常用成语英汉互译

　　谁言寸草心，报得三春晖 "Such kindness of warm sun, can't be repaid by grass. "

　　水涨船高 When the river rises, the boat floats high.

　　时不我待 Time and tide wait for no man.

　　杀鸡用牛刀 break a butterfly on the wheel

　　实事求是 seek truth from facts; be practical and realistic; be true to facts

　　说曹操,曹操到 Talk of the devil and he comes.

　　实话实说 speak the plain truth; call a spade a spade; tell it as it is

　　实践是检验真理的唯一标准 Practice is the sole criterion for testing truth.

　　山不在高，有仙则名 "No matter how high the mountain is, its name will spread far and wide if there is a fairy; "

　　韬光养晦 hide one's capacities and bide one's time

　　糖衣炮弹 sugar-coated bullets

　　天有不测风云 Anything unexpected may happen. a bolt from the blue

　　团结就是力量 Unity is strength.

　　“跳进黄河洗不清” "eve if one jumped into the Yellow River, one can not wash oneself clean--there's nothing one can do to clear one's name "

　　歪风邪气 unhealthy practices and evil phenomena

　　物以类聚，人以群分 Birds of a feather flock together.

　　往事如风 "The past has vanished (from memory) like wind.; What in past, is past."

　　望子成龙 hold high hopes for one's child

　　屋漏又逢连阴雨 Misfortunes never come singly. When it rains it pours.

　　文韬武略 military expertise; military strategy

　　唯利是图 draw water to one's mill

　　无源之水,无本之木 water without a source, and a tree wiithout roots

　　无中生有 make/create something out of nothing

　　无风不起浪 There are no waves without wind. There's no smoke without fire.

　　徇私枉法 bend the law for the benefit of relatives or friends

　　新官上任三把火 a new broom sweeps clean

　　虚心使人进步,骄傲使人落后 Modesty helps one go forward, whereas conceit makes one lag behind.

　　蓄势而发 accumulate strength for a take-off

　　心想事成 May all your wish come true

　　心照不宣 have a tacit understanding; give tacit consent; tacit understanding

　　先入为主 First impressions are firmly entrenched.

　　先下手为强 catch the ball before the bound

　　像热锅上的蚂蚁 like an ant on a hot pan

　　现身说法 warn people by taking oneself as an example

　　息事宁人 pour oil on troubled waters

　　喜忧参半 mingled hope and fear

　　循序渐进 step by step

　　一路平安，一路顺风 speed somebody on their way; speed the parting guest

　　严以律己,宽以待人 be strict with oneself and lenient towards others

　　鱼米之乡 a land of milk and honey

　　有情人终成眷属 "Jack shall have Jill, all shall be well."

　　有钱能使鬼推磨 Money makes the mare go. Money talks.

　　有识之士 people of vision

　　有勇无谋 use brawn rather than brain

　　有缘千里来相会 Separated as we are thousands of miles apart, we come together as if by predestination.

　　与时俱进 advance with times

　　以人为本 people oriented; people foremost

　　因材施教 teach students according to their aptitude

　　欲穷千里目，更上一层楼 "to ascend another storey to see a thousand miles further; Ascend further, were you to look farther; Would eye embrace a thousand miles? Go up, one flight."

　　欲速则不达 Haste does not bring success.

　　优胜劣汰 survival of the fittest

　　英雄所见略同 Great minds think alike.

　　冤家宜解不宜结 Better make friends than make enemies.

　　冤假错案 "cases in which people were unjustly, falsely or wrongly charged or sentenced; unjust, false or wrong cases"

　　一言既出，驷马难追 A real man never goes back on his words.

　　招财进宝 Money and treasures will be plentiful

　　债台高筑 become debt-ridden

　　致命要害 Achilles' heel

　　众矢之的 target of public criticism

　　知己知彼,百战不殆 Know the enemy and know yourself, and you can fight a hundred battles with no danger of defeat.

　　纸上谈兵 be an armchair strategist

　　纸包不住火 Truth will come to light sooner or later.

　　左右为难 between the devil and the deep blue sea; between the rock and the hard place

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