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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! Z- @: M2 }% [1,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.
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+ Z+ Z$ w: t# }2,anger and haste hinder good counsel.小不忍则乱大谋
Explanation: one cannot act wisely when one is angry or in a hurry.
Example: you should calm down before you decide the next move. Anger and haste hinder good counsel.

; }" Q3 Y2 O/ i: g( ?4 P/ g/ Q3,every dog has his day .是人皆有出头日
" l5 F& C3 g# Y' ^Explanation: fortune comes to each in turn
Example: they say that every dog has his day; but mine seems a very long time coming.

4,Love is blind.情人眼里出西施
" b/ L/ Z/ ~' ?/ ]Explanation: beauty is a matter of individual taste and judgment. This is often used of a person whose judgment is affected by love or infatuation.
% f2 m8 ^% Y8 |, ~" v/ y# zExample: they say that love is blind when handsome Tom fell in love with poor Jean.
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5,World is but a little place, after all. 天涯原咫尺，到处可逢君。
6 s# z1 K% C! o# ~2 EExplanation: 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.
# q0 @# B# M3 Z7 V0 c4 TExample: 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.
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- X; L* G/ P% w$ j0 H6, When in Rome, do as the Romans do.入乡随俗
9 p2 ?8 H3 c' n8 h  \# w& p. ZExplanation: conform to the manners and customs of those amongst whom you live.
Example: 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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6 w3 Q' Y$ \2 S2 R8 V' ^1,Great minds think alike
2,Good wine needs no bush
. N9 W2 c. `4 D2 M9 `- `* `0 J4 D3,Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.
" r, f- f+ l) ?! u' a5 u3 i4 u& c4,Evil does not always come to injure.
5,A fool may give a wise man counsel.