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A collection of English proverbs M-

Maids want nothing but husbands, but when they have them they want everything. 未婚女子只要夫,有夫之后要一切。

Make a hog or a dog of it. 物尽其用。

Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can.尽力而为,尽力节约,尽力施舍。

Make bricks without straw.巧妇难为无米之炊。

Make much of what you have.物尽其用。

Make not mickle of little. 勿小题大做。

Make the best of a bad business(job,bargain).身处山穷水尽,力争柳暗花明。

Man does what he can, and God what he will.人尽力,神尽意。

Man does not live bread only.精神与食物同样重要。

Man has not a greater enemy than himself. 人之大敌,自己而已。

Man is a god or a devil to his neighbour.一个人对其邻居来说,不是上帝就是魔鬼。

Man is a tool-using animal.人是用器之兽。

Man is a wolf to man.人心狠毒,人要吃人。


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03 de dez. de 2018

Men in born unto trouble, as the aparks fly upwards. 天有不测风云,人有旦夕祸福。

Men know where they were born, not where they shall die. 人能知其生于何地,不能知其死于何方。

Men may meet but mountains never. 山与山不相遇,人与人总相逢。

Money is a bottomless sea, in which honour, conscience and truth may be drowned. 金钱之海深无底,淹没荣誉、良心和真理。

Money is the sinews of war. 金钱是战争的命脉。

Money spent on the brain is never spent in vain 智力投资决不会白花。

Most things have two handles. 多数事物都有两种解释。

Music has charms to soothe the savage beast. 音乐有抚凶暴心灵的魅力。

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. 音乐可洗去灵魂中日常生活所沾染的污垢。

My tongue is the pen of a ready writer. 口若悬河。

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willer
willer
01 de dez. de 2018

March winds and April showers bring forth May flowers. 三月风四月雨,迎来五月花儿开。

Marriage!Nothing else demands so much from a man! 结婚!没有什么比结婚对人要求更多的了。

Marry a wife of thine own degree. 娶妻应与己般配。

May bees don't fly this mouth. “也许”的事从来就不是好事。

Measure another's corn by one's own bushel. 以己度人。

Measure for measure. 以牙还牙。

Medicines are not meant to live on. 不可指望靠吃药生活。

Meekness is not weakness. 忍让并非软弱。

Men are blind in their own cause. 当局者迷。

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willer
01 de dez. de 2018

Many go out for wool and come home shorn. 偷鸡不成反倒蚀把米。

Many little strokes fell down strong oaks. 醉翁之意不在酒。

Many men have many minds. 人多心不齐。

Many receive advice only the wise profit by it. 聆忠言者众,惟智者获益。

Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it. 海枯石烂心不变。

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough. 外强中干。

March comes in with adder heads, and goes out with peacock tails. 三月来如毒蛇头,去如孔雀尾。

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willer
willer
01 de dez. de 2018

Man is not the creature of circumstances; circumstances are the creature of man. 并非时势造人,而是人造时势。

Man is the artificer of his own happiness. 幸福靠自己。

Man is to man either a god or a wolf. 人与人交往,不是上帝就是狼。

Man proposes, God disposes. 谋事在人,成事在天。

Man will conquer nature. 人定胜天。

Man,woman,and devil are the three degrees of comparison.男人、女人、魔鬼,三个等级分贵贱。

Man's best plans often miscarry. 人算不如天算。

Man's foes shall be they of his own household. 祸起萧墙。

Man's heart devises his way: but the Lord directs his steps. 谋事在人,成事在天。

Manlike is it to fall into sin, fiendlike is it to dwell therein. 罪恶之渊,是人皆会坠入,是鬼长居其中。

Many a fine dish has nothing on it. 虚有其表。

Many a one says well that thinks ill. 不少人是口是心非。

Many a slip between the cup and the lip. 凡事皆有不测风云。/失之交臂。

Many a true word is spoken in jest. 戏言寓真理。

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