《英语谚语词典》word版.doc

英语谚语词典英语谚语词典1时间?机会 1. Time flies. 光阴似箭。时光易逝。 2. Time is money. 时间就是金钱。一寸光阴一寸金。 3. Time and tide wait for no man. 岁月无情。时不待人。 4. Time marches on. 时光永不回头。 5. The morning sun never lasts a day. 好景不常在。 6. Christmas comes but once a year. 圣诞一年只一度。 7. Time tries all (the things). 时间检验一切。 8. Time tries truth. 时间检验真理。 9. Time will show tell. 日久自明。 10. Time tames the strongest grief. 时间能安抚极度的悲痛。 11. Time is a great healer. 时间是最好的医生。时间是治愈精神创伤的良药。 12. Time is the best healer. 13. Time is the great physician. 时间是最好的医生。 14. Time cures all things. 时间能治愈一切。 15. Time heals all wounds. 时间可以治愈一切创伤。 16. Time works wonders. 时间可以创造奇迹。 17. Time works great changes. 时间可以使万物发生巨变。 18. Times change. 时代在变。 19. Time dissolves all things. 时间消融一切。时间使一切事物难以永存。 20. Tomorrow comes never. 切莫依赖明天。 21. No time like the present. 22. There is no time like the present. 大好时机在眼前。眼下时间最宝贵。 23. Now for it!现在就干。此时不干，更待何时？ 24. Now or never. 机不可失，时不再来。此时不干，更待何时？ 25. One today is worth two tomorrows. 一个今天胜似两个明天。 26. One hour today is worth two tomorrow. 今天一个小时抵得上明天两个小时。 27. An hour in the morning before breakfast is worth two all the rest of the day. 早饭前一小时抵得上其他时间的两小时。一日之计在于晨。 28. An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening.早晨一小时抵得上晚间的两小时。一日之计在于晨。 29. Lose an hour in the morning, and youll be all day hunting for it. 30. Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.早晨损失一小时，一天时间来弥补。一日之计在于晨。 31. You cannot have two forenoons in the same day. 人不能在一日之内有两个早晨。 32. Time past cannot be called back again. 33. Lost time is never found again. 34. All time is no time when it is past. 35. Time lost cannot be recalled. 时光一去不复返。岁月既往，不可复追。 36. Pleasant hours fly past. 快乐时光去如飞。 37. Happiness takes no account of time. 欢娱不惜时光逝。 38. No one can call back yesterday. 39. Yesterday will not be called again.昨日不复来。逝去的光阴不复还。 40. No man can call again yesterday. 无人能唤回昨天。光阴一去不复返。 41. If time be of all things the most precious, wasting of time must be the greatest prodigality. 如果时间是最宝贵的，那么浪费时间便是最大的浪费。一寸光阴一寸金，寸金难买寸光阴。 42. Things past cannot be recalled. 过去的事情无可挽回。 43. Money lost, little lost; time lost, everything lost. 失去金钱，损失很小；失去时间，失去一切。 44. The day is short but the work is much. 工作多，时光迫。 45. To him that does everything in its proper time, one day is worth three. 事事及时做，一日胜三日。 46. A stitch in time saves nine. 一针及时省九针。一针不补，十针难缝。 47. Who repairs not his gutter repairs his whole house. 檐沟失修，全屋大修。小洞不补，大洞难堵。 48. Never deter till tomorrow that which you can do today. 49. Dont put off till tomorrow what should be done today. 50. Dont put off what you can do today till tomorrow. 51. Never put off till tomorrow what can may be done today. 52. Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.今日事今日毕，切勿拖延到明天。 53. Work today, for you know not how much you may be hindered tomorrow. 今日有事今日做，明日可能障碍多。 54. One of these days is none of these days. “总有一天”就是“总没一天”。“改天再干”就是“永远不干”。 55. Have you somewhat to do tomorrow, do it now. 明日事今日做。 56. Seize the present, trusting the tomorrow as little as may be. 抓住今天，少信明天。 57. There are no birds of this year in last years nests. 去年的巢里找不到今年的鸟。时过境迁。 58. Those that make the best use of their time have none to spare. 充分利用时间的人，没有空闲。珍惜光阴者无暇时。 59. The sea has fish for every man. 海中有鱼，人人可取。人人都有获利的机会。 60. There is a tide in the affairs of men. 凡事皆有机运。人生都有机运。 61. Opportunity seldom knocks twice. 机遇很少敲两次门。机不可失，时不再来。 62. Opportunities do not wait. 机遇不等人。 