英语谚语欣赏.ppt

谚语欣赏 * * Let him that would be happy for a day, go to the barber; for a week, marry a wife; for a month, buy him a new horse; for a year, build him a new house; for all his lifetime, be an honest man . [中文]：理了发，乐一天；娶媳妇，乐一周；买匹马，乐一月；建新房，乐一年；做个老实人，足可乐一生。 Fortune knocks at every man‘s door once in a life, but in a good many cases, the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.[中文]：每个人的一生中，幸运女神都来敲过门，可是，许多人竟在隔壁的酒馆里，听 不见她的敲门。 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.[中文]：幸福有如蝴蝶，你追逐它时永远捉不到，你静坐下来，它却可能落在你身上。 Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime, and too sleepy to worry at night. [中文]：白天忙得没有时间发愁，夜里困得来不及发愁的人是真正有福的。 If you read the Bible to the wolf, itll certainly say: Stop reading at once! A flock of sheep have just passed by! [中文]：如果对狼读《圣经》，狼一定会说：“快停止吧! 一群羊刚过去了!” When the enemy praises you.you should ask yourself what errors you have committed.[中文]：当敌人夸奖你的时候，你得想到自己做错了什么。 If wise man play the fool, they do it with a vengeance.[中文]：聪明人做傻事，傻得格外离奇。 For age and want, save while you may! No burning sun lasts a whole day.[中文]：幼时防老，有时防无；朝阳虽好，难以终日。 The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. [中文]：世界是一面镜子，每个人都在上面照到自己 First deserve and then desire. [中文]：先做到受之无愧，而后再邀功请赏。 The love of money is the root of all evil. 贪财是一切罪恶的根源。 ▲这句谚语出自《新约.提摩太前书》人们常说“Money is the root of all evil”(金钱是万恶的根源。)是误用了这句谚语。此句意为一切罪恶的根源在人们过于爱财、贪财。这是对那些为取得财富而不择手段干坏事的人的一种解释。 There is nothing new under the sun.▲太阳底下没有新鲜事。此句出自《旧约 传道书》(Ecclesiastes)第一章第九节。意为世上没有未 见过、未经历过或未经发现的事物；即使必威体育精装版奇的东西也不过是旧的翻新 而已。under the sun 相等于 in the world. Tall mankind are beholden to him that is kind to the good.▲行善者，人人铭记之。 A good deed is never lost.[中文]：好心一定有好报。 [中文]：傲慢与优雅决不共存。 Pride and grace dwell never in one place. *