101-----Many hands make light work Cooperation makes a job much easier. 奥运英语1000句 102-----There is safety in numbers 商务英语 Do not take large risks all by yourself. Do not walk alone on a dangerous street at night. 中国英语学习网 103-----Charity begins at home 英语四六级
One should be kind to close relatives before doing good to the community in general. 奥运英语1000句
104-----There is no place like home 中国英语学习网 Home is the best place in the world. The most relaxing and enjoyable place. 英语学习网 105-----Silence is consent 英语四六级 Do not stay silent when you see a problem or an injustice. Speak out against it. Say, "Enough is enough." or people will think you do not mind the situation. 求职英语 106-----What goes around comes around 办公室英语
What you do to others, especially if it is bad, will eventually be done to you. As you seek your own success, do not treat other people badly. They may take revenge and spoil your success.
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107-----Honesty is the best policy
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When one is tempted to cheat, this proverb serves as a reminder of the importance of good character. Honesty brings trust and trust leads to success. 商务英语
108-----If the shoe fits, wear it 办公室英语 If an accusation is true, accept the blame. This saying can also mean, " if a suitable opportunity comes to you, take it!" 奥运英语1000句 109-----You can lead a horse to water, but you can\'t make him drink 办公室英语 Even when given an opportunity, some people will not use it. In that case the blame is all on him. 求职英语 110-----You made the bed, you lie in it 实用英语 You created a certain situation so you are now responsible to take the consequences. 商务英语 111-----The pot calling the kettle black 商务英语 Since the pot and the kettle are equally black from the cooking fire, the pot has not right to criticize the kettle. This might be used if someone known to be a gossip criticizes someone else for gossiping. 奥运英语1000句 112-----Don\'t get mad, get even 英语四六级 When someone treats you badly, do not just get angry, express your anger in action. 求职英语
113-----Get a life
英语四六级 Do not be so unreasonably critical about tiny things. Find something better to do with your time. 英语学习网 114-----My country, right or wrong 商务英语 I am absolutely loyal to my country whether or not I agree with its policy in a certain area. 行业英语 115------There are two sides to everything 奥运英语1000句 Never assume that all the blame for a conflict lies on one side, especially if you have heard only one side of the story. 英语学习网 116-----Forgive and forget 办公室英语
Conflicts should be resolved and ended, not left alone to cause years of regret, bitterness and pain. 英语四六级
117------Business and pleasure don\'t mix 英语四六级 When you work, work. When you play, play. It is inefficient and therefore unwise to try to mix the two. 实用英语
118-----Let a sleeping dog lie 求职英语
Do not meddle in something that will cause you no trouble if you leave it alone. If you wake up the "dog," it may bite you. 实用英语 119------No man can serve two masters 求职英语 Divided loyalty will break down sooner or later. 实用英语 120-----Make it short and sweet 办公室英语
Speak briefly and to the point. We don\'t have time for the details
商务英语 121-----What will be will be 求职英语
Some things cannot be changed or avoided. 奥运英语1000句
122-----A friend in need is a friend indeed 商务英语 My true friend is the one who show loyalty to me by helping me when I am in need. 英语学习网
123-----People who live in glass house should not throw stones 实用英语
Do not attact anyone if you have no way to defend yourself when they attact you in the same way. 奥运英语1000句 124-----Opposites attract 办公室英语
As positive and negative magnets attract each other, so people of very different types attract each other. For example, a quiet woman marries a very outgoing man. These differences have a mixed effect on the couple, partly making them interested in each other but also leading to miscommunication and conflict. 中国英语学习网
125-----The early bird catches the worm 英语四六级 Punctuality is important. If you want to succeed, arrive early, like the bird that hunts worms at dawn before they go into hiding for the day. 商务英语 126-----Blood is thicker than water 商务英语
Blood relationship is stronger than voluntarily chosen friendship. Brothers will stick up for each other against their own friends if they have to. This proverb is not quoted much anymore because kinship is not as highly valued as it used to be. 商务英语
127-----You can\'t teach an old dog new tricks 实用英语 Once habits are learned, it is very hard to change them. 奥运英语1000句 128-----To err is human 实用英语
It is normal for humans to make mistakes and it is godly (or God-like) to forgive them. 求职英语
129-----Haste makes waste 求职英语 Through acting quickly is generally a good thing, acting too quickly may cause troulbe. This proverb is used when someone has done a job carelessly and wrongly. For example, a carpenter in a hurry may cut a board too short and have to throw it away. 行业英语 130-----Make hay while the sun shines 商务英语 If you do not seize the opportunity, rain may come and spoil the hay before you get into the barn. 实用英语 131-----If you can\'t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen 奥运英语1000句
Withdraw from an activity if you don\'t like the conflict and criticism it brings. Let other people do it without you.
