英汉俚语，谚语对照欣赏

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要想学习地道的英语，就涉及到英语中俚语，谚语的理解。其实，语言都是相通的，如果从汉语中能找到英语俚语，谚语的对应说法，那么，你就觉得英语也没什么了不起的；如果能举一反三，那么你的英语就更上一层楼了。
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5 e, g9 Z2 G4 H1,What are the odds(成败的机会) so long as you are happy.知足者常乐
Explanation: what does anything else matter if a person is happy.
Example: you complain so much, but you have a good family, parents, health, and money. What’s the odd so long as you’re happy.

2,anger and haste hinder good counsel.小不忍则乱大谋
* f, f# D  A% v# F) v: @' bExplanation: one cannot act wisely when one is angry or in a hurry.
Example: you should calm down before you decide the next move. Anger and haste hinder good counsel.

3,every dog has his day .是人皆有出头日
Explanation: fortune comes to each in turn
Example: they say that every dog has his day; but mine seems a very long time coming.

4,Love is blind.情人眼里出西施
9 [( D- H3 q" y9 L5 hExplanation: beauty is a matter of individual taste and judgment. This is often used of a person whose judgment is affected by love or infatuation.
Example: they say that love is blind when handsome Tom fell in love with poor Jean.

5,World is but a little place, after all. 天涯原咫尺，到处可逢君。
0 C- x) s) G! E9 g' f' M5 x, qExplanation: it is used when a person meets someone he knows or is in someway connected with him in a place where he would never have expected to do so.
: d* T$ F7 \0 k. H1 {; ~3 ]Example: Who would have thought I would bump into an old schoolmate on a trek up Mount Tai. The world is but a little place after all.

) ]+ K* g6 }" U  v7 \1 Q6, When in Rome, do as the Romans do.入乡随俗
8 U3 u; u( \/ X9 g  E9 w# n7 RExplanation: conform to the manners and customs of those amongst whom you live.
$ j! i$ V7 Y& b9 M( K7 G$ LExample: I know you have egg and bacon for breakfast at home, but now you are on the Continent you will do as the Romans do and take coffee and rolls.
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6 j0 ?1 @5 X; }0 R" iNow come on! Have a try.
7 F7 u3 h8 _& k$ n- R$ |1,Great minds think alike
2,Good wine needs no bush
! u. k7 A4 Z4 S8 H8 o3,Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.
4,Evil does not always come to injure.
5,A fool may give a wise man counsel.