英语谚语精选1000句.(English.Proverb.Collection)

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Love rules his kingdom without a sword.

爱情的王国不用刀剑来统治。

Love will find out the way.

爱情自会寻出路。

Love is not to be found in the market.

爱情在市场上找不到。

Lovers live by love,as larks live by leeks.

情侣靠爱情生活，正象云雀靠韭葱生活一样。

Old love will not be forgotten.

旧情永难忘；往日的爱情难以忘怀。

True love kythes(=shows itself)in time of need.

患难显真情。

Sound love is not soon forgotten.

坚固的爱情不会顷刻忘怀。

The greatest hate springs from the greatest love.

最大的恨来自最大的爱。

No love is foul,nor prison fair.

没有肮脏的爱情，也没有美丽的监狱。

Labour is lihgt where love doth pay.

爱情付报酬，劳苦也轻松。

Love is the reward of love.

爱就是爱的报酬。

Love makes all hard hearts gentle.

爱情把一切冷酷之心变成温柔。

When love puts in,friendship is gone.

爱情进入，友情完结。

The course of true love never did run smooth.

真爱的道路绝不平坦。

Love is a sweet tyranny,because the lover endures his torment willingly.

爱情是可爱的虐政，情人们甘受它痛苦的折磨。

True love is giving,not taking.

真挚的爱是给，不是取。

Love makes obedience easy.

爱情使顺从成为易事。

Love is sweet in the beginning,but sour in the end.

爱情先甜后来酸。

Where love fails,we espy all faults.

爱情一失败，一切毛病都发现。

Follow love and it will flee,flee love and it will follow thee.

追求爱情它高飞，逃避爱情它跟随。

When poverty comes in at the door,love flies out of the window.

贫穷一进门，爱情跳窗走。

Faults are thick while love is thin.

一朝情义淡，样样不顺眼。

Hatred is blind as well as love.

爱情和仇恨，二者皆盲目。

Marriage is a lottery.

婚姻是一桩难于预测的事。

Marry thy like.

跟你情投意合的人结婚。

Marriage makes or mars a man.

婚姻成全人，也能损害人。

It is good to marry late or never.

晚婚或不婚，都是好事情。

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Early wed,early dead.

早婚者早夭。

They that marry in green,their sorrow is soon seen.

年纪轻轻就结婚，为时不久便悔恨。

A young man married is a man that's marred.

男子早婚，种下祸根。

Marry in haste,and repent at leisure.

匆匆结婚，时时悔恨。

Marry in lent,and you'll live to repent.

借债结婚，一生悔恨。

He that marries for wealth,sells his liberty.

为财富而结婚的人，出卖了自己的自由。

An ill marriage is a spring of ill fortune.

不良的婚姻是恶运的来源。

Who marrieth for love without money,hath good nights and sorry days.

为了爱情，无钱结婚，夜来欢娱，白天悔恨。

If you always say "NO",never be married.

常常说“不”字，永远难结婚。

Honest men marry soon,wise men not at all.

老实的人早成婚，聪明的人不结婚。

A good wife and health is a man's best wealth.

贤妻和健康是男子的至宝。

A good wife makes a good husband.

有好妻子就有好丈夫；妻贤夫自良。

Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.

选择妻子，最好用耳不用眼。

Better be half hanged than ill wed.

与其成怨偶，不如守单身。

He who does not honour his wife,dishonours himself.

不尊重自己妻子的人，自己也不会受人尊重。

The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives.

有懦弱的丈夫，就有凶悍的妻子。

It is a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

母鸡司晨家不兴。

The wife is the key of the house.

妻子是一家之钥；妻贤一家兴。

The more women look in their glass,the less they look to their house.

妇女照镜越多，照管家务就越少。

East or west,home is best.

东也好，西也好，还是家中最好；金窝银窝，不如家里的草窝。

One father can support ten children; ten children cannot support one father.

一个父亲可以供养十个孩子，十个孩子却不能供养一个父亲。

One father is more than a hundred school-masters.

