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第6章 健康Health (2)

Wealth is nothing without health.

没有健康,生活就没有生气。

Life is lifeless without health.

Without health, life is not life, life is lifeless.

没有健康的生活就不是生活。

Without health life is no life.

每天一个苹果,不用看医生。

An apple a day, keep the doctor away.

能治好自己病的才是好医生。

He is a good physician who cures himself.

宁可运动穿破鞋子,也不卧床磨破单子。

Better wear out shoes than sheets.

贫穷是健康之母。

Poverty is the mother of health.

杞人忧天,庸人自扰。对病的恐惧胜过病本身。

The fear of ill exceeds the ills we fear.

气大伤身。

Anger punishes itself.

切不可抵押自己的健康。

You must ot pledge your own health.

缺少劳动,便生百病。

Lack of work brings a thousand diseases.

人活百年不嫌多。

No man is so old, but thinks he may yet live another year.

None is so old but he hopes for a year longer.

None so old that he hopes not for a year of life.

人生百岁古来稀。

It is seldom that a man lives to be a hundred years old.

人生七十古来稀。

Three score and ten is the age of man.

仁者寿。

A light heart lives long.

忍耐治百病。

No remedy but patience.

忍气吞声伤身体。

It is hidden wrath that harms.

如果药丸好吃,就不需要裹糖衣。

If the pills were pleasant, they would not want gilding.

如果医生帮不了,三件事就是你的医生:休息、愉快、节制的饮食。

If doctors fail you, be these three your doctors: rest, cheerfulness, and moderate diet.

伤风要多吃,发烧要饿着。

Feed a cold and starve a fever.

少吃多餐,身体健康。

Often and little eating makes a man fat.

身体好,精神才会好。

Sound in body, sound in mind.

生活多苦愁,死亡速邀走。

They who live in a worry, invite death in a hurry.

失去健康,方知健康是福。

People do not the blessing of health till they lose it.

食疗胜过药疗。

Better pay the butcher than the doctor.

Better wait on the cook than on the doctor.

Diet cures more than doctors.

食疗是最佳疗法。

Kitchen physic is the best physic.

食肉多,生病多。

Much meat, many maladies(疾病).

阳光充足,无须医生。

When the sun comes in, the doctor goes out.

Where the sun enters the doctor does not.

世上没有长生不老药。

There is no medicine against death.

世上没有治疗恐惧的药。

There is no medicine for fear.

适量劳动大有利于健康。

A little labor, much health.

寿长见识广。

They that / who live longest see most.

受伤容易治伤难。

A man is not so soon healed as hurt.

双腿越走越有劲。

Use legs and have legs.

睡好觉,如服药。

Bed is a medicine.

睡眠解千愁。

Sleep is the best cure for waking troubles.

睡眠胜于服药。

Sleep is better than medicine.

随意吃饭,适度饮酒。

Eat at pleasure, drink with measure.

贪吃的人自掘坟墓。

Digging your grave with your own teeth.

You dig your grae with your teeth.

贪吃比刀剑还能害人。

Gluttony kills more than the sword.

贪欲睡眠,虽生犹死。

Sleep, death’s counterfeit(仿制品).

甜食伤牙。

Sweet things are bad for the teeth.

顽强的生命力。把他扔进尼罗河,他将叼着鱼浮上来。

Throw him into the Nile and he will come up with a fish in his mouth.

胃口不佳,甜也变酸。

To him that has lost taste, sweet is sour.

午饭后稍休息,晚饭后走一哩。

After lunch sit awhile, after supper walk a mile.

午夜前睡觉养身体,熬夜伤筋骨。

One hour’s sleep before midnight is worth three hours after.

喜乐之心似良药。

Merry heart doeth good like a medicine.

小孩要营养。

Small birds must have meat.

心宽才能长寿。

Take–it-easy and Live-long are brothers.

心宽体胖。

Laugh and grow / be fat.

休息、愉快和节食是三大良医。

Rest, Good Cheer and Moderate Diet are three best doctors.

锈能蚀铁,忧能伤身。

As rust eats iron, so care eats the heart.

牙疼不算病,疼起来要任命。

There is no pain like the toothache.

眼大肚子小。

The eye is bigger than the belly.

要想不饿早睡觉。

Take it out in sleep.

医生不过是精神的安慰者。

A physician is but a consoler of the mind.

饮食适度,不找大夫。

Eat in measure and defy the doctor.

饮食有度,不进药铺。

Eat and drink measurely, and defy the medicines.

庸医往往比疾病更可怕。

Doctor is often more to be feared than the disease.

忧愁催人老。

Care brings on gray hair and age without years.

忧愁是生命之敌。

Care is an enemy to life.

忧愁无药可医。

Care is no cure.

忧愁也能使九条命的猫丧命。忧愁伤身。

Care killed a cat.

Care will kill a cat.

It is said that a cat has nine lives, yet care wear them all out.

有病感觉到,健康没处找。

Sickness is felt, but health not at all.

有病莫伤悲,节省医药费。

Laugh at your ills, and save doctors’ bills.

有病要早治。

A green wound is soon healed.

有钱不如没病。

Better is a poor man healthy in body than a rich man stricken in his flesh.

与疾病相比,健康就是幸福。

By the side of sickness health becomes sweet.

早睡早起身体好。

Go to bed with the lamb and rise with the lark.

找到了病根等于治愈了一半。

To know the disease is half the cure.

知识太多脑顶光。知道太多老得快。

Too much knowledge makes the head bald.

治病不当,越治越糟糕。

The remedy is worse than the disease.

治病不如防病。

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

Prevention is better than cure.

治病要寻根。

A disease known is half cured.

自然、时间和耐心,是三个伟大的医生。

Nature, time, and patience are the three great physicians.

最好的医生是:节食、静养、愉快。

The best physicians are Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet, and Dr. Merryman.