做最好最真实的自己
Truly happy and successful people get that way by becoming the best, most genuine version of themselves they can be. Not on the outside--on the inside. It's not about a brand, a reputation, a persona. It's about reality. Who you really are.
真正快乐成功的人会长成最好最真实的自己——从内心而非外表上。重要的不是品牌、名誉或者外表形象，而是真实的自我。
Sounds simple, I know. It is a simple concept. The problem is, it's very hard to do, it takes a lot of work, and it can take a lifetime to figure it out.
道理很简单，讲出来也很容易。但问题是，做起来就不简单了：这需要付诸很多努力，甚或一辈子才能实现。
Nothing worth doing in life is ever easy. If you want to do great work, it's going to take a lot of hard work to do it. And you're going to have to break out of your comfort zone and take some chances that will scare the crap out of you.
需要穷尽毕生精力的事情必定不容易。成大事者必先苦其心志。因此，你必须走出舒适区，去经历、去体验那些会让你害怕的机会。
But you know, I can't think of a better way to spend your life. I mean, what's life for if not finding yourself and trying to become the best, most genuine version of you that you can be?
况且，人这一辈子，若到头来都认不清自己、未能长成最好最真实的自己，还有什么意义呢?
That's what Steve Jobs meant when he said this at a Stanford University commencement speech:
正如史蒂夫-乔布斯在斯坦福大学的毕业典礼上所言：
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice.
时间宝贵，不要虚掷光阴过着他人的生活。不要让周遭的聒噪言论蒙蔽你内心的声音。 You have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something--your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
你要相信，生活中的偶然冥冥中也能指引未来。你要心怀信念——相信你的直觉、命运、生活抑或因缘。这个方法一直给我力量，促使我过得卓然不同。
The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep
looking. Don't settle.
成大事的唯一途径就是做自己喜欢的事情。若你还没找到，那就继续追寻吧，不要停下来。
Now, let's for a moment be realistic about this. Insightful as that advice may be, it sounds a little too amorphous and challenging to resonate with today's quick-fix culture. These days, if you can't tell people exactly what to do and how to do it, it falls on deaf ears.
现在我们来实际一点：建议或许很深刻，但听完却让人无从着手，难以运用到当今的快节奏文化中。现如今，如果一个建议讲不清具体做什么、该怎么做的话，那么说了也等于白说。
Not only that, but what Jobs was talking about, what I'm talking about, requires focus and discipline, two things that are very hard to come by these days. Why? Because, focus and discipline are hard. It's so much easier to give in to distraction and instant gratification. Easy and addictive.
不仅如此，乔布斯的讲话和我要说的话都需要集中和自制——这两个品质在当今社会非常难能可贵。何以见得?因为集中和自制都不容易做到。人们很容易分散注意力、寻求即时快感——舒服且容易上瘾。
To give you a little incentive to take on the challenge, to embark on the road to self-discovery, here are three huge benefits from working to become the best, most genuine version of yourself.
为激励你迎接挑战、踏上寻求自我的旅途，我列出了成为最好最真实自己后的三大益处： It will make you happy. Getting to know yourself will make you feel more comfortable in your own skin. It will reduce your stress and anxiety. It will make you a better spouse, a better parent, a better friend. It will make you a better person. Those are all pretty good reasons, if you ask me.
你会感到快乐。了解自己后会让你更愉悦地接受自己，减轻你的压力和焦虑，使你成为更好的伴侣、父母、朋友，让你成为一个更美好的人。这些益处难道不够说服你为之努力吗? Besides, you really won't achieve anything significant in life until you know the real you. Not your brand, your LinkedIn profile, how you come across, or what anyone thinks of you. The genuine you. There's one simple reason why you shouldn't try to be something you're not, and it's that you can't. The real you will come out anyway. So forget your personal brand and start spending time on figuring out who you really are and trying to become the best version of that you can be.
而且，只有了解真实的自己方能成就大事。你需要了解那个真实的你，而不是你的品牌、名誉、LinkedlIn资料、你的过去抑或他人对你的看法。为什么你不应该过他人的生活?很简单，因为首先你不是“其他人”，你的本性总有一天会现形。所以，请放开你的品牌形象，努力发掘真实自我、努力把自己经营成最好的自己吧。
You pay a huge price when you engage in mindless distraction. The only people that really care about you are your loved ones, your friends and family. Everyone else is too busy living his own little mini drama. To put it bluntly, your network couldn't care less about you.