一个父亲胜于一百个教师。

Like father,like son.

有其父，必有其子。

The father buys,the son bigs,the grandchild sells,and his son thigs.

父买、子修建、孙儿卖，重孙街上当乞丐。

The mother's breath is aye sweet.

母亲的低语总是甜蜜的。

Like mother,like daughter.

有其母，必有其女。

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Children are the parents' riches.

子女是父母的至宝。

A little child is the sweetest and purest thing in the world.

孩童是世界上最可爱和最纯洁的东西。

He that hath no children,knows not what is love.

没有孩子的人，不知道什么叫做爱。

Children learn to creep ere they can go.

孩子要走路，先得学爬行。

Silly(=good) child is soon ylered(=taught).

好小孩，学得快。

Boys will be boys.

孩子终归是孩子。

One boy is more trouble than a dozen girls.

一个男孩比十二个女孩增添的麻烦还多。

Spare the rod and spoil the child.

省了棍子，惯坏了孩子。

Naughty boys sometimes make good men.

淘气的男孩有时会成为争气的孩子。

The child is father of the man.

三岁定到老。

Happy is he that is happy in childhood.

童年时快乐的人是幸福的。

Children and fools cannot lie.

孩子和愚人不会扯谎。

My son is my son till he hath got him a wife, but my daughter's my daughter all the days of her life.

儿子娶妻后就不是自己的儿子，可是女儿终身都是自己的女儿。

It is harder to marry a daughter well than to bring her up well.

养女容易嫁女难。

A maid that laughs is half taken.

少女笑口开，婚事成一半。

A maiden with many wooers often chooses the worst.

有许多人向她求婚的少女，往往选中最差的一个。

Maids want nothing but husbands,but when they have them they want everything.

未婚女子不要别的，只要丈夫，有了丈夫以后，一切都要。

Would you know your daughter,see her in company.

你若想了解女儿，只要看她和什么样的人交往。

He that would the daughter win,must with the mother first begin.

要想赢得女儿的欢心，必须先从她母亲着手。

Life without friend is death.

没有朋友的生活便等于死亡。

Without a friend,the world is wilderness.

没有朋友，世界成了荒野。

Friendless is the dead.

死者无友。

A good friend is my nearest relation.

好友即至亲。

A near friend is better than a fardwelling kinsman.

近友胜远亲。

A friend to everybody is a friend to nobody.

和任何人都认朋友，结果和任何人都交不成朋友；友多无好友。

In time of prosperity,friends will be plenty.

走运时候朋友多。

It is good to have friends in trouble.

在患难中能有朋友是好事。

Prosperity makes friends and adversity tries them.

富裕招致朋友，困苦考验朋友。

A friend in need is a friend indeed.

患难时的朋友才是真正的朋友。

Poverty tries friends.

贫穷考验朋友；人贫见友情。

Try your friend ere you trust him.

对朋友要先考验，后信任。

Prove thy friend ere thou have need.

在你需要朋友帮助前，先要考验他们。

A friend is never known till a man have need.

不到困窘时，永难识真友。

A faithful friend is hard to find.

忠实朋友实难求。

Friends are like fiddle-strings,they must not be screwed too tight.

朋友有如琴弦，不能上的太紧。

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Have but few frieds,though many acquaintances.

结交可以多，朋友应宜少。

All are not friends that speak us fair.

向我们说好话的并不都是好朋友。

He that hath a full purse never wanted a friend.

金钱满袋，朋友盈门；钱袋装得饱，朋友不会少。

A friend in court is better than a penny in purse.

朝中有友，胜如囊中有钱。

It is good to have some friends both in heaven and hell.

天堂上和地狱中都有几个朋友，这乃是一件好事。

We shall never have friends if we expect to find them without fault.

指望朋友无缺点，永远休想交朋友。

A friend without faults will never be found.

没有缺点的朋友永不可得。

A man without a friend is only half a man.

无友的人只能算半个人。

A friend is not so soon gotten as lost.

