每日一句英语积累

1、Genius only means hard-working all one's life.天才只意味着终身不懈的努力。Our destiny offers not the cup of despair, but the chalice of opportunity.命运给予我们的不是失望之酒，而是机会之杯。Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.忍耐是痛苦的，但它的果实是甜蜜的。Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow.进步是今天的活动、明天的保证。Wh

2、ere there is a will, there is a way.有志者，事竟成。All the splendor in the world is not worth a good friend.人世间所有的荣华富贵不如一个好朋友。Money is a good servant and a bad master.金钱是善仆，也是恶主。No country, however rich, can afford the waste of its human resources.任何一个国家，不管它多么富裕，都浪费不起人力资源。Achievement provides the only real

3、 pleasure in life.有所成就是人生唯一的真正乐趣。You have to believe in yourself. That's the secret of success.人必须相信自己，这是成功的秘诀。If you wish to succeed, you should use persistence as your good friend, experience as your reference, prudence as your brother and hope as your sentry.如果你希望成功，当以恒心为良友、以经验为参谋、以谨慎为兄弟、以希望为

4、哨兵。Power invariably means both responsibility and danger.实力永远意味着责任和危险。Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears.懒惰像生锈一样，比操劳更能消耗身体。The first wealth is health.健康是人生第一财富。It is no use doing what you like; you have got to like what you do.不能爱哪行才干哪行，要干哪行爱哪行。Work banishes those three great evils :

5、 boredom, vice, and poverty.工作撵跑三个魔鬼：无聊、堕落和贫穷。Activity is the only road to knowledge.行动是通往知识的唯一道路。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.倾己所有追求知识，没有人能夺走它；向知识投资，收益最佳。Imagination is more important than knowle

6、dge.想象力比知识更为重要。The empty vessels make the greatest sound.满瓶不响，半瓶咣当。If you don't learn to think when you are young, you may never learn.如果你年轻时就没有学会思考，那么就永远学不会思考。Natural abilities are like natural plants that need pruning by study.天生的才干如同天生的植物一样，需要靠学习来修剪。Happiness lies not in the mere possession o

7、f money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.幸福不在于拥有金钱，而在于获得成就时的喜悦以及产生创造力的激情。Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.对于大多数人来说，他们认定自己有多幸福，就有多幸福。The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.痛苦的秘密在于

8、有闲功夫担心自己是否幸福。The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.生活中最大的幸福是坚信有人爱我们。We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.正像我们无权只享受财富而不创造财富一样，我们也无权只享受幸福而不创造幸福。Better be unborn than untaught, for ignorance is the root o

9、f misfortune.与其不受教育,不如不生,因为无知是不幸的根源。Ordinary people merely think how they shall spend their time; a man of talent tries to use it.普通人只想到如何度过时间，有才能的人设法利用时间。The golden age is before us, not behind us.黄金时代在我们面前而不在我们背后。A bad beginning makes a bad ending.不善始者不善终。Wise man have their mouths in their hearts

10、, fools have their hearts in their mouths.智者嘴在心里，愚者心在嘴里。Jack of all trades and master of none.门门精通，样样稀松。A bully is always a coward.色厉内荏。No way is impossible to courage.勇者无惧。A close mouth catches no flies.病从口入。A constant guest is never welcome.常客令人厌。Actions speak louder than words.事实胜于雄辩。Adversity ma

11、kes a man wise.逆境出人才。A fair death honors the whole life.死得其所，流芳百世。A faithful friend is hard to find.知音难觅。A fall into a pit, a gain in your wit.吃一堑，长一智。A fox may grow gray, but never good.江山易改，本性难移。A friend in need is a friend indeed.患难见真情。A good beginning is half done.良好的开端是成功的一半。Never too old to le

12、arn, never too late to turn.亡羊补牢，为时未晚。A good conscience is a soft pillow.不做亏心事，不怕鬼叫门。One eyewitness is better than ten hearsays.百闻不如一见。A hedge between keeps friendship green.君子之交淡如水。A joke never gains an enemy but loses a friend.戏谑不能化敌为友，只能使人失去朋友。A leopard cannot change its spots.积习难改。Many things gr

