P 共 78 条
- Paddle your own canoe. 自立更生,自食其力。
- Pain is forgotten where gain follows. 好了伤疤忘了痛。
- Pardoning the bad is injuring the good.
饶了坏人便伤了好人。
- Patience and application will carry us through.
忍耐和努力会使我们度过难关。
- Patience is a flower that grows not in everyone's garden.
忍耐是朵花,并非人人园中都开发。
- Patience is a plaster for all sores.
忍耐是治疗一切伤痛的药膏。
- Patience is a virtue. 忍耐是一种美德。
- Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
忍耐是苦痛的,但它的果实是甜蜜的。
- Patience is the best remedy (or medicine).
忍耐是最好的药物。
- Patience, time, and money overcome everything.
耐心,时间和金钱可以征服一切。
- Pay somebody back in his own coin. 一报还一报。
- Peace on earth and good will towards men.
愿世界得太平,人间持善意。
- Peace with sword in hand, 'tis safest making.
居安思危,此乃万全之策。
- Pen and ink is wit's plough. 笔墨是才智之犁。
- Penny and penny laid up will be many. 积少成多。
- Penny wise and pound foolish. 小事聪明,大事糊涂。
- People do not lack strength; they lack will.
人们不缺力量,缺的是决心。
- Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the
twentieth.
失败十九次,坚持而不动,待到二十次,大事就成功。
- Perseverance is vital to success. 不屈不挠是成功之本。
- Pitchers/Walls have ears. 隔墙有耳。
- Pity is akin to love. 怜悯近乎爱情。
- Plants of learning must be watered with the rain of tears.
知识的幼苗要用泪雨来浇灌。
- Pleasant hours fly fast. 欢乐的时间过得快。
- Pleasing everybody is pleasing nobody.
讨好每个人,人人不讨好。
- Pleasure has a sting in its tail. 乐中必有苦。
- Plenty is no plague. 富裕绝非灾祸。
- Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive and widely
effective mode of saying things, and hence its importance.
诗歌只不过是最美丽、最感人、最有力的说话方式,这也就是诗歌的价值。
- Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
诗人是世上没有得到承认的立法者。
- Politeness costs nothing and gains everything.
礼貌不费分文而可赢得一切。
- Politeness is to do and say the kindest thing in the kindest way.
文雅就是善良地做事,和善地说话。
- Poor men's words have little weight. 人微言轻。
- Poverty breeds strife. 贫穷引起斗争。
- Poverty is apain, but no disgrace.
贫困是痛苦,但不是耻辱。
- Poverty is no shame, laziness is.
贫穷不害羞,懒惰才可耻。
- Poverty is no sin. 贫穷不是罪恶。
- Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is.
贫非耻,耻贫乃耻。
- Poverty is not a sufficient cause of disgrace, but poverty without
resolution to help oneself is a disgrace.
贫穷并不可耻,穷而不争气才可耻。
- Poverty is the mother of all arts. 贫困乃一切艺术之源。
- Poverty is the mother of health. 缺乏是健康之母。
- Poverty is the reward of idleness.
贫穷是游手好闲的报应。
- Poverty is the root of all evils. 穷困是万恶之源。
- Poverty on an old man's back is a heavy burden.
老而贫穷,负担沈重。
- Poverty shows us who are our friends and who are our enemies.
贫困才能显出敌和友。
- Poverty tries friends. 贫穷考验朋友。
- Practice is better than precept. 身教胜于言教。
- Practice makes perfect. 熟能生巧。
- Practice what you preach. 言必行。
- Praise is not pudding. 恭维不是布丁。
- Praise makes good men better, and bad men worse.
赞扬使好人更好,坏人更坏。
- Praise no man till he is dead. 盖棺论定。
- Preachers can talk but never teach, Unless they practise what they
preach.
说教的人不身体力行,就只能空谈,不能起教育作用。
- Prepare for a rain day. 未雨绸缪。
- Prevention is better than cure. 预防胜于治疗。
- Pride and grace dwelt never in one place.
傲慢和温雅决不会共处在一起。
- Pride apes humility. 大巧若拙。
- Pride goes before a fall. (or destruction). 骄兵必败。
- Pride goeth before, and shame cometh after.
骄傲一开始,耻辱接踵至。
- Pride may lurk under a threadbare cloak.
骄傲可能披著老一套的外衣出现。
- Pride must be pinched. 骄傲必须收敛。
- Pride will have a fall. 骄者必败。
- Procrastination is the thief of time. 拖延即浪费时间。
- Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow.
