Lying is the first step to the gallows.
说谎是上断头台的第一步。
Waste not, want not.
俭以防匮。
From saving comes having.
富有来自节俭。
A penny saved is a penny gained.
省一文是一文。
Take care of the pence and the pound will take care of themselves.
金钱积少便成多。
Frugality is an estate alone.
节俭本身就是一宗财产。
He that regards not a penny, will lavish a pound.
小钱不知节省,大钱将滥花。
Small gains bring great wealth.
积小利,成巨富。
Many a little makes a mickle.
积少便成多。
As the touchstone tries gold, so gold tries man.
试金之石可试金,正如黄金能试人。
Courage and resolution are the spirit and soul of virtue.
勇敢和坚决是美德的灵魂。
The path to glory is always rugged.
光荣之路常坎坷。
Nothing is difficult to the man who will try.
世上无难事,只要人肯试。
The fire is the test of gold; adversity of strong man.
烈火试真金,困苦炼壮士。
Great hopes make great man.
远大的希望造就伟大的人物。
No way is impossible to courage.
勇士面前无险路。
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
平静的大海决不能造就出熟练的水手。
The good seaman is known in bad weather.
坏天气下才能识得出良好的海员;要识好海员,须凭坏天气。
The best hearts are always the bravest.
行为最勇敢的人心地总是最善良。
We must not lie down, and cry, God help us.
求神不如求己。
He that falls today may be up again tomorrow.
今天跌倒的人也许明天就会站起。
Rome was not built in a day.
罗马并非一日可建成;坚持必成。
Success belongs to the persevering.
胜利属于坚忍不拔的人。
We must repeat a thousand and one times that perseverance is the only road to success.
我们要多次重申:不屈不挠是取得胜利的唯一道路。
Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth.
十九次失败,到第二十次获得成功,这就叫坚持。
Step by step the ladder is ascended.
登梯需要逐级登。
Adversity leads to prosperity.
困苦通向昌盛。
Patience and application will carry us through.
忍耐和专心会使我们度过难关。
Fortune often rewards with interest those that have patience to wait for her.
做事只要有耐心,到头总会有好运;耐心候好运,好运常会来。
All things will come round to him who will but wait.
只要肯等待,一切都会按时来。
Constant dropping wears the stone.
滴水不绝可穿石。
Omelets are not made without breaking of eggs.
鸡蛋不打破,蛋卷做不成;不甘愿吃苦,则预期效果达不到。
The world is a ladder for some to go up and others to go down.
世界好似一把梯,有人上去有人下。
There needs a long apprenticeship to understand the mystery of the world's trade.
要知世事奥秘多,须要长期作学徒。
Life is not all beer and skittles.
人生并不全是吃喝玩乐。
Much water runs by the mill that the miller knows not of.
眼前发生许多事,有些我们并不知。
Fortune knocks once at least at every man's door.
人人都有走运的一天。
If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself; if you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
运气太好,见人不睬;运气太坏,无人理会。
Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
每一个人都是自身幸福的建筑师。
Happy is he who knows his follies in his youth.
记得年轻时所作蠢事的人是幸福的。
Misfortunes never (seldom) come alone (single).
祸不单行。
Misfortune is a good teacher.
不幸是良好的教师。
Misfortunes come at night.
祸常生于不测。
Misfortunes tell us what fortune is.
恶运临头后,才知幸运贵。
Adversity makes a man wise, not rich.
患难能使人聪明,但不能使人富有。
Live and learn.
活到老,学到老。
It is never too old to learn.
为学不怕年高。
A man becomes learned by asking questions.
要长学问,就得多问;多问则业精。
There is no royal road to learning.
学问无坦途。
He who is ashamed of asking is ashamed of learning.
畏问之人耻于学。
What is learned in the cradle lasts till the grave.
婴孩时期学到的东西,老死不会忘记。
Learning makes a good man better and ill man worse.
知识能使好人更好,坏人更坏。
Soon learnt,soon forgotten.
学得快,忘得快。
Learn young, learn fair.
为学趁年青,既学须学好。
A lazy youth, a lousy age.
少时懒惰老来苦。
He that knows nothing, doubts nothing.
无知即无疑。
A good name keeps its luster in the dark.
良好的名声在黑暗中也能闪闪发光。
Fame is a magnifying glass.
名誉是放大镜。
A good fame is better than a good face.
美名胜于美貌。
Fame like a river is narrowest at its source and broadest afar off.
名誉如河流,发源处最狭,愈远愈宽广。
Take honour from me and my life is done.
没有名誉,就没有了生命。
Beware of him who regards not his reputation.
