经典 英语 谚语荟粹
英语 谚语之爱情篇
Absence to love is what wind is to fire. It extinguishes the small; it inflames the great. (Roger de Bussy-Rabutin, French writer)
离别之于爱情好比风之于火，它能将小火熄灭，使大火熊熊燃烧。（法国作家 比西――拉比旦.R.）
Every man is a poet when he is in love. (Plato ancient Creek philosopher)
每个恋爱中的人都是诗人。（古希腊哲学家 柏拉图）
First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity. (George Bernard Shaw)
初恋就是一点点笨拙外加许许多多好奇。（英国剧作家 肖伯纳.G）
Friendship is like earthenware: once broken, it can be mended; love is like a mirror: once broken, that ends it. (Josh Billings. American humorist)
友谊就像陶器，破了可以修补；爱情好比镜子，一旦打破就难重圆。（美国幽默作家 比林斯.J.）
Friendship is love without his wings. (George Gordon Byron, Bdritish poet)
友谊是没有羽翼的爱。（英国诗人 拜伦.G,G）
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. (Albert Einstein, American scientist)
并非地球引力使人坠入爱河。（美国科学家）
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse. (Burke Edmund, British statesman)
权力越大，滥用职权的危险就越大。（英国政治家 埃德蒙.B.）
The greatest of evils and the worst of crims is poverty. (George Bernard Shaw, British dramatist)
最大的恶和最凶的罪是贫穷。（英国剧作家 肖伯纳.G.）
The paramount duty of Congress is to stop deficiencies by the restoration of that protective legislation which has always been the firmst prop of the Treasury. (William Mckinley, American president)
国会的最高职责是恢复始终是国家财政最坚实支柱的保护性立法，以制止财政赤字。（美国总统 科金利.W.）
The people may safely be trusted to hear everything true and false, and to form a correct judgment. Were it fall to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers of newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. (Thomas Jefferson, American president)
人民是完全可以信赖的，应该让他们听到一切真实和虚伪的东西，然后作出正确的判断。倘使让我来决定，我们应该是有一个政府而不要报纸呢，还是应该有报纸而不要政府，我会毫不犹豫选择后者。（美国总统 杰斐逊.T.）
The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule be-gins. (Soren Kierkegaard, Danish religious philowopher)
暴君死了，他统治也就结束；烈士死了，他的统治刚开始。（丹麦宗教哲学家 基尔克戈德.S.）
There is something behind the throne greater than the king him-self. (William Pitt, British statesman)
在王座的后面还有比国王本人更伟大东西。（英国政治家 皮特.W.）
To be acquainted with the merit of ministry, we need only observe the condition of the people. (Junius, Unidentified letter writer)
要了解政府的政绩只需要观察民情。（国籍不明书信代理人 朱尼厄斯）
To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasure, we must go to those who are seeking it :the pains of power is real, its pleasures imaginary. (C.Colton Charles, British churchman)
欲知权力带来的痛苦，去问那些当权者；欲知权力带来的乐趣，去问那些追逐权势者：权力带来的痛苦是真实的，而权力带来的乐趣只不过是凭空想象的。（英国牧师 查尔斯.C.C.）
英语 谚语之逆境篇
Adversity reveals genius; fortune conceals it. (Horace, ancient Roman poet)
苦难显才华，好运隐天资。（古罗马诗人 贺拉斯）
Almost any situation---good or bad ---is affected by the attitude we bring to. (Lucius Annaus Seneca, Ancient Roman philosopher)
差不多任何一种处境――无论是好是坏――都受到我们对待处境的态度的影响。（古罗马哲学家 西尼加 LA）
Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. (Hellen Keller, American writer)
