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[英文]：By the side of sickness health becomes sweet.
[中文]：不生病不知道健康的快乐。
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[英文]：Hide nothing from thy physician.
[中文]：不要对医生隐瞒。
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[英文]：Health is not valued till sickness comes.
[中文]：病时方知健康可贵。
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[英文]：Diseases are the interests of pleasures.
[中文]：疾病是为享乐付出的债息。
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[英文]：Blow first and sip afterwards.
[中文]：喝茶防烫，吃饭防噎。
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[英文]：Eat at pleasure, drink with measure.
[中文]：随意吃饭，适度饮酒。
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[英文]：Leave off with an appetite.
[中文]：吃得七分饱，就该离餐桌。
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[英文]：A belly full of gluttony will never study willingly.
[中文]：吃得过饱，懒得学习。
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[英文]：A full belly neither fights nor flies well.
[中文]：肚子太饱，不能打仗也不能逃跑。
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[英文]：You eat and eat, but you do not drink to fill you.
[中文]：吃饭要饱，饮酒要少。
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[英文]：Gluttony kills more than the sword.
[中文]：暴食比刀剑伤人。
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[英文]：Feed by measure and defy the physician.
[中文]：饮食有节，医生失业。
[出处]：英语谚语

[英文]：Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
[中文]：在酒里淹死的人比在海里淹死的人多。
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[英文]：A man who finds no satisfaction in himself, seeks for it in vain elsewhere.
[中文]：在自己身上找不到满足的人，在别的地方也找不到满足。
[出处]：La Roucheffoucauld 拉·罗什富科

[英文]：He who has good health is young, and he is rich who owes nothing.
[中文]：健康葆青春，无债即富足。
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[英文]：Let him that would be happy for a day, go to the barber; for a week, marry a wife; for a month, buy him a new horse; for a year, build him a new house; for all his lifetime, be an honest man.
[中文]：理了发，乐一天；娶媳妇，乐一周；买匹马，乐一月；建新房，乐一年；做个老实人，足可乐一生。
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[英文]：Care is no cure.
[中文]：忧虑治不了病。
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[英文]：Care killed a cat.
[中文]：忧虑能杀人。
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[英文]：Health and money go far.
[中文]：有了健康和钱财，就能走遍天下。
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[英文]：He that fears death lives not.
[中文]：害怕死亡的人，活着也没有快乐。
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[英文]：Laugh and the world laughs with you, weep and you weep alone.
[中文]：欢笑，则世界与你同乐；哭泣，则独自悲伤。
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[英文]：No man is happy but by comparison.
[中文]：人的幸福都是比较而言的。
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[英文]：Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases, the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.
[中文]：每个人的一生中，幸运女神都来敲过门，可是，许多人竟在隔壁的酒馆里，听不见她的敲门。
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[英文]：There is no joy without alloy.
[中文]：世上没有十全十美的快乐. /金无足赤，乐无十全。
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[英文]：Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
[中文]：幸福有如蝴蝶，你追逐它时永远捉不到，你静坐下来，它却可能落在你身上。
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[英文]：The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.
[中文]：最快乐的人似乎是那些并没有特别原因觉得快乐而只是快乐的人。
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[英文]：Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
[中文]：快乐往往从你忘记关好的门溜进来。
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[英文]：Some people have all the luck. And they're the ones who never depend on it.
[中文]：有些人经常走运，但他们却常是最不依赖运气的人。
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[英文]：Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime, and too sleepy to worry at night.
[中文]：白天忙得没有时间发愁，夜里困得来不及发愁的人是真正有福的。
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[英文]：Happy is he who only desires what he may and does what he ought.
[中文]：不作非分之想又能尽本分的人是快乐的。
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[英文]：Youth is full of pleasance, age is full of care.
[中文]：青春充满愉快，高龄满怀忧虑。
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[英文]：Happiness is not always annexed to wealth.
[中文]：幸福并不一定是财富的附属物。
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[英文]：He that eats till he is sick must fast till he is well.
[中文]：吃出病来的人，反而要饿到病好才能再吃。
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[英文]：There is no greater grief than to recall a time of happiness when in misery.
[中文]：没有比在悲惨中回忆起幸福的时刻更痛苦。
[出处]：Dante 但丁(意大利诗人)

[英文]：The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
[中文]：人民，只有人民，才是创造世界历史的动力。
[出处]：Mao Zedong 毛泽东

[英文]：A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors. the men it remembers.
[中文]：一个民族不仅通过它所造就的人，也通过它给以荣誉的人和它所铭记的人展示自己。
[出处]：J.F.Kennedy 肯尼迪

[英文]：A hero is nothing but a product of his time.
[中文]：时势造英雄。
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[英文]：The administration of justice is the firmest pillar of government.
[中文]：主持正义是政府最坚定的支柱。
[出处]：Washington 华盛顿

[英文]：We need in politics men who have something to give , not men who have something to get.
[中文]：在政治中我们需要能有所奉献的人，而不是想有所收获的人。
[出处]：B.Baruch 布鲁克

[英文]：I love myself well, but my countrymen better.
[中文]：我爱自己，但更爱自己的同胞。
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[英文]：Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute the laws which the people have made.
[中文]：政府官员是人民的公仆和代理人，应执行人民制定的法律。
[出处]：G.Cleveland 克列夫兰

[英文]：When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.
[中文]：当一个人受到公众信任时，他就应该把自己看作公众的财产。
[出处]：[美]T.Jefferson 杰弗逊

[英文]：You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.
[中文]：从一个民族的广告可以看出这个民族的理想。
[出处]：N.Douglas 道格拉斯

[英文]：My aspiration is that the aged live an easy life, friends have faith in me and the youth cherish the memory of me.
[中文]：老者安之，朋友信之，少者怀之。
[出处]：Confucius 孔子

[英文]：Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow.
[中文]：进步是今天的活动，明天的保证。
[出处]：Emerson 爱默生

[英文]：Discontent is the first step in progress of a man or a nation.
[中文]：不满足是一个人或一个民族进步的第一步。
[出处]：O.Wilde 王尔德

[英文]：The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.
[中文]：进步的艺术是在变革中保持秩序，在秩序中保持变革。
[出处]：A.N.Whitehead 怀特黑德

[英文]：Good order is the foundation of all things.
[中文]：良好的秩序是一切的基础。
[出处]：E.Burke 伯克

[英文]：Law makers should not be law breakers.
[中文]：立法者不可违法。
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[英文]：He that cannot obey cannot command.
[中文]：不服从命令者不能指挥。
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[英文]：If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.
[中文]：指挥有方则人人乐从。
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[英文]：England expects every man to do his duty.
[中文]：祖国望每个国民恪尽职守。
[出处]：H.Nelson 纳尔逊(英国海军上将)

[英文]：If anyone among the officials breaks the law, he, too should be punished.
[中文]：长官犯了法，也要受处罚。
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[英文]：There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him threesided.
[中文]：有一句话说得很好：如果三角形发明一个上帝，它们也会使他有三条边。
[出处]：[法国]Montesquieu 孟德斯鸠

[英文]：The net of heaven is large and wide, but it lets nothing through.
[中文]：天网恢恢，疏而不漏。
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[英文]：The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
[中文]：世界是一面镜子，每个人都在上面照到自己。
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[英文]：Newspapers are the world's mirror.
[中文]：报纸是世界的镜子。
[出处]：J.Ellis 埃利斯(美国拳击运动员)

[英文]：A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
[中文]：我认为，一份好的报纸是一个民族在同自己谈话。
[出处]：A.Miller 米勒(美国剧作家)

[英文]：The world is a play that would not be worth seeing if we knew the plot.
[中文]：世界是一出戏，要是事先知道情节，就不值得看了。
[出处]：F.M.Collby 科尔比

[英文]：The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
[中文]：宇宙不必和人类的雄心壮志完全协调一致。
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[英文]：The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
[中文]：世界在你面前，你不必原封不动地接受它或让它去。
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[英文]：To govern is to keep straight, If you take a lead in doing so, who will dare to act otherwise?
[中文]：政者，正也。子帅以正，孰敢不正?
[出处]：Confucius 孔子