要谨防不重名誉的人。
It is better to die with honour than to live in infamy.
光荣的死胜于羞辱的生。
Adversity successfully overcome is the highest glory.
成功地克服困难是最大的光荣。
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。
Your father's honour is to you but a second-hand honour.
对于你来说,父亲的荣誉只是间接的荣誉。
Never trust another what you should do yourself.
自己该做的事,决不要委托给旁人做。
It is an equal failing to trust everybody, and to trust nobody.
信任一切与不信任任何人,同样是弱点。
Eat a peck of salt with a man before you trust him.
在你信任一个人之前,先要深入了解他。
If you trust before you try, you may repent before you die.
不经考验就依赖,不到瞑目便的悔。
Never trust to fine words.
切勿轻信漂亮话。
Trust not a great weight to a slender thread.
细线挂重物,终究不可靠。
Be just to all, but trust not all.
要对一切人都公正,但不要对一切人都信任。
Trust thyself only, and another shall not betray thee.
只要信任你自己,旁人才不出卖你。
Self-trust is the essence of heroism.
自信为英雄品质之本。
Confidence is a plant of slow growth.
信任是一种生长缓慢的植物。
Truth is the daughter of time.
真理是时间的女儿。
Truth hath a good face, but ill clothes.
真理面目善良;但衣衫褴褛。
Truth and roses have thorns about them.
真理和玫瑰,身旁都有刺。
Truth may be blamed, but shall never be shamed.
真理可能会被责难,但绝不会受羞辱。
Though malice may darken truth, it cannot put it out.
恶意可以糟塌真理;但无法消灭真理。
Truth will prevail.
真理必胜。
Truth's best ornament is nakedness.
不加掩饰乃是真理的最好装饰。
Facts are stubborn things.
事实是最顽强的东西。
Sooner or later, the truth comes to light.
真相迟早会大白。
The truths we least like to hear are those which it is most to our advantage to know.
我们最不愿意听到的事实,往往是我们知道了会大有好处的事实。
Falsehood like a nettle stings those who meddle with it.
谎言似荨麻,玩弄会刺手。
There is many a fair thing full false.
有许多说得好听的东西充满了谬误。
Though a lie be well drest,it is ever overcome.
谎言装扮虽不错,到头总会被揭露。
A lie begets a lie till they come to generations.
谎言生谎言,谎言世代传。
A false tongue will hardly speak truth.
假舌不会吐真言。
False with one can be false with two.
对一个人虚假,也会对两个人虚假。
He that will lie will steal.
会说谎的人也就会偷窃。
Gossiping and lying go together.
流言常和谎话并行。
Equivocation is first cousin to a lie.
含糊其词是谎话的近亲。
A great talker is a great liar.
最会夸夸其谈的人也最会说谎。
The greatest liars talk most of themselves.
最爱自吹自擂的人是最大的说谎者。
Lying rides upon debt's back.
负债的人谎话多。
All is not gold that glitters.
闪光未必尽黄金。
Money is the root of evil.
金钱是罪恶的根源。
Money makes the mare go.
有钱能使鬼推磨。
All things are obedient to money.
一切事物都服从于金钱。
Before gold, even kings take off their hats.
在黄金面前,国王也要脱帽。
Money is the key that opens all doors.
金钱是打开一切门户的钥匙。
Beauty is potent, but money is more potent.
美貌固有力,金钱力更大。
Avarice increases with wealth.
越有钱,越贪钱。
The money the miser hoards will do him no good.
守财奴积财,对自己毫无好处。
What is wealth good for, If it brings melancholy?
财富如带忧郁来,有了财富有何用?。
Gold will not buy anything.
黄金不能买尽一切。
The chief aim of man is not to get money.
人的主要目的并不是赚钱。
Those who believe money can do everything are frequently prepared to do everything for money.
相信金钱万能的人,往往会一切为了金钱。
Wealth makes worship.
财富能使人拜倒。
Little wealth, little care.
财富少,烦恼也少。
A moneyless man goes fast through the market.
身上无钱过市快。
Poverty is not a crime.
贫非罪。
Poverty is not a disgrace, but theft is a disgrace.
贫穷不可耻,偷窃乃足羞。
Better be poor than wicked.
宁可做穷人,不可做坏人。
Poverty is not a sufficient cause for disgrace, but poverty without resolution to help unselfish a disgrace.
贫穷不足为耻,穷而不能自立方可耻。
Poverty is the mother of health.
贫穷是健康之母。
Be considerate toward the poor.
应常为穷人着想。
Poor and content is rich and rich enough.
