犹存。
5. 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。
6. Offence is the best defence. 进攻是最好的防御。
7. Of nothing comes nothing. 无中不能生有。
8. Often and little eating makes a man fat. 少吃多餐，身
强体胖。
9. Of two evils choose the least. 权衡两害，取其轻者。
10. 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。
11. Old bees yield no honey. 老蜂不酿蜜。
12. Old birds are not caught with new nests. 新巢捉不到
老鸟。
13. Old birds are not to be caught with shaff. 老谋是不会
失算的。
14. Older and wiser. 越老越聪明。
15. Old foxes want no tutors. 老狐狸不需要教师。
16. Old friends and old wine are best. 古交友情深，陈酒
香味醇。
17. Old love will not be forgotten. 旧情永难忘。
18. Old vessels must leak. 旧船必漏。
19. 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。
20. Old wood is best to burn, old book to read. 老柴好烧，
老书宜读。
21. Old wood is best to burn, old horse to ride. 老柴好烧，
老马好骑。
22. 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！
23. Omelets are not made without breaking eggs. 有失才
有得。
24. Once a devil, always a devil. 一次做魔鬼，永远是魔
鬼。
25. Once a knave, ever a knave. 一朝失足，铸成千古恨。
26. Once a man and twice a child. 一次为成人，两度当小
孩。
27. Once bit, twice shy. 一朝被蛇咬，三年怕草绳。
28. Once is no custom. 一次不成例。
29. Once on shore, we pray no more. 一旦上了岸，就不再
祈祷。
30. 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。
31. One barking dog sets all street a-barking. 一狗吠声
响，狗吠满街坊。
32. One beats the bush, and another catches the birds. 坐
享其成。
33. One boy is more trouble than a dozen girls. 一个男孩
比十二个女孩还要麻烦。
34. 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。
35. One cannot be in two place at once.
36. 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。
37. One cannot eat one's cake and have it. 事难两全其美。
38. One cannot get blood from a stone. 石头里抽不出血。
39. One cannot make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. 朽木
不可雕。
40. One cannot make bricks without straw. 巧妇难为无米
之炊。
41. One cannot put back the clock. 光阴一去不复返。
42. One chick keeps a hen busy. 一只小鸡已够母鸡辛忙。
43. One cloud is enough to eclipse all the sun. 一叶可障
目。
44. 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。
45. One drop of poison infects the whole tun of wine. 一滴
之毒，毒染整桶之酒。
46. 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。
47. One enemy is too much. 一个敌人也太多。
48. One false move may lose the game. 一著不慎，满盘皆
输。
49. One false step will make a great difference. 失之毫厘，
谬以千里。
50. 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。
51. One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters. 一
个父亲胜于一百个教师。
52. One flower makes no garland. 一木不能成林。
53. 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。
54. One fool makes many. 一人傻，傻大家。
55. One foot is better than two crutches. 一只脚胜过两根
拐杖。
56. 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。
57. One good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters.
一个好的母亲顶得上一百个教师。
58. One good turn deserves another. 以德报德。
59. One half of the world does not know how the other
half lives. 贫富不相知。
60. One has lived too near a wood to be frightened by owls.
深知底蕴，不以为怪。
61. One honest word is better than two oaths. 两句誓言不
如一句实话。
62. 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。
63. One hour today is worth two tomorrow. 今天的一个
小时抵得上明天的两个小时。
64. One love drives out another. 新爱逐旧欢。
65. One man makes a chair and another man sits in it. 坐
享其成。
66. 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。
67. One man's meat is another man's poison. 一个人的佳
肴常为另一人的毒药。
68. One may sooner fall than rise. 跌倒容易爬起难。
69. One may think that dares not speak. 人可思其不敢言
者。
70. One misfortune comes on the neck of another. 祸不单
行。
71. One must draw the line somewhere. 人之所为，总有限
度。
72. One must drink as one brews. 自作自受。
73. One must howl with the wolves. 入乡随俗。
74. One never loses anything by politeness. 有礼貌对自己
不会吃亏。
75. One never loses by doing a good turn. 行善者决无一
失。
76. One penny witgh right is better than a thousand
without right. 合法得来一个钱，胜过非法钱一千。
77. One ploughs, another sow; who will reap no one
knows. 有的耕，有的播，谁来收获很难说。
78. One rotten apple spoils the whole barrel. 一只烂苹果
烂一萝苹果。