求职英语 132-----Everyone puts their pants on one leg at a time 英语学习网
This is to tell us that we are all equal. 办公室英语
133-----Life is a pie 英语学习网
It\'s dished out in large and small pieces and when\'s gone, it\'s gone. If we ask for more than our share, we\'re just begging to be disappointed.
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134-----Making every minute count
奥运英语1000句 Doing something productive all the time, not letting any time "slip away." 实用英语 135-----A pen is mightier than the sword 英语学习网 A conflict maybe resolved more deeply and effectively by writing the truth than by resorting to violence. 商务英语 136-----A new broom sweeps clean 行业英语 A new person in power will change many things and improve the situation. change is better than leaving things as they are. 实用英语
137-----Tomorrow is another day (or, Tomorrow is a new day.)
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No matter how bad things are right now, a person may hope for better prospects in the morning. New opportunities will come. 奥运英语1000句
138----- Opportunity only knocks once 奥运英语1000句 Opportunity is like an unexpected stranger passing by. It knocks on someone\'s door. If the person fails to answer the door, opportunity goes away and knocks on someone else\'s door. It does not return to the same person. 英语四六级 139-----Business is business 商务英语
Do business with strangers as if they were brothers and with brothers as if they were strangers. 中国英语学习网
140-----History repeats itself 求职英语
There are patterns in history. Nations rise and fall for similar reasons. Nations do not change their ways or learn from the mistakes of others. They repeat them. 中国英语学习网
141-----People are people 中国英语学习网
Their human nature is predictable. They respond to stimulus and incentives.
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142-----Keep your friends close, keep your enemies closer 求职英语
A man without enemy is a man without quality. Think not? Even Jesus Christ had many, many enemies. 中国英语学习网
143-----Better late than never 英语四六级
Though being on time is better than being late, doing something late is better than giving up or doing nothing. 英语学习网 144-----Punish one, teach a hundred 奥运英语1000句 People problems sometimes must be dealt with harshly. When you make an example of someone, make sure that everyone knows what the lesson is. 实用英语 145-----Attitude is everything 办公室英语 A pessimist sees a glass half-empty, An optimist sees it half-full. 求职英语
146-----Like father, like son
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A son will be like his father. This may be quoted whenever the son has done something that reminds people of the father. Whether it is good or bad.
商务英语 147-----When the cat\'s away the mice will play 英语四六级 People will take advantage of a situation if they can. Employees will get lazy if the supervisor is not keeping an eye on them. A teenage son or daughter might hold a wild party at home during a weekend when the parents have gone out of town. 奥运英语1000句 148-----Praise when praise is due (sometimes even when it isn\'t) 英语学习网 Do not criticise beyond necessity and seldom in public. And always precede criticism with a few words of praise. 行业英语 英语四六级 149-----Turnabout is fair play 求职英语 If a person is taking advantage of someone else, the situation may change. The one on top may end up on the bottom. Then the one who has turned the tables will say, "I am only doing to you what you did to me. 求职英语 150-----Here today, gone tomorrow 行业英语 Things may change quickly. This is said as a criticism of a person who changes quickly for no good reason. It may also be said of a thing or situation which does not last. Change is not good when it indicates unreliability. 办公室英语
151-----Will wonders never cease? 求职英语
Said when someone has done something untypical of him or her and much better than was expected. It may also be used of a technological breakthrough. 办公室英语 152-----Do not stand out, fit in 求职英语 Make no long-term, close friendships with any colleague., but be cordial to all. 英语学习网 153-----There is no morality in struggles for power 奥运英语1000句
In struggles for power, your judgements should be based entirely on self-interest and finding as direct and economical a route to your goal as possible.
