英语常用谚语总汇(编校好)—L

英语常用谚语总汇—L

■Labor is light where love doth pay. 爱情作酬报，劳苦必轻松。

■Labor is often the father of pleasure. 勤劳常为快乐之源。

■Labor is the capital of our working men. 劳动力是劳动人民的资本。

■Late repentance is seldom true. 后悔少有诚意。

■Laugh and grow fat. 心宽体胖。

■Laugh at your ills, And save doctors’ bills. 生病不忧虑，节省医药费。

■Laugh before breakfast you’ll cry before supper. 乐极生悲。

■Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone. 你笑，人人陪你笑；你哭，惟独你自哭。

■Law makers should not be law breakers. 正人先正己。

■Laws catch flies but let hornets go free. 法网只捉苍蝇，不捉黄蜂。

■Lawsuits consume time, and money, and rest, and friends. 诉讼将消耗时间、金钱、休息和失去朋友。

■Lazy folks take the most pains. 懒汉多吃苦。

■Learn and live. 活着，为了学习。

■Learn not and know not. 不学无术。

■Learn to creep before you leap. 循序渐进。

■Learn to say before you sing. 按部就班。

■Learn to suffer without complaining; that is the best thing I can teach you. 要学会受痛苦而不怨，这是我教你的至要之事。

■Learn to walk before you run. 循序渐进。

■Learn to walk before you run. 人要学走，先得学爬。

■Learn wisdom by the follies of others. 要从别人的愚行中学到聪明。

■Learn young, learn fair. 学习趁年轻，既学就学好。

■Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age. 学问在得意时是装饰品，失意时是庇护所，年老时是供应品。

■Learning is the eye of the mind. 知识是心灵的慧眼。

■Learning is wealth to the poor, an honor to the rich, an aid to the young, and a support and comfort to the aged. 学问是穷人的财富，是富人的荣誉，是青年的帮助，是老年的支持和安慰。

■Learning makes a good man better and ill man worse. 知识能使好人更好，坏人更坏。

■Learning without thought is labor lost. 学而不思，白费力气。

■Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous. 学而不思则罔，思而不学则殆。

■Least said, soonest mended. 多说反坏事。

■Lend your money and lose your friend. 赔了夫人又折兵。

■Let beggars match with beggars. 龙配龙，凤配凤。

■Let bygones be bygones. 既往不昝。

■Let difficulties occur but not the loss of courage. 纵使困难重重，也不丧失勇气。

■Let every man praise the bridge he goes over. 饮水思源。

■Let every man speak well of the bridge theat carries him over. 饮水思源。

■Let every tub stand on its own bottom. 各人管各人自己。

■Let not the cobbler go beyond his last. 安分守己。

■Let not the sun go down upon thy wrath. 日落之前，平息你的怒火吧。

■Let our object be our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country. 我们的心目中要有国家，要有整个国家，而且只有我们的国家别如其他。

■Let sleeping dogs lie. 不要惹事生非。

■Let the cat out of the bag. 泄漏天机。

■Let the cobbler stick to his last. 安分守己。

■Let the dead bury the dead. 往事不重提。

■Let the hands get busy, not the mouth. 手要勤劳，嘴莫多说。

■Let things take their course. 听其自然。

■Let your yea be yea and your nay be nay. 是就是，非就非。

■Let’s cross the bridge when we come to it. 既来之，则安之。

■Liars have need of good memories. 谎言者要有好的记忆力。

■Liars should have good memories. 说谎的人应有好的记性。

■Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by law. 自由就是做法律许可做的事情的权力。

■Liberty is not licence. 自由不是放纵。

■Liberty often degenerates into lawlessness. 自由随便，经常堕落到无法无天。

■Lie in the bed one has made. 自作自受。

■Lies can never changes fact. 谎言终究是谎言。

■Lies have short legs. 谎言是站不住脚的。

■Life if made up of little things. 生活是由琐事构成的。

■Life is a battle from cradle to grave. 人生是一场从生到死的战斗。

■Life is a comedy to him who thinks and a tragedy to him who feels. 对善思考者，人生为喜剧；对凭感觉者，人生为悲剧。

