英语四级常用谚语

英语专业四级写作必备名言谚语

个人修养类

道德爱情

1. A candle lights others and consumes itself. 蜡烛照亮别人，燃烧了自己。

2. A fair death honors the whole life. 死得其所，流芳百世。

3. A fox may grow gray, but never good. 江山易改，本性难移。

4. Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds. 抱负是一切高尚操行的萌芽。

5. A good conscience is a soft pillow. 不做亏心事，不怕鬼叫门。

6. A good fame is better than a good face. 美名胜过美貌。

7. A liar is not believed when he speaks the truth. 说谎者即使讲真话也没人相信。

8. A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. 浅学误人。

9. A man is not old as long as he is seeking something. A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams. (J. Barrymore) 只要一个人还有追求，他就没有老。直到后悔取代了梦想，一个人才算老。（J·巴里摩尔）

10. A word spoken is past recalling. 一言既出，驷马难追。

11. All that glitters is not gold. 闪光的不一定都是金子。

12. Beauty lies in the lover’s eyes. 情人眼里出西施。

13. Do as you would be done by. 己所不欲，勿施于人。

14. Doing is better than saying. 与其挂在嘴上，不如落实在行动上。（行动胜于言语。）

15. Don’t try to teach your grandmother to suck eggs. 不要班门弄斧。

16. Friendship is like earthenware: once broken, it can be mended; love is like a mirror: once broken, that ends it. (Josh Billings，American humorist) 友谊就像陶器，破了可以修补；爱情好比镜子，一旦打破就难重圆。（美国幽默作家乔什·比林斯）17. Friendship is love without his wings. (George Gordon Byron, British poet) 友谊是没有羽翼的爱。（英国诗人G·G·拜伦）

18. Handsome is he who does handsomely. 行为漂亮才算美。

19. Hasty love, soon cold. 一见钟情难持久。

20. He is not fit to command others that cannot command himself. 正人先正己。

21. If you run after two hares, you will catch neither. 脚踏两条船，必定落空。

22. Love cannot be compelled. 爱情不能强求。

23. Love is never without jealousy. 没有妒忌就没有爱情。

24. Love me, love my dog. 爱屋及乌。

25. On earth there is nothing great but man; in the man there is nothing great but mind. (A. Hamilton) 地球上唯一伟大的是人，人身上唯一伟大的是心灵。（A·哈密尔顿）

理想现实

1. Complacency is the enemy of study. 学习的敌人是自满。

2. A young idler, an old beggar. 少壮不努力，老大徒伤悲。

3. Living without an aim is like sailing without a compass.（Alexander Dumas, French writer) 生活没有目标就像航海没有指南针。（法国作家亚历山大·大仲马)

4. An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.(Robert Louis Stevenson ) 生活的目标，是唯一值得寻找的财富。（R·L·史蒂文森）

5. Between the ideal and the reality, between the motion and the act, falls the shadow.(Thomas Stearns Eliot) 理想与现实之间，动机与行为之间，总有一道阴影。（T·S·艾略特）

6. Every minute counts. 分秒必争。

7. Confidence in yourself is the first step on the road to success. 自信是走向成功的第一步。

8. Do not, for one repulse, give up the purpose that you resolved to effect.(William Shakespeare) 不要只因一次失败，就放弃你原来决心想要达到的目的。（莎士比亚）

9. Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. (Mark Twain) 不要放弃你的幻想。当幻想没有了以后，你虽然还可以生存，但是你虽生犹死。（马克·吐温）

10. A willful man will have his way. 有志者事竟成。

11. God helps those who help themselves. 自助者天助。

12. Goals determine what you’re going to be. (Julius Irving) 人生的奋斗目标决定你将成为怎样的人。（朱利斯·欧文）

13. Have an aim in life, or your energies will all be wasted.(R. Peters, American jurist)人生应该树立目标，否则你的精力会白白浪费。（美国法学家彼得斯）

14. He who makes no mistakes makes nothing. 想不犯错误，就一事无成。

15. Ideal are like the stars—we never reach them, but like mariners, we chart our course by them.(Carl Schulz, American statesman) 理想犹如天上的星星，我们犹如水手，虽不能达到天上，但是我们的航程可凭借它指引。（美国政治家卡尔·舒尔茨）

16. Ideal is the beacon. Without ideal, there is no secure direction; without direction, there is no life.(Tolstoy, Russian writer）理想是指路明灯。没有理想，就没有坚定的方向；没有方向，就没有生活。（俄国作家托尔斯泰）

17. If winter comes, can spring be far behind? (P.B. Shelley, British poet) 冬天来了，春天还会远吗？（英国诗人P·B·雪莱）

18. If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.(Ibsen, Norwegian dramatist) 如果你怀疑自己，那么你的立足点确实不稳固了。（挪威剧作家易卜生）

19. It is at our mother’s knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest, but there is seldom any money in them. (Mark Twain, American writer) 就是在我们母亲的膝上，我们获得了最高尚、最真诚和最远大的理想，但是里面很少有金钱的成分。（美国作家马克·吐温）

20. It is the first step that costs troublesome. 万事开头难。

21. It never will rain roses. When we want to have more roses we must plant trees.(G. Eliot, British novelist) 天上不会掉下玫瑰来，如果想要更多的玫瑰，必须自己种植。（英国小说家G·艾略特）

22. Make hay while the sun shines. 良机勿失。

23. The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and the determination to attain it.(Goethe, German poet and dramatist) 人生重要的事情是确定一个伟大的目标，并决心实现它。（德国诗人、剧作家歌德）

24. The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.(Franklin Roosevelt, American President) 实现明天理想的唯一障碍是今天的疑虑。（美国总统富兰克林·罗斯福）

25. Time and tide wait for no man. 时不我待。