• A bad beginning makes a bad ending.
  不善始者不善终。
• A bad thing never dies.
  遗臭万年。
• 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 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，却毁灭了自己。
• A cat has 9 lives.
  猫有九条命。
• A cat may look at a king.
  人人平等。
• A close mouth catches no flies.
  病从口入。
• 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.
  没有十全十美的朋友。
• "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 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 light heart lives long.
  静以修身。
• 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 mother's love never changes.
  母爱永恒。
• An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
  一天一苹果，不用请医生。
• 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 sound mind in a sound body.
  健全的精神寓于健康的身体。
• A still tongue makes a wise head.
  寡言者智。
• A stitch in time saves nine.
  小洞不补，大洞吃苦。
• 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。
• 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。
• Cheats never prosper.
  骗人发不了财。
• 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。
• Constant dripping wears away a stone.
  水滴石穿，绳锯木断。
• Content is better than riches.
  知足者常乐。
• 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.
  凡事不可半途而废。
• 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 put off till tomorrow what should be done today.
  今日事，今日毕。
• Don't put the cart before the horse.
  不要本末倒置。
• Don't trouble trouble until trouble troubles you.
  不要自找麻烦。
• Don't try to teach your grandmother to suck eggs.
  不要班门弄斧。
• Do well and have well.
  善有善报。
• Each bird love to hear himself sing.
  孤芳自赏。
• Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
  早睡早起身体好。
• Easier said than done.
  说得容易，做得难。
• Easy come, easy go.
  来也匆匆，去也匆匆。
• Eat to live, but not live to eat.
  人吃饭是为了活着，但活着不是为了吃饭。
• Empty vessels make the greatest sound.
  实磨无声空磨响，满瓶不动半瓶摇。
• Envy has no holidays.
  忌妒之人无宁日。
• Even Homer sometimes nods.
  智者千虑，必有一失。
• Even reckoning makes long friends.
  亲兄弟，明算账。
• Every advantage has its disadvantage.
  有利必有弊。
• Everybody's business is nobody's business.
  人人负责，等于没人负责。
• Every day is not Sunday.
  好景不常在。
• Every dog has his day.
  谁都有得意的时候。
• Every door may be shut, but death's door.
  人生在世，唯死难逃。
• Every heart has its own sorrow.
  各人有各人的苦恼。
• Every little helps a mickle.
  聚沙成塔，集腋成裘。
• Every man for himself, and the devil takes the hindmost.
  人不为己，天诛地灭。
• Every man has his faults.
  金无足赤，人无完人。
• Every man has his hobbyhorse.
  萝卜青菜，各有所爱。
• Every man has his weak side.
  人人都有弱点。
• Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
  自己的命运自己掌握。
• Every minute counts.
  分秒必争。
• Every mother's child is handsome.
  孩子是自己的好。
• Every potter praises hit pot.
  王婆卖瓜，自卖自夸。
• Everything is good when new, but friends when old.
  东西是新的好，朋友是老的亲。
• Example is better then percept.
  说一遍，不如做一遍。
• Experience is the father of wisdom and memory the mother.
  经验是智慧之父，记忆是智慧之母。
• Experience must be bought.
  吃一堑，长一智。
• Fact speak louder than words.
  事实胜于雄辩。
• Failure is the mother of success.
  失败是成功之母。
• False friends are worse than bitter enemies.
  明枪易躲，暗箭难防。
• Far from eye, far from heart.
  眼不见，心不烦。
• Far water does not put out near fire.
  远水救不了近火。
• Faults are thick where love is thin.
  一朝情意淡，样样不顺眼。
• Fear always springs from ignorance.
  恐惧源于无知。
• Fields have eyes, and woods have ears.
  隔墙有耳。
• Fire and water have no mercy.
  水火无情。
• Fire is a good servant but a bad master.
  火是一把双刃剑。
• First come, first served.
  先来后到。
• First impressions are half the battle.
  初次见面，印象最深。
• First think and then speak.
  先想后说。
• Fools grow without watering.
  朽木不可雕。
• Fool's haste is no speed.
  欲速则不达。
• Fools has fortune.
  呆人有呆福。
• Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much from fools.
  愚者不学无术，智者不耻下问。
• Forbidden fruit is sweet.
