[English] 英文 各種俗語

Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
富貴帶來朋友,困境考驗朋友。
Pity is akin to love.
憐憫接近於愛。
East or west, home is best.
哪也不如家好。
Before you marry, be sure of a house to tarry.
當你結婚之前,應確知有居留之所。
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
離別增加思念,相逢加深愛慕。
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
患難中的朋友才是真正的朋友。
A life without a friend is a life without a sun.
人生沒有朋友,猶如人生沒有了太陽。
A true friend is one soul in two bodies.
摰友如異體同心。
All are not friends that speak us fair.
說好話的人不都是朋友。
A friend that frowns is better than a smiling enemy.
一個向你蹙眉的朋友也要勝於一個向你微笑的敵人。
A hedge between keeps friendship green.
朋友間保持一定距離,可使友誼永存。
A man in love is easily deceived.
熱總中的人容易受騙。
Slow help is no help.
不及時的幫助等於無助。
Like repel each other, unlike attract.
同性相斥,異性相吸。
Union is strength.
團結就是力量。
The worst men give often the best advice.
最壞的人經常結予最好的忠告。
The friendship is like sound health, the value of which is seldom known until it be 
lost.
真正的友誼猶如完美的健康,非到失去時不知其可貴。
I have many beautiful flowers, but the children are the most beautiful flowers of all.
我有許多美麗的鮮花,但是在所有的鮮花中,孩子是最美麗的鮮花。
The course of true love never did run smooth.
真誠的愛情之路崎嶇不平。
A pet lamb makes a cross ram.
一隻寵壞了的小羊將來會成為一隻橫蠻的大羊。
A good wife and health are a man's best wealth.
一個男人最好的財富就是一個賢妻和健康。
A man has choice to begin love, but not to end it.
一個人開始去愛上誰的時候,他可以有所選擇,但當他要結束愛情的時候,可就沒有選擇了。
Love, friendship, and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
愛情,友誼,尊敬都不及對某種東西的共同的憎恨那樣容易把人們聯合起來。
Love asks faith, and faith asks firmness.
愛情要求忠誠,而忠誠則要求堅定。
Love is a sweet torment.
愛是甜蜜和痛苦的結合體。
Love me , love my dog.
愛屋及烏。
Love can turn the cottage into a golden palace.
愛情可化陋室為宮殿。
Love makes the world go round.
愛使世界轉動。
Love begets love.
愛產生愛。
Love me little, love me long.
愛不貴親蜜,而貴長久。
Love cannot be compelled.
愛情不能強迫。
Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.
尋找而來的愛情是美好的.但上天賦予的愛情更美好。
Misfortune tests the sincerity of friends.
患難知真友。
A long life may not be good enough but a good life is long enough.
長久的生活不一定是美好的,而美好的生活都是長久的。
Love is blind.
愛情使人對缺點視而不見。
The present is trifling but the feeling is profound.
千里送鵝毛,禮輕情義重。
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
結婚前眼睛要睜大,結婚後眼睛要半睜半閉。
Two's company, three's none.
兩人成伴,三人不歡。
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
分離使人更親近。
All's fair in love and war.
在愛情和戰爭中,一切都是平等的。
Variety is the spice of life.
變化是生活的調味品。
Where love fails, we spy all faults.
在喪失愛情的地方,我們會察覺到所有的缺點。
Whom we love best we can say least.
對我們最愛的人,我們能說的話最少。
Without respect, love cannot go far.
如果不互相尊敬,愛也不會長久。
Where there is a will, there is a way.
有志者事竟成。
When you are in trouble you find out who your real friends are.
在患難中才會發現誰是你真正的朋友。
To see an old friend is as agreeable as a good meal.
見到老友如用佳餚。
Marry in haste and repent at leisure.
草率結婚後悔多。
Many hands make light work.
人多力量大。
If you confer a benefit, never remember it; if you receive one, remember it always.
施恩勿記,受恩勿忘。
In wine is truth.
酒中有真言。
He gives twice that gives in a trice.
立刻施與的人,等於施與兩次。
Hearts may agree, though heads differ.
意見縱有分歧,但其心則仍可能一致。
He that walked with wise men shall be wise.
與智者行必得其智。
He who is the most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in the performance of it.
最難給你承諾的心,在履行的時候是最忠誠的。
He is happy whom other men's perils make wary.
願為別人排憂解難的人才能得到真正的快樂。
It takes two to make a quarrel.
必須有兩個人,才有爭吵。
I know him not should I meet him in my pottage dish.
僅為我之酒肉朋友者,不算是我的朋友。
I cannot be your friend and your flatter too.
我不能同時是你的朋友又是你的阿諛奉承者。
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
寧願有所愛而又失去了,猶勝於從無所愛。
It is better to be alone than in bad company.
與惡友交往不如獨處。
Happy families also had their own troubles.
家家有本難念的經。
Happy is home, though it be never so homely.
雖然不總是那麼好,但家畢竟是家。
One half-hour of a beautiful night is worth a thousand tales.
