外国关于动物谚语
导语:谚语是民间集体创造、广为口传、言简意赅并较为定型的艺术语句,是民众丰富智慧和普遍经验的规律性总结。下面关于 动物 的谚语,希望可以帮助到您。
1. Wolf(1) Don’t trust a goat with the kitchen-garden,or a wolf with sheepfold. 不能请羊管菜园,不能请狼管羊圈。
(2) Who keeps company with wolves, will learn to howl. 和狼在一起,就会学狼叫。
(3) Man is a wolf to man. 人对人是狼。(人心狠,人吃人)
(4) A growing youth has a wolf in his belly. 年轻人,在成长,吃起饭来像饿狼
2. Dog(1) He who would hang his dog gives out first that it is mad. 欲加之罪,何患无词.
(2) A staff is quickly found to beat a dog with. 欲加之罪,何患无词.
(3) Love me, love my dog. 爱屋及乌.
(4) Too much pudding will choke a dog. 布丁太多噎死狗。
(5) Every dog has his day. 人人皆有得意时。
(6) Barking dogs don’t (seldom) bite. 爱叫的狗很少咬人。
(7) Let sleeping dogs lie. 勿惹事生非。
(8) Dead dogs bite not. 死狗不咬人。
(9) All are not thieves that dogs bark at. 狗见了叫的不一定都是贼。(不要以貌取人。)
(10) Every dog is a lion at home. 狗在家门口就成了狮子。
(11) Don’t be a dog (lying) in the manger. 莫学狗占马槽不吃草。(不要占着茅坑不拉屎。)
(12) Dog does not eat dog. 同类不相残。
(13) Scornful dogs will eat dirty puddings. 狗再傲慢也会吃脏布丁。
(14) A son never thinks his mother ugly,a
3.bird
(1) Kill two birds with one stone. 一箭双雕;一举两得。
(2) A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. 双鸟在林不如一鸟在手。
(3) Birds of a feather flock together. 物以类聚,人以群分。
(4) It’s an ill bird that fouls own nest. 家丑不可外扬。
(5) Fine feathers make fine birds. 人要衣装,马要鞍。
(6) A bird is known by its note, and a man by his talk. 听音识鸟,闻言识人。
(7) Each bird loves to hear himself sing. 鸟儿都爱听自己唱。(自我欣赏)
(8) You cannot catch old birds with chaff.(粗糠). 用粗糠捉不住老鸟。(有经验的人难骗。)
(9) Birds in their little nests agree. 同巢之鸟心儿齐。
4. Fox(1) The fox may grow grey, but never good. 狐狸毛色可变灰,但是本性难移。
(2) The fox preys farthest from his hole. 狐狸捕食,远离洞府。(兔子不吃窝边草。)
(3) When the fox preaches, then take care of your geese. 每当狐狸说教,当心鹅群被盗。
(4) When the fox says he is a vegetarian, it’s time for the hen to look out. 狐狸说它吃素的时候,母鸡就得注意。
8. Fish
(1) The best fish swim near the bottom. 好鱼常在水底游。
(2) Never offer to teach fish to swim. 不要班门弄斧。
(3) Go to the sea, if you would fish well. 不入虎穴,焉得虎子。
(4) There’s as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it. 海里的好鱼多的是。
(5) It is a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait. 智者不上两次档。
(6) If water is noisy, there are no fish in it. 咆哮的水中无鱼。(夸夸其谈者无真才实学。)。
5. Hare(1) You cannot run with the hare and hunt with the hounds(猎狗). 不能既和野兔一起跑又和猎狗一起追。(人不应两面讨好。)
(2) The tortoise wins the race while the hare is sleeping. 兔子睡懒觉,乌龟跑赢了。
6. Horse
(1) You can take a horse to the water, but you can’t make him drink. 带马到河边容易,逼马饮水难。
(2) Don’t ride the high horse. 勿摆架子。
(3) A good horse cannot be of a bad colour. 好马不会毛色差。
(4) A horse may stumble on four feet. 马有四条腿,亦有失蹄时。
(5) A running horse needs no spur. 奔马无需鞭策。
(6) Don’t put the cart before the horse. 不要将大车套在马前面。(处理问题应按先后次序,不要本末倒置。)
(7) The common horse is worst shod. 公用之马,掌子最差。
(8) Lock the barn door after the horse is stolen. 失马之后锁马厩。(亡羊补牢)
(9) Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth. 馈赠之马,勿看牙口。
(10) Hair by hair you will pull out the horse’s tail. 一根一根拔,拔光马尾巴。(水滴石穿)
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