英文諺語(yǔ)大全

1、英文諺語(yǔ)大全Q字開(kāi)頭：Quality is better than quantity. 質(zhì)重于量。Quality matters more than quantity. 質(zhì)量比數(shù)量重要。Quarrels of lovers but renew their love. 情人爭(zhēng)爭(zhēng)吵吵，自會(huì)言歸于好。Quick at meal, quick at work. 吃得快，做得快。Quick feet and busy hands fill the mouth. 手勤腳快，嘴里吃飽。Quietness is best. 寧?kù)o最好。Quietude is the crown of life. 安靜是生命的皇

2、冠。P字開(kāi)頭：Paddle your own canoe. 自立更生，自食其力。Pain is forgotten where gain follows. 好了傷疤忘了痛。Pardoning the bad is injuring the good. 饒了壞人便傷了好人。Patience and application will carry us through. 忍耐和努力會(huì)使我們度過(guò)難關(guān)。Patience is a flower that grows not in everyones garden. 忍耐是朵花，并非人人園中都開(kāi)發(fā)。Patience is a plaster for all

3、 sores. 忍耐是治療一切傷痛的藥膏。Patience is a virtue. 忍耐是一種美德。Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. 忍耐是苦痛的，但它的果實(shí)是甜蜜的。Patience is the best remedy (or medicine). 忍耐是最好的藥物。Patience, time, and money overcome everything. 耐心，時(shí)間和金錢(qián)可以征服一切。Pay somebody back in his own coin. 一報(bào)還一報(bào)。Peace on earth and good will towa

4、rds men. 愿世界得太平，人間持善意。Peace with sword in hand, tis safest making. 居安思危，此乃萬(wàn)全之策。Pen and ink is wits plough. 筆墨是才智之犁。Penny and penny laid up will be many. 積少成多。Penny wise and pound foolish. 小事聰明，大事糊涂。People do not lack strength; they lack will. 人們不缺力量，缺的是決心。Perseverance is failing nineteen times and s

5、ucceeding the twentieth. 失敗十九次，堅(jiān)持而不動(dòng)，待到二十次，大事就成功。Perseverance is vital to success. 不屈不撓是成功之本。Pitchers/Walls have ears. 隔墻有耳。Pity is akin to love. 憐憫近乎愛(ài)情。Plants of learning must be watered with the rain of tears. 知識(shí)的幼苗要用淚雨來(lái)澆灌。Pleasant hours fly fast. 歡樂(lè)的時(shí)間過(guò)得快。Pleasing everybody is pleasing nobody. 討好

6、每個(gè)人，人人不討好。Pleasure has a sting in its tail. 樂(lè)中必有苦。Plenty is no plague. 富裕絕非災(zāi)禍。Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive and widely effective mode of saying things, and hence its importance. 詩(shī)歌只不過(guò)是最美麗、最感人、最有力的說(shuō)話方式，這也就是詩(shī)歌的價(jià)值。Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. 詩(shī)人是世上沒(méi)有得到承認(rèn)的立法者。

7、Politeness costs nothing and gains everything. 禮貌不費(fèi)分文而可贏得一切。Politeness is to do and say the kindest thing in the kindest way. 文雅就是善良地做事，和善地說(shuō)話。Poor mens words have little weight. 人微言輕。Poverty breeds strife. 貧窮引起斗爭(zhēng)。Poverty is apain, but no disgrace. 貧困是痛苦，但不是恥辱。Poverty is no shame, laziness is. 貧窮不害羞，

8、懶惰才可恥。Poverty is no sin. 貧窮不是罪惡。Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is. 貧非恥，恥貧乃恥。Poverty is not a sufficient cause of disgrace, but poverty without resolution to help oneself is a disgrace. 貧窮并不可恥，窮而不爭(zhēng)氣才可恥。Poverty is the mother of all arts. 貧困乃一切藝術(shù)之源。Poverty is the mother of health.