[英文]：The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
[中文]：具有新想法的人在其想法被接受之前是怪人。
[出处]：Mark Twain 马克·吐温

[英文]：Justice is a machine that, when someone has given it a starting push, rolls on itself.
[中文]：正义是一台机器，一旦有人推一下就会自己转下去。
[出处]：J.Galsworthy 高尔斯华绥(英国文学家)

[英文]：He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.
[中文]：有的人就像公鸡一样，以为太阳因为要听它啼叫才升起。
[出处]：G.Eliot 艾略特

[英文]：Force can never destroy right.
[中文]：武力决不能摧毁正义。
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[英文]：Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
[中文]：暴力是无能者的最后手段。
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[英文]：He that makes a good war makes a good peace.
[中文]：正义的战争创造持久的和平。
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[英文]：If you wish for peace, be prepared for war.
[中文]：欲求和平，必先备战。
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[英文]：When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.
[中文]：打破固定的模式，新世界才能出现。/破旧立新。
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[英文]：There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
[中文]：任何一条道德戒律在奉行时都会引起不便。
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[英文]：History repeats itself.
[中文]：历史往往重演。
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[英文]：Hsitory is bunk.
[中文]：历史是一堆废话。
[出处]：Henry Ford 亨利·福特(美国汽车业巨人)

[英文]：We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.
[中文]：我们受法律约束，为的是可以自由。
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[英文]：Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.
[中文]：自由的代价是永远警惕。
[出处]：W.Philips 菲利普斯

[英文]：Smokers and non-smokers can not be equally free in the same railway carriage.
[中文]：吸烟的人和不吸烟的人在同一节火车车厢里不可能同样自由。
[出处]：Bernard Shaw 萧伯纳

[英文]：The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving any excuse.
[中文]：唯一真正自由的人是能够拒绝宴会的邀请而不用提出理由的人。
[出处]：J.Renard 勒纳尔(法国作家)

[英文]：Principles without programs are platitudes.
[中文]：没有纲领的原则只是陈词滥调。
[出处]：Bernard Shaw 萧伯纳

[英文]：I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
[中文]：我不同意你说的话，但是我愿意誓死捍卫你说话的权利。
[出处]：Voltaire 伏尔泰

[英文]：They have rights who dare defend them.
[中文]：敢于保卫权利的人就能拥有权利。
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[英文]：They that can give up essential liberty to obtaina little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
[中文]：不惜牺牲自由以图苟安的人，既不配享受自由，也不配获得自由。
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[英文]：A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he canot sit upon it.
[中文]：一个人可以用刺刀为自己建造一个宝座，但却无法坐在上面。
[出处]：W.R.Inge 英奇(美国作家、神学家)

[英文]：Like knows like
[中文]：人识其类。
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[英文]：Great minds think alike.
[中文]：英雄所见略同。
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[英文]：I would rather be right than President.
[中文]：我宁可正确而不愿当总统。
[出处]：H.Clay 克莱(美国内战时政治领袖)

[英文]：Is long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.
[中文]：只要世界还存在，就会有错误，如果没有人反叛，这些错误将永远存在下去。
[出处]：C.Darrow 达罗

[英文]：The throne is but a piece of wood covered with velvet.
[中文]：皇帝的宝座不过是一块盖着天鹅绒的木头。
[出处]：Napoleon 拿破仑

[英文]：He who is not in charge of governing does not interfere in its business.
[中文]：不在其位，不谋其政。
[出处]：Confucius 孔子

[英文]：Bread is the staff of life.
[中文]：民以食为天。
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[英文]：The voice of the people is the voice of God.
[中文]：人民的呼声就是上帝的声音。
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[英文]：The sun shines upon all alike.
[中文]：太阳照人，不分贵贱。
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[英文]：Social science affirms that a woman's place in society marks the level of civilization.
[中文]：社会科学认为，妇女在社会里的地位标志着文明的水平。
[出处]：E.Stanton 斯坦顿

[英文]：Democracy means not"I'm as good as you are”but"you're as good as Iam.”
[中文]：民主的含义不是“我跟你一样好”，而是“你跟我一样好”。
[出处]：T.Parker 帕克

[英文]：I cannot undertake to be impartial as between the fire brigade and the fire.
[中文]：在消防队和大火之间，我不能同意不偏不倚。
[出处]：Churchill 邱吉尔

[英文]：One fifth of the people are against everything all the time.
[中文]：有五分之一的人永远是反对一切的。
[出处]：R.Kennedy 肯尼迪

[英文]：He who goes against the fashion is himfelf its slave.
[中文]：反对时尚的人自己也是时尚的奴隶。
[出处]：L.P.Smith 史密斯

[英文]：Every man loves what he is good at.
[中文]：人人都喜欢自己擅长的事物。
[出处]：T.Shadwell沙德韦尔

[英文]：Let those who know the way go before.
[中文]：让识途的人先行。
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[英文]：At court, everyone for himself.
[中文]：在法庭上人人都要为自己。
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[英文]：Bear with evil, and expect good.
[中文]：坏事要忍，好事要等。
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[英文]：At a round table there's no dispute of place.
[中文]：圆桌上没有座次之争。
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[英文]：A cat may look at a king.
[中文]：猫也可以看皇帝。/地位虽不同，人人应平等。
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[英文]：Do as you would be done by.
[中文]：己所不欲，勿施于人。
[出处]：英语谚语

[英文]：Propaganda is the art of persuading others of what one does not believe oneself.
[中文]：宣传是劝说别人去相信自己不相信的东西的艺术。
[出处]：A.Eban 埃班(以色列外交家)

[英文]：The greater part of whitewashing is done with ink.
[中文]：大部分的粉饰是用墨水进行的。
[出处]：G.D.Prentice 普伦蒂斯

[英文]：Every time I close the door on reality, it comes in through the window.
[中文]：我每次闭门不纳现实，它都从窗口进来。
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[英文]：There is no disputing about tastes.
[中文]：品味无可争论。/人各有所好。
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[英文]：As a tree falls, so shall it lie.
[中文]：树倒在何处，就躺在何处。
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[英文]：I myself have become a Gaullist only little by little.
[中文]：我自己也只是一点一点地才成为一个戴高乐主义者的。
[出处]：C.de Gaulle 戴高乐

[英文]：If one sheep leaps over the ditch, all the rest will follow.
[中文]：一只羊跳过水沟，其他羊都会跟着跳。
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[英文]：Promises must be kept and action must be resolute. /Always be true in word and resolute in deed.
[中文]：言必信，行必果。
[出处]：中国谚语

[英文]：The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
[中文]：只要好人不闻不问，邪恶就能胜利。
[出处]：E.Burke 伯克

[英文]：Better be blamed by our kith and kin, than be kissed by the enemy.
[中文]：宁可让亲人责备，切勿让敌人亲吻。
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[英文]：Ice and live charcoal cannot be placed in the same furnace; the enemy and ourselves do not go the same way.
[中文]：冰炭不同炉；敌我不同路。
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[英文]：A leopard and a goat can never live in the same flock.
[中文]：豹子和山羊不同群。
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[英文]：If you read the Bible to the wolf, it'll certainly say: "Stop reading at once! A flock of sheep have just passed by! "
[中文]：如果对狼读《圣经》，狼一定会说：“快停止吧! 一群羊刚过去了!”
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[英文]：If you cut the weeds without digging up their roots, they'll grow again when the spring breeze blows.
[中文]：斩草不除根，春风吹又生。
[出处]：中国谚语

