英语常用谚语总汇(编校好)—P

英语常用谚语总汇—P

■Paddle your own canoe. 自力更生；自食其力。

■Pain is forgotten where gain follows. 好了伤疤忘了痛。

■Pardoning the bad is injuring the good. 饶了坏人便伤了好人。

■Patience and application will carry us through. 忍耐和努力会使我们度过难关。

■Patience is a flower that grows not in everyone’s garden. 忍耐是朵花，并非人人园中都开发。

■Patience is a plaster for all sores. 忍耐是治疗一切伤痛的药膏。

■Patience is a virtue. 忍耐是一种美德。

■Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. 忍耐是苦痛的，但它的果实是甜蜜的。

■Patience is the best remedy . 忍耐是最好的药物。

■Patience, time, and money overcome everything. 耐心，时间和金钱可以征服一切。

■Pay somebody back in his own coin. 一报还一报。

■Peace on earth and good will towards men. 愿世界得太平，人间持善意。

■Peace with sword in hand, ‘tis safest making. 居安思危，此乃万全之策。

■Pen and ink is wit’s plough. 笔墨是才智之犁。

■Penny and penny laid up will be many. 积少成多。

■Penny wise and pound foolish. 小事聪明，大事糊涂。

■People do not lack strength; they lack will. 人们不缺力量，缺的是决心。

■Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth. 失败十九次，坚持而不动，待到二十次，大事就成功。

■Perseverance is vital to success. 不屈不挠是成功之本。

■Pitchers/Walls have ears. 隔墙有耳。

■Pity is akin to love. 怜悯近乎爱情。

■Plants of learning must be watered with the rain of tears. 知识的幼苗要用泪雨来浇灌。

■Pleasant hours fly fast. 欢乐的时间过得快。

■Pleasing everybody is pleasing nobody. 讨好每个人，人人不讨好。

■Pleasure has a sting in its tail. 乐中必有苦。

■Plenty is no plague. 富裕绝非灾祸。

■Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive and widely effective mode of saying things, and hence its importance. 诗歌只不过是最美丽、最感人、最有力的说话方式，这也就是诗歌的价值。

■Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. 诗人是世上没有得到承认的立法者。

■Politeness costs nothing and gains everything. 礼貌不费分文而可赢得一切。

■Politeness is to do and say the kindest thing in the kindest way. 文雅就是善良地做事，和善地说话。

■Poor men’s words have little weight. 人微言轻。

■Poverty breeds strife. 贫穷引起斗争。

■Poverty is a pain, but no disgrace. 贫困是痛苦，但不是耻辱。

■Poverty is no shame, laziness is. 贫穷不害羞，懒惰才可耻。

■Poverty is no sin. 贫穷不是罪恶。

■Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is. 贫非耻，耻贫乃耻。

■Poverty is not a sufficient cause of disgrace, but poverty without resolution to help oneself is a disgrace. 贫穷并不可耻，穷而不争气才可耻。

■Poverty is the mother of all arts. 贫困乃一切艺术之源。

■Poverty is the mother of health. 缺乏是健康之母。

■Poverty is the reward of idleness. 贫穷是游手好闲的报应。

■Poverty is the root of all evils. 穷困是万恶之源。

■Poverty on an old man’s back is a heavy burden. 老而贫穷，负担沈重。

■Poverty shows us who are our friends and who are our enemies. 贫困才能显出敌和友。

■Poverty tries friends. 贫穷考验朋友。

■Practice is better than precept. 身教胜于言教。

■Practice makes perfect. 熟能生巧。

■Practice what you preach. 言必行。

■Praise is not pudding. 恭维不是布丁。

■Praise makes good men better, and bad men worse. 赞扬使好人更好，坏人更坏。

■Praise no man till he is dead. 盖棺论定。

■Preachers can talk but never teach, Unless they practise what they preach. 说教的人不身体力行，就只能空谈，不能起教育作用。

■Prepare for a rain day. 未雨绸缪。

■Prevention is better than cure. 预防胜于治疗。

■Pride and grace dwelt never in one place. 傲慢和温雅决不会共处在一起。

■Pride apes humility. 大巧若拙。

■Pride goes before a fall. . 骄兵必败。

■Pride goeth before, and shame cometh after. 骄傲一开始，耻辱接踵至。

■Pride may lurk under a threadbare cloak. 骄傲可能披著老一套的外衣出现。

■Pride must be pinched. 骄傲必须收敛。

■Pride will have a fall. 骄者必败。

■Procrastination is the thief of time. 拖延即浪费时间。

■Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow. 进展即今日的活动和明日的保证。

■Promise is debt. 许愿就是债，欠了不容赖。

■Promise little but do much. 少许愿，多做事。

■Prosperity discovers vices and adversity virtues. 顺境显邪恶，逆境见善性。

■Prosperity gains friends, and adversity tries them. 顺境交朋友，逆境试真情。

■Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience. 谚语言短简，得自老经验。

■Proverbs are the cream of a nation’s thought. 谚语是一国的思想精华。

■Proverbs are the wisdom of the ages. 谚语是时代的智慧。

■Prove thy friends ere thou have need. 需要朋友之前，先要加以考验。

■Provide for the worst, the best will save itself. 作最坏的准备，可以得到最好的结果。

■Providence is always on the side of the strongest battalions. 天公总是佑强者。

■Punctuality is the soul of business. 严守时间是办事情的重要原则。

■Purpose supposes foresight. 深谋远虑。

■Put not your hand between the bark and the tree. 少管闲事。

■Put one’s shoulder to the wheel. 出一把力。

■Put the cart before the horse. 本末倒置。

■Put the shoe on the right foot. 责备应受责备者，表扬应受表扬者。