79. One should eat to live, not live to eat. 人为生而食，非
为食而生。
80. One sin opens the door for another. 一个罪恶常为另
一个罪恶开门。
81. One's mantle falls on somebody. 春风化雨。
82. One sows another reaps. 不劳而获。
83. One swallow does not make a summer. 一燕不成夏。
84. 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。
85. One today is worth two tomorrows. 今天一天抵明天
两天。
86. One who can do everything can do nothing. 什么都能
做，什么都不行。
87. One woe doth tread upon another's heels. 祸不单行。
88. One wrong (or false) move can lose the whole game.
棋错一著，全盘皆输。
89. One wrong thought may cause a lifelong regret. 一念
之错可铸终生之恨。
90. Only that which is honestly got is gain. 正当的收入才
是真正的收入。
91. Only they who fulfill their duty in everday 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。
92. On the choice of friends. Our good or evil name
depends. 朋友的选择可影响名誉的好坏。
93. 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”。
94. Open confession is good for the soul. 坦白交代，身心
愉快。
95. Open not your door when the devil knocks. 不要受人
的诱惑。
96. Opportunity makes the thief. 疏忽招盗贼。
97. Opportunity seldom knocks twice. 机不可失，失不再
来。
98. 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。
99. Other men live to eat, while I eat to live. 别人为食而
生活，我为生活而食。
100. 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。
101. 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。
102. 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。
103. 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。
104. 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。
105. 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。
106. Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest
thought. 最甜美的的歌是诉说最悲伤的哀思。
107. Out of debt, out of danger. 无债一身轻。
108. Out of sight, out of mind. 久违情疏。眼不见，心不
烦？
109. Overdone is worse than undone. 过犹不及。
P 共78 条
1. Paddle your own canoe. 自立更生，自食其力。
2. Pain is forgotten where gain follows. 好了伤疤忘了痛。
3. Pardoning the bad is injuring the good. 饶了坏人便伤
了好人。
4. Patience and application will carry us through. 忍耐和
努力会使我们度过难关。
5. Patience is a flower that grows not in everyone's
garden. 忍耐是朵花，并非人人园中都开发。
6. Patience is a plaster for all sores. 忍耐是治疗一切伤痛
的药膏。
7. Patience is a virtue. 忍耐是一种美德。
8. Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. 忍耐是苦痛的，
但它的果实是甜蜜的。
9. Patience is the best remedy (or medicine). 忍耐是最好
的药物。
10. Patience, time, and money overcome everything. 耐
心，时间和金钱可以征服一切。
11. Pay somebody back in his own coin. 一报还一报。
12. Peace on earth and good will towards men. 愿世界得
太平，人间持善意。
13. Peace with sword in hand, 'tis safest making. 居安思
危，此乃万全之策。
14. Pen and ink is wit's plough. 笔墨是才智之犁。
15. Penny and penny laid up will be many. 积少成多。
16. Penny wise and pound foolish. 小事聪明，大事糊涂。
17. People do not lack strength; they lack will. 人们不缺
力量，缺的是决心。
18. Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding
the twentieth. 失败十九次，坚持而不动，待到二十次，
大事就成功。
19. Perseverance is vital to success. 不屈不挠是成功之
本。
20. Pitchers/Walls have ears. 隔墙有耳。
21. Pity is akin to love. 怜悯近乎爱情。
22. Plants of learning must be watered with the rain of
tears. 知识的幼苗要用泪雨来浇灌。
23. Pleasant hours fly fast. 欢乐的时间过得快。
24. Pleasing everybody is pleasing nobody. 讨好每个人，
人人不讨好。
25. Pleasure has a sting in its tail. 乐中必有苦。
26. Plenty is no plague. 富裕绝非灾祸。
27. Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive and
widely effective mode of saying things, and hence its
importance. 诗歌只不过是最美丽、最感人、最有力的
说话方式，这也就是诗歌的价值。
28. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
诗人是世上没有得到承认的立法者。
29. Politeness costs nothing and gains everything. 礼貌不
费分文而可赢得一切。
30. Politeness is to do and say the kindest thing in the
kindest way. 文雅就是善良地做事，和善地说话。
31. Poor men's words have little weight. 人微言轻。
32. Poverty breeds strife. 贫穷引起斗争。
33. Poverty is apain, but no disgrace. 贫困是痛苦，但不是
耻辱。
34. Poverty is no shame, laziness is. 贫穷不害羞，懒惰才
可耻。
35. Poverty is no sin. 贫穷不是罪恶。
36. Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is.
贫非耻，耻贫乃耻。
37. Poverty is not a sufficient cause of disgrace, but
poverty without resolution to help oneself is a disgrace.
