老外最爱用的中国谚语（二）

曲永华

本期我们继续来看看还有哪些中国谚语是老外最爱用的。

1. A fall into a ditch makes you wiser.

吃一堑长一智。

2. A smile will gain you ten more years of life.

笑一笑十年少。

3. One picture is worth ten thousand words.

百闻不如一见。

4. Once bitten by a snake，he/she is scared all his/her life at the mere sight of a rope.

一朝被蛇咬，十年怕井绳。

5. Things of today，accomplished today.

今日事今日毕。

6. Seize every minute and every second.

争分夺秒。

7. If you are patient in one moment of anger，you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

忍一时风平浪静，退一步海阔天空 / 忍一时之气，免百日之忧。

8. Give a man a fish，and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish，and you feed him for a lifetime.

授人以鱼，不如授人以渔。

9. To talk much and arrive nowhere is the same as climbing a tree to catch a fish.

緣木求鱼。

10. If you don’t want anyone to know it，don’t do it.

若要人不知，除非己莫为。

11. There are many paths to the top of the mountain，but the view is always the same.

殊途同归。

12. Tell me and I forget;show me and I remember. Involve me and I understand.

不闻不若闻之，闻之不若见之;见之不若知之，知之不若行之;学至于行而止矣。

13. While the green hills last，there’ll be wood to burn.

留得青山在，不怕没柴烧。

14. Flowers may bloom again，but a person never has the chance to be young again.

花有重开时，人无再少年。

15. The journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step.

千里之行，始于足下。

16. When you drink from the stream remember the spring.

饮水思源。

17. Your teacher can open the door but you must enter by yourself.

师父领进门，修行靠个人。

18. The friendship of a gentleman is insipid as water.

君子之交淡如水。