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英语格言里有狗的

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摘 要: 世界各民族语言中有大量有关动物的习俗语和谚语,这些语言背后蕴藏着深厚的文化积淀,反映不同民族对动物相同或不同的情感态度。文章在前期对中国传统文化中十二生肖动物及其它动物词语研究的基础上,主要对汉语和英语语言中有关动物的成语、习俗语和谚语进行对比分析,从有关动物词语的字面意义出发,探讨挖掘他们的比喻意义、联想意义,寻找出英汉语言中动物词语的共同点和差异,揭示两种语言中动物词语在语义表达上的主要特点。指出英汉语言中包含动物名称的词语语义形成的基础,两种语言中运用动物词语进行语义表达的对等性特点,以及这些包含动物的词语所蕴涵的文化特征。

关键词:动物词语; 语义表达; 英汉对比

动物是自然界的一部分,是人类生活中密切相关的重要组成部分。世界各民族语言中出现了大量有关动物的成语、习俗语、格言等词语,它们反映了不同民族对动物的认识,体现人们对动物大致相同或不同的情感态度,因而这些语言中蕴涵着丰富的文化内涵。笔者以中华民族传统的的十二生肖动物为切入点,通过查阅词典、文献资料等,搜集整理了大量含有动物名称的相关词语,在进一步分析对比的基础上,探讨这些词语所表达的各种意义,进而挖掘它们隐含的文化内涵。

一、动物词语的语义基础

之所以在汉语和英语中人们借助动物构成各种语言形式,表达丰富的语言意义,是和其生活地域、生活习性、人与自然关系、文化价值观等因素有关联,有着深厚的语义形成基础。

(一)根据形体、生活习性特征表达的语义

英汉语言都有根据动物的形体生理特点及生活习性所形成的词语。它们形象逼真地反映了这些动物的生活规律,以感性认识为基础,从而引申出一定的语言意义,例如,蛇(snake)是一种爬行动物,体形柔软易弯曲,在行走时,蜿蜒曲折前行,因而英汉语言中都有“蛇行(snake its way through)”。另外蛇能分泌毒液,隐匿于草丛中,因而有“阴险、狠毒”的联想意义,英语中有“a snake in the grass”,比喻伪装成朋友的阴险之人。又如,鸡(cock)的生活习性之一是清早鸣叫,因而汉语中有“闻鸡起舞、雄鸡一唱天下白”等词语,英语中有“cock-crow(黎明)”等词语。[1]260根据“蜜蜂(bee)”、“猪(pig)”、“猴(monkey)”等的生活规律和生理特点,英汉语言中都有“忙碌”、“懒惰”、“精明、淘气”等语义。

(二)根据人们对待动物的情感态度所表达的语义

现实生活中,人们和各种动物发生着各种各样的关系,人们对动物形成一定的情感态度,进而影响到这些动物词语的褒贬意义,赋予语言以丰富的感情色彩。

对待某些动物,由于各民族呈现大致相同或完全相同的态度,体现在这些词语上,它们表达相同的语言意义。例如,英汉民族都把“羊(sheep)”看成一种善良、温顺、柔弱的动物,因而在其意义表达中包含了相同的情感态度。汉语中有“像小绵羊一样温和、乖巧”,英语中有“as gentle as a lamb / as meek as a sheep”。“猪(pig)”的生活习性、环境决定了中西文化中都认为猪是懒惰、肮脏的动物,因而有关猪的词语都含有贬义的感情色彩。

