1-----You can\'t argue with success
Though you may tell someone they are doing something in a wrong way, you have to stop criticizing them if their method works.
办公室英语
2-----Nothing succeeds like success
英语四六级
Like money in a savings account, success seems to compound itself. A person who has a small success expects it to be followed by a bigger one.
英语四六级
3-----The end justifies the means
英语学习网
It does not matter how you succeed. Any method is all right if it works for you. This proverb is not always accepted. Often one hears the opposite, " the end doesn\'t justifies the means." 求职英语
4-----If you can\'t beat them, join them
英语四六级
If you cannot compete successfully with a person or a group, stop competing and go join them. Then you can share in their success.
行业英语
5-----Always a day late and a dollar short 中国英语学习网
A criticism of a person who never succeeds. The failures may not be drastic but the pattern of small failures is annoying to others, especially in two areas that Americans value as highly as time and money. 商务英语
6-----One thing at a time 奥运英语1000句
Concentration leads to success. The person who tires to do too many things at once may fail at all of them. 行业英语
7-----We\'ll cross that bridge when we come to it
英语学习网
We will not discuss or worry about a future problem. If and when the problem becomes urgent, we will deal with it. 行业英语
8-----Don\'t put the cart before the hourse 商务英语
Do things in a sensible order. For example, do something to impress your boss before you ask for a raise in pay. Don\'t ask for the raise first. 求职英语
9-----All\'s fair in love and war
英语学习网
Do not trust a rival or an enemy at all. His or her desire to succeed will overrule everything else. Such a people may lie, cheat, attack or do many other things far more terrible than he or she would normally do.
奥运英语1000句
10-----When in Rome do as the romans do
办公室英语
Flexibility leads to success in unfamiliar circumstances. People may changes their normal way of doing things in order to fit in better with those they are visiting.
实用英语
11------Easy does it
求职英语
Some things require gentleness for success. One should not push too hard. Force may cause damage
办公室英语
12-----The bigger they are, the harder they fall 奥运英语1000句
Do not be discouraged by the size of your problem or the fame of your competitor. (the saying is traced to a boxer preparing to fight an opponent much larger than he was.)
求职英语
13-----All is well that ends well 商务英语
If we can come to a successful conclusion, let us forget about the pain and mistakes along the way. 求职英语
14-----Go for it 求职英语
Go ahead and try to achieve your goal. Don\'t worry about failing. Similar to this proverb--God provides food to every bird, but he won\'t cast to its nest, you got to earn it.
英语四六级
15-----Every little bit helps 商务英语
If someone apologizes for giving only a small gift, the recipient may encourage the giver by quoting this proverb. This is especially true if there is a huge job to do or a huge amount of money to be raised from many people. 英语学习网
16-----Look before you leap 行业英语
Don\'t jump into a situation carelessly. You may land in difficulty. 商务英语
17-----All that glitters is not gold
奥运英语1000句
Do not be fooled by worthless things that seem valuable or look attractive. 商务英语
"Fool\'s gold " is the popular name for a kind of stone that glitters like gold but contains no gold at all.
求职英语
18------Curiosity killed the cat 实用英语
Do not ask too many questions or become too curious about things. You may get yourself into trouble like a cat that does not see the danger in a new situation. 英语四六级
19-----Don\'t put all your eggs in one basket 行业英语
Do not risk everything in one place or on one project. Divide your sources that one failure will not ruin you. Similar to this proverb---Do not use both feet to test the depth of the river. 求职英语
20-----Don\'t bite off more than you can chew
实用英语
Do not attempt something too large for you to handle. 中国英语学习网
21-----Too good to be ture 英语学习网
This is often used to warn about advertising. An offer looks good but turns out to be misleading.
求职英语
22-----Flattery will get you nowhere 英语四六级
If flattery (insincere praise) is recognized, it will not succeed. One sometimes hears the opposite, Flattery will get you everywhere. 英语四六级
23-----There is no such thing as a free lunch
求职英语
If someone you do not know offers you a free lunch or other gift, watch out. The gift may be a method of getting something from you. 奥运英语1000句
24------Pride goes before a fall 英语学习网
Do not be over-confident and careless. Your circumstances may change quickly and the emptiness of your bragging will be exposed.
办公室英语
25------Better safe than sorry
英语学习网
It is better not to take a risk than to take a risk foolishly. 中国英语学习网
26-----Winning isn\'t everything 办公室英语
One may enjoy the process of playing a game whether one wins or not. This traditional proverb is now often heard in the opposite form, Winning isn\'t everything. It\'s the only thing!