■Life is a flower of which love is the honey. 人生是花朵，爱情是花蜜。

■Life is a shuttle生活犹如梭子。

■Life is but a span. 人生如朝露。

■Life is compared to a voyage. 人生好比一次航程。

■Life is compared to voyage. 人生好比是航海。

■Life is for one generation, a good name is forever. 生命只有一代之久，而美名永存于世。

■Life is great if you don’t weaken. 有了坚强意志，生活才有意义。

■Life is half spent before we know what it is. 等到认识人生，已经一半过去了。

■Life is like the moon: now dark, now full. 生活如同月亮，时有阴晴圆缺。

■Life is long if you know how to use it. 如果懂得好好利用，生命就长了。

■Life is made up of little things. 生活是由许多琐事构成的。

■Life is measured by thought and action, not by time. 生命的价值是用思想和行为来衡量的，而不是寿命的长短。

■Life is not a bed of roses. 人生并非处处鸟语花香。

■Life is not all beer and skittles. 人生并不全是吃喝玩乐。

■Life is not all roses. 人生并不是康庄大道。

■Life is not so short but there is time enough for courtesy. 人生虽短，但表示礼貌的时间还是足够的。

■Life is short and time is fleeting人生短暂，光阴易逝。

■Life is sweet. 生命是甜美的。

■Life means struggle. 生活就是斗争。

■Life without a friend is death without a witness. 在世无朋友，死后无证人。

■Life without a friend is death. 没有朋友，虽生犹死。

■Life, to be worthy of a rational being, must be always in progression. 人生必须永远前进，才不愧为有理智的人。

■Light troubles speak; great troubles are silent. 小困难，大声叫嚷；大困难，闷生不响。

■Lightly come, lightly go. 易得易失。

■Like a rat in a hole. 瓮中之鳖。

■Like attracts like. 物以类聚。

■Like author, like book. 书如其人。

■Like begets like. 有其父必有其子。

■Like cow, like calf. 有其父必有其子。

■Like cures like. 以毒攻毒。

■Like draws to like the whole world over. 物以类聚，世间皆如此。

■Like draws to like. 物以类聚。

■Like father, like son. 有其父必有其子。

■Like for like. 一报还一报。

■Like knows like. 英雄识英雄。

■Like mother, like daughter. 有其母必有其女。

■Like teacher, like pupil. 有其师必有其徒。

■Like tree, like fruit. 有其因必有其果。

■Little chips light great fires. 星星之火，可以燎原。

■Little and little and bit by bit. 一点一滴，积沙成塔。

■Little boats must keep the shores. 小船不能航行远。

■Little bodies may have great souls. 小小的躯体会有伟大的心灵。

■Little pigeons can carry great messages. 少年也可以成大事。

■Little pitchers have a big ears. 小孩子耳朵尖。

■Little pitchers have great ears. 小孩子耳朵长。

■Little strokes fell great oaks. 水滴石穿。

■Little strokes fell great oaks. 滴水穿石。

■Little thieves are hanged, but great one’s escape. 窃钩者诛，窃国者侯。

■Little things amuse little minds. 小人志卑。

■Little things please little minds. 胸无大志，事事称心。

■Little wealth, little care. 财少寡忧。

■Live and learn. 活到老，学到老。

■Live and learn. 活到老，学到老。

■Live and let live. 自己生活，也要让他人生活。

■Live not to eat, but eat to live. 不要为了吃饭活着，而要为了活着吃饭。

■Live to learn and learn to live. 生而学之，学而生之。

■Living without an aim is like sailing without a compass. 生活没有目标，犹如航海没有罗盘。

■Lock the stable door before the steed is stolen. 马未偷走前，厩门先锁上。

■Loftiest trees most dread the thunder. 树大招风。

■Long absent, soon forgotten. 长久不在的人，很快被忘怀。

■Long tarrying takes all the thanks away. 事情耽搁太久就没有人会感谢了。

■Look at the world through rose-colored glasses. 对万事要乐观。

■Look before you leap. 摸清情况再行动。

■Look before you leap; see before you go. 三思而行。

■Look for a needle in a bundle of hay. 海底捞月。

■Look on both sides of the shield. 看问题要表里俱到。

■Lookers-on see more than players. 旁观者清。

■Lookers-on see most of the games. 旁观者清。

■Lose not time; be always employed in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions. 不要浪费时间，做些有益的事情，停止一切不必要的行动。