对待另外一些动物,不同民族由于其生活习惯、民族心理、意识形态及文化价值观的差异,产生截然不同的情感态度。表现在这些词语上,它们呈现不同的、个性化的褒贬语义。例如在对待“鸡(chick)”、“鱼(fish)”、“蝙蝠(bat)”等词语方面,由于这些动物名称发音同“吉(luck)”、“余(abundance)”、“福(happiness)”,因而深受中国人的青睐,被赋予褒义色彩。[2]33-36而在英语民族中则无此谐音,这些词语的褒贬色彩便产生分化,英语语言中此类词语多含贬义,例如“chick-hearted(怯懦、胆小)”、“fishwife(泼妇)”等。“龙(dragon)”在中国几千年的历史上有着深厚的文化积淀和丰富的文化传承。在中国人的民族心理和价值观中,“龙”是帝王、权力、富贵的象征,因而汉语中有关“龙”的词语都被赋予积极的含义。如:“潜龙”、“卧龙”、“龙凤呈祥”、“卧虎藏龙”、“望子成龙”等,中国人常以龙的传人、巨龙自称。而英语中“龙”则是贬义,象征魔鬼、邪恶。所以西方人在看到中国人如此钟爱雕刻有龙的东西时会表示诧异。在对待“狗(dog)”的情感上,中国人多持消极态度,含有“狗”的词语几乎都含贬义色彩,如:“走狗、落水狗、癞皮狗、狗头军师、狗仗人势、狗彘不若、狗急跳墙、狼心狗肺”等。[3]391而西方文化中,狗是人们的宠物,人们对狗充满了爱怜、褒扬之词,如:“a lucky dog(幸运的人)”、“a clever dog(聪明的人)”、“love me, love my dog(爱屋及乌,爱吾及犬)”。[4]269-271

二、动物词语语义表达的对等性特点

对等性是指英汉语言在表达某一语义时,词语中所涉及动物名称的一致性或相同性,其语言中使用的动物名称所代表和体现的相同或相近的比喻、联想意义和文化特征。

(一)英汉语言中有关动物词语的语义完全对等性

不同国家和民族,虽然生活方式、文化背景不同,但由于某些动物的共同体形特征、生活特征或行为习性,人们在表达某一语义时,两种语言会借用同一动物名称。英汉语言中的确存在这些在语义表达和文化内涵上具有对等性的动物词语,他们有着同样的比喻、象征和联想意义。

1.利用动物形体特征形成的语义对等性。例如,根据蛇的体形及运动特点,英汉语言中都用“蛇”表示一种行进路线和行进方式,“蛇行”和“snake its way through /across(蜿蜒斗折,沿曲折道路行进)”。又如“as slippery as an eel(像泥鳅一样圆滑)”。[5]293-295

2.由于语言翻译、词语借用和文化交流形成的语义对等性。例如,汉语中有“纸老虎”之说,英语中有“a paper tiger”。英语中有“a bird’s view”,汉语中就出现了“鸟瞰”一词。又例如:“a dark horse(黑马)”,“an ugly duck(丑小鸭)”,“bull market(牛市)”等。[1]107

3.根据动物的生活习性和行为特征形成的语义对等性。中西方文化中对于“猴、蛇、狐狸、狼”等动物都有相同的态度,因而他们在两种语言中表达着大致相同的意义。例如,英语中可以用“horse”指各类人,“a dark horse(黑马)”,“a willing horse(积极工作的人)”,“a Trojan horse(潜伏在内部的敌人)”。汉语中有“犬马、驽马、响马、马贼、探马、马前卒、老马识途”等。汉语中有狡猾的狐狸,英语里有“a sly/ crafty fox”,“as cunning as a fox”等。又例如:“a fish in troubled water(浑水摸鱼)”,“as timid as a mouse(胆小如鼠)”,“as busy as a bee(像蜜蜂一样忙碌)”[6]161-162,“as strong as a horse(人强马壮)”,“wolf down(狼吞虎咽)”,“a case of dog eat dog(狗咬狗)”等。此类例子都体现了两种语言在借用动物名称表达语义的完全对等性。

(二)英汉语言中动物词语语义表达的部分对等性

所谓动物词语的语义表达部分对等性,是指在表达同一语义时,不同语言在使用动物名称会不尽相同。一种语言中有关动物的习俗语、成语、谚语表达相同语义时,在另一种语言里会变为借用其他动物名称的词语。但两种语言在表达同一语义都借助了动物名称,因而在表达形式上是部分对等的。