盲目分心的代价很大。真正在乎你的只有你所爱的人、你的亲人和朋友。而其他人都只围着自己的小日子转罢了。说穿了，社交关系中的人并不可靠。
That's why engaging yourself and others in mindless distraction isn't worth your time or theirs. More important, it will absolutely keep you from focusing on accomplishing whatever great things you might manage to achieve in life if you set your mind to it.
所以，浪费时间盲目分心应付自己或他人都没有意义。更严重的是，当你决心着手生活中的大计划时，分心会有碍你集中完成目标。
There's a business concept called opportunity cost. When you choose one course of action, you miss out on all the other opportunities you might have chosen to pursue but didn't. People rarely stop to consider that until it's too late.
有一个商业术语叫“机会成本”。当你选定某个行为时，你也会错过其他原本可以选择的机会。很少有人能意识到这一点，就算意识到也为时已晚。
It's the most exciting journey you will ever embark on. We're all enthralled by adventure. We love to read and watch movies about other people's journeys, real or imagined. The Hobbit. Raiders of the Lost Ark. Into Thin Air.
这将是一段前所未有的有趣旅程。我们都乐于于冒险，热爱阅读和观看有关他人或真实或虚构的旅程电影，例如，《霍比特人》、《夺宝奇兵》或《走进空气稀薄地带》。
We love to take vacations, to travel to all sorts of places. And when we do, we revel in the natural beauty of Kauai's Na Pali Coast, the Grand Canyon, the Alps. We marvel at the great works of others: the art, the architecture, the Pyramids, Stonehenge.
我们热爱假期，喜欢到各地旅行。我们会惊叹于考艾岛上纳波利海岸的自然风光，迷上美国大峡谷、阿尔卑斯山。我们也会惊叹于他人的杰作：艺术、建筑、金字塔、巨石阵等等。 And yet, the opportunity for adventure is right there in front of each and every one of us. Until you take it, you'll never know what you might achieve. What marvels you might create. What you might discover. All you have to do is start the journey.
而且，冒险之门向每个人敞开。打开这扇门之前，谁也不知道能获得哪些收获，会创造哪些奇迹，又将有什么新的发现……你所要做的，仅仅是启程。
第二篇：英汉警句格言4-3
I am not a slave, I am not a captive, and by energy I can overcome the greater obstacles. 我不是奴隶，也不是俘虏，我有力量可以克服更大的艰难险阻。 I am not now that which I have been. 今日之我已非昔日之我。 I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men. 我不仅要使自己有才智，而且也要使别人有才智。 I believe the first test of truly great man is his humility. 一个真正伟大的人，对他的第一个考验就是看他是否谦逊。 I cannot be your friend and your flatterer too. 我不能既是你的朋友，而又对你阿？奉承。 I count myself in nothing else so happy as in a soul remem-bering my good friends. 我认为，只有在脑海中想起好朋友时我才会那样快乐。 Ideals are like the stars -- we never reach them, but like mariners, we chart our course by them. 理想好像星星，不能摘到，但我们犹如水手，可借它指引航向。 Idle folks have most labour. 懒汉总嫌活太多。 Idle folks lack no excuses. 懒汉辩解，何患无词。 Idleness is the key of beggary, and the root of all evil. 懒惰是行乞的敲门砖，是万恶的根源。 Idleness is the root (or mother) of all evil (or sin or vice). 懒惰是万恶之源。 Idleness is the rust of the mind. 懒惰使脑子生锈。 Idleness rusts the mind. 懒惰使人的头脑迟钝。 Idle young, needy old. 少壮不努力，老大徒伤悲。 If a donkey bray at you, don't bray at him. 傻瓜惹著你，你别跟他缠。 If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. 如果倒空钱袋，装入脑袋，那就无人能够把钱夺走。 If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certaintics. 如果以肯定开始，必将以怀疑告终；如果愿以怀疑开始，必将以肯定告终。 If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. 初试不成功，努力勿懈怠。 If doctors fail thee, be these three thy doctors; rest, cheerful-ness, and moderate diet. 如果医药不能帮助，那麽注意三件事∶休息，愉快，饮食调和。 If each would sweep before his own door, we should have a clean city (or street). 众擎易举。 I fear the Greeks, even when bringing gifts. 敌人献礼品，千万莫轻信。 If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of itself. 注意好品行，自有美名声。 If it is not right, do not do it; if it is not true, do not say it. 不正确的事不做，不真实的话不说。 If it were not for hope, the heart would break. 人是靠希望活著的。 If matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. 重要的并不在於一个人怎样死，而是在於他怎样生。 If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. 不做金钱的主人，就会做金钱的奴隶。 If nobody l
