常见俗语中英文对照

Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.执子之手，与子偕老。

URL 全球资源定位器（Uniform Resource Locator）When three know it, all know it. 三人知，天下晓。

You cannot see the forest for the trees. 一叶障目，不见泰山。

Treat others as you would like to be treated yourself.己所不欲，勿施于人。

That which one least anticipates soonest comes to pass.天有不测风云，人有旦夕祸福。

Those who are quick to promise are generally slow to perform.轻易许诺言，很少有兑现。

Riches are the root of the all evil. 金钱是万恶之源。

She is a man-killer. 她是个能使所有男人倾倒的女人。

Self-help is the best help. 自助是最大的帮助。

God helps those who help themselves. 天助自助之人。

The road to hell is paved with good intentions. 好愿望不一定有好结果。

Unpleasant advice is good medicine. 忠言逆耳利于行。

Tell me what the hell we are going to do now.告诉我，我们现在到底要做什么。

No man is wise at all times. 智者千虑，必有一失。

The sack is known by the sample.A little straw shows which way the wind blows. 一叶知秋。

As a man lives, so shall he die. 善有善报，恶有恶报。

A bird is known by its song, and a man by his words.鸟以声闻，人以言知。

A common servant is no man´s servant. 众人之仆乃无主之仆。

Words pay no debts. 空言无补。

Would you care for some dessert? 你想要点甜点吗？Poverty is not a shame, but being ashamed of it is.贫困不是耻辱，对贫困感到羞愧才是耻辱。

A wonder lasts but nine days. 什么事儿都新鲜不了多久。

Poverty is no sin. 贫非罪。

Live and learn. 学无止境。

Never too old to learn, never too late to turn.活到老学到老∕学习不嫌晚，改过不嫌迟。

Choose the lesser of two evils. 两害相权取其轻。

One false move may lose the game. 一着错，全局输。

Look after the pennies and the pounds will look after themselves.积少成多。

Put your foot down where you mean to stand.退却有限度，不能老让步。

Push generally succeeds in business. 在事业中埋头苦干多半成功。

War is the sport of kings. 战争是帝王们的游戏。

He that talks much lies much. 饶舌者多扯谎。

Don´t start economizing when you are down to your last dollar.不要只剩一美元，方才开始节俭。

Poverty is a man in want of much, avarice is a man in want of everything.穷人渴求富足，财迷渴求一切。

God saves me from my friends. 不要帮倒忙。

Do not quarrel with providence. 不要怨天。

Don´t take your harp to the party. 老调莫重弹。

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.父亲一人胜过教师百名。

One half of the world knows not how the other half lives.各在天一方，彼此两茫茫。

You are a man after my own heart. 你是我中意的人。

First come first served. 先到先招待。

If Jack is in love, he is no judge of Jill´s beauty. 情人眼里出西施。

If the mountain will not come to Mohammed, Mohammed must go to the mountain. 坐而待不如起而行。

A fair face may hide a foul heart. 面孔漂亮可以掩盖心底肮脏。

A man may love his house well but not proclaim it from the rooftop.好物自己欣赏，不比四处张扬。

Delays are dangerous. 拖延误事。

Many a good father hath but a bad son. 贤父难免生劣子。

Like father, like son. 有其父必有其子。

Like cow, like calf.Like mother, like daughter. 有其母必有其女。

Lightly come, lightly go.Easy come, easy go. 来得容易去得快。

Life is like a fire; it begins in smoke, and ends in ashes.人生犹如火堆，始于青烟，终于灰烬。

It´s as easy as pie. 这非常容易。

Boys will be boys. 男孩儿始终是男孩儿。

The noisiest drum has nothing in it but air. 鼓空声高，人狂话大。

The joy of the heart makes the face merry. 人逢喜事精神爽。

When the heart is afire, some sparks will fly out of the mouth.心里着了火，火星儿就会从嘴里飞出来。

The mouse that has but one hole is quickly taken.只有一个穴洞的老鼠必然很快被人抓到。

When in doubt leave out. 疑而不用。

A joke never wins over an enemy, but often loses a friend.戏谑不能化敌为友，倒常使人失去朋友。

No pain, no gain.Nothing can be got without pains.A horse that will not carry a saddle must have no oats. 不劳无获。

I sang for my supper. 不劳动不得食。

Nobody likes to talk to a know-it-all.没有人愿意和自以为无所不知的人谈话。

Ill hearing makes ill rehearing. 以讹传讹。

One year a nurse, and seven years the worse. 一年当保姆，七年成懒妇。

Nearest the heart, nearest the mouth. 最贴心的，最接近嘴巴。

Where there´s smoke, there´s fire. 有烟必有火，无风不起浪。

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。

Poor and liberal, rich and covetous. 穷大方，富贪婪。

Poor folks are fain of little. 穷人无奢望。

The poor man´s shilling is but a penny. 穷人不敢乱花钱。

Pride goes before the fall. 骄必败。

There is no pleasure without pain. 没有苦，哪有乐。

The two girls look like two peas in a pod.这两个女孩看起来就像双胞胎。

Beat the dog before the line. 杀鸡给猴看。

You cannot make bricks without straw. 巧妇难为无米之炊。

Better a neighbor over the wall than a brother over the sea.远亲不如近邻。

Least said, sooner mended.Talk much, and err much. 言多必失。

When one door shuts, another opens. 天无绝人之路。

A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.日久见人心。

An opportunity∕occasion lost cannot be redeemed.机不可失，时不再来。

In the kingdom of the blind the one-eyed man is the king.盲人国里，独眼称王。

Out of debt, out of danger. 无债一身轻。

Lookers-on see most of the game. 当局者迷，旁观者清。

Don´t count your chickens before they are hatched. 不要高兴太早。