9、缺乏是健康之母。Poverty is the reward of idleness. 貧窮是游手好閑的報(bào)應(yīng)。Poverty is the root of all evils. 窮困是萬(wàn)惡之源。Poverty on an old mans back is a heavy burden. 老而貧窮，負(fù)擔(dān)沈重。Poverty shows us who are our friends and who are our enemies. 貧困才能顯出敵和友。Poverty tries friends. 貧窮考驗(yàn)朋友。Practice is better than precept. 身教勝于言教。Pract

10、ice makes perfect. 熟能生巧。Practice what you preach. 言必行。Praise is not pudding. 恭維不是布丁。Praise makes good men better, and bad men worse. 贊揚(yáng)使好人更好，壞人更壞。Praise no man till he is dead. 蓋棺論定。Preachers can talk but never teach, Unless they practise what they preach. 說(shuō)教的人不身體力行，就只能空談，不能起教育作用。Prepare for a rain

11、day. 未雨綢繆。Prevention is better than cure. 預(yù)防勝于治療。Pride and grace dwelt never in one place. 傲慢和溫雅決不會(huì)共處在一起。Pride apes humility. 大巧若拙。Pride goes before a fall. (or destruction). 驕兵必?cái)?。Pride goeth before, and shame cometh after. 驕傲一開(kāi)始，恥辱接踵至。Pride may lurk under a threadbare cloak. 驕傲可能披著老一套的外衣出現(xiàn)。Pride mu

12、st be pinched. 驕傲必須收斂。Pride will have a fall. 驕者必?cái)?。Procrastination is the thief of time. 拖延即浪費(fèi)時(shí)間。Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow. 進(jìn)展即今日的活動(dòng)和明日的保證。Promise is debt. 許愿就是債，欠了不容賴。Promise little but do much. 少許愿，多做事。Prosperity discovers vices and adversity virtues. 順境顯邪惡，逆境

13、見(jiàn)善性。Prosperity gains (or makes) friends, and adversity tries them. 順境交朋友，逆境試真情。Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience. 諺語(yǔ)言短簡(jiǎn)，得自老經(jīng)驗(yàn)。Proverbs are the cream of a nations thought. 諺語(yǔ)是一國(guó)的思想精華。Proverbs are the wisdom of the ages. 諺語(yǔ)是時(shí)代的智慧。Prove thy friends ere thou have need. 需要朋友之前，先要加以考

14、驗(yàn)。Provide for the worst, the best will save itself. 作最壞的準(zhǔn)備，可以得到最好的結(jié)果。Providence is always on the side of the strongest battalions. 天公總是佑強(qiáng)者。Punctuality is the soul of business. 嚴(yán)守時(shí)間是辦事情的重要原則。Purpose supposes foresight. 深謀遠(yuǎn)慮。Put not your hand between the bark and the tree. 少管閑事。Put (or Lay or Set) one

15、s shoulder to the wheel. 出一把力。Put the cart before the horse. 本末倒置。Put the shoe on the right foot. 責(zé)備應(yīng)受責(zé)備者，表?yè)P(yáng)應(yīng)受表?yè)P(yáng)者。O字開(kāi)頭：Oaks may fall when reeds stand the storm. 樹(shù)大招風(fēng)。Obedience is the first duty of a soldier. 服從是軍人的第一職責(zé)。Observation is the best teacher. 觀察為良師。Of all the possessions of this life fame i

16、s the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives. 人生最可寶貴的是聲譽(yù)，軀體入土后，聲譽(yù)猶存。Of earthly goods the best is a good wife. A bad the bitterest curse of human life. 賢妻最可貴，惡婦是災(zāi)星。Offence is the best defence. 進(jìn)攻是最好的防御。Of nothing comes nothing. 無(wú)中不能生有。Often and little eating makes a

17、man fat. 少吃多餐，身強(qiáng)體胖。Of two evils choose the least. 權(quán)衡兩害，取其輕者。Of young men die many, of old men escape not any. 年輕人死得不少，而年邁者是在劫難逃。Old bees yield no honey. 老蜂不釀蜜。Old birds are not caught with new nests. 新巢捉不到老鳥(niǎo)。Old birds are not to be caught with shaft. 老謀是不會(huì)失算的。Older and wiser. 越老越聰明。Old foxes want no

