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A fall into the pit, a gain in
your wit.
吃一堑，长一智
Facts speak louder than words.
事实胜于雄辩
Money
can’t buy time.
寸金难买寸光阴
Failure is the mother of success.
失败乃成功之母。
The
visitor arrives, it is as if returning
home.
宾至如归。
A good
beginning is half the
battle.
良好的开端成功的一半。
To teach is to
learn.
教学相长。
Like
father,like son.
有其父，必有其子。
Pride goes before a
fall.
骄兵必败。
Fish
in trouble water.
混水摸鱼。
Business is
business.
公事公办。
The style is the
man.
文入其人。
More haste,less
speed.
欲速则不达。
Great minds think
alike.
英雄所见略同。
Misfortunes never come alone.
祸不单行。
Hedges have
eyes,walls have
ears.
隔篱有眼，隔墙有耳。
Man proposes,God
disposes.
谋事在人，成事在天。
Beauty is in the eye of the
beholder.
情人眼里出西施。
Time and tide wait for no man.
时不待我
/
岁月无情。
A young idlder,an old beggar.
少壮不努力，老大徒伤悲。
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Out of office,out of
danger.
无官一身轻。
In
time of peace prepare for
war.
居安思危。
The
tongue cuts the throat.
祸从口出。
/
言多必失。
Out of
sight,out of mind./far from eye,far from
heart.
眼不见为净。
All
shall be well, Jack shall be Jill.
有情人终成眷属。
Friends
must part.
聚散离合总有时。
/
天下无不散之宴席。
The remenbrance
of the past is the teacher of the
future.
前事不忘，
后世之师。
Love me, love dog.
爱屋及乌。
Kill two
birds with one stone.
一箭双雕。
/<
/p>
一石双鸟。
Speak the
devil(and he will appear).
说曹操，曹操到。
A new
broom sweeps clean.
新官上任三把火。
Beat the dog before the
lion.
杀鸡儆猴。
Let
sleeping dog lie.
勿打草惊蛇。
Teach fish to
swim.
班门弄斧。
A word
spoken is past recallling.
一言既出，驷马难追。
Once
beaten, twice shy.
一朝被蛇咬，十年怕井绳。
Birds of a feather flock
together.
物以类分，人以群分。
In for a penny, in for a
pound.
一不做，二不休。
There is smoke without
fire.
无风不起浪。
Have
a card up one’s sleeve.
胸有成竹。
Put the cart before the
horse.
本末倒置。
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Fine feathers make fine
birds.
佛要金装，人要衣装。
As a man sows, so he shall
reap.
种瓜得瓜，种豆得豆。
Much will have more.
得陇望蜀。
/
得寸进尺。
The sauce is better than the
fish.
喧宾夺主。
He
cries wine and sells
vinegar.
挂羊头，买狗肉。
Good wine needs no
bush.
酒香不怕巷子深。
Every potter praises his
pot.
王婆卖瓜，自卖自夸。
The pupil outdoes the
master.
青出于蓝而胜于蓝。
There are plenty of fish in the
sea.
天涯何处有芳草
Diamond cut
diamont.
强中更有强中手。
He take a spear to kill a
fly.
杀鸡用牛刀。
Gifts
blind the eyyes.
拿了手软，吃了嘴软。
Don’t bite the h
and that
feeds you.
不要将恩仇报。
Dogs bite in every
country.
天下乌鸦一般黑。
Peace on the forehead and war in the
mind.
口蜜腹剑。
Better
an open enemy than a false
friend.
。明枪易躲，暗箭难防。
Do one thing under cover of another.
明修栈道，暗度陈仓。
The
spirit is willing, but the flesh is
weak.
心有余而力不足。
Little strokes fell great oaks.
< br>滴水穿石。
/
只要功夫深，
铁杵
磨成针。
Judge not a book by its
cover.
人不可貌相，海水不可斗量。
All roads lead to Rome./all riversrun
into the sea..
殊途同归。
A straight foot is not afraid of
crooked shoe.
身正不怕影子斜。
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The knife cuts
bread and fingers.
水能载舟，亦能覆舟。
A sparrow cannot understand the
ambition of a
swan.
燕雀安知鸿鹄
之志哉。
It is better to be the head of a
dog/lizard than the tail of
lion.
宁为鸡
手，无为牛后。
It is better to die than to live when
life is a disgrace./Better
hounor than
live with shame.
Dogs bite in every
countries.
天下乌鸦一般黑。
A horse stumbles that has four
legs.
人非圣贤，熟能无过。
A
clear conscience is a sure card.
为人不做亏心事
，半夜不怕鬼敲
门。
A bad
conscience is a snake in one’s
heart.
做贼心虚。
All
your swans are greese.
事与愿违。
Justice has long
arms.
天网恢恢，疏而不漏。
Late fruite keeps
well.
大器晚成。
Take
things as they come.