oves you, be sure it is your own fault. 如果没有人爱你，肯定是你自己有问题。 If one desires to succeed in anything, he must pay the price. 如果想做成点事，就得付出代价一干。 If the beard were all, the goat might preach. 如果有了需就什麽都行，那麽山羊也可以说教了。 If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch. 问道於盲，无益於事。 If the counsel be good no matter who gave it. 只要忠告中肯，谁提都行。 If the eye do no admire, the heart will not desire. 眼不馋，心不贪。 If the old dog barks, he gives counsel. 如果老狗叫，他是给忠告。 If the pills were pleasant, they would not be gilded. 丸药不苦不会加糖衣。 If there be neither snow nor rain, then will be dear all sorts of grain. 雨雪不调，五谷价高。 If there were no clouds, we should not enjoy the sun. 吃得苦中苦，方知甜中甜。 If the sky fll (or falls), we shall catch larks. 异想天开 If they say you are good, ask yourself if it be ture. 若有人称赞你，要自问对不对。 If things were to be done twice all would be wise. 事事倘能做两次，人人都可称明智。 If two men ride on a horse, one must ride behind. 两人同骑一马，必有一人在後。 If we are bound to forgive an enemy we are not bound to trust him. 如果我们决定宽恕一个敌人，但决不能相信他。 If we cannot get what we like, we have to like what we can get. 随遇而安。 If wise men play the fool, they do it with a vengeance. 智者干傻事，愚蠢到极点。 If wishes were horses, beggars might ride. 愿望不等於事实。 If you agree to carry the calf, they'll make you carry the cow. 得寸进尺。 If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself; if you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you. 运气太好，得意忘形；运气太坏，无人理会。 If you can be well without health you may be happy without virtue. 如果不健康而能强强壮壮，那麽无美德也可快快乐乐。 If you cannot bite, never show your teeth. 不能打仗，切莫出兵。 If you cannot have the best, make the best of what you have. 如果你不能有最好的，你就充分利用你现有的吧。 If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully. 倘君指挥有方，人人欣然听命。 If you confer a benefit, never remember it; if you receive one, remember it always. 施恩勿记，受恩勿忘。 If you dance you must pay the fiddler. 要想寻欢作乐，代价非付不可。 If you don't aim high you will never hit high. 不立大志，难攀高峰。 If you have no hand, you cannot make a fist. 巧妇难为无米之炊。 If you lie upon roses when young, you'll lie upon thorns when old. 年青时躺在玫瑰上，老年时就会躺在荆棘上。 If you live with a lame person, you will learn to limp. 远朱者
赤，近墨者黑。 If you remove stone by stone, even a mountain will be levelled. 一块一块把石移，高山也可变平地。 If you run after two heares, you will catch neither. 两头落空。 If you sell the cow, you sell her milk too. 蚀了本也输了利。 If you swear you will catch no fish. 咒骂无益，於事无济。 If you trust before you try, you may repent before you die. 不试就相信，死前要悔恨。 If you want a pretence to whip a dog, say that he ate the frying-pam. 欲加之罪，何患无辞。 If you want a thing (well) done, do it yourself. 要想做好事情，就要自己动手。 If you want knwledge, you must toil for it. 若要求知识，必须刻苦学习。 If you wish for peace, be prepared for war. 想要和平，必须备战。 If you wish good advice, consult an old man. 如要忠告向老人请教。 If you would build for your happiness a sure foundation, let the stone for the corner be a good reputation. 若想为快乐奠立可靠的基础，美好的名声便是奠基的石头。 If you would have a good wife marry one who has been a good daughter. 想得贤妻子，须娶好女儿。 If you would have a thing well done, do it yourself. 如要是情做得好，你须亲自动手搞。 If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some, for the that goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing. 欲知金钱价，不妨把钱借；借钱味难尝，使人心悲伤。 If you would make an enemy, lend a man money and ask it of him again. 你若想与人成仇结怨，只要借钱给人再催还。 Ignorance is the mother of impudence. 厚颜无耻由於愚昧无知。 Ignorance is the mother of suspicions. 无知会多疑。 Ignorance of the law excuses no man. 对法律不知不能免罪。 I hate to see things done by halves. -- If it be right, do it boldly, --if it be wrong, leave it undone. 事情不要做一半；对的，就做下去，不对，就丢开。 I have no secret of success but hard work. 成功无秘诀，只是努力干。 I know him not should I meet him in my pottage dish. 