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英文谚语大全
Part J：
● Jack of all trades and master of none. 什么都会，样样不精。
● Jack of all trades is of no trade. 万事皆通，一无所长。
● Jest with an ass and he will flap you in the face with his tail. 你跟驴子开玩笑，将被驴尾打耳光。
● Joy and sorrow are next-door neighbours. 是喜是忧难以分。
● Joy often comes after sorrow, like morning after night. 暮去必将朝至，苦尽常会甜来。
● Joy put heart into a man. 人逢喜事精神爽。
● Joy shared with others are more enjoyed. 与人同乐，其乐无穷。
● Jadge not a book by its cover. 人不可貌相。
● Judge not according to the appearance. 不要以貌取人。
● Judge not of men and things at first sight. 审人论事宜谨慎，一见之下莫断定。
● Justice has long arms. 天网恢恢，疏而不漏。

Part K：
● Keep thing seven years and you will find a use for it. 备而不用。
● Keep good men company, and you shall be of the number. 近朱者赤。
● Keeping is harder than winning. 创业不易，守业更难。
● Keep some till more come. 更多的到手以前，要保持手里的一点。
● Keep your breath to cool your porridge. 少管闲事。
● Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards. 婚前张开眼，婚后半闭月。
● Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open. 要多看少说。
● Kill the goose that laid the golden egg. 杀鸡取蛋
● Kind hearts are more than coronets. 善良的心灵胜于显贵的地位。
● Kindness always begets kindness. 善有善根。
● Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together. 善良是连结社会的金链。
● Kindness is the language that the deaf can hear and the dumb understand. 善良为语言，聋子能天见哑巴懂心间。
● Kindness is the sunshine of social life. 仁慈是社会生活中的阳光。
● Kindness will creep where it may not go. 仁慈可进入任何禁地。
● Kind words are the music of the world. 善言是世上的音乐。
● Kind words are worth much and cost little. 口头方便不费力。
● Kind words butter no parsnips. 画饼充饥。
● Kinsman helps kinsman, but woe to him that hath nothing. 亲帮亲，邻帮邻，无亲无助你倒霉。
● Knavery may serve, but honestyis best. 欺诈可能得计，但诚实总是上策。
● Knowledge advances by steps not by leaps. 知识的获得是循序渐进而不是突飞猛进的。
● Knowledge comes from experience alone. 知识来自经验。
● Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in an advanced age; and if we do not plant it when young, it will give us no shade when we grow old. 学识可使老年时舒适地退隐和有所寄托；但如果年青时不使它扎下根，老年就得不到它的庇护。
● Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it. 知识是一座宝库，实践是打开宝库的钥匙。
● Knowledge is long, life is short. 吾生有涯，而知无涯。
● Knowledge is of two kinds, we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. 知识有两种，一种是我们自己知道的东西，另一种是知道哪里可以找到有关的资料。
● Knowledge is power. 知识就是力量。
● Knowledge is the antidote to fear. 知识可以解除恐惧。
● Knowledge is the most precious treasure of all things, because it can never be given away, nor stolen nor consumed. 知识是万物中最珍贵的财宝，丢不掉，偷不走，也不会损耗。
● Knowledge makes humble; ignorance makes proud. 知识令人谦虚；无知使人骄傲。
● Knowledge will not be aquired without pain and application. 不花力气，不下功夫是得不到知识的。
● Knowledge without practice makes but half an artist. 只有知识而无实践，只能造就半瓢水的艺术家。
● Know something like the palm of one';s hand. 熟知其事，了如指掌。
● Know something of everything and everything of something. 既要有一般常识，又要有专业知识。
● Know thyself. 知道你自己。

Part L：
● Labour is light where love doth pay. 爱情作酬报，劳苦必轻松。
● Labour is often the father of pleasure. 勤劳常为快乐之源。
● Labour is the capital of our working men. 劳动力是劳动人民的资本。
● Lack of knowledge is darker than night. 没有知识比黑夜还要黑。
● Late repentance is seldom true. 后悔少有诚意。
● Laugh and grow fat. 心宽体胖。
● Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone. 你笑，人人陪你笑；你哭，惟独你自哭。
● Laugh at your ills, And save doctors'; bills. 生病不忧虑，节省医药费。
● Laugh before breakfast you';ll cry before supper. 乐极生悲。
● Law makers should not be law breakers. 正人先正己。
● Laws catch flies but let hornets go free. 法网只捉苍蝇，不捉黄蜂。
● Lawsuits consume time, and money, and rest, and friends. 诉讼将消耗时间、金钱、休息和失去朋友。
● Lazy folks take the most pains. 懒汉多吃苦。
● Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age. 学问在得意时是装饰品，失意时是庇护所，年老时是供应品。
● Learning is wealth to the poor, an honour to the rich, an 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。
● Learning makes a good man better and ill man worse. 知识能使好人更好，坏人更坏。
● Learning without thought is labour lost; thought without learning is perilous. 学而不思则罔，思而不学则殆。
● Learn to creep before you leap. 循序渐进。
● Learn to say before you sing. 按部就班。
● Learn to suffer without complaining; that is the best thing I can teach you. 要学会受痛苦而不怨，这是我教你的至要之事。
● Learn to walk before you run. 循序渐进。
● Learn wisdom by the follies of others. 要从别人的愚行中学到聪明。
● Learn young, learn fair. 学习趁年轻，既学就学好。
● Least said, soonest mended. 多说反坏事。
● Lend your money and lose your friend. 赔了夫人又折兵。