  禁果格外香。
• Fortune favors those who use their judgement.
  机遇偏爱善断之人。
• Fortune knocks once at least at every man's gate.
  风水轮流转。
• Four eyes see more than two.
  集思广益。
• Friends agree best at distance.
  朋友之间也会保持距离。
• Friends are thieves of time.
  朋友是时间的窃贼。
• Friends must part.
  再好的朋友也有分手的时候。
• Genius is nothing but labor and diligence.
  天才不过是勤奋而已。
• Give a dog a bad name and hang him.
  众口铄金，积毁销骨。
• God helps those who help themselves.
  自助者天助。
• Gold will not buy anything.
  黄金并非万能。
• Good for good is natural, good for evil is manly.
  以德报德是常理，以德报怨大丈夫。
• Good health is over wealth.
  健康是最大的财富。
• Good medicine for health tastes bitter to the mouth.
  良药苦口利于病。
• Good watch prevents misfortune.
  谨慎消灾。
• Great barkers are no biters.
  好狗不挡道。
• Great hopes make great man.
  伟大的抱负造就伟大的人物。
• Great minds think alike.
  英雄所见略同。
• Great men have great faults.
  英雄犯大错误。
• Great men's sons seldom do well.
  富不过三代。
• Great trees are good for nothing but shade.
  大树底下好乘凉。
• Great wits have short memories.
  贵人多忘事。
• Greedy folks have long arms.
  心贪手长。
• Guilty consciences make men cowards.
  做贼心虚。
• Habit cures habit.
  心病还需心药医。
• Handsome is he who does handsomely.
  行为漂亮才算美。
• Happiness takes no account of time.
  欢乐不觉时光过。
• Happy is he who owes nothing.
  要想活得痛快，身上不能背债。
• Happy is the man who learns from the misfortunes of others.
  吸取他人教训，自己才会走运。
• Harm set, harm get.
  害人害己。
• Hasty love, soon cold.
  一见钟情难维久。
• Health is better than wealth.
  健康胜过财富。
• Health is happiness.
  健康就是幸福。
• Hear all parties.
  兼听则明。
• Heaven never helps the man who will not act.
  自己不动，叫天何用。
• He is a fool that forgets himself.
  愚者忘乎所以。
• He is a good friend that speaks well of us behind our backs.
  背后说好话，才是真朋友。
• He is a wise man who speaks little.
  聪明不是挂在嘴上。
• He is lifeless that is faultless.
  只有死人才不犯错误。
• He is not fit to command others that cannot command himself.
  正人先正己。
• He is not laughed at that laughs at himself first.
  自嘲者不会让人见笑。
• He is wise that is honest.
  诚实者最明智。
• He knows most who speaks least.
  大智若愚。
• He laughs best who laughs last.
  谁笑到最后，谁笑得最好。
• He sets the fox to keep the geese.
  引狼入室。
• He that climbs high falls heavily.
  爬得越高，摔得越重。
• He that will not work shall not eat.
  不劳动者不得食。
• He who does not advance loses ground.
  逆水行舟，不进则退。
• He who makes constant complaint gets little compassion.
  经常诉苦，没人同情。
• He who makes no mistakes makes nothing.
  想不犯错误，就一事无成。
• He who risks nothing gains nothing.
  收获与风险并存。
• History repeats itself.
  历史往往重演。
• Honesty is the best policy.
  做人诚信为本。
• Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.
  抱最好的愿望，做最坏的打算。
• I cannot be your friend and your flatterer too.
  朋友不能阿谀奉承。
• If a man deceives me once, shame on him, if he deceives me twice, shame on me.
  上当一回头，再多就可耻。
• If you make yourself an ass, don't complain if people ride you.
  人善被人欺，马善被人骑。
• If your ears glow, someone is talking of you.
  耳朵发烧，有人念叨。
• If you run after two hares, you will catch neither.
  脚踏两条船，必定落空。
• If you sell the cow, you sell her milk too.
  杀鸡取卵。
• If you venture nothing, you will have nothing.
  不入虎穴，焉得虎子。
• If you want knowledge, you must toil for it.
  要想求知，就得吃苦。
• Industry is the parent of success.