中国英语学习网
27------Time will tell
中国英语学习网
Wait and see how something will work out. Don\'t trust a person or thing too much right now. 英语四六级
28-----The burned child shuns fire 办公室英语
Some of life\'s lessons are learned the hard way. The person who has had to pay for a mistake will be careful not to make that mistake again.
求职英语
29-----There are other fish in the sea 办公室英语
There are opportunities! For example, this may be used to encourage someone who has just broken off a relationship with a sweetheart.
英语学习网
30-----Don\'t count your chickens before they are hatched
中国英语学习网
Do not become too confident of success before you can see that progress is happening.
行业英语
31-----Rome wasn\'t built in a day
英语四六级
Do not be discouraged if your goal still seems far away. On a big project, success takes time! 实用英语
32-----There is more here than meets the eye
中国英语学习网
Be careful. People are hiding something in order to protect themselves or take advantage of you. 实用英语
33-----The customer is always right
实用英语
Businesses instruct their clerks not to do anything that might threaten a customer\'s self-esteem, no matter how unreasonable the customer is. Any complaint of any customer must be carefully and politely heard by any employee. The customer must not be made to feel ignorant.
商务英语
34-----Be true to yourself
英语四六级
Do not compromise yourself or your beliefs in order to please other people or fit in with a system. Know who you are. Let other people know what you stand for. Do not give in to pressure to conform or to do things you do not agree with. 求职英语
35-----Once bitten, twice shy 英语学习网
This may be used to explain the behavior of a person who is overly cautious about something. The wise person makes mistakes but does not usually make the same mistake twice.
英语四六级
36-----It isn\'t over till the fat lady sings
办公室英语
I refuse to admit defeat yet. Though right now it looks like I may fall, there is still time for things to change. (The "fat lady" is an insulting reference to an opera soloist, opera often end with a female solo.)
英语学习网
37-----To each his own 办公室英语
Each individual should be allowed to have his or her own preferences. people will naturally choose different activities, goals, life-s, etc. 奥运英语1000句
38-----Looking out for number one 办公室英语
Looking out for one\'s own personal welfare more than anything else. This is sometimes used to criticize a person who has abused or taken advantage of someone else, "All he was doing was looking out for number one." Or it may be used to defend himself or herself, "There is nothing wrong with what I did. I was just looking out for number one." 实用英语
39-----When the going gets tough, the tough get going
实用英语
When situation is difficult, only the determined people can handle it. They don\'t give up! 英语学习网
40-----Times flies when you are having fun
行业英语
A day seems shot when it is full of enjoyable things but it seems like an eternity if one is idle or stuck with a boring job. 商务英语
41-----If it feels good, do it
办公室英语
Live according to your desires at the moment. Forget about rules, regulations or consequences. Just have fun.
商务英语
42-----Live and let live 英语四六级
Do not be judgmental. Do not try to control or punish other people. 求职英语
You live as you like and let others live as they like.
求职英语
43-----Variety is the spice of life 行业英语
Variety is what makes life pleasureable. Boredom is seen as a threat and monotony is the surest route to boredom.
商务英语
44------Money talks 英语四六级
Wealth has influence. People who make big contributions to political candidates are "talking" to the candidates and expecting them to listen. 行业英语
45-----All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
实用英语
This is used to criticize someone who takes work too seriously. It affirms that play is as an essential part of human life. 中国英语学习网
46-----The more the merrier
求职英语
This is a way of welcoming someone to participate. It means, the bigger the group, the bigger the party. 求职英语
47------A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
英语四六级
A thing you already have is worth twice as much as a thing you might get in the future.
行业英语
48-----You can\'t have your cake and eat it too
中国英语学习网
Make up your mind. Sometimes one must choose between two very desirable things, giving up one thing in order to enjoy the other. 求职英语
49-----There is more than one way to skin a cat 英语四六级
Any of several methods may bring about the desired result. Each person may choose the method that best suits her. If one method does not work, choose a different one and try again. 英语四六级
50-----One man\'s meat is another man\'s poison
办公室英语
Since the same thing may affect different people in different ways, each person must choose the things that will work in his or her particular case. 英语学习网
51-----Love finds a way
Love is considered one of the most powerful and determined forces in the world. Two people in love will "find a way" to get together. 求职英语
52-----Absence makes the heart grow fonder
When lovers are separated, they may think about each other constantly. their love may deepen. 英语学习网
53-----Out of sight, out of mind 行业英语
This is said of someone not considered important or worthy of loyalty. One forgets about that person as soon as he or she is out of sight.