酒肉之交非朋友。 I know no such thing as genius, it is nothing but labour and diligence. 是上无天才，勤学加苦练。 Ill air slays sooner thant the sword. 污浊的空气杀人比刀还要快。 Ill-gotten goods never prosper. 发横财，家不发 Ill (or Evil) gotten, ill (or evil) spent. 悖入悖出。 Ill-gotten wealth never thrives. 悖入悖出。 Ill news comes space. 恶事传千里。 Ill news flies fast. 恶事传千里。 Ill news never comes too late 坏消息来得快。 Ill news travels fast. 坏事传千里。 Imagination is more important than knowledge. 想像力比知识更重要。 Imagination is sometimes more vivid than reality. 想像有时比现实生动得多。 I might say that success is won by three things: first, effort; second, m
ore effort; third, still more effort. 成功之道唯三点∶努力、努力、再努力。 Improve your time and your time will improve you. 珍惜时间，时间才会珍惜你。 In a calm sea, every man is a pilot. 平静的海上易驶船。 In a great river great fish are found; but take heed lest you be drowned. 发现大河有大鱼，可得注意别溺毙。 In all things, it is better to hope than to despair. 凡事抱希望为佳，不应悲观而失望。 In an enemy spots are soon seen. 敌人的缺点容易找。 In books, are embalmed the greatest thoughts of all ages. 历代最伟大的思想都载入史册而不朽。 In doing we learn. 行而知。 Industry if fortune's right hand, and frugality her left. 勤勉是幸福的右手，节俭是幸福的左手。 Industry keeps the body healthy, the mind clear, the heart whole, the purse full. 勤奋使身体健康，使心情开朗，使思想专注，使经济充裕。 In every beginning think of the end. 思前顾後。 In every country dogs bite. 天下的狗都要咬人。 In every rank, great or small, 'Tis industry supports us all. 不论高的低的各级人士，所持的都是勤劳。 In for a penny, in for a pound 一不做，二不休。 In good years corn is hay, in ill years straw is corn. 丰年五谷贱如草，荒年稻草贵如粮。 In life, as in chess, forethought wins 人生如下棋，多谋得胜利。 In life's earnest battle they only prevail, who daily march onward and never say fail. 在人生的搏斗中，只有日日前进不甘失败的人，才能获胜。 In moderating, not satisfying, desires, lies peace. 节欲不纵情，心情得安宁。 I now know that wars do not end wars. 如今我才弄明白，干戈不能化玉帛。 In prosperity caution, in adversity patience. 处顺境时要小心，处逆境时要耐心。 Interest will not lie. 兴趣不会说谎。 In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider. 顺利时要快乐，不利时要思索。 In the deepest water is the best fishing. 绝处能逢生。 In the election of a wife, as in a project of war, to err but once is to be undone for ever. 选择妻子也象策画战争，一时之错将成终身之恨。 In the end things will mend. 船到桥头自会直。 In the evening one may praise the day. 入夜方能赞美白昼。 In the grave the rich and poor lie equal. 人到黄泉，贫富同眠。 In the kingdom of blind men the one-eyed man is king. 盲人国里，独眼称王。 In the mirror we see the face; in wine, the heart. 明镜照容颜，醇酒见人心。 In the multitude of counsellors there is safety. 谋士多，保安全。 In the world, who knows not to swim goes to the bottom. 处世似游泳，不会即下沈。 In time of peace prepare for war. 居安思危。 In time of prosperity, friends will be plenty; In tim
e of adversity, not one amongst twenty. 富在深山有远亲，穷在闹市无人问。 In water you may see your own face; in wine, the heart of another 水中可见自己的脸，酒中可见别人的心。 In wine there is truth. 酒後吐真言。 In youth the hours are golden in mature years they are silver, in old age they are leaden. 青年时代是黄金的，壮年时代是白银的，老年时代是灰铅的。 I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country. 我抱憾的是，只有一次生命能献给祖国。 I regard that man as lost, who has lost his sense of shame. 我认为，人丧失了廉耻就完了。 I say little but I think the more. 我说得少，但我想得多。 I slept, and dreamt that life was Beauty, I woke, and found that life was Duty. 睡时梦觉生活是美事，醒来发现生活是责任。 I succeeded because I willed it; I never hesitated. 我成功是因为有决心，从不犹豫。 It is dangerous crisis when a proud heart meets with flattering lips 骄傲的心碰上献媚的嘴，是最危险不过的。 It is a good horse that never stumbles. 良马不失蹄。 It is a good tongue that says no ill, and a better heart that thinks none. 善心不想坏事，好舌不出恶声。 It is a great art to laugh at your own misfortune. 对己之不幸付之一笑，这是一门伟大的艺术。 It is a long lane that has no turning. 路必有弯。 