英汉俚语，谚语对照欣赏

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要想学习地道的英语，就涉及到英语中俚语，谚语的理解。其实，语言都是相通的，如果从汉语中能找到英语俚语，谚语的对应说法，那么，你就觉得英语也没什么了不起的；如果能举一反三，那么你的英语就更上一层楼了。
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( L9 _0 `9 |4 H. x1,What are the odds(成败的机会) so long as you are happy.知足者常乐
Explanation: what does anything else matter if a person is happy.
Example: you complain so much, but you have a good family, parents, health, and money. What’s the odd so long as you’re happy.

2,anger and haste hinder good counsel.小不忍则乱大谋
4 Y% N/ B/ c, l" NExplanation: one cannot act wisely when one is angry or in a hurry.
+ E* v2 Q! f9 z5 A7 L* L) OExample: you should calm down before you decide the next move. Anger and haste hinder good counsel.
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; j+ d' Z; ^! O2 }  f3,every dog has his day .是人皆有出头日
Explanation: fortune comes to each in turn
Example: they say that every dog has his day; but mine seems a very long time coming.
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4,Love is blind.情人眼里出西施
. y0 }* ^# F% R5 x- [: |6 hExplanation: beauty is a matter of individual taste and judgment. This is often used of a person whose judgment is affected by love or infatuation.
0 F$ N5 e$ f4 M7 @# J+ S: q5 W+ dExample: they say that love is blind when handsome Tom fell in love with poor Jean.
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  z* d( k6 M+ E/ k2 p  i8 P9 t5,World is but a little place, after all. 天涯原咫尺，到处可逢君。
Explanation: it is used when a person meets someone he knows or is in someway connected with him in a place where he would never have expected to do so.
* x! I1 ]( ^; e5 O: m9 z6 wExample: Who would have thought I would bump into an old schoolmate on a trek up Mount Tai. The world is but a little place after all.

0 a; ?( Y4 J" _6, When in Rome, do as the Romans do.入乡随俗
Explanation: conform to the manners and customs of those amongst whom you live.
6 V+ j* h. p* j7 u. p# WExample: I know you have egg and bacon for breakfast at home, but now you are on the Continent you will do as the Romans do and take coffee and rolls.

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; |4 B- F3 P+ e6 C1,Great minds think alike
. H. w1 z  `$ y8 w; b7 P2 D% v4 t2,Good wine needs no bush
) S# u, z9 i; C: G: q3,Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.
4,Evil does not always come to injure.
5,A fool may give a wise man counsel.