英语学习网
54------Love makes the world go around 求职英语
Love is the driving force in all of life. Love makes life worth living. If you understand love, you understand everything about life.
实用英语
55-----Marry in haste and repent at leisure 行业英语
Do not rush into any long-term commitment. In the past this meant, "take your time before you commit yourself to a marriage partner." Now it means, "Do not commit yourself to anyone you will be sorry." or it may mean, "Live with a person for a while before marrying him or her." It may also apply to any long-term partnership, such as a joint business venture. 英语四六级
56------Talk is cheap
商务英语
Talking is not doing, It is easy to talk about a plan, but this gets little respect until one takes a risk and puts the plan into action.
办公室英语
57-----Love is blind
商务英语
实用英语
When people are in love, they do not see each other\'s faults.
办公室英语
58-----Time is money 中国英语学习网
Time can be converted to money, that is, wages are often paid per hour of work. Managers want employees to do things quickly because "time is money." If employees waste time, the company loses money. 求职英语
59-----If you\'re so smart, why aren’t you rich
中国英语学习网
This question implies that intelligence, like time, can be converted into money. It is used to cut down an ordinary person (not a rich one) who has expressed an opinion as if it is the final word on the subject. 办公室英语
60-----Beggars can\'t be choosers 中国英语学习网
Beggars have to accept whatever they get. A poor person has very few choices in life. This harsh reply may be used if people complain about the size or quality of a gift.
行业英语
61-----The love of money is the root of all evil
行业英语
Greed will lead a person into many other evils such as cheating, oppression and violence. (one also hears, money is the root of all evil, which places the blame more on money than on greed.) 商务英语
62-----A fool and his money are soon parted 英语学习网
Folly will always show up in the way a fool handles money. Wise people are the ones smart enough to guard money once they have it.
实用英语
63-----It isn\'t whether you win or lose, it\'s how you play the game
英语学习网
Playing well and fairly is more important than succeeding. This saying is sometimes used to console someone who has lost a game. The ideas is that in spite of losing, one may still feel like a success if one has played as well as possible.
办公室英语
64-----Money can\'t buy happiness 中国英语学习网
There are some things money just can\'t buy. This reminds people that money is not an ultimate value although it often is treated as one. The saying may be used as a comment when a wealthy but lonely and wretched person commits suicide. 奥运英语1000句
65-----Nice guys finish last
求职英语
Success is valued more highly than kindness and politeness. If unkindness and impoliteness contribute to one\'s success, they are sometimes excused as "toughness" or "what it takes." This is more often applied to men than woman. 办公室英语
66-----The one who dies with the most toys wins 求职英语
This recent, cynical saying makes fun of three common American desires-- competing, accumulating property, and having fun.
求职英语
67-----Just do it
中国英语学习网
This proverb is actually a recently invented advertising slogan for the Nike Shoe company. It may also be the best three-word summary of American cultural values. It means, "quit being indecisive, Don\'t bother consulting a lot of people. Don\'t waste much times on planning. Just do it and do it now. 奥运英语1000句
68-----You only go around once in life
英语四六级
Enjoy life, do what you want to do, experience everything you can. 奥运英语1000句
69-----Put your money where your mouth is
行业英语
Get serious about what you are saying. When you have spoken in favor of something, prove that you mean it by risking some money on it in a bet or an investment.
实用英语
70-----The best defense is a good offense
奥运英语1000句
Be pro-active and goal-oriented, not timid or conservative. Aim to conquer, not merely to protect yourself. 奥运英语1000句
实用英语
71-----The road to hell is paved with good intentions 英语学习网
Like talking, intending is not doing. Actions matter far more than intentions. Actions determine where a person ends up.
英语四六级
72-----Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today
求职英语
Doing is better than waiting. If you wait, you might lose your opportunity 奥运英语1000句
73-----Action speak louder than words
求职英语
To know people\'s hearts, pay more attention to what they do than what they say. 英语学习网
74-----Idle hands are the devil\'s workshop 英语四六级
When people have nothing constructive to do, they get into mischief. The child who is bored may pick up a crayon and color on the wall, something that would not happen if the child were happily occupied in some other activity.
