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1、英语中常见的俗语英语中常见的俗语英语中常见的俗语学如逆水行舟，不进则退。 learning is like sailing against the current; if you dontadvance, you will retreat.常在有时思无时，莫到无时想有时。 sometimes i think about it all the time, but sometimes i dontthink about it all the time.脸皮遮拦，肚里帮尖。 face covered, stomach tip.见人说人话，见鬼说鬼话。 see people talk and ghos
2、ts talk.肚里没水水，轻狂哄鬼鬼。 theres no water in my stomach. im crazy about ghosts andghosts.儿大不由爷，女大不由娘。 children cant help their father, but women cant help theirmother.人怕老来穷，苗怕钻心虫。 people are afraid of old age and poverty, but seedlings areafraid of borers.三分靠教，七分靠学。 three points depend on teaching and se
3、ven points on learning.世上无难事，只怕有心人。 nothing is difficult if you put your heart into it.有志不在年高，无志空长百岁。 the ambition is not to be old, but to be a hundred years old.与有肝胆人共事，从无字句处读书。第 1页 共 7页 work with courageous people and read from wordless sentences.一寸光阴一寸金，寸金难买寸光阴。 an inch of time and an inch of go
4、ld make it difficult to buy aninch of time.从小差一岁，到老不同年。 from one year apart to different years old.路是走近的，经验是积累的。 the road is approaching, and e 某 perience is accumulated.缺个玉米塞个豆，拔棵萝卜栽棵葱。 lack a corn stuffed with beans, pull up a radish and grow onions.江山易改，本性难移。 rivers and mountains are easy to chan
5、ge, but nature is hard tochange.不怕事情难，就怕不耐烦。 if you are not afraid of difficulties, you are afraid ofimpatience.善学者，假人之长以补其短。 a good scholar is a dummy to make up for his shortcomings.莫看江面平如镜，要看水底万丈深。 dont look at the river as flat as a mirror, but at the bottom ofthe water.撑死胆大的人，饿死胆小的鬼。 supports t
6、he bold person, starves the cowardly ghost.不怕家里穷，只怕出懒虫。 they are not afraid of being poor at home, but of being lazy.人横有道理，马横有缰绳。 a horse has a reins.东西越用越少，学问越学越多。第 2页 共 7页 the less things you use, the more you learn.不怕不识货，只怕货比货。 not afraid of not knowing the goods, but afraid of comparing thegoods
7、.练到老，唱到老，学到八十不算老。 its not too old to practice, to sing and to learn eighty.君子报仇，十年不晚。 it is not too late for a gentleman to revenge.双手是活宝，一世用不了。 hands are a living treasure that will never be used for alifetime.宁吃开眉粥，不吃皱眉饭。 better eat porridge with open eyebrows than frown rice.鸟往明处飞，人往高处去。 birds fl
8、y to the open, people go to the high.知不足者好学，耻下问者自满。 he who knows not enough is fond of learning, and he who asksshame is complacent.学在苦中求，艺在勤中练。 learn in pain, and practice in diligence.饱带饥粮，晴带雨伞。 full of hunger, sunny with umbrella.树老根子深，人老骨头硬。 the old roots of trees are deep, but the old bones of
9、men arehard.打虎要力，捉猴要智。 fighting tigers requires strength and catching monkeys requireswisdom.第 3页 共 7页鱼在水中不知水，人在风中不知风。 fish do not know water in water, but man does not know wind inwind.滴水成河，粒米成箩。 drops of water make rivers and grains make barrels.立身以立学为先，立学以读书为本。 setting up ones own study is the fi
10、rst, and studying is thefoundation.珍宝丢失了还可以找到，时间丢失了永远找不到。 If the treasure is lost, it can be found. If time is lost, itwill never be found.交人交心，浇花浇根。 Make friends, watering flowers and roots.夏至冬风摇，麦子坐水牢。 Wind in the summer solstice and winter, wheat in a water jail.经常打打预防针，体内驻了防疫军。 They were often v
11、accinated and the epidemic prevention army wasstationed in their bodies.君子喻于义，小人喻于利。 The gentleman knows what is right; the mean person keeps his mindonly on gains.千日造船，一日过江。 Shipbuilding in a thousand days and river crossing in one day.有则改之，无则加勉。 If there is one, it will be changed; if there is non
12、e, it will beencouraged.数子十过，不如奖子一长。 A long prize is better than ten.第 4页 共 7页一只鸡蛋吃不饱，一身臭名背到老。 An egg is not enough to eat, and it is notorious all the time.人过留名，雁过留声。 People leave their names, geese leave their voices.从小爱劳动，老来药不用。 Love to work from childhood, old medicine is not used.宁可折断骨头，不可背弃信念。
13、 Better break a bone than betray faith.不喝隔夜茶，不饮过量酒。 Do not drink overnight tea, do not drink e 某 cessive alcohol.好酒不过量，好菜不过食。 Good wine is not enough, good food is not enough.若要身体壮，饭菜嚼成浆。 If you want to be strong, chew the food into pulp.美食不可尽用，贪吃使人生病。 Gourmet food can not be used up, greed makes pe
14、ople sick.人到四十五，还是出山虎。 When people reach forty-five, they still go out of the mountaintiger.常洗衣裳常洗澡，常晒被褥疾病少。 Frequently wash clothes, often bathe, often sun bedding diseaseless.不吸烟，不吃酒，病魔见了绕道走。 No smoking, no drinking, the disease saw a detour.路是人开的，树是人栽的。 The road is opened by man, and the tree is
15、planted by man.学文化，从字母开始;讲文明，从小事做起。 Learning culture starts with letters, stressing civilization and第 5页 共 7页doing small things.一人传虚，百人传实。 One person tells the truth, one hundred people tell the truth.九里雪大，伏里雨大。 Nine miles is snowy and it rains heavily.路是走熟的，事是做顺的。 The road is familiar and everythin
16、g goes smoothly.饭菜清淡，身体强健。 The food is light and the body is strong.人望高处走，水向低处流。 People look up and water flows down.宁可无肉，不可无豆。 Better without meat than without beans.头对风，暖烘烘;脚对风，请郎中。 Head to wind, warm and baking; feet to wind, please Langzhong.萝卜就开茶，饿掉大夫牙。 The radish makes tea and starves the doct
17、ors teeth.预防肠胃病，吃喝要干净。 To prevent gastrointestinal diseases, eat and drink clean.酒多伤人，色多伤身。 Wine hurts more people than color.不见高山，那知平地。 No mountains, no plains.喝开水、吃热饭，身体健康无病害。 Drink boiled water and eat hot meals, healthy and disease-free.不怕不识货，就怕货比货。 If you are afraid of not knowing the goods, yo
18、u are afraid ofcomparing them.第 6页 共 7页路遥知马力，日久见人心。 Lu Yaoyao knows horsepower, and has seen peoples hearts andminds for a long time.把握一个今天，胜似两个明天。 One today is better than two tomorrows.什么都缺别缺钱，什么都有别有病。 Everything is short of money, everything is different.养儿防老，积谷防荒。 Raise children and prevent old
19、age, accumulate grain and preventfamine.钟不敲不鸣，人不学不灵。 If the bell does not ring, one cannot learn.阳光是个宝，越晒人越好。 Sunshine is a treasure, the more people are e 某 posed to the sun,the better.大路不走草成窝，人不挺胸背成驼。 The road does not take grass to form a nest, people do not standupright chest and back into a hunch.第 7页 共 7页
