★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。
★Where 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 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 : 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 knowledge.
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 of 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 of 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, 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 makes 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 learn, 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 grow 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
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。
★Birds 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 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, 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,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 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 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。
★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, you 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 never 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 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 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
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 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 communications 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 another'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 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 knowledge 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 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 welcome; 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 spade 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 none.
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。
★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 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 wisdom 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。
★Give 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 remember 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 you'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 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 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 an 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。
★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 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 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 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 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 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 many irons in the fire.
不要揽事过多。
★Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
早睡早起身体好。
★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 has his hobby.
萝卜青菜,各有所爱。
★Fear always springs from ignorance.
恐惧源于无知。
★Fool's haste is no speed.
欲速则不达。
★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。
★Fortune favors those who use their judgement.
机遇偏爱善断之人。
★Friends agree best at distance.
朋友之间也会保持距离。
★Good medicine for health tastes bitter to the mouth.
良药苦口利于病。
★Good watch prevents misfortune.
谨慎消灾。
★Send a wise man on an errand, and say nothing to him.
智者当差,不用交代。
★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 the man who learns from the misfortunes of others.
吸取他人教训,自己才会走运。
★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 not laughed at that laughs at himself first.
自嘲者不会让人见笑。
★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 will not work shall not eat.
不劳动者不得食。
★Not to advance is to go back.
不进则退。
★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。
★I cannot be your friend and your flatterer too.
朋友不能阿谀奉承。
★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 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 easier to get money than to keep it.
挣钱容易攒钱难。
★It is never too old to learn.
活到老,学到老。
★It takes three generations to make a gentleman.
十年树木,百年树人。
★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。
★Knowledge makes humble, ignorance makes proud.
博学使人谦逊,无知使人骄傲。
★Let the cat out of the bag.
泄漏天机。
★Lies can never changes fact.
谎言终究是谎言。
★Life without a friend is death.
没有朋友,虽生犹死。
★Like a rat in a hole.
瓮中之鳖。
★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。
★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。
★No man is born wise or learned.
没有生而知之者。
★None are so blind as those who won't see.
视而不见。
★No one can call back yesterday.
昨日不会重现。
★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 so necessar