adjective英语谚语

2021年1月21日发(作者：debt)
1.

Genius is two percent inspiration and ninety-eight percent perspiration.
天才是百分之二的灵感加百分之九十八的汗水

2.

Everything must have a beginning.



All things are difficult before they are easy.


万事开头难

3.

Experience is the mother of wisdom.



吃一堑长一智

4.

All are not friends that speak us fair.



说我们好话的未必全是朋友

5.

Every man for himself and the devil takes the hindmost.



人不为己，天诛地灭

6.

He, who would climb the ladder, must begin at the bottom.



千里之行，始于足下

7.

A clean hand wants no washing.



身正不怕影子斜

8.

He that runs fastest gets the ring.
The early bird catches the worm.
捷足先登

9.

Harbor evil intentions.


心术不正，居心叵测

10.

Throw a thread to catch a whale.



抛砖引玉

11.

A good anvil doesn
’
t fear the hammer.



白日不做亏心事，半夜敲门心不惊

12.

Have an eye to the main chance.



唯利是图

13.

Fish begins to stink at the head.



上梁不正下梁歪

14.

Beauty is in the eye of the gazer (beholder), beauty lies in the lover
’
s eyes.



情人眼里出西施

15.

To pay a man back in his own coin.

Give him the dose of his own medicine.
以其人之道还治其人之身

16.

He that has a great nose thinks everybody is speaking of it.



以小人之心度君子之腹

17.

Stab in the back hit somebody below the belt.



暗箭伤人

18.

One man may steal a horse while another may not look over a hedge.



只许州官放火，不许百姓点灯

19.

While there is life, there is hope.


留得青山在，不愁没柴烧

20.

To tread on one
’
s own tail.



搬起石头砸自己的脚

21.

Rome was not built in a day.



冰冻三尺非一日之寒

22.

Until all is over one
’
s ambition never dies.



不到黄河不死心

23.

Nothing brave, nothing has.



不入虎穴焉得虎子

24.

Misfortunes tell us what fortune is. (No sweat, no sweet)



吃得苦中苦，方知甜上甜

25.

Every man has a fool in his sleeve.



聪明一世糊涂一时

26.

Do in Rome as Rome does. (Being on sea, sail. Being on land, settle.)
到什么山上，唱什么歌

27.

In every beginning think of the end.



凡事预则立，不预则废

28.

The wagon must go whither the horses draw it.



胳膊拧不过大腿

29.

Can a leopard change its spots? (A fox may turn grey, but never kind.)
狗走千里吃屎，狼走千里吃人

30.

Who do you expect from a pig (hog) but a grunt.



狗嘴里吐不出象牙

31.

What
’
s up one
’
s sleeve(s)?



葫芦里卖什么药

32.

When the fox preaches, take care of your geese.



黄鼠狼给鸡拜年，不安好心

33.

Do as you would be done by.



己所不欲勿施于人

34.

It is a poor mouse that has only one hole.



狡兔三窟

35.

If you live with a lame person, you will learn to limp.

Who keeps company with the wolf, will learn to howl.
近朱者赤，近墨者黑

36.

A hedge between keeps friendship green.

Love me little, love me long.
君子之交淡如水

37.

To try for the moon.



癞蛤蟆想吃天鹅肉

38.

The
hinges
of
a
door
never
become
rotten/worm- eaten
and
running
water
ever
becomes stale.
流水不腐，户枢不蠹

39.

Man proposes. God disposes.



谋事在人，成事在天

40.

Standers-by see more than gamesters.

Lookers-on see more than players.

当局者迷，旁观者清

41. You can
’
t make omelettes without breaking eggs.



One can
’
t make a silk purse out of a sow
’
s ear.



巧妇难为无米之炊

42.

What
’
s done by night appears by day.



若要人不知，除非己莫为

43.

Two heads are better than one.



三个臭皮匠，胜过一个诸葛亮

44.

He must need go whom the devil drives.



身在屋檐下，不得不低头

45.

A brave man knows how to bow to circumstances.



识时务者为俊杰

46.

Counsel after action is like ran after harvest.



事后诸葛亮

47.

The effect speaks, the tongue needs not.



事实胜于雄辩

48.

He who laughs last laughs best.



笑到最后的笑得最好

49.

Think of the devil and he is looking over your shoulders.



说曹操曹操就到

50.

The best of friends must part.



天下无不散之宴席

51.

Where there is a will, there is a way.



世上无难事，只怕有心人

52.

A small leak will sink a great ship.



小漏不补沉大船；千里之堤溃于蚁穴

53.

The moon is not seen when the sun shines.



小巫见大巫

54.

The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak.



心有余而力不足

55.

Many kiss the baby for the nurse
’
s sake.



醉翁之意不在酒

56.

Law-makers should not be law-breakers.



立法者不应违法

57.

What is to be will be.

We just have to compromise among evils.


听天由命

58.

A drowning man will catch at a straw.



快淹死的人一根稻草也要抓

59.

He who grasps at too much will lose all.



样样通，样样松

60.

Marry in haste and repent at leisure.



仓促结婚，长期悔恨

61.

Actions speak louder than words.



事实胜于雄辩

62.

Adversity is a good discipline.



逆境使人坚强

63.

Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.



欲速则不达

64.

Well begun is half done.



善始是成功的一半

65.

The devil knows many things because he is old.



人老识广

66.

Every bean has its black.



各有所短

67.

Sell the bear
’
s skin before one has caught the bear.



过早乐观

68.

A bird may be known by its song.



闻其言，知其人

69.

Each bird loves to hear himself sing.



自我赏识

70.

Each bird likes its own nest.



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