吃一塹,長一智。
2、A guest should suit the convenience of the host.
客隨主便。
3、A letter from home is a priceless treasure.
家書抵萬金。
4、All rivers run into the sea.
殊途同歸。
5、All time is no time when it is past.
機不可失,時不再來。
6、To be both a speaker of words and a doer of deeds.
既當演說家,又做實干家。
7、Variety is the spice of life.
變化是生活的調(diào)味品。
8、Bad times make a good man.
艱難困苦出能人。
9、There is no royal road to learning.
求知無坦途。
10、Doubt is the key to knowledge.
懷疑是知識的鑰匙。
11、The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
世界上對勇氣的最大考驗是忍受失敗而不喪失信心。
12、A man's best friends are his ten fingers.
人最好的朋友是自己的十個手指。
13、Only they who fulfill their duties in everyday matters will fulfill them on great occasions.
只有在日常生活中盡責的人才會在重大時刻盡責。
14、The shortest way to do many things is to only one thing at a time.
做許多事情的捷徑就是一次只做一件事。
15、Sow nothing, reap nothing.
春不播,秋不收。
16、Life is real, life is earnest.
人生真實,人生誠摯。
17、Life would be too smooth if it had no rubs in it.
生活若無波折險阻,就會過于平淡無奇。
18、Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions form insufficient premises.
生活是一種藝術(shù),要在不充足的前提下得出充足的結(jié)論。
19、Life is fine and enjoyable, yet you must learn to enjoy your fine life.
人生是美好的,但要學會如何享用美好的生活。
20、Life is but a hard and tortuous journey.
人生即是一段艱難曲折的旅程,人生無坦途。
21、Life is a horse, and either you ride it or it rides you.
人生像一匹馬,你不駕馭它,它便駕馭你。
22、Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.
人生是一幅大畫布,你應(yīng)該努力繪出絢麗多彩的畫面。
23、Life is like music. It must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule.
人生如一首樂曲,要用樂感,感情和直覺去譜寫,不能只按樂律行事。
24、Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
生活是繪畫,不是做算術(shù)。
25、The wealth of the mind is the only wealth.
精神的財富是唯一的財富。
26、You can't judge a tree by its bark.
人不可貌相。
27、Sharp tools make good work.
工欲善其事,必先利其器。
28、Wasting time is robbing oneself.
浪費時間就是掠奪自己。
29、Nurture passes nature.
教養(yǎng)勝過天性。
30、There is no garden without its weeds.
沒有不長雜草的花園。
31、A man is only as good as what he loves.
一個人要用他所愛的東西有多好來衡量。
32、Wealth is the test of a man's character.
財富是對一個人品格的試金石。
33、The best hearts are always the bravest.
心靈最高尚的人,也總是最勇敢的人。
34、One never lose anything by politeness.
講禮貌不吃虧。
35、There's only one corner of the universe you can be sure of improving, and that's your own self.
這個宇宙中只有一個角落你肯定可以改進,那就是你自己。
36、The world is like a mirror: Frown at itand it frowns at you; smile, and it smiles too.
世界猶如一面鏡子:朝它皺眉它就朝你皺眉,朝它微笑它也吵你微笑。
37、Death comes to all, but great achievements raise a monument which shall endure until the sun grows old.
死亡無人能免,但非凡的成就會樹起一座紀念碑,它將一直立到太陽冷卻之時。
38、The reason why a great man is great is that he resolves to be a great man.
偉人之所以偉大,是因為他立志要成為偉大的人。
39、Suffering is the most powerful teacher of life.
苦難是人生最偉大的老師。
40、A bosom friend afar brings a distant land near.
海內(nèi)存知己,天涯若比鄰。
41、A common danger causes common action.
同舟共濟。
42、A contented mind is a continual / perpetual feast.
知足常樂。
43、An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
一日一個蘋果,身體健康不求醫(yī)。
44、As heroes think, so thought Bruce.
英雄所見略同。
45、A young idler, an old beggar.
少壯不努力,老大徒傷悲。
46、Behind the mountains there are people to be found.
天外有天,山外有山。
47、Bad luck often brings good luck.
塞翁失馬,安知非福。
48、Business is business.
公事公辦。
49、Clumsy birds have to start flying early.
笨鳥先飛。
50、Do one thing at a time, and do well.
一次只做一件事,做到最好!
51、Custom makes all things easy.
習慣成自然。
52、He would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom.
