U 共 6 条
- Union is strength. 团结就是力量。
- Unkindness destroys love. 粗暴毁爱情。
- Unprofitable eloquence is like the cypress, which is great and
tall, but bears no fruit.
无益雄辩不济事,犹如柏树参天不结果。
- Until all is over one's ambition never dies.
不到黄河心不死。
- Use a book as a bee does flowers.
读书如蜜蜂采花,吸取其中之精华。
- Use is a second nature. 习惯成自然。
V 共 11 条
- Vain glory blossoms but never bears.
虚荣能开花,但从不结果。
- Velvet paws hide sharp claws. 笑里藏刀。
- Venture a small fish to catch a great one.
吃小亏占大便宜。
- Victory belongs to the m ost persevering.
胜利属于最坚强不屈的人。
- Viture flies from the heart of a mercenary man.
人贪钱财,心无美德。
- Virtue is a jewel of great price. 美德是无价之宝。
- Virture is fairer far than beauty. 美德远比美丽更美好。
- Virtue is her (or its) own reward. 为善最乐。
- Virtue is the only true nobility.
唯有美德是真正高贵的。
- Virtue never grows old. 美德永远不衰老。
- Vows made in storms are forgotten in calms.
激动时所立的誓,平静时会忘记的。
W 共 199 条
- Wade not in unknown water.
不知水的深浅,不可粗心趟水过河。
- Walk groundly; talk profoundly; drink roundly; sleep soundly.
行路踏实,言谈深刻,饮酒豪爽,睡眠酣畅。
- Walls (or Pitchers) have ears. 隔墙有耳。
- Want of care does us more damage than want of knowledge.
粗心比无知更为有害。
- War is death's feast. 战争是死亡的筵席。
- War is the business of barbarians. 战争是野蛮人干的事。
- War makes thieves, and peace hangs them.
战争造成盗贼,和平把他们吊死。
- Wash a dog, comb a dog, Still a dog, remains a dog.
本性难移。
- Waste not, want not. 俭以防匮。
- Waste of time is the most extravagant and costly of all expenses.
浪费时间是一切花费中最奢侈豪华的费用。
- Water afar quenches not fire. 远水难救近火。
- Water dropping day by day wears the hardest rock away.
水滴天天滴不停,石头最坚也磨损。
- Weak men wait for opportunity, but the strong men make it.
若者等待机会,强者创造机会。
- We all do fade as a leaf. 我们都要像树叶一样枯萎。
- Wealth is not his who has it, but his who enjoys it.
财富并不属于拥有的人,而是属于享用的人。
- Wealth makes worship. 财富能使人拜倒。
- Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, leisure, and
liberty.
财富可能是一样好东西,因为它意味著权力,安逸和自由。
- We are not born for ourselves. 人生非为己。
- We can live without a brother, but not without a friend.
我们生活中可以没有兄弟,但不能没有朋友。
- We can live without our friends, but not without our neighbours.
生活可无友,邻居不能无。
- We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
我们先养成习惯,然后习惯又左右我们。
- We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it
than to consume wealth without producing it.
如果不创造财富,就没有权力享用财富;同样地,如果不能创造幸福,就没有权利享受幸福。
- We hope to grow old, yet we fear old age; that is, we are willing
to live, and afraid to die.
我们希望长大,但怕年老;就是,愿意生,而害怕死。
- We know not what is good until we have lost it.
有的时候不爱惜,失了以后空叹息。
- We learn not at school, but in life.
学习不在校,而在生活中。
- Well begun is half done. 良好开端,功成一半。
- Well fed, wed bred. 衣食足,知荣辱。
- We must repeat a thousand and one times that perseverance is the
only road to success.
我们必须千百次地反覆说明,坚韧不拔是取得胜利的唯一道路。
- We never know the worth (or value) of water till the well is dry.
井枯方知水可贵。
- We only live once,, but if we work it right once is enough.
我们生命只一次,好自为之一次足矣。
- We shall lie all alike in our graves.
