English proverb 英语谚语

酒肉朋友不长久。

No friendship lives long that owes its rise to the pot.
知我之敌最危险。

Nothing worse than a familiar enemy.
非驴非马。

Neither fish nor flesh.
麻烦没有来找你，别去自找麻烦。

Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you. 从来没有人突然变得很坏。

No man ever became thoroughly bad all at once.
不肯倾听别人意见的人是最聋的人。

None so deaf as those who won’t hear.
匆匆忙忙办不成任何事。

Nothing is ever done in a hurry.
无贼不失窃。

Nothing is stolen without hands.
永远不要说" 完了".Never say "die'.
不磨面,没饭吃.No mill, no meal.
未经苦难,得不到荣冠.No cross, no crown.
不出力,不得食.No song, no supper.
没有人不犯错误。

No man is infallible.
不要轻易说“决不”。

Never”is a long word.
相思病无药医.No herb will cure love.
没有一个人是不可缺少的。

/少了谁地球也转。

No man is indispensable.
不要期望太多.Never hope for too much.
无所求则无所获.Nothing seek, nothing find.
不担风险就无收获.Nothing venture, nothing have.
在最贴身的人眼中，谁也充不了伟人。

No man is a hero to his valet.
没有人对自己的境遇感到满足.No man is content with his lot.
没有一笔遗产能象诚实一样丰厚。

No legacy is so rich as honesty.
没有一条通向光荣的道路是铺满鲜花的.No road of flowers lead to glory.
天要下雨，娘要嫁人。

Needs must when the devil drives.
一颗樱桃不要分两口吃. /做事不要拖泥带水.Never make two bites of a cherry. 切忌班门弄斧。

Never offer to teach fish to swim.
一个人从来没有过的东西,他永远不会失去.No man can lose what he never had. 报纸是世界的镜子。

Newspapers are the world's mirror.
鱼未捉到手，不要忙着煎。

Never fry a fish till it is caught.
不要写不敢署名的文章.Never write what your dare not sign.
只有勇士搭配美人.None but the brave deserves the fair.
不愿听人的,比聋子还聋.None so deaf as those who won't hear.
无人怀疑的事无须费力去证实.Never try to prove what nobody doubts.
不愿正视事实的人是瞎而又瞎的.None so blind as they who will not see.
初生牛犊不怕虎.Newborn calves are not afraid of tigers.
没有春天百花开,哪来秋天果满枝.No autumn friut without spring blossoms.
心之所愿,无事不成.Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
不要老是弹一根弦。

Not good is it to harp on the same string.
钱财未到手,不可提前花.Never spend your money before you have it.
没有终生的傻瓜,也没有终生不当傻瓜的人.No one is a fool always, every one sometimes.
即使是金子做的镣铐，也没有人喜欢。

No man loves his fetters,be they made of gold.
不要让你的脚跳得比你的鞋子快。

Never let your feet run faster than your shoes. 行百里者半九十.Ninety-li is only half of a hundred-li journey.
不花大力气干不好工作.Never was a good work done without great effort.
人略钜富,亦需邻居.No one is rich enough to do without a neighbour.
应向有权者敬礼，不应向他屈膝。

Never bow to authority, but always tip your hat. 老寿星也不会嫌寿长.None so old that he hopes not for a year of life.
患难之交最可贵.Nothing is dearer to a man than a friend in need.
什么好也比不上教育好。

Nothing is worth more than a mind well instructed.
除非要捉跳蚤,作事不可匆忙.Nothing must be done hastily but killing of fleas.
正确解决问题才算真正解决。

No question is ever settled until it is settled right.
没有什么比独立自由更可宝贵的了.Nothing is more precious than independence and freedom.
人活百年不嫌多.No man is so old, but thinks he may yet live another year.
任何人自己都不是完整的; 他的朋友是他的其余部分.No man is the whole of himself; his friends are the rest of him.
不怕硬嘴鸟，最怕蛀心虫。