18、 tutors. 老狐貍不需要教師。Old friends and old wine are best. 古交友情深，陳酒香味醇。Old love will not be forgotten. 舊情永難忘。Old vessels must leak. 舊船必漏。Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. 老柴最好燒，陳酒最好飲，老友最可靠，老作家的書(shū)最好讀。Old wood is best to burn, old book to read. 老柴好燒，老書(shū)宜讀

19、。Old wood is best to burn, old horse to ride. 老柴好燒，老馬好騎。O liberty, how many crimes have been committed in thy name! 自由啊!假你的名義犯了多少罪啊!Omelets are not made without breaking eggs. 有失才有得。Once a devil, always a devil. 一次做魔鬼，永遠(yuǎn)是魔鬼。Once a knave, ever a knave. 一朝失足，鑄成千古恨。Once a man and twice a child. 一次為成人，兩

20、度當(dāng)小孩。Once bit, twice shy. 一朝被蛇咬，三年怕草繩。Once is no custom. 一次不成例。Once on shore, we pray no more. 一旦上了岸，就不再祈禱。On earth there is nothing great but man, in man there is nothing great but mind. 在世界上沒(méi)有一件東西有如人那樣偉大，在人之內(nèi)沒(méi)有一件東西有如人心那么偉大。One barking dog sets all street a-barking. 一狗吠聲響，狗吠滿街坊。One beats the bush,

21、and another catches the birds. 坐享其成。One boy is more trouble than a dozen girls. 一個(gè)男孩比十二個(gè)女孩還要麻煩。One cannot always be a hero, but one can always be a man. 人難一世稱雄，但可一生為人。One cannot be in two place at once.One cannot do a foolish thing once in ones life, but one must hear of it a hundred times. 為人一生一件蠢事

22、也不做，但要聽(tīng)到上百遍蠢事。One cannot eat ones cake and have it. 事難兩全其美。One cannot get blood from a stone. 石頭里抽不出血。One cannot make a silk purse out of a sows ear. 朽木不可雕。One cannot make bricks without straw. 巧婦難為無(wú)米之炊。One cannot put back the clock. 光陰一去不復(fù)返。One chick keeps a hen busy. 一只小雞已夠母雞辛忙。One cloud is enough

23、 to eclipse all the sun. 一葉可障目。One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name. 光輝生活中忙迫的一個(gè)小時(shí)抵得上無(wú)為的一世。One drop of poison infects the whole tun of wine. 一滴之毒，毒染整桶之酒。One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good. 十個(gè)朋友做的好事抵不上一個(gè)敵人造成的危害。One enemy is too much. 一個(gè)敵人也太多。One false m

24、ove may lose the game. 一著不慎，滿盤(pán)皆輸。One false step will make a great difference. 失之毫厘，謬以千里。One father can support ten children, ten children cannot support one father. 一個(gè)父親能扶養(yǎng)十個(gè)孩子，十個(gè)孩子卻不能贍養(yǎng)一個(gè)父親。One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters. 一個(gè)父親勝于一百個(gè)教師。One flower makes no garland. 一木不能成林。One foe is t

25、oo many; and a hundred friends too few. 朋友成百猶覺(jué)少，仇敵一人已嫌多。One fool makes many. 一人傻，傻大家。One foot is better than two crutches. 一只腳勝過(guò)兩根拐杖。One good head is better than a hundred strong hands. 上百雙有力的手，不如一個(gè)聰明的頭腦。One good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters. 一個(gè)好的母親頂?shù)蒙弦话賯€(gè)教師。One good turn deserves another.