失友快，交友慢。

Friendship cannot stand always on one side.

友谊不能总是在一方。

Old acquaintance will soon be remembered.

故人一见便相亲。

He is a good friend that speaks well of us behind our backs.

背后称我好，才算好朋友。

Friends (the best of friends) must part.

好友终有分手时。

A friend is best found in adversity.

患难见真交。

I will be thy friend,but not thy vices' friend.

我愿意做你的朋友，但不做你那些恶习的朋友。

False friends are worse than open enemies.

假朋友比真敌人更坏。

Short acquaintance brings repentance.

浅交致后悔。

He that lies down (sleeps) with dogs must rise up with fleas.

与恶人交终会变恶；近朱者赤，近墨者黑。

Better be alone than in bad company.

交损友不如无友。

Write down the advice of him who loves you,though you like it not at present.

爱你的人的忠告，即使你当时并不喜欢，也得把它记下。

Hunger knows no friend.

饥饿不认朋友。

Misery makes strange bedfellows.

难中不择友。

One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.

一个敌人为害，胜过十个朋友行好。

An enemy's mouth seldom speaks well.

敌人嘴里无好话。

Believe no tales from the enemy.

敌人之言不可信。

One enemy is too much.

一个敌人已太多。

Mickle power makes many enemies.

权高树敌多。

Do not despise your enemy.

不可轻敌。

Though thy enemy seem a mouse,yet watch him like a lion.

敌人即使小如鼠，防他也要如防狮。

If we are bound to forgive an enemy,we are not bound to trust him.

即便我们决心宽恕敌人，也决不能相信敌人。

He that dallies with enemy gives him leave to kill him.

把敌人看儿戏，无异于准许敌人杀害自己。

In an enemy spots are soon seen.

敌人身上求疵易。

If you would make an enemy,lend a man money and ask it of him again.

你若想与人结怨，只须先借钱给他，再向他催讨。

A courageous foe is better than a cowardly friend.

勇敢的敌人胜过懦怯的朋友。

An enemy who lies at thy feet begging forgi-veness must not feel thy sword.

对俯伏在你脚下乞怜的敌人，绝不可使他触及你的剑。

Make your enemy your friend.

要化敌为友。

Live and let live.

自己活也让别人活。

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As a man lives,so shall he die.

有生必有死。

We are not born for ourselves.

人生天地间，并非为自己。

He that hath time hath life.

有时间就有生活。

He that lives long suffers much.

寿长忧患多。

They who live longest will see most.

寿命最长的人见识也最广。

He was born with a silver spoon in his mouth.

他生在富贵人家。

A man can die but once.

人生只有一回死。

He that liveth in court dieth upon straw.

生于安乐者常死于贫贱。

He that liveth wickedly can hardly die honestly.

过着邪恶生活的人不会正直地死去。

Death pay all debts.

一死了百债。

Six feet of earth makes all men equal.

墓穴之中，人人平等。

Death is the grand leveller.

死亡面前，不分贵贱。

Death meets us everywhere.

人生到处皆可死；死亡和我们到处相遇。

Death frees us from ills.

死亡使我们解脱不幸。

We shall lie all alike in our graves.

一朝进坟场，大家都一样。

In the grave the rich and poor lie equal.

一朝入暮穴，贫富皆一律。

Death defies the doctor.

死亡蔑视医生。

There is no medicine against death.

人间哪有不死（回春）药。

Light come,light go.

易得则易失；来得容易去得快。

Sometimes gain is to lose.

有时得即是失。

Merry is he that hath nought to lose.

无物可失的人最逍遥自在。

Grasp all,lose all.

样样都要，全部失掉。

What we lose in hake we shall have in herring.

失鳕得鲱；失之东隅，收之桑榆。

What is lost in the hundred will be found in the shire.

在区里失去的可在州里找回来。

For a lost thing care nothing.

一物已失，计较无益。

He who does not gain loses.

不能得益，就是损失。

Losses make us more cautious.

损失使人更谨慎。

Who loseth liberty loseth all.

