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。

1,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.
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2,anger and haste hinder good counsel.小不忍则乱大谋
0 r  ]4 z* q7 C, B5 L* B/ V' OExplanation: one cannot act wisely when one is angry or in a hurry.
& `2 u9 J5 M# j! k! `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
' l0 |! r! J! l9 F* G! p& GExplanation: fortune comes to each in turn
- w: k! I7 |/ H, |) |# `. f$ @Example: they say that every dog has his day; but mine seems a very long time coming.

& O" [# E% N. \( @) ^/ h7 Q4,Love is blind.情人眼里出西施
Explanation: beauty is a matter of individual taste and judgment. This is often used of a person whose judgment is affected by love or infatuation.
9 l. U" E) A' C6 w7 k5 fExample: they say that love is blind when handsome Tom fell in love with poor Jean.
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5,World is but a little place, after all. 天涯原咫尺，到处可逢君。
Explanation: 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.
$ I0 j  A& P% n- Z3 g- iExample: 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.

6, When in Rome, do as the Romans do.入乡随俗
Explanation: conform to the manners and customs of those amongst whom you live.
; T+ C3 X& M6 i# xExample: 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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Now come on! Have a try.
1,Great minds think alike
' G) h$ W0 b+ C3 Z: K) L7 _2,Good wine needs no bush
3,Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.
4,Evil does not always come to injure.
8 r: l( |+ _) Z7 x6 m' D5,A fool may give a wise man counsel.