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At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.（Benjamin Franklin, American president）

　　二十岁时起支配作用的是意志，三十岁时是机智，四十岁时是判断。（美国总统 富兰克林. B.）

　　Do you love life? Then do not squander time; for that's the stuff5 life is made of.（Benjamin Franklin, American president ）

　　你热爱生命吗？那么，别浪费时间，因为生命是由时间组成的。（美国总统 富兰克林. B.）

　　Each moment in history is a fleeting time, precious and unique.（Richard Nixon, American president ）

　　历史巨轮飞转，分分秒秒的时间都十分宝贵，也独具意义。（美国总统 尼克松. R.）

　　Fish and visitors smell three days.（Franklin Benjamin, American president ）

　　鱼放三天发臭，客住三天讨嫌。 （美国总统 富兰克林. B.）

　　I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.（Abraham Lincoln, American president）

　　我走得很慢，但是我从来不会后退。 （美国总统 林肯. A.）

　　If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.（Pearl Buck, American female writer ）

　　想要懂得今天，就必须研究昨天。（美国女作家 赛珍珠）

　　In delay there lies no plenty, Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty, Youth's a stuff that will not endure.（William Shakespeare, British dramatist）

　　迁延蹉跎，来日无多，二十丽姝，请来吻我，衰草枯杨，青春易过。（英国剧作家 莎士比亚. W.）

　　Never leave that until tomorrow, which you can do today. （Benjamin Franklin, American president ）

　　今天的事不要拖到明天。 （美国总统 富兰克林. B. ）

　　Ordinary people merely think how they shall spend their time; a man of talent tries to use it. （Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher ）

　　普通人只想到如何度过时间，有才能的人设法利用时间。（德国哲学家 叔本华. A. ）

　　The golden age is before us, not behind us. （Mark Twain, American writer ）

　　黄金时代在我们面前而不在我们背后。（ 美国作家 马克·吐温）

　　The time of life is short; to spend that shortness basely, it would be too long. （William Shakespeare, British dramatist ）

　　人生苦短，若虚度年华，则短暂的人生就太长了。（英国剧作家 莎士比亚. W.）

　　Time is money.（ Benjamin Franklin, American president）

　　时间就是金钱。（美国总统 富兰克林. B.）

　　To choose time is to save time.（ Francis Bacon, British philosopher ）

　　合理安排时间就是节约时间.（ 英国哲学家 培根. F.）

　　We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright. （Johan Wolfgang von Goethe, German poet ）

　　只要我们能善用时间，就永远不愁时间不够用。（德国诗人歌德. J.W.）

　　Weep no more, no sigh, nor groan. Sorrow calls no time that's gone.（John Fletcher, British dramatist ）

　　别哭泣，别叹息，别呻吟；悲伤唤不回流逝的时光。（英国剧作家 弗莱沏.
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.  -Martin Luther King Jr.

　　世界上再也没有比纯粹的无知和认真的愚蠢更危险的了。 - 小马丁·路德·金

　　That we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of child. -Bernard Shaw

　　我们希望看到孩子们追求知识，而不是知识追求孩子们。 -肖伯纳

　　Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true. -Samuel Johnson

　　字典和时钟一样，最坏的一种也有胜于无，而最好的一种也不能认为是十分准确的。 -塞缪尔·约翰逊

　　Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind. -Thomas Carlyle

　　工作是医治人间一切病痛和疾苦的万应良药。 -托马斯·卡莱尔

　　Originality and the feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle. -Dostoevsky

　　只有通过工作和斗争，人才能获得自己的独创性和自尊。 -驼斯妥也夫斯基

　　Other people's interruptions of your work are relatively insignificant compared with the countless times you interrupt yourself. -Brendan Francis

　　别人对你工作的干扰与你自己无数次地打断自己相比，微不足道。 -布兰丹·拂朗西斯

　　To sensible men, every day is a day of reckoning. -J.W.Gardner

　　对聪明人来说，每一天的时间都是要精打细算的。 -J.W.加德纳

　　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

　　不要认为取胜就是一切，更重要的是要有信念。倘若你没有信念，那胜利又有什么意义呢？ -柯克兰

　　Growth in wisdom may be exactlyi measured by decrease in bitterness. -Nietzsch

　　智慧的增长可用痛苦的减少来精确衡量。 -尼采

　　It is not enough to be industrious, so are the ants. What are you industrious about？ -Thoreau

　　光勤劳是不够的，蚂蚁也是勤劳的。要看你为什么要勤劳。 -梭罗

　　Where there is no desire, there will be no industry. -John Locke

　　哪里没有欲望，哪里就不会有勤奋。 -越翰·洛克

　　Something attempted, something done. -H.W.Longfellow

　　有所尝试，就等于有所作为。 -H.W.朗费罗

　　Not by constraint or severity shall you have access to true wisdom, but by abandonment, and childlike mirthfulness.If you would know aught, be gay before it. -Thoreau

　　通达智慧，不是通过克制和严格，而是通过放任和孩童般的无忧无虑。你想了解任何事，请保持心情快乐。 -梭罗

　　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

　　在这个世界上取得成功的人，都努力去寻找他们想要的机会，如果找不到时，他们就自己创造机会。 -肖伯纳

　　Reading make a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. -Bacon

　　阅读使人充实，交谈使人机智，写作使人精确。 -培根

　　The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. -William James

　　智慧就是懂得该忽略什么的技巧。 -威廉·詹姆斯

　　Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must undergo the fatigue of supporting it. -Thomas Paine

　　想要收获自由之果的人，必须承受维护自由的劳苦。 -托马斯·佩因

　　It never will rain roses. When we want to have more roses we must plant trees. -George Eliot

　　天上永远不会掉下玫瑰来，如果想要更多的玫瑰，必须自己种植。 -乔治·艾略特

　　Too great an eagerness to discharge on obligation is a species of ingratitude. -La Rochefoucauld

　　急于逃避履行义务是一种忘恩负义的行为。 -拉·罗什福科

　　Time is a bird for ever on the wing. -T.W.Robertson

　　时间是一只永远在飞翔的鸟。 -T.W.罗伯逊

　　All books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hour, and the books of all time. -John Ruskin

　　一切书籍都可以分为二类：即：一时之书与永久之书。 -约翰·罗斯金

　　Young men are fitter to invent than to judge, fitter for execution than for counsel, fitterfo new projects than for settled business. -Bacon

　　年轻人更适合发明而非评价；更适合执行而非决策；更适合从事新项目而非固定职业。 -培根

　　Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. -Bacon

　　一些书可以浅尝即止；一些书可以狼吞虎咽；而有些书则需要细嚼慢咽，好好消化。 -培根

　　The three foundations of learning; seeing much, suffering much, and studying much. -Catherall

　　求学的三个基本条件是：多观察，多吃苦，多研究。 -加塞罗尔

　　Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth direction too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. -Bacon