失去自由即失去一切。

Either win the horse or lose the saddle.

不是全赢，就是全输；孤注一掷。

All is not lost that is in danger.

在危险中的东西未必全会损失。

Do not run too fast after gain.

不要见利便狂追。

Prefer loss to unjust gain.

宁可受损失，休取不义财。

Lightly gain,quickly lost.

来得容易去得快；不义之财，理无久享。

Only that which is honestly got is gain.

正当的收入才是真正的收入。

All is not gain that is put in the purse.

装进钱包里的不一定都是正当的收入。

Gain got by a lie will burn one's fingers.

靠欺骗得利，准要吃亏。

One never loses anything by politeness.

礼多不吃亏；礼多人不怪。

Hold fast when you have it.

手中之物应紧握。

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There are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it.

海中好鱼取不尽（指：虽然失去一个机会，还有很多机会）。

Many a slip (many things fall) between the cup and the lip.

酒杯来到嘴唇边，得饮与否未可知；物未到手前，未能算己有；凡事难以十拿九稳。

It is an ill wind that blows nobody good.

使人人倒霉的风才是恶风；此失则彼得；害于此则利于彼；没有使所有的人都受害的坏事。

Health is better than wealth.

健康胜于财富。

Health is happiness.

健康便是幸福。

A good healthy body is worth more a crown in gold.

健全的身体比金冕更有价值。

A sound mind in a sound body.

健康的思想寓于健康的身体。

A light heart lives long.

心胸开朗，使人寿长。

A happy heart makes a blooming visage.

心中快乐，容光焕发。

He who hath good health is young,and he is rich who owes nothing.

健康葆青春，无债即富有。

Study sickness while you are well.

无病应思有病时。

The healthful man can give counsel to the sick.

健康的人可以对生病的人提出忠告。

By the side of sickness health becomes sweet.

和疾病相比较，才能识得健康的可爱。

Health is not valued till sickness comes.

有病方知健康贵。

Feed by measure and defy physician.

饮食有节，医生绝迹。

Often and little eating makes a man fat.

多餐少吃，使人壮硕。

After dinner sit awhile,after supper walk a mile.

正餐以后，休息片刻；晚餐以后，步行一哩。

Early to bed and early to rise,makes a man healthy,wealthy and wise.

早睡早起，使人健康、富有而聪明。

He that will thrive must rise at five.

五点起床，百事兴旺。

He that goes to bed thirsty rises healthy.

忍渴上床，起身健康。

He who does not rise early never does a good day's work.

起床不早，一天的工作干不好。

Who makes everything right must rise early.

想把事事都做好，就得坚持起身早。

Go to bed with the lamb and rise with the lark.

随羔羊就寝，与云雀同起。

Cover your head by day as much as you will,by night as much as you can.

白天戴帽可随意，夜里戴帽是必须。

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A little labour,much health.

适量的劳动大有益于健康。

Enough is as good as a feast.

饱食有如赴宴。

Many dishes,many diseases.

食多病多。

Diseases are the Price of ill pleasures.

疾病是纵欲的代价。

Desperate diseases must have desperate cures.

毒病要用毒药医。

He who never was sick dies the first.

小病不生，一病致命。

Sickness shows us what we are.

疾病使人显本相。

What can't be cured must be endured.

不治之症，必须坚忍。

Hide nothing from thy physician.

不要讳疾忌医。

Medicines are not meant to live on.

不要靠吃药过生活。

A disease known is half cured.

病情弄清楚，病根除一半。

The best physicians are Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet,and Dr. Merryman.

节食博士，静心博士，欢喜博士，三者都是最好的医师；饮食少，休息好，快乐多是却病延年之方。

A good surgeon must have an eagle's eye,a lion's heart,and a lady's hand.

良好的外科医生应具有鹰眼、狮心和女性的手。

Feed sparingly and defy the physician.

饮食有节，医生绝迹。

Prevention is better than cure.

预防胜于治疗。

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

一分预防胜似十分治疗。

Bitter pills may have wholesome effect.