英语中“owl”是智慧、庄严的象征,例“as wise as an owl”(猴精)。而汉语里它是不祥之鸟,倒霉、厄运的`象征,汉语用“猴”象征聪明、机灵。“bat”在英语里具有消极否定意义,象征盲目,丑陋、罪恶和吸血鬼,例“as blind as a bat”。[1]207-217而汉语里“蝙蝠”具有褒义色彩,象征幸福、好运、富裕,因为它和“福”谐音。又例如下列词语里,表达同一意义英汉语言里分别使用不同的动物名称。

Lead a dog’s life——过着牛马般的生活

have /hold a wolf by the ears——骑虎难下

a fly in the ointment——一只老鼠害了一锅汤

ike acat on hot bricks——热锅上的蚂蚁

like a drowned rat——落汤鸡

beat the dog before the lion——杀鸡儆猴

donkey’s years——猴年马月[8](57-59)

牛饮——drink like a fish

吹牛——talk horse

害群之马——black sheep

对牛弹琴——cast/ throw pearl before swine

一丘之貉——birds of the same feather

(三)英汉语言中动物词语语义表达的非对等性

一种语言中有关动物的习俗语、成语、谚语表达某一语义时,在另一种语言里这些动物名称则完全消失,不借助任何动物名称。反映两种语言在表达同一语义时,选择词语的不同,即语义表达的非对等性。由于不同的文化背景,某些动物词语在另一种语言里根本找不到对应的动物名称去表达,这些词语不能盲目的直译和套用。例如,汉语里“白象”是一种电子产品,由于“white elephant”在英语里意为“累赘,昂贵而无用的东西”,所以不可译为“white elephant”。汉语里有很多有动物名称的词语,英语里不能用具有动物名称的词语表达。例如:

拍马屁——lick sb’s boots

蜻蜓点水——scratch the surface

黔驴技穷——at one’s wit’s / at the end of one’s rope

马到成功——immediate success upon arrival

英语里也有很多有动物名称的词语,在汉语中不能用具有动物名称的词语表达。例如:

put the cart before the horse——本末倒置

a dog in the manger——占着茅坑不拉屎

a cat-and-dog life——经常吵架的生活

rain cats and dogs——倾盆大雨

money will make the mare to go——有钱能使鬼推磨

三、动物词语体现的文化特征

本研究中涉及到中国传统文化的十二生肖动物鼠、牛、虎、兔、蛇、龙、马、羊、猴、鸡、狗、猪以及猫、狼、狮子、鱼、蜜蜂、鸟、蝙蝠等31种动物形成的各种词语,包括成语、习俗语、俚语、格言。就英汉语言中这些动物所代表的语义进行了对比和分析,通过对这些词语的比喻、联想、象征意义的探讨,挖掘了它们深层次的文化内涵。在这些有关动物的词语中,中国文化侧重品德和人格意义,注重他们的内在特征,而西方文化侧重外在形象和体征意义,注重他们的外在特征,因而产生了这些词语文化方面的差别。通过以上研究,有助于更深刻的了解了不同国家、不同民族、不同文化中这些动物代表的形象及比喻和象征意义的差异,找到产生这些语言差异的文化根源,避免语言交流的障碍和误解。

一、关于教育的谚语

1.A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. (H.B.Adams, American historian)

教师的影响是永恒的;无法估计他的影响会有多深远。(美国历史学家 亚当斯)

2.And gladly would learn, and gladly teach. (Chaucer, British poet)

勤于学习的人才能乐意施教。(英国诗人 乔叟)

3.Better be unboun than untaught, for ignorance is the root of misfortune. (Plato, Ancient Greek phiosopher)

与其不受教育,不知不生,因为无知是不幸的根源。(古希腊哲学家 柏拉图)

4.Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education:dancing with the feet, with ideas, with works, and ,need I add that one must also be able

to dance with the pen? (Friedrich W.Nietzsche, German philosopher)

