Part K：
● 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，婚后半闭月。
● 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. 善良的心灵胜于显贵的地位。
● 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 long, life is short. 吾生有涯，而知无涯。
● 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。

Part L：
● 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。
● Lack of knowledge is darker than night. 没有知识比黑夜还要黑。
● Late repentance is seldom true. 后悔少有诚意。
● 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 is sweet. 生命是甜美的。
● 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，死后无证人。
● 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 learn. 活到老，学到老。
● 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，不要负于任何人。
● 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。爱情使人对缺点视而不见。情人眼里出西施。
● 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 neither bought nor sold. 爱情不能买卖。
● 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。

Part M：
● Maidens should (or must) be mild and meek, swift to hear and slow to speak. 少女应温良谦恭，敏于听而慎于言。
● 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 business (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. 使你有益于人。
● 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。
● Man will conquer nature. 人定胜天。
● 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. 婚姻是一件难于预料的事。
● 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！没有什么比结婚对人要求更多的了。
● Marry in haste, and repent at leisure. 草率结婚后悔多。
● Marry in lent, and you'll live to repent. 借债结婚，后悔一生。
● Marry your son when you will, your daughter when you . 给儿子娶亲，想在什么时候皆可；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 for measure. 以牙还牙。
● Measure is treasure. 适度是宝。
● Measure thrice before you cut once. 三思而后行。
● 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. 人能知其生于何地，不能知其死于何方。
● Men love to hear well of themselves. 阿谀奉承话，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. 灾祸常生于不测。
● 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 ornament, 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 doesn't grow on trees. 钱不是从天上掉下来的。
● 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. 往往由于缺乏金钱而丧失金钱。
● Money is something, but no everything. 金钱能买到某物，但不是万能的。
● 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. 烦恼发乎内者多于发乎外。
● 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 cry and little wool. 雷声大，雨点小。
● 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。
● Murder will out. 杀人终必败露。
● 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。

Part N：
● 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。(事急老妪跑。)
● 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 judge by appearances. 人不可貌相。
● 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。(指危难时不宜做大变动)
● 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。
● News is like fish. 新闻就像鱼，过后不新鲜。
● 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。
● 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 without 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。
● Now or never. 机不可失，失不再来。
● No wrong without remedy. 无错不可纠。

Part O：
● Oaks may fall when reeds stand the storm. 树大招风。
● Obedience is the first duty of a soldier. 服从是军人的第一职责。
● Observation is the best teacher. 观察为良师。
● Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives. 人生最可宝贵的是声誉，躯体入土后，声誉犹存。
● Of earthly goods the best is a good wife. A bad the bitterest curse of human life. 贤妻最可贵，恶妇是灾星。
● Offence is the best defence. 进攻是最好的防御。
● Of nothing comes nothing. 无中不能生有。
● Often and little eating makes a man fat. 少吃多餐，身强体胖。
● Of two evils choose the least. 权衡两害，取其轻者。
● Of young men die many, of old men escape not any. 年轻人死得不少，而年迈者是在劫难逃。
● Old bees yield no honey. 老蜂不酿蜜。
● Old birds are not caught with new nests. 新巢捉不到老鸟。
● Old birds are not to be caught with shaff. 老谋是不会失算的。
● Older and wiser. 越老越聪明。
● Old foxes want no tutors. 老狐狸不需要教师。
● Old friends and old wine are best. 古交友情深，陈酒香味醇。
● Old love will not be forgotten. 旧情永难忘。
● Old vessels must leak. 旧船必漏。

● Opportunity, sooner or later, comes to all who work and wish. 只要努力工作而有志向，机会迟早终会来临。
● Other men live to eat, while I eat to live. 别人为食而生活，我为生活而食。
● Our affections are our life. -- We live by them; they supply our warmth. 我们的感情，是我们的生命，我们靠它生存，我们的温暖是它供应。
● Our best friends are they who tell us our faults and help us to mend them. 最好的朋友是指出我们的缺点并帮助改正的人。
● Our bravest and best lessons are not learnt through success, but through misadventure. 最美好的教训不是得之于成功，而是来之于不幸。
● Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. 我们最大的光荣并不在于永不跌倒，而在于每次跌倒后能起来。
● Our happiness consists not in killing others, but in sacrificing ourselves for others. 我们最大幸福并不是杀害别人，而是为别人而牺牲自己。
● Our own actions are our security, not others' judgements. 我们的行为是自己的保证而不是别人的鉴定。
● Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. 最甜美的的歌是诉说最悲伤的哀思。
● Out of debt, out of danger. 无债一身轻。
● Out of sight, out of mind. 久违情疏。眼不见，心不烦？
● Overdone is worse than undone. 过犹不及。

