and succeeding

the twentieth. 失败十九次，坚持而不动，待到二十次，

大事就成功。

19. perseverance is vital to success. 不屈不挠是成功之

本。

20. pitchers/walls have ears. 隔墙有耳。

21. pity is akin to love. 怜悯近乎爱情。

22. plants of learning must be watered with the rain of

tears. 知识的幼苗要用泪雨来浇灌。

23. pleasant hours fly fast. 欢乐的时间过得快。

24. pleasing everybody is pleasing nobody. 讨好每个人，

人人不讨好。

25. pleasure has a sting in its tail. 乐中必有苦。

26. plenty is no plague. 富裕绝非灾祸。

27. 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。

28. poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

诗人是世上没有得到承认的立法者。

29. politeness costs nothing and gains everything. 礼貌不

费分文而可赢得一切。

30. 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。

31. poor men's words have little weight. 人微言轻。

32. poverty breeds strife. 贫穷引起斗争。

33. poverty is apain, but no disgrace. 贫困是痛苦，但不是

耻辱。

34. poverty is no shame, laziness is. 贫穷不害羞，懒惰才

可耻。

35. poverty is no sin. 贫穷不是罪恶。

36. poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is.

贫非耻，耻贫乃耻。

37. 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。

38. poverty is the mother of all arts. 贫困乃一切艺术之

源。

39. poverty is the mother of health. 缺乏是健康之母。

40. poverty is the reward of idleness. 贫穷是游手好闲的

报应。

41. poverty is the root of all evils. 穷困是万恶之源。

42. poverty on an old man's back is a heavy burden. 老而

贫穷，负担沈重。

43. poverty shows us who are our friends and who are our

enemies. 贫困才能显出敌和友。

44. poverty tries friends. 贫穷考验朋友。

45. practice is better than precept. 身教胜于言教。

46. practice makes perfect. 熟能生巧。

47. practice what you preach. 言必行。

48. praise is not pudding. 恭维不是布丁。

49. praise makes good men better, and bad men worse. 赞

扬使好人更好，坏人更坏。

50. praise no man till he is dead. 盖棺论定。

51. 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。

52. prepare for a rain day. 未雨绸缪。

53. prevention is better than cure. 预防胜于治疗。

54. pride and grace dwelt never in one place. 傲慢和温雅

决不会共处在一起。

55. pride apes humility. 大巧若拙。

56. pride goes before a fall. (or destruction). 骄兵必败。

57. pride goeth before, and shame cometh after. 骄傲一开

始，耻辱接踵至。

58. pride may lurk under a threadbare cloak. 骄傲可能披

著老一套的外衣出现。

59. pride must be pinched. 骄傲必须收敛。

60. pride will have a fall. 骄者必败。

61. procrastination is the thief of time. 拖延即浪费时间。

62. 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。

63. promise is debt. 许愿就是债，欠了不容赖。

64. promise little but do much. 少许愿，多做事。

65. prosperity discovers vices and adversity virtues. 顺境

显邪恶，逆境见善性。

66. prosperity gains (or makes) friends, and adversity

tries them. 顺境交朋友，逆境试真情。

67. proverbs are short sentences drawn from long

experience. 谚语言短简，得自老经验。

68. proverbs are the cream of a nation's thought. 谚语是

一国的思想精华。

69. proverbs are the wisdom of the ages. 谚语是时代的智

慧。

70. prove thy friends ere thou have need. 需要朋友之前，

先要加以考验。

71. provide for the worst, the best will save itself. 作最坏

的准备，可以得到最好的结果。

72. providence is always on the side of the strongest

battalions. 天公总是佑强者。

73. punctuality is the soul of business. 严守时间是办事情

的重要原则。

74. purpose supposes foresight. 深谋远虑。

75. put not your hand between the bark and the tree. 少

管闲事。

76. put (or lay or set) one's shoulder to the wheel. 出一

把力。

77. put the cart before the horse. 本末倒置。

78. put the shoe on the right foot. 责备应受责备者，表扬

应受表扬者。

q 共7 条

1. quality is better than quantity. 质重于量。

2. quality matters more than quanity. 质量比数量重要。

3. quarrels of lovers but renew their love. 情人争争吵

吵，自会言归于好。

4. quick at meal, quick at work. 吃得快，做得快。

5. quick feet and busy hands fill the mouth. 手勤脚快，嘴

里吃饱。

6. quietness is best. 宁静最好。

7. quietude is the crown of life. 安静是生命的皇冠。

r 共35 条

1. rain before seven; fine before eleven. 雨过天晴。

2. rain comes after sunshine, and after a dark cloud, a

clear sky. 晴日之后有雨水，乌云过去见青天。

3. rats leave (or desert or forsake) a sinking ship. 船沈鼠

先窜。

4. readiness is all. 有备无患。

5. reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. 读

书养神，锻链健身。

6. reading makes a full amn, meditation a profound man,

discourse a clear man. 博览群书使人完美无瑕，冥思苦

想让人深刻精邃，论证阐述让人头脑清晰。

7. reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man,

and writing an exact man. 读书使人渊博，交谈使人机

敏，写作使人严谨。

8. read not books alone, but men. 不要光是读书，还要识

人。

9. ready money is a ready medicine. 现钱等于成药。

10. real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to

be obtained easily, it must be worked for, studied for,

thought for, and more than all, must be prayed for. 真

正的学问，像其他一切有价值的东西一样，是不容易得

到的，必须学习、钻研、思考，最重要的是必须有迫切

的要求。

11. reap as (or what) one has sown. 自食其果。

12. rear sons for help in old age; and store up grains

against famine. 养儿防老。

13. reason binds the man. 理智约束著人。

14. reason deceives us often, conscience never. 理性常骗

人，良心永不欺。

15. reason governs the wise man a cudge