　　天生的能力好象天然生成的植物，必须通过学习加以修整；然而学习本身如若不由实践去约束，必然方向纷杂而漫无目的。 -培根

　　If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him. -Benjamin Franklin

　　如果一个人倾其所有以求学问，那么这些学问是没有人能拿走的。 -本杰明·富兰克林

　　Books are to mankind what memory is to the individuanl. -John Lubbock

　　书之于人类，犹如记忆于之个人。 -约翰·拉伯克

　　We cannot change anything unless we accept it, Condemnation does not liberate it, it oppresses. -Jung

　　对一件事情我们比学赶帮超先接受它，然后才能改变它。谴责并不能把我们从困扰中解脱出来，只会使之加剧。 -荣格

　　“Classic” A book which people praise and don't read. -Mark Twain

　　“经典之作”是人人皆称赞却不愿去读的书。 -马克·吐温

　　A man dies still if he has done nothing, as one who has done much. -Homer

　　既然无所事事亦难逃一死，何不奋斗终生。 -荷马

　　Education is that which remains when one has forgotten everything he learned in school. -Einstein

　　教育是在学校所学知识遗忘后剩下的东西。 -爱因斯坦

　　Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.-Hery Peter, Lord Brougham

　　教育能使一个民族易于领导，但难于驱策；易于统治，但难于奴役。 -布鲁厄姆

　　Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.-Thomas Huxley

　　下定决心，果断行动，并承担后果。在这世界上犹豫不决成就不了任何事。 -托马斯·赫胥黎

　　He that knows little soon repeats it. -Western Proverb

　　知识浅薄者，很快就回重复他所知的话题。 -西方谚语

　　Hold what you really know and tell what you do not know this will lead to knowledge. -Confucius

　　知之为知之，不知为不知，是知也。 -孔子

　　If a man in the morning hears right way, he may die in the evening without regret. -Confucius

　　朝闻道夕死可矣。 -孔子

　　If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. -Bacon

　　若一确信而始者，将止于怀疑；而一怀疑而始者，将止于确信。 -培根

　　If there of us are walking together, at least one of the other two is good enough to be my teacher. -Confucius

　　三人行必有我师焉。 -孔子

　　Ignorance is not innocence but sin. -Robert Browning

　　无知并非纯真，而是罪恶。 -罗伯特·布朗宁

　　Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. -A.Tennyson

　　知识来了，智慧却迟迟不前。 -丁尼生

　　Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another. -John Newman

　　知识是一回事，美德是另一回事。 -约翰·纽曼

　　Learning does not stop as long as a man lives, unless his learning power atrophies because he does not use it. -Robert Hutchins

　　人只要活着，学习就不改停下来，除非学习能力因不学而萎缩。 -罗伯特·胡钦斯

　　Learning is like rowing upstream, not to advance is to drop back. -Chinese Proverb

　　学如逆水行舟，不进则退。 -中国谚语

　　Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous. -Confucius

　　学而不思则盲，思而不学则怠。 -孔子

　　Learn whatever it may be, whenever you can, and wherever you will. -Chu Hsi

　　无一事而不学，无一时而不学，无一处而不得。 -朱喜

　　Life is short and art is long. -Sophocles

　　人生短暂，学术无涯。 -萨福克里斯

　　Much learning shows how little mortals know. -Francis Young

　　博学而后始知人类所知有限。 -拂朗西斯·杨

　　My life is limited while knowledge is limitless. -Chuang-tze

　　吾生也有涯，而知也无涯。 -庄子

　　Our pride chiefly rests on ignorance. -Gotthold Lessing

　　骄傲主要来自于无知。 -戈特霍尔德·莱辛

　　People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory. -Franklin Roosevelt

　　人会死亡，书却无朽。没有任何人可以丢弃记忆。 -拂兰克林·罗斯福

　　Reading is not merely sympathizing and understanding; it is also critizing and judging. -Virginia Woolf

　　阅读不仅是同情与理解，也是批评与判断。 -拂吉尼亚·伍尔夫

　　Reading is to the mind what exercise it to the body. -Richard Steele

　　读书之于心灵，犹如运动之于身体。 -理查德·蒂尔

　　Students of ancient times all had their teachers. For a teacher is a man who transmits the way, imparts learning, and dispels doubts. No man is born with knowledge, and then, how can a man be free from doubts? If a man has doubts and does not learn from a teacher, his doubts can never be solved. -Han yu

　　古之学者必有师。师者所以传道授业解惑也。人非生而知之者，熟能无惑？惑者不从师。其为惑也终不解矣。 -韩愈

　　Swelled eads are so preoccupied with the few things they know, so that there is no room left for the innumerable things they don't know. -Bernard Show

　　自命不凡者，脑中被其所知的少数事物所占据，以致没有空间去容纳无数其所不知的事物。 -肖伯纳

　　The more a man learns, the more he knows his ignorance. -The Book of Rites

　　学然后知不足。 -礼记

　　The success of revolution hinges on profound learning. -Sun Yat-sen

　　革命的基础在于高深的学问。 -孙中山

　　To be fond of learning is akin to knowledge. To practice with vigor is akin to benevolence. To possess the feeling of shame is akin to courage. -Confucius

　　好学近乎知，力行近乎仁，知耻近乎勇。 -孔子

　　Traveling thousands of miles is better than reading thousands of books. -Chinese Proverb

　　行万里路，胜读万卷书。 -中国谚语

　　What is important to a student's achievement is that he can make gradual progress increasingly and orderly.-Liang Chi-chao

　　学问之功，贵乎循序渐进，经久不息。 -梁启超

　　The brain can be developed just the same as the muscles can be developed, if one will only take the pains to train the mind to think. -Thomas Edison

　　一个人的头脑可以像肌肉一样得到发展，只要你肯不辞辛苦的训练你的心智去思考。 -托马斯·爱迪生

　　Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors; and the most patient of teachers. -C.W.Eliot

　　书籍是人类最宁静很最永恒的朋友，也是最易接近和最具智慧的顾问，还是最有耐心的良师益友。 -C.W.艾略特

　　Life being very short, and the quiet hour of it few; we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.-John Ruskin

　　人生十分短促，宁静的时间又不多；我们不应该浪费宝贵的时间去读毫无价值的书。 -约翰·拉斯金

　　It is more valuable to seek truth than to own it. -Einstein

　　对真理的追求比对真理的占有更为可贵。 -爱因斯坦

　　If well used, books are the best of all things; if abused, among the worst. -R.W.Emerson

　　如果利用得当，书籍就是最好的朋友；反之，如果滥用，它就会变成最坏的东西了。 -R.W.爱默生

　　Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age. -Aristotle

　　学问在成功时是装饰品，在失意时是庇护所，在年老时是供应品。 -亚里士多德

　　People of high intellectual endownments do not require familiar ones in those they love. They are just the persons to appreciate the wholesome gush of natural feeling, the honest affection, the simple joy, the fullness of contentment with what they love. -Hawthorne