Never fear a hard-beaked bird, but beware of a
heart-eating worm.
新官上任三把火.New brooms sweep clean.
世上无难事,只怕有心人.Nothing in the world is difficult for one who sets his mind on it.
光阴如流水,一去不复返.No hand can make the clock strike for me the hours that are passed.
没有比读书更便宜的娱乐,也没有比读书更持久的欢乐.No entertainment is so cheap as reading nor any pleasure so lasting.
天生的才干如同天生的植物一样,需要靠学习来修剪.Natural abilities are like natural plants that need pruning by study.
今天能做的事绝不要拖到明天。

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. 世上无难事，只怕有心人。

Nothing is impossible to a willing mind.
不入虎穴，焉得虎子。

Nothing venture, nothing have.
不费力气，一无所得。

Nothing for nothing.
一事如意，万事顺利。

Nothing succeeds like success.
不顶千里浪，哪来万斤鱼。

Nothing stake, nothing draw.
期待比现实更美好。

Nothing is as good as it seems beforehand.
劝人最容易。

Nothing is given so freely as advice.
天有不测风云，人有旦夕祸福。

Nothing is so certain as the unexpected. 塞翁失马，焉知非福。

Nothing so bad but might be a blessing.
天行有常，不为尧存，不为桀亡。

Nature is the true law.
需要是发明的动力。

Necessity is the mother of invention.
不要混水摸鱼。

Never fish in trouble water.
不可以貌取人。

Never judge from appearances.
永不言败。

Never say die.
亡羊补牢，为时未晚。

Never too old to learn, never too late to turn.
旧瓶装新酒。

New wine in old bottles.
没有不长草的园子。

No garden without its weeds.
世上没有万事通。

No living man all things can.
一心不可二用。

No man can do two things at once.
没有生而知之者。

No man is born wise or learned.
人心不足蛇吞象。

No man is content.
聪明一世，糊涂一时。

No man is wise at all times.
视而不见。

None are so blind as those who won't see.
充耳不闻。

None are so deaf as those who won't hear.
昨日不会重现。

No one can call back yesterday.
没有苦就没有乐。

No pleasure without pain.
没有不带刺的玫瑰。

No rose without a thorn.
无风不起浪。

No smoke without fire.
不入虎穴，焉得虎子。

Nothing brave, nothing have.
眼泪干得最快。

Nothing dries sooner than a tear.
世上无难事，只怕有心人。

Nothing in the world is difficult for one who sets his mind to it.
世上无难事，只要肯登攀。

Nothing is difficult to the man who will try.
没有追求就没有收获。

Nothing seek, nothing find.
外出旅行，语言最要紧。

Nothing is so necessary for travelers as languages.
世上唯有贫穷可以不劳而获。

Nothing is to be got without pains but poverty.
不进则退。

Not to advance is to go back.
不懂世故，幼稚可笑。

Not to know what happened before one was born is always to be a child.
勇者无惧。

No way is impossible to courage.
世上无难事，只怕有心人。

Nothing is too difficult, if you put your heart into it.
不劳无获。

No pains, no gains.
不入虎穴，焉得虎子。

Nothing venture, nothing gain.
幸福来自汗水。

No sweet without sweat.
做事不可半途而废。

Never do things by halves.
未经苦难，得不到荣冠。

No cross, no crown.
教养胜过天性。

Nurture passes nature.
不要轻易说“决不”。

Never is a long word.
人的幸福都是比较而言的。

No man is happy but by comparison.
穿鞋的人自己知道哪里夹脚。

No one but the wearer knows where the shoe pinches. 任何人的聪明才智绝非得之偶然。

No man was ever wise by chance.
道不同，不相为谋。

No common goal, no common cause to cooperate.
今天的事情不要拖到明天。

Never leave that until tomorrow, which you can do today.
国家之前进源于个人的勤奋, 奋发, 正直, 正如国家之衰落由于个人的懒惰, 自私, 堕落。

National progress is the sum of individual industry, energy and uprightness, as national decay is of individual idleness, selfishness and vice.
只有每天再度战胜生活并夺取自由的人，才配享受生活的自由。

None is of freedom or of life deserving unless he daily conquers it anew.
两颗相爱的心之间不需要言语。

No words are necessary between two loving hearts. 与良友为伴，路遥不觉远。

No road is long with good company.
不以物喜不以己悲not pleased by external gains, not saddened by personnal losses 不打不成交No discord, no concord.
没有规矩不成方圆Nothing can be accomplished without norms or standards.
即使是拿破仑，过去也是啼哭的婴孩。

