Question

给我六个英语谚语！越不常见越好！

不要给我类似“no pains no gains”简单的…

Answer 1

A bad beginning makes a bad ending.不善始者不善终。
A bad workman always blames his tools.不会撑船怪河弯。
A bird in the hand is worth than two in the bush.
一鸟在手胜过双鸟在林。
A bad thing never dies.遗臭万年。
A boaster and a liar are cousins－german.吹牛与说谎本是同宗。
A bully is always a coward.色厉内荏
A burden of one‘s choice is not felt.爱挑的担子不嫌重。
A candle lights others and consumes itself.蜡烛照亮别人毁灭了自己。
Close mouth catches no flies.病从口入
A cat has 9 lives.猫有九条命。
A cat may look at a king.人人平等。
A constant guest is never welcome.常客令人厌。
Actions speak louder than words事实胜于雄辩。
Adversity leads to prosperity.穷则思变。
Adversity makes a man wise, not rich.逆境出人才。
A fair death honors the whole life.死得其所，流芳百世。
A faithful friend is hard to find.知音难觅。
A fall into a pit, a gain in your wit.吃一堑，长一智。
A fox may grow gray, but never good.江山易改，本性难移。
A friend in need is a friend indeed.患难见真情。
A friend is easier lost than found.得朋友难，失朋友易。
A friend is never known till a man has need.需要之时方知友。
A friend without faults will never be found.没有十全十美的
‘After you‘ is good manners.您先请”是礼貌。
A good beginning is half done.良好的开端是成功的一半。
A good beginning makes a good ending.善始者善终。
A good book is a good friend.好书如挚友。
A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.
一本好书，相伴一生。
A good conscience is a soft pillow.不做亏心事，不怕鬼叫门。
A good fame is better than a good face. 美名胜过美貌。
A good husband makes a good wife.夫善则妻贤。
A good medicine tastes bitter.良药苦口。
A good wife health is a man‘s best wealth.
妻贤身体好是男人最大的财富。
A great talker is a great liar.说大话者多谎言。
A light heart lives long.静以修身。
A hedge between keeps friendship green.君子之交淡如水。
A joke never gains an enemy but loses a friend.
戏谑不能化敌为友，只能使人失去朋友。
A leopard cannot change its spots.积习难改。
A liar is not believed when he speaks the truth说谎者即使讲真话也没人相信。
A little body often harbors a great soul.浓缩的都是精品。
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.一知半解，自欺欺人。
A little pot is soon hot.狗肚子盛不得四两油。
All are brave when the enemy flies.敌人逃窜时，人人都成了勇士。
All good things come to an end.天下没有不散的筵席。
All rivers run into sea.海纳百川。All roads lead to Rome.条条大路通罗马。
All that ends well is well.结果好，就一切都好。
All that glitters is not gold.闪光的不一定都是金子。
All things are difficult before they are easy.凡事总是由难而易。
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
只会用功不玩耍，聪明孩子也变傻。
A man becomes learned by asking questions.不耻下问才能有学问。
A man can do no more than he can.凡事都应量力而行。
A man cannot spin and reel at the same time.一心不能二用。
A man is known by his friends.什么人交什么朋友。
A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds.
光说空话不做事，犹如花园光长刺。
A man without money is no man at all一分钱难倒英雄汉。
A merry heart goes all the way.心旷神怡，事事顺利。
A miss is as good as a mile. 失之毫厘，差之千里。

A new broom sweeps clean.新官上任三把火。
An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.以眼还眼，以牙还牙。
An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening.一日之计在于晨。
An old dog cannot learn new tricks.老狗学不出新把戏。
An ounce of luck is better than a pound of wisdom.聪明才智，不如运气。
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.预防为主，治疗为辅。
A rolling stone gathers no moss.滚石不生苔，转业不聚财。
As a man sows, so he shall reap.种瓜得瓜，种豆得豆。
A single flower does not make a spring.一花独放不是春百花齐放春满园。
A snow year, a rich year.瑞雪兆丰年。