虽然世界多苦难，但是苦难总是能战胜的（美国作家 海伦・凯勒）
As fruit needs not only sunshine but cold nights and chilling showers to ripen it, so character needs not only joy but trial and difficulty to mellow it. (Hugh Black, American writer)
水果不仅需要阳光，也需要凉夜。寒冷的雨水能使其成熟。人的性格陶冶不仅需要欢乐，也需要考验和困难。（美国作家 布莱克 H）
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing; the freedom to choose his attitude in any given set of circumstances. (Leonhard Frand , German novelist)
我可以拿走人的任何东西，但有一样东西不行，这就是在特定环境下选择自己的生活态度的自由。（德国小说家 弗兰克 L）
Every tragedy makes heroes of common people. (Normna Stephens, American writer)
每场悲剧都会在平凡的人中造就出英雄来。（美国作家 斯蒂芬斯 N）
He who allows himself to be insulted, deserves to be. (F.C.Comford, British writer)
自己甘愿受辱的人，受污辱也活该。（英国作家 科福德 F C）
I find life an exciting business and most exciting when it is lived for others. (Helen Keller,Ameican writer)
我发现生活是令人激动的事情，尤其是为别人活着时。（美国作家 海伦・凯勒）
I wept when I was born, and every day shows why.(Jack London, American novelist)
我一生下来就开始哭泣，而每一天都表明我哭泣的原因。（美国小说家 杰克・伦敦）
In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it. (George Bernad Shaw, British dramastist)
对于害怕危险的人，这个世界上总是危险的。（英国剧作家 肖伯纳 G）
It is not true suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering, for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive. (William Somerset Maugham, British novelist)
说苦难能使人格得到升华，这是不确切的；幸福有时倒能做到这一点，而苦难常会使人心胸狭窄，产生复仇的心理。（英国小说家 毛姆 WS）
Let us suggest to the person in crisis that he cease concentrating so upon the dangers involved and the difficultie，and concentrate instead upon the opptunity---for there is always opportunity in crisis. (Seebohm Caroline, British physician)
让我们建议处在危机之中的人：不要把精力如此集中地放在所涉入的危险和困难上，相反而要集中在机会上――因为危机中总是存在着机会。（英国医生 卡罗琳 S）
Light troubles speak; great troubles keep silent. (Lucius Annaeus Seneneca, Ancient Roman Philosopher)
小困难，大声叫嚷；大困难，闷声不响。（古罗马哲学家 尼加 LA）
Mishaps are like knives that either serve us or cut us as we grasp them by the handle or blade.(James Russell Lowell, American poetess and critic)
灾难就像刀子，握住刀柄就可以为我们服务，拿住刀刃则会割破手。（美国女诗人、批评家 洛威尔 J R）
No one can degrade us except ourselves; that if we are worthy, no influence can defeat us. (B.T.Washington, American educator)
除了我们自己以外，没有人能贬低我们。如果我们坚强，就没有什么不良影响能够打败我们。（美国教育家 华盛顿 BT）
No pain , no palm; no thorns, no throne ; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown. (William Penn, British admiral)
没有播种，何来收获；没有辛劳，何来成功；没有磨难，何来荣耀；没有挫折，何来辉煌。（英国海军上将 佩恩 W）
Optimists always picture themselves accomplishing their goals. (Lucius Anaeus Seneca, Ancient Roman philosopher)
乐观主义者总是想象自己实现了目标的情景。（古罗马哲学家 西尼加 LA）
Perhaps you can't control your job, but you may be able to make other changes in your life. (Alan Loy Mcginnis ,British writer)
或许你不能支配自己的工作，但你能够使生活发生转变。（英国作家 麦金尼斯 AL）
Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth discover virtue.