[英文]：When the fox preaches, the cock should ponder.
[中文]：要是狐狸布道，公鸡就该深思。
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[英文]：He that makes himself a sheep shall be eaten by the"wolf”.
[中文]：甘为羔羊，定膏狼吻。
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[英文]：To recognize a toxin will do you as much good as to get a good medicine.
[中文]：认清毒物，如获良药。
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[英文]：When the enemy praises you.you should ask yourself what errors you have committed.
[中文]：当敌人夸奖你的时候，你得想到自己做错了什么。
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[英文]：If you deals with a fox, think of his tricks.
[中文]：与狐狸周旋，要谨防上当。
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[英文]：It is madness for a sheep to treat of peace with a wolf.
[中文]：羊跟狼讲和平，是羊发了疯。
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[英文]：If we are bound to forgive an enemy, we are not bound to trust him.
[中文]：敌人可恕不可信。
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[英文]：Better drink the water given by a friend, than eat the honey offered by the enemy.
[中文]：宁喝朋友水，不吃敌人蜜。
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[英文]：Evil communications corrupt good manners.
[中文]：与坏人交往，好人也变坏。 /近朱者赤，近墨者黑。
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[英文]：Good will be rewarded with good, and evil with evil; if the reward is not forthcoming, it is because the time has not arrived yet; and when the time arrives, one will get all the rewards he deserves.
[中文]：善有善报，恶有恶报，不是不报，时候未到，时候一到，一切都报。
[出处]：中国谚语

[英文]：He that loses his due gets not thanks.
[中文]：失去应得的东西，别人不感谢。
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[英文]：When Greek meets Greek, then comes the tug of war.
[中文]：两雄相遇，其斗必烈。
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[英文]：God defend me from my friends, from my enemies I can defend myself.
[中文]：愿上帝助我防备朋友，我自己能抵御敌人。
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[英文]：You cannot make a silk purse out of sow's ear.
[中文]：用猪耳朵做不成丝钱包。
[出处]：英语谚语

[英文]：An onion will not produce a rose.
[中文]：洋葱里长不出玫瑰。/乌鸦里飞不出金凤凰。
[出处]：英语谚语

[英文]：Never fear a hard-beaked bird, but beware of a heart-eating worm.
[中文]：不怕硬嘴鸟，最怕蛀心虫。
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[英文]：If it is a dog that bites people, Ishould think it must be beaten, no matter whether it is on shore or in the water.
[中文]：倘是咬人之狗，我觉得都在可打之列，无论它在岸上或在水中。
[出处]：LU Xun 鲁迅

[英文]：When I say I know women, I mean I know that I don't know them.
[中文]：当我说我了解女人时，我的意思是我知道我并不了解她们。
[出处]：Thackeray 萨克雷

[英文]：The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
[中文]：明白事理的人使自己适应世界；不明事理的人硬想使世界适应自己。
[出处]：Bernard Shaw 萧伯纳

[英文]：What one loses on the swings one makes up on the roundabouts.
[中文]：失之东隅，收之桑榆。
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[英文]：There is no rule without an exception.
[中文]：有规则必有例外。
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[英文]：Among the blind the one-eye man is king.
[中文]：瞎子国里，独眼称王。
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[英文]：Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.
[中文]：宁在地狱为王，不到天堂当差。
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[英文]：Better be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion.
[中文]：宁为鸡口，毋为牛后。
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[英文]：Ill news hath wings, and with the wind doth go. Comfort's a cripple and comes very slow.
[中文]：坏消息长有翅膀，随风飞扬。安慰却是个跛子跚跚来迟。
[出处]：M.Drayton 德雷顿

[英文]：When a dog bites a man that is not news, but when a man bites a dog that is news.
[中文]：狗咬人不是新闻，人咬狗才是新闻。
[出处]：Dana 达纳(美国记者)

[英文]：When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of , he always declares that it is his duty.
[中文]：愚人做自己感到惭愧的事情时，总是宣称那是他的职责。
[出处]：Bernard Shaw 萧伯纳

[英文]：People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
[中文]：通常人们是因为不会辩理才吵架的。
[出处]：Chesterton 切斯特顿

[英文]：The usual excuse of those who cause others trouble is that they wish them well.
[中文]：给别人造成麻烦的人通常的借口是出于好意。
[出处]：Vauvenargues 沃夫纳格

[英文]：When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
[中文]：当人们可以自由行事时，他们常常互相模仿。
[出处]：N.M.Butler 巴特勒

[英文]：The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
[中文]：习惯之链很弱，往往感觉不到，一旦感觉到了，已经牢固得绷不断了。
[出处]：S.Johnson 约翰逊

[英文]：Equivocation is first cousin to a lie.
[中文]：模棱两可是谎话的近亲。
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[英文]：If wise man play the fool, they do it with a vengeance.
[中文]：聪明人做傻事，傻得格外离奇。
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[英文]：Let the sleeping dogs lie.
[中文]：莫惹是非。
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[英文]：If the cap fits, wear it.
[中文]：帽子合适，你就戴上；如说的符合你的情况，你就接受。
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[英文]：If you run after two hares, you will catch neither.
[中文]：同时追二免，必将无所获。
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[英文]：Face the fearful with no fears, and its fearfulness dissapears.
[中文]：见怪不怪，其怪自败。
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[英文]：What is bought is cheaper than a gift.
[中文]：自己花钱买的，比别人送的便宜。
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[英文]：A drowning man will catch at a straw.
[中文]：快淹死的人连草也要抓。
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[英文]：Hardship disposes man to meet adversity.
[中文]：艰苦的生活使人能面对逆境。
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[英文]：A well-Prepared mind hopes in adversity and fears in prosperity.
[中文]：遇事有准备的人逢逆境不失望，处顺境不大意。
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[英文]：Nothing is a greater misfortune than not being able to bear misfortune.
[中文]：经不起不幸是最大的不幸。
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[英文]：Success covers a multitude of blunders.
[中文]：成功能掩盖大量失误。
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[英文]：The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
[中文]：一个想法的价值与表述它的人是否真诚没有关系。
[出处]：O.Wilde 王尔德

[英文]：It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.
[中文]：在争论中是无法击败无知者的。
[出处]：W.G.McAdoo 麦卡杜

[英文]：A long dispute means that both parties are wrong.
[中文]：持久的争论意味着双方都是错的。
[出处]：Voltaire 伏尔泰

[英文]：Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards.
[中文]：大多数吵架当时都是不可避免的，事后都是令人难以置信的。
[出处]：E.M.Forster 福斯特

[英文]：It is easy to be wise after the event.
[中文]：事后诸葛亮容易当。
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[英文]：He that tells a secret is another's servant.
[中文]：泄漏机密的人，就成为别人的奴仆。
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[英文]：The cleverest housewife cannot cook a meal without rice.
[中文]：巧妈难为无米之炊。
[出处]：中国谚语

[英文]：He who likes borrowing dislikes paying.
[中文]：爱借的人往往不爱还。
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[英文]：The only thing most people do better than anyone else is to read their own handwriting.
[中文]：大多数人唯一比别人做得好的事，是认自己写的字。
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[英文]：I would rather see a young man blush than turn pale.
[中文]：我宁可看到青年人脸红，也不愿看到他脸色变得苍白。
[出处]：M.P.Cato 加图

[英文]：Do you know that those who run in a race run all, but only one receives the prize? Even so run, that you may attain.
[中文]：岂不知在场上赛跑的都在跑，但得奖赏的只有一人? 即使如此，也只有这样跑，你们才有可能得到奖赏。
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[英文]：It is a long lane that has no turning.
[中文]：路长有弯，事长有变。
[出处]：英语谚语

[英文]：The moon is not seen where the sun shines.
[中文]：日出月不见。
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[英文]：Without carrying the load yourself you don't know how heavy it is, without walking the long distance yourself you don't know how far it is.
[中文]：不挑担子不知重，不走长路不知远。
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[英文]：Clever all one's life, but stupid this once. /Smart as a rule, but this time a fool.
[中文]：聪明一世，糊涂一时。
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[英文]：A man without a smiling face must not open a shop.
[中文]：没有笑脸的人不能开店。
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[英文]：He is an ill guest that never drinks to his host.
[中文]：不知道为主人干杯的客人，不会作客。
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[英文]：He is a good physician who cures himself.
[中文]：能给自己看病的才是好医生。
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[英文]：Wonders will never cease.
[中文]：奇迹无穷尽。
[出处]：[英国] Sir Dudley 达德利爵士

[英文]：Good masters make good servants.
[中文]：主人好，仆人坏不了。
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[英文]：Truth is stranger than fiction.
[中文]：事实离奇胜于虚构。
[出处]：Byron 拜伦(英国诗人)