A still tongue makes a wise head.寡言者智。
A straight foot is not afraid of a crooked shoe.身正不怕影子斜。
A wise head makes a close mouth.真人不露相，露相非真人。
A word spoken is past recalling.一言既出，驷马难追。
A year‘s plan starts with spring.一年之计在于春。
A young idler, an old beggar.少壮不努力，老大徒伤悲。
Bad news has wings.好事不出门，坏事传千里。
Barking dogs seldom bite.吠犬不咬人。
Beauty lies in the love‘s eyes.情人眼里出西施。
Be swift to hear, slow to speak.听宜敏捷，言宜缓行。
Better late than never.不怕慢，单怕站。
Better to ask the way than go astray.问路总比迷路好。
Between friends all is common.朋友之间不分彼此。
Birds of a feather flock together.物以类聚，人以群分。
Blood is thicker than water. 血浓于水。Blood will have blood.血债血偿。
Books and friends should be few but good.读书如交友，应求少而精。
Business is business.公事公办。Cheats never prosper.骗人发不了财。
Business is the salt of life.事业是人生的第一需要。
By reading we enrich the mind, by conversation we polish it.
读书使人充实，交谈使人精明。
Cannot see the wood for the trees.一叶障目，不见泰山。
Care and diligence bring luck.谨慎和勤奋才能抓住机遇。
Caution is the parent of safety.小心驶得万年船。
Children are what the mothers are.耳濡目染，身教言传。
Choose an author as you choose a friend.择书如择友。
Come what may, heaven won‘t fall.做你的吧，天塌不下来。
Complacency is the enemy of study.学习的敌人是自己的满足。
Confidence in yourself is the first step on the road to success.
自信是走向成功的第一步。Content is better than riches.知足者常乐
Constant dripping wears away a stone.水滴石穿，绳锯木断。
Count one‘s chickens before they are hatched.蛋未孵先数雏。
Courtesy on one side only lasts not long.来而不往非礼也。
Creep before you walk.循序渐进。
Cry for the moon.海底捞月。
Custom is a second nature.习惯是后天养成的。
Custom makes all things easy.有个好习惯，事事皆不难。
Diamond cuts diamond.强中自有强中手。
Do as the Romans do.入乡随俗。
Do as you would be done by.己所不欲，勿施于人。
Doing is better than saying.与其挂在嘴上，不如落实在行动上。
Do it now.机不可失，时不再来Do nothing by halves.凡事不可半途废。
Don‘t claim to know what you don‘t know.不要不懂装懂。
Don‘t have too many irons in the fire.不要揽事过多。
Don‘t make a mountain out of a molehill.不要小题大做。

Don‘t trouble trouble until trouble troubles you.不要自找麻烦。
Do well and have well.善有善报。