顺境时显现恶习，逆境时凸现美德
Rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation. (John Kennedy, American president)
从希望中得到欢乐，在苦难中保持坚韧。（美国总统 肯尼迪 J）
Sweet are the uses of adversity.(William Shakspeare,British Playwriter)
苦尽甘来。（英国剧作家 莎士比亚 W）
The chinese word for crisis is divided into two characters, one meaning danger and the other meaning opportunity. (Burejer, British writer)
中文的“危机”分为两个字，一个意味着危险，另外一个意味着机会。（英国作家 布瑞杰）
The misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.(James Russell Lowell, American Poetess and critic)
最难忍受的不幸是那些从未来临的不幸。（美国女诗人、评论家 洛威尔 J R）
The more you fight something, the more anxious you become ---the more you're involved in a bad pattern, the more difficult it is to escape. (Seebohm Caroline, British Physician)
你越是为了解决问题而拼斗，你就越变得急躁――在错误的思路中陷得越深，也越难摆脱痛苦。（英国医生 卡罗琳 S）
The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but what they miss. (Thomas Carlyle, British essayist and historian)
生活的悲剧不在于人们受到多少苦，而在于人们错过了什么。（英国散文家、历史学家 卡莱尔 T）
The very remembrance of my former misfortune proves a new one to me. (Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish writer)
对于过去不幸的记忆，构成了新不幸。（西班牙作家 塞万提斯 M）
Tough--minded optimists approach problems with a can-do philosophy and emerge stronger from tragedies. (Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Ancient Roman Philosopher)
意志坚强的乐观主义者用“世上无难事”人生观来思考问题，越是遭受悲剧打击，越是表现得坚强。（古罗马哲学家 西尼加 LA）
Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.(H.J.Kaier, American businessman)
困难只是穿上工作服的机遇。（美国实业家 凯泽 H J）
We have all sufficient strength to endure the misfortunes of others. (La Rochefoucauld, French writer)
我们都有足够的力量来忍受别人的不幸。（法国作家 拉罗什富科）
We shall defend ourselves to the last breath of man and beast. (William II, King of England)
只要一息尚存，我们就要为保卫自己而战。（英国皇帝 威廉二世）
英语谚语之家庭篇
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning un-necessary. (D.C,Fisher, American female novelist)
母亲不是赖以依靠的人，而是使依靠成为不必要的人。（美国女小说家 菲席尔.D.C.）
All happy families are like one another; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. (Leo Tolstoy ,Russian writer)
所有幸福的家庭都十分相似；而每个不幸的家庭各有各自的不幸。（俄国文学家 托尔斯泰.L.）
All I am , or can be, I owe to my angel mother. (Abraham lincoln, American president)
我之所有，我之所能，都归功于我天使般的母亲。（美国总统林肯）
As a modern parent, I know that it's not how much you give children those counts, it's the love and attention you shower on them.A caring attitude can not only save you a small fortune, but also even make you feel good about being tight-fisted and offering more care than presents. (O,Hare Noel, American writer)
作为一个现代的父母，我很清楚重要的不是你给了孩子们多少物质的东西，而是你倾注在他们身上的关心和爱。关心的态度不仅能帮你省下一笔可观的钱，而且甚至能使你感到一份欣慰，因为你花钱不多并且给予了胜过礼物的关怀。（美国作家 诺埃尔.O.）
Be it ever so humble , there is no place like home. (John Howard Payne, Averican drmatist and actor)
金窝，银窝，不如自家的草窝。（美国剧作家、演员佩恩. J. H.）
Every soil where he is well, is to a valiand man his natural country. (Masinger Phililp, British dramatist)
勇敢的人随遇而安，所到之处都是故乡。(英国剧作家 菲利普.M.)
Go where he will, the wise man is at home His harth the earth, his hall the azure dome. (R.W.Emerson, American thinker)
明智者四海为家――地球是他的壁炉，蓝天是他的客厅。（美国思想家 爱默生.R.W.）
Happy are the families where the government of parents is the reign of affection, and obedience of the children the submission to love. (Francis Bacon, British philosopher)
幸福的家庭，父母靠慈爱当家，孩子也是出于对父母的爱而顺从大人。（英国哲学家 培根.F.）
He is the happiest ,be he King or peasant , who finds peace in his home. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German dramstist and poet)
无论是国王还是农夫，家庭和睦是最幸福的。（德国剧作家、诗人歌德. J.W.）
Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse. (Grorge Bernard Shaw, British dramstist)
家是姑娘的监狱，女人的教养院。(英国剧作家 肖伯纳.G.)