行业英语 154-----Natural law is blind 实用英语
Just like water, cleaness and refreshes without any distinction, and without any judgement either.
英语四六级 155-----The more things change, the more they stay the same 办公室英语 Said when an apparent change is only superficial. 奥运英语1000句 156-----Happiness is a choice and misery is optional 行业英语
The way we choose to see the world creates the world we see.
奥运英语1000句 157-----The leopard cannot change his spots 行业英语 Some people are not willing or able to change their chartacter. This is said when a notoriously bad person tries to change but fails into the same mistake all over again. 实用英语
158-----Man proposes, God disposes
英语学习网 Human beings make their plans but God determines whether they succeed or not. 求职英语 159-----A live dog is better than a dead lion 求职英语 It may be better to run away like a scared dog with its tail between its legs than to stand and fight to the death like a courageous lion. 行业英语 160-----It\'s a woman\'s prerogative to change her mind 商务英语 Since women are often considered more emotional and less logical than men, and since emotions are more changeable than reasons, women are allowed to change their minds. 商务英语 161-----Spare the rod and spoil the child 办公室英语
An undisciplined child will turn out to be a rotten person. Many parents think that any physical punishment of children is abusive, while many others think that without it, children grow up to be morally retarded.
实用英语 162-----Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me 行业英语 A taunt used by people claiming that an insult did not affect them. 英语四六级
163-----The worm turns 中国英语学习网
Everything chnages. Do not expect situations or people to stay the same for very long. 英语四六级
164-----You are what you eat 商务英语
A nation\'s diet can be more revealing than it\'s art or literature. 实用英语 165-----Marriages are made in heaven 奥运英语1000句 God is the source of human love and the one who destines two individuals to be married. This proverb is going out of fashion since it goes against individual freedom. 中国英语学习网 166-----If you scratch my back, I\'ll scratch yours 行业英语 If you do something good for me, I should do something good for you. 实用英语 167-----Office politics are secret and dirty and there is never an end to it 中国英语学习网 To survive, be patient--watch, listen and say little; to win, be patient--survive, plan and then strike swiftly. 商务英语
168-----Work smarter, not harder
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Get others to do as much as they can for you. 商务英语
169-----Time heals all wounds 商务英语 The damage done by a conflict is like a wound that will heal naturally over time if it is not re-injured. 英语学习网 170-----No news is good news 英语四六级 If a friend is travelling and one does not hear from him/her, one may assume that everything is going well. As another proverb says, Bad news travels fast. 中国英语学习网 171-----Time marches on 奥运英语1000句 Time is marching to its own drumbeat. It does not slow down or stop for anyone. 英语学习网
172-----Keeping up with Joneses 奥运英语1000句
This means buying things that you see your neighbors buying. That way you look like just as much a success as they do. 奥运英语1000句 173-----A man may work from sun to sun, but woman\'s work is never done 商务英语 Men may have to work long days but they can go home to rest in the evening. Women can never get away from what used to be called "women\'s work," such as cooking and cleaning. 奥运英语1000句
174-----The sooner the better 商务英语
A wish for quick action or quick change. Once a decision has been made, there is no point in waiting to carry it out. 商务英语 175-----A good captain goes down with his ship 英语四六级 The captain remains on board his ship even when all hope to save it is lost. 求职英语 176-----Every cloud has a silver lining 求职英语 Even bad situations will contain something good if we look for it. Clouds are considered symbols of undersirable things. The bright edge of a dark clouds is like something good that can cheer us up. 商务英语
177-----The exception proves the rule
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Though we are making an exception and breaking the rule in this one case, we do it only becasue the circumstances are so unusual.