[英文]：Good ware makes quick markets.
[中文]：货好销得快。
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[英文]：Good will should be taken for part payment.
[中文]：善意应该被看作是部分报偿。
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[英文]：He that has much prayer, has but little devotion.
[中文]：祷告多的人心不诚。
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[英文]：He was a bold man that first ate on oyster.
[中文]：第一个吃牡蛎的人是勇士。
[出处]：J.Swift 斯威夫特

[英文]：Ask no questions and you will be told no lies.
[中文]：少问就听不到假话。
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[英文]：Every one is witty for his own goal.
[中文]：为达到自己的目标，人人都很聪明。
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[英文]：By his claw, you may know the lion.
[中文]：要知狮子看脚爪。
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[英文]：Extreme right is extreme wrong.
[中文]：极端正确即极端错误。/过犹不及。
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[英文]：Extremes meet.
[中文]：两极相通，有无相生。
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[英文]：Fate leads the willing but drives the stubborn.
[中文]：顺从者被命运领着走，执拗者被命运赶着走。
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[英文]：Fields have eyes, and woods have ears.
[中文]：地有眼，树有耳。/没有不透风的墙。
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[英文]：First deserve and then desire.
[中文]：先做到受之无愧，而后再邀功请赏。
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[英文]：For age and want, save while you may! No burning sun lasts a whole day.
[中文]：幼时防老，有时防无；朝阳虽好，难以终日。
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[英文]：Forbidden fruit is sweet.
[中文]：禁果分外甜。
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[英文]：Forewarned is forearmed.
[中文]：凡事预则立。
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[英文]：Fortune and misfortune are two baskets in a well.
[中文]：福与祸是一个井里打水的两个吊桶。
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[英文]：Fortune favours the brave.
[中文]：天佑勇士。
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[英文]：From a choleric man withdraw a little; form him that says nothing, for ever.
[中文]：同易动气的人离远点；同不开口的人别打交道。
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[英文]：Gentility is but ancient riches.
[中文]：出身高贵，只不过是其祖辈有钱。
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[英文]：God help the poor, for the rich can help themselves.
[中文]：愿上帝帮助穷人，因为富人无需帮助。
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[英文]：Giving much to the poor does increase a man's store.
[中文]：给穷人大量馈赠必定会增加自己的库存。
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[英文]：Glasses and lasses are brittle ware.
[中文]：玻璃易碎，姑娘易毁。
[出处]：英语谚语

[英文]：God made the country; man made the town.
[中文]：上帝创造了乡村，人类建造了城镇。
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[英文]：A great city, a great solitude.
[中文]：城市越大越寂寞。
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[英文]：A black plum is as sweet as a white.
[中文]：黑梅白梅一样甜。
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[英文]：A blunt knife may be sharpened on a stone, but if a man is stupid there is no help for his stupidity.
[中文]：刀钝石上磨，人蠢没奈何。
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[英文]：Like begets like.
[中文]：龙生龙，凤生凤。
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[英文]：A shy cat makes a proud mouse.
[中文]：猫儿胆小耗子闹。
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[英文]：An artist lives everywhere.
[中文]：一技在身，走遍天下。
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[英文]：An Englishman is never happy but when he is miserable, a Scotchman never at home but when he is abroad, and an Irishman never at peace but when he is fighting.
[中文]：英格兰人只有在受苦时才幸福，苏格兰人只有在他乡时才舒适，爱尔兰人只有在打架时才安宁。
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[英文]：Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.
[中文]：我们为什么听到有人诞生就欢喜，看到有人出殡就悲伤呢? 因为诞生和死亡的是别人。
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[英文]：There's only one kind of tax that would please everybody-one that nobody but the other guy has to pay.
[中文]：只有一种税人人欢迎，那就是只有别人必须缴纳的税。
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[英文]：Take not a musket to kill a butterfly.
[中文]：杀蝶不用枪。
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[英文]：If you cannot bite, never show your teeth.
[中文]：不能咬人就别龇牙。
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[英文]：There are only two ways to be quite unprejudiced and impartial. One is to be completely ignorant.The other is to be completely indifferent.
[中文]：只有两种办法可以做到不偏不倚，一种是完全无知，一种是完全不在乎。
[出处]：C.P.Curtis 柯蒂斯

[英文]：The weak have one weapon; The errors of those who think they are strong.
[中文]：弱者有一个武器；那些自认为强者的人的错误。
[出处]：G.Bidault 比多

[英文]：An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.
[中文]：一个思想对信仰它的人并不负有责任。
[出处]：D.Marquis 马奎斯

[英文]：The exception proves the rule.
[中文]：例外证明法则的存在。
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[英文]：Art is long, life is short.
[中文]：人生短暂，艺术长存。
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[英文]：Art lies in concealing art.
[中文]：艺术在于使人看不见艺术。
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[英文]：The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
[中文]：世界是一本书，没有旅行过的人只读了一页。
[出处]：St.Augustine 圣·奥古斯丁

[英文]：The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.
[中文]：每个国家的基础都在于对其青年的教育。
[出处]：Diogenes 第欧根尼(古希腊哲学家)

[英文]：Money spent on the brain is never spent in vain.
[中文]：用于教育之金钱决不虚掷。
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[英文]：The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
[中文]：教育的目的在于让青年人作好毕生自我教育的准备。
[出处]：R.Hutchins 哈钦斯(美国教育家)

[英文]：The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions.
[中文]：教育的真正目的是让一个人习惯于不断地提出的问题。
[出处]：M.Creighton 克赖顿

[英文]：Birth is much, but breeding is more.
[中文]：教养重于出身。
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[英文]：Education is a progressive discovery of ourown ignorance.
[中文]：教育是一个逐步发现自己无知的过程。
[出处]：W.Durant 杜兰特(美国历史学家、散文家)

[英文]：In education we are striving not to teach youth to make a living, but to make a life.
[中文]：教育不是为了教会青年人谋生，而是教会他们创造生活。
[出处]：W.A.White 怀特

[英文]：Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.
[中文]：培养一个人，教育打基础，完美靠交谈。
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[英文]：Great trees keep down little ones.
[中文]：大树底下，小树难长。
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[英文]：The primary purpose of education is not to teach you to earn your bread, but to make every mouthful sweeter.
[中文]：教育最主要的目的，不是教你挣得面包，而是使每一口面包都香甜。
[出处]：J.Angell 安吉尔(美国心理学家)

[英文]：Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to slave.
[中文]：教育使一个国家的人民容易领导，但是难于驱使；容易治理，却不可以奴役。
[出处]：H.P.Brougham 布罗厄姆(英国政治家)

[英文]：One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
[中文]：一个父亲，胜过百名教师。
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[英文]：A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
[中文]：母亲不是籍以依赖的人，而是使依赖成为不必要的人。
[出处]：D.C.Fisher 菲希尔(美国女小说家)

[英文]：The mother's breath is aye sweet.
[中文]：母亲的气息，永远甜蜜。
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[英文]：Give me a child for the first seven years and you may do what you like with him afterwards.
[中文]：让我把小孩带到七岁，以后随你怎么都可以。
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[英文]：Give bairn his will, and a whelp his fill, and none of these two will thrive.
[中文]：纵容溺爱，子不成材。
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[英文]：A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
[中文]：教师的影响是永恒的；无法估计他的影响会有多深远。
[出处]：H.B.Adames 亚当斯(美国历史学家)

[英文]：A painter leaves his emotions behind him for his posterity to share.
[中文]：画家把自己的感情留下来，与后人共享。
[出处]：A.John 约翰(英国画家)

[英文]：Novelists should never allow themselves to weary of the study of real life.
[中文]：小说家们永远不应对研究真实的生活感到厌烦。
[出处]：Charlotte Bronte 夏洛蒂·勃朗特

[英文]：Mathematics possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty-a beauty cold and austere. like that of sculpture.
[中文]：数学不仅拥有真理，而且拥有至上的美一种冷静而严肃、犹如雕塑那样的美。
[出处]：B.Russell 罗素(英国哲学家)