It is an equal failing to trust everybody and trust nobody. 信任任何人和不信任任何人，同样是缺点。 It is an evil sign too see a fox lick a lamb. 狐狸舔羔羊，这是凶迹象。 It is an ill bird that fouls its own nest. 家丑不可外扬。 It is a poor heart that never rejoices. 不知世间有乐者最可怜。 It is a silly fish, that is caught twice with the same bait. 蠢人才吃两次亏。 It is a silly goose that comes to the fox's sermon. 只有呆鹅才去听狐狸说教。 It is a small flock that has not a black sheep. 家家难免有败类。 It is a wise father that knows his own child. 父贤知其子。 It is better to be alone than in bad company. 无友要比交坏友好。 It is better to be clothed in rags, than to be clothed with shame. 宁可穿破衣，不可蒙羞耻。 It is better to be safe than sorry. 事後追悔不如事前稳妥。 It is better to do well than to say well. 理论好不如实际好。 It is better to fight for good than to rail at the ill. 与其抱怨，不如积善。 It is better to please a fool than to anger him. 惹得傻瓜发火，不如使他快活。 It is better to wear out than to rust out. 与其锈掉，不如用坏。 It is dogged (that) does it. 天下无难事，只怕有心人。 It is easier to descend than to ascend. 下降容易上升难。 It is easier to give good counsel than to follow it. 提出忠告易，照著办事难。 I
t is easier to pull down than build. 败事容易成事难。 It is easier to raise the devil than to lay him. 养虎易，驯虎难。 It is easy to be wise after the event. 当事後诸葛亮容易。 It is easy to learn something about everything, but difficult to learn everything about anything. 对每一件事知道一些是容易的，对任何一件事详细知道是困难的。 It is easy to open a shop but hard to keep it always open. 开设店铺易，维持常开难。 It is easy to prophesy after the event. 事後诸葛亮，预言顶便当。 It is good fishing in troubled waters. 混水之中好摸鱼。 It is good to be merry at meal. 席间心情愉快是为上策。 It is good to have friends in trouble. 在患难时得到朋友是幸运的。 It is good to learn at another man's cost. 前车之覆，後车之鉴。 It is harder to marry a daughter well than to bring her up well. 养女容易嫁女难。 It is hard to please all parties. 取悦各方，谈何容易。 It is impossible that a man who is false to his friends should be true to his country. 对朋友不义，不可能对国家效忠。 It is more blessed to give than to receive. 施恩比受惠更有福。 It is more pain to do nothing than something. 什麽都不做要比做一点更不好受。 It is my own fault if I am deceived by the same man twice. 在同一个人那里上两次当只能怪自己。 It is no honour for an eagle to vanquish a dove. 老鹰胜鸽，不足为荣。 It is not every couple that is a pair. 成双并非皆配偶。 It is not helps, but obstaceles, not facilities but difficulties, that make men. 造就人的，不是帮助，而是磨难，不是方便，而是困难。 It is not how long but how well we live. 问题不是活得长不长而是活得好不好。 It is not shame for a man to learn that which he knows not, whatever be his age. 一个人不论年龄多大，都要学习不懂的东西，这不是羞耻。 It is not the gay coat that makes the gentleman. 君子在德不在衣。 It is not work that kills, but worry. 劳动不伤人，忧虑才伤人。 It is no use crying over spilt milk. 泼水难收。 It is one thing to speak much and another to speak pertinently. 话讲得多是一回事，讲得恰当是另一回事。 It is right to put everything in its proper use. 凡事都应该用得其所。 It is the first step that costs. 万事开头难。 It is the general rule, that all superior men inherit the elements ofsuperiority from their mother. 一切优秀的人通常都从他们母亲那里继承优良的因素。 It is the nature of every man to err, but only the fool perseveres in the error. 人总不免要犯错误，只有蠢人才坚持不改。 It is the nature of folly to see the faults of others and forget his own. 愚蠢的本质是只看到别人的错处而忘却了自己的过失。 It