Napolean himself was once a crying baby. 天赋我们两耳，两眼，一张嘴巴，归根到底该多听，多看，少说话。

Nature has given us two ears, two eyes, and but one tongue, to the end that we should hear and see more than we speak.
大自然是反应真理的一面镜子。

Nature is the glass reflecting truth.
自然教我们爱朋友，宗教却教我们爱敌人。

Nature teaches us to love our friends but religion our enemies.
自然，时间和耐心，是三大伟大的医生。

Nature, time, and patience are the three great physicians.
天行其道。

Nature will have its course.
顽皮淘气的男孩子有时成为仁人君子。

Naughty boys sometimmmes make good men.
需要和机会可能使懦夫变成勇士。

Necessity and oportunity may make a coward valient.
需要面前无法律。

Necessity (or Need) has (or knows) no law.
穷则变，变则通。

Necessity is the mother of invention
铤而走险。

Necessity knows no law.
人急造反，狗急跳墙。

Need makes the old wife trot.
忽视健康，医生财旺。

Neglect of health is doctor's wealth.
不要过河拆桥。

Never cast dirt into that fountain of which thou hast sometime durnk. 如未掌握好已学过的东西，切莫从事更深的学习。

Never embark on what comes after without having mastered what goes before.
捉到鱼，才煎鱼。

Never fry a fish till it's caught.
抓住大好时机，切莫等闲错过。

Never neglect an opportunity for improvement.
今日事，今日毕。

Never put off till tomorrow what may be done today.
不要本末倒置。

Never put the plow before the oxen.
莫说不想让人听见的话。

Never say of another what you would not have him hear. 钱包不露底，思想需保留。

Never show the bottom of your purse or your mind.
骑渡中流莫换马。

Never swap (or swop) horses while crossing the stream.
过则勿惮改。

Never too late to repent.
学到老，学不了。

Never too old (or late) to learn.
切莫自寻麻烦。

Never (or Don't) trouble trouble till trouble troulbes you.
切勿轻信漂亮的言词。

Never trust of fine words.
新官上任三把火。

New brooms sweep clean.
新官新法。

New lords, new laws.
新闻就像鱼，过后不新鲜。

News is like fish.
报纸是世界之镜。

Newspapers are the world's mirrors.
夜莺困笼不唱歌。

Nightingales will not sing in a cage.
不回答也是一种回答。

No answer is also answer.
没有蜜蜂就没有蜜，没有劳动就没有钱。

No bees, no honey; no work, no money. 塞翁失马，安知非福。

No great loss without some small gain.
喜中有忧。

No joy without annoy.
运不逢时，事不得意。

No longer pipe, no longer dance.
不犯千般错误，难成伟大人物。

No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.
没有一个人是一下子就坏透的。

No man ever became thoroughly bad at once.
笑颦不能成西施。

No man ever yet became great by imitation.
人非生而知之者。

No man (or one) is born wise or learned.
人越活越想活。

No man is so old, but thinks he may yet live another year.
聪明一世糊涂一时。

No man (or one) is wise at all times.
纵然知其难免一死，人却难料何时身亡。

No man knows when he shall die, although he knows he must die.
不经痛苦羞辱，难以取得教训。

No man learns but by pain or shame.
即使脚镣黄金铸，无人爱上这刑具。

No man loves his fetters be they made of gold. 没有金钱，就没有爱情。

No money, no honey.
不愿倾听意见者最聋。

None are so deaf as those who will not hear.
唯智者善于利用空闲。

None but a wise man can employ leisure well.
英雄才能配美人。

None but the brave deserve the fair.
只有那个穿鞋人，才知哪里鞋轧脚。

None but the wearer knows where the shoe pinches.
看人挑担不吃力。

None knows the weight of another's burden.
蚂蚁不说话，但最善于说教。

None preaches better than the ant, and she says nothing. 最瞎莫如视而不见。

None so blind as those who won't see.
置若罔闻。

None so deaf as those that won't hear.
所有的人自由后，才能完全自由；所有的人都有道德，才能完全合乎道德；所有的人都幸福了，才能真正幸福。