　　富有才华的人不要求他们的爱人像自己一样出众。他们所欣赏的只是感情的自然流露、真诚的爱、朴素的乐趣以及与所爱的人在一起时的满足。 -霍桑

　　The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest men of past centuries. -Rene Descartes

　　读好书，如同与先哲们交谈。 -雷内·笛卡尔

　　A great poem is a fountain forever overflowing with the waters of wisdom and delight. -Shelley

　　一首伟大的诗犹如一座喷泉，不断地喷出智慧和快乐的泉水。 -雪莱

　　There are two motives for reading a book: one that you enjoy it; the other that you can boast about it.-Bertrand Russell

　　读书有两种动机：一是从中获得乐趣；另一种则是可以向人夸耀。 -罗素

　　Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge, it is thinking that makes what we read ours.-John Locke

　　阅读只是用堆积的知识来充实大脑；只有思考才能使我们读过的东西真正成为自己的。 -约翰·洛克

　　The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.-R.W.Emerson

　　最深刻的思想或感情就如同地底的矿藏，在等待着同样深沉的头脑与心灵去发现和开采。 -R.W.爱默生

　　I would like to live to study， and not study to live. -Bacon

　　我愿意为了学习而活着，不愿意为了活着而学习。 -培根

　　Conscience is an instinct to judge ourselves in the light of moral laws. It is not a mere faculty; it is a instinct.-Immanuel Kant

　　良知是一种依靠道德准则来批判自己的本能。它不只是一种能力，还是一种本能。 -伊曼纽尔·康德

　　Laziness is like a lock, which bolts you out of the storehouse of information and makes you an intellectual starveling. -Bernard Shaw

　　懒惰就像一把锁，锁住了知识的仓库，使你的智力变得匮乏。 -肖伯纳

　　There is no royal road to learning. -Anthony Trollope

　　学无坦途。 -安东尼·特罗洛普

　　Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting. -Edmund Burke

　　读书不加思考，如同吃东西不经消化。 -埃德蒙·柏克

　　Books are the ever-burning lamps of accumulated wisdom. -G.W.Curtis

　　书籍是积累智慧的明灯。 -G.W.柯蒂斯
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. -Aristotle

　　教育的根是苦涩的，但其果实是香甜的。 -亚里士多德

　　The thinker dies; but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal. -Walter Lippmann

　　思想家会离开人世，但它的思想将永不消亡，人不能永生，思想却可以永存。 -沃尔特·里普曼

　　Education is the movement from darkness to light. -Allan Bloom

　　教育是从黑暗到光明的运动。 -艾伦·布隆

　　Education costs money, but then so does ignorance. -Sir Claus Moser

　　教育需要花费钱，无知照样花费钱。 -克劳斯·莫瑟爵士

　　What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it. -Ezra Pound

　　重要的不是思想，而是思想的深度。 -以斯拉·庞德

　　A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow. -Charles Brower

　　一个新的想法是非常脆弱的，他可能被一声耻笑或一个呵欠扼杀，可能被一句嘲讽刺中身亡，或者因某位权威人士皱一下眉便郁郁而终。-查尔斯·布劳尔

　　Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. -Robert Frost

　　教育是这样一种能力，即在倾听所有事物时不会丧失仪表或自信。 -罗伯特·佛罗斯特

　　Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for the rest of his life. -Chinese Proverb

　　授人以鱼，不如授人以渔。 -中国谚语

　　With talent, you do what you like. With genius, you do what you can. -Jean Ingres

　　有才能的人，做自己喜爱的事；有天赋的人，做自己能做的事。 -简·安格尔

　　The whold art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. -Anatole France

　　教育的整个艺术是唤醒年轻人天然好奇心的艺术，为着以后满足它的目标。 -安纳图勒·佛朗士

　　It requires wisdom to understand wisdom; the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. -Walter Lippman

　　理解智慧需要智慧：如果听众是聋子，音乐什么也不是。 -华尔特·利普曼

　　You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. -Naguib Mahfouz

　　看一个人是否聪明看他的答案；看一个人是否有智慧看他的问题。 -纳吉布·马福兹

　　Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error. -Cicero

　　任何人都可能犯错误，但只有傻瓜才坚持错误。 -西塞罗

　　Love truth, but pardon error. -Voltaire

　　热爱真理，但应宽恕错误。 -伏尔泰

　　Then only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing. -John Powell

　　唯一真正的错误是我们不能从中学到任何东西的错误。 -约翰·鲍威尔

　　In books lies the soul of the whole past time. -Thomas Carlyle

　　书中有所有先贤的全部灵魂。 -托马斯·卡莱尔

　　Who neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future. -Euripides

　　少壮不努力，老大徒伤悲。 -欧里庇德斯

　　All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own. -Goethe

　　我拥有的知识每个人都可能得到，但我的心灵只属于我自己。 -歌德

　　A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight. -Robertson Davies

　　一本真正伟大的书应该在青年时读，然后在成熟后读，最后在老年时还要读。正如一个优美的建筑应该在晨光中看，中午再看，最后在月光中看。 -罗伯逊·戴维斯

　　Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind. -James Lowell

　　书籍是蜜蜂，将花粉从一个头脑传到另一个头脑。 -詹姆斯·罗尼尔

　　What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish. -W.H.Auden

　　大众媒体提供的，不是流行的艺术，而是像食物一样要被消费的娱乐，然后忘记掉，再被新的菜式所替代。 -W.H.奥登

　　Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another. -G.K.Chesterton

　　新闻流行着，但它主要作为虚构流行。生活是一个世界，报纸上看到的生活是另外一个世界。 -G.K.切斯特顿

　　The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper. -Stanislaw Lec

　　对着世界的窗户可能被一份报纸盖住。 -斯坦尼斯罗·勒克

　　The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money. -A.J.Liebling

　　报纸在社会中的功能是提供信息，但它在社会中的角色是赚钱。 -A.J.利布灵

　　Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun. -Marquis

　　思想扣动扳机，然而是直觉装上子弹。 -马尔奎斯

　　Reason is man's faculty for grasping the world by thought, in contradiction intelligence, which is man's ability to manipulate the world with the help of thought. -Erich From

　　理智是人类凭借思想领会世界的能力，才智则相反，是人类借助思想把持世界的能力。 -埃里克·佛洛姆

　　To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god. -Napoleon

　　做一切力所能及的事，这是人；做一切想做的事，这是神。 -拿破仑

　　We tell the public which way the cat is jumping. The public will take care of the cat. -Arthur Sulzberger

　　我们告诉公众猫往哪个方向跳。公众将照顾猫。 -阿瑟·苏兹贝格

　　A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all. -Georges Bernanos

　　思想倘若不引发行动则意义不大，而行动倘若不是源于思想则毫无意义。 -乔治斯·伯那诺斯

　　I am tired of benevolence and eloquence and everything that's proper, and I'm going to cultivate myself and nobody else, and see what will come of that. -John Ruskin