既来之，则安之。
A hedge between keeps friendship
green.
君子之交淡如水。
Rest breeds
rust.
生命在于运动。
Names are
debts.
树大招风。
Common fame is a
liar.
盛名之下，其实难附。
Many kiss the baby for the nurse’s
sake.
醉翁之意不在酒。
Nothing venture, nothing
have.
不入虎穴，焉得虎子。
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Do in Rome as the Romans
do.
如乡随俗。
Things
done cannot be done.
木已成舟。
/
覆水难收。
True blue
will never stain.
真金不怕火炼。
Everybody’s business is nobody’s
busness.
三个和尚没水吃。
The moon is not seen when the sun
shines.
小巫见大巫。
Penny wise and pound
foolish.
因小失大。
He
knows most who speaks least./still water runs
deep.
大智若愚。
As you
make the bed, so you must lie in
it.
自食其果。
The pot
calls the kettle
black.
五十步笑百步。
Short pleasure,long
lament.
一失足成千古恨。
Don’t count the chichen before they are
hatched.
请勿盲目乐观。
What is done by night appears by
day.
若要人不知，除非己莫为。
Danger is next neighour to
security.
塞翁失马，安知非福。
Misfortue
might
be
a
blessing
in
disguise.
祸兮福所倚
，福兮祸所
伏。
What we
lose in hake we shall have in herring.
失
之东隅，收之桑
榆。
Stick
together through thick and thin.
有福同享，有祸
同当
/
祸患与
共。
/
风雨同舟。
Save
your breath to cool your porridge.
个人自扫门
前雪，莫管他人
瓦上霜。
A
watched pot never boils.
心急吃不了热豆腐。
/
有心插花花不开，
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无心插柳柳成阴。
A
leopard
cannot
change
its
spots./you
cannot
make
a
crab
walk
straight.
江山易
改，本性难移。
Don’t trouble touble
until trouble troubles
you.
车到山前必有路。
Accidents will happen./Every tide has
its ebb.
天有不测风云，人有
旦夕祸福。
Even Homer sometimes nods./The
best horse stumbles.
智者千虑，
必
有一失。
Rome was not
built in a day.
冰冻三尺，非一日之寒。
The shephered would rather lose the
wool than the sheep.
留得青山
在，不怕
没柴烧。
A little leak will sink
a great ship./a stitch in time saves
nine.
亡羊补
牢。
Silence is
golden.
沉默是金。
A
rolling stone gathers no
moss.
滚石不生苔。
One
swallow does not make a
summer.
一燕不成夏。
All
is not gold that glitters.
闪闪发光物，并非皆金子。
A
bird in the hand is worth two in the
bush.
双鸟在林，不如一鸟在
手。
A bird in known by its note and a man
by his talk.
闻啼知鸟，
闻言知
< br>人。
Safety and danger
alternate with each other. Misfortune and fortune
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generate
each
other.
Slowness
and
promptness
follow
each
other.
Gathering and scatering complement each
other.
安危相宜，祸福相
生，缓急相争，聚散相成。
When full,remember someone
elso is suffering hunger, when warm,
remember
someone
elso
is
suffering
cold,
when
in
case,
remembe
someone else is suffering fatigue.
饱而知人之饥，温而知人之寒，逸而知人之劳。
Man
seeks
before
gains,
toils
before
succeeds,
accumulates
before
increases, and exhausts his efforts
before he becomes a sage. Thus, a
sage
grows out of accumulation.
彼求之而后得，为之而后成
，积之而后高，尽之而后圣。故圣人
也者，人之所积也。
Learn
extensively,
inquire
thoroughly,
ponder
prudently,
discriminate clearly, and practice dili
gently.
博学之，审问之，慎思
之，明辩之，笃行之。<
/p>
One can never be aware of
the height of the sky or the depth of the
earth, if he does not climb up a high
mountain or look down into a
deep abyss
.
不登高山，不知天之厚；不临深渊，不知地之厚也。
It is better to hear
something than not to hear better to see it
than
hear
it.
Still
better
to
know
it
than
to
see
it.
Still
better
to
practice it than to now it. Learning
will not stop until it is put into
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practice.
不闻不若闻之
，闻之不若见之，见之不若知之。学至行
之而止矣。
Wealth
and
rank
attained
through
imoral
means
are
as
empty
as
floating clouds to
me.
不义而富贵，于我如浮云。
It makes a moral man to ask for what he
doesn’t know, to learn what
he can’t
do, and to restrain himself from what he is
capable of.
不之
则问，不能则学，虽能必让，然后
为德。
Brave and courageours
you are the most. Till your death you stick to
your
post.
诚既勇兮又以武，终刚强兮不可凌。
A
public
spirit
will
rule
all
under
the
heaven
when
the
great
Way
prevails.
大道之行
也，天下为公。
The endless river
flows eastward, with its huge waves,gone are all
those gallant heroes of bygone years.