● Let beggars match with beggars. 龙配龙，凤配凤。
● Let bygones be bygones. 既往不昝。
● Let difficulties occur but not the loss of courage. 纵使困难重重，也不丧失勇气。
● Let every man praise the bridge he goes over. 饮水思源。
● Let every man speak well of the bridge theat carries him over. 饮水思源。
● Let every tub stand on its own bottom. 各人管各人自己。
● Let not the cobbler go beyond his last. 安分守己。
● Let not the sun go down upon thy wrath. 日落之前，平息你的怒火吧。
● Let our object be our courtry, our whole country, and nothing but our country. 我们的心目中要有国家，要有整个国家，而且只有我们的国家别如其他。
● Let';s cross the bridge when we come to it. 既来之，则安之。
● Let sleeping dogs lie. 不要惹事生非。
● Let the cobbler stick to his last. 安分守己。
● Let the dead bury the dead. 往事不重提。
● Let the hands get busy, not the mouth. 手要勤劳，嘴莫多说。
● 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。
● Liars have need of good memories. 谎言者要有好的记忆力。
● Liars should have good memories. 说谎的人应有好的记性。
● Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by law. 自由就是做法律许可做的事情的权力。
● Liberty is not licence. 自由不是放纵。
● Liberty often degenerates into lawlessness. 自由随便，经常堕落到无法无天。
● Lie in (oron) the bed one has made. 自作自受。
● Lies have short legs. 谎言是站不住脚的。
● Life is a battle from cradle to grave. 人生是一场从生到死的战斗。
● Life is a comedy to him who thinks and a tragedy to him who feels. 对善思考者，人生为喜剧；对凭感觉者，人生为悲剧。
● Life is a flower of which love is the honey. 人生是花朵，爱情是花蜜。
● Life is a shuttle 生活犹如梭子。
● Life is but a span. 人生如朝露。
● Life is compared to voyage. 人生好比是航海。
● Life is half spent before we know what it is. 等到认识人生，已经一半过去了。
● Life is long if you know how to use it. 如果懂得好好利用，生命就长了。
● Life if made up of little things. 生活是由琐事构成的。
● Life is measured by thought and action, not by time. 生命的价值是用思想和行为来衡量的，而不是寿命的长短。
● Life is not all beer and skittles. 人生并不全是吃喝玩乐。
● Life is not so short but there is time enougn for courtesy. 人生虽短，但表示礼貌的时间还是足够的。
● Life is short and time is fleeting 人生短暂，光阴易逝。
● Life is sweet. 生命是甜美的。
● Life, to be worthy of a rational being, must be always in progression. 人生必须永远前进，才不愧为有理智的人。
● Life without a friend is death without a witness. 在世无朋友，死后无证人。
● Lightly come, lightly go. 易得易失。
● Light troubles speak; great troubles are silent. 小困难，大声叫嚷；大困难，闷生不响。
● Like attracts like. 物以类聚。
● Like author, like book. 书如其人。
● Like begets like. 有其父必有其子。
● Like cow, like calf. 有其父必有其子。
● Like cures like. 以毒攻毒。
● Like draws to like. 物以类聚。
● Like draws to like the whole world over. 物以类聚，世间皆如此。
● Like father, like son. 有其父必有其子。
● Like knows like. 英雄识英雄。
● Like mother, like daughter. 有其母必有其女。
● Like teacher, like pupil. 有其师必有其徒。
● Like tree, like fruit. 有其因必有其果。
● Little boats must keep the shores. 小船不能航行远。
● Little bodies may have great souls. 小小的躯体会有伟大的心灵。
● Littel chips light great fires. 星星之火，可以燎原。
● Little pigeons can carry great messages. 少年也可以成大事。
● Little pitchers have great (or large) ears. 小孩子耳朵长。
● Little strokes fell great oaks. 水滴石穿。
● Little thieves are hanged, but great one';s escape. 窃钩者诛，窃国者侯。
● Little things amuse little minds. 小人志卑。
● Little wealth, little care. 财少寡忧。
● Live and learn. 活到老，学到老。
● Live and let live. 自己生活，也要让他人生活。
● Live to learn and learn to live. 生而学之，学而生之。
● Living without an aim is like sailing without a compass. 生活没有目标，犹如航海没有罗盘。
● Lock the stable door before the steed is stolen. 马未偷走前，厩门先锁上。
● Loftiest trees most dread the thunder. 树大招风。
● Long absent, soon forgotten. 长久不在的人，很快被忘怀。
● Long tarrying takes all the thanks away. 事情耽搁太久就没有人会感谢了。
● Look at the world through rose-coloured glasses. 对万事要乐观。
● Look before you leap; see before you go. 三思而行。
● Lookers-on see more than players. 旁观者清。
● Lookers-on see most of the games. 旁观者清。
● Look for a needle in a bundle (or bottle) of hay. 海底捞月。
● Look not for musk in dog';s kennel. 狗嘴里吐不出象牙。
● Lose not time; be always employed in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions. 不要浪费时间，做些有益的事情，停止一切不必要的行动。
● Losers are always in the wrong. 失败者总是错的。
● Losses make us more cautious 损失使人更谨慎。
● Lost time is never found again, and what we call time enough always proves little enough. 时间一去不再来，我们常说时间充足，实际。总是不够。
● Lost wealth can be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone for ever. 失去的财富可由勤奋而恢复，失去的知识可由学习而恢复，失去的健康可由节制或药物而恢复，但失去的时间却一去永不复返。
● Love all, trust a few, be false to none. 要爱一切人，相信少数人，不要负于任何人。
● Love and business teach eloquence. 爱情和买卖可以培养口才。
● Love and cough cannot be hid. 爱情和咳嗽是不能掩饰的。
● Love and poverty are hard to hide. 爱和穷难隐瞒。
● Love asks faith, and faith asks firmness. 爱情要求忠诚，而忠诚要求坚贞。