　　我厌倦了仁慈，厌倦了雄辩，厌倦了一切正统，我打算培养自己而不是别人，且来看看效果如何。 -约翰·罗斯金

　　All that is noble is in itself of a quiet nature, and appears to sleep until it is aroused and summoned forth by contrast. -Goethe

　　一切高尚事物本性恬静平淡，仿佛陷于沉睡直到在对比中被激发唤醒。 -歌德

　　Every sort of mastery is an increase of one's freedom. -Henri Amiel

　　每精通一事就增加一分自由。 -亨利·艾米尔

　　You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgements about what is going on. -Harry Truman

　　你永远不能只从一份报纸得到所有的事实。除非你有了所有的事实，你将不能对事态如何发展做出合适的判断。 -哈里·杜鲁门

　　Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. -W.Durant

　　教育是一个逐步发现自己无知的过程。 -W.杜兰特

　　In education we are striving not to teach youth to make a living, but to make a life. -W.A.White

　　教育不是为了教会青年人谋生，而是教会他们创造生活。 -W.A.怀特

　　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适应世界；不明事理的人想使世界适应自己。 -肖伯纳

　　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。 -C.达罗

　　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。 -马克·吐温

　　Culture itself is neither education nor law making, it is an atmosphere and a heritage. -H.L.Menken

　　文化本身既不是教育，也不是立法，它是一种氛围，一种遗产。 -H.L.门
Out of sight, out of mind.

　　眼不见，心为静。

　　Patience is the best remedy.

　　忍耐是良药。

　　Penny wise, pound foolish.

　　贪小便宜吃大亏。

　　Plain dealing is praised more than practiced.

　　正大光明者，说到的多，做到的少。

　　Please the eye and plague the heart.

　　贪图一时快活，必然留下隐祸。

　　Pleasure comes through toil.

　　苦尽甘来。

　　Pour water into a sieve.

　　竹篮子打水一场空。

　　Practice makes perfect.

　　熟能生巧。

　　Praise is not pudding.

　　恭维话不能当饭吃。

　　Praise makes good men better, and bad men worse.

　　好人越夸越好，坏人越夸越糟。

　　Prefer loss to unjust gain.

　　宁可吃亏，不贪便宜。

　　Prevention is better than cure.

　　预防胜于治疗。

　　Pride goes before, and shame comes after.

　　骄傲使人落后。

　　Promise is debt.

　　一诺千金。

　　Proverbs are the daughters of daily experience.

　　谚语是日常经验的结晶。

　　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.

　　开卷有益。

　　Reading is to the mind while exercise to the body.

　　读书健脑，运动强身。

　　Respect yourself, or no one else will respect you.

　　要人尊敬，必须自重。

　　Rome is not built in a day.

　　冰冻三尺，非一日之寒。

　　Saying is one thing and doing another.

　　言行不一。

　　Seeing is believing.

　　眼见为实。

　　Seek the truth from facts.

　　实事求是。

　　Send a wise man on an errand, and say nothing to him.

　　智者当差，不用交代。

　　Set a thief to catch a thief.

　　以贼捉贼。

　　Short accounts make long friends.

　　好朋友勤算账。

　　Something is better than nothing.

　　聊胜于无。

　　Soon learn, soon forgotten.

　　学得快，忘得快。

　　Soon ripe, soon rotten.

　　熟得快，烂得快。

　　Speech is silver, silence is gold.

　　能言是银，沉默是金。

　　Still water run deep.

　　静水常深。

　　Strike the iron while it is hot.

　　趁热打铁。

　　Success belongs to the persevering.

　　坚持就是胜利。

　　Take things as they come.

　　既来之，则安之。

　　Talking mends no holes.

　　空谈无补。

　　Talk of the devil and he will appear.

　　说曹操，曹操就到。

　　Tall trees catch much wind.

　　树大招风。

　　Teach others by your example.

　　躬亲示范。

　　The best hearts are always the bravest.

　　无私者无畏。

　　The best man stumbles.

　　伟人也有犯错时。

　　The cat shuts its eyes when stealing.

　　掩耳盗铃。

　　The danger past and God forgotten.

　　过河拆桥。

　　The darkest hour is nearest the dawn.

　　黎明前的黑暗。

　　The darkest place is under the candlestick.

　　烛台底下最暗。

　　The devil knows many things because he is old.

　　老马识途。

　　The devil sometimes speaks the truth.

　　魔鬼有时也会说真话。

　　The die is cast.

　　木已成舟。

　　The early bird catches the worm.

　　早起的鸟儿有虫吃。

　　The end justifies the means.

　　只要目的正当，可以不择手段。

　　The end makes all equal.

　　死亡面前，人人平等。

　　The eye is bigger than the belly.

　　贪多嚼不烂。

　　The farthest way about is the nearest way home.

　　抄近路反而绕远路。

　　The finest diamond must be cut.

　　玉不琢，不成器。

　　The fire is the test of gold, adversity of strong man.

　　烈火验真金，艰难磨意志。

　　The first step is the only difficulty.

　　迈出第一步是最艰难的。

　　The fox knew too much, that's how he lost his tail.

　　机关算尽太聪明，反误了卿卿性命。

　　The fox preys farthest from home.

　　兔子不吃窝边草。

　　The frog in the well knows nothing of the great ocean.

　　坐井观天。

　　The grass is greener on the other side.

　　这山望着那山高。

　　The greatest talkers are always least doers.

　　语言的巨人总是行动的矮子。

　　The higher up, the greater the fall.

　　爬得高，摔得惨。

　　The leopard cannot change its spots.

　　本性难移。

　　The more noble, the more humble.

　　人越高尚，越谦虚。

　　The more wit, the less courage.

　　初生牛犊不怕虎。

　　The outsider sees the most of the game.

　　旁观者清。

　　The pen is mightier than the sword.

　　笔能杀人。

　　The pot calls the kettle black.

　　五十步笑百步。

　　There are spots in the sun.

　　太阳也有黑点。

　　There are two sides to every question.

　　问题皆有两面。

　　There is a skeleton in the cupboard.

　　家家有本难念的经。

　　There is kindness to be found everywhere.

　　人间处处有温情。

　　There is no general rule without some exception.

　　任何法规均有例外。

　　There is no medicine against death.

　　没有长生不老药。

　　There is no place like home.

　　金窝银窝不如咱的狗窝。

　　There is no royal road to learning.

　　书山有路勤为径，学海无涯苦作舟。

　　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.

　　水能载舟，亦能覆舟。

　　The wise man knows he knows nothing, the fool thinks he knows all.

　　清者自清，浊者自浊。

　　The wolf has a winning game when the shepherds quarrel.

　　螳螂捕蝉，黄雀在后。

　　The world is a ladder for some to go up and others to go down.

　　世界如阶梯，有人上有人下。

　　The world is but a little place, after all.