进展即今日的活动和明日的保证。
- Promise is debt. 许愿就是债,欠了不容赖。
- Promise little but do much. 少许愿,多做事。
- Prosperity discovers vices and adversity virtues.
顺境显邪恶,逆境见善性。
- Prosperity gains (or makes) friends, and adversity tries them.
顺境交朋友,逆境试真情。
- Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
谚语言短简,得自老经验。
- Proverbs are the cream of a nation's thought.
谚语是一国的思想精华。
- Proverbs are the wisdom of the ages. 谚语是时代的智慧。
- Prove thy friends ere thou have need.
需要朋友之前,先要加以考验。
- Provide for the worst, the best will save itself.
作最坏的准备,可以得到最好的结果。
- Providence is always on the side of the strongest battalions.
天公总是佑强者。
- Punctuality is the soul of business.
严守时间是办事情的重要原则。
- Purpose supposes foresight. 深谋远虑。
- Put not your hand between the bark and the tree. 少管闲事。
- Put (or Lay or Set) one'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.
责备应受责备者,表扬应受表扬者。
Q 共 7 条
- Quality is better than quantity. 质重于量。
- Quality matters more than quanity. 质量比数量重要。
- Quarrels of lovers but renew their love.
情人争争吵吵,自会言归于好。
- Quick at meal, quick at work. 吃得快,做得快。
- Quick feet and busy hands fill the mouth.
手勤脚快,嘴里吃饱。
- Quietness is best. 宁静最好。
- Quietude is the crown of life. 安静是生命的皇冠。
R 共 35 条
- Rain before seven; fine before eleven. 雨过天晴。
- Rain comes after sunshine, and after a dark cloud, a clear sky.
晴日之后有雨水,乌云过去见青天。
- Rats leave (or desert or forsake) a sinking ship.
船沈鼠先窜。
- Readiness is all. 有备无患。
- Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
读书养神,锻链健身。
- Reading makes a full amn, meditation a profound man, discourse a
clear man.
博览群书使人完美无瑕,冥思苦想让人深刻精邃,论证阐述让人头脑清晰。
- Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an
exact man.
读书使人渊博,交谈使人机敏,写作使人严谨。
- Read not books alone, but men.
不要光是读书,还要识人。
- Ready money is a ready medicine. 现钱等于成药。
- Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be
obtained easily, it must be worked for, studied for, thought for,
and more than all, must be prayed for.
真正的学问,像其他一切有价值的东西一样,是不容易得到的,必须学习、钻研、思考,最重要的是必须有迫切的要求。
- Reap as (or what) one has sown. 自食其果。
- Rear sons for help in old age; and store up grains against famine.
养儿防老。
- Reason binds the man. 理智约束著人。
- Reason deceives us often, conscience never.
理性常骗人,良心永不欺。
- Reason governs the wise man a cudgels the fool.
理智指导聪明人,而且打击愚蠢汉。
- Reason is the guide and light of life.
理智是人生的响导和光辉。
- Reason rules all things. 情理管万事。
- Reckless youth makes rueful age. 虚度青春,悔恨无已。
- Remember thou are but a man.
记住你自己只不过是一个人。
- Repentance is good, but innocence is better.
悔罪虽好,无罪更佳。
- Repetition is the mother of knowledge.
反覆学习是知识之源。
- Reputation is often got without merit and lost without fault.
无功得名是常事,无过失名也是常事。
- Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you
resolve. 应该做的决心做,决心做的务必做。
- Respect yourself, or no one else will respect you.
君须自敬,人乃敬之。
- Responsibility must be shouldered; you cannot carry it under your
arms. 责任必须负在肩上,不能挟在腋下。
- Rest breeds rust. 停止须生锈。
- Revolutions are not made with rose water. 革命不是绣花。
- Riches do not always bring happiness. 富未必永远带幸福。
- Riches either serve or govern the possessor.
财富可以侍候主人,也可以支配主人。
- Riches have wings. 财富难保。
- Riches serve a wise man but command a fool.
财富事智者,却又驭蠢人。
- Rivers need a spring. 大河要有源头。
- Roll my log and I'll roll yours. 互相吹嘘。
- Rome was not built in a (or one) day.
罗马不是一日建成的。
- Run (or Hold) with the hare and hunt (or run) with the hounds.
两面讨好。