● Love begets love. 爱爱相生。
● Love cannot be forced 爱情不强求。
● Love can turn the cottage into a golden palace. 爱情可使茅屋成为金碧辉煌的宫殿。
● Love comes by looking. 情人眼里出西施。
● Love does much, money does everything (ormore). 爱情做许多事，金钱做任何事。
● Love fears no danger. 爱情不怕危险。
● Love grows with obstacles. 磨折越多，爱情越深。
● Love is a sweet torment. 爱情是一种甜蜜的折磨。
● Love is a sweet tyranny, because the lover endures his torment willingly. 爱情是甜蜜的虐政，情人心甘情愿地受它的折磨。
● Love is blind. 爱情是盲目的。爱情使人对缺点视而不见。情人眼里出西施。
● Love is full of trouble. 爱情多烦恼。
● Love is like the moon; when it does not increase it decreases. 爱情像月亮，不营即亏。
● Love is neither bought nor sold. 爱情不能买卖。
● Love is never without jealousy. 爱情莫不忌妒。
● Love is not to be found in the market. 爱情在市场上是找不到的。
● Love is sweet in the beginning but sour in the ending. 爱情始甜而终苦。
● Love is the mother oflove. 爱产生爱情。
● Love is the reward of love. 爱情就是爱的报答。
● Love is the touchstone of virtue. 爱情是美德的试金石。
● Love is the true price of love. 爱情只能用爱情来报答。
● Love is without reason. 爱情是没理智的。
● Love laughs at locksmith 春闺锁不住。
● Love lives in cottages as well as in courts. 爱情无贵贱，贫负皆有之。
● Love looks with telescope; envy with microscope. 爱情大处著眼，忌妒吹毛求疵。
● Love makes all equal. 恋爱不分贵贱。
● Love makes all hard hearts gentle. 爱情把一切冷酷的心变得温柔。
● Love makes obedience easy. 爱情使服从变为易事。
● Love makes one fit for any work. 爱情使人适合任何工作。
● Love makes the world go round. 爱情使世界运转。
● Love me little and love me long. 不求情意浓，但愿情义长。
● Love me, love my dog. 爱屋及乌。
● Love needs no teaching. 爱情无需教导。
● Love not at the first look. 切莫一见钟情。
● Lovers live by love, as larks live by leeks. 情侣靠爱情生活，正像云雀靠韭葱生活一样。
● Love rules his kingdom without a word. 维持爱情，不用强力。
● Love rules without a sword and bind without a cord. 爱的统治不用刀枪，捆绑不用绳索。
● Love should not be all on one side. 爱情不应是单方面的。
● Love sought is good, but given unsought is better. 追求而得的爱情固然美好，但不经追求而得的爱情更为美好。
● Love thy neighbours as thyself. 爱邻如爱己。
● Love understands love; it needs no talk. 爱情可以意会，无需言传。
● Love will find out the way. 爱情会自找出路。
● Love your neighbour, yet pull not down your hedge. 爱你的左邻右舍，但不要拆去你们之间的藩篱。
● Lying is the first step to the gallows. 说谎是上断头台的第一步。
● Lying rides upon debt';s back. 负债的人谎话多。

Part M：
● Maidens should (or must) be mild and meek, swift to hear and slow to speak. 少女应温良谦恭，敏于听而慎于言。
● Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can. 尽力而为，尽力节约，尽力施舍。
● Make haste slowly. 从容赶急。
● Make hay while the sun shines. 趁热打铁。
● Make the best of a bad business (or job or bargain) 身处山穷水尽，力争柳暗花明。
● Make the night night, and the day day, and you will have a pleasant time of it. 白天当白天，夜晚当夜晚，生活过得好，愉快而多欢。
● Make your enemy your friend. 要化敌为友。
● Make yourself necessary to someone. 使你有益于人。
● Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed. 只有人，生下时啼哭，活著时抱怨，去世时失望。
● Man has not a greater enemy than himself. 人之大敌，自己而已。
● Man is a tool-using animal. 人是用器之兽。
● Man is mortal. 人生谁无死。
● Man is not the creature of circumstances; circumstances are the creature of man. 并非时势造人，而是人造时势。
● Man is the artificer of his own happiness. 人之幸福，自己创造。
● Manners make the man. 礼貌造就人。
● Man proposes, God disposes. 谋事在天，成事在人。
● Man';s best plans often miscrarry. 神机妙算，常常失算。
● Man';s best possession is a loving wife. 男人最可贵的是有一个贤淑的妻子。
● Man will conquer nature. 人定胜天。
● Many a fine dish has nothing on it. 虚有其表。
● Many a flower is born to blush unseen. 有许多花儿生来就开著没有人欣赏。
● Many a good cow hath a bad calf. 虎父生犬子。
● Many a good father hath but a bad son. 好父亲偏生不肖子。
● Many a little (or pickle) makes a mickle. 积少成多。
● Many ants kill the horse. 蚁多可杀马。
● Many a true word is spoken in jest. 戏言寓真理。
● Many dishes, many diseases. 多吃多病。
● Many drops makes a shower. 积少成多。
● Many great men have arisen from humble beginnings. 有许多伟人出身卑微。
● Many hands are better than one. 众擎易举。
● Many hands make a burden lighter. 众擎易举。
● Many hands make light (or quick) work. 人多活儿轻。
● Many have suffered for talking, none ever suffered for keeping silence. 多言吃苦，缄默少祸。
● Many heads are better than one. 集思广益。
● Many kiss the baby for the nurse';s sake. 醉翁之意不在酒。
● Many men, many minds. 人多意见多。
● Many one says well that thinks ill. 口蜜腹剑者不乏其人。
● Many receive advice only the wise profit by it. 聆忠言者众，智者独获益。
● Many sands will sink a ship. 积沙沈船。
● Many straws may bind an elephant. 草多可缚象。
● Many wells, many buckets. 井多吊桶也多。
● Many words cut (or hurt) more than swords. 恶语伤人胜刀见。
● March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb. 三月来如雄狮，去如绵羊。
● Marriage comes by destiny. 姻缘命中定。