　　海内存知己，天涯若比邻。

　　Think twice before you do.

　　三思而后行。

　　Things at the worst will mend.

　　否极泰来。

　　Time and tide wait for no man.

　　时不我待。

　　Time cures all things.

　　时间是医治一切创伤的良药。

　　Time flies.

　　光阴似箭。

　　Time is money.

　　时间就是金钱。

　　Time lost cannot be won again.

　　时光流逝，不可复得。

　　Time past cannot be called back again.

　　时间不能倒流。

　　Time tries all.

　　路遥知马力，日久见人心。

　　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.

　　人非圣贤，孰能无过。

　　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.

　　人贵有自知之明。

　　Tomorrow never comes.

　　我生待明日，万事成蹉跎。

　　Too much familiarity breeds contempt.

　　过分熟悉会使人互不服气。

　　Too much knowledge makes the head bald.

　　学问太多催人老。

　　Too much liberty spills all.

　　自由放任，一事无成。

　　Too much praise is a burden.

　　过多夸奖，反成负担。

　　To save time is to lengthen life.

　　节约时间就是延长生命。

　　Touch pitch, and you will be defiled.

　　常在河边走，哪有不湿鞋。

　　Troubles never come singly.

　　福无双至，祸不单行。

　　Truth never grows old.

　　真理永存。

　　Turn over a new leaf.

　　洗心革面，改过自新。

　　Two dogs strive for a bone, and a third runs away with it.

　　鹬蚌相争，渔翁得利。

　　Two heads are better than one.

　　一个好汉三个帮。

　　Two of a trade seldom agree.

　　同行是冤家。

　　Two wrongs do not make a right.

　　别人错了，不等于你对了。

　　Unity is strength.

　　团结就是力量。

　　Unpleasant advice is a good medicine.

　　忠言逆耳利于行。

　　Until all is over one's ambition never dies.

　　不到黄河心不死。

　　Venture a small fish to catch a great one.

　　吃小亏占大便宜。

　　Virtue is fairer far than beauty.

　　美德远远胜过美貌。

　　Walls have ears.

　　小心隔墙有耳。

　　Wash your dirty linen at home.

　　家丑不可外扬。

　　Water dropping day by day wears the hardest rock away.

　　滴水穿石。

　　Wealth is nothing without health.

　　失去健康，钱再多也没用。

　　We know not what is good until we have lost it.

　　好东西，失去了才明白。

　　Well begun is half done.

　　好的开始，是成功的一半。

　　We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.

　　井干方知水可贵。

　　We shall never have friends if we expect to find them without fault.

　　欲求完美无缺的朋友必然成为孤家寡人。

　　We should never remember the benefits we have offered nor forget the favor received.

　　自己的好事别去提，别人的恩惠要铭记。

　　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.

　　儿时所学，终生难忘。

　　What's done cannot be undone.

　　生米煮成熟饭了。

　　What's lost is lost.

　　失者不可复得。

　　What we do willingly is easy.

　　愿者不难。

　　When in Rome, do as the Romans do.

　　入国问禁，入乡随俗。

　　When everybody's somebody then nobody's anybody.

　　人人都伟大，世间没豪杰。

　　When sorrow is asleep, wake it not.

　　伤心旧事别重提。

　　When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.

　　新仇旧恨，齐上心头。

　　When the fox preaches, take care of your geese.

　　黄鼠狼给鸡拜年，没安好心。

　　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，不怕没柴烧。

　　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.

　　好人不长命。

　　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.

　　蜡烛不能两头点，精力不可过分耗。

　　You cannot eat your cake and have it.

　　鱼与熊掌，不可得兼。

　　You can take a horse to the water but you cannot make him drink.

　　强扭的瓜不甜。

　　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.

　　是驴子是马，拉出来遛遛
Genius is nothing but labor and diligence.

　　天才不过是勤奋而已。

　　Give a dog a bad name and hang him.

　　众口铄金，积毁销骨。

　　God helps those who help themselves.

　　自助者天助。

　　Gold will not buy anything.

　　黄金并非万能。

　　Good for good is natural, good for evil is manly.

　　以德报德是常理，以德报怨大丈夫。

　　Good health is over wealth.

　　健康是最大的财富。

　　Good medicine for health tastes bitter to the mouth.

　　良药苦口利于病。

　　Good watch prevents misfortune.

　　谨慎消灾。

　　Great barkers are no biters.

　　好狗不挡道。

　　Great hopes make great man.

　　伟大的抱负造就伟大的人物。

　　Great minds think alike.

　　英雄所见略同。

　　Great men have great faults.

　　英雄犯大错误。

　　Great men's sons seldom do well.

　　富不过三代。

　　Great trees are good for nothing but shade.

　　大树底下好乘凉。

　　Great wits have short memories.

　　贵人多忘事。

　　Greedy folks have long arms.

　　心贪手长。

　　Guilty consciences make men cowards.

　　做贼心虚。

　　Habit cures habit.

　　心病还需心药医。

　　Handsome is he who does handsomely.

　　行为漂亮才算美。

　　Happiness takes no account of time.

　　欢乐不觉时光过。

　　Happy is he who owes nothing.

　　要想活得痛快，身上不能背债。

　　Happy is the man who learns from the misfortunes of others.

　　吸取他人教训，自己才会走运。

　　Harm set, harm get.

　　害人害己。

　　Hasty love, soon cold.

　　一见钟情难维久。

　　Health is better than wealth.

　　健康胜过财富。

　　Health is happiness.

　　健康就是幸福。

　　Hear all parties.

　　兼听则明。

　　Heaven never helps the man who will not act.

　　自己不动，叫天何用。

　　He is a fool that forgets himself.

　　愚者忘乎所以。

　　He is a good friend that speaks well of us behind our backs.

　　背后说好话，才是真朋友。

　　He is a wise man who speaks little.

　　聪明不是挂在嘴上。

　　He is lifeless that is faultless.

　　只有死人才不犯错误。

　　He is not fit to command others that cannot command himself.

　　正人先正己。

　　He is not laughed at that laughs at himself first.

　　自嘲者不会让人见笑。

　　He is wise that is honest.

　　诚实者最明智。

　　He knows most who speaks least.

　　大智若愚。

　　He laughs best who laughs last.

　　谁笑到最后，谁笑得最好。

　　He sets the fox to keep the geese.

　　引狼入室。

　　He that climbs high falls heavily.

　　爬得越高，摔得越重。

　　He that will not work shall not eat.

　　不劳动者不得食。

　　He who does not advance loses ground.

　　逆水行舟，不进则退。

　　He who makes constant complaint gets little compassion.

　　经常诉苦，没人同情。

　　He who makes no mistakes makes nothing.

　　想不犯错误，就一事无成。

　　He who risks nothing gains nothing.

　　收获与风险并存。

　　History repeats itself.

　　历史往往重演。

　　Honesty is the best policy.