千里之行始于足下。
53、Home is where the heart is.
心在哪里,哪里就是家。
54、If you are not inside a house, you don not know about its leaking.
不在屋里,不知漏雨。(親身經(jīng)歷才有體會。)
55、It is never too late to mend.
亡羊補牢,猶未為晚。
56、It six of one and half a dozen of the other.
彼此彼此。
57、Desire has no rest.
人的欲望無止境。
58、Difficult the first time, easy the second.
一回生,二回熟。
59、Do not change horses in mid-stream.
別在河流中間換馬。
60、Do not have too many irons in the fire.
貪多嚼不爛。
61、Do not teach fish to swim.
不要班門弄斧。
62、East or west, home is the best.
東奔西跑,還是家里好。
63、Experience is the best teacher.
實踐出真知。
64、Faith can move mountains.
精誠所至,金石為開。
65、First impressions are half the battle.
先入為主。
66、Good wine needs no bush.
酒香不怕巷子深。
67、Haste makes waste.
欲速則不達。
68、He that promises too much means nothing.
輕諾者寡信。
69、He who has an art has everywhere a part.
一招鮮,吃遍天。
70、Just has long arms.
天網(wǎng)恢恢,疏而不漏。
71、Keep something for a rainy day.
未雨綢繆。
72、Life is a span.
人生如朝露。
73、Man proposes, God disposes.
謀事在人,成事在天。
74、Meet plot with plot.
將計就計。
75、Merry meet, merry part.
好聚好散。
76、Mind acts upon mind.
心有靈犀一點通。
77、Never hit a man when he is down.
不要落井下石。
78、Never judge by appearances.
切莫以貌取人。
79、No fire without smoke.
無風不起浪。
80、Nurture passes nature.
教養(yǎng)勝過天性。
81、One is never too old to learn.
活到老,學到老。
82、One swallow does not make a summer.
一燕不成夏。(一花獨放不是春。)
83、One who has seen the ocean thinks nothing of mere rivers.
曾經(jīng)滄海難為水。
84、Out of sight, out of mind.
眼不見,心不煩。
85、Practice makes perfect.
熟能生巧。
86、Poverty is stranger to industry.
勤勞之人不受窮。
87、Rome was not built in a day.
羅馬不是一日建成的。(偉業(yè)非一日之功。)
88、Sense comes with age.
老馬識途。
89、Use legs and have legs.
經(jīng)常用腿,健步如飛。
90、Virtue never grows old.
美德常青。
91、Walls have ears.
隔墻有耳。
92、What is done cannot be undone.
覆水難收。
93、Wine in, truth out.
酒后吐真言。
94、So many men, so many minds.
人心各不同。
95、Some thing is learned every time a book is opened.
開卷有益。
96、Strike while the iron is hot.
趁熱打鐵。
97、The car will find its way round the hill when it gets there.
車到山前必有路。
98、The heart is seen in wine.
酒后吐真言。
99、The worse luck now, the better another time.
風水輪流轉(zhuǎn)。
100、Time tries all things.
時間檢驗一切。
一、關(guān)于教育的諺語
1.A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. (H.B.Adams, American historian)
教師的影響是永恒的;無法估計他的影響會有多深遠。(美國歷史學家 亞當斯)
2.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)
3.Better be unboun than untaught, for ignorance is the root of misfortune. (Plato, Ancient Greek phiosopher)
與其不受教育,不知不生,因為無知是不幸的根源。(古希臘哲學家 柏拉圖)
4.Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education:dancing with the feet, with ideas, with works, and ,need I add that one must also be able
to dance with the pen? (Friedrich W.Nietzsche, German philosopher)
所有高尚教育的課程表里都不能沒有各種形式的跳舞:用腳跳舞,用思想跳舞,用言語跳舞,不用說,還需用筆跳舞。(德國哲學家 尼采)
5.Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearsay of children tends towards the formation of character. (Hosea Ballou British cducator)
教育始于母親膝下,孩童耳聽一言一語,均影響其性格的形成。(英國教育家 巴盧)
6.Educaton does not mean teaching people to kow what they do not know ; it means teachng them to behave as they do not behave. (John Ruskin, British art critic)