13、ow in the garden that were never sown there.有心栽花花不开，无心插柳柳成荫。A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.一知半解，自欺欺人。Reading is to the mind while exercise to the body.读书健脑，运动强身。A young idler, an old beggar.少壮不努力，老大徒伤悲。Beauty lies in the love's eyes.情人眼里出西施。Be swift to hear, slow to speak.听宜敏捷，言宜缓行。Bird

14、s of a feather flock together.物以类聚，人以群分。Business is the salt of life.事业是人生的第一需要。By reading we enrich the mind, by conversation we polish it.读书使人充实，交谈使人精明。Care and diligence bring luck.谨慎和勤奋才能抓住机遇。Caution is the parent of safety.小心驶得万年船。Constant dripping wears away a stone.水滴石穿，绳锯木断。Content is better

15、 than riches.知足者常乐。Courtesy on one side only lasts not long.来而不往非礼也。Do as you would be done by.己所不欲，勿施于人。Don't claim to know what you don't know.不要不懂装懂。Don't try to teach your grandmother to suck eggs.不要班门弄斧。Do well and have well.善有善报。Each bird love to hear himself sing.孤芳自赏。Eat to live,

16、 but not live to eat.人吃饭是为了活着，但活着不是为了吃饭。Every advantage has its disadvantage.有利必有弊。Everybody's business is nobody's business.人人负责，等于没人负责。Every man is the architect of his own fortune.自己的命运自己掌握。Everything is good when new, but friends when old.东西是新的好，朋友是老的亲。Example is better than percept.说一遍，

17、不如做一遍。Experience is the father of wisdom and memory the mother.经验是智慧之父，记忆是智慧之母。False friends are worse than bitter enemies.明枪易躲，暗箭难防。Far from eye, far from heart.眼不见，心不烦。Far water does not put out near fire.远水救不了近火。Fields have eyes, and woods have ears.隔墙有耳。Fire and water have no mercy.水火无情。Fortune

18、knocks once at least at every man's gate.风水轮流转。God helps those who help themselves.自助者天助。Good for good is natural, good for evil is manly.以德报德是常理，以德报怨大丈夫。Great hopes make great man.伟大的抱负造就伟大的人物。Guilty consciences make men cowards.做贼心虚。Heaven never helps the man who will not act.自己不动，叫天何用。He is l

19、ifeless that is faultless.只有死人才不犯错误。He is not fit to command others that cannot command himself.正人先正己。Honesty is the best policy.做人诚信为本。Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.抱最好的愿望，做最坏的打算。If you make yourself an ass, don't complain if people ride you.人善被人欺，马善被人骑。If you venture nothing, yo

20、u will have nothing.不入虎穴，焉得虎子。It is better to die when life is a disgrace.宁为玉碎，不为瓦全。It is easy to open a shop but hard to keep it always open.创业容易守业难。It is hard to please all.众口难调。It is the unforeseen that always happens.天有不测风云，人有旦夕祸福。It is too late to grieve when the chance is past.坐失良机，后悔已迟。It nev

21、er rains but it pours.不鸣则已，一鸣惊人。We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.我们必须接受有限的失望，但是千万不可失去无限的希望。Humility is the foundation of glory.谦卑是荣誉的基础。Goodness blows no trumpet, nor desires to have it blown.美德不自吹自擂，也不愿被吹捧。Education makes a people easy to lead,but difficult

22、 to drive;easy to govern,but impossible to enslave.教育使一个民族易于引导，难于驾御；易于管理，但不能奴役。The roots of education is bitter,but the fruit is sweet.求知道路千辛万苦，知识硕果芬芳香甜。A good book is the best of friends,the same today and forever.好书乃挚友，情谊永不渝。Books are the ever-burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.书籍是积累智慧的明灯。Reading