　　做人诚信为本。

　　Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

　　抱最好的愿望，做最坏的打算。

　　I cannot be your friend and your flatterer too.

　　朋友不能阿谀奉承。

　　If a man deceives me once, shame on him, if he deceives me twice, shame on me.

　　上当一回头，再多就可耻。

　　If you make yourself an ass, don't complain if people ride you.

　　人善被人欺，马善被人骑。

　　If your ears glow, someone is talking of you.

　　耳朵发烧，有人念叨。

　　If you run after two hares, you will catch neither.

　　脚踏两条船，必定落空。

　　If you sell the cow, you sell her milk too.

　　杀鸡取卵。

　　If you venture nothing, you will have nothing.

　　不入虎穴，焉得虎子。

　　If you want knowledge, you must toil for it.

　　要想求知，就得吃苦。

　　Industry is the parent of success.

　　勤奋是成功之母。

　　It is better to die when life is a disgrace.

　　宁为玉碎，不为瓦全。

　　It is easier to get money than to keep it.

　　挣钱容易攒钱难。

　　It is easy to be wise after the event.

　　事后诸葛亮好当。

　　It is easy to open a shop but hard to keep it always open.

　　创业容易守业难。

　　It is hard to please all.

　　众口难调。

　　It is never too old to learn.

　　活到老，学到老。

　　It is no use crying over spilt milk.

　　覆水难收。

　　It is the first step that costs troublesome.

　　万事开头难。

　　It is the unforeseen that always happens.

　　天有不测风云，人有旦夕祸福。

　　It is too late to grieve when the chance is past.

　　坐失良机，后悔已迟。

　　It never rains but it pours.

　　不鸣则已，一鸣惊人。

　　It takes three generations to make a gentleman.

　　十年树木，百年树人。

　　Jack of all trades and master of none.

　　门门精通，样样稀松。

　　Judge not from appearances.

　　人不可貌相，海不可斗量。

　　Justice has long arms.

　　天网恢恢，疏而不漏。

　　Keep good men company and you shall be of the number.

　　近朱者赤，近墨者黑。

　　Kill two birds with one stone.

　　一箭双雕。

　　Kings go mad, and the people suffer for it.

　　君王发狂，百姓遭殃。

　　Kings have long arms.

　　普天之下，莫非王土。

　　Knowledge is power.

　　知识就是力量。

　　Knowledge makes humble, ignorance makes proud.

　　博学使人谦逊，无知使人骄傲。

　　Learn and live.

　　活着，为了学习。

　　Learning makes a good man better and ill man worse.

　　好人越学越好，坏人越学越坏。

　　Learn not and know not.

　　不学无术。

　　Learn to walk before you run.

　　先学走，再学跑。

　　Let bygones be bygones.

　　过去的就让它过去吧。

　　Let sleeping dogs lie.

　　别惹麻烦。

　　Let the cat out of the bag.

　　泄漏天机。

　　Lies can never changes fact.

　　谎言终究是谎言。

　　Lies have short legs.

　　谎言站不长。

　　Life is but a span.

　　人生苦短。

　　Life is half spent before we know what it is.

　　人过半生，方知天命。

　　Life is not all roses.

　　人生并不是康庄大道。

　　Life without a friend is death.

　　没有朋友，虽生犹死。

　　Like a rat in a hole.

　　瓮中之鳖。

　　Like author， like book.

　　文如其人。

　　Like father， like son.

　　有其父必有其子。

　　Like for like.

　　一报还一报。

　　Like knows like.

　　惺惺相惜。

　　Like mother, like daughter.

　　有其母必有其女。

　　Like teacher, like pupil.

　　什么样的老师教什么样的学生。

　　Like tree, like fruit.

　　羊毛出在羊身上。

　　Little things amuse little minds.

　　小人无大志。

　　Look before you leap.

　　摸清情况再行动。

　　Lookers-on see more than players.

　　当局者迷，旁观者清。

　　Losers are always in the wrong.

　　胜者为王，败者为寇。

　　Lost time is never found again.

　　岁月既往，一去不回。

　　Love at first sight.

　　一见钟情。

　　Love cannot be compelled.

　　爱情不能强求。

　　Love is blind.

　　爱情是盲目的。

　　Love is full of trouble.

　　爱情充满烦恼。

　　Love is never without jealousy.

　　没有妒忌就没有爱情。

　　Love me, love my dog.

　　爱屋及乌。

　　Make hay while the sun shines.

　　良机勿失。

　　Make your enemy your friend.

　　化敌为友。

　　Man is the soul of the universe.

　　人是万物之灵。

　　Man proposes, God disposes.

　　谋事在人，成事在天。

　　Many hands make light work.

　　众人拾柴火焰高。

　　Many heads are better than one.

　　三个臭皮匠，赛过诸葛亮。

　　Many things grow in the garden that were never sown there.

　　有心栽花花不发，无心插柳柳成荫。

　　Measure for measure.

　　针锋相对。

　　Misfortunes never come alone.

　　祸不单行。

　　Misfortune tests the sincerity of friends.

　　患难见真情。

　　Money isn't everything.

　　钱不是万能的。

　　Murder will out.

　　纸包不住火。

　　My son is my son till he has got him a wife, but my daughter is my daughter all the days of her life.

　　儿子婚前是儿子，女儿终生是女儿。

　　Nature is the true law.

　　天行有常，不为尧存，不为桀亡。

　　Necessity is the mother of invention.

　　需要是发明的动力。

　　Never fish in trouble water.

　　不要混水摸鱼。

　　Never judge from appearances.

　　不可以貌取人。

　　Never say die.

　　永不言败。

　　Never too old to learn, never too late to turn.

　　亡羊补牢，为时未晚。

　　New wine in old bottles.

　　旧瓶装新酒。

　　No cross, no crown.

　　不经历风雨，怎么见彩虹。

　　No garden without its weeds.

　　没有不长草的园子。

　　No living man all things can.

　　世上没有万事通。

　　No man can do two things at once.

　　一心不可二用。

　　No man is born wise or learned.

　　没有生而知之者。

　　No man is content.

　　人心不足蛇吞象。

　　No man is wise at all times.

　　聪明一世，糊涂一时。

　　None are so blind as those who won't see.

　　视而不见。

　　None are so deaf as those who won't hear.

　　充耳不闻。

　　No news is good news.

　　没有消息就是好消息。

　　No one can call back yesterday.

　　昨日不会重现。

　　No pains, no gains.

　　没有付出就没有收获。

　　No pleasure without pain.

　　没有苦就没有乐。

　　No rose without a thorn.

　　没有不带刺的玫瑰。

　　No sweet without sweat.

　　先苦后甜。

　　No smoke without fire.

　　无风不起浪。

　　Nothing brave, nothing have.

　　不入虎穴，焉得虎子。

　　Nothing dries sooner than a tear.

　　眼泪干得最快。

　　Nothing in the world is difficult for one who sets his mind to it.

