收藏 | 100句中国传统谚语的英文翻译
中华文化博大精深,谚语俗语都是智慧结晶,但翻译成英文如果表达不当,就容易引起误解。一起来学学传统谚语的英文翻译吧~ -1- Some thing is learned every time a book is opened. 开卷有益。 -2- Strike while the iron is hot. 趁热打铁。 -3- The car will find its way round the hill when it gets there. 车到山前必有路。 -4- The heart is seen in wine. 酒后吐真言。 -5- The worse luck now, the better another time. 风水轮流转。 -6- Time tries all things. 时间检验一切。 -7- Use legs and have legs. 经常用腿,健步如飞。 -8- Virtue never grows old. 美德常青。 -9- Walls have ears. 隔墙有耳。。 -10- Sow nothing, reap nothing. 春不播,秋不收。 -11- Life is real, life is earnest. 人生真实,人生诚挚。 -12- Life would be too smooth if it had no rubs in it. 生活若无波折险阻,就会过于平淡无奇。 -13- Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. 生活是一种艺术,要在不充足的前提下得出充足的结论。 -14- Life is fine and enjoyable, yet you must learn to enjoy your fine life. 人生是美好的,但要学会如何享受美好的生活。 -15- Life is but a hard and tortuous journey. 人生即是一段艰难曲折的旅程,人生无坦途。 -16- Life is a horse, and either you ride it or it rides you. 人生像一匹马,你不驾驭它,它便驾驭你 -17- Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can. 人生是一幅大画布,你应该努力绘出绚丽多彩的画面。 -18- Life is like music. It must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. 人生如一首乐曲,要用乐感,感情和直觉去谱写,不能只按乐律行事。 -19- Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum. 生活是绘画,不是做算术。 -20- The wealth of the mind is the only wealth. 精神的财富是唯一的财富。 -21- You can't judge a tree by its bark. 人不可貌相。 -22- Sharp tools make good work. 工欲善其事,必先利其器。 -23- Wasting time is robbing oneself. 浪费时间就是掠夺自己。 -24- Nurture passes nature. 教养胜过天性。 -25- There is no garden without its weeds. 没有不长杂草的花园。 -26- A man is only as good as what he loves. 一个人要用他所爱的东西有多好来衡量。 -27- Wealth is the test of a man's character. 财富是对一个人品格的试金石。 -28- The best hearts are always the bravest. 心灵最高尚的人,也总是最勇敢的人。 -29- One never lose anything by politeness. 讲礼貌不吃亏。 -30- There's only one corner of the universe you can be sure of improving, and that's your own self. 这个宇宙中只有一个角落你肯定可以改进,那就是你自己。 -31- The world is like a mirror: Frown at it and it frowns at you; smile, and it smiles too. 世界犹如一面镜子:朝它皱眉它就朝你皱眉,朝它微笑它也吵你微笑。 -32- Death comes to all, but great achievements raise a monument which shall endure until the sun grows old. 死亡无人能免,但非凡的成就会树起一座纪念碑,它将一直立到太阳冷却之时。 -33- The reason why a great man is great is that he resolves to be a great man. 伟人之所以伟大,是因为他立志要成为伟大的人。 -34- Suffering is the most powerful teacher of life. 苦难是人生最伟大的老师。 -35- A bosom friend afar brings a distant land near. 海内存知己,天涯若比邻。 -36- A common danger causes common action. 同舟共济。 -37- A contented mind is a continual / perpetual feast. 知足常乐。 -38- A fall into the pit, a gain in your wit. 吃一堑,长一智。 -39- A guest should suit the convenience of the host. 客随主便。 -40- A letter from home is a priceless treasure. 家书抵万金。 -41- All rivers run into the sea. 殊途同归。 -42- All time is no time when it is past. 机不可失,时不再来。 -43- An apple a day keeps the doctor away. 一日一苹果,医生远离我。 -44- As heroes think, so thought Bruce. 英雄所见略同。 -45- A young idler, an old beggar. 少壮不努力,老大徒伤悲。 -46- Behind the mountains there are people to be found. 天外有天,山外有山。 -47- Bad luck often brings good luck. 塞翁失马,安知非福。 -48- Business is business. 公事公办。 -49- Clumsy birds have to start flying early. 笨鸟先飞。 -50- Do one thing at a time, and do well. 一次只做一件事,做到最好! -51- Custom makes all things easy. 习惯成自然。 -52- Desire has no rest. 人的欲望无止境。 -53- Difficult the first time, easy the second. 一回生,二回熟。 -54- Do not change horses in mid-stream. 别在河流中间换马。 -55- Do not have too many irons in the fire. 贪多嚼不烂。 -56- Do not teach fish to swim. 不要班门弄斧。 -57- East or west, home is the best. 东奔西跑,还是家里好。 -58- Experience is the best teacher. 实践出真知。 -59- Faith can move mountains. 信念能移山。(精诚所至,金石为开。) -60- First impressions are half the battle. 先入为主。 -61- Good wine needs no bush. 酒香不怕巷子深。 -62- Haste makes waste. 欲速则不达。 -63- He that promises too much means nothing. 轻诺者寡信。 -64- He who has an art has everywhere a part. 一招鲜,吃遍天。 -65- He would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom. 千里之行始于足下。 -66- Home is where the heart is. 心在哪里,哪里就是家。 -67- If you are not inside a house, you don not know about its leaking. 不在屋里,不知漏雨。(亲身经历才有体会。) -68- It is never too late to mend. 亡羊补牢,犹未为晚。 -69- It six of one and half a dozen of the other. 彼此彼此。 -70- Just has long arms. 天网恢恢,疏而不漏。 -71- Keep something for a rainy day. 未雨绸缪。 -72- Life is a span. 人生如朝露。 -73- Man proposes, God disposes. 谋事在人,成事在天。 -74- Meet plot with plot. 将计就计。 -75- Merry meet, merry part. 好聚好散。 -76- Mind acts upon mind. 心有灵犀一点通。 -77- Never hit a man when he is down. 不要落井下石。 -78- Never judge by appearances. 切莫以貌取人。 -79- No fire without smoke. 无风不起浪。 -80- Nurture passes nature. 教养胜过天性。 -81- One is never too old to learn. 活到老,学到老。 -82- One swallow does not make a summer. 一燕不成夏。(一花独放不是春。) -83- One who has seen the ocean thinks nothing of mere rivers. 曾经沧海难为水。 -84- Out of sight, out of mind. 眼不见,心不烦。 -85- Practice makes perfect. 熟能生巧。 -86- Poverty is stranger to industry. 勤劳之人不受穷。 -87- Rome was not built in a day. 罗马不是一日建成的。(伟业非一日之功。) -88- Sense comes with age. 老马识途。 -89- So many men, so many minds. 人心各不同。 -90- What is done cannot be undone. 覆水难收。 -91- To be both a speaker of words and a doer of deeds. 既当演说家,又做实干家。 -92- Variety is the spice of life. 变化是生活的调味品。 -93- Bad times make a good man. 艰难困苦出能人。 -94- There is no royal road to learning. 求知无坦途。 -95- Doubt is the key to knowledge. 怀疑是知识的钥匙。 -96- The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. 世界上对勇气的最大考验是忍受失败而不丧失信心。 -97- A man's best friends are his ten fingers. 人最好的朋友是自己的双手。 -98- Only they who fulfill their duties in everyday matters will fulfill them on great occasions. 只有在日常生活中尽责的人才会在重大时刻尽责。 -99- The shortest way to do many things is to only one thing at a time. 做许多事情的捷径就是一次只做一件事。 -100- Wine in, truth out. 酒后吐真言。
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