教育不在于使人知其所未知,而在于按其所未行而行。(英國藝術(shù)評論家 園斯金)
7.Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance. (Durant, American historian)
教育是一個逐步發(fā)現(xiàn)自己無知的過程。(美國歷史學家 杜蘭特)
8.Education is a admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught. (Oscar Wilde, British dramatist)
教育是令人羨慕的東西,但是要不時地記?。悍彩侵档弥赖模瑳]有一個是能夠教會的。(英國劇作家 王爾得)
9.Education has for its object the formation of character. (Herbert Spencer, British philosopher)
教育是以造就人的品質(zhì)為其目標。(英國哲學家 斯賓塞)
10.Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. (George Macaulay Trevelyan British historian)
教育造就了一大批人,他們會讀書,但是不會區(qū)別什么書值得讀。(英國歷史學家 特里維廉)
11.Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire. (William Butler Yeats, lrish poet)
教育不是注滿一桶水,而且點燃一把火。(愛爾蘭詩人 葉芝)
12.Education is the chief defence of nations. (Edmund Bruke, British statesman)
教育是國家的主要防御力量。(英國政治家 伯克)
13.Education is the transmission of civilization. (Will Drant, American historian and essayist)
教育傳播文明。(美國歷史學家、散文家杜蘭特)
14.Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive ; easy to govern but imposible to slave. (Brougham, British statesman)
教育使一個民族容易領(lǐng)導,但是難于驅(qū)使;容易管理,卻不可能奴役。(英國政治家 布羅馬漢姆)
15.Every person has two education, one which he receives from others, and one , more important, which he gives himself. (Edward Gibbon, British historian)
每個人都受兩種教育,一種來自別人,另一種更重要的是來自自己。(英國歷史學家 吉朋)
二、關(guān)于動物的
1.Bird
(1)Kill two birds with one stone.
一箭雙雕;一舉兩得。
(2)A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
雙鳥在林不如一鳥在手。
(3)Birds of a feather flock together.
物以類聚,人以群分。
(4)It's an ill bird that fouls own nest.
家丑不可外揚。
(5)Fine feathers make fine birds.
人要衣裝,馬要鞍。
(6)A bird is known by its note, and a man by his talk.
聽音識鳥,聞言識人。
(7)Each bird loves to hear himself sing.
鳥兒都愛聽自己唱。(自我欣賞)
(8)You cannot catch old birds with chaff.
(粗糠)用粗糠捉不住老鳥。(有
(9)Birds in their little nests agree.
同巢之鳥心兒齊。
2.Cat
(1)A cat has nine lives.
貓有九條命;吉人天相。
(2)Cats hide their claws.
知人知面不知心。
(3)All cats are grey in the dark.
黑暗之中貓都是灰色的。(人未出名時看起來都差不多。)
(4)A gloved cat catches no mice.
戴手套的貓,老鼠抓不到。(不愿吃苦的人成不了大事業(yè)。)
(5)When the weasel and the cat make a marriage, it is a very ill presage.
黃鼠狼和貓結(jié)親,不是好事情。
(6)Who will bwll the cat?
誰去給貓系鈴?(誰愿意為大家冒風險?)
(7)The cat shuts its eyes when stealing cream.
帽偷吃奶油的時候總是閉著眼睛。(掩耳盜鈴)
(8)There are more ways of killing a cat than by choking it with butter.
殺貓的辦法很多。(達到目的的途徑很多。)
(9)Care kill a cat.
憂慮愁死貓。
3.Chicken
Don't count your chickens before they're hatched.
雞蛋未孵出,先別數(shù)小雞。(不要過早樂觀。)
4.Crow
A crow is never the whiter for washing herself often.
江山易改,本性難移。
5.Dog
(1)He who would hang his dog gives out first that it is mad.
欲加之罪,何患無詞。
(2)A staff is quickly found to beat a dog with.
欲加之罪,何患無詞。
(3)Love me, love my dog.
愛屋及烏。
(4)Too much pudding will choke a dog.
布丁太多噎死狗。
(5)Every dog has his day.
人人皆有得意時。
(6)Barking dogs don't (seldom) bite.
愛叫的狗很少咬人。
(7)Let sleeping dogs lie.
勿惹事生非。
(8)Dead dogs bite not.
死狗不咬人。
(9)All are not thieves that dogs bark at.
狗見了叫的不一定都是賊。(不要以貌取人。)
(10)Every dog is a lion at home.
狗在家門口就成了獅子。
(11)Don't be a dog (lying) in the manger.
莫學狗占馬槽不吃草。(不要占著茅坑不拉屎。)
(12)Dog does not eat dog.
