谚语500条.docx

1、谚语500条1. Never say die.永不言败。2.No cross, no crown.不经历风雨，怎么见彩虹。3.New wine in old bottles.旧瓶装新酒。4.Never too old to learn, never too late to turn.亡羊补牢，为时未晚。5.No garden without its weeds.没有不长草的园子。6.No living man all things can.世上没有万事通。7.No man can do two things at once.一心不可二用。8.No man is born wise or lea

2、rned.没有生而知之者。9.No man is content.人心不足蛇吞象。10.No man is wise at all times.聪明一世，糊涂一时。11.None are so blind as those who wont see.视而不见。12.None are so deaf as those who wont hear.充耳不闻。13.No news is good news.没有消息就是好消息。14.No one can call back yesterday.昨日不会重现。15.No pains, no gains.没有付出就没有收获。16.No pleasure

3、without pain.没有苦就没有乐。17.No rose without a thorn.没有不带刺的玫瑰。18.No sweet without sweat.先苦后甜。19.No smoke without fire.无风不起浪。20.Nothing brave, nothing have.不入虎穴，焉得虎子。21.Nothing dries sooner than a tear.眼泪干得最快。22.Nothing in the world is difficult for one who sets his mind to it.世上无难事，只怕有心人。23.Nothing is di

4、fficult to the man who will try.世上无难事，只要肯登攀。24.Nothing seek, nothing find.没有追求就没有收获。25.Nothing is so necessary for travelers as languages.外出旅行，语言最要紧。26.Nothing is to be got without pains but poverty.世上唯有贫穷可以不劳而获。27.Not to advance is to go back.不进则退。28.Not to know what happened before one was born is

5、 always to be a child.不懂世故，幼稚可笑。29.No way is impossible to courage.勇者无惧。30.Obedience is the first duty of a soldier.军人以服从命令为天职。31.Observation is the best teacher.观察是最好的老师。32.Offense is the best defense.进攻是最好的防御。33.Old friends and old wines are best.陈酒味醇，老友情深。34.Old sin makes new shame.一失足成千古恨。35.Onc

6、e a man and twice a child.一次老，两次小。36.Once a thief, always a thief.偷盗一次，做贼一世。37.Once bitten, twice shy.一朝被蛇咬，十年怕井绳。38.One boy is a boy, two boys half a boy, three boys no boy.一个和尚挑水喝，两个和尚抬水喝，三个和尚没水喝。39.One cannot put back the clock.时钟不能倒转。40.One eyewitness is better than ten hearsays.百闻不如一见。41.One fa

7、lse move may lose the game.一着不慎，满盘皆输。42.One good turn deserves another.行善积德。43.One hour today is worth two tomorrow.争分夺秒效率高。44.One mans fault is other mans lesson.前车之鉴。45.One never loses anything by politeness.讲礼貌不吃亏。46.One swallow does not make a summer.一燕不成夏。47.Ones words reflect ones thinking.言为心

8、声。48.Out of debt, out of danger.无债一身轻。49.Out of office, out of danger.无官一身轻。 50.Out of sight, out of mind.眼不见，心为静。51.Patience is the best remedy.忍耐是良药。52.Penny wise, pound foolish.贪小便宜吃大亏。53.Plain dealing is praised more than practiced.正大光明者，说到的多，做到的少。54.Please the eye and plague the heart.贪图一时快活，必然

9、留下隐祸。55.Pleasure comes through toil.苦尽甘来。56.Pour water into a sieve.竹篮子打水一场空。57.Practice makes perfect.熟能生巧。58.Praise is not pudding.恭维话不能当饭吃。59.Praise makes good men better, and bad men worse.好人越夸越好，坏人越夸越糟。60.Prefer loss to unjust gain.宁可吃亏，不贪便宜。61.Prevention is better than cure.预防胜于治疗。62.Pride goe

10、s before, and shame comes after.骄傲使人落后。63.Promise is debt.一诺千金。64.Proverbs are the daughters of daily experience.谚语是日常经验的结晶。65.Pull the chestnut out of fire.火中取栗。66.Put the cart before the horse.本末倒置。67.Put your shoulder to the wheel.鼎力相助。68.Reading enriches the mind.开卷有益。69.Reading is to the mind w