所有高尚教育的课程表里都不能没有各种形式的跳舞:用脚跳舞,用思想跳舞,用言语跳舞,不用说,还需用笔跳舞。(德国哲学家 尼采)

5.Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearsay of children tends towards the formation of character. (Hosea Ballou British cducator)

教育始于母亲膝下,孩童耳听一言一语,均影响其性格的形成。(英国教育家 巴卢)

6.Educaton does not mean teaching people to kow what they do not know ; it means teachng them to behave as they do not behave. (John Ruskin, British art critic)

教育不在于使人知其所未知,而在于按其所未行而行。(英国艺术评论家 园斯金)

7.Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance. (Durant, American historian)

教育是一个逐步发现自己无知的过程。(美国历史学家 杜兰特)

8.Education is a admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught. (Oscar Wilde, British dramatist)

教育是令人羡慕的东西,但是要不时地记住:凡是值得知道的,没有一个是能够教会的。(英国剧作家 王尔得)

9.Education has for its object the formation of character. (Herbert Spencer, British philosopher)

教育是以造就人的品质为其目标。(英国哲学家 斯宾塞)

10.Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. (George Macaulay Trevelyan British historian)

教育造就了一大批人,他们会读书,但是不会区别什么书值得读。(英国历史学家 特里维廉)

11.Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire. (William Butler Yeats, lrish poet)

教育不是注满一桶水,而且点燃一把火。(爱尔兰诗人 叶芝)

12.Education is the chief defence of nations. (Edmund Bruke, British statesman)

教育是国家的主要防御力量。(英国政治家 伯克)

13.Education is the transmission of civilization. (Will Drant, American historian and essayist)

教育传播文明。(美国历史学家、散文家杜兰特)

14.Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive ; easy to govern but imposible to slave. (Brougham, British statesman)

教育使一个民族容易领导,但是难于驱使;容易管理,却不可能奴役。(英国政治家 布罗马汉姆)

15.Every person has two education, one which he receives from others, and one , more important, which he gives himself. (Edward Gibbon, British historian)

每个人都受两种教育,一种来自别人,另一种更重要的是来自自己。(英国历史学家 吉朋)

二、关于动物的

1.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

(9)Birds in their little nests agree.

同巢之鸟心儿齐。

2.Cat

(1)A cat has nine lives.

猫有九条命;吉人天相。

(2)Cats hide their claws.

知人知面不知心。

(3)All cats are grey in the dark.

黑暗之中猫都是灰色的。(人未出名时看起来都差不多。)

(4)A gloved cat catches no mice.

戴手套的猫,老鼠抓不到。(不愿吃苦的人成不了大事业。)

(5)When the weasel and the cat make a marriage, it is a very ill presage.

黄鼠狼和猫结亲,不是好事情。

(6)Who will bwll the cat?

谁去给猫系铃?(谁愿意为大家冒风险?)

(7)The cat shuts its eyes when stealing cream.

帽偷吃奶油的时候总是闭着眼睛。(掩耳盗铃)

(8)There are more ways of killing a cat than by choking it with butter.

杀猫的办法很多。(达到目的的途径很多。)

(9)Care kill a cat.

忧虑愁死猫。

3.Chicken

Don't count your chickens before they're hatched.

鸡蛋未孵出,先别数小鸡。(不要过早乐观。)

4.Crow

A crow is never the whiter for washing herself often.

江山易改,本性难移。

5.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,and a dog never shuns its owner's home however

shabby it is.

儿不嫌母丑,狗不嫌家贫

三、关于友谊的英语谚语

Set great store by friendship. 情意重千斤。

Between friends all is common. 朋友之间不分彼此。

Old friends and old wine are best. 陈酒味醇, 老友情深。

The friendship of a gentleman is insipid as water. 君子之交淡如水。

A bosom friend afar brings a distant land near. 海内存知己, 天涯若比邻。

Most men's friendships are too inarticulate. 人的友谊是无法言喻的。

Friendship is like a plant of slow growth. 友谊像生长着的植物, 是慢慢地建立起来的。

A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever. 好书如挚友, 情谊永不渝。

A man knows his companion in a long journey and a little inn. 路遥知马力, 日久见人心。

I like a simple friend, who holds my faults like a looking glass before my face.

