★Genius only means hard-working all one's life. 天才只意味着终身不懈的努力。

★Our destiny offers not the cup of despair, but the chalice of opportunity.

命运给予我们的不是失望之酒，而是机会之杯。

★Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. 忍耐是痛苦的，但它的果实是甜蜜的。

★Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow.

进步是今天的活动、明天的保证。

★Where there is a will, there is a way.

有志者，事竟成。

★All the splendor in the world is not worth a good friend.

人世间所有的荣华富贵不如一个好朋友。

★Money is a good servant and a bad master.

金钱是善仆，也是恶主。

★No country, however rich, can afford the waste of its human resources.

任何一个国家，不管它多么富裕，都浪费不起人力资源。

★Achievement provides the only real pleasure in life. 有所成就是人生唯一的真正乐趣。

★You have to believe in yourself. That's the secret of success.

人必须相信自己，这是成功的秘诀。

★If you wish to succeed, you should use persistence as your good friend, experience as your reference, prudence as your brother and hope as your sentry. 如果你希望成功，当以恒心为良友、以经验为参谋、以谨慎为兄弟、以希望为哨兵。

★Power invariably means both responsibility and danger.

实力永远意味着责任和危险。

★Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears. 懒惰像生锈一样，比操劳更能消耗身体。

★The first wealth is health.

健康是人生第一财富。

★It is no use doing what you like; you have got to like what you do.

不能爱哪行才干哪行，要干哪行爱哪行。

★Work banishes those three great evils : boredom, vice, and poverty.

工作撵跑三个魔鬼：无聊、堕落和贫穷。

★Activity is the only road to knowledge.

行动是通往知识的唯一道路。

★If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him, an investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

倾己所有追求知识，没有人能夺走它；向知识投资，收益最

佳。

★Imagination is more important than knowledge. 想象力比知识更为重要。

★The empty vessels make the greatest sound. 满瓶不响，半瓶咣当。

★If you don't learn to think when you are young, you may never learn.

如果你年轻时就没有学会思考，那么就永远学不会思考。

★Natural abilities are like natural plants that need pruning by study.

天生的才干如同天生的植物一样，需要靠学习来修剪。

★Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

幸福不在于拥有金钱，而在于获得成就时的喜悦以及产生创造力的激情。

★Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

对于大多数人来说，他们认定自己有多幸福，就有多幸福。

★The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. 痛苦的秘密在于有闲功夫担心自己是否幸福。

★The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.

生活中最大的幸福是坚信有人爱我们。

★We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

正像我们无权只享受财富而不创造财富一样，我们也无权只享受幸福而不创造幸福。

★Better be unborn than untaught, for ignorance is the root of misfortune.

与其不受教育,不如不生,因为无知是不幸的根源。

★Ordinary people merely think how they shall spend their time; a man of talent tries to use it.

普通人只想到如何度过时间，有才能的人设法利用时间。

★The golden age is before us, not behind us. 黄金时代在我们面前而不在我们背后。

★A bad beginning makes a bad ending.

不善始者不善终。

★Wise man have their mouths in their hearts, fools have their hearts in their mouths.

智者嘴在心里，愚者心在嘴里。

★Jack of all trades and master of none.

门门精通，样样稀松。

★A bully is always a coward.

色厉内荏。

★No way is impossible to courage.

勇者无惧。

★A close mouth catches no flies. 病从口入。

★A constant guest is never welcome. 常客令人厌。

★Actions speak louder than words. 事实胜于雄辩。

★Adversity makes a man wise.

逆境出人才。

★A fair death honors the whole life. 死得其所，流芳百世。

★A faithful friend is hard to find. 知音难觅。

★A fall into a pit, a gain in your wit. 吃一堑，长一智。

★A fox may grow gray, but never good.

江山易改，本性难移。

★A friend in need is a friend indeed.

患难见真情。

★A good beginning is half done.

良好的开端是成功的一半。

★Never too old to learn, never too late to turn. 亡羊补牢，为时未晚。

★A good conscience is a soft pillow.

不做亏心事，不怕鬼叫门。

★One eyewitness is better than ten hearsays. 百闻不如一见。

★A hedge between keeps friendship green. 君子之交淡如水。

★A joke never gains an enemy but loses a friend.

戏谑不能化敌为友，只能使人失去朋友。

★A leopard cannot change its spots.

积习难改。

★Many things grow in the garden that were never sown there.