11、hile exercise to the body.读书健脑，运动强身。70.Respect yourself, or no one else will respect you.要人尊敬，必须自重。71.Rome is not built in a day.冰冻三尺，非一日之寒。72.Saying is one thing and doing another.言行不一。73.Seeing is believing.眼见为实。74.Seek the truth from facts.实事求是。75.Send a wise man on an errand, and say nothing to

12、him.智者当差，不用交代。76.Set a thief to catch a thief.以贼捉贼。77.Short accounts make long friends.好朋友勤算账。78.Something is better than nothing.聊胜于无。79.Soon learn, soon forgotten.学得快，忘得快。80.Soon ripe, soon rotten.熟得快，烂得快。81.Speech is silver, silence is gold.能言是银，沉默是金。82.Still water run deep.静水常深。83.Strike the iro

13、n while it is hot.趁热打铁。84.Success belongs to the persevering.坚持就是胜利。85.Take things as they come.既来之，则安之。86.Talking mends no holes.空谈无补。87.Talk of the devil and he will appear.说曹操，曹操就到。88.Hasty love, soon cold.一见钟情难维久。89.Health is better than wealth.健康胜过财富。90.Health is happiness.健康就是幸福。91.Hear all pa

14、rties.兼听则明。92.Heaven never helps the man who will not act.自己不动，叫天何用。93.He is a fool that forgets himself.愚者忘乎所以。94.He is a good friend that speaks well of us behind our backs.背后说好话，才是真朋友。95.He is a wise man who speaks little.聪明不是挂在嘴上。96.He is lifeless that is faultless.只有死人才不犯错误。97.He is not fit to

15、command others that cannot command himself.正人先正己。98.He is not laughed at that laughs at himself first.自嘲者不会让人见笑。99.He is wise that is honest.诚实者最明智。100.He knows most who speaks least.大智若愚这个真的很不错，每天背诵一句也不累，第二天在复习前面的一句，这样就想滚雪球一样，背的越来越多。正所谓熟读唐诗三百首，不会作诗也会吟。更何况这只有100句呢。想学好英语的，一定不要错过。1. Typical of the gra

16、ssland dwellers of the continent is the American antelope, or pronghorn. 1.美洲羚羊，或称叉角羚，是该大陆典型的草原动物。 2. Of the millions who saw Haleys comet in 1986, how many people will live long enough to see it return in the twenty-first century. 2. 1986年看见哈雷慧星的千百万人当中，有多少人能够长寿到足以目睹它在二十一世纪的回归呢？ 3. Anthropologists h

17、ave discovered that fear, happiness, sadness, and surprise are universally reflected in facial expressions. 3.人类学家们已经发现，恐惧，快乐，悲伤和惊奇都会行之于色，这在全人类是共通的。 4. Because of its irritating effect on humans, the use of phenol as a general antiseptic has been largely discontinued. 4.由于苯酚对人体带有刺激性作用，它基本上已不再被当作常用的防

18、腐剂了。 5. In group to remain in existence, a profit-making organization must, in the long run, produce something consumers consider useful or desirable. 5.任何盈利组织若要生存，最终都必须生产出消费者可用或需要的产品。 6. The greater the population there is in a locality, the greater the need there is for water, transportation, and

19、disposal of refuse. 6.一个地方的人口越多，其对水，交通和垃圾处理的需求就会越大。 7. It is more difficult to write simply, directly, and effectively than to employ flowery but vague expressions that only obscure ones meaning. 7.简明，直接，有力的写作难于花哨，含混而意义模糊的表达。 8. With modern offices becoming more mechanized, designers are attempting

20、to personalize them with warmer, less severe interiors. 8.随着现代办公室的日益自动化，设计师们正试图利用较为温暖而不太严肃的内部装饰来使其具有亲切感。 9. The difference between libel and slander is that libel is printed while slander is spoken. 9.诽谤和流言的区别在于前者是书面的，而后者是口头的。 10. The knee is the joints where the thigh bone meets the large bone of t

21、he lower leg. 10.膝盖是大腿骨和小腿胫的连接处。 11. Acids are chemical compounds that, in water solution, have a sharp taste, a corrosive action on metals, and the ability to turn certain blue vegetable dyes red. 11.酸是一种化合物，它在溶于水时具有强烈的气味和对金属的腐蚀性，并且能够使某些蓝色植物染料变红。 12. Billie Holidays reputation as a great jazz-blues