  勤奋是成功之母。
• It is better to die when life is a disgrace.
  宁为玉碎，不为瓦全。
• It is easier to get money than to keep it.
  挣钱容易攒钱难。
• It is easy to be wise after the event.
  事后诸葛亮好当。
• It is easy to open a shop but hard to keep it always open.
  创业容易守业难。
• It is hard to please all.
  众口难调。
• It is never too old to learn.
  活到老，学到老。
• It is no use crying over spilt milk.
  覆水难收。
• It is the first step that costs troublesome.
  万事开头难。
• It is the unforeseen that always happens.
  天有不测风云，人有旦夕祸福。
• It is too late to grieve when the chance is past.
  坐失良机，后悔已迟。
• It never rains but it pours.
  不鸣则已，一鸣惊人。
• It takes three generations to make a gentleman.
  十年树木，百年树人。
• Jack of all trades and master of none.
  门门精通，样样稀松。
• Judge not from appearances.
  人不可貌相，海不可斗量。
• Justice has long arms.
  天网恢恢，疏而不漏。
• Keep good men company and you shall be of the number.
  近朱者赤，近墨者黑。
• Kill two birds with one stone.
  一箭双雕。
• Kings go mad, and the people suffer for it.
  君王发狂，百姓遭殃。
• Kings have long arms.
  普天之下，莫非王土。

• Knowledge is power.
  知识就是力量。
• Knowledge makes humble, ignorance makes proud.
  博学使人谦逊，无知使人骄傲。
• Learn and live.
  活着，为了学习。
• Learning makes a good man better and ill man worse.
  好人越学越好，坏人越学越坏。
• Learn not and know not.
  不学无术。
• Learn to walk before you run.
  先学走，再学跑。
• Let bygones be bygones.
  过去的就让它过去吧。
• Let sleeping dogs lie.
  别惹麻烦。
• Let the cat out of the bag.
  泄漏天机。
• Lies can never changes fact.
  谎言终究是谎言。
• Lies have short legs.
  谎言站不长。
• Life is but a span.
  人生苦短。
• Life is half spent before we know what it is.
  人过半生，方知天命。
• Life is not all roses.
  人生并不是康庄大道。
• Life without a friend is death.
  没有朋友，虽生犹死。
• Like a rat in a hole.
  瓮中之鳖。
• Like author, like book.
  文如其人。
• Like father, like son.
  有其父必有其子。
• Like for like.
  一报还一报。
• Like knows like.
  惺惺相惜。
• Like mother, like daughter.
  有其母必有其女。
• Like teacher, like pupil.
  什么样的老师教什么样的学生。
• Like tree, like fruit.
  羊毛出在羊身上。
• Little things amuse little minds.
  小人无大志。
• Look before you leap.
  摸清情况再行动。
• Lookers-on see more than players.
  当局者迷，旁观者清。
• Losers are always in the wrong.
  胜者为王，败者为寇。
• Lost time is never found again.
  岁月既往，一去不回。
• Love at first sight.
  一见钟情。
• Love cannot be compelled.
  爱情不能强求。
• Love is blind.
  爱情是盲目的。
• Love is full of trouble.
  爱情充满烦恼。
• Love is never without jealousy.
  没有妒忌就没有爱情。
• Love me, love my dog.
  爱屋及乌。
• Make hay while the sun shines.
  良机勿失。
• Make your enemy your friend.
  化敌为友。
• Man is the soul of the universe.
  人是万物之灵。
• Man proposes, God disposes.
  谋事在人，成事在天。
• Many hands make light work.
  众人拾柴火焰高。
• Many heads are better than one.
  三个臭皮匠，赛过诸葛亮。
• Many things grow in the garden that were never sown there.
  有心栽花花不发，无心插柳柳成荫。
• Measure for measure.
  针锋相对。
• Misfortunes never come alone.
  祸不单行。
• Misfortune tests the sincerity of friends.
  患难见真情。
• Money isn't everything.
  钱不是万能的。
• Murder will out.
  纸包不住火。
• My son is my son till he has got him a wife, but my daughter is my daughter all the days of her life.
  儿子婚前是儿子，女儿终生是女儿。
• Nature is the true law.