[英文]：A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
[中文]：只有逻辑的头脑像只有刃的刀，它会割破使用它的手。
[出处]：[印度] Tagore 泰戈尔

[英文]：Animals are such agreeable friends-they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
[中文]：动物是极容易相处的朋友，它们从不提问，也从不会批评。
[出处]：George Eliot 乔治·艾略特

[英文]：The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it.
[中文]：猫可以是人们最好的朋友，但它自己却不肯屈尊承认这一点。
[出处]：Doug Larson 道格·拉森

[英文]：The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
[中文]：世界上的东西是那样丰富多彩，我肯定我们都应当像国王一样愉快。
[出处]：Stevenson 史蒂文森

[英文]：It's but little good you'll do a-watering the last year's crop.
[中文]：为去年的庄稼浇水徒劳无功。
[出处]：George Eliot 乔治·艾略特

[英文]：Inflation is being broken with a lot of money in your pocket.
[中文]：通货膨胀是你的口袋有大量的钱，而你破产了。
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[英文]：Each of us is the accumulation of our memories.
[中文]：我们每个人都是我们记忆的累积。
[出处]：Alan Loy McGinnis 艾伦·洛尹·麦金尼斯

[英文]：If dogs could talk, it would take a lot of fun out of owning one.
[中文]：如果狗能讲话，那养狗就无多少乐趣了。
[出处]：Andrew A.Rooney 安德鲁·A·鲁尼

[英文]：It is the last straw that breaks the camel's back.
[中文]：骆驼负载过重时，加根草也能把它压倒。
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[英文]：Judge not a book by its covers.
[中文]：评价书不能看封面。
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[英文]：It is hard to please all.
[中文]：要使人人满意是件难事。
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[英文]：It is better to please a fool than to anget him.
[中文]：若惹蠢人生气，不如使他欢喜。
[出处]：英语谚语

[英文]：Vice is often clothed in virtue's habit.
[中文]：罪恶往往披着德道的外衣。
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[英文]：He give twice who gives quickly.
[中文]：给得爽快，等于给了两次。
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[英文]：It is no sin to sell dear, but a sin to give ill measure.
[中文]：高价出售不为过，缺斤少两才是罪。
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[英文]：Brevity is the soul of wit.
[中文]：言以简洁为贵。
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[英文]：Couch hard arguments in soft words.
[中文]：理要硬而话要软。
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[英文]：It is no use crying over spilt milk.
[中文]：牛奶已泼，哭也无用。
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[英文]：Good take-heed does surely speed.
[中文]：谨慎是成功的保证。
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[英文]：In every country the sun rises in the morning.
[中文]：无论在哪个国家都是早晨出太阳。
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[英文]：In settling on island, the first building erected by a Spaniard will be a church; by a Frenchman, a fort; by a Dutchman, a warehouse; and by an Englishman, an alehouse.
[中文]：在海岛定居时，西班牙人先造教堂；法国人先造要塞；荷兰人先造仓库而英国人则先造酒店。
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[英文]：Your liberty to swing your arms ends where my nose begins.
[中文]：你有挥舞手臂的自由，但这自由必须止于我的鼻端。
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[英文]：Adventure is just a romantic name for trouble.
[中文]：冒险是自找麻烦的浪漫说法。
[出处]：Louis Lamour 路易斯·拉穆尔

[英文]：What is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh.
[中文]：江山好改，本性难移。
[出处]：英语谚语

[英文]：Speech is the picture of the mind.
[中文]：言语是心灵的画像。
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[英文]：Language is the dress of thought.
[中文]：语言是思想的衣服。
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[英文]：The essence of language is human activity.
[中文]：语言的本质是人类活动。
[出处]：O.Jespersen 耶斯佩森

[英文]：What the heart thinks the tongue speaks.
[中文]：言为心声。
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[英文]：Folk rhymes are the mirrors that show the feelings of the people.
[中文]：民谣是人心的镜子。
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[英文]：The pen is mightier than the sword.
[中文]：笔锋利于剑。
[出处]：B.Lytton 利顿(英国政治家)

[英文]：Like author, like book.
[中文]：书如其人。
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[英文]：Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
[中文]：风趣是谈话中的盐，而不是主食。
[出处]：[英国] W.Hazlitt 哈兹里特

[英文]：A poet is born, not made.
[中文]：诗人靠天成。
[出处]：L.A.Florus 弗洛鲁斯(古罗马诗人)

[英文]：A poet is , before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
[中文]：一个诗人，首先应当是一个非常热爱语言的人。
[出处]：[英国] W.H.Auden 奥登

[英文]：To have great poets, there must be great audience too.
[中文]：要有伟大的诗人，必须要有伟大的听众。
[出处]：[美国] W.Whitman 惠特曼

[英文]：A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
[中文]：诗人是这样的人，他把梯子架到星星上，一边爬梯子一边拉提琴。
[出处]：[法国] E.de Goncourt 龚古尔

[英文]：A great poem is a fountain forever overflowing with the waters of wisdom and delight.
[中文]：伟大的诗篇犹如永远流出智慧和欢欣之水的喷泉。
[出处]：P.B.Shelley 雪莱

[英文]：Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.
[中文]：诗乃自发溢出的强烈的情感。
[出处]：Wordsworth 华兹尔斯

[英文]：Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is a speaking picture.
[中文]：画是无言之诗，诗是有声之画。
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[英文]：The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.
[中文]：对于诗人来说，最大的悲剧莫过于由于误解而受到钦佩。
[出处]：[法国] J.Cocteau 科克托

[英文]：For a man to become a poet he must be in love, or miserable.
[中文]：一个人要恋爱或潦倒才可成为诗人。
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[英文]：The only really difficult thing about a poem is the critic's explanation of it.
[中文]：对于诗歌，唯一真正难以理解的是批评家对它的解释。
[出处]：[美国] F.M.Colby 科尔比

[英文]：You know what charm is: A way of getting the answer "Yes”without having asked any clear question.
[中文]：你知道什么是魅力：一种不用明白地提出问题而能得到肯定答复的办法。
[出处]：A.Camus 加缪

[英文]：It has been said that art is a tryst, for in the joy of it maker and beholder meet.
[中文]：有人说艺术是一种幽会，因为艺术家和欣赏者可在幽会的乐趣中相遇在一起。
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[英文]：What art offers is space-a certain breathing room for the spirit.
[中文]：艺术提供的空间一种给心灵呼吸的空间。
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[英文]：Humour must have its background of seriousness.
[中文]：幽默必须以严肃为背景。
[出处]：[英国] M.Beerbohm 比尔博姆

[英文]：The difficulty with humorists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don't, whichever seems likelier to win an effect.
[中文]：幽默家的困难，在于他们把相信的和不信的全混在一起，只考虑哪个看上去更有效果。
[出处]：[美国] John Updike 约翰·厄普代克

[英文]：A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.
[中文]：批评家是一个认得路但不会开车的人。
[出处]：[英国]K.Tynan 泰南

[英文]：I think of music as a menu. I can't eat the same thing everyday.
[中文]：我把音乐比作菜单。我不能每天吃同样的菜。
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[英文]：Good art is not what it looks like, but what it does to us.
[中文]：好的艺术不在于它像什么，而在于它引起我们什么感受。
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[英文]：The greatest artist was once a beginner.
[中文]：最伟大的艺术家也曾是个初学者。
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[英文]：Writers, composers, entertainers and such know an awful truth: it is easier to please a million eople you don't know than to please one person you do know.
[中文]：作家、作曲家、表演艺人等都知道一个可怕的事实：取悦一百万个陌生人，比取悦一个熟人更容易。
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[英文]：The best is often the enemy of the good.
[中文]：完美常是美好之敌。
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[英文]：A book is a success when people who haven't read it pretend they have.
[中文]：一本书如果没有看过的人也冒充看过，便是成功的。
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[英文]：There are three things that ought to be considered before some things are spoken, the manner, the place, and the time.
[中文]：有些事情在谈论之前应该考虑三点：方式、地点和时间。
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[英文]：If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.
[中文]：如果上帝不存在，也有必要造出一个来。
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[英文]：We could't conceive of a miracle if none had ever happened.
[中文]：如果从来没有发生过奇迹，我们便无法想像奇迹这种事。
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[英文]：When all men think alike, no man thinks very much.
[中文]：大家都一样想的时候就没有人多想了。
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[英文]：There is one thing which give radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
[中文]：有一样东西可给任何事物添上光彩，那就是好事即将来临的想法。
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[英文]：Eating and scratching wants but a beginning.
[中文]：吃饭和搔痒只需开个头。
[出处]：英语谚语