奥运英语1000句
75-----You\'ve got to take the bull by the horns
实用英语
Grab directly and fearlessly for the toughnest part of a problem. Don\'t look for an easy way out. 商务英语
76-----Money doesn\'t grow on trees
实用英语
You have to work for things. Success does not come on its own. 商务英语
77-----Easy come, easy go 行业英语
If you have received something without working for it, it may soon be gone. You will not be as careful with it as you will be with something you earned.
行业英语
78-----Too many cooks spoil the broth
行业英语
Individual action or action by the smallest group possible is better than consulting a lot of people. Too much consultation will waste time and create problems. 奥运英语1000句
79-----Stand on your own two feet 求职英语
Grow up; act like an adult. Don\'t ask me to do something for you. This may be said to a young or immature person who depends too much on others. It is like a cow kicking a grown calf that wants to suckle. 商务英语
80------If you want something done right, do it yourself 英语学习网
This discourages people from trusting anyone except themselves. It maybe said to someone who ask another person to do a job for him/her and then complains about it was done.
英语学习网
81------Necessity is the mother of invention
行业英语
When a person really needs something, he or she figures out some new way to get it. This creative initiative to change one\'s situation is considered much better than giving up and accepting things as they are.
行业英语
82------First come, first served.
奥运英语1000句
This saying is used when there is a limited supply of something such as tickets to an event or food at a picnic. The idea is that no matter what your status, if you want some of what is being given away or sold, you must present yourself in person and in good time.
奥运英语1000句
83-----No pain no gain 行业英语
one must put forth an effort in order to succeed. This saying comes from physical fitness instructors. They say that if you do not exercise hard enough to make your muscles hurt, the exercise is not doing you much good.
英语四六级
84-----Give him an inch and he\'ll take a mile
办公室英语
Be careful of presumptuous people who take more initiative than they should. If you do someone a small favor or delegate a little permission or a little power, he or she may take advantage of you.
奥运英语1000句
85-----If it isn\'t broke, don\'t fix it
英语学习网
Do not bother trying to improve something if it is already working satisfactorily. That is a waste of time and you run the risk of breaking the thing while you are trying to improve it. 办公室英语
86-----There is no harm in trying
行业英语
A person expects to be respected for making an effort even if it does not succeed. 中国英语学习网
87-----The cure is worse than the disease 求职英语
While trying to solve one problem, we create an even bigger problem. We would have been better off if we had done nothing.
求职英语
88-----Count to ten before you lose your temper 中国英语学习网
Do not instantly let your feelings control your actions. Slow down. Think before you react. 办公室英语
89-----All things come to him who waits 办公室英语
Sometimes patience is better than initiative.
中国英语学习网
90-----There is many a slip between the cup and the lip
求职英语
This refers to a plan that has gone wrong. When one is drinking from a cup, one intends to get all the drink into the mouth, but this does not always happen. The plan is good but it can still fail. 中国英语学习网
91-----Boys will be boys 中国英语学习网
People will act according to their nature, including some mischief. This is sometimes used to describe irresponsible but not too seriously wrong behavior by men. In other words, grown men will sometimes act like little boys.
行业英语
92------One bad apple can spoil the whole barrel 奥运英语1000句
Do not associate with bad people. They may spoil you as a rotting apple spoils the apples next to it in the barrel.
行业英语
93-----Better the devil you know than the devil you don\'t 商务英语
People are generally not trustworthy. It is therefore better to deal with a familiar person or situation than an unknown one. That way you know what to watch out for and you can protect yourself better. 英语学习网
94-----Nobody is perfect
英语四六级
Everyone has shortcomings. This is used as an excuse for a minor Mistake that has been made.
实用英语
95------The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence
行业英语
People are never satisfied with what they have. They always want what someone else has. 求职英语
96-----A man is only as old as he feels 英语四六级
A person\'s energy level is more important than age. 办公室英语
97-----A man\'s home is his castle 英语四六级
At home a man is like a king, completely free to do as he wishes. 中国英语学习网
98-----Clothes make the man 中国英语学习网
The way a man dresses will affect the way he sees himself and the way other people see him. The implication is that if you want to succeed, dress for success.
求职英语
99-----Two heads are better than one
实用英语
Two people are more likely to succeed than one working or thinking alone. It is better to consult than to act alone.
英语四六级
100-----Beauty is only skin deep
奥运英语1000句
One should admire a person, particularly a woman, for her deep, inner character and not simply for her superficial beauty.
