英语格言集锦 04
From a choleric man withdraw a little; form him that says nothing, for ever.
[中文]:同易动气的人离远点;同不开口的人别打交道。
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[英文]:Gentility is but ancient riches.
[中文]:出身高贵,只不过是其祖辈有钱。
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[英文]:God help the poor, for the rich can help themselves.
[中文]:愿上帝帮助穷人,因为富人无需帮助。
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[英文]:Giving much to the poor does increase a man''s store.
[中文]:给穷人大量馈赠必定会增加自己的库存。
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[英文]:Glasses and lasses are brittle ware.
[中文]:玻璃易碎,姑娘易毁。
[出处]:英语谚语
[英文]:God made the country; man made the town.
[中文]:上帝创造了乡村,人类建造了城镇。
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[英文]:A great city, a great solitude.
[中文]:城市越大越寂寞。
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[英文]:A black plum is as sweet as a white.
[中文]:黑梅白梅一样甜。
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[英文]:A blunt knife may be sharpened on a stone, but if a man is stupid there is no help for his stupidity.
[中文]:刀钝石上磨,人蠢没奈何。
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[英文]:Like begets like.
[中文]:龙生龙,凤生凤。
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[英文]:A shy cat makes a proud mouse.
[中文]:猫儿胆小耗子闹。
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[英文]:An artist lives everywhere.
[中文]:一技在身,走遍天下。
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[英文]:An Englishman is never happy but when he is miserable, a Scotchman never at home but when he is abroad, and an Irishman never at peace but when he is fighting.
[中文]:英格兰人只有在受苦时才幸福,苏格兰人只有在他乡时才舒适,爱尔兰人只有 在打架时才安宁。
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[英文]:Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.
[中文]:我们为什么听到有人诞生就欢喜,看到有人出殡就悲伤呢? 因为诞生和死亡的是别人。
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[英文]:There''s only one kind of tax that would please everybody-one that nobody but the other guy has to pay.
[中文]:只有一种税人人欢迎,那就是只有别人必须缴纳的税。
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[英文]:Take not a musket to kill a butterfly.
[中文]:杀蝶不用枪。
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[英文]:If you cannot bite, never show your teeth.
[中文]:不能咬人就别龇牙。
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[英文]:There are only two ways to be quite unprejudiced and impartial. One is to be completely ignorant.The other is to be completely indifferent.
[中文]:只有两种办法可以做到不偏不倚,一种是完全无知,一种是完全不在乎。
[出处]:C.P.Curtis 柯蒂斯
[英文]:The weak have one weapon; The errors of those who think they are strong.
[中文]:弱者有一个武器;那些自认为强者的人的错误。
[出处]:G.Bidault 比多
[英文]:An idea isn''t responsible for the people who believe in it.
[中文]:一个思想对信仰它的人并不负有责任。
[出处]:D.Marquis 马奎斯
[英文]:The exception proves the rule.
[中文]:例外证明法则的存在。
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[英文]:Art is long, life is short.
[中文]:人生短暂,艺术长存。
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[英文]:Art lies in concealing art.
[中文]:艺术在于使人看不见艺术。
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[英文]:The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
[中文]:世界是一本书,没有旅行过的人只读了一页。
[出处]:St.Augustine 圣·奥古斯丁
[英文]:The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.
[中文]:每个国家的基础都在于对其青年的教育。
[出处]:Diogenes 第欧根尼(古希腊哲学家)
[英文]:Money spent on the brain is never spent in vain.
[中文]:用于教育之金钱决不虚掷。
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[英文]:The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
[中文]:教育的目的在于让青年人作好毕生自我教育的准备。
[出处]:R.Hutchins 哈钦斯(美国教育家)
[英文]:The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions.
[中文]:教育的真正目的是让一个人习惯于不断地提出的问题。
[出处]:M.Creighton 克赖顿
[英文]:Birth is much, but breeding is more.
[中文]:教养重于出身。
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[英文]:Education is a progressive discovery of ourown ignorance.
[中文]:教育是一个逐步发现自己无知的过程。
[出处]:W.Durant 杜兰特(美国历史学家、散文家)
[英文]:In education we are striving not to teach youth to make a living, but to make a life.
[中文]:教育不是为了教会青年人谋生,而是教会他们创造生活。
[出处]:W.A.White 怀特
[英文]:Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.
[中文]:培养一个人,教育打基础,完美靠交谈。
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[英文]:Great trees keep down little ones.
[中文]:大树底下,小树难长。
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[英文]:The primary purpose of education is not to teach you to earn your bread, but to make every mouthful sweeter.
[中文]:教育最主要的目的,不是教你挣得面包,而是使每一口面包都香甜。
[出处]:J.Angell 安吉尔(美国心理学家)
[英文]:Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to slave.
