Learning Proverbs (1-20)
Posted by: cyanchin on: July 16, 2009
English idioms and Proverbs with their Chinese equivalents
| Idioms or proverbs | Chinese equivalents | |
| 1. | With one accord. | 同心一致 |
| 2. | Adversity reveals genius. | |
| 3. | All within the seas are brothers. | |
| 4. | In apple-pie order. | |
| 5. | Beating round the bush. | |
| 6. | Beauty is a fading flower. | |
| 7. | Beauty is a feast itself. | |
| 8. | Beauty is in the eyes of the behold. | |
| 9. | Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven. /Better to be the head of a /an (ass, cat, dog, lizard) than the tail of a (lion, horse). | |
| 10. | Birds of a feather flock together. |
| 11. | Don’t take two bites a cherry. | |
| 12. | A black sheep. | |
| 13. | To be in blue funk. | |
| 14. | A bolt from the blue. | |
| 15. | To be born with a silver spoon in one’s mouth. | |
| 16. | His bread is buttered on both sides. | |
| 17. | In the board day light. | |
| 18. | Burn not your house to frighten the mice away. | |
| 19. | To burn the candle from both ends. | |
| 20. | A burnt child dreads fire. /He who has been bitten by a snake is afraid of an eel. |
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