汉语习语英译_关于汉语习语的英译
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1.Constant dripping wears the stone.2.to burn one’s boat
3.Walls have ears.4.Many a little makes a mickle.5.Look before you leap.6.There is no smoke without a fire.7.to kill two birds with one stone
8.What is said cannot be unsaid.9.As you sow, so will you reap.10.Man proposes, God disposes.11.as easy as turning over one’s hand
12.as short-sighted as mice / see no further than one’s nose
13.A gentleman uses his tongue, not his fists.14.There’ll never be a shortage of firewood as long as green hills remain./As long as green mountains are there, one needs not worry about firewood /While there is life, there is hope.15.A bosom friend afar brings a distant land near./
The world is but a small place, after all./ Long distance separates no bosom friend.16.A thousand-li journey is started by taking the first step.17.The gift itself may be as light as a feather, but sent from afar, it conveys deep
feelings.18.to cut the feet to fit the shoes
19.Distant water cannot put out a nearby fire.20.Good medicine is bitter in the mouth, but good for the disease.21.Listen to both sides and you will be enlightened;heed only one side and you will
be benighted.22.to be going from bad to worse /
to be deteriorating
23.to know practically nothing about
24.to be snubbed / to meet with a rebuff / to be rejected
25.frankly speaking / Let’s not mince matters./ Let’s speak frankly./ Let’s be frank..26.What’s done is done, and cannot be undone.27.regardle of the consequences
28.to be simply nothing compared to
29.in a turmoil / to be extremely upset
30.One boy is a boy, two boys half a boy, three boys no boy./
Everyone’s busine is nobody’s busine.31.to kill the chicken to frighten the monkey /
to punish somebody as warning to others
32.to show off one’s skill with the axe in front of Lu Ban the master carpenter / to display one’s slight skill in front of an expert /
to teach your grandma to suck eggs
33.Let bygones be bygones.34.Money makes the mare go./ Money talks.35.An inch of time is an inch of gold./ Time is money.36.The gra is greener on the other side.37.The unexpected always happens.38.Give him an inch and he will take an ell.39.to harbor ulterior motives / with malicious intent / to have an axe to grind
40.to go back on one’s words / to play fast and loose / to blow hot and cold /to chop and change
41.to lord it over /to play the tyrant
42.to act in bad faith / to play foul(treacherous)/ to go back on one’s words
43.arrogant and conceited / self important
44.to work hand in glove with / to band together
45.Courtesy demands reciprocity./ to exchange on an equal basis
46.The united will of the maes is like a fortre./
People with one will are stronger than a fortre./ Unity is strength.47.blinded by one’s gains
48.to eat one’s own bitter fruit
49.Honest advice is unpleasant to the ear.50.to invite one’s own destruction / to cut one’s own throat / to bring destruction to
oneself / to take the road to one’s doom
51.to go against the trend of the times / to set back the clock / to push a reactionary
policy
52.to intensify one’s efforts to do sth./ to become aggravated / to be further
intensified / with ever-increasing intensity
53.to be obvious to all / as clear as day
54.as always / just as in the past /as before
55.to exaggerate just to scare people
56.to make irresponsible remarks(criticism)
57.to surrender a state’s sovereign rights under humiliating terms / to humiliate the
state by forfeiting its sovereignty
58.Endle troubles will follow.59.to be filled with indignation
60.the trend of the time / the general trend
61.to run counter to
62.to cling obstinately to one’s course /to act willfully /
to insist on having one’s own way
