书城外语汉英英语谚语手册
18951100000035

第35章 朋 友 Friends (2)

朋友吵架等于重温友情。

The falling out of friends is the renewal of love.

朋友的家无远路。

To a friend’s house the road is never long.

朋友的交谈可以大大减轻徒步的疲劳。

The conversation of a friend is a powerful alleviation(缓解)of fatigue of walking.

朋友的选择会影响名誉的好坏。

On the choice of friends, our good or evil name depends.

朋友的要求不要拖。

When a friend asks, there is no tomorrow.

朋友的皱眉胜过傻子的微笑。

A friend’s frown is better than a fool’s smile.

朋友多的人必有人格魅力。

Where there are reeds(芦苇), there is water.

Where there is honey there are bees.

Where bees are, there is honey.

朋友过多等于没朋友。

He who has any friends has no friends.

朋友如琴弦,不能上太紧。

Friends are like fiddle-strings, they must not be screwed too tight.

朋友是第二个自我。

A friend is a second self.

朋友相会心头暖。

When friends meet heart’s warm.

朋友之间不能阿谀奉承。

I cannot be your friend and your flatterer.

朋友之间不应分彼此。

Between friends all is common.

贫困才能显出敌和友。

Poverty shows us who are our friends and who are our enemies.

贫穷考验朋友。

Poverty tries friends.

贫穷疏友谊。

Poverty parts fellowship / friends / good company.

破镜可以重圆,但决不会再完美了。

A broken friendship may be soldered(联结)but will never be sound.

破镜难重圆。

Patched up friendship seldom becomes whole again.

千金难买老友。

Old friends are not to be paid with gold.

钱多不愁没朋友。

He that has a full purse never wanted a friend.

切勿与临危契友的朋友一道旅行。

Never travel with a friend who deserts you at the approach of danger.

亲兄弟,明算账。

Correct counting keeps good friends.

Even reckoning makes lasting / long friends.

Short accounts / reckonings make long friends.

穷人几乎没有朋友。

The poor have few friends.

人生可以没有朋友,但不可以没有邻居。

We can live without our friends, but not without our meighbors.

人生可以没有兄弟,但不能没有朋友。

We can live without a brother, but not without friends.

人生难得一知己。知音难觅。

A constant friend is a thing hard and rare to find.

A faithful friend is hard to find.

人死朋友散。

The dead have few friends.

日久见人心。

A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.

山不转水转,是朋友总会相见。

Friends may meet, but mountains never greet.

Men may meet but mountains never.

生活中没有朋友就等于死亡。

Life without friend is death.

生活中没有朋友,就等于死时没有送终人。

Life without a friend is death without a witness.

失掉朋友是最大的损失。

To lose a friend is the greatest of all loses.

失友都因借钱起。

A ready way to lose friend is to lend him money.

士为知己者行,女为悦己者容。

A gentleman acts on behalf of an understanding friend, as a woman makes herself for her

lover.

试马要骑马,识人要交往。

Try a horse by riding him; try a man by associating with him.

是懦夫,就是自己最大的敌人;是勇士,就是自己最好的朋友。

You are your greatest enemy if you are a coward, but if you are brave, you are your greatest friend.

书和朋友都要少而精。

Books and friends should be few but good.

Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.

熟路好走,老友情深。

Familiar paths and old friends are best.

顺境结交朋友,逆境考验朋友。

Prosperity makes friends, and adversity tries them.

说好话的未必都是朋友。

All are not friends that speaks us well / fair.

四海之内皆兄弟。

One touch of nature makes the whole would kin.

同病相怜。

Misery loves company.

同病相怜,苦恼减少。

Company / Two in distress makes trouble / sorrow less.

同是天涯沦落人,相逢何必曾相识。

Adversity acquaints men with strange bedfellows.

Misery acquaints men with strange bedfellows.

Misery makes strange bedfellows.

Poverty acquaints men with strange bedfellows.

玩笑虽不会树敌,往往会失去朋友。

A joke never gains an enemy but often loses a friend.

为交友而滥交友。

For want of company, welcome trumpery.

物莫如新,友莫如故。

Everything is good when new, friends when old.

希望朋友没有缺点,就永远没有朋友。

We shall never have friends if we expect to find them without fault.

希望朋友怎样对待自己,就应该怎样对待朋友。

We should behave towards our friends, as we wish them to behave toward us.

先考验,后信任。

Try before you trust.

Try your friend before you have need of him.

相处融洽,不分彼此。

What is mine is yours and what is yours is mine.

小错彼此不相谅,两人友谊难久长。

Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other’s little failings.

小事瞎嚷嚷,大事不吭声,不是真朋友。

Light troubles speak; great troubles keep silent.

新友不可信,宿敌须提防。

Trust not a new friend nor an old enemy.

新知不如旧友。

An old friend is better than two new ones.

行走有好伴,步旅如乘车。

A merry companion is a wagon on the way.

An agreeable companion on the road is as good as a coach.

需要的时候离开我们的朋友,有名无实。

Friends that desert us in the hour of need are friends in name, no in reality.

需要朋友帮忙前,要先考验他们。

Prove your friends before you have need.

言归于好。

Kiss and be friends.

要成仇敌,多讲;要成朋友,多听。

To make enemies, talk; to make friends, listen.

要广交朋友,但知己只有一个。

Many friends in general, one in special.

要化敌为友。

Make your enemy your friend.

要想有朋友,自己就得够朋友。

He who would have friends must himself be friendly.

要赞美朋友,莫提及敌人。

Speak well of your friend, of your enemy say nothing.

要真正了解一个人,须在不幸中考察他。

To really understand a man we must judge him in misfortune.

勇敢的敌人胜过怯懦的朋友。

A courageous foe is better than a cowardly friend.

友谊就是两个躯体一个灵魂。

Friendship—one soul in two bodies.

友谊能增添欢乐,也能分担忧愁。

Friendship multiplies joys and divides grieves.

友谊强于血亲。

Friendship is stronger than kindred.

友谊如美酒,越陈越醇厚。

Friendship is like wine—the older the better.

友谊是带有谅解的爱。

Friendship is love with understanding.

友谊是双方的事。

Friendship cannot stand always on one side.

Friendship should not be all on one side.

友谊要以真理和忠诚来巩固。

Friendship is to be strengthened by truth and devotion.

友谊也有奉承。

There is flattery in friendship.

友谊也有虚假。

There is falsehood in fellowship.

友谊越长久越坚实。

Friendship the older it grows the stronger it is.

有福同享,有难同当。

For better or for worse.

有挚友的人最富有。

He is rich enough who has true friends.

择友要慎重,弃友更要慎重。

Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

憎恨朋友等于援助敌人。

Hatred with friends is succor to foes.

真正的朋友不会对你阿谀奉承。

The same man can not be both friend and flatterer.

真正的朋友视如手足。

Count true friends as brothers.

真正的朋友志同道合。

A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

真正的友谊就像生长缓慢的植物。

True friendship is a plant of slow growth.

真正的友谊似健康,失去方知其珍贵。

True friendship is like sound health, the value of which is seldom known until it be lost.

真正的友谊与世长存。

True friendship lasts forever.

志同道合,产生友谊。

Community of purpose makes friendship.

忠诚是爱情的桥梁,欺诈是友谊的敌人。

As devotion unites lovers, so perfidy estranges friends.

自然教我们爱朋友,宗教却教我们爱敌人。

Nature teaches us to love our friends but religion our enemies.

最好的朋友是指出我们的缺点并帮助改正的人。

Our best friends are they who tell us our faults and help us to mend them.

最好的朋友往往会变成冤家。

The best friends often become the worst enemy.