26、 以德報(bào)德。One half of the world does not know how the other half lives. 貧富不相知。One has lived too near a wood to be frightened by owls. 深知底蘊(yùn)，不以為怪。One honest word is better than two oaths. 兩句誓言不如一句實(shí)話。One hours sleep before midnight is worth three after. 午夜前睡一小時(shí)抵得上午夜后睡三小時(shí)。One hour today is worth two tomorro

27、w. 今天的一個(gè)小時(shí)抵得上明天的兩個(gè)小時(shí)。One love drives out another. 新愛(ài)逐舊歡。One man makes a chair and another man sits in it. 坐享其成。One man may steal a horse while another may not look over a hedge. 只許州官放火，不許百姓點(diǎn)燈。One mans meat is another mans poison. 一個(gè)人的佳肴常為另一人的毒藥。One may sooner fall than rise. 跌倒容易爬起難。One may think th

28、at dares not speak. 人可思其不敢言者。One misfortune comes on the neck of another. 禍不單行。One must draw the line somewhere. 人之所為，總有限度。One must drink as one brews. 自作自受。One must howl with the wolves. 入鄉(xiāng)隨俗。One never loses anything by politeness. 有禮貌對(duì)自己不會(huì)吃虧。One never loses by doing a good turn. 行善者決無(wú)一失。One penny

29、witgh right is better than a thousand without right. 合法得來(lái)一個(gè)錢(qián)，勝過(guò)非法錢(qián)一千。One ploughs, another sow; who will reap no one knows. 有的耕，有的播，誰(shuí)來(lái)收獲很難說(shuō)。One rotten apple spoils the whole barrel. 一只爛蘋(píng)果爛一蘿蘋(píng)果。One should eat to live, not live to eat. 人為生而食，非為食而生。One sin opens the door for another. 一個(gè)罪惡常為另一個(gè)罪惡開(kāi)門(mén)。Ones

30、mantle falls on somebody. 春風(fēng)化雨。One sows another reaps. 不勞而獲。One swallow does not make a summer. 一燕不成夏。One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning. 一次痛苦的經(jīng)驗(yàn)抵得上千百次的告誡。One today is worth two tomorrows. 今天一天抵明天兩天。One who can do everything can do nothing. 什么都能做，什么都不行。One woe doth tread

31、upon anothers heels. 禍不單行。One wrong (or false) move can lose the whole game. 棋錯(cuò)一著，全盤(pán)皆輸。One wrong thought may cause a lifelong regret. 一念之錯(cuò)可鑄終生之恨。Only that which is honestly got is gain. 正當(dāng)?shù)氖杖氩攀钦嬲氖杖?。Only they who fulfill their duty in everday matters will fulfill them on great occasions. 只有在日常事務(wù)上盡責(zé)的

32、人，才能在重大事情上盡責(zé)。On the choice of friends. Our good or evil name depends. 朋友的選擇可影響名譽(yù)的好壞。On the great clock of time there is but one word, Now. 在偉大的時(shí)鐘上，只有一個(gè)詞，就是“現(xiàn)在”。Open confession is good for the soul. 坦白交代，身心愉快。Open not your door when the devil knocks. 不要受人的誘惑。Opportunity makes the thief. 疏忽招盜賊。Opportu

33、nity seldom knocks twice. 機(jī)不可失，失不再來(lái)。Opportunity, sooner or later, comes to all who work and wish. 只要努力工作而有志向，機(jī)會(huì)遲早終會(huì)來(lái)臨。Other men live to eat, while I eat to live. 別人為食而生活，我為生活而食。Our affections are our life. - We live by them; they supply our warmth. 我們的感情，是我們的生命，我們靠它生存，我們的溫暖是它供應(yīng)。Our best friends are

34、they who tell us our faults and help us to mend them. 最好的朋友是指出我們的缺點(diǎn)并幫助改正的人。Our bravest and best lessons are not learnt through success, but through misadventure. 最美好的教訓(xùn)不是得之于成功，而是來(lái)之于不幸。Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. 我們最大的光榮并不在于永不跌倒，而在于每次跌倒后能起來(lái)。Our

35、happiness consists not in killing others, but in sacrificing ourselves for others. 我們最大幸福并不是殺害別人，而是為別人而犧牲自己。Our own actions are our security, not others judgements. 我們的行為是自己的保證而不是別人的鑒定。Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. 最甜美的的歌是訴說(shuō)最悲傷的哀思。Out of debt, out of danger. 無(wú)債一身輕。Out of