63. There is no time to lose. 机不可失。 64. When an opportunity is neglected, it never comes back to you. 机不可失，时不再来。 65. An occasion lost cannot be redeemed. 错过机会，无法挽回。机不可失，时不再来。 66. Everything has its time. 67. There is a time for all things. 68. There is a time for everything. 万物皆有时。物当其时，各有佳期。 69. Everything has its time and that time must be watched. 万物皆有时，时来不可失。机不可失，时不再来。 70. He who will not when he may, when he will he shall have nay. 有机会时他不干，他想干时机会完。机不可失，时不再来。过了这个村，遇不到这个店。 71. The mill cannot grind with the water that is past. 逝去的水不能使磨轮转动。机不可失，时不再来。 72. Take time when time cometh, lest time steal away. 时来要惜时，时去无声息。 73. A mill cannot grind with the water that is past. 逝去的流水驱动不了磨盘。水去无还，磨盘不转。 74. He loses all who loses the moment. 错过机会便错过一切。抓不住机会就会失去一切。 75. It is too late to grieve when the chance is past. 失去良机，悔之晚矣。 76. Seize time by the forelock. 抓住时机。机不可失，时不再来。 77. Strike while the iron is hot. 78. Strike the iron while it is hot. 趁热打铁。 79. As the wind blows, you must set your sail. 趁风启帆。 80. Hoist your sail when the wind is fair. 风顺便扯帆。 81. Make hay while the sun shines. 晒草要趁太阳好。 82. Every tide hath its ebb. 潮涨必有潮落时。 83. To save time is to lengthen life. 节约时间就是延长生命。 84. Punctuality is the soul of business. 守时为事业的灵魂。 85. Punctuality is the politeness of kings. 守时乃国王之礼。守事非常重要。 86. Procrastination is the thief of time. 拖延就是浪费时间。 87. Delays are dangerous. 拖拖拉拉是危险的。拖延误事。 88. You may delay, but time will not. 人拖时不拖。岁月不待人。 89. He who hesitates is lost. 犹豫不决者坐失良机。迟疑失良机。当断不断，必受其患。 90. It is too late to lock the stable door when the horse is stolen. 91. It is too late to shut the stable door after the horse has been stolen. 92. It is too late to shut the stable door when the steed is stolen. 93. When the horse is stolen, (you) lock the stable door. 失马锁厩，为时已晚。贼去关门，为时已迟。 94. When the calf is stolen, the farmer mends the stall. 牛被盗后修牛圈。亡羊补牢。 95. Dont let the grass grow under your feet. 96. Let no grass grow under your feet. 莫让脚下青草丛生。莫虚度光阴。莫让年华似水流。 97. Dont trifle away your time. 莫虚度光阴。莫让年华似水流。 98. Who waits for time, loses time. 坐待时机，就会失去时机。 99. He that is disposed for mischief will never want occasion. 存心要捣乱，不怕没机会。100. Drunken days have all their tomorrows. 今宵酒醉，明朝受罪。今朝大鱼大肉，明日必吃苦头。2爱情?婚姻101. Love begets love.102. Love is the mother of love. 爱爱相生。情生情，爱生爱。103. Love cannot be compelled. 104. Love cannot be forced. 爱情不能强迫。105. Love and a cough cannot be hid. 爱情和咳嗽不能隐瞒。106. Love needs no teaching. 爱情不需教导。107. Love is without reason. 爱情无理智。108. Love is blind. 爱情是盲目的。情人眼里出西施。109. Love blinds a man to imperfections. 爱情使人看不见缺点。110. Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit. 爱情是盲目的，情侣们往往看不见他们自己所犯下的愚蠢错误。111. Hatred is blind as well as love. 爱情和仇恨，二者皆盲目。112. Love is full of trouble. 爱情充满了烦恼。113. Love is a sweet torment. 爱情是一种甜蜜的痛苦。114. Love is a sweet tyranny, because the lover endures his torment willingly. 爱情是可爱的虐政，情人们甘愿受此痛苦的折磨。115. Love is the touchstone of virtue. 爱情是美德的试金石。116. Love and lordship like no fellowship. 117. Love and lordship never like fellowship.爱要独占，权要独揽。 118. Love asks faith, and faith firmness. 爱情要求信任，信任要求坚定。119. Love at first sight. 一见倾心。120. Love not at the first look. 不要一见钟情。121. A maid that laughs is half taken. 少女笑口开，婚事成一半。122. A maiden with many wooers often chooses the worst. 有许多人向她求婚的少女，常常选中最差的一人。123. Maids want nothing but husbands, but when they have them they want everything. 未婚女子只要夫，有夫之后要一切。