No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectlymoral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.
除非羞耻自由取，他人岂能辱吾？。

No one can disgrace us but ourselves.
无人能有所欲有。

No one can have all he desires.
人非生而知之者。

No one (or man) is born wise or learned.
人总有一时之失。

No one is wise at all times.
不劳则无获，共难才得福，有荣必有辱，无苦即无乐。

No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.
众口难调。

No piper can please all ears.
乐中有悲。

No pleasure without alloy (or pain or repentance).
真正的财富不是占有，而是使用。

No possession, but use, is the only riches.
吃一堑，长一智。

No practice, no gain in one's wit.
我不轻蔑名誉，也不需要她的青睐；如果她竟来的话，也是不求而自来的。

Nor fame I slight, nor for her favours call; she come unlooked for, if she comes at all.
未知水深浅，涉水有危险。

No safe wading in an unknown water.
言而必行。

No sooner said than done.
有明必有暗。

No sunshine but bath some shadow.
不劳则无获。

No sweat, no sweet.
不劳则无获。

No sweet without some sweat.
饥不择食。

Nothing comes amiss to a hungry man.
无风不起浪。

Nothing comes from (or of) nothing.
饥不择食。

Nothing comes wrong to a hungry man.
有求才有应。

Nothing crave, nothing have.
一分钱，一分货。

Nothing for nothing and very little for a half penny.
世上无难事，只怕有心人。

Nothing is difficult to a man who wills.
有志者事竟成。

Nothing is impossible to willing mind (or heart).
天下无难事，只怕不努力。

Nothing is impossible (or difficult) to the man who will try.
塞翁失马，安知非福。

Nothing so bad, as not to be good for something.
旅行者最需要的是几种语言。

Nothing so necessary for travellers as languages.
不入虎穴，焉得虎子。

Nothing venture, nothing win (or have or gain).
无风不起浪。

Nothing will come of nothing.
不失时机。

Not let the grass grow under one's feet.
勇敢面前没有通不过的路。

No way is impossible to courage
不要落井下石。

Never hit a man when he is down.
切莫以貌取人。

Never judge by appearances.
无风不起浪。

No fire without smoke.
视而不见。

None are so blind as those who won‘t s ee.
充耳不闻。

None are so deaf as those who won‘t hear.
大好时机在眼前。

No time like the present.
现在就干。

Now for it!
机不可失，时不再来。

Now or never.
无人能唤回昨天。

No man can call again yesterday.
今日事今日毕，切勿拖延到明天。

Never deter till tomorrow that which you can do today.
没有肮脏的爱情，也没有美丽的监狱。

No love is foul, nor prison fair.
调皮的男孩长大后有时会成为很有作为的人。

Naughty boys sometimes make good men.
不劳则无获。

No gains without pains.
切勿眼高手低。

Never think yourself above your business.
并非每个人都可以成功。

Not everyone can succeed.
袋子里装什么才能倒出什么。

Nothing comes out of the sack but what was in it.
劣布难制美装。

No man can make a good coat with bad cloth.
金铸的脚镣也没人爱戴。

No man loves his fetters, be they made of gold.
自然界里无真空。

Nature abhors a vacuum.
无火不生烟。

No smoke without some fire.
不要说得好，而要做得好。

Not to say well, but to do well.
新君立新法。

New lords [kings], new laws.
不要厌倦行善。

Never be weary of well doing.
不冒险就无所得。

Nothing venture, nothing have [gain, win].
聪明非天生。

No man is born wise.
决不要轻信花言巧语。

Never trust to fine words.
自己该做的事，决不要委托别人代做。

Never trust another what you should do yourself.
人生在世，难逃死亡。

Nothing so certain [sure] as death.
唯有贫穷可以不劳而获。

Nothing to be got without pains but poverty.
大失去必有小得。

No great loss but some small profit.
补过不嫌晚。

Never too late to mend.
篱笆挡不住恶运。

No fence against (an) ill fortune.
罪过之病皆有良药。

No wrong without remedy.
无根则无果。

No root, no fruit.
切勿明珠暗投。

Never cast your pearls before swine.
母牛所产未必尽黄油。

Not all butter that the cow yields.。