大江东去，浪淘尽，千古风
流人物。
What is most perfect seems to have
something missing, yet its use in
unimpaired. What is most full seems
empty, yet its use will neer fail.
What
is most straight appears crooked, what is most
skilled appears
clumsy, and what is
most eloquent appears incoherent.
大成若缺，其
用大弊，大盈若冲，其用不穷，大直若曲，大巧若掘。
Absorbed
in
paiting,
you
knnow
not
old
age
is
coming,
indeed,
to
me
wealth and rank are like clouds drifting away.
丹青不知老将至，
富贵于我如浮云。
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We
wish
each
other
a
long
life
so
as
to
share
the
beauty
of
this
graceful
moonlight, even though we are miles apart.
< br>但愿人长久，
千
里共婵娟。
The way that can be told of is not an
Unvarying way, the manes that
can be
named are not unvarying names. It was nameless
that heaven
and the Earth sprangfrom,
it was the named that nurtured everything
between the Heaven and the
Earth.
道可道，非常道，
名可
名，非
常名。无名，天地之始；有名，万物之母。
The way fills up the universe. For its
geatness, nothing lies outside it,
for
its smallness, nothing lies within it.
道
在天地之间，其大无外，
其内无小。
Following
the
naural
law,
everything
will
go
on
smoothly.
Disobeying it, even rule established
will upset.
得天之道，其事若自
然；失天之道，虽
立而不安。
As
the
Earth’s
capacity
is
to
hold,
so must
a
gentleman
constantly
cultivate virtue in himself to shoulder
the world.
地势坤，君子以厚
德载物。
A lonely stranger in a strange
land I am cast, I miss my family all the
more on every festive
day.
独在异乡为异客，每逢佳节倍思亲。
Stick to the truth you believe, broaden
your knowledge about it, and
be ready
to die for its
realization.
笃信好学，守死善道。
The
gentlemam
does
not
agree
those
who
know
too
much
but
are
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close to nothing, or learn too broadly
bu without direction, or love
too many
but without fixed one.
多知而无亲，博学而无方，好多而
无定者，君子不与。
If two
people are of the same mind, their sharpness can
cut through
metal.
二人同心，其利断金。
The law does not favor the noble, as an
ink line does not yied to the
crooked
wood.
Whereever
the
law
applies,
the
wise
cannot
evade,
nor can the brave
defy. Punishment applies to a minister, as rewards
apply to common
man.
法不阿贵，绳不挠曲。
法之所加，智者弗
能辞，勇者弗能争。
刑过不避大臣，赏善不遗匹夫。
It
is
a
true
great
amn
whom
no
money
and
rank
can
confuse,
no
poverty
and
hardship
can
shake,
and
no
power
and
force
can
suffocate.
富贵不
能淫，
贫贱不能移，
威武不能屈，
此之
谓大夫矣。
Impartiality produces
clarity and partiality obscurity.
公生明，偏生
暗。
Be strict with
yourself and lenient to
others.
躬自厚而薄责于人。
Life or death, I wll do whatever I can
for the benefits of the
country.
苟利社稷，死生以之。
The noble takes the humble as its root,
the high takes the low as its
base.
贵以贱为本，高以下为基。
A sea is vast, as it rejects no water.
A mountain is high, as it rejects
no
rocks.
A
wise
ruler
gathers
more
people,
as
he
is
not
tired
of
10
meeting
people.
A
schoolar
becomes
a
sage,
as
he
is
not
tired
of
learning.
海不辞水，故能成其大；山不辞土，故能成其高；明
主
不厌人，故能成其众；士不厌学，故能成其圣。
A bosom friend afar brings distance
near.
海内存知己，
天涯若比临。
A huge tree that fills one’s arms grows
from a tiny seeding, a nine
sories
tower rises from a heap of earth, a thousand-li
journey starts
with
the
first
step.
合抱之木，生
于毫末；九层之台，起于垒土；
千里之行，始于足下。
Misfortune generates happiness, and
happiness breeds misfortune.
祸
兮，福之所存；福兮，祸之所伏。
Do
not
forget
righteousness
in
face
of
profits,
nor
alter
the
moral
principles in face of
death.
见利不亏其义，见死不更其死。
When seeing a man of virtue, try to
become his equal;when seeing a
man
without virtue, examine yourself not to have the s
ame.
见贤思
齐焉，见不贤而内自省也。
Rivers and seas can become the kings
of valleys because they excel
in taking
the lower positions.
江海所以能为百谷王者，
< br>以其善下之。
This
land
is
so
beautiful
that
it
has
made
countless
heroes
bow
in
homage.
江山如此多娇，引无数英雄竞折腰。
Cut
down
the
expenditure,
open
up
additional
resources,
and
constantly check your finance to make a
balance.
节其流，开其源，
而时斟酌焉。
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