有心栽花花不开，无心插柳柳成荫。

★A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. 一知半解，自欺欺人。

★Reading is to the mind while exercise to the body. 读书健脑，运动强身。

★A young idler, an old beggar.

少壮不努力，老大徒伤悲。

★Beauty lies in the love's eyes.

情人眼里出西施。

★Be swift to hear, slow to speak.

听宜敏捷，言宜缓行。

★Birds of a feather flock together.

物以类聚，人以群分。

★Business is the salt of life.

事业是人生的第一需要。

★By reading we enrich the mind, by conversation we polish it.

读书使人充实，交谈使人精明。

★Care and diligence bring luck.

谨慎和勤奋才能抓住机遇。

★Caution is the parent of safety.

小心驶得万年船。

★Constant dripping wears away a stone.

水滴石穿，绳锯木断。

★Content is better than riches.

知足者常乐。

★Courtesy on one side only lasts not long. 来而不往非礼也。

★Do as you would be done by.

己所不欲，勿施于人。

★Don't claim to know what you don't know. 不要不懂装懂。

★Don't try to teach your grandmother to suck eggs. 不要班门弄斧。

★Do well and have well.

善有善报。

★Each bird love to hear himself sing.

孤芳自赏。

★Eat to live, but not live to eat.

人吃饭是为了活着，但活着不是为了吃饭。

★Every advantage has its disadvantage.

有利必有弊。

★Everybody's business is nobody's business. 人人负责，等于没人负责。

★Every man is the architect of his own fortune. 自己的命运自己掌握。

★Everything is good when new, but friends when old. 东西是新的好，朋友是老的亲。

★Example is better than percept.

说一遍，不如做一遍。

★Experience is the father of wisdom and memory the mother.

经验是智慧之父，记忆是智慧之母。

★False friends are worse than bitter enemies. 明枪易躲，暗箭难防。

★Far from eye, far from heart.

眼不见，心不烦。

★Far water does not put out near fire.

远水救不了近火。

★Fields have eyes, and woods have ears.

隔墙有耳。

★Fire and water have no mercy.

水火无情。

★Fortune knocks once at least at every man's gate. 风水轮流转。

★God helps those who help themselves.

自助者天助。

★Good for good is natural, good for evil is manly. 以德报德是常理，以德报怨大丈夫。

★Great hopes make great man.

伟大的抱负造就伟大的人物。

★Guilty consciences make men cowards.

做贼心虚。

★Heaven never helps the man who will not act. 自己不动，叫天何用。

★He is lifeless that is faultless.

只有死人才不犯错误。

★He is not fit to command others that cannot command himself.

正人先正己。

★Honesty is the best policy.

做人诚信为本。

★Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst. 抱最好的愿望，做最坏的打算。

★If you make yourself an ass, don't complain if people ride you.

人善被人欺，马善被人骑。

★If you venture nothing, you will have nothing. 不入虎穴，焉得虎子。

★It is better to die when life is a disgrace. 宁为玉碎，不为瓦全。

★It is easy to open a shop but hard to keep it always open.

创业容易守业难。

★It is hard to please all.

众口难调。

★It is the unforeseen that always happens. 天有不测风云，人有旦夕祸福。

★It is too late to grieve when the chance is past. 坐失良机，后悔已迟。

★It never rains but it pours.

不鸣则已，一鸣惊人。

★We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.

我们必须接受有限的失望，但是千万不可失去无限的希望。

★Humility is the foundation of glory.

谦卑是荣誉的基础。

★Goodness blows no trumpet, nor desires to have it blown.

美德不自吹自擂，也不愿被吹捧。

★Education makes a people easy to lead,but difficult to drive;easy to govern,but impossible to enslave. 教育使一个民族易于引导，难于驾御；易于管理，但不能奴役。

★The roots of education is bitter,but the fruit is sweet.

求知道路千辛万苦，知识硕果芬芳香甜。

★A good book is the best of friends,the same today and forever.

好书乃挚友，情谊永不渝。

★Books are the ever-burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.

书籍是积累智慧的明灯。

★Reading make a full man;conference a ready man;and writing an exact man.

读书使人完美，交谈使人机敏，写作使人严谨。

★If you steal from one author,it's plagiarism;If you steal from many,it's research.

如果你抄袭一个作家，这是剽窃；如果你能博采众家，这是研究。

★Music is the medicine of the breaking heart. 音乐是医治心灵创伤的良药。

★All those man have their price.