23、 make a full man;conference a ready man;and writing an exact man.读书使人完美，交谈使人机敏，写作使人严谨。If you steal from one author,it's plagiarism;If you steal from many,it's research.如果你抄袭一个作家，这是剽窃；如果你能博采众家，这是研究。Music is the medicine of the breaking heart.音乐是医治心灵创伤的良药。All those man have their price.人人都有自己的

24、价值。It is not enough to do good;one must do it the right way.人不仅要做好事,更要以正确的方式做好事。Men are always sincere.They change sincerities,that's all.人总是真诚的,只是表现形式有所不同。Everything comes in time to those who can wait.只要能等待，心想事会成。If at first you don't succeed,try,try again.初试不成功，努力勿懈怠。There is no excellent

25、 beauty that has not some strangeness in the proportion.十全十美的美从来就是不存在的。The water that bears the boat is the same that swallows it up.水能载舟，也能覆舟。Lookers-on see most of the game.旁观者清。Pardoning the bad is injuring the good.隐恶败善；原谅坏人即是伤害好人。The evil wound is cured but not the evil name.重伤可治，恶名难去。Evil comm

26、unications corrupt good manners.不良的交往败坏良好的举止。No wrong without remedy.有过皆可补。Virtue flies from the heart of a mercenary man.唯利是图者，胸中无美德。First think, and then speak.动口先动脑。A word spoken is past recalling.一言既出，驷马难追。While the word is in your mouth, it is your own; when it's once spoken, it's anoth

27、er's.话在嘴里，属于自己；话一出口，人家所有。Speech is silver, silence is gold.言语是银，沉默是金。Sometimes words hurt more than swords.言语能伤人，有时胜刀剑。A wise head makes a close mouth.真人不露相，露相非真人。It is one thing to speak much and another to speak pertinently.说得多是一回事，讲得中肯又是一回事。Unprofitable eloquence is like the cypress, which is

28、 great and tall,but bears no fruit.无益的雄辩犹如高大的柏树，不会结果。Many a true word is spoken in jest.笑语之中吐真言。From words to deeds is a great space.言行之间，大有距离。Our own actions are our security, not others' judgments.我们的行为是自己的保证，并不是旁人的鉴定。A man of words and not deeds is like a garden full of weeds.空有言语而无行动的人，犹如杂草丛

29、生的花园。A man is not good or bad for one action.不能凭一件事判断人的好坏。A man that breaks his word, bids others to be false to him.人不守信，无异于叫旁人对他失信。Pride goes before destruction.骄者必败。No man is the worst for knowing the worst of himself.人并不因为他自知很差就是很差。It is not a sign of humility to declaim against pride.用慷慨激昂的言语攻击

30、傲慢并不是谦逊的标志。He that is full of himself is very empty.自满之人腹内空。Knavery may serve, but honesty is best.欺诈可能有用，诚实却是上策。Honesty may be dear bought, but can never be an ill pennyworth.高价买诚实，永远也值得。Love asks faith, and faith firmness.爱情要求信任，信任要求坚定。Love is the touchstone of virtue.爱情是美德的试金石。Zeal without knowle

31、dge is fire without light.没有知识的热心，犹如有火而无光。A bad conscience is a snake in one's heart.做贼心虚。The frog in the well knows nothing of the great ocean.坐井观天。Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.相聚爱益切，离别情更深。A chain is no stronger than its weakest link.一着不慎，全盘皆输。What is learned in the cradle is

32、carried to the grave.儿时所学，终生难忘。A clear conscience is a sure card.光明磊落，胜券在握。A clear conscience laughs at false accusations.只要问心无愧，旁人的指责可以一笑置之。A clear fast is better than a dirty breakfast.宁为清贫，不为浊富。A cock is valiant on his own dunghill.夜郎自大。A common danger causes common action.同仇敌忾。Advice is seldom w

