真理可能被指责，但是决不蒙耻辱。
471. Truth needs no colour; beauty, no pencil. 真理不些
要色彩，美丽不需涂饰。
472. Truth, once crushed, will rise again. 真理是打不倒
的。
473. Truth's best ornament is nakedness. 不加装饰是真
理的最好的装饰。
474. Truth will conquer. 真理必胜。
475. Truth will prevail. 真理必胜。
476. Truth will stand without a prop. 真理能树，不靠支
持。
477. Try (your friend) before you trust him. 朋友要经
考验，才能取得信任。
478. Turn your tongue seven times before speaking. 话
到嘴边留三分。
479. Two blacks do not make a white.两个乌黑不等于一
个清白。
480. Two cats and a mouse, two wives in one house, two
dogs and a bone, never agree in one. 两猫伴一鼠，两妻
居一屋，两狗肯一骨，万难同相处。
481. Two dogs over one bone seldom agree. 两狗啃一
骨，相持难服输。
482. Two dogs strive for a bone, and a third runs away
with it. 鹬蚌相争，渔翁得利。
483. Two ears to one tongue, therefore hear twice as
much as you speak. 两只耳朵对一舌，故应多听而少
说。
484. Two heads are better than one. 集思广益。
485. Two in distress makes sorrow less.同病相怜。
486. Two is company, but three is none.两人成为伴，三
人不结侣。
487. Two of a trade seldom agree.同行是冤家。
488. Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot
forgive each other's little failings. 小过彼此不相谅，两
人友谊难长久。
489. Two quarrel and a third profits by it.鹬蚌相争，渔
翁得利。
490. Two sparrows on one ear of corn make an ill
agreement. 一穗两雀争，意见乱纷纷。
491. Two things doth prolong your life: a quiet heart
and a loving wife. 心情平静妻贤淑，延年益寿多得福。
492. Two wrongs don't make a right. 两个错误不能构
成一个正确。
U 共6 条
1. Union is strength. 团结就是力量。
2. Unkindness destroys love. 粗暴毁爱情。
3. Unprofitable eloquence is like the cypress, which is
great and tall, but bears no fruit. 无益雄辩不济事，犹
如柏树参天不结果。
4. Until all is over one's ambition never dies. 不到黄河心
不死。
5. Use a book as a bee does flowers. 读书如蜜蜂采花，吸
取其中之精华。
6. Use is a second nature. 习惯成自然。
V 共11 条
1. Vain glory blossoms but never bears. 虚荣能开花，但从
不结果。
2. Velvet paws hide sharp claws. 笑里藏刀。
3. Venture a small fish to catch a great one. 吃小亏占大
便宜。
4. Victory belongs to the m ost persevering. 胜利属于最
坚强不屈的人。
5. Viture flies from the heart of a mercenary man. 人贪
钱财，心无美德。
6. Virtue is a jewel of great price. 美德是无价之宝。
7. Virture is fairer far than beauty. 美德远比美丽更美
好。
8. Virtue is her (or its) own reward. 为善最乐。
9. Virtue is the only true nobility. 唯有美德是真正高贵
的。
10. Virtue never grows old. 美德永远不衰老。
11. Vows made in storms are forgotten in calms. 激动时
所立的誓，平静时会忘记的。
W 共199 条
1. Wade not in unknown water. 不知水的深浅，不可粗心
趟水过河。
2. Walk groundly; talk profoundly; drink roundly; sleep
soundly. 行路踏实，言谈深刻，饮酒豪爽，睡眠酣畅。
3. Walls (or Pitchers) have ears. 隔墙有耳。
4. Want of care does us more damage than want of
knowledge. 粗心比无知更为有害。
5. War is death's feast. 战争是死亡的筵席。
6. War is the business of barbarians. 战争是野蛮人干的
事。
7. War makes thieves, and peace hangs them. 战争造成
盗贼，和平把他们吊死。
8. Wash a dog, comb a dog, Still a dog, remains a dog. 本
性难移。
9. Waste not, want not. 俭以防匮。
10. Waste of time is the most extravagant and costly of all
expenses. 浪费时间是一切花费中最奢侈豪华的费用。
11. Water afar quenches not fire. 远水难救近火。
12. Water dropping day by day wears the hardest rock
away. 水滴天天滴不停，石头最坚也磨损。
13. Weak men wait for opportunity, but the strong men
make it. 若者等待机会，强者创造机会。
14. We all do fade as a leaf. 我们都要像树叶一样枯萎。
15. Wealth is not his who has it, but his who enjoys it. 财
富并不属于拥有的人，而是属于享用的人。
16. Wealth makes worship. 财富能使人拜倒。
17. Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power,