人人都有自己的价值。

★It is not enough to do good;one must do it the right way.

人不仅要做好事,更要以正确的方式做好事。

★Men are always sincere.They change sincerities,that's all.

人总是真诚的,只是表现形式有所不同。

★Everything comes in time to those who can wait. 只要能等待，心想事会成。

★If at first you don't succeed,try,try again. 初试不成功，努力勿懈怠。

★There is no excellent beauty that has not some strangeness in the proportion.

十全十美的美从来就是不存在的。

★The water that bears the boat is the same that

swallows it up.

水能载舟，也能覆舟。

★Lookers-on see most of the game.

旁观者清。

★Pardoning the bad is injuring the good. 隐恶败善；原谅坏人即是伤害好人。

★The evil wound is cured but not the evil name. 重伤可治，恶名难去。

★Evil communications corrupt good manners. 不良的交往败坏良好的举止。

★No wrong without remedy.

有过皆可补。

★Virtue flies from the heart of a mercenary man. 唯利是图者，胸中无美德。

★First think, and then speak.

动口先动脑。

★A word spoken is past recalling.

一言既出，驷马难追。

★While the word is in your mouth, it is your own; when it's once spoken, it's another's.

话在嘴里，属于自己；话一出口，人家所有。

★Speech is silver, silence is gold.

言语是银，沉默是金。

★Sometimes words hurt more than swords.

言语能伤人，有时胜刀剑。

★A wise head makes a close mouth.

真人不露相，露相非真人。

★It is one thing to speak much and another to speak pertinently.

说得多是一回事，讲得中肯又是一回事。

★Unprofitable eloquence is like the cypress, which is great and tall,but bears no fruit.

无益的雄辩犹如高大的柏树，不会结果。

★Many a true word is spoken in jest.

笑语之中吐真言。

★From words to deeds is a great space.

言行之间，大有距离。

★Our own actions are our security, not others' judgments.

我们的行为是自己的保证，并不是旁人的鉴定。

★A man of words and not deeds is like a garden full of weeds.

空有言语而无行动的人，犹如杂草丛生的花园。

★A man is not good or bad for one action. 不能凭一件事判断人的好坏。

★A man that breaks his word, bids others to be false

to him.

人不守信，无异于叫旁人对他失信。

★Pride goes before destruction.

骄者必败。

★No man is the worst for knowing the worst of himself. 人并不因为他自知很差就是很差。

★It is not a sign of humility to declaim against pride. 用慷慨激昂的言语攻击傲慢并不是谦逊的标志。

★He that is full of himself is very empty. 自满之人腹内空。

★Knavery may serve, but honesty is best.

欺诈可能有用，诚实却是上策。

★Honesty may be dear bought, but can never be an ill pennyworth.

高价买诚实，永远也值得。

★Love asks faith, and faith firmness.

爱情要求信任，信任要求坚定。

★Love is the touchstone of virtue.

爱情是美德的试金石。

★Zeal without knowledge is fire without light. 没有知识的热心，犹如有火而无光。

★A bad conscience is a snake in one's heart. 做贼心虚。

★The frog in the well knows nothing of the great ocean. 坐井观天。

★Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it. 相聚爱益切，离别情更深。

★A chain is no stronger than its weakest link. 一着不慎，全盘皆输。

★What is learned in the cradle is carried to the grave.

儿时所学，终生难忘。

★A clear conscience is a sure card.

光明磊落，胜券在握。

★A clear conscience laughs at false accusations. 只要问心无愧，旁人的指责可以一笑置之。

★A clear fast is better than a dirty breakfast. 宁为清贫，不为浊富。

★A cock is valiant on his own dunghill.

夜郎自大。

★A common danger causes common action.

同仇敌忾。

★Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.

忠言逆耳。

★A hero is known in the time of misfortune.

时势造英雄。

★A mother's love never changes.

母爱永恒。

★As a man sows, so he shall reap. 种瓜得瓜，种豆得豆。

★A single spark can start a prairie fire. 星星之火，可以燎原。

★Behind bad luck comes good luck. 塞翁失马，焉知非福。

★Call a spade a spade.

直言不讳。

★Come what may, heaven won't fall. 船到桥头自会直。

★Conversation makes one what he is. 言如其人。

★Cut short the nonsense and return one's muttons. 闲话少说，言归正传。

★Cut the coat according to the cloth.

