六级英语考试:写作应当知道的谚语(7)

From liuxuepaper.Com英语六级考试之写作应当知道的谚语(7)

wash your dirty linen at home.

家丑不可外扬。

water dropping day by day wears the hardest rock away.

滴水穿石。

wealth is nothing without health.

失去健康，钱再多也没用。

we know not what is good until we have lost it.

好东西，失去了才明白。

well begun is half done.

好的开始，是成功的一半。

we never know the worth of water till the well is dry.

井干方知水可贵。

the water that bears the boat is the same that swallows it up.

水能载舟，亦能覆舟。

the wise man knows he knows nothing， the fool thinks he knows all.

清者自清，浊者自浊。

the wolf has a winning game when the shepherds quarrel.

螳螂捕蝉，黄雀在后。

the world is a ladder for some to go up and others to go down.

世界如阶梯，有人上有人下。

the world is but a little place， after all.

海内存知己，天涯若比邻。

think twice before you do.

三思而后行。

things at the worst will mend.

否极泰来。

time and tide wait for no man.

时不我待。

time cures all things.

时间是医治一切创伤的良药。

two dogs strive for a bone， and a third runs away with it.

鹬蚌相争，渔翁得利。