leisure, and liberty. 财富可能是一样好东西，因为它意
味著权力，安逸和自由。
18. We are not born for ourselves. 人生非为己。
19. We can live without a brother, but not without a friend.
我们生活中可以没有兄弟，但不能没有朋友。
20. We can live without our friends, but not without our
neighbours. 生活可无友，邻居不能无。
21. We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
我们先养成习惯，然后习惯又左右我们。
22. We have no more right to consume happiness without
producing it than to consume wealth without
producing it. 如果不创造财富，就没有权力享用财富；
同样地，如果不能创造幸福，就没有权利享受幸福。
23. We hope to grow old, yet we fear old age; that is, we
are willing to live, and afraid to die. 我们希望长大，但
怕年老；就是，愿意生，而害怕死。
24. We know not what is good until we have lost it. 有的
时候不爱惜，失了以后空叹息。
25. We learn not at school, but in life. 学习不在校，而在
生活中。
26. Well begun is half done. 良好开端，功成一半。
27. Well fed, wed bred. 衣食足，知荣辱。
28. We must repeat a thousand and one times that
perseverance is the only road to success. 我们必须千百
次地反覆说明，坚韧不拔是取得胜利的唯一道路。
29. We never know the worth (or value) of water till the
well is dry. 井枯方知水可贵。
30. We only live once,, but if we work it right once is
enough. 我们生命只一次，好自为之一次足矣。
31. We shall lie all alike in our graves. 一进坟墓，大家一
样。
32. We shall never have friends if we expect to find them
without fault. 欲找朋友无缺点，永远不会有朋友。
33. We should never remember the benefit we have
offered nor forget the favour received. 施惠莫记，受恩
莫忘。
34. We should push our work, the work should not push
us. 我们要推动工作，不要让工作推动我们。
35. We should weep for men at their birth and not a t
their death. 我们应在人降生时流泪，而不该在人死亡
时哭泣。
36. We soon believe what we desire. 一厢情愿。
37. What a sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. 不
分畛域，一样对待。
38. What cannot be cured must be endured. 事已无法可
救，只得耐心忍受。
39. What does the moon care if the dogs bark at her? 月
亮岂怕狗来吠。
40. What do you expect from a pig but a grunt? 狗嘴里吐
不出象牙。
41. Wahtever a man sow, that shall he also reap. 种瓜得
瓜，种豆得豆。
42. Whatever I do, I will do in my power. 无论我做什么
事，我都尽力而为之。
43. Whatever man has done man may do. 天下无难事。
44. Whatever you do, do with your might; Things done by
halves are never done right. 不论做什么事要尽力去
搞；事情做得不彻底，就不能算好。
45. What good shall I do this day? What good have I done
today? 我今天要做些什么好事？我今天做了些什么好
事？
46. What I have done is due to patient thought. 我的成就
是由于坚忍地思索。
47. What is bred in the bone will not go out of the flesh.
生于骨中者不会出肉外。
48. What is done by night appears by day. 若要人不知，
除非己莫为。
49. What is done cannot be undone. 木已成舟。
50. What is known to three is known to everybody. 一件
事情三个人知道就人人知道。
51. What is learnt in the cradle lasts (or is carried) to the
grave. 小时学会的事情到老不会忘记。
52. What is not wisdom is danger. 不智的事是危险的。
53. What is one man's cloud is another man's sunshine.
此人乌云盖顶，彼人艳阳满天。
54. What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. 适
用于甲的，也适用于乙。
55. What is sculpture is to a block of marble, education is
to the soul. 教育之于心灵，犹如雕刻之于大理石。
56. What is there sadder under the sun than a day that is
gone and notyhing done. 世界上没有什么事情，较之虚
度年华，一事无成，更使人痛心。
57. What is wealth good for, if it brings melancholy? 财富
如带忧郁来，有了财富有何用？
58. What is worth doing at all is worth doing well. 事既值
得做，就把事做好。
59. What makes life dreary is the want of motive. 没有目
的，人生就黯淡无光。
60. What must be must be. 该怎么样的就怎么样。
61. What's bred in the bone will come out in the flesh. 生