量布裁衣。

★Deliver not your words by number but by weight. 言不在多，而在有份量。

★Dogs that run after many hares kill none. 贪多必失。

★Doing is better than saying.

做得好胜于说得好。

★Do not despise your enemy.

切莫轻视敌人。

★Do not praise a day before sunset.

盖棺定论。

★Don't fly till your wings are feathered. 羽毛未丰不要飞。

★Don't put off till tomorrow what should be done today. 今日事，今日毕。

★Don't speak all you know, but know all you speak. 不要尽言所知，而要尽知所言。

★Don't trouble trouble until trouble troubles you. 不要自寻烦恼。

★Don't waste life in doubts and fears.

不要在怀疑和恐惧中浪费生命。

★Doubt is the key of knowledge.

怀疑乃知识的钥匙。

★You may know by a handful the whole sack. 由一斑可知全貌。

★Do what conscience says is right.

良心说对的你就做。

★Downy lips make thoughtless slips.

嘴上没毛，办事不牢。

★God never shuts one door but he opens another. 天无绝人之路。

★Each goodly thing is hard to begin.

万事开头难。

★Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.

人的教养始于教育，成于社交。

★Education has for its object the formation of character.

教育的目的在于培养品德。

★Elbow grease gives the best polish.

只要功夫深，铁杵磨成针。

★Error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.

过去的错误是未来的才智和成功。

★Every bird likes its own nest.

鸟慕其巢,人爱其家。

★Every person has two educations, one which he receives from others, and one, more important, which he gives himself.

每个人都受两种教育，一种来自别人，另一种更重要的是来自自己。

★Every pleasure has a pain.

乐中必有苦。

★Give as good as one gets.

以其人之道，还治其人之身。

★Give a thief rope enough and he will hang himself. 多行不义必自毙。

★Give every man your ear, but few your voice. 要多听少说。

★Gold will not buy everything.

有钱不能万能。

★Good counsel does no harm.

忠言无害。

★Greatest genius often lies concealed.

大智若愚。

★Heaven's vengeance is slow but sure.

天网恢恢，疏而不漏。

★If you confer a benefit, never remember it; if you receive one, remember it always.

施恩勿记，受恩勿忘。

★If you don't aim high you will never hit high. 不立大志，难攀高峰。

★Industry is fortune's right hand, and frugality her left.

勤勉是幸福的右手，节俭是幸福的左手。

★It is an ill bird that fouls its own nest. 家丑不可外扬。

★It is good to learn at another man's cost. 前车之覆，后车之鉴。

★It is no use crying over spilt milk.

事已如此，后悔无用。

★Joy Shared with others are more enjoyed. 与人同乐，其乐无穷。

★Kind hearts are more than coronets.

善良的心灵胜于显贵的地位。

★Knowledge is a treasure, but practice the key to it. 知识是一座宝库，实践是打开宝库的钥匙。

★Know something like the palm of one's hand. 熟知其事，了如指掌。

★Laugh before breakfast you'll cry before supper. 乐极生悲。

★Law makers should not be law breakers.

立法者应守法。

★Learning is wealth to the poor, an honour to the rich, and aid to the young, and a support and comfort to the aged.

学问是穷人的财富，是富人的荣誉，是青年的帮助，是老年的支持和安慰。

★Learn to creep before you leap.

循序渐进。

★Let every man praise the bridge be goes over. 饮水思源。

★Let not the cobbler go beyond his last.

安分守己。

★Let's cross the bridge when we come to it. 既来之，则安之。

★Let the cobbler stick to his last. 各安职守。

★Let the dead bury the dead.

既往不咎，捐弃旧嫌。

★Let things take their course.

听其自然。

★Let your yea be yea and your nay be nay. 是就是，非就非。

★Liberty is not licence.

自由不是放纵。

★Lie in the bed one has made.

自作自受。

★Life is short and time is fleeting.

人生短暂，光阴易逝。

★Life without a friend is death without a witness. 在世无朋友，死后无证人。

★Little strokes fell great oaks.

千里之堤，溃于蚁穴。

★Look for a needle in a bundle of hay.

大海捞针。

★Look not for musk in a dog's kennel.

狗嘴里吐不出象牙。

★Losses make us more cautious.

损失使人更谨慎。

★Make hay while the sun shines.

良机勿失。

★Man has not a greater enemy than himself. 人最大的敌人就是自己。

★Many a fine dish has nothing on it.