[中文]:教育使一个国家的人民容易领导,但是难于驱使;容易治理,却不可以奴役。
[出处]:H.P.Brougham 布罗厄姆(英国政治家)
[英文]:One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
[中文]:一个父亲,胜过百名教师。
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[英文]:A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
[中文]:母亲不是籍以依赖的人,而是使依赖成为不必要的人。
[出处]:D.C.Fisher 菲希尔(美国女小说家)
[英文]:The mother''s breath is aye sweet.
[中文]:母亲的气息,永远甜蜜。
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[英文]:Give me a child for the first seven years and you may do what you like with him afterwards.
[中文]:让我把小孩带到七岁,以后随你怎么都可以。
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[英文]:Give bairn his will, and a whelp his fill, and none of these two will thrive.
[中文]:纵容溺爱,子不成材。
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[英文]:A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
[中文]:教师的影响是永恒的;无法估计他的影响会有多深远。
[出处]:H.B.Adames 亚当斯(美国历史学家)
[英文]:A painter leaves his emotions behind him for his posterity to share.
[中文]:画家把自己的感情留下来,与后人共享。
[出处]:A.John 约翰(英国画家)
[英文]:Novelists should never allow themselves to weary of the study of real life.
[中文]:小说家们永远不应对研究真实的生活感到厌烦。
[出处]:Charlotte Bronte 夏洛蒂·勃朗特
[英文]:Mathematics possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty-a beauty cold and austere. like that of sculpture.
[中文]:数学不仅拥有真理,而且拥有至上的美一种冷静而严肃、犹如雕塑那样的 美。
[出处]:B.Russell 罗素(英国哲学家)
[英文]:A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
[中文]:只有逻辑的头脑像只有刃的刀,它会割破使用它的手。
[出处]:[印度] Tagore 泰戈尔
[英文]:Animals are such agreeable friends-they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
[中文]:动物是极容易相处的朋友,它们从不提问,也从不会批评。
[出处]:George Eliot 乔治·艾略特
[英文]:The cat could very well be man''s best friend but would never stoop to admitting it.
[中文]:猫可以是人们最好的朋友,但它自己却不肯屈尊承认这一点。
[出处]:Doug Larson 道格·拉森
[英文]:The world is so full of a number of things, I''m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
[中文]:世界上的东西是那样丰富多彩,我肯定我们都应当像国王一样愉快。
[出处]:Stevenson 史蒂文森
[英文]:It''s but little good you''ll do a-watering the last year''s crop.
[中文]:为去年的庄稼浇水徒劳无功。
[出处]:George Eliot 乔治·艾略特
[英文]:Inflation is being broken with a lot of money in your pocket.
[中文]:通货膨胀是你的口袋有大量的钱,而你破产了。
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[英文]:Each of us is the accumulation of our memories.
[中文]:我们每个人都是我们记忆的累积。
[出处]:Alan Loy McGinnis 艾伦·洛尹·麦金尼斯
[英文]:If dogs could talk, it would take a lot of fun out of owning one.
[中文]:如果狗能讲话,那养狗就无多少乐趣了。
[出处]:Andrew A.Rooney 安德鲁·A·鲁尼
[英文]:It is the last straw that breaks the camel''s back.
[中文]:骆驼负载过重时,加根草也能把它压倒。
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[英文]:Judge not a book by its covers.
[中文]:评价书不能看封面。
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[英文]:It is hard to please all.
[中文]:要使人人满意是件难事。
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[英文]:It is better to please a fool than to anget him.
[中文]:若惹蠢人生气,不如使他欢喜。
[出处]:英语谚语
[英文]:Vice is often clothed in virtue''s habit.
[中文]:罪恶往往披着德道的外衣。
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[英文]:He give twice who gives quickly.
[中文]:给得爽快,等于给了两次。
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[英文]:It is no sin to sell dear, but a sin to give ill measure.
[中文]:高价出售不为过,缺斤少两才是罪。
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[英文]:Brevity is the soul of wit.
[中文]:言以简洁为贵。
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[英文]:Couch hard arguments in soft words.
[中文]:理要硬而话要软。
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[英文]:It is no use crying over spilt milk.
[中文]:牛奶已泼,哭也无用。
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[英文]:Good take-heed does surely speed.
[中文]:谨慎是成功的保证。
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[英文]:In every country the sun rises in the morning.
[中文]:无论在哪个国家都是早晨出太阳。
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[英文]:In settling on island, the first building erected by a Spaniard will be a church; by a Frenchman, a fort; by a Dutchman, a warehouse; and by an Englishman, an alehouse.
[中文]:在海岛定居时,西班牙人先造教堂;法国人先造要塞;荷兰人先造仓库而英 国人则先造酒店。
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[英文]:Your liberty to swing your arms ends where my nose begins.
[中文]:你有挥舞手臂的自由,但这自由必须止于我的鼻端。
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[英文]:Adventure is just a romantic name for trouble.
[中文]:冒险是自找麻烦的浪漫说法。
[出处]:Louis Lamour 路易斯·拉穆尔
[英文]:What is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh.
[中文]:江山好改,本性难移。
[出处]:英语谚语