世界各地民间英语谚语大全(中文对照)
世界各地民间英语谚语集锦(中文对照版)
1. 进退维谷,左右为难。
I am caught between the devil and the deep blue sea.
2. 我非奴隶,亦非俘虏,我凭力量能跨越重重难关。
I am not a slave, I am not a captive, and by energy I can overcome the greater obstacles.
3. 今日之我已非昔日之我,一切都在变化中。
I am not now that which I have been. (I am not what I used to be.)
4. 我不仅致力于自身才智的提升,也助力他人智慧的成长。
I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other n.
5. 谦逊,是检验真正伟人的第一道关卡。
I believe the first test of truly great man is his humility.
6. 我无法既做你的朋友又对你阿谀奉承,真诚待我便是最好。
I cannot be your friend and your flatterer too.
7. 忆起挚友,我心欢喜。
I count myself in nothing else so happy as in a soul remembering my good friends.
8. 理想如星辰,虽不能触及,却指引前行之路。
Ideals are like the stars -- we never reach them, but like mariners, we chart our course by them.
9-11. 懒散之人,活似山重;辩解懒散,何患无词;懒惰成性,行乞之始。
9. Idle folks have most labour.
10. Idle folks lack no excuses.
11. Idleness is the key of beggary, and the root of all evil.
12-13. 懒惰是万恶之源,腐蚀人心如锈。
12. Idleness is the root (or mother) of all evil (or sin or vice).
13. Idleness is the rust of the mind.
14-15. 懒惰使头脑钝化,少壮不努力老大徒伤悲的训诫犹在耳边。
14. Idleness rusts the mind.
15. Idle young, needy old.
16. 面对愚蠢的挑衅,不必以牙还牙。
If a donkey bray at you, don't bray at him.
17. 知识充实大脑,无人可夺。
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him.
18. 之路,始于怀疑终于肯定。
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
19. 初试不成,再接再厉。
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
20. 若医药无效,则靠休息、愉快和饮食调和为三大良医。
If doctors fail thee, be these three thy doctors; rest, cheerfulness, and moderate diet.
这些民间英语谚语不仅富有哲理,而且中文表达生动贴切,充分体现了劳动人民的智慧和语言魅力。