Part P：
● Paddle your own canoe. 自立更生，自食其力。
● Pain is forgotten where gain follows. 好了伤疤忘了痛。
● Pardoning the bad is injuring the good. 饶了坏人便伤了好人。
● Patience and application will carry us through. 忍耐和努力会使我们度过难关。
● Pen and ink is wit's plough. 笔墨是才智之犁。
● Penny and penny laid up will be many. 积少成多。
● Penny wise and pound foolish. 小事聪明，大事糊涂。
● ● Poverty is the mother of all arts. 贫困乃一切艺术之源。
● Poverty is the mother of health. 缺乏是健康之母。
● Poverty is the reward of idleness. 贫穷是游手好闲的报应。
● Poverty is the root of all evils. 穷困是万恶之源。
● Poverty on an old man's back is a heavy burden. 老而贫穷，负担沈重。
● Poverty shows us who are our friends and who are our enemies. 贫困才能显出敌和友。
● Poverty tries friends. 贫穷考验朋友。
● Practice is better than precept. 身教胜于言教。
● Practice makes perfect. 熟能生巧。
● Practice what you preach. 言必行。
● Praise is not pudding. 恭维不是布丁。
● Praise makes good men better, and bad men worse. 赞扬使好人更好，坏人更坏。
● Praise no man till he is dead. 盖棺论定。
● Preachers can talk but never teach, Unless they practise what they preach. 说教的人不身体力行，就只能空谈，不能起教育作用。
● Prepare for a rain day. 未雨绸缪。
● Prevention is better than cure. 预防胜于治疗。
● Pride and grace dwelt never in one place. 傲慢和温雅决不会共处在一起。
● Pride apes humility. 大巧若拙。
● Pride goes before a fall. (or destruction). 骄兵必败。
● Pride goeth before, and shame cometh after. 骄傲一开始，耻辱接踵至。
● Pride may lurk under a threadbare cloak. 骄傲可能披著老一套的外衣出现。
● Pride must be pinched. 骄傲必须收敛。
● Pride will have a fall. 骄者必败。
● Procrastination is the thief of time. 拖延即浪费时间。
● Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow. 进展即今日的活动和明日的保证。
● Promise is debt. 许愿就是债，欠了不容赖。
● Promise little but do much. 少许愿，多做事。
● Prosperity discovers vices and adversity virtues. 顺境显邪恶，逆境见善性。
● Prosperity gains (or makes) friends, and adversity tries them. 顺境交朋友，逆境试真情。
● Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience. 谚语言短简，得自老经验。
● Proverbs are the cream of a nation's thought. 谚语是一国的思想精华。
● Proverbs are the wisdom of the ages. 谚语是时代的智慧。
● Prove thy friends ere thou have need. 需要朋友之前，先要加以考验。
● Provide for the worst, the best will save itself. 作最坏的准备，可以得到最好的结果。
● Providence is always on the side of the strongest battalions. 天公总是佑强者。
● Punctuality is the soul of business. 严守时间是办事情的重要原则。
● Purpose supposes foresight. 深谋远虑。
● Put not your hand between the bark and the tree. 少管闲事。
● Put (or Lay or Set) one's shoulder to the wheel. 出一把力。
● Put the cart before the horse. 本末倒置。
● Put the shoe on the right foot. 责备应受责备者，表扬应受表扬者。

Part Q：
● Quality is better than quantity. 质重于量。
● Quality matters more than quanity. 质量比数量重要。
● Quarrels of lovers but renew their love. 情人争争吵吵，自会言归于好。
● Quick at meal, quick at work. 吃得快，做得快。
● Quick feet and busy hands fill the mouth. 手勤脚快，嘴里吃饱。
● Quietness is best. 宁静最好。
● Quietude is the crown of life. 安静是生命的皇冠。