良药苦口利于病。

A good medicine tastes bitter.

良药苦口。

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There is no friend so faithful as a good book.

最忠实的朋友莫过于一本好书。

Books,like friends,should be few and well chosen.

书籍如朋友，宜少宜精选。

A book is the same today as it always was and it will never change.

好书千载常如新。

A good book is a best friend who never turns his back upon us.

好书如至友，永远不相负。

In books,are embalmed the greatest thoughts of all ages.

伟大思想古今有，载入书中成不朽。

Some books are to be tasted,others to be swallowed,and some few to be chewed and digested.

一些书可以品味，另外一些书可以吞食，少数的一些可以咀嚼、消化。

Old wood is best to burn,old book to read.

老柴好烧，老书宜读。

A book that remains shut is but a block.

书本不去翻，犹如一木块。

Judge not a book by its cover.

评定一本书，不能凭封面。

A wicked book is the wickeder because it cannot repent.

坏书因其不能改正错误而更坏。

A good tale is none the worse for being twice told.

故事好，再讲一遍还是好。

Law is a bottomless pit.

法律是无底的深渊。

Ignorance of the law excuses no man.

对法律无知，不能成为任何人的借口。

Law makers should not be law breakers.

立法者不应成为犯法者；立法应守法。

Wrong laws make short governance.

不健全的法律统治时间不会长。

The law is not the same at morning and at night.

早上的法令跟晚上的不一样；朝令夕改。

New lords,new laws.

新君立新法。

Laws catch flies and let hornets go free.

法网只捕蝇，黄蜂由它去。

Where drums beat,laws are silent.

战鼓一响，法律无声。

An upright judge has more regard to justice than to men.

法官能公正，重法不重人。

That trial is not fair where affection is the judge.

法官动感情，审判难公正。

A good lawyer,an evil neighbour.

好律师不是好邻居。

An old physician,and a young lawyer.

医生老的好，律师年轻的好。

Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.

鸡蛋还未孵，先别数鸡雏；莫过早乐观。

Though the fox run,the chicken hath wings.

狐狸虽会跑，小鸡有翅膀。

Young cocks love no coops.

小公鸡不恋笼。

A cock is bold on his dunghill.

站在粪堆上，公鸡也称王。

A barley-corn is better than a diamond to a cock.

对一只公鸡来说，一颗麦粒优于一颗钻石。

He that will have his farm full,must keep an old cock and a young bull.

想使农庄充裕，就得养一只老公鸡和一头小公牛。

If the hen does not prate,she will not lay.

不叨叨的母鸡不下蛋。

It is no good hen that cackles in your house and lays in another's.

这样的母鸡可不好：在你家里咯咯叫，却到别家去下蛋。

Fat hens lay few eggs.

肥鸡下蛋稀。

Grain by grain,and the hen fills her belly.

一颗接一颗，母鸡填饱肚。

A duck will not always dabble in the same gutter.

一只鸭子不会常在同一条沟中玩水。

It is a blind silly gooes that comes to the fox's sermon.

只有盲目的笨鹅才会去听狐狸讲道。

What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.

适用于甲的也适用于乙。

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All his geese are swans.

他喜欢夸大其词；敝帚自珍。

All your swans are geese.

你的美好希望（或诺言），全部成了泡影。

Each bird likes to hear himself sing.

每一只鸟都爱听自己歌唱。

The bird loves her nest.

鸟爱自己的窝。

Birds of a feather flock together.

物以类聚，人以群分。

The bird that can sing and won't sing must be made to sing.

生来能唱的鸟，不愿唱也得叫它唱。

The fowler's pipe sounds sweet until the bird is caught.

捕禽人笛声悠扬，直吹得鸟儿落网。

He that will take the bird must not scare it.

捕鸟休惊鸟。

The noisy fowler catches no bird.

捕禽人大肆声张，鸟儿就不会落网。

Old birds are not caught with new nests.

新网难捕老鸟。

'Tis the early bird that catches the worm.