● Marriage goes by contrasts. 夫妻之间难免有差异。
● Marriage is a lottery. 婚姻是一件难于预料的事。
● Marriage is a lottery with more blanks than prizes. 结婚如同摸彩票，空票多而中票少。
● Marriaage is the bloom or blight of all men';s happiness. 结婚是人生的幸福花朵开放的时候，也可能是凋谢的时候。
● Marriage makes or mars a man. 婚姻能成全人也能损害人。
● Marriage! Nothing else demands so much from a man! 结婚！没有什么比结婚对人要求更多的了。
● Marry in haste, and repent at leisure. 草率结婚后悔多。
● Marry in lent, and you';ll live to repent. 借债结婚，后悔一生。
● Marry your son when you will, your daughter when you . 给儿子娶亲，想在什么时候皆可；把女儿嫁人要在有力量时才行。
● Master should be soetimes blind and sometimes deaf. 不痴不聋，不作阿家翁。
● Measure another';s corn by one';s own bushel. 以己度人。
● Measure for measure. 以牙还牙。
● Measure is treasure. 适度是宝。
● Measure thrice before you cut once. 三思而后行。
● Medicines are not meant to live on. 不能靠药物度日子。
● Men are mortal. 人生自古谁无死。
● Men, at soome time, are masters of their fates. 人有时是自己命运的主人。
● Men know where they were born, not where they shall die. 人能知其生于何地，不能知其死于何方。
● Men love to hear well of themselves. 阿谀奉承话，人们皆爱听。
● Men may meet but mountains never. 人生何处不相逢。
● Men of courage, men of sense, and menof letters are frequent: but a true gentleman is what one seldom seen. 有勇气，有见识，有学问的人易遇，可是真正的君子难逢。
● Men too seldom see their own faults. 人们很少能看到自己的过错。
● Mere words will not fill a bushel. 空言无补。
● Merry is he that hath nought to lose. 人无所失，不亦乐乎。
● Merry meet, merry part. 好聚好散。
● Method will teach you to win time 方法可教会你赢得时间。
● Mickle power makes many enemies. 权高树敌多。
● Might is (or makes or overcomes) right. 强权就是公理。
● Mills of God grind slowly but sure. 天网恢恢，疏而不漏。
● Miracels are to those who believe in them. 妖由人兴。
● Mischief has swift wings. 飞来横祸。
● Misers put their back and their belly into their pockets. 爱财如命。
● Misery acquaints men with strange bedfellows. 落难时不择伙伴。
● Misery loves company. 同病相怜。
● Misery makes strange bedfellows. 患难时不择友。
● Misfortune comes on wings and departs on foot. 遭灾易，消灾难。
● Misfortune is a good teacher. 不幸是良师。
● Misfortunes come at night. 灾祸常生于不测。
● Misforunes come on horseback and go away on foot. 遭灾易，消灾难。
● Misfortunes (or Hardships) never (or seldom) come alone (or singly). 祸不单行。
● Misfortunes tell us what fortune is. 经过灾难方知福。
● Misfortunes test the sincerity of friends. 患难见友情。
● Mock not a cobbler for his black thumbs. 不要嘲笑皮匠的黑拇指。
● Moderation in all things is the best of rules. 中庸之道是最好的准则。
● Modesty is not only and ornament, but also a guard to virtue. 谦逊不仅可增添光彩也可以维护美德。
● Modesty is the ornament of woman. 端庄可为妇女增添光彩。
● Money answers all things. 金钱是万能的。
● Money begets (or breeds or gets) money. 钱产生钱。
● Money borrowed is soon sorrowed 债台高筑，愁上心头。
● Money burns a hole in his pocket. 钱到袋里留不住。
● Money calls, but does not stay: It is round and rolls sway. 金钱会上门，不会留下来，因为是圆的，所以会滚开。
● Money can buy the devil himself. 有钱能使鬼推磨。
● Money can move even the gods. 有钱能使鬼推磨。
● Money doesn';t grow on trees. 钱不是从天上掉下来的。
● Money has no smell. 金钱无所谓香臭。
● Money is a bottomless sea, in which honour, conscience, and truth may be drowned. 金钱是无底的海洋，荣誉、良心和真理都可以淹没在其中。
● Money is a good servant, but a bad master. 金钱是好的仆役，坏的主人。
● Money is neither good nor bad, but all depends on what use is made of it. 金钱本身无好坏，要看怎样利用它。
● Money is often lost for want of money. 往往由于缺乏金钱而丧失金钱。
● Money is something, but no everything. 金钱能买到某物，但不是万能的。
● Money is the key that opens all doors. 金钱是打开一切门户的钥匙。
● Money is the root of all evil. 金钱是万恶之源。
● Money is the sinews of war. 无钱莫打仗。
● Money makes the mare to go. 钱可通神。
● Money often unmakes the men who make it. 为富不仁。
● Money spent on the brain is never spent in vain. 智力投资，决非虚掷。
● Money talks. 有钱能讲话。
● More die by food than by famine. 饥馑而死的少，饱食而死的多。
● More haste, less speed. 欲速则不达。
● More of our worries come from within than from without. 烦恼发乎内者多于发乎外。
● More worship the rising than the setting sun. 人都向旭日膜拜，不向夕阳顶礼。
● Most things have two handles. 大多数事物总有两种解释。
● Mother';s darlings are but milksop heroes. 奶水泡出懦弱汉。
● Mountains look beautiful from a distance. 远处看山山更美。
● Much cry and little wool. 雷声大，雨点小。
● Much water runs by the mill that the miller knows not of. 当前发生诸种事，大多为人所不知。
● Much will have more. 贪得无厌。
● Murder will out. 杀人终必败露。
● Music hath charms to soothe the savage beast. 音乐有抚凶暴心灵的魅力。
● Music is the eye of the ear. 音乐是耳朵的眼睛。
● Music is the medicine of the breaking heart. 音乐是医治心灵创伤的妙药。
● Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. 音乐可洗去灵魂中日常生活所沾染的污垢。