行业英语 178-----Shop till you drop 实用英语 Shopping is a form of considering options. People think this is fun so they keep doing it untill they are worn out. 求职英语 179-----The devil can quote scripture 英语四六级 A quotation from an authoritative book or person cannot always be trusted. The quote may be distorted or incorrectly applied. 行业英语 180-----Hindsight is always 20/20 中国英语学习网 Looking back on the past, it is easy for anyone to see what should have been done even though it was impossible for anyone to see it at the time. ("20/20 vision" is an eye doctor\'s term for eyes that see perfectly.) 中国英语学习网 181-----The good die young 求职英语
Life is not always fair. Some very fine people die at a young age though it seems they were so good they deserved to live longer. 办公室英语
182-----Power corrupts 英语四六级 When people are put into positions of power, they gradually forget what life is like for ordinary people. They become more likely to abuse their power, perhaps without even realizing it. 办公室英语 183-----Half a loaf is better than no bread at all 奥运英语1000句 Sometimes we will not be able to get all we want or hope for. As such times of only partial success, we should look on bright side and be glad for what we got. 求职英语 184-----A house divided against itself cannot stand 行业英语 Unity is the strength that preserves a family or a nation. 中国英语学习网 185-----Easy said than done 英语学习网 We promise according to our hope but we perform according to our fear. 实用英语 186-----A dog is a man\'s best friend 行业英语 Dogs are know for their loyalty. Their friendship is more reliable than the friendship of people. 中国英语学习网 187-----Practice makes perfect 英语四六级 Effort brings improvement and success. 求职英语 188-----Where there is a will, there\'s a way 中国英语学习网 Any problem can be solved if one is determined enough. 英语四六级 189-----He who laughs last, laughs best 办公室英语 If a person does wrong to someone and laughs at him or her, the victim will look for a way to get revenge. When revenge is taken, the victim gets the last laugh, defeating the other person. 实用英语
190-----It takes two to make a quarrel 英语四六级
Avoid a fight if you can. An insult does not become a fight unless it is answered by an insult. 中国英语学习网 191-----Let bygones be bygones 英语四六级
Do not bring up an old problem. Pretent it never happened.
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192-----Two wrongs don\'t make a right
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If someone does a wrong to you, react with justice, not by doing something vicious. (He did wrong to you, but you do right in response. 办公室英语
193-----Crime does not pay 办公室英语 Though crime appears to have benefits, this is an illusion. for example, shoplifting seems like an easy way to get things one wants, but crime always puts the criminal in danger of punishment. 奥运英语1000句 194-----So far so good 英语学习网 Said by or to someone who is carrying out a plan taking one step at a time. Confidence increases with each step. 英语四六级
195-----Two is company and three is a crowd
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This may be used when two people are talking and a third, unwanted person approaches. 英语学习网
196-----Innocent untill proven guilty 商务英语 In a court of law, the accused person is presumed innocent at the start. The burden of proof always rests on the accuser, not the accused. The jury will not convict the person unless the proof is clear. 实用英语
197-----The devil made me do it 英语四六级
I am not to blame for what I did. I could not help it. Some power outside of me was forcing me to act in that way. This is playfully used as an excuse by people who know they have done something wrong but want to avoid the penalty. 实用英语
198-----Home is where the heart is 实用英语
Home is wherever ones loved ones are. The size or appearance of a house does not make it a home or keep it from being a home. 商务英语 199-----Time and tide wait for no man 求职英语 When something\'s time has come, it will happen and nothing can stop it. It is like an ocean tide coming in to the shore. 实用英语 200-----Home, sweet home 英语学习网 This phrase reminds people of the ideal home--It should be a place of warmth, love and joy. 育路雅思
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