Part R
　　Ragged colts may make fine horses. 别看小狗现在丑，长大可能成骏马
　　Reading makes a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man .阅读使人渊博，会谈使 人机敏，写作使人严谨。
　　Reason is the guide and light of life. 理智是人生的灯塔
　　Remove an old tree and it will wither to death. 老树移栽活不了，老人迁居命不长
　　Rome was not build in a day罗马非朝夕建成.
　　Roses have thorns. 玫瑰好看却有刺



S 　　Sadness and gladness succeed one another.乐极生悲,苦尽甘来 　　Satan always finds work for idle hands. 魔鬼专坑懒鬼 　　Saving is getting. 节约等于增加收入 　　Say nothing, think the more. 多思寡言 　　Saying and doing are two things. 说是一回事，做又是一回事 　　Scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours. 你帮我，我帮你 　　Second thoughts are best. 三思而后行 　　Seeing is believing. 眼见为实 　　Self do, self have. 自作自受 　　Share and share alike. 有福同享，有难同当 　　Short pleasure, long lament. 痛快一时，痛苦一世 　　Silence gives consent. 沉默不许，就是默许 　　Slow and steady wins the race. 慢而稳，赛必胜 　　So many countries, so many customs. 国家不一，风俗各异 　　So many men, so many minds. 人心不同，各如其面 　　Soft fire makes sweet malt. 文火煮饴糖，香甜又可口(意指：慢工出细活) 　　Something attempted, something done.有所尝试，就等于有所作为。 　　Soon got, soon spent. 来得容易，去得快 　　Soon learnt, soon forgotten. 学得快，忘得快 　　Spare the rod and spoil the child. 孩子不打不成器 　　Speech is silver; silence is golden. 雄辩是银，沉默是金 　　Speech is the picture of the mind. 言为心声 　　Standers-by see more than gamesters. 当局者迷，旁观者清 　　Still waters run deep. 流静水深，人静心深 　　Stolen fruit is sweetest. 偷来的果子分外甜 　　Strike while the iron is hot. 趁热打铁 　　Sweet are the uses of adversity. 祸兮福之所倚 　　Sweet discourse makes short days and nights.话若投机嫌日短 　　T 　　"The grapes are sour", as the fox said when he could not reach them. 狐狸吃不到葡萄，就说葡萄酸 　　Take away my good name, take away my life. 夺去了美名也就夺去了生命 　　Take honour from me and my life is done. 没有了名誉也就没有了生命 　　Take not a musket to kill a butterfly. 用枪打蝴蝶，小题大做(意同：杀鸡焉用牛刀) 　　Talk of the devil and he will appear. 说曹操，曹操就到 　　Tall trees catch much wind. 树大招风 　　Teaching others teaches yourself. 教学相长 　　The bait hides the hook. 饵中必有诈 　　The best mirror is an old friend. 老友是明镜 　　The cheap buyer takes bad meat便宜无好货. 　　The course of true love never did run smooth. 爱情之路，崎岖不平 　　The day has eyes, the night has ears.若要人不知，除非已莫为 　　The early bird catches the worm. 鸟儿起得早，蚯蚓吃得到 　　The end makes all equal. 死神面前，人人平等 　　The fire is the test of gold; adversity of strong men. 烈火炼真金，逆境炼壮士(火对金子是考验；逆境对人是磨炼。) 　　The fool does think he is wise , but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.愚者自以为智，智者自知其愚。 　　The fox may grow grey, but never good. ;江山易改，本性难移 　　The frog in the well knows nothing of the great ocean. 井底之蛙，所见不广 　　The future becomes the present if we fight for it.只要为之奋斗，未来就会变成现在。 　　The great thieves punish the little ones. 大贼罚小贼(意同：大鱼吃小鱼) 　　The higher up, the greater the fall. 爬得越高，跌得越重 　　The lazy man’s the beggar’s brother. 懒鬼是乞丐的兄弟 　　The leopard cannot change its spots. 江山易改，本性难移 　　The longest day must have an end. 天虽长，必有尽 　　The love of money is the root of all evil. 贪财是万恶之源 　　The more a man learns, the more he sees his ignorance. 知识越广博，越感已无知 　　The more haste, the less speed. 欲速则不达。 　　The more riches a fool hath, the greater fool he is. 傻瓜越富越蠢 　　The more we read, the more we discover our ignorance.书读得越多，越感到学识之不足。 　　The more you have, the more you want. 