[英文]：Langhter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
[中文]：笑是太阳，它从人们脸上赶走冬天。
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[英文]：If there were no clouds, we should not enjoy the sun.
[中文]：没有阴云不觉阳光可爱。
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[英文]：Never fear shadows. They simply mean there's a light shining somewhere nearby.
[中文]：不要害怕黑影。它只不过意味着附近有光在照耀。
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[英文]：Lilies are whitest in a blackamoor's hand.
[中文]：黑人手中的百合花最白。
[出处]：英语谚语

[英文]：The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
[中文]：讲话的真正艺术不仅是在适当的场合讲适当的话，而且要在最诱人的时刻不要讲错误的话。
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[英文]：Short speeches are not always the best, but the best speeches are always short.
[中文]：短话不一定是最好的，但最好的话却总是短的。
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[英文]：It is right to be contented with what we have, never with what we are.
[中文]：可以满足于所得，但不要满足于自己。
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[英文]：Pride and grace dwell never in one place.
[中文]：傲慢与优雅决不共存。
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[英文]：Honour and profit lie not sack.
[中文]：荣誉和私利不能睡在一起。
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[英文]：Beauty and folly are often companies.
[中文]：漂亮与愚蠢常为伴侣。
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[英文]：A cracked bell can never sound well.
[中文]：破钟无好音。
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[英文]：There is nothing which has not been bitter before being ripe.
[中文]：凡事在成熟前，都是苦味的。
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[英文]：A bad penny always comes back.
[中文]：伪币迟早归原主。
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[英文]：Envy assails the noblest, the winds howl around the highest peak.
[中文]：峰高招风，位高人妒。
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[英文]：He that is foolish in the fault, let him be wise in the punishment.
[中文]：因愚蠢而犯错误的人，应使受惩罚而聪明起来。
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[英文]：Laugh before breakfast and you'll cry before supper.
[中文]：笑得早也会哭得早。
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[英文]：Every dog has his day.
[中文]：瓦块也有翻身日，人人都有运来时。
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[英文]：Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
[中文]：秋季是第二个春天，每片树叶都是花朵。
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[英文]：Custom is second nature.
[中文]：习惯是第二天性。/习惯成自然。
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[英文]：Custom reconciles us to everything.
[中文]：习惯则不怨。
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[英文]：Custom makes all things easy.
[中文]：凡事成习惯就容易做。/熟能生巧。
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[英文]：Nature is wonderful. A million years ago she didn't know we were going to need glasses, but look where she put our ears.
[中文]：造化真妙。百万年前它并不知道我们会要戴眼镜，可是瞧瞧它把我们的耳朵放在什么地方。
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[英文]：One machine can do the work of 50 ordinary men, but no machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
[中文]：一台机器可以做五十个普通人的工作，但是没有任何机器能够做一个非凡的人的工作。
[出处]：E.Hubbard 哈伯德

[英文]：Optimist: A man who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery.
[中文]：乐观主义者：被狮子逼上了树但仍然能欣赏风景的人。
[出处]：W.Winchell 温切尔

[英文]： May the best of this year be the worst of next.
[中文]：但愿明年最坏的事也和今年最好的事那么好。
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[英文]：Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
[中文]：悲观主义者：可在两种不幸中选择一个时而两者都选的人。
[出处]：OWilde 王尔德

[英文]：A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
[中文]：保守主义者是胆小得不敢斗争，又胖得跑不动的人。
[出处]：E.Hubbard 哈伯德

[英文]：Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions.
[中文]：可以给偏执下一个粗略的定义：没有观点的人的愤怒。
[出处]：G.K.Chesterton 切斯特顿

[英文]：Patience: A minor form of despair disguised as virtu.
[中文]：耐心：被伪装成美德的轻度的绝望。
[出处]：A.Bierce 比尔斯

[英文]：Egotists do not see the world with themselves in it, but see themselves with the world around them.
[中文]：自高自大的人看到的不是自己存在于这个世界上，而是世界围绕着他们而存在.。
[出处]：H.L.Samuel 塞缪尔

[英文]：He who will not reason, is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
[中文]：不愿说理是偏执者；不会说理是愚人；不敢说理是奴隶。
[出处]：W.Drummond 德拉蒙德(苏格兰诗人)

[英文]：A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
[中文]：玩世不恭者是知道一切事物的价格，却不知道任何东西的价值的人。
[出处]：O.Wilde 王尔德

[英文]：A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
[中文]：好树不会结坏果子，坏树不会结好果子。
[出处]：西方箴言

[英文]：The worst vice of the fanatic is his sincerity.
[中文]：狂热者的大恶在于他的诚意。
[出处]：O.Wilde 王尔德

[英文]：Real charity doesn't care if it's taxdeductible or not.
[中文]：真正的慈善捐款不在乎捐款是否可以免税。
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[英文]：Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
[中文]：人人都把自己的错误美其名为经验。
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[英文]：A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.
[中文]：势利的人要在势利上花许多时间，不会剩许多时间来管你的闲事。
[出处]：W.Faulkner 福克纳

[英文]：When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of putting it into practice.
[中文]：当一个人说他原则上赞成某事时，那就是说他根本无意把那件事付诸实施。
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[英文]：Habit is the fly-wheel of civilization.
[中文]：习惯是文明的飞轮。
[出处]：H. J. 詹姆斯

[英文]：Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.
[中文]：习惯就是习惯，谁也不能将其扔出窗外，只能一步一步地引它下楼。
[出处]：Mark Twain 马克·吐温

[英文]：So many countries , so many customs.
[中文]：异国不同俗。
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[英文]：Other times, other manners.
[中文]：隔代不同礼。
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[英文]：When at Rome, do as the Romans do.
[中文]：入乡随风，入境随俗。
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[英文]：Coming events cast their shadows before.
[中文]：未来之事，必有征兆。
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[英文]：A snow year, a rich year.
[中文]：瑞雪兆丰年。
[出处]：北欧谚语

[英文]：Timely snow foretells a bumper harvest. /Auspicious snow promises good harvests.
[中文]：瑞雪兆丰年。
[出处]：中国谚语

[英文]：Cloudy mornings turn to clear evenings.
[中文]：早见云雾晚见晴。
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[英文]：Red sky at night, shepherd's delight; red sky in the morning, shephered's warning.
[中文]：傍晚天红，牧羊人高兴；早晨天红，牧羊人当心。
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[英文]：When there is solar halo, it will rain; When there is lunar halo, it will blow.
[中文]：日晕而雨，月晕而风。
[出处]：中国谚语

[英文]：After wind comes rain.
[中文]：风是雨的头。
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[英文]：A wonder lasts but nine days.
[中文]：奇闻只存在九天。
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[英文]：The same man never crossed the same river twice.
[中文]：旧地重来景已非。
[出处]：英语谚语

[英文]：Man can climb to the highest summit, but he cannot dwell there long.
[中文]：人可以爬到最高峰，但他不能在那儿久住。
[出处]：Bernard Shaw 萧伯纳

[英文]：The highest branch is not the safest roost.
[中文]：高枝非良栖之所。
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[英文]：The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins.
[中文]：暴君死了，他的统治也就结束了；烈士死了，他的统治刚开始。
[出处]：Kierkegaard 克尔恺郭尔(丹麦宗教哲学家)

[英文]：Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.
[中文]：世界上大部分的麻烦都是要想成为伟大人物的人搞出来的。
[出处]：T.S.Eliot 艾略特

[英文]：The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.
[中文]：生活中的主要危险来自那些想要改变一切或什么也不想改变的人。
[出处]：Lady Astor 阿斯特子爵夫人(英国下议院第一位女议员)

