when

you . 给儿子娶亲，想在什么时候皆可；把女儿嫁人要

在有力量时才行。

54. master should be soetimes blind and sometimes deaf.

不痴不聋，不作阿家翁。

55. measure another's corn by one's own bushel. 以己度

人。

56. measure for measure. 以牙还牙。

57. measure is treasure. 适度是宝。

58. measure thrice before you cut once. 三思而后行。

59. medicines are not meant to live on. 不能靠药物度日

子。

60. men are mortal. 人生自古谁无死。

61. men, at soome time, are masters of their fates. 人有时

是自己命运的主人。

62. 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。

63. men love to hear well of themselves. 阿谀奉承话，人

们皆爱听。

64. men may meet but mountains never. 人生何处不相

逢。

65. men of courage, men of sense, and menof letters are

frequent: but a true gentleman is what one seldom seen.

有勇气，有见识，有学问的人易遇，可是真正的君子难

逢。

66. men too seldom see their own faults. 人们很少能看到

自己的过错。

67. mere words will not fill a bushel. 空言无补。

68. merry is he that hath nought to lose. 人无所失，不亦

乐乎。

69. merry meet, merry part. 好聚好散。

70. method will teach you to win time 方法可教会你赢得

时间。

71. mickle power makes many enemies. 权高树敌多。

72. might is (or makes or overcomes) right. 强权就是公

理。

73. mills of god grind slowly but sure. 天网恢恢，疏而不

漏。

74. miracels are to those who believe in them. 妖由人兴。

75. mischief has swift wings. 飞来横祸。

76. misers put their back and their belly into their pockets.

爱财如命。

77. misery acquaints men with strange bedfellows. 落难

时不择伙伴。

78. misery loves company. 同病相怜。

79. misery makes strange bedfellows. 患难时不择友。

80. misfortune comes on wings and departs on foot. 遭灾

易，消灾难。

81. misfortune is a good teacher. 不幸是良师。

82. misfortunes come at night. 灾祸常生于不测。

83. misforunes come on horseback and go away on foot.

遭灾易，消灾难。

84. misfortunes (or hardships) never (or seldom) come

alone (or singly). 祸不单行。

85. misfortunes tell us what fortune is. 经过灾难方知福。

86. misfortunes test the sincerity of friends. 患难见友情。

87. mock not a cobbler for his black thumbs. 不要嘲笑皮

匠的黑拇指。

88. moderation in all things is the best of rules. 中庸之道

是最好的准则。

89. modesty is not only and ornament, but also a guard to

virtue. 谦逊不仅可增添光彩也可以维护美德。

90. modesty is the ornament of woman. 端庄可为妇女增

添光彩。

91. money answers all things. 金钱是万能的。

92. money begets (or breeds or gets) money. 钱产生钱。

93. money borrowed is soon sorrowed 债台高筑，愁上心

头。

94. money burns a hole in his pocket. 钱到袋里留不住。

95. money calls, but does not stay: it is round and rolls

sway. 金钱会上门，不会留下来，因为是圆的，所以会

滚开。

96. money can buy the devil himself. 有钱能使鬼推磨。

97. money can move even the gods. 有钱能使鬼推磨。

98. money doesn't grow on trees. 钱不是从天上掉下来

的。

99. money has no smell. 金钱无所谓香臭。

100. money is a bottomless sea, in which honour,

conscience, and truth may be drowned. 金钱是无底的

海洋，荣誉、良心和真理都可以淹没在其中。

101. money is a good servant, but a bad master. 金钱是

好的仆役，坏的主人。

102. money is neither good nor bad, but all depends on

what use is made of it. 金钱本身无好坏，要看怎样利用

它。

103. money is often lost for want of money. 往往由于缺

乏金钱而丧失金钱。

104. money is something, but no everything. 金钱能买

到某物，但不是万能的。

105. money is the key that opens all doors. 金钱是打开

一切门户的钥匙。

106. money is the root of all evil. 金钱是万恶之源。

107. money is the sinews of war. 无钱莫打仗。

108. money makes the mare to go. 钱可通神。

109. money often unmakes the men who make it. 为富

不仁。

110. money spent on the brain is never spent in vain. 智

力投资，决非虚掷。

111. money talks. 有钱能讲话。

112. more die by food than by famine. 饥馑而死的少，

饱食而死的多。

113. more haste, less speed. 欲速则不达。

114. more of our worries come from within than from

without. 烦恼发乎内者多于发乎外。

115. more worship the rising than the setting sun. 人都

向旭日膜拜，不向夕阳顶礼。

116. most things have two handles. 大多数事物总有两

种解释。

117. mother's darlings are but milksop heroes. 奶水泡

出懦弱汉。

118. mountains look beautiful from a distance. 远处看

山山更美。

119. much cry and little wool. 雷声大，雨点小。

120. much water runs by the mill that the miller knows

not of. 当前发生诸种事，大多为人所不知。

121. much will have more. 贪得无厌。

122. murder will out. 杀人终必败露。

123. music hath charms to soothe the savage beast. 音

乐有抚凶暴心灵的魅力。

124. music is the eye of the ear. 音乐是耳朵的眼睛。

125. music is the medicine of the breaking heart. 音乐

是医治心灵创伤的妙药。

126. 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。

127. my son is my son, till he hath got him a wife; but

my daughter's my daughter all the days of her life. 儿

子只有在娶妻前是儿子，女儿则终生是女儿。

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1. napolean himself was once a crying baby. 即使是拿破

仑，过去也是啼哭的婴孩。

2. nature abhors a vacuum. 自然界里是没有真空的。

3. nature has given us two ears, two eyes, and but one

tongue, to the end that we should hear and see more

than we speak. 天赋我们两耳，两眼，一张嘴巴，归根

到底该多听，多看，少说话。

4. nature is the glass reflecting truth. 大自然是反应真理

的一面镜子。

5. nature teaches us to love our friends but religion our

enemies. 自然教我们爱朋友，宗教却教我们爱敌人。

6. nature, time, and patience are the three great

physicians. 自然，时间和耐心，是三大伟大的医生。

7. nature will have its course. 天行其道。

8. naughty boys sometimmmes make good men. 顽皮淘

气的男孩子有时成为仁人君子。

9. necessity and oportunity may make a coward valient.

需要和机会可