63.to reap the spills of victory without lifting a finger / to profit from other’s conflict
64.Neighbors are dearer than distant relatives./ Neighbors are more helpful than
distant relatives./ A remote kinsfolk is not as good as a near neighbor.65.the same medicine prepared with different water / the same old stuff with a
different label / a change in form but not in eence
66.to lift a rock only to crush one’s own feet / to tread on one’s own tail
67.to deny the will of the people
68.Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder./Love sees no fault./
Beauty lies in the lover’s eyes./ Love blinds a man to imperfections.69.Many ki the baby for the nurse’s sake./ One talks about one thing, but tries to
do another.70.While the magistrates are free to burn down houses, the common people are
forbidden even to light lamps./ One may steal a horse while another may not look over a hedge.71.Living near a wolf’s den, you can never be too cautious.72.Of all the living things nurtured between heaven and earth, the most valuable is
the human beings
73.You want the horse to run fast and yet you don’t let it graze.74.The pot calls the kettle black.75.A person cannot be judged by his appearance, just like the sea cannot be measured
with a bucket./A person can no more be judged by his looks than the sea be measured with a bucket.76.Man cannot be always fortunate just as flowers do not last forever.77.Time tries all.78.Haughtine invites loes while modesty brings profits.79.One’s position alters the temperament, just as nourishment affects the body./
Honors change manners.80.Nothing is so strong as gentlene;Nothing is so gentle as strength.81.Like the Eight Immortals croing the sea, each displaying his own magic power.82.On festive occasion, more often than ever, we think of our dear ones far away.83.Among bosom friends, a thousand cups of wine are not too many./ A thousand
cups of wine are too few when drinking with close friends.84.What’s near cinnabar goes red, and what’s next to ink turns black.85.Those who are meant to meet will meet if they are separated by a thousand miles;
those who are not meant to meet will not get acquainted even if they brush shoulders with one another.86.Preparedne ensures succe and unpreparedne spells failure./ Forewarned,forearmed.87.Spare the rod and spoil the child.88.The well-fed simply has no idea of how the starving suffers.89.Nearest the king, nearest the gallows.90.As heaven maintains vigor through movement, a gentleman should constantly
strive for self-perfection.91.It takes more than a day to freeze three feet of ice.92.No pains, no gains./ No gains without pains.93.Birds of a feather flock together.94.Every potter praises his own pot.95.Great minds think alike.1.水滴石穿
2.破釜沉舟
3.隔墙有耳
4.积少成多
5.三思而后行
6.无风不起浪
7.一箭双雕
8.一言既出，驷马难追
9.种瓜得瓜，种豆得豆
10.谋事在人，成事在天
11.易如反掌
12.鼠目寸光
13.君子动口不动手
14.留得青山在，不怕没柴烧
15．海内存知己，天涯若比邻
16．千里之行，始于足下
17．千里送鹅毛，礼轻情义重
18．削足适履
19．远水救不了近火
20．良药苦口利于病，忠言逆耳利于行
21．兼听则明，偏听则暗
22．王小二过年，一年不如一年
23．擀面杖吹火，一窍不通
24．碰一鼻子灰
25．打开天窗说亮话
26．木已成舟
27．不管三七二十一
28．小巫见大巫
29．十五个吊桶打水，七上八下
30．一个和尚挑水吃，两个和尚抬水吃，三个和尚没水吃
31.杀鸡给猴看
32．班门弄斧
33.既往不咎
34.有钱能使鬼推磨
35.一寸光阴一寸金
36.这山望着那山高
37.天有不测风云，人有旦夕祸福
38.得寸进尺
39.别有用心
40.出尔反尔
41.称王称霸
42.背信弃义
43.狂妄自大
44.狼狈为奸
45.礼尚往来
46.众志成城
47.利令智昏
48.自食其果
49.忠言逆耳
50.自取灭亡
51.倒行逆施
52.变本加厉
53.有目共睹
54.一如既往
55.危言耸听
56.说三道四
57.丧权辱国
58.后患无穷
59.义愤填膺
60.大势所趋
61.背道而驰
62.一意孤行
63.坐收渔人之利
64.远亲不如近邻
65.换汤不换药
66.搬起石头砸自己的脚
67.冒天下之大不韪
68.情人眼里出西施
69.醉翁之意不在酒
70.只许州官放火，不许百姓点灯
71.住在狼窝边，小心不为过
72.天地万物，莫贵于人
73.又要马儿跑，又要马儿不吃草
74.五十步笑一百步
75.人不可貌相，海水不可斗量
76.人无千日好，花无百日红
77.路遥知马力，日久见人心
78.满招损，谦受益
79.居移气，养移体
80.刚者至柔，柔者至刚
81.八仙过海，各显神通
82.每逢佳节倍思亲
83.酒逢知己千杯少
84.近朱者赤，近墨者黑
85.有缘千里来相会，无缘对面不相逢
86．凡事预者立，不预者废
87.棍棒底下出孝子
88.饱汉不知饿汉饥
89.伴君如伴虎
90.天行健，君子以自强不息
91.冰冻三尺，非一日之寒
92.宝剑锋从磨砺出，梅花香自苦寒来
93.一丘之貉
94.王婆卖瓜，自卖自夸
95.英雄所见略同