[英文]：The greater the power , the more dangerous the abuse.
[中文]：权力越大，滥用权力造成的危险也越大。
[出处]：E.Burke 伯克

[英文]：Those who foolishly sought power by riding on the back of the tiger ended up inside.
[中文]：那些愚蠢地骑在虎背上追求权利的人终将被老虎吞下肚子。
[出处]：J.F.Kennedy 肯尼迪

[英文]：No man loves his fetters, be they made of gold.
[中文]：即使是金子做的镣铐，也没有人喜欢。
[出处]：D.B.Heywood 海伍德

[英文]：Men only weep when deeply grieved.
[中文]：男儿有泪不轻弹，皆因未到伤心处。
[出处]：中国谚语

[英文]：All men have a reason, but not all men can give a reason.
[中文]：所有的人都有理由，但并非所有的人都能讲出理由。
[出处]：J.H.Newman 纽曼

[英文]：What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
[中文]：关键不在于一个人所持的观点，而在于他的这个观点有多么根深蒂固。
[出处]：E.Pound 庞德

[英文]：No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.
[中文]：在所有的人都获得自由之前，没有一个人能完全自由；在所有的人都有道德之前，没有一个人能被称为完全有道德；在所有的人都幸福之前，没有一个人能完全幸福！
[出处]：H.Spencer 斯宾塞

[英文]：Good things are worth waiting for.
[中文]：好事值得等待。
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[英文]：You can take a horse to the water but you cannot make him drink.
[中文]：你可以把马牵到河边，但无法强迫它喝水。
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[英文]：He who is first come is first served.
[中文]：先到的先得。
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[英文]：They who lay traps for others are often caught by their own bait.
[中文]：给别人设圈套的人常常落在自己的圈套里。
[出处]：[古希腊] Lesiod 拉西奥德

[英文]：Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
[中文]：请使我远离没有眼泪的智慧，没有欢笑的哲学，和不肯向孩子低头的伟大。
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[英文]：More people are flattered into virtue than are bullied out of vice.
[中文]：因受到赞扬而行善的人比因受到威胁而不作恶的人要多。
[出处]：R.S.Surtees 瑟蒂斯

[英文]：A bargain is a bargain.
[中文]：成约不能翻悔。
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[英文]：A baited cat may grow as fierce as a lion.
[中文]：被逼急的猫，凶得像狮子。
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[英文]：Never let your feet run faster than your shoes.
[中文]：不要让你的脚跳得比你的鞋子快。
[出处]：苏格兰谚语

[英文]：Burn not your house to fright the mouse away.
[中文]：别为吓跑耗子而去烧房子。
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[英文]：One never goes to the temple for no reason.
[中文]：无事不登三宝殿。
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[英文]：He who has a mind to beat his dog will easily find his stick.
[中文]：要想打狗，找棍不难。/欲加之罪，何患无辞。
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[英文]：A waterfront pavilion gets the moonlight first; the flowers and trees on the sunny side meet spring earlier.
[中文]：近水楼台先得月，向阳花木早逢春。
[出处]：中国谚语

[英文]：It is hard to please all.
[中文]：众口难调。
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[英文]：It is ill jesting with edged tools.
[中文]：手持利器，不可打闹。
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[英文]：What's the use of running when you are on the wrong road?
[中文]：路走错了，跑步又有何用?
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[英文]：An eye for an eye, a tooth for (a) tooth.
[中文]：以眼还眼，以牙还牙。
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[英文]：All are not saints that go to church.
[中文]：上教堂的未必都是圣人。
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[英文]：It is not the hood that makes the monk.
[中文]：穿袈裟的不一定就是和尚。
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[英文]：All are not thieves that dogs bark at.
[中文]：狗咬的不见得都是小偷。
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[英文]：All are not hunters that blow the horn.
[中文]：吹号角的未必都是猎人。
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[英文]：Every new sovereign brings his own courtiers.
[中文]：一朝天子一朝臣。
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[英文]：You cannot catch old birds with chaff.
[中文]：用秕糠捉不到精明鸟。
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[英文]：Every man for himself, and God for us all.
[中文]：人人为自己，上帝为大家。
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[英文]：All is fair in love and war.
[中文]：情场战场，不择手段。
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[英文]：Let each one sweep the snow from his own doorstep and heed not the frost on his neighbour's roof.
[中文]：各人自扫门前雪，莫管他人瓦上霜。
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[英文]：Even a black hen lays a white egg.
[中文]：黑鸡生白蛋，丑妇生俊儿。/草窝里飞出金凤凰。
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[英文]：It is as futile as drawing water with a bamboo basket.
[中文]：竹篮打水一场空。
[出处]：中国谚语

[英文]：What's done cannot be undone.
[中文]：木已成舟，覆水难收。
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[英文]：A good tale is none the worse for being told twice.
[中文]：好戏不厌两回看。/好故事百听不厌。
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[英文]：Silence gives consent.
[中文]：沉默就是赞成。
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[英文]：Needs must when the devil drives.
[中文]：天要下雨，娘要嫁人。
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[英文]：East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet.
[中文]：东是东来西是西，两者永远要分离。
[出处]：R.Kipling 吉卜林(英国诗人)

[英文]：There's nothing new under the sun.
[中文]：天下原无新事物。
[出处]：《圣经》

[英文]：What God will no frost can kill.
[中文]：天意难违。
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[英文]：We are all slaves of opinoin.
[中文]：我们都是意见的奴隶。
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[英文]：One cannot serve God and Mammon.
[中文]：不能既拜上帝又拜财神。
[出处]：《新约》

[英文]：A paradise that you cannot leave is hell.
[中文]：不能离开的天堂等于是地狱。
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[英文]：It is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye , than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
[中文]：富人进天堂比骆驼穿过针眼还难。
[出处]：《圣经》

[英文]：For every one that does ill hates the light, and comes not to the light, lest his works should be reproved.
[中文]：凡作恶的便恨光并躲避光，唯恐他的行为受到责备。
[出处]：西方箴言

[英文]：If then you are not able to do even that which is least , why are you anxious concerning the rest?
[中文]：最小的事，你们尚且不能作，为什么还要去操心其余的事呢?
[出处]：西方箴言

[英文]：A lion at home, a mouse abroad.
[中文]：在家像狮子，出外成老鼠。
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[英文]：A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.
[中文]：悲观主义者吗? 那是曾和乐观主义者过从甚密的人。
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[英文]：Render threrfore unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's.
[中文]：凯撒的物当归还给凯撒，上帝的物当归还给上帝。
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[英文]：Let not they left hand know what thy right hand does.
[中文]：右手所为，不让左手知道。
[出处]：《新约》

[英文]：Water is a boon in the desert, but the drowning man curses it.
[中文]：水是沙漠里的恩物，快淹死的人却诅咒它。
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[英文]：Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
[中文]：我们请别人给以忠告时，说明我们已经知道解决问题的答案却希望并不知道它。
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[英文]：As you make your bed so you must lie on it.
[中文]：自己铺的床必须自己去躺。/自作则自受。
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[英文]：A mill cannot grind with the water that is past.
[中文]：磨轮不能用已经流走的水来转动。
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[英文]：The devil is not so black as he is painted.
[中文]：魔鬼并不像人们描绘的那样黑。
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[英文]：A boisterous horse must have a boisterous bridle.
[中文]：烈马要套上好辔头。
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[英文]：A dream that is not interpreted is like a letter that is not opened.
[中文]：一个未圆的梦恰似一封未拆的信。
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[英文]：Blind men can judge no colours.
[中文]：盲者不辨色。
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[英文]：Better be sure than sorry.
[中文]：稳当总比后悔好。
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[英文]：Far fowls have fair feathers.
[中文]：远方的鸟羽毛美。/弄不到手的东西是最好的。
[出处]：英语谚语

[英文]：The soft can overcome the hard, and the weak can defeat the strong.
[中文]：柔能克刚，弱能制强。
[出处]：中国谚语