33、elcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.忠言逆耳。A hero is known in the time of misfortune.时势造英雄。A mother's love never changes.母爱永恒。As a man sows, so he shall reap.种瓜得瓜，种豆得豆。A single spark can start a prairie fire.星星之火，可以燎原。Behind bad luck comes good luck.塞翁失马，焉知非福。Call a spa

34、de a spade.直言不讳。Come what may, heaven won't fall.船到桥头自会直。Conversation makes one what he is.言如其人。Cut short the nonsense and return one's muttons.闲话少说，言归正传。Cut the coat according to the cloth.量布裁衣。Deliver not your words by number but by weight.言不在多，而在有份量。Dogs that run after many hares kill non

35、e.贪多必失。Doing is better than saying.做得好胜于说得好。Do not despise your enemy.切莫轻视敌人。Do not praise a day before sunset.盖棺定论。Don't fly till your wings are feathered.羽毛未丰不要飞。Don't put off till tomorrow what should be done today.今日事，今日毕。Don't speak all you know, but know all you speak.不要尽言所知，而要尽知所言

36、。Don't trouble trouble until trouble troubles you.不要自寻烦恼。Don't waste life in doubts and fears.不要在怀疑和恐惧中浪费生命。Doubt is the key of knowledge.怀疑乃知识的钥匙。You may know by a handful the whole sack.由一斑可知全貌。Do what conscience says is right.良心说对的你就做。Downy lips make thoughtless slips.嘴上没毛，办事不牢。God never

37、shuts one door but he opens another.天无绝人之路。Each goodly thing is hard to begin.万事开头难。Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.人的教养始于教育，成于社交。Education has for its object the formation of character.教育的目的在于培养品德。Elbow grease gives the best polish.只要功夫深，铁杵磨成针。Error of the past is the wisdo

38、m and success of the future.过去的错误是未来的才智和成功。Every bird likes its own nest.鸟慕其巢,人爱其家。Every person has two educations, one which he receives from others, and one, more important, which he gives himself.每个人都受两种教育，一种来自别人，另一种更重要的是来自自己。Every pleasure has a pain.乐中必有苦。Give as good as one gets.以其人之道，还治其人之身。G

39、ive a thief rope enough and he will hang himself.多行不义必自毙。Give every man your ear, but few your voice.要多听少说。Gold will not buy everything.有钱不能万能。Good counsel does no harm.忠言无害。Greatest genius often lies concealed.大智若愚。Heaven's vengeance is slow but sure.天网恢恢，疏而不漏。If you confer a benefit, never rem

40、ember it; if you receive one, remember it always.施恩勿记，受恩勿忘。If you don't aim high you will never hit high.不立大志，难攀高峰。Industry is fortune's right hand, and frugality her left.勤勉是幸福的右手，节俭是幸福的左手。It is an ill bird that fouls its own nest.家丑不可外扬。It is good to learn at another man's cost.前车之覆，后车

41、之鉴。It is no use crying over spilt milk.事已如此，后悔无用。Joy Shared with others are more enjoyed.与人同乐，其乐无穷。Kind hearts are more than coronets.善良的心灵胜于显贵的地位。Knowledge is a treasure, but practice the key to it.知识是一座宝库，实践是打开宝库的钥匙。Know something like the palm of one's hand.熟知其事，了如指掌。Laugh before breakfast yo

42、u'll cry before supper.乐极生悲。Law makers should not be law breakers.立法者应守法。Learning is wealth to the poor, an honour to the rich, and aid to the young, and a support and comfort to the aged.学问是穷人的财富，是富人的荣誉，是青年的帮助，是老年的支持和安慰。Learn to creep before you leap.循序渐进。Let every man praise the bridge be goes

43、 over.饮水思源。Let not the cobbler go beyond his last.安分守己。Let's cross the bridge when we come to it.既来之，则安之。Let the cobbler stick to his last.各安职守。Let the dead bury the dead.既往不咎，捐弃旧嫌。Let things take their course.听其自然。Let your yea be yea and your nay be nay.是就是，非就非。Liberty is not licence.自由不是放纵。Lie