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Answer 2

1. Such is human nature, that a great many people are often willing to sacrifice higher pay for the privilege of becoming white-collar workers. ( Lesson 4)
句型解剖：Such + be动词 + 名词/名词短语 + that…… 这就是……/ 此乃……
上述结构的常规语序是：名词/名词短语 + be动词 + such + that……,其中that引导的such一词的同位语从句，即例句也能改成：Human nature is such that a great many people are often willing to sacrifice higher pay for the privilege of becoming white-collar workers. 而作者把such抛置句首，旨在起到强调作用.
联想运用：
1）人只有在失去后才懂得珍惜，在生病后才意识到健康的可贵，这是常见的事情。
Such is human nature that many people would not be grateful for what they have until they lose it and likewise, they would not be conscious of health until they are ill. 或者
Human nature is such that many people would not be grateful for what they have until they lose it and likewise, they would not be conscious of health until they are ill.
2） 这就是生活，每个人都靠卖某种东西而生存：老师靠卖知识而生存；哲学家靠卖智慧而生存；牧师靠卖精神安慰而生存。
Such is life that everyone lives by selling something：teachers live by selling knowledge, philosophers by selling wisdom and priests by selling spiritual comforts.
3） 社会上的情况就是如此，技术是必须付钱去买的，就像在商店里要花钱买商品一样。(新概念第三册，L27)
The conditions of society are such that skills have to be paid for in the same way that goods are paid for at a shop. 或者
Such are conditions of society that skills have to be paid for in the same way that goods are paid for at a shop.
4） 这就是幸福，它像一只蝴蝶，当你要追逐它的时候，总是追不到；当时如果你悄悄地坐下来，它也许会飞落到你身上。
Such is happiness that it is like a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
5） 这就是成功的秘诀，多一点点努力，多一点点决心，多一点点热情，多一点点持久，你就能创造出多一点点的奇迹。
Such is the secret to success that a little bit more efforts, a little bit more determination, a little bit more enthusiasm and a little bit more perseverance will help to achieve a little bit more miracle.
6) 我的生活原则就是：生活在现在而不是过去；不要让过去影响我的日常生活；不要让过去干扰我的思维；不要让过去妨碍我做到最好。
Such are my philosophies of life that “live in the present instead of in the precedent; stop the past from influencing my daily life; stop the past from interfering my thought; stop the past from reducing my personal best.”
7) 这就是人生，需要忍受的太多，能够享受的太少。
Such is life that there is much to be endured and little to be enjoyed.
8) 这就是经验，它并不是一个人能遇到什么，而是一个人能够处理他所遇到的一切。
Such is experience, that it is not what happens to a man but what a man does with what happens to him.
9） 这就是婚姻，它好比鸟笼，外面的鸟儿想进进不去，里面的鸟儿想出出不来。 Such is marriage, that it may be compared to a cage: the birds outside despair to get in and those within despair to get out.
2. This can give rise to curious situations, as it did in the case of Alfred Bloggs who worked as a dustman for Ellesmere Corporation. (Lesson 4)
句型解剖： ……,as is did in the case of sb / sth——某人、某事就是这么一个例子；就像某人、某事那样。在写作中，同学们往往习惯用 “sb/sth is such an example”作为过渡来表示 “某人、某事就是这么一个例子”, 殊不知该表达已经落入陈词滥调。而上述过渡短语“as it did in the case of”却给人眼前一亮、耳目一新的感觉。其中的“case”就等同于“example”。而该结构的具体用法是：as it did in the case of之前通过一句话来描述一件事情或者一个现象，然后跟上短语as it did in the case of，并在其后面补充具体某人或某事（做前面那件事的人或符合前面那个现象的事情），如果后面有进一步修饰的需要，可以像例句那样再添加一个定语从句进行补充说明。
联想运用：
1）有时候乱子会闹得很大，就像最近在悉尼所发生的那场连环交通事故那样, 造成100人死亡。
Things can go wrong on a big scale, as it did in the case of a pile-up accident in Sydney recently which claimed the lives of 100 people.
2）到真正偏僻地方去旅游并不是一件愉快的事情，就像我妻子在一次巴尔干半岛的周游所发现的那样，在那里她受到了冷遇。
Visits to really remote places are seldom enjoyable, as it did in the case of my wife on a tour to the Balkans where she received the cold shoulder.
3）美是稍纵即逝的，就像培根在他的文章中曾经提到的那样：美犹如盛夏的水果，是容易腐烂而难保持的；世上有许多美人，她们有过放荡的青春，却迎受着愧毁的晚年。
Beauty is like a flash in the pan, as it does in the case of an essay by Bacon which says “Beauty is as summer fruits, which are easy to corrupt, and cannot last; and for most part it makes a dissolute youth, and an age a little out of countenance”. （因为该句并没牵涉到一个过去的动作，而是描述一般状态，所以结构“as it did in the case of”可以灵活调整为“as it does in the case of”）
4) 有人能用手指看书或辨认颜色，甚至能透过厚实的门或者是墙看到东西；一个名叫Tina的女孩就是这么一个例子，她的视力和正常人一样，但能用皮肤的不同部位辨认东西甚至看穿坚实的墙壁。
Some people can read and detect colors with their fingers and even see through solid doors and walls, as it does in the case of a girl named Tina who has normal vision but who can also perceive things with different parts of her skin, and through solid walls.
5) 有些动物会对主人产生深厚的私人感情。最近有一只名叫Daniel小狗就是这么一个例子，由于不可避免的情况他和主人分开后，竟然拒绝进食，最后消瘦至死。
Animals will develop a considerable degree of personal affection to their masters, as it did in the case a dog called Daniel, who refused to feed and pined to death when by some unavoidable circumstances he had been deprived of his master.
3. Cats never fail to fascinate human beings. ( Lesson 9)
句型解剖：never fail to do sth——总能做某事；肯定会做某事。never fail to 的字面意思是“不会失败做某事”，但考虑到汉语语言的习惯，作者把它翻成“总能做某事”。其实这个表达使用了双重否定的结构：never是否定词，fail是具有否定意义的词。用never fail to do sth 表示“总能做某事”比“can always”表达更远离中式英文的嫌疑，同样也使说话口气更具强调性。
另外，我们还可以从这个短语中得到一定的启发： never/not/ no + fail、avoid、evade、 miss、shortage、freedom(远离)等带有否定意义的词，都能构成双重否定。
联想运用：
1) 如果你收到这样的恳求，你肯定会遵照执行的。
If you receive a request like this, you cannot fail to obey it!
2) 他总能在最后一刻赶到现场并替我解围。
He never fails to throw me a lifeline at the eleventh hour.
3) 每个人都受到了广告的影响。（新概念第三册，L26）
No one can avoid being influenced by advertisements.
4) 人人都得交税。
No one can evade taxes.
5) 你肯定会在人群中找到她，因为她是那样的艳丽耀眼。
You can’t miss her in the crowd for she is so gorgeous.
Easier said than done.说起来容易做起来难。

Answer 3

A candle lights others and consumes itself.
蜡烛照亮别人，却毁灭了自己。
A cat may look at a king.
猫也可以打量国王，意为人人平等。A fox may grow gray, but never good.
江山易改，本性难移。
A good fame is better than a good face.
美名胜过美貌。
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
一知半解，自欺欺人。
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
只会用功不玩耍，聪明孩子也变傻。

Answer 4

Short accounts make long friends.
好朋友勤算账。
Praise makes good men better, and bad men worse.
好人越夸越好，坏人越夸越糟。
Plain dealing is praised more than practiced.
正大光明者，说到的多，做到的少。
No rose without a thorn.
没有不带刺的玫瑰。
Like tree, like fruit.
羊毛出在羊身上。
Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.
抱最好的愿望，做最坏的打算。
呵呵，我很小气的，说六个，就六个