤惠,自己健康.False with one can be false with two.能对一个人虚伪，就能对两个人奸诈。Women have simple tastes:they can get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.女人们有最简单的爱好:她们能够从怀抱的孩子和爱她们的男人的谈话里得到快乐.A fool may give a wise man counsel.愚人也能为智者出主意. / 愚者千虑,必有一得.He who would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom.欲登梯者从底始.The best mirror is a friends eye.朋友的眼睛是最好的镜子.Action is the proper fruit of knowledge.行动是知识的佳果.A s