  天行有常，不为尧存，不为桀亡。
• Necessity is the mother of invention.
  需要是发明的动力。
• Never fish in trouble water.
  不要混水摸鱼。
• Never judge from appearances.
  不可以貌取人。
• Never say die.
  永不言败。
• Never too old to learn, never too late to turn.
  亡羊补牢，为时未晚。
• New wine in old bottles.
  旧瓶装新酒。
• No cross, no crown.
  不经历风雨，怎么见彩虹。
• No garden without its weeds.
  没有不长草的园子。
• No living man all things can.
  世上没有万事通。
• No man can do two things at once.
  一心不可二用。
• No man is born wise or learned.
  没有生而知之者。
• No man is content.
  人心不足蛇吞象。
• No man is wise at all times.
  聪明一世，糊涂一时。
• None are so blind as those who won't see.
  视而不见。
• None are so deaf as those who won't hear.
  充耳不闻。
• No news is good news.
  没有消息就是好消息。
• No one can call back yesterday.
  昨日不会重现。
• No pains, no gains.
  没有付出就没有收获。
• No pleasure without pain.
  没有苦就没有乐。
• No rose without a thorn.
  没有不带刺的玫瑰。
• No sweet without sweat.
  先苦后甜。
• No smoke without fire.
  无风不起浪。
• Nothing brave, nothing have.
  不入虎穴，焉得虎子。
• Nothing dries sooner than a tear.
  眼泪干得最快。
• Nothing in the world is difficult for one who sets his mind to it.
  世上无难事，只怕有心人。
• Nothing is difficult to the man who will try.
  世上无难事，只要肯登攀。
• Nothing seek, nothing find.
  没有追求就没有收获。
• Nothing is so necessary for travelers as languages.
  外出旅行，语言最要紧。
• Nothing is to be got without pains but poverty.
  世上唯有贫穷可以不劳而获。
• Not to advance is to go back.
  不进则退。
• Not to know what happened before one was born is always to be a child.
  不懂世故，幼稚可笑。
• No way is impossible to courage.
  勇者无惧。
• Obedience is the first duty of a soldier.
  军人以服从命令为天职。
• Observation is the best teacher.
  观察是最好的老师。
• Offense is the best defense.
  进攻是最好的防御。
• Old friends and old wines are best.
  陈酒味醇，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，两次小。
• Once a thief, always a thief.
  偷盗一次，做贼一世。
• Once bitten, twice shy.
  一朝被蛇咬，十年怕井绳。
• One boy is a boy, two boys half a boy, three boys no boy.
  一个和尚挑水喝，两个和尚抬水喝，三个和尚没水喝。
• One cannot put back the clock.
  时钟不能倒转。
• One eyewitness is better than ten hearsays.
  百闻不如一见。
• One false move may lose the game.
  一着不慎，满盘皆输。
• One good turn deserves another.
  行善积德。
• One hour today is worth two tomorrow.
  争分夺秒效率高。
• One man's fault is other man's lesson.
  前车之鉴。
• One never loses anything by politeness.
  讲礼貌不吃亏。
• One swallow does not make a summer.
  一燕不成夏。
• One's words reflect one's thinking.
  言为心声。
• Out of debt, out of danger.
  无债一身轻。
• Out of office, out of danger.
  无官一身轻。
• Out of sight, out of mind.
  眼不见，心为静。
• Patience is the best remedy.
  忍耐是良药。
• Penny wise, pound foolish.
  贪小便宜吃大亏。
• Plain dealing is praised more than practiced.
  正大光明者，说到的多，做到的少。
• Please the eye and plague the heart.
  贪图一时快活，必然留下隐祸。
• Pleasure comes through toil.
  苦尽甘来。
• Pour water into a sieve.
  竹篮子打水一场空。
• Practice makes perfect.
  熟能生巧。
• Praise is not pudding.
  恭维话不能当饭吃。
• Praise makes good men better, and bad men worse.
  好人越夸越好，坏人越夸越糟。
• Prefer loss to unjust gain.
  宁可吃亏，不贪便宜。
• Prevention is better than cure.
  预防胜于治疗。
• Pride goes before, and shame comes after.
  骄傲使人落后。
• Promise is debt.
  一诺千金。
• Proverbs are the daughters of daily experience.
