2010年12月英语四六级写作常用谚语500句（5） like tree, like fruit. 羊毛出在羊身上little things amuse little minds. 小人无大志look before you leap. 摸清情况再行动lookers-on see more than players. 当局者迷，旁观者清losers are always in the wrong. 胜者为王，败者为寇lost time is never found again. 岁月既往，一去不回love at first sight. 一见钟情love cannot be compelled. 爱情不能强求love is blind. 爱情是盲目的love is full of trouble. 爱情充满烦恼love is never without jealousy. 没有妒忌就没有爱情love me, love my dog. 爱屋及乌make hay while the sun shines. 良机勿失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many heads are better than one. 三个臭皮匠，赛过诸葛亮many things grow in the garden that were never sown there. 有心栽花花不发，无心插柳柳成荫measure for measure. 针锋相对misfortunes never come alone. 祸不单行misfortune tests the sincerity of friends. 患难见真情money isn’t everything. 钱不是万能的murder will out. 纸包不住火my son is my son till he has got him a wife, but my daughter is my daughter all the days of her life. 儿子婚前是儿子，女儿终生是女儿。
nature is the true law. 天行有常，不为尧存，不为桀亡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never judge from appearances. 不可以貌取人never say die. 永不言败never too old to learn, never too late to turn. 亡羊补牢，为时未晚new wine in old bottles. 旧瓶装新酒no cross, no crown. 不经历风雨，怎么见彩虹no garden without its weeds. 没有不长草的园子no living man all things can. 世上没有万事通no man can do two things at once. 一心不可二用no man is born wise or learned. 没有生而知之者no man is content. 人心不足蛇吞象no man is wise at all times. 聪明一世，糊涂一时。
none are so blind as those who won’t see. 视而不见none are so deaf as those who won’t hear. 充耳不闻no news is good news. 没有消息就是好消息no one can call back yesterday. 昨日不会重现no pains, no gains. 没有付出就没有收获no pleasure without pain. 没有苦就没有乐no rose without a thorn. 没有不带刺的玫瑰no sweet without sweat. 先苦后甜no smoke without fire. 无风不起浪nothing brave, nothing have. 不入虎穴，焉得虎子nothing dries sooner than a tear. 眼泪干得最快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 difficult to the man who will try. 世上无难事，只要肯登攀。
nothing seek, nothing find.没有追求就没有收获nothing is so necessary for travelers as languages.外出旅行，语言最要紧nothing is to be got without pains but poverty.世上唯有贫穷可以不劳而获not to advance is to go back. 不进则退not to know what happened before one was born is always to be a child. 不懂世故，幼稚可笑no way is impossible to courage. 勇者无惧obedience is the first duty of a soldier. 军人以服从命令为天职observation is the best teacher. 观察是最好的老师offense is the best defense. 进攻是最好的防御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。
once a man and twice a child. 一次老，两次小once a thief, always a thief. 偷盗一次，做贼一世once bitten, twice shy. 一朝被蛇咬，十年怕井绳one boy is a boy, two boys half a boy, three boys no boy. 一个和尚挑水喝，两个和尚抬水喝，三个和尚没水喝one cannot put back the clock. 时钟不能倒转one eyewitness is better than ten hearsays. 百闻不如一见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 swallow does not make a summer. 一燕不成夏one’s words reflect one’s thinking. 言为心声out of debt, out of danger. 无债一身轻out of office, out of danger. 无官一身轻out of sight, out of mind. 眼不见，心为静patience is the best remedy. 忍耐是良药penny wise, pound foolish. 贪小便宜吃大亏plain dealing is praised more than practiced. 正大光明者，说到的多，做到的少please the eye and plague the heart. 贪图一时快活，必然留下隐祸pleasure comes through toil. 苦尽甘来pour water into a sieve. 竹篮子打水一场空practice makes perfect. 熟能生巧praise is not pudding. 恭维话不能当饭吃。
praise makes good men better, and bad men worse. 好人越夸越好，坏人越夸越糟prefer loss to unjust gain. 宁可吃亏，不贪便宜prevention is better than cure. 预防胜于治疗pride goes before, and shame comes after. 骄傲使人落后1. A bosom friend afar brings a distant land near. 海内存知己，天涯若比邻2. A common danger causes common action. 同舟共济3. A contented mind is a continual / perpetual feast. 知足常乐4. A fall into the pit, a gain in your wit. 吃一堑，长一智5. A guest should suit the convenience of the host. 客随主便6. A letter from home is a priceless treasure. 家书抵万金。
7. All rivers run into the sea. 殊途同归8. All time is no time when it is past. 机不可失，时不再来9. An apple a day keeps the doctor away. 一日一个苹果，身体健康不求医10. As heroes think, so thought Bruce. 英雄所见略同11. A young idler, an old beggar. 少壮不努力，老大徒伤悲12. Behind the mountains there are people to be found. 天外有天，山外有山13. Bad luck often brings good luck. 塞翁失马，安知非福14. Bread is the stall of life. 面包是生命的支柱民以食为天)15. Business is business. 公事公办16. Clumsy birds have to start flying early. 笨鸟先飞17. Courtesy costs nothing. 礼多人不怪18. Custom makes all things easy. 习惯成自然。
19. Desire has no rest. 人的欲望无止境20. Difficult the first time, easy the second. 一回生，二回熟21. Do not change horses in mid-stream. 别在河流中间换马22. Do not have too many irons in the fire. 贪多嚼不烂23. Do not pull all your eggs in one basket. 别把所有的蛋都放在一个篮子里不要孤注一掷)24. Do not teach fish to swim. 不要班门弄斧25. East or west, home is the best. 东奔西跑，还是家里好26. Experience is the best teacher. 实践出真知27. Fact is stranger than fiction. 事实比虚构更离奇大千世界，无奇不有)28. Faith can move mountains. 信念能移山精诚所至，金石为开)29. First impressions are half the battle. 先入为主。