同類不相殘。
(13)Scornful dogs will eat dirty puddings.
狗再傲慢也會吃臟布丁。
(14)A son never thinks his mother ugly,and a dog never shuns its owner's home however
shabby it is.
兒不嫌母丑,狗不嫌家貧
三、關(guān)于友誼的英語諺語
Set great store by friendship. 情意重千斤。
Between friends all is common. 朋友之間不分彼此。
Old friends and old wine are best. 陳酒味醇, 老友情深。
The friendship of a gentleman is insipid as water. 君子之交淡如水。
A bosom friend afar brings a distant land near. 海內(nèi)存知己, 天涯若比鄰。
Most men's friendships are too inarticulate. 人的友誼是無法言喻的。
Friendship is like a plant of slow growth. 友誼像生長著的植物, 是慢慢地建立起來的。
A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever. 好書如摯友, 情誼永不渝。
A man knows his companion in a long journey and a little inn. 路遙知馬力, 日久見人心。
I like a simple friend, who holds my faults like a looking glass before my face.
我喜歡這樣的朋友, 他對我的缺點就像照鏡子一樣直言不諱。
It is well that there is no one without a fault, for he would not have a friend in the world .
世界上沒有不犯錯誤的人. 想交沒有錯誤的朋友, 你就沒有朋友。
It is only the greathearted who can be true friends; the mean and the cowardly can never know what true friendship is. 只有偉大胸懷的.人才是真正的朋友; 平庸和怯懦之輩決不可能了解真正友誼的含義。
No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.
沒有朋友的人不會幸福,不處逆境不能識別朋友。
Nothing makes the earth seem to spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes. 遠方的朋友能使世界變得非常寬闊; 他們組成了經(jīng)緯度。
Of our mixed life two quests are given control: food for the body, friendship for the soul. 在復雜的生命中, 有兩點要牢記:為生存需要吃飯, 而心靈需要友誼。
The best that we find in our travel is an honest friend. He is a fortunate voyager who finds many.
旅行中最愉快的事是交到一個真誠的朋友。
The making of friends who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
能交到真正的朋友是人生中最成功的事。
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them. 對朋友愛得越深, 奉承得就越少。
The smell of coin is often the knell of friendship. 銅臭味濃往往是友誼的不祥之兆。
The true friendship seeks to give, not take; to help, not to be helped; to minister, not to be ministered unto.
真正的友誼追求的是給予, 而不是索取; 是幫助別人, 而不是被人幫助; 是為人服務(wù), 而不是被人服務(wù)。
To prepare a friend, three things are required: to honor him present, praise him absent, and assist him in his necessities. 維護朋友, 有三件事情要做到:當面要尊重他, 不在場時要表揚他, 苦難時要幫助他。
Choose thy friends like thy books, few but choice. 選擇朋友要像選書那樣, 數(shù)量要少, 但質(zhì)量要精。
My friend is not perfect—nor am I—and so we suit each other admirably.
朋友不會十全十美,你自己也一樣,雙方要互相尊敬。
For a congenial friend a thousand toasts are too few; in a disagreeable conversation one word more is too many. 酒逢知己千杯少,話不投機半句多。
四、關(guān)于健康的名言
A light heart lives long .( William Shakespeare , British dramatist )
豁達者長壽。 (英國劇作家 莎士比亞。 W.)
Early to bed and early to rise , makes a man healthy , wealthy and wise .(Benjamin Franklin, American president )
早睡早起會使人健康、富有和聰明。 (美國總統(tǒng) 富蘭克林。 B.)
Sloth , like rust , consumes faster than labor wears .(Benjamin Franklin , Americanpresident)
懶惰像生銹一樣,比操勞更能消耗身體。 (美國總統(tǒng) 富蘭克林。 B.)
The first wealth is health .( Ralph Waldo Emerson , American thinker )
健康是人生第一財富。 (美國思想家 愛默生。 R. W.)
五、
All things in their being are good for something.
天生我才必有用。
Difficult circumstances serve as a textbook of life for people.
困難坎坷是人們的生活教科書。
Failure is the mother of success. ——Thomas Paine
失敗乃成功之母。
For man is man and master of his fate.
