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• A danger foreseen is half avoided.预见隐患等于防范一半。 A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.浅学误人。All time is no time when it is past.光阴一去不复返。（Tomorrow comes never.切莫依赖明天。） All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.只工作，不玩耍，聪明小孩也变傻。 A man without knowledge is like a house without a foundation.人无知如房屋基。 Better late than never.迟做总比不做好。 Better master one than engage with ten.会十事，不如精一事。 Birds of a feather flock together.物以类聚。 Blushing is virtue’s color.脸红是美德的颜色。(Virtue never grows old.美德常青。)Busine before pleasure.事业在先，享乐在后。(Busine is the salt of life.事业是生命之盐。) Busine is busine.公事公办。 Diligence is the mother of succe.勤奋是成功之母。 Don’t cry over spilt milk.覆水难收。 Don’t put the cart before the horse.不要本末倒置。 Everything is good when new, but friends when old.物莫如新，友莫如故。 Everybody’s busine is nobody’s busine.三个和尚没水吃。 Far from eye, far from heart.离远而情疏。 Good things never come easy.好事多磨。Great minds think alike.英雄所见略同。 He who does not rise early never does a good day’s work.一日之计在于晨。 Honesty is the best policy.诚实是最好的品德。 Hope is the poor man’s bread.希望是穷人的面包。
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• Industry is fortune’s right hand, and frugality her left.勤勉是幸运的右手，世俭是幸运的左手。 Idlene is the root of all evil.懒惰是万恶之源。 In sickne health is known.病时才知健康好。 It is good to learn at another man’s cost.前车可鉴。 It is hard to please all.众口难调。 Justice has long arms.天网恢恢，疏而不漏。 Knowledge is power.Let bygones be bygones.过去的就让它过去吧。 Life is long if it is full.年华不虚度，生命自悠长。Look before you leap.三思而后行。 Losers are always in the wrong.胜者为王，败者为寇。 Many hands make light work.众擎易举。 Never do things by halves.做事不要半途而废。 Never think yourself above busine.不要眼高手低; 永远不要认为自己是大才小用。No sweet without sweat.苦尽甘来。 Nothing ventured, nothing gained.不入虎穴不得虎子。 Opportunity seldom knocks twice.机不可失失不再来。 Practice makes perfect.Problems loom large when men don’t.困难像弹簧，你弱它就强。 Procrastination is the thief of time.拖延是时间的大敌;拖延就是浪费时间.Seeing is believing.So many men, so many minds.人心各不同。 Something is learned every time a book is opened.开卷有益。 Strike while the iron is hot.
• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •The car will find its way round the hill when it gets there.车到山前必有路。 The day is short but the work is much.工作多，光阴迫。 The fox changes his skin but not his habits.江山易改本性难移。 The greatest things must have the smallest beginning.千里之行，始于足下。 The heart is seen in wine./ Wine in, truth out.酒后吐真言。 The older, the wiser.人老智多。(姜还是老的辣。) The shortest answer is doing the thing.最简短的回答就是一个“干”字。 The worse luck now, the better another time.风水轮流转。 There is no friend so faithful as a good book.好书胜益友。 Thoughts are free from toll.思想不用交税。(人人都可以自由思考。) Time tries all things.时间检验一切。 Use legs and have legs.经常用腿，健步如飞。 When an opportunity is neglected, it never comes back to you.机不可失，时不再来。 Wisdom is more to be envied than riches.知识可羡，胜于财富。 Walls have ears.What is done cannot be undone.覆水难收。 When in Rome, do as the Romans do.Wisdom comes by suffering.吃一堑，长一智。 You are only young once.青春只有一次。 You cannot burn the candle at both ends.蜡烛不可两头燃。(鱼和熊掌不可兼得。) You never know till you have tried.事非经过不知难。 Zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse.无知的狂热是脱缰的野马。