虚有其表。

★Many heads are better than one.

集思广益。

★Men may meet but mountains never.

人生何处不相逢。

★Never cast dirt into that fountain of which you have sometime drunk.

饮水之源莫污染。

★Never neglect an opportunity for improvement. 抓住大好时机，切莫等闲错过。

★Never put the plow before the oxen.

不要本末倒置。

★Never think yourself above your business. 切莫自视过高。

★Never too late to repent.

悔悟从善，决不嫌晚。

★No man can do two things at once.

心无二用。

★No man ever became thoroughly bad at once. 没有一个人是一下子就坏透的。

★No one is born wise or learned.

人非生而知之。

★No one can disgrace us but ourselves.

除了我们自己，别人是不能羞辱我们的。

★No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.

不劳则无获，共难才得福，有荣必有辱，无苦即无乐。

★No possession, but use, is the only riches. 真正的财富不是占有，而是使用。

★No road is long with good company. 途有好伴，不觉路远。

★No safe paddling in an unknown water. 未知水深浅，涉水有危险。

★No sweet without some sweat.

吃得苦中苦，方知甜中甜。

★Nothing comes amiss to a hungry man. 饥不择食。

★Nothing comes from nothing.

无风不起浪。

★Offence is the best defence.

进攻是最好的防御。

★Of nothing comes nothing.

无中不能生有。

★Old love will not be forgotten.

旧情永难忘。

★Omelets are not made without breaking eggs. 欲有所得，必有所失。

★One cannot make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. 巧妇难为无米之炊。

★One cannot put back the clock.

光阴一去不复返。

★One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.

光辉生活中忙活的一个小时抵得上无为的一世。

★One half of the world does not know how the other half lives.

饱人不知饿人饥。

★Overdone is worse than undone. 过犹不及。

★Pain is forgotten where gain follows. 好了伤疤忘了痛。

★Penny wise and pound foolish. 舍本逐末。

★Proverbs are the wisdom of the ages. 谚语是时代的智慧。

★Score twice before you cut once. 三思而行。

★All good things come to an end. 天下没有不散的筵席。

★All rivers run into sea.

海纳百川。

★All that glitters is not gold.

闪光的不一定都是金子。

★All things are difficult before they are easy. 凡事总是由难而易。

★A man becomes learned by asking questions. 不耻下问才能有学问。

★A man can do no more than he can.

凡事都应量力而行。

★A man cannot spin and reel at the same time. 一心不能二用。

★A merry heart goes all the way.

心旷神怡，事事顺利。

★A miss is as good as a mile.

失之毫厘，差之千里。

★An apple a day keeps the doctor away. 一天一苹果，不用请医生。

★A new broom sweeps clean.

新官上任三把火。

★An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening. 一日之计在于晨。

★An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. 预防为主，治疗为辅。

★A rolling stone gathers no moss.

滚石不生苔，转业不聚财。

★A single flower does not make a spring.

一花独放不是春，百花齐放春满园。

★A snow year, a rich year.

瑞雪兆丰年。

★A sound mind in a sound body.

健全的精神寓于健康的身体。

★A stitch in time saves nine.

小洞不补，大洞吃苦。

★A straight foot is not afraid of a crooked shoe. 身正不怕影子斜。

★A year's plan starts with spring.

一年之计在于春。

★Better to ask the way than go astray.

问路总比迷路好。

★Between friends all is common.

朋友之间不分彼此。

★Blood is thicker than water.

血浓于水。

★Books and friends should be few but good. 读书如交友，应求少而精。

★Cannot see the wood for the trees.

一叶障目，不见泰山。

★Children are what the mothers are.

耳濡目染，身教言传。

★Choose an author as you choose a friend. 择书如择友。

★Complacency is the enemy of study.

学习的敌人是自己的满足。

★Don't have too many irons in the fire.

不要揽事过多。

★Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

早睡早起身体好。

★Every heart has its own sorrow.

各人有各人的苦恼。

★Every little helps a mickle.

聚沙成塔，集腋成裘。

★Every man has his hobby.

萝卜青菜，各有所爱。

★Fear always springs from ignorance.

恐惧源于无知。

★Fool's haste is no speed.

欲速则不达。

★Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much from fools.

愚者不学无术，智者不耻下问。

★Fortune favors those who use their judgement. 机遇偏爱善断之人。

★Friends agree best at distance.

朋友之间也会保持距离。

★Good medicine for health tastes bitter to the mouth.