人就是人,是自己命運的主人。
The unexamined life is not worth living.——Socrates
混混噩噩的生活不值得過?!K格拉底
None is of freedom or of life deserving unless he daily conquers it anew. -Erasmus
只有每天再度戰(zhàn)勝生活并奪取自由的人,才配享受生活的自由。
Our destiny offers not the cup of despair, but the chalice of opportunity. So let us seize
it, not in fear, but in gladness.——R.M. Nixon
命運給予我們的不是失望之酒,而是機會之杯。因此,讓我們毫無畏懼,滿心愉悅地把握命運?!峥怂?/p>
Living without an aim is like sailing without a compass.——John Ruskin
生活沒有目標,猶如航海沒有羅盤?!_斯金
What makes life dreary is the want of motive.——George Eliot
沒有了目的,生活便郁悶無光?!獑讨巍ぐB蕴?/p>
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(qū)?!挚?/p>
六、關(guān)于哲理的諺語
1.Be honest rather clever.
誠實比聰明更要緊。
2.Being on sea, sail; being on land, settle.
隨遇而安。
3.Be just to all, but trust not all.
要公正對待所有的人,但不要輕信所有的人。
4.Believe not all that you see nor half what you hear.
眼見的不能全信,耳聞的也不能半信。
5.Be slow to promise and quick to perform.
不輕諾,諾必果。
6.Be swift to hear, slow to speak.
多聽少說。
7.Better an empty purse than an empty head.
寧可錢袋癟,不要腦袋空。
8.Better an open enemy than a false friend.
明槍易躲,暗箭難防。
9.Better good neighbours near than relations far away.
遠親不如近鄰。
10.Between the cup and the lip a morsel may slip.
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11.Between two stools one falls to the ground.
腳踏兩頭要落空。
12.Beware beginnings.
慎始為上。
13.Big mouthfuls ofter choke.
貪多嚼不爛。
14.Bind the sack before it be full.
做事應(yīng)適可而止。
15.Birds of a feather flock together.
物以類聚,人以群分。
2、Misfortunes never come alone/single.(禍不單行。)
3、Misfortunes come on wings and depart on foot.(遭禍容易脫禍難。)
4、Misfortunes tell us what fortune is.(不經(jīng)災(zāi)難不知福。)
5、To an optimist every change is a change for the better.(對于樂觀者總是越變越好。)
6、From small beginnings comes great things. (偉大始于渺小。)
7、Money spent on the brain is never spent in vain. (智力投資絕不會白花。)
8、Wisdom in the mind is better than money in the hand.(腦中有知識,勝過手中有金錢。)
9、The voice of one man is the voice of no one. (一個人的聲音沒有力量。)
10、A great ship asks for deep waters.(大船要走深水。)
11、While there is life, there is hope.(有生命便有希望/留得青山在,哪怕沒柴燒)
12、Two heads are better than one. (一人不及二人智;三個臭皮匠,勝個過一個諸葛亮。)
13、Wise men learn by other men's mistakes; fools by their own.(聰明人從別人的錯誤中學得教訓;笨人則自己付出代價。他山之石可以攻玉。)
14、Good company on the road is the shortest cut. (行路有良伴就是捷徑。)
15、It takes all sorts to make a world. (世界是由各種不同的人所組成的。)
16、If a thing is worth doing it is worth worth doing well.(如果事情值得做,就值得好好做。)
17、Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.(無熱情成就不了偉業(yè)。)
18、Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.(沒有恒心只有力量是完不成偉業(yè)。)
19、It is never too late to learn. (活到老,學到老。)
20、It is never too late to mend. (亡羊補牢,猶時未晚。)
21、Constant dropping wears the stone. (滴水穿石。)
22、Experience is the mother of wisdom.(經(jīng)驗是智慧之母。)
23、Every man is his own worst enemy.(一個人最大的敵人就是他自 己。)
24、Saying and doing are two different things. (說和做是迥然不同的兩回事。)
25、Actions speak louder than words. (行動比語言更響亮。)
26、Truth never fears investigation.(事實從來不怕調(diào)查。)
27、A good medicine tasks bitter.(良藥苦口。)
28、Great minds think alike. (英雄所見略同。)
29、Storms make trees take deeper roots.(風暴使樹木深深扎根。)
30、Live and let live. (自己生活也讓別人生活。)
31、Better late than never. (遲做總比不做好;晚來總比不來強。)
32、A bold attempt is half success.(勇敢的嘗試是成功的一半。)
33、All things are difficult before they are easy. (凡事必先難后易。)
34、What we acquire without sweat we give away without regret.(得之不費力,棄之不可惜。)
35、Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.(只要有一顆意志堅強的心,沒事不成。)