諺語大全 4

Obedience is the first duty of a soldier軍人以服從命令爲天職。
Observation is the best teacher.觀察是最好的老師。
Offense is the best defense.進攻是最好的防禦。
Old friends and old wines are best.陳酒味醇，老友情深。
Old sin makes new shame.一失足成千古恨。
Once a man and twice a child.一次老，兩次小。
Once a thief, always a thief.偷盜一次，做賊一世。
Once bitten, twice shy.一朝被蛇咬，十年怕井繩。
One boy is a boy, two boys half a boy, three boys no boy.
一個和尚挑水喝，兩個和尚擡水喝，三個和尚沒水喝。
One cannot put back the clock.時鐘不能倒轉。
One eyewitness is better than ten hearsays.百聞不如一見。
One false move may lose the game.一着不慎，滿盤皆輸。
One good turn deserves another.行善積德。
One hour today is worth two tomorrow.爭分奪秒效率高。
One man‘s fault is other man‘s lesson.前車之鑑。
One never loses anything by politeness.講禮貌不吃虧。
One swallow does not make a summ一燕不成夏。
One‘s words reflect one‘s thinking.言爲心聲。
Out of debt, out of danger.無債一身輕。
Out of office, out of danger.無官一身輕。
Out of sight, out of mind.眼不見，心爲靜。
Patience is the best remedy.忍耐是良藥。
Penny wise, pound foolish.貪小便宜吃大虧。
Plain dealing is praised more than Practiced.
正大光明者，說到的多，做到的少。
Please the eye and plague the heart. 貪圖一時快活，必然留下隱禍。
Pleasure comes through toil.苦盡甘來。
Pour water into a sieve.竹籃子打水一場空。
Practice makes perfect.熟能生巧。
Praise is not pudding.恭維話不能當飯吃。
Praise makes good men better, and bad men worse.
好人越誇越好，壞人越誇越糟。
Prefer loss to unjust gain.寧可吃虧，不貪便宜。
Prevention is better than cure.預防勝於治療。
Pride goes before, and shame comes after.驕傲使人落後。
Promise is debt.一諾千金。
Proverbs are the daughters of daily experience.諺語是日常經驗的結晶。
Pull the chestnut out of fire.火中取栗。
Put the cart before the horse.本末倒置。
Put your shoulder to the wheel.鼎力相助。
Reading enriches the mind.開卷有益。
Reading is to the mind while exercise to the body.讀書健腦，運動強身。
Respect yourself, or no one else will respect you.要人尊敬，必須自重。
Rome is not built in a day冰凍三尺，非一日之寒。
Saying is one thing and doing another.言行不一。
Seeing is believing.眼見爲實。 Seek the truth from facts.實事求是。
Send a wise man on an errand, and say nothing to him.
智者當差，不用交代。
Set a thief to catch a thief.以賊捉賊。
Short accounts make long friends.好朋友勤算賬。
Something is better than nothing.聊勝於無。
Soon learn, soon forgotten.學得快，忘得快。
Soon ripe, soon rotten.熟得快，爛得快。
Speech is silver, silence is gold.能言是銀，沉默是金。
Still water run deep.靜水常深。
Strike the iron while it is hot.趁熱打鐵。
Success belongs to the persevering.堅持就是勝利。
Take things as they come.既來之，則安之。
Talking mends no holes. 空談無補。
Talk of the devil and he will appear.說曹操，曹操就到。
Tall trees catch much wind.樹大招風。
Teach others by your example.躬親示範。
The best hearts are always the bravest.無私者無畏。
The best man stumbles.偉人也有犯錯時。
The cat shuts its eyes when stealing.掩耳盜鈴。
The danger past and God forgotten.過河拆橋。
The darkest hour is nearest the dawn.黎明前的黑暗。
The darkest place is under the candlestick.燭臺底下最暗。
The devil knows many things because he is old.老馬識途。
The devil sometimes speaks the truth魔鬼有時也會說真話。
The die is cast.木已成舟。 The early bird catches the worm.早起的鳥兒有蟲吃。
The end justifies the means.只要目的正當，可以不擇手段。
The end makes all equal.死亡面前，人人平等。
The eye is bigger than the belly.貪多嚼不爛。
The farthest way about is the nearest way home.抄近路反而繞遠路。
The finest diamond must be cut.玉不琢，不成器。
The fire is the test of gold, adversity of strong man.烈火驗真金，艱難磨意志。
The first step is the only difficulty.邁出第一步是最艱難的。
The fox knew too much, that‘s how he lost his tail.機關算盡太聰明，反誤了卿卿 性命。
The fox preys farthest from home.兔子不吃窩邊草。
The frog in the well knows nothing of the great ocean.坐井觀天。
The grass is greener on the other side.這山望着那山高。
The greatest talkers are always least doers.語言的巨人總是行動的矮子。
The higher up, the greater the fall.爬得高，摔得慘。
The leopard cannot change its spots.本性難移。
The more noble, the more humble.人越高尚，越謙虛。
The more wit, the less courage. 初生牛犢不怕虎。
The outsider sees the most of the game.旁觀者清。
The pen is mightier than the sword.筆能殺人。
The pot calls the kettle black.五十步笑百步。
There are spots in the sun.太陽也有黑點。
There are two sides to every question.問題皆有兩面。
There is a skeleton in the cupboard.家家有本難唸的經。
There is kindness to be found everywhere.人間處處有溫情。
There is no general rule without some exception.任何法規均有例外。
There is no medicine against death.沒有長生不老藥。
There is no place like home.金窩銀窩不如咱的狗窩。
There is no royal road to learning.書山有路勤爲徑，學海無涯苦作舟。
The ｓｔｙｌｅ is the man.字如其人。
The tongue is not steel, yet it cuts.人言可畏。
The water that bears the boat is the same that swallows it up.