is the peculiarity of knowledge that those who really thirst for it always get it. 只要真正渴求知识，都能得到，这是知识的特点。 It is too late to cast anchor when the ship is on the rock. 船触礁後在抛锚，为时已经太晚了。 It is too late to come with the water when the house is burnt down. 马後炮。 It is too late to lock the stable door when the steed is stolen. 贼出关门。 It is wisdom sometimes to seem a fool. 大智若愚。 It matters not how long we live but how. 问题不是活得多麽长，而是活得怎麽样。 It never rains but it pours. 祸不单行。 It's a good horse that never stumbles, A good wife that never grumbles. 良马不失蹄，贤妻不聒絮。 It's a poor heart that never rejoices. 不知人间有乐趣者最可怜。 It's a poor mouse that has only on hole. 鼠只有一洞，必先把命送。 It's easy to fall into a trap, but hard to get out again. 堕入陷阱易，脱离陷阱难。 It's hard sailing when there is no wind. 没有风难航行。 It's not the gay coat that makes the gentleman. 君子重德不重衣。 It's no use pumping a dry well. 徒劳无益。 It takes all sorts to make a world. 万千事物，形成世界。 It takes two to make a quarrel. 要有两个人才吵得起来。 I was born anAmerican; I live an American; I shall die an American. 我生下来是美国人，活著是美国人，死时也是美国人。 I wept when I was born,, and every day shows why. 我生下时啼哭，後来每天的生活说明了为什麽。 I would rather be a poor man in a garret with plenty of good books to read than a king who did not love reading 宁为穷汉住搁楼，拥有好书任我读，不愿身居帝王位，纵有好书不爱读。 I would rather have the affectionate regard of my fellow men than I would have heaps and mines of gold. 我宁愿得到人们的深情至爱，而不愿黄金成雄。 Jack of all trades and master of none. 什麽都会，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 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。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，婚後半闭月。 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. 善良的心灵胜於显贵的地位。 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 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。 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。 Late repentance is seldom true. 後悔少有诚意。 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, 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，死後无证人。 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 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，不要负於任何人。 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。 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 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。 Maidens should (or must) be mild and meek, swift to hear and slow to speak. 少女应温良谦恭，敏於听而慎於言。 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 busi
ness (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. 使你有益於人。 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。 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. 婚姻是一件难於预料的事。 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！没有什麽比结婚对人要求更多的了。 Marry in haste, and repent at leisure. 草率结婚後悔多。 Marry in lent, and you'll live to repent. 借债结婚，後悔一生。 Marry your son when you will, your daughter when you . 给儿子娶亲，想在什麽时候皆可；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 thrice before you cut once. 三思而後行。 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. 人能知其生於何地，不能知其死於何方。 Men love to hear well of themselves. 阿？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. 灾祸常生於不测。 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 orname
nt, 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 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. 往往由於缺乏金钱而丧失金钱。 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. 烦恼发乎内者多於发乎外。 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 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。 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。 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。 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 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。 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。 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. 唯智者善於利用空闲。 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，但最善於说教。 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. 所有的人自由後，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 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 withou
t 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。 No wrong without remedy. 无错不可纠。