[英文]：The obscure we see eventually.The com pletely obvious, it seems, takes longer.
[中文]：隐悔的，我们终究会体会。显而易见的，却似乎需要更长的时间才能看出。
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[英文]：The only worthwhile achievements of man are those which are socially useful.
[中文]：所谓真正的成就，即对社会有用之事。
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[英文]：Every shoe fits not every foot.
[中文]：不可只用一种尺度衡量一切。
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[英文]：Every white has its black, and sweet its sour.
[中文]：月白必有黑，有甜必有苦。
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[英文]：Extreme heat gives rise to wind; poverty gives rise to a desire for change.
[中文]：热极生风，穷则思变。
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[英文]：Loooking from this hill, you think the opposite hill is higher; but after climbing up there, you can't find wood to make a fire.
[中文]：这山看来那山高，到了那山没柴烧。
[出处]：中国谚语

[英文]：No man is indispensable.
[中文]：没有一个人是不可缺少的。/少了谁地球也转。
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[英文]：You cannot make a crab walk straight.
[中文]：你无法叫螃蟹直着走。/不要做不可能的事。
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[英文]：You may know by a handful the whole sack.
[中文]：抓一把就可知整袋装的是什么。/见微知著。
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[英文]：Things are seldom what they seem.
[中文]：事情很少像表面所显示的那样。
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[英文]：Not good is it to harp on the same string.
[中文]：不要老是弹一根弦。
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[英文]：People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.
[中文]：以火攻火者，结果只剩一片灰烬。
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[英文]：When someone is beating a gong, listen to its overtones; when someone is talking, listen to his voice.
[中文]：锣鼓听音，说话听声。
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[英文]：Happiness is a form of courage.
[中文]：幸福是勇气的一种形式。
[出处]：H. Jackson 杰克逊(英国作家)

[英文]：A hungry man is an angry man.
[中文]：饿汉易怒。
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[英文]：A good man can no more harm than a sheep.
[中文]：好人像绵羊，为恶不在行。
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[英文]：A good horse cannot be of a bad colour.
[中文]：好马无劣色
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[英文]：Agood horse should be seldom spurred.
[中文]：好马无需用鞭抽。
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[英文]：A good face is a letter of recommendation.
[中文]：漂亮的面孔就是推荐书。
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[英文]：A fool may ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years.
[中文]：傻子一小时提出的问题，聪明人七年也回答不了。
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[英文]：A fool knows more in his own house than a wise man in another.
[中文]：傻子在自己家里比聪明人在别人家里知道得多。
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[英文]：A dog will not howl if you beat him with a bone.
[中文]：肉骨头打狗，狗不叫。
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[英文]：A dear ship stands long in the haven.
[中文]：贵重的船只停留在避风港里的时间长。
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[英文]：A curst cow has short horns.
[中文]：性子烈的牛角短，脾气暴的人为害有限。
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[英文]：A crabbed knot must have a crabbed wedge.
[中文]：难解的绳结得用坚硬的楔子来对付。
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[英文]：A city that parleys is half gotten.
[中文]：求和之城已陷落一半。
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[英文]：The darkest hour is that before the dawn.
[中文]：黎明之前最黑暗。
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[英文]：I think, therefore I am.
[中文]：我思考，所以我存在。
[出处]：Descartes 笛卡儿

[英文]：The man who offers an insult writes it in sand, but for the man who received it, it's chiselled in bronze.
[中文]：侮辱人者是把话写在沙上，受辱者却把它看作镶刻在铜上。
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[英文]：The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.
[中文]：经济预测的唯一作用是使占星术看起来体面一些。
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[英文]：I've never any pity for conceited people, because Ithink they carry their comfort about with them.
[中文]：我从不怜惜自负的人们，因为我觉得他们无处不能自我安慰。
[出处]：George Eliot 乔治·艾略特

[英文]：Influence is like a savings account.The less you use it, the more you've got.
[中文]：影响力犹如储蓄存款，用得愈少，积得愈多。
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[英文]：Humory has been well defined as "thinking in fun while feeling in earnest".
[中文]：幽默被人正确地解释为“以诚挚表感受，寓深思于嬉笑。
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[英文]：Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
[中文]：文明是不必要的必需品的无限增加。
[出处]：Mark Twain 马克·吐温

[英文]：I know how to be abased , and I know also how to abound: in everything and in all things have I learned the secret both to be filled and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in want.
[中文]：我知道怎样对待窘迫，也知道怎样对待富有：凡事均既饱足又饥饿，既有余又匮乏，这是我学到的秘诀。
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[英文]：Every one that does sin does alos lawlessness; and sin is lawlessness.
[中文]：凡犯罪的，就是违背律法，违背律法就是罪。
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[英文]：When the lust has conceived, it bears sin, and the sin, when it is full-grown, brings forth death.
[中文]：私欲既怀了胎，就生出罪来。罪既成长，就会死去。
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[英文]：A ship in harbour is safe-but that is not what ships are for.
[中文]：船停泊在港中固然安全，可是这并非造船的目的。
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[英文]：The water supporting a ship can also upset it.
[中文]：水可以载舟，亦可以覆舟。
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[英文]：There is a black sheep in every flock.
[中文]：羊多必有黑羊；人多必有败类。
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[英文]：A good reputation sits still; a bad one runs about.
[中文]：好名不出门，恶名传四方。
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[英文]：It is not the lofty sails but the unseen wind that moves the ship.
[中文]：推动船的不是高大的帆，而是无形的风。
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[英文]：Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
[中文]：宁要机智的傻子，不要愚蠢的机智人。
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[英文]：A man, a horse, and a dog are never weary of each others company.
[中文]：人、马、狗可以永远相伴不厌倦。
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[英文]：A light purse makes a heavy heart.
[中文]：钱袋越空，心情越重。
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[英文]：A lie begets a lie.
[中文]：谎言生谎言。
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[英文]：A lean dog shames his master.
[中文]：狗瘦主人羞。
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[英文]：A little neglect may breed great mischief.
[中文]：细小的疏忽会酿成大祸。
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[英文]：A lawyer never goes to law himself.
[中文]：律师自己决不会打官司。
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[英文]：A king without learning is but a crowned ass.
[中文]：无知的国王不过是一头戴着王冠的驴。
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[英文]：A honey tongue, a heart of gall.
[中文]：口如蜜甜者心似胆苦。
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[英文]：A handsaw is a good thing, but not to shave with.
[中文]：手锯再好也不能用来剃胡须。
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[英文]：A handful of good life is better than a bushel of learning.
[中文]：为善一时，赛过满腹经纶。
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[英文]：A green wound is soon healed.
[中文]：新伤口愈合快。
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[英文]：Christmas comes but once a year, But when it comes it brings good cheer.
[中文]：圣诞节一年只来一次，但每次来临却都带来喜悦。
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[英文]：Critics are like brushers of noblemen's clothes.
[中文]：批评家好比男仆，为大人物刷去衣服上的灰尘。
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[英文]：Curiosity is ill manners in another's house.
[中文]：在别人家里显得好奇是没礼貌的表现。
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[英文]：Desires are nourished by delays.
[中文]：欲望迟迟得不到满足，而愈来愈强烈。
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[英文]：Do not all you can; spend not all you have; believe not all you hear; and tell not all you know.
[中文]：做事别逞能，用钱莫用尽，人言勿全信，说话留三分。
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[英文]：A burnt child dreads the fire.
[中文]：烧伤的孩子最怕火。
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[英文]：A good thing is soon snatched up.
[中文]：好货卖得快。
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[英文]：A good tongue is a good weapon.
[中文]：会说话的舌头是一件精良的武器。
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[英文]：A good tale ill told is marred in the telling.
[中文]：好故事还要讲得好。
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[英文]：A good surgeon must have an eagle's eye, a lion's heart, and a lady's hand.
[中文]：一个好外科医生要有鹰的眼、狮子的胆和女性的手。
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[英文]：A good shift may serve long, but it will not serve ever.
[中文]：好的推诿之词或许长期有用，但不会永远有用。
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[英文]：A true jest is no jest.
[中文]：真正的笑语决非笑话。
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[英文]：All his geese are swans.
[中文]：自己的鹅都是天鹅。
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[英文]：A good deed is never lost.
[中文]：好心一定有好报。
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