早起的鸟先得虫；捷足先登。

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

双鸟在林，不如一鸟在手；十赊不如一现。

A bird is known by its note,and a man by his talk.

鸟以声闻，人以言知。

It is an ill bird that fouls its own nest.

家丑不可外扬。

Eagles fly alone,but sheep flock together.

鹰爱独飞羊爱群。

A kite will never be a good hawk.

鸢永不会变成隼。

Empty hands no hawk allure.

空手不能诱鹰来。

The crow thinks his own bird fairest.

乌鸦总以为自己的雏鸟最美。

A crow is never the whiter for washing herself often.

乌鸦不管怎样经常洗澡，也不会变白。

Wheresoever the carcase is,there will the ravens be gathered together.

哪里有死尸，乌鸦就成群。

One swallow does not make a summer.

一燕不能成夏天（不可仅凭一种现象而遽作判断）。

The snail slides up the tower at last though the swallow mounteth it sooner.

燕子一飞就上塔，蜗牛悄悄爬，最后也上塔。

The cuckoo comes in April,and stays the month of May;sings a song at Midsummer,and then goes away.

布谷鸟，四月来，五月一直在，仲夏唱支歌，然后就离开。

If the sky falls,we shall catch larks.

天垮正好抓云雀；不要杞人忧天。

An owl is the king of the night.

猫头鹰是黑夜之王。

When the owl sings,the nightingale will hold her peace.

枭鸟唱歌，夜莺屏息。

Cats hide their paws.

猫儿不露爪。

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A gloved cat catches no mice.

戴手套的猫抓不到老鼠。

When the cat's away,the mice will play.

猫儿不在家，老鼠就玩耍；猫儿不在耗子闹。

Ale will make cat speak.

喝了淡啤酒，猫也会开口；酒后使人说话多。

A blate cat makes a proud mouse.

猫儿腼腆，老鼠翻天。

When the weasel and the cat make a marriage,it is a very ill presage.

黄鼠狼跟猫儿成亲，预兆不佳。

The cat and dog may kiss,yet are none the better friends.

猫狗虽相吻，总难成好友。

All cats love fish but fear to wet their paws.

猫儿性爱鱼，却怕爪弄湿；想获得珍品的人不愿冒必要的风险。

A cat may look at a king.

猫也有权看国王；小人物也该有些权利。

It is said that "cat hath nine lives",yet care would wear them all out.

据说猫儿有九命，忧虑多时也伤身。

An old dog bites sore.

老狗咬人咬得狠。

Beware of a silent dog and still water.

哑狗和静水，二者都得防。

Barking dogs seldom bite.

爱吠的狗不咬人。

A dog will not howl if you beat him with a bone.

肉骨头打狗狗不叫。

Dogs that bark at a distance bite not at hand.

远处狗就叫，近身不会咬。

If the old dog barks,he gives counsel.

老狗叫，是忠告。

In every country dogs bite.

天下有狗都咬人。

Hungry dogs will eat dirty puddings.

饿狗也吃脏布丁；饥不择食。

Dogs wag their tails not so much in love to you as your bread.

狗儿把尾摇，爱的是面包。

All are not thieves that dogs bark at.

狗吠的人并非都是小偷。

Every dog is valiant at his own door.

站在家门口，狗也雄纠纠。

Every dog is a lion at home.

狗在家中，八面威风。

While the dog gnaws bone,companions would be none.

狗啃骨头无同伴。

Two dogs strive for a bone,the third runs away with it.

两狗相争一骨头，第三只狗衔起走。

Mad dog bites his master.

疯狗咬主人。

Too much pudding will choke dog.

布丁太多噎死狗。

Do not give a dog bread every time he wags his tail.

莫因狗尾摇，次次丢面包。

A living dog is better than a dead lion.

活狗胜于死狮。

Love me,love my dog.

爱屋及乌。

Let sleeping dog lie.

勿惊卧狗；切莫惹是生非。

Help the dog over the stile.

助人度过难关。