  谚语是日常经验的结晶。
• 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.
  开卷有益。
• Reading is to the mind while exercise to the body.
  读书健脑，运动强身。
• Respect yourself, or no one else will respect you.
  要人尊敬，必须自重。
• Rome is not built in a day.
  冰冻三尺，非一日之寒。
• Saying is one thing and doing another.
  言行不一。
• Seeing is believing.
  眼见为实。
• Seek the truth from facts.
  实事求是。
• Send a wise man on an errand, and say nothing to him.
  智者当差，不用交代。
• Set a thief to catch a thief.
  以贼捉贼。
• Short accounts make long friends.
  好朋友勤算账。
• Something is better than nothing.
  聊胜于无。
• Soon learn, soon forgotten.
  学得快，忘得快。
• Soon ripe, soon rotten.
  熟得快，烂得快。
• Speech is silver, silence is gold.
  能言是银，沉默是金。
• Still water run deep.
  静水常深。
• Strike the iron while it is hot.
  趁热打铁。
• Success belongs to the persevering.
  坚持就是胜利。
• Take things as they come.
  既来之，则安之。
• Talking mends no holes.
  空谈无补。
• Talk of the devil and he will appear.
  说曹操，曹操就到。
• Tall trees catch much wind.
  树大招风。
• Teach others by your example.
  躬亲示范。
• The best hearts are always the bravest.
  无私者无畏。
• The best man stumbles.
  伟人也有犯错时。
• The cat shuts its eyes when stealing.
  掩耳盗铃。
• The danger past and God forgotten.
  过河拆桥。
• The darkest hour is nearest the dawn.
  黎明前的黑暗。
• The darkest place is under the candlestick.
  烛台底下最暗。
• The devil knows many things because he is old.
  老马识途。
• The devil sometimes speaks the truth.
  魔鬼有时也会说真话。
• The die is cast.
  木已成舟。
• The early bird catches the worm.
  早起的鸟儿有虫吃。
• The end justifies the means.
  只要目的正当，可以不择手段。
• The end makes all equal.
  死亡面前，人人平等。
• The eye is bigger than the belly.
  贪多嚼不烂。
• The farthest way about is the nearest way home.
  抄近路反而绕远路。
• The finest diamond must be cut.
  玉不琢，不成器。
• The fire is the test of gold, adversity of strong man.
  烈火验真金，艰难磨意志。
• The first step is the only difficulty.
  迈出第一步是最艰难的。
• The fox knew too much, that's how he lost his tail.
  机关算尽太聪明，反误了卿卿性命。
• The fox preys farthest from home.
  兔子不吃窝边草。
• The frog in the well knows nothing of the great ocean.
  坐井观天。
• The grass is greener on the other side.
  这山望着那山高。
• The greatest talkers are always least doers.
  语言的巨人总是行动的矮子。
• The higher up, the greater the fall.
  爬得高，摔得惨。
• The leopard cannot change its spots.
  本性难移。
• The more noble, the more humble.
  人越高尚，越谦虚。
• The more wit, the less courage.
  初生牛犊不怕虎。
• The outsider sees the most of the game.
  旁观者清。
• The pen is mightier than the sword.
  笔能杀人。
• The pot calls the kettle black.
  五十步笑百步。
• There are spots in the sun.
  太阳也有黑点。
• There are two sides to every question.
  问题皆有两面。
• There is a skeleton in the cupboard.
  家家有本难念的经。
• There is kindness to be found everywhere.
  人间处处有温情。
• There is no general rule without some exception.
  任何法规均有例外。
• There is no medicine against death.
  没有长生不老药。
• There is no place like home.
  金窝银窝不如咱的狗窝。
• There is no royal road to learning.
  书山有路勤为径，学海无涯苦作舟。
• 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.
  水能载舟，亦能覆舟。
• The wise man knows he knows nothing, the fool thinks he knows all.
  清者自清，浊者自浊。
• The wolf has a winning game when the shepherds quarrel.
  螳螂捕蝉，黄雀在后。
• The world is a ladder for some to go up and others to go down.
  世界如阶梯，有人上有人下。
• The world is but a little place, after all.
  海内存知己，天涯若比邻。
• Think twice before you do.
