I开头的英语常用谚语大全(中英文对照)(5)

　　It is not every couple that is a pair. 成双并非皆配偶。

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

　　It is not helps, but obstaceles, not facilities but difficulties, that make men. 造就人的，不是帮助，而是磨难，不是方便，而是困难。

　　It is not how long but how well we live. 问题不是活得长不长而是活得好不好。

　　It is not shame for a man to learn that which he knows not, whatever be his age. 一个人不论年龄多大，都要学习不懂的东西，这不是羞耻。

　　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. 劳动不伤人，忧虑才伤人。

　　It is no use crying over spilt milk. 泼水难收。

　　It is one thing to speak much and another to speak pertinently. 话讲得多是一回事，讲得恰当是另一回事。

　　It is right to put everything in its proper use. 凡事都应该用得其所。

　　It is the first step that costs. 万事开头难。

　　It is the general rule, that all superior men inherit the elements ofsuperiority from their mother. 一切优秀的人通常都从他们母亲那里继承优良的因素。

　　It is the nature of every man to err, but only the fool perseveres in the error. 人总不免要犯错误，只有蠢人才坚持不改。

　　It is the nature of folly to see the faults of others and forget his own. 愚蠢的本质是只看到别人的错处而忘却了自己的过失。

　　It is the peculiarity of knowledge that those who really thirst for it always get it. 只要真正渴求知识，都能得到，这是知识的特点。

　　It is too late to cast anchor when the ship is on the rock. 船触礁后在抛锚，为时已经太晚了。

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

　　It is too late to lock the stable door when the steed is stolen. 贼出关门。

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

　　It matters not how long we live but how. 问题不是活得多么长，而是活得怎么样。

　　It never rains but it pours. 祸不单行。(不鸣则已，一鸣惊人。)

　　It's a good horse that never stumbles, A good wife that never grumbles. 良马不失蹄，贤妻不聒絮。

　　It's a poor heart that never rejoices. 不知人间有乐趣者最可怜。

　　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. 下山容易上山难。

　　It's easy to fall into a trap, but hard to get out again. 堕入陷阱易，脱离陷阱难。

　　It's hard sailing when there is no wind. 没有风难航行。

　　It's no sin to sell dear, but a sin to give ill measure. 高价卖不为过，短斤少两才有罪。

　　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. 徒劳无益。

　　It takes all sorts to make a world. 万千事物，形成世界。

　　It takes two to make a quarrel. 要有两个人才吵得起来。

　　I was born anAmerican; I live an American; I shall die an American. 我生下来是美国人，活著是美国人，死时也是美国人。

　　I wept when I was born,, and every day shows why. 我生下时啼哭，后来每天的生活说明了为什么。

　　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 宁为穷汉住搁楼，拥有好书任我读，不愿身居帝王位，纵有好书不爱读。

　　I would rather have the affectionate regard of my fellow men than I would have heaps and mines of gold. 我宁愿得到人们的深情至爱，而不愿黄金成雄。