英语中常用的成语和谚语

英语中常用的成语和谚语

1.a piece of cake = something easy to do

Eg: Don’t worry. It’s a piece of cake!

2.a wet blanket = boring / afraid to have fun

Eg: Don’t be a wet blanket. Have some fun!

3.all ears =listening carefully

Eg: Go on, tell me. I’m all ears.

4.pull my leg = joke with someone

Eg: Are you serious? Don’t pull my leg.

4.back sb up = support sb

Eg: I’ll back you up all the way.= I will support you from beginning to end.

5.get off one’s back= disturb sb

Why don’t you get off my back? = Don’t disturb me.

6.buy one’s story = believe sb

I don’t buy your story.= I don't believe you.

7.It’s my cup of tea. (这很合我胃口。)= It's my favorite.

8.Let’s call it quits. (算了吧！)= Let’s forget it.

9.It’s a lot of chicken feed.(这是小意思，不算什么。)= It’s nothing.

10.Rain cats and dogs 倾盆大雨

A bird in the hand is worth than two in the bush.

一鸟在手胜过双鸟在林（实际利益远胜虚幻的美梦）。

A friend is easier lost than found.

得朋友难，失朋友易。

A friend in need is a friend indeed.

患难见真情。

A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever. 一本好书，相伴一生。

A good medicine tastes bitter.

良药苦口。

All that glitters is not gold.

闪光的不一定都是金子。

A mother's love never changes.

母爱永恒。

Do as the Romans do.

入乡随俗。

Don't put off till tomorrow what should be done today.

今日事，今日毕。

20.Don't put the cart before the horse.

不要本末倒置。

21. Don't trouble trouble until trouble troubles you.

不要自找麻烦。

Easier said than done.

说得容易，做得难。

21. Easy come, easy go.

来也匆匆，去也匆匆。

22. Eat to live, but not live to eat.

人吃饭是为了活着，但活着不是为了吃饭。

First come, first served.

先来后到。

Hasty love, soon cold.

一见钟情难维久。

He laughs best who laughs last.

谁笑到最后，谁笑得最好。

If you venture nothing, you will have nothing.

不入虎穴，焉得虎子。

It is never too old to learn.

活到老，学到老。

26. It is no use crying over spilt milk.

覆水难收。

27. It is the first step that costs troublesome.

万事开头难。

Let bygones be bygones.

过去的就让它过去吧。

27. Let sleeping dogs lie.

别惹麻烦。

Love me, love my dog.

爱屋及乌

No cross, no crown.

不经历风雨，怎么见彩虹。

Once bitten, twice shy.

一朝被蛇咬，十年怕井绳。

31. One boy is a boy, two boys half a boy, three boys no boy.

一个和尚挑水喝，两个和尚抬水喝，三个和尚没水喝。

32. One cannot put back the clock.

时钟不能倒转。

33. One eyewitness is better than ten hearsays.

百闻不如一见。

34. One false move may lose the game.

一着不慎，满盘皆输。

35. Saying is one thing and doing another.

言行不一。

36. Seeing is believing.

眼见为实。

37. Seek the truth from facts.

实事求是。