  三思而后行。
• Things at the worst will mend.
  否极泰来。
• Time and tide wait for no man.
  时不我待。
• Time cures all things.
  时间是医治一切创伤的良药。
• Time flies.
  光阴似箭。
• Time is money.
  时间就是金钱。
• Time lost cannot be won again.
  时光流逝，不可复得。
• Time past cannot be called back again.
  时间不能倒流。
• Time tries all.
  路遥知马力，日久见人心。
• 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.
  人非圣贤，孰能无过。
• To know everything is to know nothing.
  什么都知道，一如什么都不知道。
• To know oneself is true progress.
  人贵有自知之明。
• Tomorrow never comes.
  我生待明日，万事成蹉跎。
• Too much familiarity breeds contempt.
  过分熟悉会使人互不服气。
• Too much knowledge makes the head bald.
  学问太多催人老。
• Too much liberty spills all.
  自由放任，一事无成。
• Too much praise is a burden.
  过多夸奖，反成负担。
• To save time is to lengthen life.
  节约时间就是延长生命。
• Touch pitch, and you will be defiled.
  常在河边走，哪有不湿鞋。
• Troubles never come singly.
  福无双至，祸不单行。
• Truth never grows old.
  真理永存。
• Turn over a new leaf.
  洗心革面，改过自新。
• Two dogs strive for a bone, and a third runs away with it.
  鹬蚌相争，渔翁得利。
• Two heads are better than one.
  一个好汉三个帮。
• Two of a trade seldom agree.
  同行是冤家。
• Two wrongs do not make a right.
  别人错了，不等于你对了。
• Unity is strength.
  团结就是力量。
• Unpleasant advice is a good medicine.
  忠言逆耳利于行。
• Until all is over one's ambition never dies.
  不到黄河心不死。
• Venture a small fish to catch a great one.
  吃小亏占大便宜。
• Virtue is fairer far than beauty.
  美德远远胜过美貌。
• Walls have ears.
  小心隔墙有耳。
• Wash your dirty linen at home.
  家丑不可外扬。
• Water dropping day by day wears the hardest rock away.
  滴水穿石。
• Wealth is nothing without health.
  失去健康，钱再多也没用。
• We know not what is good until we have lost it.
  好东西，失去了才明白。
• Well begun is half done.
  好的开始，是成功的一半。
• We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.
  井干方知水可贵。
• We shall never have friends if we expect to find them without fault.
  欲求完美无缺的朋友必然成为孤家寡人。
• We should never remember the benefits we have offered nor forget the favor received.
  自己的好事别去提，别人的恩惠要铭记。
• Wet behind the ears.
  乳臭未干。
• Whatever you do, do with all your might.
  不管做什么，都要一心一意。
• What is learned in the cradle is carried to the grave.
  儿时所学，终生难忘。
• What's done cannot be undone.
  生米煮成熟饭了。
• What's lost is lost.
  失者不可复得。
• What we do willingly is easy.
  愿者不难。
• When in Rome, do as the Romans do.
  入国问禁，入乡随俗。
• When everybody's somebody then nobody's anybody.
  人人都伟大，世间没豪杰。
• When sorrow is asleep, wake it not.
  伤心旧事别重提。
• When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.
  新仇旧恨，齐上心头。
• When the fox preaches, take care of your geese.
  黄鼠狼给鸡拜年，没安好心。
• When wine is in truth, wit is out.
  酒后吐真言。
• 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，不怕没柴烧。
• 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.
  好人不长命。
• Wise man have their mouths in their hearts, fools have their hearts in their mouths.
  智者嘴在心里，愚者心在嘴里。
• Work makes the workman.
  勤工出巧匠。
• You cannot burn the candle at both ends.
  蜡烛不能两头点，精力不可过分耗。
• You cannot eat your cake and have it.
  鱼与熊掌，不可得兼。
• You can take a horse to the water but you cannot make him drink.
  强扭的瓜不甜。
• 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.
  是驴子是马，拉出来遛遛。

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原帖由 林寒涧肃 于 2007-7-13 13:15 发表
You never know what you can till you try.
是驴子是马，拉出来遛遛。

I like this one, I mean the Chinese meaning^_^