英文写作手册中文翻译(10)

祸福相依 风风雨雨 乱七八糟 to mind one’s P’s and Q’s 谨言慎行 6.Sayings

One man’s meat is another man’s poison. 萝卜青菜各有所爱 A stitch in time saves nine. 小洞不补大洞吃苦 Take it or leave it. 取舍自便、不要讨价还价

Don’t count your chickens before they are hatched. 不要过早的乐观

First catch your hare, then cook it. 先把野兔抓住，然后再吃

To run after two hares, you can catch neither. 不要三心二意、脚踏两只船必定落空 When the cat’s away, the mice will play. 山中无老虎，猴子称大王；猫不在，鼠成精 Jack of all trades and master of none. Grasp all, lose all. 样样通，样样不精 Man proposes, God disposes. 谋事在人，成事在天

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Once bite/bitten, twice shy. 一朝被蛇咬，十年怕井绳 A fall into the pit, a gain in your wit. 吃一堑，长一智

The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak. 力不从心；心有余而力不足 Where there is a will, there is a way. 有志者事竟成

When there is life, there is hope. 世上无难事，只怕有心人 The child is father of the man. 三岁看到老

There is no smoke without fire. 无风不起浪、无烟不起火

Don’t you see the writing on the wall? 难道你不知道要大难临头了吗？ No cross, no crown. 吃得苦中苦、方为人上人 As you sow, so will you reap. 种瓜得瓜，种豆得豆 An idle youth, a needy age. 少壮不努力，老大徒伤悲

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Follow love, and it will flee; flee love, and it will pursue. 有心栽花花不开，无心插柳柳成荫 Many a pickle makes a nickel. 积少成多

Money makes the mare to go. 有钱能使鬼推磨 Ⅴ. Figures of Speech 五、修辞格

Words used in their original meanings are used literary, while words used in extended meanings for the purpose of making comparisons or calling up pictures in the reader’s or listener’s mind are used figuratively.

词汇使用原义应用于文学作品，当为了作比喻或唤起读者、听众脑中的记忆而象征时，要使用引申义。

As a Chinese idiom goes,“With all its beauty the peony needs the green of its leaves to set it off.”The rich and colorful content of writing can be expressed through such artistic devices as figures of speech, which contribute much to its expressive and emotional power.

例如一个汉语习语说，“With all its beauty the peony needs the green of its leaves to set it off.（牡丹虽好尚需绿叶陪衬）” 通过如此艺术的手法、以有助于增加表现力和感染力的修辞形式，

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表达出丰富而生动的写作内容。

A knowledge of various figures of speech commonly used in writing will help us not only to appreciate beauty of language, but also learn to use the various rhetorical figures in our own writing.

通常用于写作的各种修辞格知识，不仅有助于语言的审美，还使我们学会了在写作中使用各种修辞形式。

The most common of figures of speech are the following: 如下是最常用的修辞格： 1.Simile明喻

Simile is a direct comparison, in which subject, reference and indicator of resemblance are all present, its formula being:

Subject +indicator of resemblance +reference.

明喻是一种直接比喻，其中的本体、喻体和相似的指示词全部用现在时，其公式是：

本体+相似的指示词+喻体 Time flies like an arrow.光阴似箭。

One day apart seems like three years.一日不见，如隔三秋。 like a duck to water如鱼得水 as dry as saw dust枯燥无味 like a cat on hot bricks热锅上的蚂蚁

He is something of a musician/a political chameleon. 他有点像音乐家/政治变色龙。

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soft as dove’s down——William Shakespeare free as mountain winds (Ibid.)

象鸽子绒毛一样柔软——威廉?莎士比亚如山风般自由(如上)

rapid as the shadow of a cloud——Thomas Hardy 如云影般迅速——托马斯?哈迪

happy as a rose tree in sunshine——William M. Thackeray 如阳光下的玫瑰树般快乐——威廉?梅克皮斯?萨克雷 I wandered lonely as a cloud——William Wordsworth 我像一朵云般孤独地漫游——威廉?沃兹沃斯

A Red, Red Rose 一朵红红的玫瑰

O my luve’s like a red, red, rose, That’s newly sprung in June; O my luve’s like the melodie

That’s sweetly played in tune.

As fair art thou, my bonnie lass, So deep in luve am I; And I will luve thee still, my dear, Till a’ the seas gang dry.

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