124. He that would the daughter win, must with the mother first begin. 要想赢得女儿欢心，必须先从母亲着手。125. Haste love, soon cold. 爱得匆忙冷得快。126. Hot love is soon cold. 爱得热，冷得快。127. The love that is too violent will not last long. 狂热的爱不会持久。128. Love is not to be found in the market. 爱情在市场上找不到。129. Love can neither be bought nor sold. 爱情不能买卖。130. Love can neither be bought or sold; its only price is love. 爱情不能买卖，爱的价值唯有爱。131. Love will find a way. 132. Love will find out the way. 爱情自会寻出路。爱之所至，金石为开。133. Love will creep where it may not go. 爱总是尽其所能。134. Love lives in cottages as well as in courts. 爱情不分贫富。135. Love can turn the cottage into a golden palace. 爱情可化茅庐为金殿。136. Love rules his kingdom without a sword. 爱情的王国毋须刀剑来统治。137. Love is the reward of love. 138. Love is the true price of love. 爱是爱的回报。爱情的真正价值在于爱。139. Love is never paid but with true love. 爱情需用真爱换。140. Love, and love only, is the loan for love. 爱情宿债，唯爱能还。141. Labour is light where love doth pay. 爱情付报酬，劳苦也轻松。142. Love makes all hard hearts gentle. 爱情可软化一切冷酷之心。143. Love makes a wit of the fool. 爱情可使傻瓜变聪明。傻瓜有爱情，也会变聪明。144. Love makes obedience easy. 爱情使顺从成为易事。145. Love makes one fit for any work. 爱情使人适应任何工作。146. True love is giving, not taking. 真正的爱情是给予，不是索取。147. Whom we love best to them we can say least. 人们对最爱的人所能说的话最少。148. The heart that once truly loves never forgets. 真正的爱情永远不变心。149. The course of true love never did run smooth. 爱情之路无坦途。150. Sound love is not soon forgotten. 坚固的爱情不会顷刻忘怀。151. Old love will not be forgotten. 旧情难忘。152. True love shows itself in time of need. 患难方显真情在。153. True love never grows old. 真情永不老。真情永不渝。154. When love puts in, friendship is gone. 爱情介入，友情完结。155. Love should not be all on one side. 爱情不应该是单方面的。156. Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee. 追求爱情它高飞，逃避爱情它跟随。157. Love sought is good, but given unsought is better. 求得的爱情固然美好，但未经追求而得到的爱情更美好。158. Love is sweet in the beginning, but sour in the end. 爱情是先甜后酸。159. Of soup and love, the first is the best. 爱情和汤水，初尝最鲜美。160. It is love that makes the world go round. 161. Love makes the world go round. 爱情使世界转动。162. No love is foul, nor prison fair. 没有肮脏的爱情，也没有美丽的监狱。163. Love will not yield to all the might of wealth. 爱情决不屈服于金钱的压力。164. The greatest hate springs from the greatest love. 最大的恨来自最大的爱。165. Love as in time to come you should hate, and hate as you should in time to come, love. 爱到最后你会恨，恨到最后你会爱。爱不可太亲，恨不可至极。166. Where love fails, we espy all faults. 爱情一旦失败，所有毛病都发现。167. Faults are thick while love is thin. 一朝情义淡，样样不顺眼。168. Without respect, love cannot go far. 没有相互尊重，爱情难以长久。169. One love drives out another. 170. One love expels another. 此欢逐彼爱。旧爱难敌新欢。171. When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out of the window. 贫穷一进门，爱情跳窗走。172. Unkindness destroys love. 冷漠毁灭爱情。173. Pity is a level for quickening love. 怜悯是加速爱情的手段。怜悯致爱。174. Falling out of lovers is the renewing of love. 情人越吵情越深。175. Lovers quarrels are soon mended. 恋人争吵，很快和好。夫妻无隔夜之仇。176. Lovers live by love, as larks live by leeks. 情侣靠爱情生活，犹如云雀靠韭葱生活。177. A man has choice to begin love, but not to end it. 人开始爱上谁，可有选择；不爱谁时，却无可选择。178. Beauty is in the beholders eye. 179. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder gazer. 180. Beauty lies in lovers eyes. 情人眼里出西施。181. Love is never without jealousy. 爱情绝不会没有妒忌。有爱情必有妒忌。 182. All is fair in love and war. 情场如战场，一切都正常。情场战场，各显所长。183. All shall be well, Jack shall have Gill Jill.有情人皆成眷属。