一进坟墓,大家一样。
- We shall never have friends if we expect to find them without
fault. 欲找朋友无缺点,永远不会有朋友。
- We should never remember the benefit we have offered nor forget
the favour received. 施惠莫记,受恩莫忘。
- We should push our work, the work should not push us.
我们要推动工作,不要让工作推动我们。
- We should weep for men at their birth and not a t their death.
我们应在人降生时流泪,而不该在人死亡时哭泣。
- We soon believe what we desire. 一厢情愿。
- What a sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
不分畛域,一样对待。
- What cannot be cured must be endured.
事已无法可救,只得耐心忍受。
- What does the moon care if the dogs bark at her?
月亮岂怕狗来吠。
- What do you expect from a pig but a grunt?
狗嘴里吐不出象牙。
- Wahtever a man sow, that shall he also reap.
种瓜得瓜,种豆得豆。
- Whatever I do, I will do in my power.
无论我做什么事,我都尽力而为之。
- Whatever man has done man may do. 天下无难事。
- Whatever you do, do with your might; Things done by halves are
never done right.
不论做什么事要尽力去搞;事情做得不彻底,就不能算好。
- What good shall I do this day? What good have I done today?
我今天要做些什么好事?我今天做了些什么好事?
- What I have done is due to patient thought.
我的成就是由于坚忍地思索。
- What is bred in the bone will not go out of the flesh.
生于骨中者不会出肉外。
- What is done by night appears by day.
若要人不知,除非己莫为。
- What is done cannot be undone. 木已成舟。
- What is known to three is known to everybody.
一件事情三个人知道就人人知道。
- What is learnt in the cradle lasts (or is carried) to the grave.
小时学会的事情到老不会忘记。
- What is not wisdom is danger. 不智的事是危险的。
- What is one man's cloud is another man's sunshine.
此人乌云盖顶,彼人艳阳满天。
- What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
适用于甲的,也适用于乙。
- What is sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the
soul. 教育之于心灵,犹如雕刻之于大理石。
- What is there sadder under the sun than a day that is gone and
notyhing done.
世界上没有什么事情,较之虚度年华,一事无成,更使人痛心。
- What is wealth good for, if it brings melancholy?
财富如带忧郁来,有了财富有何用?
- What is worth doing at all is worth doing well.
事既值得做,就把事做好。
- What makes life dreary is the want of motive.
没有目的,人生就黯淡无光。
- What must be must be. 该怎么样的就怎么样。
- What's bred in the bone will come out in the flesh.
生就的本性,总会暴露的。
- What's done by night appears by day.
若要人不知,除非己莫为。
- What's done can't be undone. 无可挽回。 泼水难收?
- What's learnt in the cradle lasts till the tomb.
小时学过的,至死不忘记。
- What's lost is lost. 流水落花春去也。
- What's more miserable than discontent?
有什么比不知足更为痛苦?
- What soberness conceals, drunkenness reveals.
醉汉口里露真言。
- Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye ever so to
them. 己所欲,施于人。
- What the eye does not see, the heart does not grieve over.
眼不见,心不烦。
- What the eye sees not, the heart craves not.
目不瞬,心不乱。
- What the heart thinks, the tongue speaks. 心直口快。
- What we are ignorant of is immense.
我们不知道的东西多得不可胜数。
- What we do willingly is easy. 世上无难事,只要肯登攀。
- What we learn with pleasure we never forget.
乐意学的东西决不会忘记。
- What we lose in hake we shall have in herring.
失之东隅,收之桑榆。
- What you dislike in another, take care to correct in yourself.
别人身上你不喜欢的东西,自己身上的也要注意改正。
- What you lose on the swings you gain (or get back) on the
roundabouts. 失之东隅,收之桑榆。
- What youth is used to, age remembers.
青年时经常做的事,老年时却能记得起。
- When a dog is drowning everyone offers him drink. 落井下石。
- When a friend asks, there is no tomorrow.
朋友的要求不要拖。
- When ale (or drink or wine) is in wit is out. 贪杯丧智。
- When all men speak no man hears.
人人都讲话,无人去听它。
- When anger blinds the mind, truth disapears.
怒火中烧瞎心眼,真理在前看不见。
- Whe angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred.