良宵一刻值千金。
Faults are thick where love is thin.
一朝情義淡,樣樣不順眼。
A bosom friend afar brings a distant land near.
酒內存知己,天涯若比鄰。
Lovely is this noble lady, fit bride for the lord.
窈窕淑女,君子好逑。
Love is really to be treasured, but you must not beg for love.
愛情誠可貴,千萬莫求拜。
Getting a divorce is not as easy as getting married.
結婚容易離婚難。
Without bread and wine, even love will pine.
貧賤夫妻百事哀。
One foe is too many, and a hundred friends too few.
朋友愈多愈好,冤家愈少愈好。
Short accounts make long friendship.
彼此無賬,友誼久長。
It's easy enough to repay a debt, but hard to repay friendship.
還債容易還情難。
He that is ill to himself will be good to nobody.
人不自愛,焉能愛人。
A gentleman does not bear grudges.
君子不念舊惡。
A relative far away isn't as helpful as a neighbor close by.
遠親不如近鄰。
I only wish that you and I may be ever well and hale, that both of us watch the same fair moon, even we are a thousand miles apart.
但願人長久,千里共嬋娟。
Helping people is a kind of relaxation.
助人乃一樂事。
With clothes the new are best, with friends the old are best.
衣服新的好,朋友舊的好。
Seeing the things makes one think of somebody.
睹物思人。
In course of time dislike may arise.
日久生厭。
Love will come in time.
日久生情。
Time shows the truth about a man.
日久見人心。
Every bird likes its own nest, every man likes his own home.
鳥愛自己窩,人愛自己家。
Life is very dear, indeed, to everybody, but love will be of greater value to us. If we have to die for freedom, we stint no sacrifice of both.
生命誠可貴,愛情價更高;若為自由故,二者皆可拋。
When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out at the window.
一朝人落淚,愛情生翼飛。
Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
友誼可能,而且常常發展成愛情,但是愛情卻永遠不會下降成友誼。
In prosperity our friends know us, in adversity we know our friends.
幸運時朋友了解我們,逆境中我們了解朋友。
It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you: the one to slander you, and the other to bring you the news.
你的敵人要和你的朋友一起才能傷害你,一個誹謗你,另一個把消息告訴你。
It is more blessed to give than to receive.
施與勝於接受。
Nothing costs so much as what is given us.
欠下人情,代價最大。
Misfortune makes foes of friends.
同處危境,友也成敵。
The tongue is more venomous than a serpent's sting.
言毒甚於蛇毒。
Even brothers should keep careful accounts.
親兄弟,明算帳。
Likeness causes liking.
相近產生相悅。
If friends have faith in each other, life and death are of no consequence.
朋友肝膽相照,何懼兩肋插刀。
When a friend asks, there is no tomorrow. The implication is that one should not put off a friend's requests with vain promise.
朋友求援,切莫拖延。
One cannot love and be wise.
愛與明智不可兼存。
Love needs no teaching.
愛情無師自通。
No love like the first love.
愛情最貴是初戀。
A mother's love never ages.
母愛永恆。
An ill marriage is a spring of ill fortune.
不幸的婚姻乃不幸之源。
Never marry for money.
莫為金錢而結婚。
A father's goodness in higher than the mountains; a mother's goodness in deeper than the sea.
父愛高於山,母愛深似海。
Welcome is the best dish.
歡迎是最好的菜餚。
Familiarity breeds contempt.
熟悉滋長輕視。
He grieves sore who grieves alone.
獨自傷情情更傷。
The end of passion is the beginning of repentance.
熱情的結束便是懊悔的開始。
A wife who shared poverty may not be divorced in times of prosperity.
糟糠之妻不下堂。
Broken friendship may be soldered, but will never be sound.
友情破裂了可能恢復,但傷痕總不會消失。
All shall be well, Jack shall have Jill.
有情人終成眷屬。
Courtesy costs nothing.
彬彬有禮,惠而不費。
The crime of loving is forgetting.
對愛情的犯罪是忘卻。
The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
永恆的愛是永遠無需回報的愛。
The first duty of love is to listen.
愛情的首要義務就是傾聽。
Love is the source of language, and also its destroyer.
愛是語言的源泉,也是它的破壞者。
Love talked about can be easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.
口中說出的愛很容易遭到拒絕,而行動表現出來的愛卻是無法抗拒的。
When a man sits with a beautiful girl for an hour, it seems a minute, But let him sit on a hot stove far a minute-and it's longer than any hour. That is a relativity.
一個男人如果與一位非常漂亮的女孩坐在一起,一個小時也彷彿只有一分鐘;而要他在灼熱的爐子上坐上一分鐘,卻似乎比一個小時還長。這就是相對論。
When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.
當你背叛別人時,也就背叛了你自己。
One man, no man.
個人是渺小的。
There is no friend so faithful as a good book.
最忠實的朋友莫過於一本好書。
No man is the whole of himself; his friends are the rest of him.