● My son is my son, till he hath got him a wife; but my daughter';s my daughter all the days of her life. 儿子只有在娶妻前是儿子，女儿则终生是女儿。

Part N：
● Napolean himself was once a crying baby. 即使是拿破仑，过去也是啼哭的婴孩。
● Nature abhors a vacuum. 自然界里是没有真空的。
● 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. 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 is the glass reflecting truth. 大自然是反应真理的一面镜子。
● Nature teaches us to love our friends but religion our enemies. 自然教我们爱朋友，宗教却教我们爱敌人。
● Nature, time, and patience are the three great physicians. 自然，时间和耐心，是三大伟大的医生。
● Nature will have its course. 天行其道。
● Naughty boys sometimmmes make good men. 顽皮淘气的男孩子有时成为仁人君子。
● Necessity and oportunity may make a coward valient. 需要和机会可能使懦夫变成勇士。
● Necessity (or Need) has (or knows) no law. 需要面前无法律。
● Necessity is the mother of invention 穷则变，变则通。
● Necessity knows no law. 铤而走险。
● Need makes the old wife trot. 人急造反，狗急跳墙。(事急老妪跑。)
● Needs must when the devil drives. 情势所迫，只好如此。
● Neglect of health is doctor';s wealth. 忽视健康，医生财旺。
● Never be weary of well doing. 行善莫厌烦。
● Never cackle till your egg is laid. 事竟成，才声张。
● Never cast dirt into that fountain of which thou hast sometime durnk. 不要过河拆桥。
● Never do things by halves. 做事情不要半途而废。
● Never embark on what comes after without having mastered what goes before. 如未掌握好已学过的东西，切莫从事更深的学习。
● Never fry a fish till it';s caught. 捉到鱼，才煎鱼。
● Never judge by appearances. 人不可貌相。
● Never neglect an opportunity for improvement. 抓住大好时机，切莫等闲错过。
● Never offer to teach fish to swim. 切莫教鱼游泳。
● Never put off till tomorrow what may be done today. 今日事，今日毕。
● Never put the plow before the oxen. 不要本末倒置。
● Never say die! Up man, and try. 不要气馁，朋友，振作起来，干！
● Never say of another what you would not have him hear. 莫说不想让人听见的话。
● Never show the bottom of your purse or your mind. 钱包不露底，思想需保留。
● Never swap (or swop) horses while crossing the stream. 骑渡中流莫换马。(指危难时不宜做大变动)
● Never think yourself above your business. 切莫自视过高。
● Never too late to mend. 过则勿惮改。
● Never too late to repent. 过则勿惮改。
● Never too old (or late) to learn. 学到老，学不了。
● Never (or Don';t) trouble trouble till trouble troulbes you. 切莫自寻麻烦。
● Never trust another what you should do yourself. 自己应该做的事，决不要委托别人做。
● Never trust of fine words. 切勿轻信漂亮的言词。
● New brooms sweep clean. 新官上任三把火。
● New lords, new laws. 新官新法。
● News is like fish. 新闻就像鱼，过后不新鲜。
● Newspapers are the world';s mirrors. 报纸是世界之镜。
● Nightingales will not sing in a cage. 夜莺困笼不唱歌。
● No answer is also answer. 不回答也是一种回答。
● No bees, no honey; no work, no money. 没有蜜蜂就没有蜜，没有劳动就没有钱。
● No cross, no crown. 无苦即无乐。
● No gains without pains. 不劳无获。
● No garden without its weeds. 有利必有弊。
● No good building without a good foundation. 基础不好，建筑不牢。
● No great loss without some small gain. 塞翁失马，安知非福。
● No herb will cure love. 想思病，无药医。
● No joy without annoy. 喜中有忧。
● No living man all things can. 世上无全能。
● No longer pipe, no longer dance. 运不逢时，事不得意。
● No love is foul, nor prison fair. 没有肮脏的爱情，也没有美丽的监狱。
● No man can be a good ruler unless he has first been ruled. 没受过他人的统治，就不能很好地统治他人。
● No man can do two things at once. 心无二用。
● No man can make a good coat with bad cloth. 巧匠难以劣布制美服。
● No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes. 不犯千般错误，难成伟大人物。
● No man ever became thoroughly bad at once. 没有一个人是一下子就坏透的。
● No man ever yet became great by imitation. 笑颦不能成西施。
● No man is a hero to his valet. 仆从目中无英雄。
● No man (or one) is born wise or learned. 人非生而知之者。
● No man is content. 人心是不满足的。
● No man is so old, but thinks he may yet live another year. 人越活越想活。
● No man is the worst for knowing the worst of himself. 没有一个人因为他自知最糟就是最糟。
● No man (or one) is wise at all times. 聪明一世糊涂一时。
● No man knows when he shall die, although he knows he must die. 纵然知其难免一死，人却难料何时身亡。
● No man learns but by pain or shame. 不经痛苦羞辱，难以取得教训。
● No man loves his fetters be they made of gold. 即使脚镣黄金铸，无人爱上这刑具。
● No money, no honey. 没有金钱，就没有爱情。
● None are so deaf as those who will not hear. 不愿倾听意见者最聋。
● None but a wise man can employ leisure well. 唯智者善于利用空闲。
● None but the brave deserve the fair. 英雄才能配美人。
● None but the wearer knows where the shoe pinches. 只有那个穿鞋人，才知哪里鞋轧脚。
● None knows the weight of another';s burden. 看人挑担不吃力。
● None preaches better than the ant, and she says nothing. 蚂蚁不说话，但最善于说教。
● None so blind as those who won';t see. 最瞎莫如视而不见。
● None so deaf as those that won';t hear. 置若罔闻。
● No news is good news. 没有消息就是好消息。
● No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectlymoral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy. 所有的人自由后，才能完全自由；所有的人都有道德，才能完全合乎道德；所有的人都幸福了，才能真正幸福。
