中国英文俗语 -chinese idioms

1) The swiftest horse can't overtake a word oncespoken*2) Before telling secrets on the road, look in thebushes3) A bad word whispered echoes a hundred miles*4) In a flood of words, surely some mistakes*5) A sharp tongue or pen can kill without a knife*6) If the first words fail, ten thousand will then notavail7) Watching chess games in silence. . .a superiorperson*8) The judge with seven reasons states only one incourt9) Learning is a treasure that will follow its ownereverywhere.10) If you want your dinner, don't insult the cook*11) Honest scales and full measure hurt no one*12) Divide an orange--it tastes just as good13) If you always give you will always have14) Better lean and good than fat and evil15) To build it took one hundred years; to destroyit one day16) To know the road ahead, ask those returning*17) Touch black paint, have black fingers18) To succeed, consult three old people19) If you hurry through long days, you will hurrythrough short years20) Touch black paint, have black fingers21) The ripest fruit falls by itself*22) Simple to open a shop; another thing to keep itopen23) What you don't see, you don't desire*24) Neither fortunes nor flowers last forever*25) An inch of gold can't buy an inch of time26) Don't waste your hour--the sun sets soon27) My life--a candle in the wind. . . frost on theleaves*28) Nurture the plant one year--ten days of flowers29) Slow work--fine work30) At birth we bring our nothing; at death weleave with the same*31) A king's riches cannot buy an extra year*32) Beat the drum inside the house to spare theneighbors33) Climb the mountains to see lowlands34) Laws control a lesser person; right conductcontrols a greater one*35) Forget the favors given; remember thosereceived36) A careful foot can step anywhere*37) Stare at the profit and step in the pitfall38) In bed be wife and husband, in the hall eachother's honored guest39) To stop drinking, study a drunkard while youare sober40) If Heaven made someone, earth can find someuse for them41) Without sorrows no one becomes a saint42) The pine stays green in winter. . . wisdom inhardship43) Three feet of ice were not frozen in a day*44) With virtue you can't be completely poor;without it you can't be truly rich*45) Determination tempers the sword of yourcharacter*46) Stout men, not stout walls, make the stout city47) To be heard afar, bang your gong on a hilltop48) Great doubts, deep wisdom. . . small doubts,little wisdom49) To know others, know yourself first*50) His virtues exceed his talents--a superior man *51) When the waters drop, the rocks appear*52) eggs, don't fight with rocks*53) Easier to rule a nation than a child*54) To have principles first have courage55) Blame yourself as you blame others; forgiveothers as you forgive yourself56) The wise listens to her mind, the foolish to themob*57) A whitewashed crow soon shows black again58) Watch over workers at their labors, not theirmeals*59) Many a good face under a ragged hat60) Dogs have no prejudice against the poor61) If Heaven made someone, earth can find someuse for them*62) Tile tossed over the wall. . . who knows whereit will fall?*63) No horse can wear two saddles *64) While you are bargaining, conceal your coin65) No guests at home, no hosts abroad66) "I heard" is good; "I saw" is better67) We can study until old age. . . and still notfinish68) A good teacher. . . better than a barrowful ofbooks69) Teachers open the door; you enter by yourself70) Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only ofstanding still.71) A diamond with a flaw is worth more than apebble without imperfections.72) I was angered, for I had no shoes. Then I met aman who had no feet.73) He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but hewho does not ask remains a fool forever.74) Blessings do not come in pairs; misfortunesnever come singly.75) Give a man a fish, and you feed him a day.Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for alifetime.76) It is not the knowing that is difficult, but thedoing.77) A bad word whispered will echo a hundredmiles.78) The wise adapt themselves to circumstances,as water moulds itself to the pitcher.79) The gem cannot be polished without friction,nor man perfected without trials.80) Talk does not cook rice.81) A journey of a thousand miles begins with asingle step.82) Life is partly what we make it, and partly whatit is made by the friends whom we choose. 83) Small men think they are small; great mennever know they are great.84) To know the road ahead, ask those comingback.85) Everything has its beauty but not everyonesees it.86) A man without a smiling face must not openshop.87) Experience is a comb which nature gives uswhen we are bald.88) Only he that has traveled the road knowswhere the holes are deep.。