谚语19
眼前发生许多事,有些我们并不知。Much water runs by the mill that the miller knows not of.
贪得无厌。 Much will have more.
杀人终必败露。 Murder will out.
音乐抚慰凶暴心灵的魅力。 Music has charms to soothe the savage beast.
音乐是耳朵的眼睛。 Music is the eye of the ear.
音乐是医治心灵创伤的妙药。 Music is the medicine of the breaking heart.
音乐可洗去灵魂中日常生活所沾染的污垢。 Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
儿子只有在娶妻前是儿子,女儿则终生是女儿。 My son is my son, till he has got him a wife; but my daughter's my daughter all the days of her life.
即使是拿破仑,过去也是啼哭的婴孩。Napolean himself was once a crying baby.
自然界里是没有真空的。Nature abhors a vacuum.
天赋我们两耳,两眼,一张嘴巴,归根到底该多听,多看,少说话。Nature has given us two ears, two eyes, and but one tongue, to the end that we should hear and see more than we speak.
大自然是反应真理的一面镜子。Nature is the glass reflecting truth.
自然教我们爱朋友,宗教却教我们爱敌人。Nature teaches us to love our friends but religion our enemies.
自然,时间和耐心,是三大伟大的医生。Nature, time, and patience are the three great physicians.
天行其道。Nature will have its course.
顽皮淘气的男孩子有时成为仁人君子。Naughty boys sometimes make good men.
需要和机会可能使懦夫变成勇士。Necessity and opportunity may make a coward valiant.
需要面前无法律。 Necessity has no law.
Necessity knows no law.
Need has no law.
Need knows no law.
穷则变,变则通。 Necessity is the mother of invention.
铤而走险。 Necessity knows no law.
人急造反,狗急跳墙。事急老妪跑。 Need makes the old wife trot.
情势所迫,只好如此。 Needs must when the devil drives.
忽视健康,医生财旺。 Neglect of health is doctor's wealth.
行善莫厌烦。 Never be weary of well doing.
事成功,才声张。 Never cackle till your egg is laid.
不要过河拆桥。饮水之源莫污染。 Never cast dirt into that fountain of which you have sometime drunk.
做事情不要半途而废。 Never do things by halves.
如未掌握好已学过的东西,切莫从事更深的学习。 Never embark on what comes after without having mastered what goes before.
捉到鱼,才煎鱼。 Never fry a fish till it's caught.
人不可貌相。 Never judge by appearances.
抓住大好时机,切莫等闲错过。 Never neglect an opportunity for improvement.
切莫教鱼游泳。 Never offer to teach fish to swim.
今日事,今日毕。 Never put off till tomorrow what may be done today.
不要本末倒置。 Never put the plow before the oxen.
不要气馁,朋友,振作起来,干! Never say die! Up man, and try.
莫说不想让人听见的话。 Never say of another what you would not have him hear.
钱包不露底,思想需保留。 Never show the bottom of your purse or your mind.
骑渡中流莫换马。指危难时不宜做大变动 Never swap horses while crossing the stream.
Never swop horses while crossing the stream
切莫自视过高。 Never think yourself above your business.
过则勿惮改。 Never too late to mend.
Never too late to repent.
活到老,学到老。 Never too old to learn.
Never too late to learn.
切莫自寻麻烦。 Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.
Don't trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.
自己应该做的事,决不要委托别人做。 Never trust another what you should do yourself.
切勿轻信漂亮的言词。 Never trust of fine words.
新官上任三把火。 New brooms sweep clean.
新官新法。 New lords, new laws.
新闻就像鱼,过后不新鲜。 News is like fish.
报纸是世界之镜。 Newspapers are the world's mirrors.
夜莺困笼不唱歌。 Nightingales will not sing in a cage.
不回答也是一种回答。 No answer is also answer.
没有蜜蜂就没有蜜,没有劳动就没有钱。 No bees, no honey; no work, no money.
无苦即无乐。 No cross, no crown.
不劳无获。 No gains without pains.
有利必有弊。 No garden without its weeds.
基础不好,建筑不牢。 No good building without a good foundation.
塞翁失马,安知非福。 No great loss without some small gain.
想思病,无药医。 No herb will cure love.
喜中有忧。 No joy without annoy.
世上无全能。 No living man all things can.
运不逢时,事不得意。 No longer pipe, no longer dance.
没有肮脏的爱情,也没有美丽的监狱。 No love is foul, nor prison fair.
没受过他人的统治,就不能很好地统治他人。 No man can be a good ruler unless he has first been ruled.
心无二用。 No man can do two things at once.
巧匠难以劣布制美服。 No man can make a good coat with bad cloth.
不犯千般错误,难成伟大人物。 No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.
没有一个人是一下子就坏透的。 No man ever became thoroughly bad at once.
笑颦不能成西施。 No man ever yet became great by imitation.
仆人目中无英雄。 No man is a hero to his valet.
人非生而知之者。 No man is born wise or learned.
No one is born wise or learned.
人心是不满足的。 No man is content.
人越活越想活。 No man is so old, but thinks he may yet live another year.
没有一个人因为他自知最糟就是最糟。 No man is the worst for knowing the worst of himself.
聪明一世糊涂一时。 No man is wise at all times.
No one is wise at all times.
纵然知其难免一死,人却难料何时身亡。 No man knows when he shall die, although he knows he must die.
不经痛苦羞辱,难以取得教训。 No man learns but by pain or shame.
即使脚镣黄金铸,无人爱上这刑具。 No man loves his fetters be they made of gold.
没有金钱,就没有爱情。 No money, no honey.
不愿倾听意见者最聋。 None are so deaf as those who will not hear.
唯智者善于利用空闲。 None but a wise man can employ leisure well.
英雄才能配美人。 None but the brave deserve the fair.
只有那个穿鞋人,才知鞋哪里轧脚。 None but the wearer knows where the shoe pinches.
看人挑担不吃力。 None knows the weight of another's burden.
蚂蚁不说话,但最善于说教。 None preaches better than the ant, and she says nothing.
最瞎莫如视而不见。 None so blind as those who won't see.
置若罔闻。 None so deaf as those that won't hear.
没有消息就是好消息。 No news is good news.