36、 sight, out of mind. 久違情疏。眼不見(jiàn)，心不煩?Overdone is worse than undone. 過(guò)猶不及。N字開(kāi)頭：Napoleon himself was once a crying baby. 即使是拿破侖，過(guò)去也是啼哭的嬰孩。Nature abhors a vacuum. 自然界里是沒(méi)有真空的。Nature has given us two ears, two eyes, and but one tongue, to the end that we should hear and see more than we speak. 天賦我們兩耳，兩眼，一張嘴

37、巴，歸根到底該多聽(tīng)，多看，少說(shuō)話。Nature is the glass reflecting truth. 大自然是反應(yīng)真理的一面鏡子。Nature teaches us to love our friends but religion our enemies. 自然教我們愛(ài)朋友，宗教卻教我們愛(ài)敵人。Nature, time, and patience are the three great physicians. 自然，時(shí)間和耐心，是三大偉大的醫(yī)生。Nature will have its course. 天行其道。Naughty boys sometimes make good men.

38、 頑皮淘氣的男孩子有時(shí)成為仁人君子。Necessity and opportunity may make a coward valiant. 需要和機(jī)會(huì)可能使懦夫變成勇士。Necessity (or Need) has (or knows) no law. 需要面前無(wú)法律。Necessity is the mother of invention 窮則變，變則通。Necessity knows no law. 鋌而走險(xiǎn)。Need makes the old wife trot. 人急造反，狗急跳墻。(事急老嫗跑。)Needs must when the devil drives. 情勢(shì)所迫，只好

39、如此。Neglect of health is doctors wealth. 忽視健康，醫(yī)生財(cái)旺。Never be weary of well doing. 行善莫厭煩。Never cackle till your egg is laid. 事竟成，才聲張。Never cast dirt into that fountain of which thou hast sometime durnk. 不要過(guò)河拆橋。Never do things by halves. 做事情不要半途而廢。Never embark on what comes after without having mastered

40、 what goes before. 如未掌握好已學(xué)過(guò)的東西，切莫從事更深的學(xué)習(xí)。Never fry a fish till its caught. 捉到魚(yú)，才煎魚(yú)。Never judge by appearances. 人不可貌相。Never neglect an opportunity for improvement. 抓住大好時(shí)機(jī)，切莫等閑錯(cuò)過(guò)。Never offer to teach fish to swim. 切莫教魚(yú)游泳。Never put off till tomorrow what may be done today. 今日事，今日畢。Never put the plow be

41、fore the oxen. 不要本末倒置。Never say die! Up man, and try. 不要?dú)怵H，朋友，振作起來(lái)，干!Never say of another what you would not have him hear. 莫說(shuō)不想讓人聽(tīng)見(jiàn)的話。Never show the bottom of your purse or your mind. 錢(qián)包不露底，思想需保留。Never swap (or swop) horses while crossing the stream. 騎渡中流莫換馬。(指危難時(shí)不宜做大變動(dòng))Never think yourself above y

42、our business. 切莫自視過(guò)高。Never too late to mend. 過(guò)則勿憚改。Never too late to repent. 過(guò)則勿憚改。Never too old (or late) to learn. 學(xué)到老，學(xué)不了。Never (or Dont) trouble trouble till trouble troulbes you. 切莫自尋麻煩。Never trust another what you should do yourself. 自己應(yīng)該做的事，決不要委托別人做。Never trust of fine words. 切勿輕信漂亮的言詞。New br

43、ooms sweep clean. 新官上任三把火。New lords, new laws. 新官新法。News is like fish. 新聞就像魚(yú)，過(guò)后不新鮮。Newspapers are the worlds mirrors. 報(bào)紙是世界之鏡。Nightingales will not sing in a cage. 夜鶯困籠不唱歌。No answer is also answer. 不回答也是一種回答。No bees, no honey; no work, no money. 沒(méi)有蜜蜂就沒(méi)有蜜，沒(méi)有勞動(dòng)就沒(méi)有錢(qián)。No cross, no crown. 無(wú)苦即無(wú)樂(lè)。No gains w