就的本性，总会暴露的。
62. What's done by night appears by day. 若要人不知，除
非己莫为。
63. What's done can't be undone. 无可挽回。泼水难收？
64. What's learnt in the cradle lasts till the tomb. 小时学
过的，至死不忘记。
65. What's lost is lost. 流水落花春去也。
66. What's more miserable than discontent? 有什么比不
知足更为痛苦？
67. What soberness conceals, drunkenness reveals. 醉汉
口里露真言。
68. Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye
ever so to them. 己所欲，施于人。
69. What the eye does not see, the heart does not grieve
over. 眼不见，心不烦。
70. What the eye sees not, the heart craves not. 目不瞬，
心不乱。
71. What the heart thinks, the tongue speaks. 心直口快。
72. What we are ignorant of is immense. 我们不知道的东
西多得不可胜数。
73. What we do willingly is easy. 世上无难事，只要肯登
攀。
74. What we learn with pleasure we never forget. 乐意学
的东西决不会忘记。
75. What we lose in hake we shall have in herring. 失之东
隅，收之桑榆。
76. What you dislike in another, take care to correct in
yourself. 别人身上你不喜欢的东西，自己身上的也要
注意改正。
77. What you lose on the swings you gain (or get back) on
the roundabouts. 失之东隅，收之桑榆。
78. What youth is used to, age remembers. 青年时经常做
的事，老年时却能记得起。
79. When a dog is drowning everyone offers him drink.
落井下石。
80. When a friend asks, there is no tomorrow. 朋友的要
求不要拖。
81. When ale (or drink or wine) is in wit is out. 贪杯丧
智。
82. When all men speak no man hears. 人人都讲话，无人
去听它。
83. When anger blinds the mind, truth disapears. 怒火中
烧瞎心眼，真理在前看不见。
84. Whe angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry,
a hundred. 怒时数十再说话，大怒数百方开言。
85. When an opportunity is neglected, it never comes back
to you. 机不可失，时不再来。
86. When stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of,
he always declares that it is his duty. 蠢人做件羞愧事，
总说义不容辞。
87. When flatterers meet, the devil goes to dinner. 马屁精
会面，魔鬼去赴宴。
88. When Greek meets Greek, then comes the tug of war.
龙争虎斗。
89. When guns speak it is too late to argue. 待到炮声响，
辩论已莫及。
90. When in doubt, play trumps. 举棋苟不定，何妨将一
军。
91. When in Rome do as the Romans do. 入乡随俗。
92. When love puts in, friendship is gone. 爱情入，友谊
出。
93. When one is about to act, one must reason first. 凡事
要先思而后行。
94. When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out at
the window. 贫穷进门来，爱情飞窗外。
95. When riches increase, the body decreases. 财多体衰。
96. When rogues (or thieves) fall out, honest men come by
their own. 盗贼一内哄，好人就自在。
97. When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in
battalions. 祸不单行。
98. When the belly is full, the bones would be at rest. 饱
暖图安逸。
99. When the belly is full the mind is among the maids. 逸
则思淫。饱则思淫欲？
100. When the cat's away the mice will play. 猫儿不在，
老鼠造反。
101. When the fight begins within himself a man's
worth something, 内心开始斗争时，为人就会有价值。
102. When the ffish is caught the net is laid aside. 鱼获
网弃。
103. When the fox preaches, take care of your geese. 佛
口蛇心。
104. When the fruit is scarcest, its taste is sweetest. 物
以稀为贵。
105. When the heart is afire, some sparks will fly out at
the mouth. 心中发火，口吐妄言。
106. When the heart is full,, the tongue will speak. 胸有
成竹，口若悬河。
107. When the sun comes in, the doctor goes out. 阳光
入室，医生出屋。
108. When the well is full, it will run over. 井水满了要
溢出。
109. When the wound is healed, the pain is forgotten.
好了伤疤忘了痛。
110. When three know it, all know it. 三人知，天下晓。
111. When two friends have a common purse, one sings
