英语常用谚语总汇(编校好)—O

英语常用谚语总汇—O

■Oaks may fall when reeds stand the storm. 树大招风。

■Obedience is the first duty of a soldier. 服从是军人的第一职责。

■Observation is the best teacher. 观察为良师。

■Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives. 人生最可宝贵的是声誉，躯体入土后，声誉犹存。

■Of earthly goods the best is a good wife. A bad the bitterest curse of human life. 贤妻最可贵，恶妇是灾星。

■Offence is the best defence. 进攻是最好的防御。

■Of nothing comes nothing. 无中不能生有。

■Often and little eating makes a man fat. 少吃多餐，身强体胖。

■Of two evils choose the least. 权衡两害，取其轻者。

■Of young men die many, of old men escape not any. 年轻人死得不少，而年迈者是在劫难逃。

■Old bees yield no honey. 老蜂不酿蜜。

■Old birds are not caught with new nests. 新巢捉不到老鸟。

■Old birds are not to be caught with shaft. 老谋是不会失算的。

■Older and wiser. 越老越聪明。

■Old foxes want no tutors. 老狐狸不需要教师。

■Old friends and old wine are best. 古交友情深，陈酒香味醇。

■Old love will not be forgotten. 旧情永难忘。

■Old vessels must leak. 旧船必漏。

■Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. 老柴最好烧，陈酒最好饮，老友最可靠，老作家的书最好读。

■Old wood is best to burn, old book to read. 老柴好烧，老书宜读。

■Old wood is best to burn, old horse to ride. 老柴好烧，老马好骑。

■O liberty, how many crimes have been committed in thy name! 自由啊！假你的名义犯了多少罪啊！

■Omelets are not made without breaking eggs. 有失才有得。

■once a devil, always a devil. 一次做魔鬼，永远是魔鬼。

■once a knave, ever a knave. 一朝失足，铸成千古恨。

■once a man and twice a child. 一次为成人，两度当小孩。

■once bit, twice shy. 一朝被蛇咬，三年怕草绳。

■once is no custom. 一次不成例。

■once on shore, we pray no more. 一旦上了岸，就不再祈祷。

■On earth there is nothing great but man, in man there is nothing great but mind. 在世界上没有一件东西有如人那样伟大，在人之内没有一件东西有如人心那么伟大。

■One barking dog sets all street a-barking. 一狗吠声响，狗吠满街坊。

■One beats the bush, and another catches the birds. 坐享其成。

■One boy is more trouble than a dozen girls. 一个男孩比十二个女孩还要麻烦。

■One cannot always be a hero, but one can always be a man. 人难一世称雄，但可一生为人。

■One cannot be in two place at once。

■One cannot do a foolish thing once in one’s life, but one must hear of it a hundred times. 为人一生一件蠢事也不做，但要听到上百遍蠢事。

■One cannot eat one’s cake and have it. 事难两全其美。

■One cannot get blood from a stone. 石头里抽不出血。

■One cannot make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear. 朽木不可雕。

■One cannot make bricks without straw. 巧妇难为无米之炊。

■One cannot put back the clock. 光阴一去不复返。

■One chick keeps a hen busy. 一只小鸡已够母鸡辛忙。

■One cloud is enough to eclipse all the sun. 一叶可障目。

■One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name. 光辉生活中忙迫的一个小时抵得上无为的一世。

■One drop of poison infects the whole tub of wine. 一滴之毒，毒染整桶之酒。

■One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good. 十个朋友做的好事抵不上一个敌人造成的危害。

■One enemy is too much. 一个敌人也太多。

■One false move may lose the game. 一着不慎，满盘皆输。

■One false step will make a great difference. 失之毫厘，谬以千里。

■One father can support ten children, ten children cannot support one father. 一个父亲能扶养十个孩子，十个孩子却不能赡养一个父亲。

■One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters. 一个父亲胜于一百个教师。

■One flower makes no garland. 一木不能成林。

■One foe is too many; and a hundred friends too few. 朋友成百犹觉少，仇敌一人已嫌多。

■One fool makes many. 一人傻，傻大家。

■One foot is better than two crutches. 一只脚胜过两根拐杖。

■One good head is better than a hundred strong hands. 上百双有力的手，不如一个聪明的头脑。

■One good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters. 一个好的母亲顶得上一百个教师。