人能安贫就是富。
Poverty parteth fellowship.
贫穷断友情。
Poverty makes a man mean.
贫困使人小气。
Nothing to be got without pains but poverty.
只有贫穷是可以不劳而获的东西。
Do not through fear of poverty surrender liberty.
不要因为怕贫困而舍去自由。
Poverty and love are hard to hide.
贫困与爱情,都难瞒过人。
Poverty breeds strife.
贫困引起冲突。
The poor man wants much, the miser everything.
穷人要求多,财迷则样样都要。
The dainties of the great are the tears of the poor.
富人口中的美味是穷人眼中的泪水。
Poverty on an old man's back is a heavy burden.
老而贫困,负担最沉。
Beggars must (should) be no choosers.
行乞的哪能挑肥拣瘦;饥不择食。
A lamb is as dear to a poor man as an ox to the rich.
穷人眼中的一只羊,贵似富人一头牛。
A light purse makes a heavy heart.
钱袋轻时心事重。
Poor without debt is better than a prince.
穷人无债胜王子。
Happy is he who owes nothing.
无债一身轻。
Money borrowed is soon sorrowed.
借钱才到手,立刻便担忧。
He that goes a borrowing, goes a sorrowing.
向人借债是自寻烦恼。
Better go to bed supperless than rise in debt.
与其负债起身,不如空腹上床。
Out of debt, out of danger.
脱债就脱险。
A pound of care will not pay an ounce of debt.
深忧偿不了小债。
He is the wisest man who does not think himself so.
不自作聪明便是最聪明。
Wise men have their mouth in their heart, fools their heart in their mouth.
聪明人嘴在心里,愚蠢人心在嘴边。
Wise men learn by other men's mistakes; fools by their own.
聪明人从旁人的错误中吸取教训,愚笨人则从自身的错误中吸取教训。
He is wise that knows when he's well enough.
知足为智者。
A wise man cares not for what he cannot have.
智者不强求。
He is wise that hath wit enough for his own affairs.
明智者有足够的机智处理自己的事情。
No man is born wise.
聪明非天生。
A wise man will make tools of what comes to hand.
能随机应变的人是聪明人。
A word is enough to the wise.
对明智者一言已足。
He is the wise man who is the honest man.
正直的人就是有见识的人。
A wise man thinks all that he says, a fool says all that he thinks.
聪明人想了才说,愚笨的人想着就说。
The wise hand doth not all that the foolish mouth speaks.
聪明的手不做愚蠢的嘴所说的事。
A flow of words is no proof of wisdom.
口若悬河,不能证明真有才智。
It is easy to be wise after the event.
事后的诸葛亮容易做。
The wise man knows he knows nothing, the fool thinks the knows all.
聪明人自认一无所知,愚笨人自负无所不晓。
Fools learn nothing from wise men; but wise men learn much from fools.
愚人不能从智者那里学到什么;而智者却能从愚人那里学到很多。
A fool always comes short of his reckoning.
愚人常短于心计。
A fool's heart dances on his lips.
愚人的心挂在唇边。
A fool always finds a greater fool than himself.
愚人总以为旁人比自己更傻。
A man may talk like a wise man and yet act like a fool.
一个人可能说话如智者,而行为象愚人。
The more riches a fool hath, the greater fool he is.
愚人越富越蠢。
Never challenge a fool to do wrong.
不要怂恿愚人干错事。
It is better to please a fool than to anger him.
对愚人最好是使他高兴,而不是惹他发怒。
He is a fool who cannot be angry, but he is a wise man who will not.
不会发怒是蠢人,不愿发怒是聪明人。
'Tis altogether vain to learn wisdom and yet live foolishly.
枉自学聪明,却做愚蠢事。
Wit without learning is like a tree without fruit.
没有学识的机智,犹如没有果实的树。
No man is wise at all times.
世上无一贯明智的人。
Many heads are better than one.
几个脑袋总比一个脑袋强;三个臭皮匠,顶个诸葛亮。
Virtue never grows old.
美德永不老。
Virtue is the only true nobility.
万事不如美德高。
Virtue is a jewel of great price.
美德乃是无价宝。
He that soweth virtue shall reap fame.
播下美德,收获名望。
To be virtuous is to do good.
行善即是有德。
Glory is the shadow of virtue.
荣誉是美德的影子。
There is no virtue that poverty destroyeth not.
没有贫穷不能破坏的美德。
The first step to virtue is to abstrain from vice.
不作恶是走向美德的第一步。
No good building without a good foundation.
基础不良的好建筑物是没有的。
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