怒时数十再说话,大怒数百方开言。
- When an opportunity is neglected, it never comes back to you.
机不可失,时不再来。
- When stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always
declares that it is his duty.
蠢人做件羞愧事,总说义不容辞。
- When flatterers meet, the devil goes to dinner.
马屁精会面,魔鬼去赴宴。
- When Greek meets Greek, then comes the tug of war. 龙争虎斗。
- When guns speak it is too late to argue.
待到炮声响,辩论已莫及。
- When in doubt, play trumps. 举棋苟不定,何妨将一军。
- When in Rome do as the Romans do. 入乡随俗。
- When love puts in, friendship is gone. 爱情入,友谊出。
- When one is about to act, one must reason first.
凡事要先思而后行。
- When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out at the window.
贫穷进门来,爱情飞窗外。
- When riches increase, the body decreases. 财多体衰。
- When rogues (or thieves) fall out, honest men come by their own.
盗贼一内哄,好人就自在。
- When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.
祸不单行。
- When the belly is full, the bones would be at rest.
饱暖图安逸。
- When the belly is full the mind is among the maids.
逸则思淫。饱则思淫欲?
- When the cat's away the mice will play.
猫儿不在,老鼠造反。
- When the fight begins within himself a man's worth something,
内心开始斗争时,为人就会有价值。
- When the ffish is caught the net is laid aside. 鱼获网弃。
- When the fox preaches, take care of your geese. 佛口蛇心。
- When the fruit is scarcest, its taste is sweetest.
物以稀为贵。
- When the heart is afire, some sparks will fly out at the mouth.
心中发火,口吐妄言。
- When the heart is full,, the tongue will speak.
胸有成竹,口若悬河。
- When the sun comes in, the doctor goes out.
阳光入室,医生出屋。
- When the well is full, it will run over. 井水满了要溢出。
- When the wound is healed, the pain is forgotten.
好了伤疤忘了痛。
- When three know it, all know it. 三人知,天下晓。
- When two friends have a common purse, one sings and the other
weeps. 两友合用一钱包,一个悲来一个笑。
- When two ride on one horse, one must sit behind.
两人共骑一匹马,总有一个背后跨。
- When war begins then hell opens.
战争一开始,地狱门敞开。
- When we have gold we are in fear; when we have none we are in
danger.
手头有黄金,惶恐很担心;两手都空空,处在危急中。
- When wine is in truth is out. 酒后露真言。
- When you go to buy, use your eyes not your ears.
你去购买东西时,要用眼睛莫用耳。
- Where drums beat, laws are silent. 战鼓一打,法律无声。
- Where love fails we espy all faults.
恋爱一旦遭失败,缺点全都看出来。
- Where love is there is faith. 有爱情就有忠诚。
- Where might is master, justice is servant.
有强权,就没有正义。
- Where passion is high there reason is low.
感情高涨处,理智就低落。
- Where the knot is loose the string slips.
结子一松掉,绳子就滑脱。
- Where there is a will,, there is a way(or skill).
有决心,就有办法。
- Where (or While) there is life there is hope.
留得青山在,不怕没柴烧。
- Where there is no good within, no good comes out.
没有内心的美,就没有外在的美。
- Where there's reek there's heat. 无风不起浪。
- Where the sun enterd, the doctor does not.
阳光照耀处,医生就不需。
- Where they saw chance, we see law.
以前他们认为是偶然的,现在我们认为是必然的。
- Wherever he is satisfied with what he does, he has reached his
culminating point--he will progress no more.
一个人对所做的事感到自满的,就达到了顶点,不会再前进了。
- Where your will is ready, your feet are light.
下定了决心,脚步就轻盈。决心一下,脚下生风?
- While the grass grows the horse (or steed) starves.
远水救不了近火。
- While the priest climbs a post, the devil climbs ten.
道高一尺,魔高一丈。
- While (or Where) there is life there is hope.
留得青山在,不怕没柴烧。
- While the word is in your mouth, it is your own; when 'tis once
spoken, 'tis another's.