■Losers are always in the wrong. 失败者总是错的。

■Losses make us more cautious损失使人更谨慎。

■Lost time is never found again, and what we call time enough always proves little enough. 时间一去不再来，我们常说时间充足，实际. 总是不够。

■Lost time is never found again. 岁月既往，一去不回。

■Lost wealth can be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone for ever。

■Love all, trust a few, be false to none. 要爱一切人，相信少数人，不要负于任何人。

■Love and business teach eloquence. 爱情和买卖可以培养口才。

■Love and cough cannot be hid. 爱情和咳嗽是不能掩饰的。

■Love and poverty are hard to hide. 爱和穷难隐瞒。

■Love asks faith, and faith asks firmness. 爱情要求忠诚，而忠诚要求坚贞。

■Love at first sight. 一见钟情。

■Love begets love. 爱爱相生。

■Love can turn the cottage into a golden palace. 爱情可使茅屋成为金碧辉煌的宫殿。

■Love cannot be compelled. 爱情不能强求。

■Love cannot be forced爱情不强求。

■Love comes by looking. 情人眼里出西施。

■Love does much, money does everything . 爱情做许多事，金钱做任何事。

■Love fears no danger. 爱情不怕危险。

■Love grows with obstacles. 磨折越多，爱情越深。

■Love is a sweet torment. 爱情是一种甜蜜的折磨。

■Love is a sweet tyranny, because the lover endures his torment willingly. 爱情是甜蜜的虐政，情人心甘情愿地受它的折磨。

■Love is blind. 爱情是盲目的。

■Love is full of trouble. 爱情多烦恼。

■Love is like the moon; when it does not increase it decreases. 爱情像月亮，不盈即亏。

■Love is never without jealousy. 爱情莫不忌妒。

■Love is not to be found in the market. 爱情在市场上是找不到的。

■Love is sweet in the beginning but sour in the ending. 爱情始甜而终苦。

■Love is the mother of love. 爱产生爱情。

■Love is the reward of love. 爱情就是爱的报答。

■Love is the touchstone of virtue. 爱情是美德的试金石。

■Love is the true price of love. 爱情只能用爱情来报答。

■Love is without reason. 爱情是没理智的。

■Love laughs at locksmith春闺锁不住。

■Love lives in cottages as well as in courts. 爱情无贵贱，贫负皆有之。

■Love looks with telescope; envy with microscope. 爱情大处着眼，忌妒吹毛求疵。

■Love makes all equal. 恋爱不分贵贱。

■Love makes all hard hearts gentle. 爱情把一切冷酷的心变得温柔。

■Love makes obedience easy. 爱情使服从变为易事。

■Love makes one fit for any work. 爱情使人适合任何工作。

■Love makes the world go round. 爱情使世界运转。

■Love me little and love me long. 不求情意浓，但愿情义长。

■Love me, love my dog. 爱屋及乌。

■Love needs no teaching. 爱情无需教导。

■Love not at the first look. 切莫一见钟情。

■Love rules his kingdom without a word. 维持爱情，不用强力。

■Love rules without a sword and bind without a cord. 爱的统治不用刀枪，捆绑不用绳索。

■Love should not be all on one side. 爱情不应是单方面的。

■Love sought is good, but given unsought is better. 追求而得的爱情固然美好，但不经追求而得的爱情更为美好。

■Love thy neighbors as thyself. 爱邻如爱己。

■Love understands love; it needs no talk. 爱情可以意会，无需言传。

■Love will find out the way. 爱情会自找出路。

■Love your neighbor, yet pull not down your hedge. 爱你的左邻右舍，但不要拆去你们之间的藩篱。

■Lovers live by love, as larks live by leeks. 情侣靠爱情生活，正像云雀靠韭葱生活一样。

■Lying is the first step to the gallows. 说谎是上断头台的第一步。

■Lying rides upon debt’s back. 负债的人谎话多。