谚语警句中英对照

谚语警句中英对照

鹬蚌相争，渔翁得利:

two dogs fight for a bone, and a third runs away with it.

玉不琢，不成器:

C: A piece of jade unless cut forms no article of vertu. / E: An uncut gem goes not sparkle. / The finest diamond must be cut. / Unpolished pearls never shine.

十年树木，百年树人:

C: It takes ten years to grow a tree and a hundred years to bring up a generation of good men. / E: It takes three generations to make a gentleman.

学无止境:

C: knowledge is infinite / E: progress sometimes uses a comma, but never a full stop.

此地无银三百两:

never try to prove what nobody doubts.

严师出高徒:

C: Good pupils are to be brought up by strict teachers. / E: It is the bridle and spur that makes a good horse.

得不偿失:

give a lark to catch a kite.

对症下药:

a disease known is half the cure.

君子之交淡如水:

a hedge between keeps friendship green.

化干戈为玉帛:

bury the hatchet.

家和万事兴:

he is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

江山易改，本性难移:

the leopard cannot change its spots.

留得青山在，不怕没柴烧:

where there is life, there is hope.

狡兔三窟:

the mouse that has but one hole is quickly taken.

举一反三:

half a tale is enough for a wise man.

当局者迷，旁观者清:

outsiders see more than insiders. / standers-by see more than gamesters.

世上无难事，只怕有心人:

dogged does it.

笨鸟先飞:

C: a slow sparrow should make an early start. / E: a lame traveler should get out betimes.

冷暖自知:

every man is best known to himself.

有情人终成眷属:

every jack has jill.

宁为玉碎不为瓦全:

better death than dishonor.

情人眼里出西施:

if jack is in love, he is no judge of jill’s beauty.

拳不离手，曲不离口:

no day without a line.

吃一堑，长一智:

by falling we learn to go safely.

塞翁失马:

no great loss without some small gain.

天无绝人之路:

god tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.

仁者见仁，智者见智:

E: the donkey means one thing, and the driver another. / C: the benevolent see benevolence and the wise see wisdom.

师傅领进门，修行在个人:

no man is his craft’s master the first day.