184. Every Jack has his Jill. 185. Every Jack must shall have his Jill Gill. 人各有偶。 破锅不愁无烂盖，男人自有女人爱。186. Marriage is a lottery. 婚姻之事难预测。187. Every couple is not a pair. 成对未必成双。夫妻不尽般配。188. It is not every couple that is a pair. 成双未必能配对。天下夫妻多，珠联璧合少。189. Marriage goes by contrasts. 婚姻往往不般配。夫妻常常不相配。190. Marry a wife of thine own degree. 娶妻应与己般配。191. Fanned fires and forced love never did well yet. 扇起的火苗和勉强的爱情从来不会长久。捆绑不成夫妻。192. Forced love does not last. 勉强的爱情不会长久。捆绑不成夫妻。193. Marriages are made in heaven. 姻缘由天定。194. Marriage comes by destiny. 195. Marriage is destiny. 姻缘命中注定。196. Marry thy like. 跟你情投意合的人结婚。197. Marriage makes or mars a man. 婚姻造就人，也能毁坏人。198. Marry in haste, repent at leisure. 匆匆结婚姻，闲来悔不尽。199. Marry too soon, and youll repent too late. 结婚过急，悔之晚矣。200. They that marry in green, their sorrow is soon seen. 年纪轻轻就结婚，为时不久便悔恨。201. Marry in lent, and youll live to repent. 借债结婚，终生悔恨。202. Who marrieth for love without money, hath good nights and sorry days. 为了爱情，无钱结婚，夜来欢娱，白天悔恨。203. He that marries for wealth, sells his liberty. 为财富结婚，出卖了自由。204. Early wed, early dead. 早婚者早夭。205. It is good to marry late or never. 晚婚或不婚，都是好事情。206. Wedlock is a padlock. 婚姻犹如一把锁。207. A young man married is a man thats marred. 男子早婚，种下祸根。208. Honest men marry soon, wise men not at all. 老实的人早结婚，聪明的人不结婚。209. The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives. 懦夫造就凶悍妻。 210. Better be half hanged than ill wed. 与其拥有不幸的婚姻，不如孤守单身。211. The good or ill hap of a good or ill wife. 212. Is the good or ill choice of a good or ill wife. 老婆选得好，一生无烦恼；老婆没选好，日子过得糟。213. An ill marriage is a spring of ill fortune. 不幸的婚姻乃厄运之源。214. He who does not honour his wife, dishonours himself. 不尊重妻子的人，也不会受到尊重。215. Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye. 216. A wife is not to be chosen by the eye only. 择妻靠耳不靠眼。217. A wooer should opens his ears more than his eyes. 找对象要多用耳，少用眼。218. A good wife makes a good husband. 妻贤夫自良。有好的妻子，就有好的丈夫。219. A good husband makes a good wife. 夫善则妻贤。220. A good Jack makes a good Jill Gill. 夫善则妻贤。主贤则仆忠。221. A bad husband makes a bad wife. 有恶夫必有恶妻。夫恶妻不善。不是一家人，不进一家门。222. As is the husband, so is the wife. 有其夫必有其妻。不是一家人，不进一家门。223. A nice wife and a back door will soon make a rich man poor. 老婆挥霍后门漏，常使富人穷个够。224. Let beggars match with beggars. 龙配龙，凤配凤。瘸驴配破磨。225. There is no pot so ugly that it cant find a lid. 壶再丑，也能找到盖子。鱼恋鱼，虾恋虾，乌龟找王八。226. The wife is the key of the house. 妻贤一家兴。妻子是一家兴旺的关键。227. Mills and wives are ever wanting. 好磨难得，贤妻难寻。228. In choosing a wife and buying a sword we ought not to trust another. 择妻犹如选剑，莫靠他人挑选。229. A good wife and health is a mans best wealth. 妻贤和健康，男子两件宝。230. The excellence of a wife consists not in her beauty, but in her virtue. 妻贤在德不在貌。231. A husband must be deaf and the wife blind to have quietness. 丈夫耳聋，妻子眼瞎，方有安定之家。232. Two is company, (but) three is none. 两人成伴，三人不欢。233. It is a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock. 母鸡司晨家不兴。234. He that hath a white horse and a fair wife never wants trouble. 马骏妻娇，麻烦不会少。235. The more women look in their glass, the less they look to their house. 女人照镜越多，照管家务就越少。236. A buxom widow must be either married, buried or shut up in a convent.丰满漂亮的寡妇要么再嫁，要么死掉，要么关进修道院。寡妇门前是非多。3家庭?子女237. East or west, home is best. 东好西好，还是自家好。金窝银窝，不如自家的草窝。238. Be it ever so humble, there is no place like home. 自己的家再穷，也没有任何地方能比得上。金窝银窝，不如自家的草窝。239. Home is home, be it never so homely.240. Home is home, though (it be) never so homely. 