英語(yǔ)諺語(yǔ)是英語(yǔ)語(yǔ)言文化的精華,它像漢語(yǔ)成語(yǔ)一樣,具有一字千金的價(jià)值。在英語(yǔ)學(xué)習(xí)中,若能恰到好處地運(yùn)用英語(yǔ)諺語(yǔ),不僅有利于提高自己的學(xué)習(xí)興趣和語(yǔ)言素養(yǎng),還有利于培養(yǎng)自己的欣賞能力和表達(dá)能力。
1. All shall be well, Jack shall have Jill.
有情人終成眷屬。
2. All is well that ends well.
結(jié)果好,一切都好。
3. Grasp all, lose all.
樣樣想要,樣樣難得。
4. Dead men tell no tales.
死無(wú)對(duì)證。
5. Look before you leap.
三思而后行。
6. Live and learn.
活到老,學(xué)到老。
7. Don’t trouble trouble until trouble troubles you.別自找麻煩。
8. The biter is bit.
害人反害己。
9. Diamond cut diamond.
棋逢對(duì)手。
10. Death pays no debts.
一死百了。
11. East or west, home is best.
金窩銀窩,不如家窩。
12. Dumb dogs are dangerous.
不叫的狗最兇。
13. It’s never too late to mend.
亡羊補(bǔ)牢,為時(shí)不晚。
14. A cat may look at a king.
人人平等。
15. No cross, no crown.
吃得苦中苦,方為人上人。
16. Cut your coat according to your cloth.
量入而出。
17. All that glitters is not gold.
閃光的未必全是金子。
18. Seeing is believing.
眼見(jiàn)為實(shí)。
19. A miss is as good as a mile.
失之毫厘,謬以千里。
20. As close as an oyster.
守口如瓶。
21. Good words without deeds are rushes and reeds.
空話一堆草。
22. Business is business.
公事公辦。
23. An ass in a lion’s skin.
色厲內(nèi)荏。
24. Walls have ears.
隔墻有耳。
25. Many men, many minds.
人多心不齊。
26. Money makes the mare go.
有錢(qián)能使鬼推磨。
27. Clothes make the man.
人靠衣裝。
28. Rob Peter to pay Paul.
拆東墻補(bǔ)西墻。
29. Practice makes perfect.
熟能生巧。
30. Spare the rod and spoil the child.
不打不成器。
31. Setting a thief to catch a thief.
使賊捉賊,有去無(wú)回。
32. Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
不入虎穴,焉得虎子。
33. Knowing something of everything and everything of something.
通百藝,專(zhuān)其一。
34. Such carpenters, such chips.
什么木匠出什么活。
35. No pains, no gains.
不勞無(wú)獲。