and the other weeps. 两友合用一钱包，一个悲来一个
笑。
112. When two ride on one horse, one must sit behind.
两人共骑一匹马，总有一个背后跨。
113. When war begins then hell opens. 战争一开始，地
狱门敞开。
114. When we have gold we are in fear; when we have
none we are in danger. 手头有黄金，惶恐很担心；两手
都空空，处在危急中。
115. When wine is in truth is out. 酒后露真言。
116. When you go to buy, use your eyes not your ears.
你去购买东西时，要用眼睛莫用耳。
117. Where drums beat, laws are silent. 战鼓一打，法律
无声。
118. Where love fails we espy all faults. 恋爱一旦遭失
败，缺点全都看出来。
119. Where love is there is faith. 有爱情就有忠诚。
120. Where might is master, justice is servant. 有强权，
就没有正义。
121. Where passion is high there reason is low. 感情高
涨处，理智就低落。
122. Where the knot is loose the string slips. 结子一松
掉，绳子就滑脱。
123. Where there is a will,, there is a way(or skill). 有决
心，就有办法。
124. Where (or While) there is life there is hope. 留得青
山在，不怕没柴烧。
125. Where there is no good within, no good comes out.
没有内心的美，就没有外在的美。
126. Where there's reek there's heat. 无风不起浪。
127. Where the sun enterd, the doctor does not. 阳光照
耀处，医生就不需。
128. Where they saw chance, we see law. 以前他们认为
是偶然的，现在我们认为是必然的。
129. Wherever he is satisfied with what he does, he has
reached his culminating point--he will progress no
more. 一个人对所做的事感到自满的，就达到了顶点，
不会再前进了。
130. Where your will is ready, your feet are light. 下定
了决心，脚步就轻盈。决心一下，脚下生风？
131. While the grass grows the horse (or steed) starves.
远水救不了近火。
132. While the priest climbs a post, the devil climbs ten.
道高一尺，魔高一丈。
133. While (or Where) there is life there is hope. 留得青
山在，不怕没柴烧。
134. While the word is in your mouth, it is your own;
when 'tis once spoken, 'tis another's. 话未出口属于己，
话一出口属别人。
135. While we breathe, there is hope. 只要活著，就有希
望。
136. Who answers suddenly knows little. 答得迅速，懂
得不多。
137. Who are ready to believe are easy to deceive. 轻信
的人容易受骗。
138. Who has never tasted bitter, knows not what is
sweet. 不尝黄连苦，怎知蜂蜜甜。
139. Who has no haste in his business mountains to him
seem valleys. 做事不急，履险如夷。
140. Who holds the purse rules the house. 钱可神通。
141. Who keeps company with the wolf will learn to
howl. 近朱者赤，近墨者黑。
142. Who knows most speaks (or says) least. 大巧若拙。
143. Who knows not how to dissemble knows not how to
live. 掩饰感情全不会，怎样生活必不知。
144. Who lives by hope will die by hunger. 靠希望而生，
必因饥饿而死。
145. Who loses liberty loses all. 失去自由即失去一切。
146. Who makes everything right must rise early. 要把
事事都做好，必须坚持起得早。
147. Whom God would ruin, he first deprives of reason.
伤天害理，天诛地灭。
148. Who minds his own business has no time to mind
other folks. 为人只顾自己事，就无时间关心人。
149. Whom the gods love die young. 好人不长寿。
150. Whom we love best to them we can say least. 对我
们的最爱的人，我们可说的话最少。
151. Who serves everybody gets thanks from nobody.
人人都侍候，个个不见好。
152. Who swims in sin shall sink in sorrow. 在罪恶中游
泳的人，必将在悲哀中沈没。
153. Who undertakes many things at once, seldom does
anything well. 许多事情同时干，一件事也办不成。
154. Who will not keep a penny, shall never have many.
不积少，不会成多。
155. Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.
坏人服从出于怕，好人服从出于爱。
156. Wickedness does not go altogether unrequited. 恶
有恶报。
157. Wilful waste makes woeful want. 浪费招致穷困。
158. Wine and judgement mature with age. 酒存放年代
越久越香，判断力随年龄而增长。
159. Wine in the bottle does not quench thirst. 瓶中之
酒不解渴。
160. Wine is mirror of the mind. 酒后吐真言。
161. Wisdom in the mind is better than money in the