Home is the place where ,when you have to go there , it has to take you in. (Frost Robert, American poet)
无论何时何地家永远是向游子敞开大门的地方。（美国诗人 罗伯特.F.）
How sharper than a serpent's tooth is to have a thankless child. (William Shakespeare, British dramatist)
逆子无情甚于蛇蝎。（英国剧作家 莎士比亚W.）
Husbands and wives in the process of divorce (and those in the throes of another argument )easily fall into the trap of denigraging the other, publicly if possible, and as often as possible. (Howards Mel, American writer)
正在闹离婚的（包括那些处于吵闹不停的痛楚中的）夫妻们很容易陷在对方的泥沼中不能自拔， 这种诋毁是尽可能公开的，尽量频繁地进行。（美国作家 梅尔.H.）
I don'nt know who my grandfather was. I' m much more concerned to know what his grandson will be. (Abraham Lincoln, American president)
我不知道我爷爷是什么样的人，我更关心的是，他的孙子会成为什么样的人。（美国总统 林肯.A.）
If you want your children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shouldres. (Joh Brnyan Btitish ssayist)
你若希望你的孩子总是脚踏实地， 就要让他们负些责任。（英国散文家 班扬，J.）
It was the policy of the good old gentlemen to make his chileren feel that home was the happiest place in the world; and I value this delicious home---feeling as one of the choicest gifts a parent can bestow. (Irvng Washington, Father of literature of the United States.)
让孩子感到家庭是世界上最幸福的地方，这是以往有涵养的大人明智的做法。这种美妙的家庭情感，在我看来，和大人赠给孩子们的那些最精致的礼物一样珍贵。（美国文学之父 华盛顿. I.）
Mariage may be compared to a cage:the birds outside deapair to get in and those within despair to get out. (Michel de Montaigne, French thinker and ssayist)
婚姻好比鸟笼，外面的鸟想进进不去；里面的鸟儿想出出不来。（法国思想家、散文家 蒙田.M.D.）
My father had always said that there are four things a child needs plenty of love, nourishing food, fegular sleep , and lots of soap and water---and after those, what he needs most is some intelligent neglect. (Ivy Baker Priest, American officer of government)
我父亲总是说，一个孩子需要四样东西--充分的爱、富于营养的食物、有规律的睡眠、大量的肥皂和水――这些完了呢，他最需要的是一些明智的放任。（美国政府官员 普里斯特.I.B.）
The brotherly spirit of science , which unites into one family all its votaries of whatever grade ,and however widely dispersed throughout the different quarters of the globe. (Franklin Rosevelt, American president)
科学的博爱精神把分散在世界各地、各种热心科学的人联结成一个大家庭。（美国总统 罗斯。.F.）
The family is one of nature's masterpieses. (George Santayana, American Philosopher and poet)
家庭是大自然创造的杰作之一。（美国哲学家、诗人 桑塔亚那.G.）
The family you came from isn't as important as the family you are going to have. (D.Herbert Lawrence, British writer)
你将拥有的家庭比你出身的那个家庭重要。（英国作家劳伦斯.D.H.）
The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them. (Bretrand Rrssell, British philosopher)
父亲们最根本的缺点在于想要自己的孩子为自己争光。（英国哲学家 罗素.B.）
The house of every one is to him as his castle and fortress. (E.Coke, British jutist)
每个人的家对他自己都像是城堡和要塞。（英国法学家 科克.E.）
The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one. (William John Locke, British novelist)
越早把你的儿子当成男人，他就越早成为男人。（英国小说家 洛克.W.J.）
There is a skeleton in every house. (William Makepeace Thackeray, Bdritish novelist)
家家都有一本难念的经。（英国小说家 萨克雷.W.M.）
To make a lasting marriage we have to overcome self-centeredness. (Grorge Goreon Byron, Nritish poet)
要使婚姻长久，就需克服自我中心意识。（英国诗人 拜伦,G.G.）
We never know the love of the parents until we become parents ourselves. (Henry Ward Beecher, American clergyman and orator)
不养儿不知父母恩（美国牧师、演说家 比沏.H.W.）
[外贸知识网图文来源于网络,如有侵权,请联系删除]