英语谚语中的mother、father、parents

小时靠娘，大时靠爹。

Children suck the mother when they are young, and the father when they are old.孩子小的时候吃母亲的奶，老了享受父亲的财。

小心驶得万年船。

Caution is the mother/parent of safety.
需要是发明的动力。

Want is the mother of industry. 需要乃发明之母。

/需要是发明的原动力。

Necessity is the mother of invention.需要乃发明之母。

独子亦费娘操心。

One chick keeps a hen busy. 一雏已足扰其母。

孩子是父母的至宝。

Children are the parents' riches.
虎父生犬子。

良父难保无逆子。

Many a good cow has an evil calf./Many a good cow has a bad calf. /贤父难免生逆子。

Many a good father hath but a bad son.
家长是最好的老师。

一个父亲胜于一百个教师。

母亲是最好的老师。

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters. /Mother is the best teacher for us.
节俭是慷慨之母。

Frugality is the mother of liberality.
Disappointment is the nurse of wisdom.
龙生龙，风生风。

虎父无犬子。

有因必有果。

Eagles do not breed doves. /有其因必有其果。

Like begets like. /虎父无犬子。

A wise goose never laid a tame egg. /龙生龙，风生风。

有其父必有其子。

Like father, like son. /有其母，必有其子。

Like mother, like child./有其母必有其女。

Like cow, like calf. /有其母必有其女。

Like mother, like daughter. /有其母，必有其子。

耳濡目染，身教言传。

Children are what the mothers are.
勤奋是成功之母。

成功来自勤奋。

成功源于勤奋。

Diligence is the mother/parent of success.勤奋是成功之母。

/Industry is the parent of success.勤奋是成功之母。

勤劳常为快乐之源。

Labour is often the father of pleasure.
情生情，爱生爱。

Love is the mother of love.爱是爱的母亲。

/Love begets love.。

爱产生爱。

上行下效。

As the old cock crows, so does the young.老公鸡怎样叫，小公鸡怎样学。

/娘勤女不懒，爹懒儿好闲。

（孩子是父母亲的影子。

）As the old cock crows, the young one learns. /娘勤女不懒，爹懒儿不勤。

Children have the qualities of the parents. 有什么样的父母，就有什么样的孩子。

上梁不正下梁歪。

A bad father has never a good son./上梁不正下梁歪。

Fish begins to stink at the heads.
少见多怪。

Wonder is the daughter of ignorance.
不能因父母之过使孩子受到责备。

Children are not to be blamed for the faults of their patents. 不养儿不知父母恩。

We never know the love of the parents until we become parents ourselves. 不为人父，焉知父母恩。

需要是发明的动力。

Want is the mother of industry. 需要乃发明之母。

/需要是发明的原动力。

Necessity is the mother of invention.需要乃发明之母。

一代勤快一代懒。

娘勤子懒。

A light-heeled mother makes a heavy-healed daughter.
一个父亲可以养活十个孩子，十个孩子却不能供养一个父亲。

One father can support ten children; ten children cannot support one father.
知子莫如父。

任何聪明的父亲也不见得都了解自己的孩子。

再聪明的父亲都不见得完全知道自己的儿子。

It is a wise father that knows his own child. /No one knows a son better than the father.
子女有出息，父母心欢喜。

孩子好，父母笑。

Good children make glad parents.
自己说好不算好，别人说好真正好。

It is not as thy mother says, but as thy neighbours say.
失败是成功之母。

一代勤快一代懒。

娘勤子懒。

A light-heeled mother makes a heavy-healed daughter.
一人做事一人当。

父罪不及子。

The sins of the fathers do not redound to the children.
一懒生百邪。

Idleness is the mother/parent/root of all evil/vice.懒惰是万恶之源。

/Of idleness comes no goodness.。