贫穷并不可耻，穷而不争气才可耻。
38. Poverty is the mother of all arts. 贫困乃一切艺术之
源。
39. Poverty is the mother of health. 缺乏是健康之母。
40. Poverty is the reward of idleness. 贫穷是游手好闲的
报应。
41. Poverty is the root of all evils. 穷困是万恶之源。
42. Poverty on an old man's back is a heavy burden. 老而
贫穷，负担沈重。
43. Poverty shows us who are our friends and who are our
enemies. 贫困才能显出敌和友。
44. Poverty tries friends. 贫穷考验朋友。
45. Practice is better than precept. 身教胜于言教。
46. Practice makes perfect. 熟能生巧。
47. Practice what you preach. 言必行。
48. Praise is not pudding. 恭维不是布丁。
49. Praise makes good men better, and bad men worse. 赞
扬使好人更好，坏人更坏。
50. Praise no man till he is dead. 盖棺论定。
51. Preachers can talk but never teach, Unless they
practise what they preach. 说教的人不身体力行，就只
能空谈，不能起教育作用。
52. Prepare for a rain day. 未雨绸缪。
53. Prevention is better than cure. 预防胜于治疗。
54. Pride and grace dwelt never in one place. 傲慢和温雅
决不会共处在一起。
55. Pride apes humility. 大巧若拙。
56. Pride goes before a fall. (or destruction). 骄兵必败。
57. Pride goeth before, and shame cometh after. 骄傲一开
始，耻辱接踵至。
58. Pride may lurk under a threadbare cloak. 骄傲可能披
著老一套的外衣出现。
59. Pride must be pinched. 骄傲必须收敛。
60. Pride will have a fall. 骄者必败。
61. Procrastination is the thief of time. 拖延即浪费时间。
62. Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of
tomorrow. 进展即今日的活动和明日的保证。
63. Promise is debt. 许愿就是债，欠了不容赖。
64. Promise little but do much. 少许愿，多做事。
65. Prosperity discovers vices and adversity virtues. 顺境
显邪恶，逆境见善性。
66. Prosperity gains (or makes) friends, and adversity
tries them. 顺境交朋友，逆境试真情。
67. Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long
experience. 谚语言短简，得自老经验。
68. Proverbs are the cream of a nation's thought. 谚语是
一国的思想精华。
69. Proverbs are the wisdom of the ages. 谚语是时代的智
慧。
70. Prove thy friends ere thou have need. 需要朋友之前，
先要加以考验。
71. Provide for the worst, the best will save itself. 作最坏
的准备，可以得到最好的结果。
72. Providence is always on the side of the strongest
battalions. 天公总是佑强者。
73. Punctuality is the soul of business. 严守时间是办事情
的重要原则。
74. Purpose supposes foresight. 深谋远虑。
75. Put not your hand between the bark and the tree. 少
管闲事。
76. Put (or Lay or Set) one's shoulder to the wheel. 出一
把力。
77. Put the cart before the horse. 本末倒置。
78. Put the shoe on the right foot. 责备应受责备者，表扬
应受表扬者。
Q 共7 条
1. Quality is better than quantity. 质重于量。
2. Quality matters more than quanity. 质量比数量重要。
3. Quarrels of lovers but renew their love. 情人争争吵
吵，自会言归于好。
4. Quick at meal, quick at work. 吃得快，做得快。
5. Quick feet and busy hands fill the mouth. 手勤脚快，嘴
里吃饱。
6. Quietness is best. 宁静最好。
7. Quietude is the crown of life. 安静是生命的皇冠。
R 共35 条
1. Rain before seven; fine before eleven. 雨过天晴。
2. Rain comes after sunshine, and after a dark cloud, a
clear sky. 晴日之后有雨水，乌云过去见青天。
3. Rats leave (or desert or forsake) a sinking ship. 船沈鼠
先窜。
4. Readiness is all. 有备无患。
5. Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. 读
书养神，锻链健身。
6. Reading makes a full amn, meditation a profound man,
discourse a clear man. 博览群书使人完美无瑕，冥思苦
想让人深刻精邃，论证阐述让人头脑清晰。
7. Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man,
and writing an exact man. 读书使人渊博，交谈使人机
敏，写作使人严谨。
8. Read not books alone, but men. 不要光是读书，还要识
人。
9. Ready money is a ready medicine. 现钱等于成药。
10. Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to
be obtained easily, it must be worked for, studied for,
thought for, and more than all, must be prayed for. 真
正的学问，像其他一切有价值的东西一样，是不容易得
到的，必须学习、钻研、思考，最重要的是必须有迫切
的要求。
11. Reap as (or what) one has sown. 自食其果。
12. Rear sons for help in old age; and store up grains
against famine. 养儿防老。
13. Reason binds the man. 理智约束著人。
14. Reason deceives us often, conscience never. 理性常骗
人，良心永不欺。
15. Reason governs the wise man a cudgels the fool. 理智
指导聪明人，而且打击愚蠢汉。
16. Reason is the guide and light of life. 理智是人生的响
导和光辉。
17. Reason rules all things. 情理管万事。
18. Reckless youth makes rueful age. 虚度青春，悔恨无
已。
19. Remember thou are but a man. 记住你自己只不过是
一个人。
20. Repentance is good, but innocence is better. 悔罪虽
好，无罪更佳。
21. Repetition is the mother of knowledge. 反覆学习是知
识之源。
22. Reputation is often got without merit and lost without
fault. 无功得名是常事，无过失名也是常事。
23. Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without
fail what you resolve. 应该做的决心做，决心做的务必
做。
24. Respect yourself, or no one else will respect you. 君须