我喜欢这样的朋友, 他对我的缺点就像照镜子一样直言不讳。

It is well that there is no one without a fault, for he would not have a friend in the world .

世界上没有不犯错误的人. 想交没有错误的朋友, 你就没有朋友。

It is only the greathearted who can be true friends; the mean and the cowardly can never know what true friendship is. 只有伟大胸怀的.人才是真正的朋友; 平庸和怯懦之辈决不可能了解真正友谊的含义。

No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.

没有朋友的人不会幸福,不处逆境不能识别朋友。

Nothing makes the earth seem to spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes. 远方的朋友能使世界变得非常宽阔; 他们组成了经纬度。

Of our mixed life two quests are given control: food for the body, friendship for the soul. 在复杂的生命中, 有两点要牢记:为生存需要吃饭, 而心灵需要友谊。

The best that we find in our travel is an honest friend. He is a fortunate voyager who finds many.

旅行中最愉快的事是交到一个真诚的朋友。

The making of friends who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life.

能交到真正的朋友是人生中最成功的事。

The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them. 对朋友爱得越深, 奉承得就越少。

The smell of coin is often the knell of friendship. 铜臭味浓往往是友谊的不祥之兆。

The true friendship seeks to give, not take; to help, not to be helped; to minister, not to be ministered unto.

真正的友谊追求的是给予, 而不是索取; 是帮助别人, 而不是被人帮助; 是为人服务, 而不是被人服务。

To prepare a friend, three things are required: to honor him present, praise him absent, and assist him in his necessities. 维护朋友, 有三件事情要做到:当面要尊重他, 不在场时要表扬他, 苦难时要帮助他。

Choose thy friends like thy books, few but choice. 选择朋友要像选书那样, 数量要少, 但质量要精。

My friend is not perfect—nor am I—and so we suit each other admirably.

朋友不会十全十美,你自己也一样,双方要互相尊敬。

For a congenial friend a thousand toasts are too few; in a disagreeable conversation one word more is too many. 酒逢知己千杯少,话不投机半句多。

四、关于健康的名言

A light heart lives long .( William Shakespeare , British dramatist )

豁达者长寿。 (英国剧作家 莎士比亚。 W.)

Early to bed and early to rise , makes a man healthy , wealthy and wise .(Benjamin Franklin, American president )

早睡早起会使人健康、富有和聪明。 (美国总统 富兰克林。 B.)

Sloth , like rust , consumes faster than labor wears .(Benjamin Franklin , Americanpresident)

懒惰像生锈一样,比操劳更能消耗身体。 (美国总统 富兰克林。 B.)

The first wealth is health .( Ralph Waldo Emerson , American thinker )

健康是人生第一财富。 (美国思想家 爱默生。 R. W.)

五、

All things in their being are good for something.

天生我才必有用。

Difficult circumstances serve as a textbook of life for people.

困难坎坷是人们的生活教科书。

Failure is the mother of success. ——Thomas Paine

失败乃成功之母。

For man is man and master of his fate.

人就是人,是自己命运的主人。

The unexamined life is not worth living.——Socrates

混混噩噩的生活不值得过。——苏格拉底

None is of freedom or of life deserving unless he daily conquers it anew. -Erasmus

只有每天再度战胜生活并夺取自由的人,才配享受生活的自由。

Our destiny offers not the cup of despair, but the chalice of opportunity. So let us seize

it, not in fear, but in gladness.——R.M. Nixon

命运给予我们的不是失望之酒,而是机会之杯。因此,让我们毫无畏惧,满心愉悦地把握命运。——尼克松

Living without an aim is like sailing without a compass.——John Ruskin

生活没有目标,犹如航海没有罗盘。——罗斯金

What makes life dreary is the want of motive.——George Eliot

没有了目的,生活便郁闷无光。——乔治·埃略特

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.——Lincoln

卓越的天才不屑走旁人走过的路。他寻找迄今未开拓的地区。——林肯

六、关于哲理的谚语

1.Be honest rather clever.