良药苦口利于病。

★Good watch prevents misfortune.

谨慎消灾。

★Send a wise man on an errand, and say nothing to him. 智者当差，不用交代。

★Handsome is he who does handsomely.

行为漂亮才算美。

★Happiness takes no account of time.

欢乐不觉时光过。

★Happy is the man who learns from the misfortunes of others.

吸取他人教训，自己才会走运。

★He is a fool that forgets himself.

愚者忘乎所以。

★He is a good friend that speaks well of us behind our

backs.

背后说好话，才是真朋友。

★He is not laughed at that laughs at himself first. 自嘲者不会让人见笑。

★He laughs best who laughs last.

谁笑到最后，谁笑得最好。

★He sets the fox to keep the geese.

引狼入室。

★He that will not work shall not eat.

不劳动者不得食。

★Not to advance is to go back.

不进则退。

★He who makes no mistakes makes nothing.

想不犯错误，就一事无成。

★He who risks nothing gains nothing.

收获与风险并存。

★I cannot be your friend and your flatterer too. 朋友不能阿谀奉承。

★If you run after two hares, you will catch neither. 脚踏两条船，必定落空。

★If you sell the cow, you sell her milk too. 杀鸡取卵。

★If you want knowledge, you must toil for it. 要想求知，就得吃苦。

★Industry is the parent of success.

勤奋是成功之母。

★It is easier to get money than to keep it. 挣钱容易攒钱难。

★It is never too old to learn.

活到老，学到老。

★It takes three generations to make a gentleman. 十年树木，百年树人。

★Keep good men company and you shall be of the number. 近朱者赤，近墨者黑。

★Kill two birds with one stone.

一箭双雕。

★Knowledge makes humble, ignorance makes proud. 博学使人谦逊，无知使人骄傲。

★Let the cat out of the bag.

泄漏天机。

★Lies can never changes fact.

谎言终究是谎言。

★Life without a friend is death.

没有朋友，虽生犹死。

★Like a rat in a hole.

瓮中之鳖。

★Make your enemy your friend. 化敌为友。

★Man is the soul of the universe. 人是万物之灵。

★Man proposes, God disposes.

谋事在人，成事在天。

★Many hands make light work.

众人拾柴火焰高。

★Necessity is the mother of invention. 需要是发明的动力。

★Never fish in trouble water. 不要混水摸鱼。

★No man is born wise or learned.

没有生而知之者。

★None are so blind as those who won't see. 视而不见。

★No one can call back yesterday.

昨日不会重现。

★Nothing in the world is difficult for one who sets his mind to it.

世上无难事，只怕有心人。

★Nothing is so necessary for travelers as languages. 外出旅行，语言最要紧。

★Observation is the best teacher.

观察是最好的老师。

★Old friends and old wines are best.

陈酒味醇，老友情深。

★Old sin makes new shame.

一失足成千古恨。

★One false move may lose the game. 一着不慎，满盘皆输。

★One good turn deserves another. 行善积德。

★One hour today is worth two tomorrow. 争分夺秒效率高。

★One man's fault is other man's lesson. 前车之鉴。

★One never loses anything by politeness. 讲礼貌不吃亏。

★One's words reflect one's thinking. 言为心声。

★Please the eye and plague the heart. 贪图一时快活，必然留下隐祸。

★Prefer loss to unjust gain.

宁可吃亏，不贪便宜。

★Prevention is better than cure.

预防胜于治疗。

★Pull the chestnut out of fire.

火中取栗。

★Put your shoulder to the wheel.

鼎力相助。

★Respect yourself, or no one else will respect you. 要人尊敬，必须自重。

★Seek the truth from facts.

实事求是。

★Success belongs to the persevering.

坚持就是胜利。

★The best hearts are always the bravest.

无私者无畏。

★Where there is life, there is hope.

留得青山在，不怕没柴烧。

★Things at the worst will mend.

否极泰来。

★The finest diamond must be cut.

玉不琢，不成器。

★The fire is the test of gold, adversity of strong man. 烈火验真金，艰难磨意志。

★There is no royal road to learning.

书山有路勤为径，学海无涯苦作舟。

★The fox preys farthest from home.

兔子不吃窝边草。

★The more wit, the less courage.

初生牛犊不怕虎。

★There is kindness to be found everywhere. 人间处处有温情。

★Every man is the architect of his own fortune. 自己的命运自己掌握。