话未出口属于己,话一出口属别人。
- While we breathe, there is hope. 只要活著,就有希望。
- Who answers suddenly knows little. 答得迅速,懂得不多。
- Who are ready to believe are easy to deceive.
轻信的人容易受骗。
- Who has never tasted bitter, knows not what is sweet.
不尝黄连苦,怎知蜂蜜甜。
- Who has no haste in his business mountains to him seem valleys.
做事不急,履险如夷。
- Who holds the purse rules the house. 钱可神通。
- Who keeps company with the wolf will learn to howl.
近朱者赤,近墨者黑。
- Who knows most speaks (or says) least. 大巧若拙。
- Who knows not how to dissemble knows not how to live.
掩饰感情全不会,怎样生活必不知。
- Who lives by hope will die by hunger.
靠希望而生,必因饥饿而死。
- Who loses liberty loses all. 失去自由即失去一切。
- Who makes everything right must rise early.
要把事事都做好,必须坚持起得早。
- Whom God would ruin, he first deprives of reason.
伤天害理,天诛地灭。
- Who minds his own business has no time to mind other folks.
为人只顾自己事,就无时间关心人。
- Whom the gods love die young. 好人不长寿。
- Whom we love best to them we can say least.
对我们的最爱的人,我们可说的话最少。
- Who serves everybody gets thanks from nobody.
人人都侍候,个个不见好。
- Who swims in sin shall sink in sorrow.
在罪恶中游泳的人,必将在悲哀中沈没。
- Who undertakes many things at once, seldom does anything well.
许多事情同时干,一件事也办不成。
- Who will not keep a penny, shall never have many.
不积少,不会成多。
- Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.
坏人服从出于怕,好人服从出于爱。
- Wickedness does not go altogether unrequited. 恶有恶报。
- Wilful waste makes woeful want. 浪费招致穷困。
- Wine and judgement mature with age.
酒存放年代越久越香,判断力随年龄而增长。
- Wine in the bottle does not quench thirst.
瓶中之酒不解渴。
- Wine is mirror of the mind. 酒后吐真言。
- Wisdom in the mind is better than money in the hand.
手里有钱财,不如胸中有文才。
- Wisdom is a good purchase though we pay dear for it.
我们为了求知识,付出高价也值得。
- Wisdom is better than gold or silver. 智慧胜过金银。
- Wisdom is more to be envied than riches.
才智比财富,令人更可羡。
- Wisdom is only found in truth.
只有在真理中才能找到智慧。
- Wisdom is to the mind what health is to the body.
知识之于心灵,犹如健康之于身体。
- Wise care begets care. 谨慎小心会导致忧心忡忡。
- Wise men chanbge their mind, fools never.
聪明人随机应变,愚蠢者固执己见。
- Wise men have their mouth in their heart, fools their heart in
their mouth. 智者嘴在心里,蠢人心在嘴上。
- Wise men learn by other men's mistakes (or harms); fools by their
own.
聪明人由别人的错误获得教训,蠢人由自己的错误获得教训。
- Wise men love truth, whereas fools shun it.
聪明人爱真理,蠢人背弃真理。
- Wit bought is better than wit taught.
不经一事,不长一智。
- Without a friend the world is a wilderness.
没有朋友,世界就等于一片荒野。
- Without danger we cannot get beyond danger.
没有危险就不能解除危险。
- Without health, life is not life, life is lifeless.
如无健康的身体,生活就不成为生活,人生也毫无生气。
- Without hope, the heart would break.
如无希望,心就破碎。
- Without method, little can be done to any good purpose.
不讲究方法,办事就没有成效。
- Without practice, hopes will be reduced to zero.
没有实践,希望会化为乌有。
- Without respect, love cannot go far.
如不相互尊重,爱情就难发展。
- Without wisdom wealth is worthless.
如果没有智慧,财富就无价值。
- With time and patience the leaf of the mulberry becomes satin.
只要功夫深,铁杵磨成针。
- Wit once bought is worth twice taught.
亲身一次的经验,抵得上老师两次的教导。
- Wit without learning is like a tree without fruit.
仅有机智而无真才实学,犹如一棵大树不结果。
- Woe to him that is alone. 孤独的人最苦恼。
- Women in mischief are wiser than men.