诚实比聪明更要紧。

2.Being on sea, sail; being on land, settle.

随遇而安。

3.Be just to all, but trust not all.

要公正对待所有的人,但不要轻信所有的人。

4.Believe not all that you see nor half what you hear.

眼见的不能全信,耳闻的也不能半信。

5.Be slow to promise and quick to perform.

不轻诺,诺必果。

6.Be swift to hear, slow to speak.

多听少说。

7.Better an empty purse than an empty head.

宁可钱袋瘪,不要脑袋空。

8.Better an open enemy than a false friend.

明枪易躲,暗箭难防。

9.Better good neighbours near than relations far away.

远亲不如近邻。

10.Between the cup and the lip a morsel may slip.

功亏一

11.Between two stools one falls to the ground.

脚踏两头要落空。

12.Beware beginnings.

慎始为上。

13.Big mouthfuls ofter choke.

贪多嚼不烂。

14.Bind the sack before it be full.

做事应适可而止。

15.Birds of a feather flock together.

物以类聚,人以群分。

1、经得广,知得多。

Widely known, much more.

2、使心用心,反害自身。

Cause the heart to heart, the anti harm oneself.

3、马看牙板,人看言行。

Horses look at the teeth, people look at the words and deeds.

4、耳听为虚,眼见为实。

The ears, seeing is believing.

5、砍柴上山,捉鸟上树。

Wood mountain, catch the bird on the tree.

6、看佛警僧,看父警子。

Look at the Buddha and the police, to see the father of the police.

7、一山出虎,百家猪死。

A mountain tiger, hundreds of dead pigs.

8、树怕烂根,人怕无志。

If the tree root, people are afraid of no ambition.

9、口说无凭,事实为证。

In fact Words alone are no proof..

10、树老根多,人老识多。

Tree roots, old people know more.

11、路是弯的,理是直的。

The road is curved, and the reason is straight.

12、人怕放荡,铁怕落炉。

People are afraid of wild, iron fall stove.

13、宁可认错,不可说谎。

Rather, do not lie.

14、小时偷针,大了偷金。

Hour to steal the needle, big steal gold.

15、歹马害群,臭柑豁筐。

Good horse and group, smelly orange excluded basket.

16、木尺虽短,能量千丈。

Although short, the energy of a thousand feet.

17、只可救苦,不可救赌。

Only can save suffering, can not save gambling.

18、见强不怕,遇弱不欺。

See strong not afraid, in case of weak.

19、人凭志气,虎凭威势。

People with ambition, tiger with pomp.

20、武官会杀,文官会刮。

The military will kill, will scratch the civil service.

21、路有千条,理只一条。

There are thousands of roads, Daniel only one.

22、人怕没理,狗怕夹尾。

People afraid of no reason, the dog afraid of the tail.

23、秤砣虽小,能压千斤。

The weight is small, can press the jack.

24、不怕鬼吓人,就怕人吓人。

Not afraid of ghosts, afraid of people.

25、宁叫心受苦,不叫脸受热。

Better to suffer, not to face the heat.

26、猫鼠不同眠,虎鹿不同行。

The cat in bed, tiger deer did not walk.

27、船头坐得稳,不怕风来颠。

The bow was steady, not afraid of the wind.

28、不担三分险,难练一身胆。

Do not bear the risk of three points, difficult to practice a gallbladder.

29、如其坐而言,不如起而立。

As they sit, stand up as.

30、鸟往明处飞,人往高处去。

The bird fly to the light, people go up to.

31、老姜辣味大,老人经验多。

Ginger spicy, old experience.