家虽简陋，终归是家。金窝银窝，不如自家的草窝。241. Every bird likes its own nest (best). 鸟皆爱其巢。人皆爱其家。242. It is a dirty foolish bird that fouls soils its own nest. 243. It is an ill bird that fouls soils its own nest.再脏傻，坏的鸟也不会将自己的窝弄脏。鸟不脏巢，人不毁家。244. There is no place like home. 世界各处不如家。245. Dry bread at home is better than roast meat abroad. 家里的干面包，也比外面的烤肉好。在家处处好，出门时时难。246. Accidents will happen in the best regulated families. 即使家规严，丑事总难免。247. Do not wash your dirty linen in public. 248. Dirty linen should be washed at home. 249. Wash your dirty linen at home. 不要在大庭广众下洗脏衣服。脏衣服应在自家洗。家丑不可外扬。250. Every family has a skeleton in the cupboard. 251. There is a skeleton in every house. 252. There is a skeleton in the cupboard. 家家都有难言之隐。253. A mans house is castle. 家是人的城堡。254. An Englishmans home is his castle. 英国人的家就是他的城堡。255. As the house to the man, so is the nest to the bird and the cave to the animal. 家之于人，犹如巢之于鸟，穴之于兽。256. Home is where the heart is. 心在哪里，家就在哪里。哪里欢乐哪是家。257. If a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand. 家庭不和，难以立足。家不和，外人欺。258. Charity begins at home, but should not end there. 施舍先及亲友，但不应限于亲友。259. Like father, like son. 有其父，必有其子。260. Like mother, like daughter. 有其母，必有其女。261. Children are what the mothers are. 有什么样的母亲，就有什么样的孩子。262. Children have the qualities of the parents. 子女具有父母的品质。有什么样的父母，就有什么样的孩子。263. As the old cock crows, the young (one) learns. 老公鸡怎样啼，小公鸡就怎样叫。父母是孩子的榜样。264. One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters. 一个父亲胜于一百个教师。265. A mothers love never changes. 母爱亘古不变。266. The mothers breath is aye sweet. 母亲的低语总是甜蜜的。267. A child may have too much of his mothers blessing. 太多母爱，孩子被宠坏。268. A lighted-heeled mother makes a heavy-heeled daughter. 母亲勤快，女儿懒散。269. A pet lamb makes a cross ram. 受宠的羊羔会变成性情暴躁的公羊。270. A miserly father makes a prodigal son. 有吝啬的父亲就有败家的儿子。271. Blood is thicker than water. 血浓于水。亲人总比外人亲。272. Children are the parents riches. 子女是父母的至宝。273. Every mothers child is handsome. 274. Every mother thinks her child beautiful. 母亲都觉孩儿俊。敝帚自珍。275. One chick keeps a hen busy. 一雏已足扰其母。独子亦费娘操心。276. One father can support ten children; ten children cannot support one father. 一个父亲可以养活十个孩子，十个孩子却不能供养一个父亲。277. Great mens sons seldom do well. 大人物的子孙少出息。278. Many a good father hath but a bad son. 贤父难免生逆子。279. Every mother breeds not sons alike. 一个娘养的孩子并非都一样。280. The father buys, the son bigs, the grandchild sells, and his son thigs. 父置子建孙子卖，重孙上街当乞丐。281. Children learn to creep ere they can go. 孩子要走路，先得学爬行。282. A little child is the sweetest and purest thing in the world. 小孩是世界上最可爱、最纯洁的东西。283. Happy is he that is happy in childhood. 童年快乐的人是幸福的。284. He that hath no children, knows not what is love. 285. He knows not what love is that has no children. 没有子女的人，就不懂得什么是爱。286. The child is father of the man. 三岁定到老。从一个人小时候就可以看出他长大后是个什么样子。287. The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day. 从童年可以看到成年，从早晨可以看到全天。从小看大，七岁看老。288. As the twig is bent so the tree is inclined. 苗歪树不直。从小偷针，长大偷金。289. Silly (=Good) child is soon ylered (=taught). 好孩子，学得快。290. Children and fools cannot lie. 孩子和愚人不会说谎。291. It is a wise father that knows his own child. 任何聪明的父亲也不见得都了解自己的孩子。再聪明的父亲都不见得完全知道自己的儿子。292. Little pitchers have long ears. 小孩子耳朵长。秘密别让小孩听到。293. Naughty boys sometimes make good men. 调皮的男孩长大后有时会成为很有作为的人。294. Spare the rod and spoil the child. 295. He that spares the rod, hates his son. 省了棍棒，坏了孩子。小孩不打不成器。