　　世上无难事，只怕有心人。

　　Nothing is difficult to the man who will try.

　　世上无难事，只要肯登攀。

　　Nothing seek, nothing find.

　　没有追求就没有收获。

　　Nothing is so necessary for travelers as languages.

　　外出旅行，语言最要紧。

　　Nothing is to be got without pains but poverty.

　　世上唯有贫穷可以不劳而获。

　　Not to advance is to go back.

　　不进则退。

　　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.

　　勇者无惧。

　　Obedience is the first duty of a soldier.

　　军人以服从命令为天职。

　　Observation is the best teacher.

　　观察是最好的老师。

　　Offense is the best defense.

　　进攻是最好的防御。

　　Old friends and old wines are best.

　　陈酒味醇，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，两次小。

　　Once a thief, always a thief.

　　偷盗一次，做贼一世。

　　Once bitten, twice shy.

　　一朝被蛇咬，十年怕井绳。

　　One boy is a boy, two boys half a boy, three boys no boy.

　　一个和尚挑水喝，两个和尚抬水喝，三个和尚没水喝。

　　One cannot put back the clock.

　　时钟不能倒转。

　　One eyewitness is better than ten hearsays.

　　百闻不如一见。

　　One false move may lose the game.

　　一着不慎，满盘皆输。

　　One good turn deserves another.

　　行善积德。

　　One hour today is worth two tomorrow.

　　争分夺秒效率高。

　　One man's fault is other man's lesson.

　　前车之鉴。

　　One never loses anything by politeness.

　　讲礼貌不吃亏。

　　One swallow does not make a summer.

　　一燕不成夏。

　　One's words reflect one's thinking.

　　言为心声。

　　Out of debt, out of danger.

　　无债一身轻。

　　Out of office, out of danger.

　　无官一身轻
A bad beginning makes a bad ending.

　　不善始者不善终。

　　A bad thing never dies.

　　遗臭万年。

　　A bad workman always blames his tools.

　　不会撑船怪河弯。

　　A bird in the hand is worth than two in the bush.

　　一鸟在手胜过双鸟在林。

　　A boaster and a liar are cousins-german.

　　吹牛与说谎本是同宗。

　　A bully is always a coward.

　　色厉内荏。

　　A burden of one's choice is not felt.

　　爱挑的担子不嫌重。

　　A candle lights others and consumes itself.

　　蜡烛照亮别人，却毁灭了自己。

　　A cat has 9 lives.

　　猫有九条命。

　　A cat may look at a king.

　　人人平等。

　　A close mouth catches no flies.

　　病从口入。

　　A constant guest is never welcome.

　　常客令人厌。

　　Actions speak louder than words.

　　事实胜于雄辩。

　　Adversity leads to prosperity.

　　穷则思变。

　　Adversity makes a man wise， not rich.

　　逆境出人才。

　　A fair death honors the whole life.

　　死得其所，流芳百世。

　　A faithful friend is hard to find.

　　知音难觅。

　　A fall into a pit, a gain in your wit.

　　吃一堑，长一智。

　　A fox may grow gray, but never good.

　　江山易改，本性难移。

　　A friend in need is a friend indeed.

　　患难见真情。

　　A friend is easier lost than found.

　　得朋友难，失朋友易。

　　A friend is never known till a man has need.

　　需要之时方知友。

　　A friend without faults will never be found.

　　没有十全十美的朋友。

　　'After you' is good manners.

　　“您先请”是礼貌。

　　A good beginning is half done.

　　良好的开端是成功的一半。

　　A good beginning makes a good ending.

　　善始者善终。

　　A good book is a good friend.

　　好书如挚友。

　　A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.

　　一本好书，相伴一生。

　　A good conscience is a soft pillow.

　　不做亏心事，不怕鬼叫门。

　　A good fame is better than a good face.

　　美名胜过美貌。

　　A good husband makes a good wife.

　　夫善则妻贤。

　　A good medicine tastes bitter.

　　良药苦口。

　　A good wife health is a man's best wealth.

　　妻贤身体好是男人最大的财富。

　　A great talker is a great liar.

　　说大话者多谎言。

　　A hedge between keeps friendship green.

　　君子之交淡如水。

　　A joke never gains an enemy but loses a friend.

　　戏谑不能化敌为友，只能使人失去朋友。

　　A leopard cannot change its spots.

　　积习难改。

　　A liar is not believed when he speaks the truth.

　　说谎者即使讲真话也没人相信。

　　A light heart lives long.

　　静以修身。

　　A little body often harbors a great soul.

　　浓缩的都是精品。

　　A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

　　一知半解，自欺欺人。

　　A little pot is soon hot.

　　狗肚子盛不得四两油。

　　All are brave when the enemy flies.

　　敌人逃窜时，人人都成了勇士。

　　All good things come to an end.

　　天下没有不散的筵席。

　　All rivers run into sea.

　　海纳百川。

　　All roads lead to Rome.

　　条条大路通罗马。

　　All that ends well is well.

　　结果好，就一切都好。

　　All that glitters is not gold.

　　闪光的不一定都是金子。

　　All things are difficult before they are easy.

　　凡事总是由难而易。

　　All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

　　只会用功不玩耍，聪明孩子也变傻。

　　A man becomes learned by asking questions.

　　不耻下问才能有学问。

　　A man can do no more than he can.

　　凡事都应量力而行。

　　A man cannot spin and reel at the same time.

　　一心不能二用。

　　A man is known by his friends.

　　什么人交什么朋友。

　　A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds.

　　光说空话不做事，犹如花园光长刺。

　　A man without money is no man at all.

　　一分钱难倒英雄汉。

　　A merry heart goes all the way.

　　心旷神怡，事事顺利。

　　A miss is as good as a mile.

　　失之毫厘，差之千里。

　　A mother's love never changes.

　　母爱永恒。

　　An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

　　一天一苹果，不用请医生。

　　A new broom sweeps clean.

　　新官上任三把火。

　　An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.

　　以眼还眼，以牙还牙。

　　An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening.

　　一日之计在于晨。

　　An old dog cannot learn new tricks.

　　老狗学不出新把戏。

　　An ounce of luck is better than a pound of wisdom.

　　聪明才智，不如运气。

　　An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

　　预防为主，治疗为辅。

　　A rolling stone gathers no moss.

　　滚石不生苔，转业不聚财。

　　As a man sows, so he shall reap.

　　种瓜得瓜，种豆得豆。

　　A single flower does not make a spring.

　　一花独放不是春，百花齐放春满园。

　　A snow year, a rich year.

　　瑞雪兆丰年。

　　A sound mind in a sound body.

　　健全的精神寓于健康的身体。

　　A still tongue makes a wise head.

　　寡言者智。

　　A stitch in time saves nine.

　　小洞不补，大洞吃苦。

　　A straight foot is not afraid of a crooked shoe.

　　身正不怕影子斜。

　　A wise head makes a close mouth.