■One good turn deserves another. 以德报德。

■One half of the world does not know how the other half lives. 贫富不相知。

■One has lived too near a wood to be frightened by owls. 深知底蕴，不以为怪。

■One honest word is better than two oaths. 两句誓言不如一句实话。

■One hour’s sleep before midnight is worth three after. 午夜前睡一小时抵得上午夜后睡三小时。

■One hour today is worth two tomorrow. 今天的一个小时抵得上明天的两个小时。

■One love drives out another. 新爱逐旧欢。

■One man makes a chair and another man sits in it. 坐享其成。

■One man may steal a horse while another may not look over a hedge. 只许州官放火，不许百姓点灯。

■One man’s meat is another man’s poison. 一个人的佳肴常为另一人的毒药。

■One may sooner fall than rise. 跌倒容易爬起难。

■One may think that dares not speak. 人可思其不敢言者。

■One misfortune comes on the neck of another. 祸不单行。

■One must draw the line somewhere. 人之所为，总有限度。

■One must drink as one brews. 自作自受。

■One must howl with the wolves. 入乡随俗。

■One never loses anything by politeness. 有礼貌对自己不会吃亏。

■One never loses by doing a good turn. 行善者决无一失。

■One penny with right is better than a thousand without right. 合法得来一个钱，胜过非法钱一千。

■One ploughs, another sow; who will reap no one knows. 有的耕，有的播，谁来收获很难说。

■One rotten apple spoils the whole barrel. 一只烂苹果烂一萝苹果。

■One should eat to live, not live to eat. 人为生而食，非为食而生。

■One sin opens the door for another. 一个罪恶常为另一个罪恶开门。

■One’s mantle falls on somebody. 春风化雨。

■One sows another reaps. 不劳而获。

■One swallow does not make a summer. 一燕不成夏。

■One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning. 一次痛苦的经验抵得上千百次的告诫。

■One today is worth two tomorrows. 今天一天抵明天两天。

■One who can do everything can do nothing. 什么都能做，什么都不行。

■One woe doth tread upon another’s heels. 祸不单行。

■One wrong move can lose the whole game. 棋错一著，全盘皆输。

■One wrong thought may cause a lifelong regret. 一念之错可铸终生之恨。

■only that which is honestly got is gain. 正当的收入才是真正的收入。

■only they who fulfill their duty in everyday matters will fulfill them on great occasions. 只有在日常事务上尽责的人，才能在重大事情上尽责。

■On the choice of friends. Our good or evil name depends. 朋友的选择可影响名誉的好坏。

■On the great clock of time there is but one word, "Now." 在伟大的时钟上，只有一个词，就是“现在”。

■Open confession is good for the soul. 坦白交代，身心愉快。

■Open not your door when the devil knocks. 不要受人的诱惑。

■Opportunity makes the thief. 疏忽招盗贼。

■Opportunity seldom knocks twice. 机不可失，失不再来。

■Opportunity, sooner or later, comes to all who work and wish. 只要努力工作而有志向，机会迟早终会来临。

■Other men live to eat, while I eat to live. 别人为食而生活，我为生活而食。

■Our affections are our life. -- We live by them; they supply our warmth. 我们的感情，是我们的生命，我们靠它生存，我们的温暖是它供应。

■Our best friends are they who tell us our faults and help us to mend them. 最好的朋友是指出我们的缺点并帮助改正的人。

■Our bravest and best lessons are not learnt through success, but through misadventure. 最美好的教训不是得之于成功，而是来之于不幸。

■Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. 我们最大的光荣并不在于永不跌倒，而在于每次跌倒后能起来。

■Our happiness consists not in killing others, but in sacrificing ourselves for others. 我们最大幸福并不是杀害别人，而是为别人而牺牲自己。

■Our own actions are our security, not others’ judgements. 我们的行为是自己的保证而不是别人的鉴定。

■Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. 最甜美的歌是诉说最悲伤的哀思。

■Out of debt, out of danger. 无债一身轻。

■Out of sight, out of mind. 久违情疏；眼不见，心不烦。

■Overdone is worse than undone. 过犹不及。