I開頭的英語常用諺語大全(中英文對照)(5)

　　It is not every couple that is a pair. 成雙并非皆配偶。

　　It is not good to make a sleeping lion. 弄醒睡獅不是好事。

　　It is not helps, but obstaceles, not facilities but difficulties, that make men. 造就人的，不是幫助，而是磨難，不是方便，而是困難。

　　It is not how long but how well we live. 問題不是活得長不長而是活得好不好。

　　It is not shame for a man to learn that which he knows not, whatever be his age. 一個人不論年齡多大，都要學(xué)習(xí)不懂的東西，這不是羞恥。

　　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. 勞動不傷人，憂慮才傷人。

　　It is no use crying over spilt milk. 潑水難收。

　　It is one thing to speak much and another to speak pertinently. 話講得多是一回事，講得恰當(dāng)是另一回事。

　　It is right to put everything in its proper use. 凡事都應(yīng)該用得其所。

　　It is the first step that costs. 萬事開頭難。

　　It is the general rule, that all superior men inherit the elements ofsuperiority from their mother. 一切優(yōu)秀的人通常都從他們母親那里繼承優(yōu)良的因素。

　　It is the nature of every man to err, but only the fool perseveres in the error. 人總不免要犯錯誤，只有蠢人才堅持不改。

　　It is the nature of folly to see the faults of others and forget his own. 愚蠢的本質(zhì)是只看到別人的錯處而忘卻了自己的過失。

　　It is the peculiarity of knowledge that those who really thirst for it always get it. 只要真正渴求知識，都能得到，這是知識的特點。

　　It is too late to cast anchor when the ship is on the rock. 船觸礁后在拋錨，為時已經(jīng)太晚了。

　　It is too late to come with the water when the house is burnt down. 馬后炮。

　　It is too late to lock the stable door when the steed is stolen. 賊出關(guān)門。

　　It is wisdom sometimes to seem a fool. 大智若愚。

　　It matters not how long we live but how. 問題不是活得多么長，而是活得怎么樣。

　　It never rains but it pours. 禍不單行。(不鳴則已，一鳴驚人。)

　　It's a good horse that never stumbles, A good wife that never grumbles. 良馬不失蹄，賢妻不聒絮。

　　It's a poor heart that never rejoices. 不知人間有樂趣者最可憐。

　　It's a poor mouse that has only on hole. 鼠只有一洞，必先把命送。

　　It's earier to run down the hill than go up. 下山容易上山難。

　　It's easy to fall into a trap, but hard to get out again. 墮入陷阱易，脫離陷阱難。

　　It's hard sailing when there is no wind. 沒有風(fēng)難航行。

　　It's no sin to sell dear, but a sin to give ill measure. 高價賣不為過，短斤少兩才有罪。

　　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. 徒勞無益。

　　It takes all sorts to make a world. 萬千事物，形成世界。

　　It takes two to make a quarrel. 要有兩個人才吵得起來。

　　I was born anAmerican; I live an American; I shall die an American. 我生下來是美國人，活著是美國人，死時也是美國人。

　　I wept when I was born,, and every day shows why. 我生下時啼哭，后來每天的生活說明了為什么。

　　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 寧為窮漢住擱樓，擁有好書任我讀，不愿身居帝王位，縱有好書不愛讀。

　　I would rather have the affectionate regard of my fellow men than I would have heaps and mines of gold. 我寧愿得到人們的深情至愛，而不愿黃金成雄。