妇女在受危害时比男子机智。
- Wonders are many, and nothing is more wonderful than man.
奇迹很多,但没有一件东西比人更为奇妙。
- Words are but wind. 耳闻不如一见。
- Words cut (or hurt) more than swords.
言语比刀剑伤人更厉害。
- Words pay no debts. 空言无补。
- Work bears witness who does well.
工作能证明谁人做得好。
- Work has a bitter root but sweet fruit.
劳动根虽苦,然而果实甜。
- Working without a plan is sailing without a compass.
工作没有打算,犹如航海没有罗盘。
- Work makes the workman. 工作出工匠。
- Work today, for you know not how much you may be hindered
tomorrow. 今天有事今天做,明天可能事受阻。
- Work will not kill a man but worry will. 累不死人愁死人。
- Worry kills more men than work. 忧虑比劳累更伤人。
- Would you know your daughter, see her in company.
若要知道你女儿,且看她和谁交往。
- Write down the advice of him that loves you, though you like it
not at present.
爱你的忠言且记下,即使你目前不爱它。
- Write it on your heart every day is the best day of the year.
要记住,每天是一年中最好的一天。
Y 共 31 条
- Years bring wisdom. 年长智也增。
- Yesterday is dead, forget it; tomorrow does not exist, don't
worry; today is here, use it.
昨天已经消逝,把它忘掉;明天还未来到,不必烦恼;今天就在眼前,把它用好。
- Yesterday will not be called again. 光阴一去不复返。
- You are the greatest enemy if you are a coward, but if you are
brave, you are your greatest friend.
如果你是胆小鬼,你就是自己最大的敌人;如果你是勇敢者,你就是自己最好的朋友。
- You can do more than strike while the iron is hot; you can make
the iron hot by striking.
铁热时,你能做的不止是锤打,而锤打可使铁热。
- You can fool some of the people all the time, and all of the
people some of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all
the time.
你可以一直愚弄一些人,甚至可以在某个时期愚弄所有的人;但不能一直愚弄所有的人。
- You cannot clap with one hand. 孤掌难鸣。
- You cannot have two forenoons in the same day.
一日之中不可能有两个上午。
- You cannot flay the same ox twice. 一头牛不能剥两次皮。
- You cannot judge a tree by its bark. 人不可貌相。
- You cannot make a crab walk straight.
江山易改,本性难移。
- You (or One) cannot make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
粗瓷碗雕不出细花来。
- You cannot sell the cow and sup the milk.
你不可能出售乳牛,同时又要喝牛奶。
- You can take a horse to the water but you cannot make him drink.
马到河边不喝水,逼马低头亦枉然。(不要逼人做他不愿做的事)
- You can't eat your cake and have it.
不能既要吃饼,又要把饼保存。
- You can't make bricks without straw.
没有稻草,制砖难搞。
- You can't make omelets (or omeletts) without breaking eggs.
有失才有得。
- You have no goats, and yet you sell kids.
你虽无老山羊,却出卖小山羊。
- You make the failure complete when you stop strying.
不再努力之时,就是完全失败之日。
- You may force a man to shut his eyes, but you cannot make him
sleep. 你可以迫人闭眼,但不能使他睡觉。
- You may go farther and fare worse. 一动不如一静。
- You may know the horse by his harness.
欲知马如何,可看套马索。
- You must not pledge your own health.
切不可把健康作孤注一掷。
- You must reap what you have sown. 种瓜得瓜,种豆得豆。
- You never know what you can do till you try.
事非经过不知难。
- Young man may die but old men must die.
年轻人可能会死,老年人难免不亡。
- You roll my log and I'll roll yours. 互相吹嘘。
- Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle, old age a regret.
青年冒失莽撞;成年发奋图强;老年遗憾懊丧。
- Youth is life's seed-time. 青年时代是人生的播种期。
- Youth is the season of hope, enterprise, and energy, to a nation
as well as an individual.
青年时期对国家和个人都是希望、创业和精力充沛的时期。
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- Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.
有热情而无知识,犹如有火焰而无光芒。