32、行为不正经,舌头短三分。

Behavior is not serious, the tongue is short three minutes.

33、文官三只手,武官四条腿。

The civilian military attache three hands, four legs.

34、牛眼看人高,狗眼看人低。

Bovine man, act like a snob.

35、银钱如粪土,脸面值千金。

Money is like muck, face value of gold.

36、水退石头在,好人说不坏。

The water is out of the stone, the good man said not bad.

37、狗咬穿烂的,人舔穿好的。

The dog bit in the bad, and the man was dressed.

38、宁吃开眉粥,不吃皱眉饭。

Rather eat open eyebrow porridge, do not eat rice.

39、宁做蚂蚁腿,不学麻雀嘴。

Rather do ants legs, do not learn the sparrow mouth.

40、大老爷丢签,老百姓啃砖。

Big master lost sign, people eating bricks.

41、三百六十行,行行出状元。

The three hundred and sixty line, the line of the champion.

42、发誓发得灵,监房无罪人。

Swear to spirit, innocent people in jail.

43、人不可貌相,海水不可斗量。

In vain, great minds can not be fathomed.

44、有理的想著说,没理的抢著说。

Rational thinking, no reason to rush to say.

45、学好千日不足,学坏一日有余。

Learn more than a thousand days, learn more than one day.

46、千学不如一看,千看不如一练。

Thousands of learning is not as good as a look, a thousand to see as a practice.

47、牛角越长越弯,财主越大越贪。

Horn longer bend, the more greedy man.

48、草遮不住鹰眼,水遮不住鱼眼。

The grass covered Hawkeye, water can not cover the eye.

49、自家的肉不香,人家的菜有味。

Their meat is not fragrant, people's food taste.

50、只要自己上进,不怕人家看轻。

As long as you progress, not afraid of people look down.

51、宁给穷人一斗,不给富人一口。

Better give the poor a fight, do not give the rich a.

52、有志不在年高,有理不在会说。

Where there is a will not be high, the reason is not to say.

53、有理摆到事上,好钢使到刃上。

In the right place, a good steel is made to the edge of the blade.

54、冷,冷在风里,穷,穷在租里。

Cold, cold in the wind, poor, poor in rent.

55、一瓶子水不响,半瓶子水乱晃。

A bottle of water does not ring, half a bottle of water chaos.

56、百闻不如一见,百见不如一干。

Seeing is believing, no more than one hundred.

57、不怕怒目金刚,只怕眯眼菩萨。

Not angry, afraid of squinting bodhisattva.

58、鸡大飞不过墙,灶灰筑不成墙。

Chicken fly but not into the stove ash wall, building wall.

59、井越掏,水越清;事越摆,理越明。

The more you dig, Mio Kiyo; the more you set, the more you will.

60、灯不亮,要人拨;事不明,要人说。

The light does not shine, the person dial; the matter is not clear, wants the human to say.。

61、不挑担子不知重,不走长路不知远。

Do not pick the burden do not know, do not go long way I do not know far.

62、一心想赶两只兔,反而落得两手空。

Want to catch two rabbits, but ended up with empty hands.

63、鸟惜羽毛虎惜皮,为人处世惜脸皮。

The bird feather Xi Xi tiger skin, Weirenchushi cherish skin.

64、入山不怕伤人虎,只怕人情两面刀。

The mountain is not afraid of hurting the tiger, knives.

65、只有千里的名声,没有千里的威风。

Only Trinidad's reputation, not thousands of miles.

66、该放手时就放手,得饶人处且饶人。

To let go, lenient wherever it is possible.

67、伶俐人一拨三转,糊涂人棒打不回。

A wise man of three, who was not confused.

68、当家才知盐米贵,出门才晓路难行。

Alone knows salt rice, go out to know the road is difficult.

69、药农进山见草药,猎人进山见禽兽。

In order to see into the mountain herbs, the hunter into the mountains to see the animals.

70、碾谷要碾出米来,说话要说出理来。

Grain to grind rice, to tell me to speak.