初级商务英语(BEC)实用谚语200句08
11.A cock is bold on his dunghill.站在粪堆上,公鸡也称王。
12.A barley-corn is better than a diamond to a cock.
对一只公鸡来说,一颗麦粒优于一颗钻石。
13.He that will have his farm full,must keep an old cock and a young bull.
想使农庄充裕,就得养一只老公鸡和一头小公牛。
14.If the hen does not prate,she will not lay.
不叨叨的母鸡不下蛋。
15.It is no good hen that cackles in your house and lays in another's.
这样的母鸡可不好:在你家里咯咯叫,却到别家去下蛋。
16.Fat hens lay few eggs.
肥鸡下蛋稀。
17.Grain by grain,and the hen fills her belly.
一颗接一颗,母鸡填饱肚。
18.A duck will not always dabble in the same gutter.
一只鸭子不会常在同一条沟中玩水。
19.It is a blind silly gooes that comes to the fox's sermon.
只有盲目的笨鹅才会去听狐狸讲道。
20.What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
适用于甲的也适用于乙。
21.All his geese are swans.
他喜欢夸大其词;敝帚自珍。
22.All your swans are geese.
你的美好希望(或诺言),全部成了泡影。
23.Each bird likes to hear himself sing.
每一只鸟都爱听自己歌唱。
24.The bird loves her nest.
鸟爱自己的窝。
25.Birds of a feather flock together.
物以类聚,人以群分。
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