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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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.
; T- B# {9 O0 l4 QExample: you complain so much, but you have a good family, parents, health, and money. What’s the odd so long as you’re happy.
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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.

3,every dog has his day .是人皆有出头日
9 d8 R! e# K5 R( a, h5 D2 B1 rExplanation: fortune comes to each in turn
: j& L; e' |4 ~) k5 e2 g% `Example: they say that every dog has his day; but mine seems a very long time coming.

$ L+ P3 O: k. f! R7 Q. q; \1 r4,Love is blind.情人眼里出西施
: U* r) I( C8 _" `: t% [( UExplanation: beauty is a matter of individual taste and judgment. This is often used of a person whose judgment is affected by love or infatuation.
Example: they say that love is blind when handsome Tom fell in love with poor Jean.

* Y8 }- P8 @, Z. [0 h5,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.
4 i! A0 t9 K% v$ J- f: @9 RExample: 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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. j, A7 Y  d6 X0 D6, 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.
' W1 Y6 t# D1 @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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. `: m+ ^- K6 NNow come on! Have a try.
5 A5 t. j# }4 |$ f1,Great minds think alike
2,Good wine needs no bush
$ o  z; m5 a6 F; M3,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.