　　真人不露相，露相非真人。

　　A word spoken is past recalling.

　　一言既出，驷马难追。

　　A year's plan starts with spring.

　　一年之计在于春。

　　A young idler, an old beggar.

　　少壮不努力，老大徒伤悲。

　　Bad news has wings.

　　好事不出门，坏事传千里。

　　Barking dogs seldom bite.

　　吠犬不咬人。

　　Beauty lies in the love's eyes.

　　情人眼里出西施。

　　Be swift to hear, slow to speak.

　　听宜敏捷，言宜缓行。

　　Better late than never.

　　不怕慢，单怕站。

　　Better to ask the way than go astray.

　　问路总比迷路好。

　　Between friends all is common.

　　朋友之间不分彼此。

　　Birds of a feather flock together.

　　物以类聚，人以群分。

　　Blood is thicker than water.

　　血浓于水。

　　Blood will have blood.

　　血债血偿。

　　Books and friends should be few but good.

　　读书如交友，应求少而精。

　　Business is business.

　　公事公办。

　　Business is the salt of life.

　　事业是人生的第一需要。

　　By reading we enrich the mind, by conversation we polish it.

　　读书使人充实，交谈使人精明。

　　Cannot see the wood for the trees.

　　一叶障目，不见泰山。

　　Care and diligence bring luck.

　　谨慎和勤奋才能抓住机遇。

　　Caution is the parent of safety.

　　小心驶得万年船。

　　Cheats never prosper.

　　骗人发不了财。

　　Children are what the mothers are.

　　耳濡目染，身教言传。

　　Choose an author as you choose a friend.

　　择书如择友。

　　Come what may, heaven won't fall.

　　做你的吧，天塌不下来。

　　Complacency is the enemy of study.

　　学习的敌人是自己的满足。

　　Confidence in yourself is the first step on the road to success.

　　自信是走向成功的第一步。

　　Constant dripping wears away a stone.

　　水滴石穿，绳锯木断。

　　Content is better than riches.

　　知足者常乐。

　　Count one's chickens before they are hatched.

　　蛋未孵先数雏。

　　Courtesy on one side only lasts not long.

　　来而不往非礼也。

　　Creep before you walk.

　　循序渐进。

　　Cry for the moon.

　　海底捞月。

　　Custom is a second nature.

　　习惯是后天养成的。

　　Custom makes all things easy.

　　有个好习惯，事事皆不难。

　　Diamond cuts diamond.

　　强中自有强中手。

　　Do as the Romans do.

　　入乡随俗。

　　Do as you would be done by.

　　己所不欲，勿施于人。

　　Doing is better than saying.

　　与其挂在嘴上，不如落实在行动上。

　　Do it now.

　　机不可失，时不再来。

　　Do nothing by halves.

　　凡事不可半途而废。

　　Don't claim to know what you don't know.

　　不要不懂装懂。

　　Don't have too many irons in the fire.

　　不要揽事过多。

　　Don't make a mountain out of a molehill.

　　不要小题大做。

　　Don't put off till tomorrow what should be done today.

　　今日事，今日毕。

　　Don't put the cart before the horse.

　　不要本末倒置。

　　Don't trouble trouble until trouble troubles you.

　　不要自找麻烦。

　　Don't try to teach your grandmother to suck eggs.

　　不要班门弄斧。

　　Do well and have well.

　　善有善报。

　　Each bird love to hear himself sing.

　　孤芳自赏。

　　Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

　　早睡早起身体好。

　　Easier said than done.

　　说得容易，做得难。

　　Easy come, easy go.

　　来也匆匆，去也匆匆。

　　Eat to live, but not live to eat.

　　人吃饭是为了活着，但活着不是为了吃饭。

　　Empty vessels make the greatest sound.

　　实磨无声空磨响，满瓶不动半瓶摇。

　　Envy has no holidays.

　　忌妒之人无宁日。

　　Even Homer sometimes nods.

　　智者千虑，必有一失。

　　Even reckoning makes long friends.

　　亲兄弟，明算账。

　　Every advantage has its disadvantage.

　　有利必有弊。

　　Everybody's business is nobody's business.

　　人人负责，等于没人负责。

　　Every day is not Sunday.

　　好景不常在。

　　Every dog has his day.

　　谁都有得意的时候。

　　Every door may be shut, but death's door.

　　人生在世，唯死难逃。

　　Every heart has its own sorrow.

　　各人有各人的苦恼。

　　Every little helps a mickle.

　　聚沙成塔，集腋成裘。

　　Every man for himself, and the devil takes the hindmost.

　　人不为己，天诛地灭。

　　Every man has his faults.

　　金无足赤，人无完人。

　　Every man has his hobbyhorse.

　　萝卜青菜，各有所爱。

　　Every man has his weak side.

　　人人都有弱点。

　　Every man is the architect of his own fortune.

　　自己的命运自己掌握。

　　Every minute counts.

　　分秒必争。

　　Every mother's child is handsome.

　　孩子是自己的好。

　　Every potter praises hit pot.

　　王婆卖瓜，自卖自夸。

　　Everything is good when new, but friends when old.

　　东西是新的好，朋友是老的亲。

　　Example is better then percept.

　　说一遍，不如做一遍。

　　Experience is the father of wisdom and memory the mother.

　　经验是智慧之父，记忆是智慧之母。

　　Experience must be bought.

　　吃一堑，长一智。

　　Fact speak louder than words.

　　事实胜于雄辩。

　　Failure is the mother of success.

　　失败是成功之母。

　　False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

　　明枪易躲，暗箭难防。

　　Far from eye, far from heart.

　　眼不见，心不烦。

　　Far water does not put out near fire.

　　远水救不了近火。

　　Faults are thick where love is thin.

　　一朝情意淡，样样不顺眼。

　　Fear always springs from ignorance.

　　恐惧源于无知。

　　Fields have eyes, and woods have ears.

　　隔墙有耳。

　　Fire and water have no mercy.

　　水火无情。

　　Fire is a good servant but a bad master.

　　火是一把双刃剑。

　　First come, first served.

　　先来后到。

　　First impressions are half the battle.

　　初次见面，印象最深。

　　First think and then speak.

　　先想后说。

　　Fools grow without watering.

　　朽木不可雕。

　　Fool's haste is no speed.

　　欲速则不达。

　　Fools has fortune.

　　呆人有呆福。

　　Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much from fools.

　　愚者不学无术，智者不耻下问。

　　Forbidden fruit is sweet.

　　禁果格外香。

　　Fortune favors those who use their judgement.

　　机遇偏爱善断之人。

　　Fortune knocks once at least at every man's gate.

　　风水轮流转。

　　Four eyes see more than two.

　　集思广益。

　　Friends agree best at distance.

　　朋友之间也会保持距离。

　　Friends are thieves of time.

　　朋友是时间的窃贼。

　　Friends must part.

　　再好的朋友也有分手的时候

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