● No one can call back yesterday. 往日不复返。
● No one can disgrace us but ourselves. 除非羞耻自由取，他人岂能辱吾？。
● No one can have all he desires. 无人能有所欲有。
● No one is a fool always, every one sometimes. 无人总是当傻瓜，人人有时当傻瓜。
● No one (or man) is born wise or learned. 人非生而知之者。
● No one is wise at all times. 人总有一时之失。
● 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 pains, no gains. 不劳则无获。
● No piper can please all ears. 众口难调。
● No pleasure without alloy (or pain or repentance). 乐中有悲。
● No possession, but use, is the only riches. 真正的财富不是占有，而是使用。
● No practice, no gain in one';s wit. 吃一堑，长一智。
● Nor fame I slight, nor for her favours call; she come unlooked for, if she comes at all. 我不轻蔑名誉，也不需要她的青睐；如果她竟来的话，也是不求而自来的。
● No road is long with good company. 途有好伴，不觉路远。
● No root, no fruit. 没有根，就没有果。
● No rose without a thorn. 玫瑰都有刺。
● No rule without an exception. 没有一条规则没有例外。
● No safe wading in an unknown water. 未知水深浅，涉水有危险。
● No smoke without some fire. 无风不起浪。
● No song, no supper. 不劳无获。
● No sooner said than done. 言而必行。
● No sunshine but bath some shadow. 有明必有暗。
● No sweat, no sweet. 不劳则无获。
● No sweet without some sweat. 不劳则无获。
● Nothing brave, nothing have. 不入虎穴，焉得虎子。
● Nothing comes amiss to a hungry man. 饥不择食。
● Nothing comes from (or of) nothing. 无风不起浪。
● Nothing comes out of the sack but what was in it. 无风不起浪。
● Nothing comes wrong to a hungry man. 饥不择食。
● Nothing crave, nothing have. 有求才有应。
● Nothing for nothing and very little for a half penny. 一分钱，一分货。
● Nothing is difficult to a man who wills. 世上无难事，只怕有心人。
● Nothing is impossible to willing mind (or heart). 有志者事竟成。
● Nothing is impossible (or difficult) to the man who will try. 天下无难事，只怕不努力。
● Nothing is really beautiful but truth. 只有真理才是真美。
● Nothing is stolen without hands. 无风不起浪。
● Nothing must be done hastily but killing of fleas. 除非消灭跳蚤，做事不必急躁。
● Nothing seek, nothing find. 无所求，则无所获。
● Nothing so bad, as not to be good for something. 塞翁失马，安知非福。
● Nothing so necessary for travellers as languages. 旅行者最需要的是几种语言。
● Nothing succeeds like success. 一事成功，事事顺利。
● Nothing to be got without pains but poverty. 只有贫困可以不劳而获得。
● Nothing venture, nothing win (or have or gain). 不入虎穴，焉得虎子。
● Nothing will come of nothing. 无风不起浪。
● No time like the present. 只争朝夕。
● Not let the grass grow under one';s feet. 不失时机。
● Novelty is the great parent of pleasure. 新奇生乐趣。
● No vice goes alone. 坏事不单行。
● No way is impossible to courage 勇敢面前没有通不过的路。
● No wisdom like silence. 智者寡言。
● Now or never. 机不可失，失不再来。
● No wrong without remedy. 无错不可纠。

Part O：
● Oaks may fall when reeds stand the storm. 树大招风。
● Obedience is the first duty of a soldier. 服从是军人的第一职责。
● Observation is the best teacher. 观察为良师。
● Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives. 人生最可宝贵的是声誉，躯体入土后，声誉犹存。
● Of earthly goods the best is a good wife. A bad the bitterest curse of human life. 贤妻最可贵，恶妇是灾星。
● Offence is the best defence. 进攻是最好的防御。
● Of nothing comes nothing. 无中不能生有。
● Often and little eating makes a man fat. 少吃多餐，身强体胖。
● Of two evils choose the least. 权衡两害，取其轻者。
● Of young men die many, of old men escape not any. 年轻人死得不少，而年迈者是在劫难逃。
● Old bees yield no honey. 老蜂不酿蜜。
● Old birds are not caught with new nests. 新巢捉不到老鸟。
● Old birds are not to be caught with shaff. 老谋是不会失算的。
● Older and wiser. 越老越聪明。
● Old foxes want no tutors. 老狐狸不需要教师。
● Old friends and old wine are best. 古交友情深，陈酒香味醇。
● Old love will not be forgotten. 旧情永难忘。
● Old vessels must leak. 旧船必漏。
● Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. 老柴最好烧，陈酒最好饮，老友最可靠，老作家的书最好读。
● Old wood is best to burn, old book to read. 老柴好烧，老书宜读。
● Old wood is best to burn, old horse to ride. 老柴好烧，老马好骑。
● O liberty, how many crimes have been committed in thy name! 自由啊！假你的名义犯了多少罪啊！
● Omelets are not made without breaking eggs. 有失才有得。
● Once a devil, always a devil. 一次做魔鬼，永远是魔鬼。
● Once a knave, ever a knave. 一朝失足，铸成千古恨。
● Once a man and twice a child. 一次为成人，两度当小孩。
● Once bit, twice shy. 一朝被蛇咬，三年怕草绳。
● Once is no custom. 一次不成例。
● Once on shore, we pray no more. 一旦上了岸，就不再祈祷。
● On earth there is nothing great but man, in man there is nothing great but mind. 在世界上没有一件东西有如人那样伟大，在人之内没有一件东西有如人心那么伟大。
● One barking dog sets all street a-barking. 一狗吠声响，狗吠满街坊。
● One beats the bush, and another catches the birds. 坐享其成。
● One boy is more trouble than a dozen girls. 一个男孩比十二个女孩还要麻烦。
● One cannot always be a hero, but one can always be a man. 人难一世称雄，但可一生为人。
● One cannot be in two place at once.