任何人自己都不是完整的;他的朋友是他的其餘部分。
If you live with a lame person you will learn to limp./ Who keeps company with the wolf will learn how to howl.
近豬者赤,近墨者黑。
One of the greatest pleasures in life is conversation.
生活中最大的樂趣之一是交談。
Poverty is the test of civility and the touchstone of friendship.
貧窮是對人情的檢驗,也是友誼的試金石。
Words are like bees, they have honey and a sting.
言語像蜜蜂,有蜜也有刺。
A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down.
真正的朋友絕不會攔住你的去路,除非在你走下坡路時。
Do not look each of you to your things, but each of you also to the things of others.
不要只顧自己的事,也要顧別人的事。
Birds of a feather flock together.
物以類聚,人以群分。
Love asks faith, and faith firmness.
愛情要求信任,信任要求堅定。
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
情人眼裏出西施。
Marriage is a covered dish.
婚姻是一道蓋著的菜。
Have but few friends, though many acquaintances.
交遊宜廣,知心宜稀。
Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.
選擇妻子,用耳比用眼可靠。
He who does not honor his wife, dishonors himself.
不尊重自己妻子的人,自己也得不到尊重。
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage.
把恐懼留給自己,把勇氣分給別人。
Our mightiest feelings are always those which remain most unspoken.
最強烈的總是那些最緘默的感情。
Without confidence there is no friendship.
沒有信任就沒有友誼。
Wine and judgment mature with age.
酒老味醇,人老識深。
Without a friend, the world is a wideness.
沒有朋友,世界成了荒野。
Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
完全的理解有時幾乎會使樂趣消失。
A friend to all is a friend to none.
對一切人都是朋友,對哪一個也不是朋友。
Success has many friends.
成功者朋友多。
It is not lost that a friend gets.
東西給了朋友並不是損失。
Confidence is a plant of slow growth.
信任是一棵難長的樹。
Any help is better than no help.
任何幫助都勝於沒有幫助。
A smile is a curve that sets a lot of things straight.
微笑是一條曲線,它能使許多東西變直。
Deceiving those that trust us is more than a sin.
欺騙信任自己的人是罪上加罪。
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
選擇朋友要慢,換朋友更要慢。
Better a frank denial than unwilling compliance.
勉強應允不如坦誠拒絕。
He who mistrusts most should be trusted least.
最不信任別人的人最不應該得到信任。
His bashful mind hinders his good intent.
害羞使好意無法表現。
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
自然情感的流露,使人們更親近。
We shall never have friends if we expect them without fault.
指望朋友沒缺點,就永遠不會有朋友。
Ha may freely receive courtesies that knows how to requite them.
知道如何還禮的人才可隨意收禮。
United we stand, dived we fall.
團結則生,分裂則亡。
There is strength in numbers, but impotence in single handedness.
人多勢眾,孤掌難鳴。
True love is giving, not taking.
真摯的愛是給予,而不是索取。
Hope is a lover's staff.
希望是愛情的手扶之杖。
Sound love is not soon forgotten.
牢固的愛情不會頃刻忘懷。
Joy is found only in love, life is found only in loving.
只有在有愛時才能找到歡樂,只有在愛別人中才能找到生活。
No herb will cure love.
相思病無藥醫。
There is no rose without a thorn.
沒有無刺的玫瑰。
Marry thy like.
結婚需找同類人。
Marriage makes of mars a man.
婚姻可使人成功,也可使人失敗。
Taking joy in living is a woman's best cosmetic.
對人生感到樂趣是女人最好的化妝品。
It is not what is she, but what has she.
擇妻看人品,切莫戀門第。
If you want to be sure that you never forget your wife's birthday, just try to forgetting it once.
要想永遠記住妻子的生日,就忘卻一次試試。
If you always say No, you'll never be married.
常說"不"的人,永遠難成婚。
That which was bitter to endure may be sweet to remember.
當時艱辛回味甜。
Who says that the heart of an inch-long plant, can requite the radiance of full spring?
誰言寸草心,報得三春暉。
When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
少時喜歡聰明的心,老來喜歡仁厚人。
A man's home is his castle.
一個人的家就是他的城堡。
No man is happy but by comparison.
人的幸福都是比較而言的。
Real friendship does not freeze in winter.
真正的友誼遇到寒冬也不會凍結。
Friendship is , at any rate, a relation of perfect a quality.
友誼在任何情形下都是一種完全平等的關係。
Man loves company even if it is only that of a small burning candle.
人喜歡伴侶,那怕只是一根點著的小蠟燭也好。
Forgiving and being forgiven are two names for the same thing. The important thing is that a discord has been resolved.
饒恕人和受饒恕是同一件事的兩面。重要的是嫌隙得到冰釋。
Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough.
不論甚麼東西,只要你愛它夠深,它就會傾吐它的祕密。
Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
幸福有如蝴蝶,你追逐它時永遠捉不到,你靜坐下來,它卻可能落在你身上。


Ref : http://www.angelfire.com/hi5/gloriaparadise/love.htm