越有钱，越贪心 　　The most precious of all possessions is a wise and loyal friend.最宝贵的财富是明智而忠实的朋友。 　　The nearer the church, the farther from God. 离教堂越近，离上帝越远 　　The proof of the pudding is in the eating . 实践出真知 　　The proper function of man is to live, not to exist.人的正确功能是生活，而不是生存。 　　The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. 痛苦的秘密在于有闲功夫为自己是否幸福而烦恼。 　　The wealth of the mind the only wealth.精神财富才是惟一的财富。 　　The world is his who enjoys it.世界属于热爱世界的人。 　　The worth of a thing is best known by the want of it.缺乏一件东西，才知道这的可贵。 　　The years teach much which the days never know.学问积年而成，而每日不自知。 　　There is no disputing about tastes.人各有所好。 　　Time gives good advice. 时间给予金玉良言。 　　Time works wonders.时间能创造奇迹。 　　Two heads are better than one. 两人智慧胜一人。 　　U 　　Under water, famine; under snow, bread. 洪水造饥馑，瑞雪兆丰年 　　Union is strength. 团结就是力量 　　Use makes perfectness. 熟能生巧 　　V 　　Venture a small fish to catch a great one. 欲钓大鱼，先舍小鱼 　　Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.改变自己往往比改变环境更为需要。 　　Virtue is a jewel of great price. 美德是无价之宝 　　Virtue is fairer far than beauty. 美德远胜于美貌 　　Virtue is its own reward. 善有善报(意指：德行的酬报就是德行本身) 　　W 　　Walls have ears. 隔墙有耳 　　Wash your dirty linen at home家丑不可外扬. 　　Waste not, want not. 俭则不匮 　　Wasting time is robbing oneself.浪费时间就是掠夺自己。 　　Water-drops, gathered together, become a sea; experience, gathered together, becomes knowledge. 水滴汇集成大海，经历汇集成学问。 　　We can’t judge a person by what he says but by what he does. 判断一个人，不听言语看行动 　　We never know the value of water till the well is dry. 井干方知水可贵 　　We only live once, but if we work it right, once is enough. 年华没虚度，一生也足矣。 　　Weak things united become strong. 一根筷子易折断，十根筷子硬如铁 　　Wealth is best known by want. 人穷方知钱可贵 　　Well begun is half done. 良好的开端，是成功的一半 　　What is done by night appears by day.若要人不知,除非已莫为 　　When a man is going down-hill, everyone will give him a push. 墙倒众人推 　　When children stand quiet, they have done some harm. 孩子不吭声，一定闯了祸 　　When in Rome do as the Romans do. 入国问禁，入乡随俗 　　When one will not, two cannot quarrel. 一个巴掌拍不响 　　When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out at the window. 贫穷进门来，爱情越窗飞 　　When the cat is away, the mice will play猫儿不在，鼠儿成精. 　　When wine sinks, words swim. 美酒一下肚，话匣关不住 　　Where there is a will there is a way. 有志者，事竟成 　　Where there is smoke, there is fire. 无风不起浪(事出有因) 　　Where there’s life there’s hope. 留得青山在，不怕没柴烧 　　Will is power. 意志就是力量 　　Wisdom is a good purchase though we pay dear for it.为了求得智慧，代价再高也值得。 　　Wisdom is to the mind what health is to the body.智慧之于头脑，犹如健康之于躯体。 　　Wise men are silent; fools talk.智者沉默寡言，愚者滔滔不绝 　　Wise men change their minds; fools never do. 智者通权达变，愚者刚愎自用 　　Wise men love truth, whereas fools shun it. 智者热爱真理，愚者回避真理 　　Without hard work there won’t be any scientific creations.没有艰苦劳动就常有科学创造。 　　Words are but wind, but seeing is believing. 耳听为虚，眼见为实 　　Y 　　You are never too old to learn. 学习不嫌老 　　You cannot have everything in this life. 万事如意古来难。 　　You can’t see the wood for the trees.见树不见林，问题难看清 　　You never know till you have tried. 不尝试，不知晓 　　Youth and age will never agree. 老少难相投 　　Z 　　Zeal without knowledge is fire without light. 热情而无知，犹如无光之火 　　Zeal without knowledge is the sister of folly. 无知的热情近乎愚蠢

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