● One cannot do a foolish thing once in one';s life, but one must hear of it a hundred times. 为人一生一件蠢事也不做，但要听到上百遍蠢事。
● One cannot eat one';s cake and have it. 事难两全其美。
● One cannot get blood from a stone. 石头里抽不出血。
● One cannot make a silk purse out of a sow';s ear. 朽木不可雕。
● One cannot make bricks without straw. 巧妇难为无米之炊。
● One cannot put back the clock. 光阴一去不复返。
● One chick keeps a hen busy. 一只小鸡已够母鸡辛忙。
● One cloud is enough to eclipse all the sun. 一叶可障目。
● One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name. 光辉生活中忙迫的一个小时抵得上无为的一世。
● One drop of poison infects the whole tun of wine. 一滴之毒，毒染整桶之酒。
● One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good. 十个朋友做的好事抵不上一个敌人造成的危害。
● One enemy is too much. 一个敌人也太多。
● One false move may lose the game. 一著不慎，满盘皆输。
● One false step will make a great difference. 失之毫厘，谬以千里。
● One father can support ten children, ten children cannot support one father. 一个父亲能扶养十个孩子，十个孩子却不能赡养一个父亲。
● One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters. 一个父亲胜于一百个教师。
● One flower makes no garland. 一木不能成林。
● One foe is too many; and a hundred friends too few. 朋友成百犹觉少，仇敌一人已嫌多。
● One fool makes many. 一人傻，傻大家。
● One foot is better than two crutches. 一只脚胜过两根拐杖。
● One good head is better than a hundred strong hands. 上百双有力的手，不如一个聪明的头脑。
● One good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters. 一个好的母亲顶得上一百个教师。
● One good turn deserves another. 以德报德。
● One half of the world does not know how the other half lives. 贫富不相知。
● One has lived too near a wood to be frightened by owls. 深知底蕴，不以为怪。
● One honest word is better than two oaths. 两句誓言不如一句实话。
● One hour';s sleep before midnight is worth three after. 午夜前睡一小时抵得上午夜后睡三小时。
● One hour today is worth two tomorrow. 今天的一个小时抵得上明天的两个小时。
● One love drives out another. 新爱逐旧欢。
● One man makes a chair and another man sits in it. 坐享其成。
● One man may steal a horse while another may not look over a hedge. 只许州官放火，不许百姓点灯。
● One man';s meat is another man';s poison. 一个人的佳肴常为另一人的毒药。
● One may sooner fall than rise. 跌倒容易爬起难。
● One may think that dares not speak. 人可思其不敢言者。
● One misfortune comes on the neck of another. 祸不单行。
● One must draw the line somewhere. 人之所为，总有限度。
● One must drink as one brews. 自作自受。
● One must howl with the wolves. 入乡随俗。
● One never loses anything by politeness. 有礼貌对自己不会吃亏。
● One never loses by doing a good turn. 行善者决无一失。
● One penny witgh right is better than a thousand without right. 合法得来一个钱，胜过非法钱一千。
● One ploughs, another sow; who will reap no one knows. 有的耕，有的播，谁来收获很难说。
● One rotten apple spoils the whole barrel. 一只烂苹果烂一萝苹果。
● One should eat to live, not live to eat. 人为生而食，非为食而生。
● One sin opens the door for another. 一个罪恶常为另一个罪恶开门。
● One';s mantle falls on somebody. 春风化雨。
● One sows another reaps. 不劳而获。
● One swallow does not make a summer. 一燕不成夏。
● One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning. 一次痛苦的经验抵得上千百次的告诫。
● One today is worth two tomorrows. 今天一天抵明天两天。
● One who can do everything can do nothing. 什么都能做，什么都不行。
● One woe doth tread upon another';s heels. 祸不单行。
● One wrong (or false) move can lose the whole game. 棋错一著，全盘皆输。
● One wrong thought may cause a lifelong regret. 一念之错可铸终生之恨。
● Only that which is honestly got is gain. 正当的收入才是真正的收入。
● Only they who fulfill their duty in everday matters will fulfill them on great occasions. 只有在日常事务上尽责的人，才能在重大事情上尽责。
● On the choice of friends. Our good or evil name depends. 朋友的选择可影响名誉的好坏。
● On the great clock of time there is but one word, "Now." 在伟大的时钟上，只有一个词，就是“现在”。
● Open confession is good for the soul. 坦白交代，身心愉快。
● Open not your door when the devil knocks. 不要受人的诱惑。
● Opportunity makes the thief. 疏忽招盗贼。
● Opportunity seldom knocks twice. 机不可失，失不再来。
● Opportunity, sooner or later, comes to all who work and wish. 只要努力工作而有志向，机会迟早终会来临。
● Other men live to eat, while I eat to live. 别人为食而生活，我为生活而食。
● Our affections are our life. -- We live by them; they supply our warmth. 我们的感情，是我们的生命，我们靠它生存，我们的温暖是它供应。
● Our best friends are they who tell us our faults and help us to mend them. 最好的朋友是指出我们的缺点并帮助改正的人。
● Our bravest and best lessons are not learnt through success, but through misadventure. 最美好的教训不是得之于成功，而是来之于不幸。
● Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. 我们最大的光荣并不在于永不跌倒，而在于每次跌倒后能起来。
● Our happiness consists not in killing others, but in sacrificing ourselves for others. 我们最大幸福并不是杀害别人，而是为别人而牺牲自己。
● Our own actions are our security, not others'; judgements. 我们的行为是自己的保证而不是别人的鉴定。
● Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. 最甜美的的歌是诉说最悲伤的哀思。
● Out of debt, out of danger. 无债一身轻。
● Out of sight, out of mind. 久违情疏。眼不见，心不烦？
● Overdone is worse than undone. 过犹不及。

Part P：