水能載舟，亦能覆舟。
The wise man knows he knows nothing, the fool thinks he knows all.清者自清，濁者自濁。 The wolf has a winning game when the shepherds quarrel. 螳螂捕蟬，黃雀在後
The world is a ladder for some to go up and others to go down.世界如階梯，有人上有人下。
The world is but a little place, after all.海內存知己，天涯若比鄰。
Think twice before you do.三思而後行。
Things at the worst will mend.否極泰來。
Time and tide wait for no man.時不我待。
Time cures all things.時間是醫治一切創傷的良藥。
Time flies.光陰似箭。 Time is money.時間就是金錢。
Time lost cannot be won again.時光流逝，不可復得。
Time past cannot be called back again.時間不能倒流。
Time tries all.路遙知馬力，日久見人心。
Tit for tat is fair play.人不犯我，我不犯人；人若犯我，我必犯人。
To err is human.人非聖賢，孰能無過。
To know everything is to know nothing.什麼都知道，一如什麼都不知道。
To know oneself is true progress.人貴有自知之明。
Tomorrow never comes.我生待明日，萬事成蹉跎。
Too much familiarity breeds contempt.過分熟悉會使人互不服氣。
Too much knowledge makes the head bald.學問太多催人老。
Too much liberty spills all.自由放任，一事無成。
Too much praise is a burden.過多誇獎，反成負擔。
To save time is to lengthen life.節約時間就是延長生命。
Touch pitch, and you will be defiled.常在河邊走，哪有不溼鞋。
Troubles never come singly.福無雙至，禍不單行。
Truth never grows old.真理永存。
Turn over a new leaf.洗心革面，改過自新。
Two dogs strive for a bone, and a third runs away with it.
鷸蚌相爭，漁翁得利。
Two heads are better than one.一個好漢三個幫。
Two of a trade seldom agree.同行是冤家。
Two wrongs do not make a right.別人錯了，不等於你對了。
Unity is strength.團結就是力量。
Unpleasant advice is a good medicine.忠言逆耳利於行。
Until all is over one‘s ambition never dies.不到黃河心不死。
Venture a small fish to catch a great one.吃小虧佔大便宜。
Virtue is fairer far than beauty.美德遠遠勝過美貌。
Walls have ears.小心隔牆有耳。
Wash your dirty linen at home.家醜不可外揚。
Water dropping day by day wears the hardest rock away.滴水穿石。
Wealth is nothing without health.失去健康，錢再多也沒用。
We know not what is good until we have lost it.好東西，失去了才明白。
Well begun is half done.好的開始，是成功的一半。
We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.井榦方知水可貴。
We shall never have friends if we expect to find them without fault
.欲求完美無缺的朋友必然成爲孤家寡人。
We should never remember the benefits we have offered nor forget the favor received.
自己的好事別去提，別人的恩惠要銘記。
Whatever you do, do with all your might.不管做什麼，都要一心一意
What is learned in the cradle is carried to the grave.兒時所學，終生難忘。
What‘s done cannot be undone.生米煮成熟飯了。
What‘s lost is lost.失者不可復得。What we do willingly is easy.願者不難。When in Rome, do as the Romans do.入國問禁，入鄉隨俗。
When everybody‘s somebody then nobody‘s anybody.人人都偉大，世間沒豪傑。
When sorrow is asleep, wake it not.傷心舊事別重提。
When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.
新仇舊恨，齊上心頭。
When the fox preaches, take care of your geese.黃鼠狼給雞拜年，沒安好心。
When wine is in truth, wit is out.酒後吐真言。
Where there is a will, there is a way.有志者事竟成。
Where there is life, there is hope.留得青山在，不怕沒柴燒。
Where there is smoke, there is fire.事出有因。
While the priest climbs a post, the devil climbs ten.道高一尺，魔高一丈。
Who chatters to you, will chatter of you.搬弄口舌者必是小人。
Whom the gods love die young.好人不長命。
Wise man have their mouths in their hearts, fools have their hearts in their mouths.
智者嘴在心裏，愚者心在嘴裏。
Work makes the workman.勤工出巧匠。 Wet behind the ears.乳臭未乾。
You cannot burn the candle at both ends.蠟燭不能兩頭點，精力不可過分耗。
You cannot eat your cake and have it.魚與熊掌，不可得兼。
You can take a horse to the water but you cannot make him drink. 強扭的瓜不甜
。 You may know by a handful the whole sack.由一斑可知全貌。
You never know what you can till you try.是驢子是馬，拉出來遛遛。