谚语、俗语英文翻译

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。

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。/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。

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.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。

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 die.with 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。

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，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，闻言知人。

Safety and danger alternate with each other. Misfortune and fortune 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 diligently.博学之，审问之，慎思之，明辩之，笃行之。

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 it.still 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 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。

We wish each other a long life so as to share the beauty of this graceful moonlight, even though we are miles apart.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 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 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。