44、ithout pains. 不勞無(wú)獲。No garden without its weeds. 有利必有弊。No good building without a good foundation. 基礎(chǔ)不好，建筑不牢。No great loss without some small gain. 塞翁失馬，安知非福。No herb will cure love. 想思病，無(wú)藥醫(yī)。No joy without annoy. 喜中有憂。No living man all things can. 世上無(wú)全能。No longer pipe, no longer dance. 運(yùn)不逢時(shí)，事不得意。No lo

45、ve is foul, nor prison fair. 沒(méi)有骯臟的愛(ài)情，也沒(méi)有美麗的監(jiān)獄。No man can be a good ruler unless he has first been ruled. 沒(méi)受過(guò)他人的統(tǒng)治，就不能很好地統(tǒng)治他人。No man can do two things at once. 心無(wú)二用。No man can make a good coat with bad cloth. 巧匠難以劣布制美服。No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes. 不犯千般錯(cuò)誤，難成

46、偉大人物。No man ever became thoroughly bad at once. 沒(méi)有一個(gè)人是一下子就壞透的。No man ever yet became great by imitation. 笑顰不能成西施。No man is a hero to his valet. 仆從目中無(wú)英雄。No man (or one) is born wise or learned. 人非生而知之者。No man is content. 人心是不滿足的。No man is so old, but thinks he may yet live another year. 人越活越想活。No man

47、 is the worst for knowing the worst of himself. 沒(méi)有一個(gè)人因?yàn)樗灾钤憔褪亲钤?。No man (or one) is wise at all times. 聰明一世糊涂一時(shí)。No man knows when he shall die, although he knows he must die. 縱然知其難免一死，人卻難料何時(shí)身亡。No man learns but by pain or shame. 不經(jīng)痛苦羞辱，難以取得教訓(xùn)。No man loves his fetters be they made of gold. 即使腳鐐黃金鑄，無(wú)人

48、愛(ài)上這刑具。No money, no honey. 沒(méi)有金錢(qián)，就沒(méi)有愛(ài)情。None are so deaf as those who will not hear. 不愿傾聽(tīng)意見(jiàn)者最聾。None but a wise man can employ leisure well. 唯智者善于利用空閑。None but the brave deserve the fair. 英雄才能配美人。None but the wearer knows where the shoe pinches. 只有那個(gè)穿鞋人，才知哪里鞋軋腳。None knows the weight of anothers burden.

49、看人挑擔(dān)不吃力。None preaches better than the ant, and she says nothing. 螞蟻不說(shuō)話，但最善于說(shuō)教。None so blind as those who wont see. 最瞎莫如視而不見(jiàn)。None so deaf as those that wont hear. 置若罔聞。No news is good news. 沒(méi)有消息就是好消息。No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectlymoral till all are moral; no o

50、ne can be perfectly happy till all are happy. 所有的人自由后，才能完全自由;所有的人都有道德，才能完全合乎道德;所有的人都幸福了，才能真正幸福。No one can call back yesterday. 往日不復(fù)返。No one can disgrace us but ourselves. 除非羞恥自由取，他人豈能辱吾?。No one can have all he desires. 無(wú)人能有所欲有。No one is a fool always, every one sometimes. 無(wú)人總是當(dāng)傻瓜，人人有時(shí)當(dāng)傻瓜。No one (or

51、man) is born wise or learned. 人非生而知之者。No one is wise at all times. 人總有一時(shí)之失。No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown. 不勞則無(wú)獲，共難才得福，有榮必有辱，無(wú)苦即無(wú)樂(lè)。No pains, no gains. 不勞則無(wú)獲。No piper can please all ears. 眾口難調(diào)。No pleasure without alloy (or pain or repentance). 樂(lè)中有悲。No possession, but use, is the only riches. 真正的財(cái)富不是占有，而是使用。No practice, no gain in ones wit. 吃一塹，長(zhǎng)一智。Nor fame I slight, nor for her favours call; she come unlooked for, if she comes at all. 我不輕蔑名譽(yù)，