● Paddle your own canoe. 自立更生，自食其力。
● Pain is forgotten where gain follows. 好了伤疤忘了痛。
● Pardoning the bad is injuring the good. 饶了坏人便伤了好人。
● Patience and application will carry us through. 忍耐和努力会使我们度过难关。
● Patience is a flower that grows not in everyone';s garden. 忍耐是朵花，并非人人园中都开发。
● Patience is a plaster for all sores. 忍耐是治疗一切伤痛的药膏。
● Patience is a virtue. 忍耐是一种美德。
● Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. 忍耐是苦痛的，但它的果实是甜蜜的。
● Patience is the best remedy (or medicine). 忍耐是最好的药物。
● Patience, time, and money overcome everything. 耐心，时间和金钱可以征服一切。
● Pay somebody back in his own coin. 一报还一报。
● Peace on earth and good will towards men. 愿世界得太平，人间持善意。
● Peace with sword in hand, ';tis safest making. 居安思危，此乃万全之策。
● Pen and ink is wit';s plough. 笔墨是才智之犁。
● Penny and penny laid up will be many. 积少成多。
● Penny wise and pound foolish. 小事聪明，大事糊涂。
● People do not lack strength; they lack will. 人们不缺力量，缺的是决心。
● Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth. 失败十九次，坚持而不动，待到二十次，大事就成功。
● Perseverance is vital to success. 不屈不挠是成功之本。
● Pitchers/Walls have ears. 隔墙有耳。
● Pity is akin to love. 怜悯近乎爱情。
● Plants of learning must be watered with the rain of tears. 知识的幼苗要用泪雨来浇灌。
● Pleasant hours fly fast. 欢乐的时间过得快。
● Pleasing everybody is pleasing nobody. 讨好每个人，人人不讨好。
● Pleasure has a sting in its tail. 乐中必有苦。
● Plenty is no plague. 富裕绝非灾祸。
● Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive and widely effective mode of saying things, and hence its importance. 诗歌只不过是最美丽、最感人、最有力的说话方式，这也就是诗歌的价值。
● Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. 诗人是世上没有得到承认的立法者。 ● Politeness costs nothing and gains everything. 礼貌不费分文而可赢得一切。
● Politeness is to do and say the kindest thing in the kindest way. 文雅就是善良地做事，和善地说话。
● Poor men';s words have little weight. 人微言轻。
● Poverty breeds strife. 贫穷引起斗争。
● Poverty is apain, but no disgrace. 贫困是痛苦，但不是耻辱。
● Poverty is no shame, laziness is. 贫穷不害羞，懒惰才可耻。
● Poverty is no sin. 贫穷不是罪恶。
● Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is. 贫非耻，耻贫乃耻。
● Poverty is not a sufficient cause of disgrace, but poverty without resolution to help oneself is a disgrace. 贫穷并不可耻，穷而不争气才可耻。
● Poverty is the mother of all arts. 贫困乃一切艺术之源。
● Poverty is the mother of health. 缺乏是健康之母。
● Poverty is the reward of idleness. 贫穷是游手好闲的报应。
● Poverty is the root of all evils. 穷困是万恶之源。
● Poverty on an old man';s back is a heavy burden. 老而贫穷，负担沈重。
● Poverty shows us who are our friends and who are our enemies. 贫困才能显出敌和友。
● Poverty tries friends. 贫穷考验朋友。
● Practice is better than precept. 身教胜于言教。
● Practice makes perfect. 熟能生巧。
● Practice what you preach. 言必行。
● Praise is not pudding. 恭维不是布丁。
● Praise makes good men better, and bad men worse. 赞扬使好人更好，坏人更坏。
● Praise no man till he is dead. 盖棺论定。
● Preachers can talk but never teach, Unless they practise what they preach. 说教的人不身体力行，就只能空谈，不能起教育作用。
● Prepare for a rain day. 未雨绸缪。
● Prevention is better than cure. 预防胜于治疗。
● Pride and grace dwelt never in one place. 傲慢和温雅决不会共处在一起。
● Pride apes humility. 大巧若拙。
● Pride goes before a fall. (or destruction). 骄兵必败。
● Pride goeth before, and shame cometh after. 骄傲一开始，耻辱接踵至。
● Pride may lurk under a threadbare cloak. 骄傲可能披著老一套的外衣出现。
● Pride must be pinched. 骄傲必须收敛。
● Pride will have a fall. 骄者必败。
● Procrastination is the thief of time. 拖延即浪费时间。
● Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow. 进展即今日的活动和明日的保证。
● Promise is debt. 许愿就是债，欠了不容赖。
● Promise little but do much. 少许愿，多做事。
● Prosperity discovers vices and adversity virtues. 顺境显邪恶，逆境见善性。
● Prosperity gains (or makes) friends, and adversity tries them. 顺境交朋友，逆境试真情。
● Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience. 谚语言短简，得自老经验。
● Proverbs are the cream of a nation';s thought. 谚语是一国的思想精华。
● Proverbs are the wisdom of the ages. 谚语是时代的智慧。
● Prove thy friends ere thou have need. 需要朋友之前，先要加以考验。
● Provide for the worst, the best will save itself. 作最坏的准备，可以得到最好的结果。
● Providence is always on the side of the strongest battalions. 天公总是佑强者。
● Punctuality is the soul of business. 严守时间是办事情的重要原则。
● Purpose supposes foresight. 深谋远虑。
● Put not your hand between the bark and the tree. 少管闲事。
● Put (or Lay or Set) one';s shoulder to the wheel. 出一把力。
● Put the cart before the horse. 本末倒置。
● Put the shoe on the right foot. 责备应受责备者，表扬应受表扬者。

Part Q：
● Quality is better than quantity. 质重于量。
● Quality matters more than quanity. 质量比数量重要。
● Quarrels of lovers but renew their love. 情人争争吵吵，自会言归于好。
● Quick at meal, quick at work. 吃得快，做得快。
● Quick feet and busy hands fill the mouth. 手勤脚快，嘴里吃饱。
● Quietness is best. 宁静最好。
● Quietude is the crown of life. 安静是生命的皇冠。

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