44、 in the bed one has made.自作自受。Life is short and time is fleeting.人生短暂，光阴易逝。Life without a friend is death without a witness.在世无朋友，死后无证人。Little strokes fell great oaks.千里之堤，溃于蚁穴。Look for a needle in a bundle of hay.大海捞针。Look not for musk in a dog's kennel.狗嘴里吐不出象牙。Losses make us more cautious.损失使

45、人更谨慎。Make hay while the sun shines.良机勿失。Man has not a greater enemy than himself.人最大的敌人就是自己。Many a fine dish has nothing on it.虚有其表。Many heads are better than one.集思广益。Men may meet but mountains never.人生何处不相逢。Never cast dirt into that fountain of which you have sometime drunk.饮水之源莫污染。Never neglect a

46、n opportunity for improvement.抓住大好时机，切莫等闲错过。Never put the plow before the oxen.不要本末倒置。Never think yourself above your business.切莫自视过高。Never too late to repent.悔悟从善，决不嫌晚。No man can do two things at once.心无二用。No man ever became thoroughly bad at once.没有一个人是一下子就坏透的。No one is born wise or learned.人非生而知之

47、。No one can disgrace us but ourselves.除了我们自己，别人是不能羞辱我们的。No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.不劳则无获，共难才得福，有荣必有辱，无苦即无乐。No possession, but use, is the only riches.真正的财富不是占有，而是使用。No road is long with good company.途有好伴，不觉路远。No safe paddling in an unknown water.未知水

48、深浅，涉水有危险。No sweet without some sweat.吃得苦中苦，方知甜中甜。Nothing comes amiss to a hungry man.饥不择食。Nothing comes from nothing.无风不起浪。Offence is the best defence.进攻是最好的防御。Of nothing comes nothing.无中不能生有。Old love will not be forgotten.旧情永难忘。Omelets are not made without breaking eggs.欲有所得，必有所失。One cannot make a

49、silk purse out of a sow's ear.巧妇难为无米之炊。One cannot put back the clock.光阴一去不复返。One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.光辉生活中忙活的一个小时抵得上无为的一世。One half of the world does not know how the other half lives.饱人不知饿人饥。Overdone is worse than undone.过犹不及。Pain is forgotten where gain

50、follows.好了伤疤忘了痛。Penny wise and pound foolish.舍本逐末。Proverbs are the wisdom of the ages.谚语是时代的智慧。Score twice before you cut once.三思而行。All good things come to an end.天下没有不散的筵席。All rivers run into sea.海纳百川。All that glitters is not gold.闪光的不一定都是金子。All things are difficult before they are easy.凡事总是由难而易。A

51、man becomes learned by asking questions.不耻下问才能有学问。A man can do no more than he can.凡事都应量力而行。A man cannot spin and reel at the same time.一心不能二用。A merry heart goes all the way.心旷神怡，事事顺利。A miss is as good as a mile.失之毫厘，差之千里。An apple a day keeps the doctor away.一天一苹果，不用请医生。A new broom sweeps clean.新官上任

52、三把火。An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening.一日之计在于晨。An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.预防为主，治疗为辅。A rolling stone gathers no moss.滚石不生苔，转业不聚财。A single flower does not make a spring.一花独放不是春，百花齐放春满园。A snow year, a rich year.瑞雪兆丰年。A sound mind in a sound body.健全的精神寓于健康的身体。A stitc

53、h in time saves nine.小洞不补，大洞吃苦。A straight foot is not afraid of a crooked shoe.身正不怕影子斜。A year's plan starts with spring.一年之计在于春。Better to ask the way than go astray.问路总比迷路好。Between friends all is common.朋友之间不分彼此。Blood is thicker than water.血浓于水。Books and friends should be few but good.读书如交友，应求少而精。Cannot see the wood for the trees.一叶障目，不见泰山。Children are what the mothers are.耳濡目染，身教言传。Choose an author as you choose a friend.择书如择友。Complacency is the enemy of study.学习的敌人是自己的满足。Don't have too m