22、 singer rests on her ability to give emotional depth to her songs. 12. Billie Holidays作为一个爵士布鲁斯乐杰出歌手的名声建立在能够赋予歌曲感情深度的能力。 13. Essentially, a theory is an abstract, symbolic representation of what is conceived to be reality. 13.理论在本质上是对认识了的现实的一种抽象和符号化的表达。 14. Long before children are able to speak or

23、understand a language, they communicate through facial expressions and by making noises. 14.儿童在能说或能听懂语言之前，很久就会通过面部表情和靠发出噪声来与人交流了。 15. Thanks to modern irrigation, crops now grow abundantly in areas where once nothing but cacti and sagebrush could live. 15.受当代灌溉(技术设施)之赐，农作物在原来只有仙人掌和荞属科植物才能生存的地方旺盛的生长。

24、 16. The development of mechanical timepieces spurred the search for more accurate sundials with which to regulate them. 16.机械计时器的发展促使人们寻求更精确的日晷，以便校准机械计时器。 17. Anthropology is a science in that anthropologists use a rigorous set of methods and techniques to document observations that can be checked

25、by others. 17.人类学是一门科学，因为人类学家采用一整套强有力的方法和技术来记录观测结果，而这样记录下来的观测结果是供他人核查的。 18. Fungi are important in the process of decay, which returns ingredients to the soil, enhances soil fertility, and decomposes animal debris. 18.真菌在腐化过程中十分重要，而腐化过程将化学物质回馈于土壤，提高其肥力，并分解动物粪便。 19. When it is struck, a tuning fork p

26、roduces an almost pure tone, retaining its pitch over a long period of time. 19.音叉被敲击时，产生几乎纯质的音调，其音量经久不衰。 20. Although pecans are most plentiful in the southeastern part of the United States, they are found as far north as Ohio and Illinois. 20.虽然美洲山河桃树最集中于美国的东南部但是在北至俄亥俄州及伊利诺州也能看见它们。 21. Eliminating

27、 problems by transferring the blame to others is often called scape-goating. 21.用怪罪别人的办法来解决问题通常被称为寻找替罪羊。 22. The chief foods eaten in any country depend largely on what grows best in its climate and soil. 22.一个国家的主要食物是什么，大体取决于什么作物在其天气和土壤条件下生长得最好。 23. Over a very large number of trials, the probabili

28、ty of an events occurring is equal to the probability that it will not occur. 23.在大量的实验中，某一事件发生的几率等于它不发生的几率。 24. Most substance contract when they freeze so that the density of a substances solid is higher than the density of its liquid. 24.大多数物质遇冷收缩，所以他们的密度在固态时高于液态。 25. The mechanism by which brain

29、 cells store memories is not clearly understood. 25.大脑细胞储存记忆的机理并不为人明白。 26. By the middle of the twentieth century, painters and sculptors in the United States had begun to exert a great worldwide influence over art. 26.到了二十一世纪中叶，美国画家和雕塑家开始在世界范围内对艺术产生重大影响。 27. In the eastern part of New Jersey lies t

30、he city of Elizabeth, a major shipping and manufacturing center. 27.伊丽莎白市，一个重要的航运和制造业中心，坐落于新泽西州的东部。 28. Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman medical doctor in the United States, founded the New York Infirmary, an institution that has always had a completely female medical staff. 28. Elizabeth Blackw

31、ell，美国第一个女医生，创建了员工一直为女性纽约诊所。 29. Alexander Graham Bell once told his family that he would rather be remembered as a teacher of the deaf than as the inventor of the telephone. 29. Alexander Graham Bell曾告诉家人，他更愿意让后人记住他是聋子的老师，而非电话的发明者。 30. Because its leaves remain green long after being picked, rosema

32、ry became associated with the idea of remembrance. 30.采摘下的迷迭香树叶常绿不衰，因此人们把迷迭香树与怀念联系在一起。 31. Although apparently rigid, bones exhibit a degree of elasticity that enables the skeleton to withstand considerable impact. 31.骨头看起来是脆硬的，但它也有一定的弹性，使得骨骼能够承受相当的打击。 32. That xenon could not FORM chemical compounds was once believed by scientists. 32.科学家曾相信：氙气是不能形成化合物的