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中文俗语英语翻译
恶者传千里
Bad news
travels quickly.
智者不惑
A wise man is free from perplexities.
无风不起浪
There is no
smoke without free(where there is smoke,
there is fire)
为虎作伥
To act as
guide to a tiger
.
画蛇添足
To paint the
lily.
奇装异服
A
fantastic garb.
孤注一掷
To put all one's eggs in one basket.
忠言逆耳
Honest
advice is unpleasant to the ear
.
抛砖引玉
To throw out
a minnow to catch a whale.
明辨是非
To
distinguish right from wrong.
知足常乐
Happy is he
who is content.
知足者富
He who feels contented is rich.
知人知面不知心
It's easy
to know men's faces, but not their hearts.
知己知彼百战百胜
Know
your enemy and know yourself.
空中楼阁
Castels in
the air
.
金科玉律
The golden rule.
雨后春笋
Like bamboo
shoots after a spring shower
.
勇者不惧
A brave man
will not shrink from dangers.
洗心革面
To turn over
a new leaf.
美中不足
A fiy in the ointment.
背道而驰
To run
counter
.
赴汤蹈火
To go through fire and
water
.
风烛残年
To have one foot in the grave.
风声鹤泪草木皆兵
To
apprehend danger in every sound.
活到老学到老
It's never
too late to learn.
前事不忘后事之师
Remember the past and it will guide
your future.
星星之火可以燎原
A single spark can start a prairie
fire.
害群之马
Black
sheep.
家丑不外扬
Don't wash your dirty linen in public.
恩威并用
Alternate
weakness with severity.
旁观者清
The outsider sees the best of the game.
时运不济
To have a
bad time.
殊途同归
All roads lead to Rome.
回头浪子
The return
of a prodigal.
先下手为强
Offence is the best defence(the best
defence is
offence.)
同甘共苦
To share
one's joys and sorrows.
因时制宜
To act according to circumstances.
有勇无谋
More brave
than wise.
有备无患
Good watch prevents misfortune.
有志者事竟成
Where
there's a will, there's a way.
江山易改本性难移
The
child is father of the man.
百无一失
Not a single
miss in a hundred times.
百闻不如一见
To see is
to believe.
自力更生
To shift for oneself.
自讨苦吃
To make a
rod for one's own back
吃得苦中苦方为人上人
If you
wish to be the best man, you must be prepared
to suffer the bitterest of the
bitter
.
弄巧成拙
Overreach oneself; overshoot oneself;
overshoot the
mark.
忍无可忍
To be at the
end of one's patience.
忘恩负义
To kick down the ladder
.
走马看花
A flying
visit.
防患于未然
To
nip a thing in the bud.
秀才不出门能知天下事
A
scholar does not step outside his gate, yet he
knows
the happenings under the sun.
事实胜于雄辩
Facts are
most convincing.
来得容易去得快
Easy come, easy fo.
一言既出
,
驷马难追
A
word spoken is past recalling.
一见钟情
To fall in
love at first sight.
一箭双
?(
p>
一举两得
) To kill two birds with
one stone.
一寸光阴一寸金
Time is money.
一失足成千古恨
The error
committed on impulse may turn out to be the
sorrow of a whole life.
一将功成万骨枯
What
millions died that Caesar might be great.
< br>一年之计在于春
,
一日之计在于晨
Plan your year in spring and your day
at dawn.
九死一生
To
have a hair-breadth escape.
人生如梦
Life is but
a dream.
人生自古谁无死
Death comes to all men.
人生百岁古来稀
It is
seldom that a man lives to be a hundred years old
人定胜天
Man can
conquer nature.
三思而后行
Look before your leap.
三句不离本行
To talk
shop.
千钧一发
To
hang by a hair thread.
大智若愚
He who cannot play the fool is not a
wise man.
大器晚成
Rome was not built in a day.
山穷水尽
At the end
of one's resources.
不告而别
To take French leave.
积少成多
Every little
makes a mickle.
钱可通神
Money can move even the gods.
谋事在人成事在天
Man
proposes and God disposes.
优胜劣败
The weakest
goes to the wall.
声东击西
To look one way and row
another
.
脍炙人口
In everyone's mouth.
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