高考英语作文谚语与名言荟萃 Lesson 4 Knowledge and Wisdom知识与智慧 清单-2026届高三英语上学期一轮复习专项

高考英语作文谚语与名言荟萃 Lesson 4 Knowledge and Wisdom知识与智慧 A good book is a light to the soul. ［译］好书一本，照亮心灵。 A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever. ［译］好书如挚友，情谊永不渝。 A good marksman may miss. ［译］智者千虑，必有一失。 A little learning is a dangerous thing. ［注解］这是18世纪英国著名古典主义诗人亚历山大·薄柏广为流传的诗句。 ［译］学问浅薄，如履薄冰。 A man becomes learned by asking questions. ［注解］要长学问，就得多问。 ［译］不耻下问才能有学问。 A still tongue makes a wise head. ［译］智者寡言，寡言为智。 A useful trade is a mine of gold. ［译］一技在身犹如金矿在手。 A wise man is strong. ［译］智者乃强者。 A word to the wise is enough (or sufficient). ［译］聪明人一点就通。 An empty sack cannot stand upright. ［注解］袋子里有粮食才能直立，人要吃了饭才能生活；指穷困潦倒常使人丧失一切精神和美德。汉语中的“空袋立不直”是比喻“没有真才实学就站不稳脚跟”。 ［译］空袋子，立不直。 Better sense in the head than cents in the pocket. ［译］口袋里有钱，不如头脑里有知识。 Better unborn than untaught. ［译］生而不教，不如不生。 Books are ships that pass through the vast sea of time. ［译］书籍是时光这一汪洋大海中的航船。 Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom. ［译］书籍是储藏智慧的不灭明灯。 Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. ［译］读书如交友，应求少而精。 Bread nourishes the body, and books enrich the mind. ［译］面包营养身体，书却丰富头脑。 By reading we enrich the mind, by conversation we polish it. ［译］读书能充实思想，交谈使其更臻完美。 Cats hide their paws. ［译］大智若愚，大巧若拙。 Choose an author as you choose a friend. ［译］选书如择友。 Circumstances are the rulers of the weak, instrument of the wise. ［译］弱者困于环境，智者利用环境。 Don't claim to know what you don't know. ［译］不要不懂装懂。 Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom. ［译］怀疑乃明智的开端，不是结束。 Doubt is the key of knowledge. ［译］怀疑是知识之门的钥匙。 Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him. ［注解］培养上流人士从教育入手，经过社交使之日趋完美。 ［译］人的教养始于教育，成于社交。 Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. ［注解］语出George Macaulay Trevelyan，英国历史学家特里维廉。 ［译］教育造就了一大批人，他们会读书，但是不会区别什么书值得读。 Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance. ［注解］语出Durant，美国历史学家杜兰特。 ［译］教育是一个逐步发现自己无知的过程。 Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught. ［注解］语出Oscar Wilde，英国剧作家奥斯卡·王尔德。 ［译］教育是令人羡慕的东西，但是要不时地记住：凡是值得知道的，没有一个是能够教会的。 Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire. ［注解］语出William Butler Yeats，爱尔兰诗人叶芝。 ［译］教育不是注满一桶水，而是点燃一把火。 Education is the transmission of civilization. ［注解］语出Will Drant，美国历史学家、散文家杜兰特。 ［译］教育传播文明。 Empty vessels make the greatest sound. ［注解］empty vessels空铁桶，指的是无知而愚蠢的人（ignorant stupid people），与汉语里的半瓶水，半瓶醋（指学问不多，一知半解的人）喻义相似。空桶响声大，指这种人爱讲话，聪明或有学问的人反而不这样，满瓶水不响；半瓶响丁当。 ［译］半瓶水容易荡。 Experience is a school from which one can never graduate. ［译］经验无止境。 Experience is the mother of wisdom. ［注解］语出Franklin（富兰克林）。 ［译］智慧来自经验。 Experience without learning is better than learning without experience. ［注解］语出Bertuand Russell，英国哲学家、数学家罗素。 ［译］有经验而无学问，胜于有学问而无经验。 Fear always springs from ignorance. ［译］恐惧源于无知。 Foolish fear doubleth danger. ［注解］doubleth = doubles 使……加倍。 ［译］愚蠢的恐怖更加危险。 Folly and learning often dwell together. ［译］博学常与愚行同存。 Fools and bairns should not see half-done work. ［注解］本句是苏格兰谚语，用bairns代指children。指愚人和小孩往往被现象所迷惑，不会以发展的观点看事物。直译为：活儿只完成一半，傻子和孩子都不能看。 ［译］傻子和孩子看不到将来的成就和发展。 Fools are of flittin. ( = Fond of moving.) ［注解］此谚语指那些没有正当理由而搬家、调动工作或改变情况的人。同义谚语还有：Fools are fain of flitting, and wise man of sitting. 愚者爱变动，智者喜固定。flittin=flitting迁移，搬走。fain乐意。 ［译］傻子闲不住，总爱搬来搬去；蠢人爱见异思迁。 Fools grow without watering. ［译］朽木不可雕。 Fools have best luck. ［译］傻瓜有好运；傻人有傻福。 Fools lade out all the water and wise men take the fish. ［注解］lade out舀干水。 ［译］蠢人舀干水，智者来捉鱼。 Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much from fools. ［译］愚者不学无术，智者不耻下问。 Fools make feasts and wise men eat them. ［注解］昔日在苏格兰一位杰出人物举行的宴会上，有人对他说了此谚语，他回答说：“Wise men make proverbs and fools repeat them.”智者编写格言，愚者只能复述。比喻愚者总是被聪明人利用。 ［译］愚者设宴，智者赴宴。 Fools never know when they are well off. ［注解］well off幸福，安康。 ［译］傻瓜永远不知道他们何时能享福。 Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. ［注解］rush in where angels fear to tread鲁莽地干预与己无关之事。angels 指聪明人。 ［译］天使畏惧处，愚人敢闯入；智者深思熟虑，愚者办事莽撞。 Fools tie knots and wise men loose them. ［注解］有人把事情搞糟了，需要智者给予正确解决时常用此谚语。 ［译］傻子打了结，智者来松开；愚者找麻烦，智者来解围。 Four eyes see more than two. ［注解］人多眼亮，人多智广。比喻集思广益。 ［译］四只眼总比两只眼看得清楚。 Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. ［译］施人以惠，不如授之以道。 Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide. ［注解］allied同源的，性质上有密切联系的。bound用复数，意为界线，范围。 ［译］有智慧就有愚蠢，彼此相隔仅薄纸一层。 Half a tale is enough for a wise man. ［译］聪明人凡事只需听一半，就会明白究竟。 Handsome is that (or as ) handsome does. ［注解］第一个handsome作名词，第二个起副词作用。handsome不仅指外表漂亮，有风度，还指慷慨大方。此谚语比喻内心漂亮才是真正漂亮。 ［译］行为漂亮才是真漂亮。 He is wise that knows when he's well enough. ［注解］这是极少人能达到的高度智慧。 ［译］知足的人是聪明的人。 He knows most who speaks least. ［译］博学者寡于言。 He knows much who knows how to hold his tongue. ［注解］hold one's tongue保持沉默，闭口不言。比喻慎言者是聪明人。 ［译］懂得缄默的人是明白人。 He that boasts of his own knowledge proclaims ignorance. ［译］夸耀知识实乃无知。 He that knows nothing, doubts nothing. ［注解］此谚语极好地表明了愚者的心迹。 ［译］无知就无疑。 He that travels far knows much. ［注解］比喻人行千里路，胜读十年书。 ［译］远行者见多识广。 He who by reanimating the old can gain knowledge of the new is fit to be a teacher. ［注解］语出中国古代哲学家、教育家孔子。 ［译］温故而知新，可以为师矣。 He who is ashamed of asking is ashamed of learning. ［注解］源自丹麦语。害羞不问，哪来学问？ ［译］畏于问者必耻于学。 He who knows most knows best how little he knows. ［译］知识越多就越明白自己懂得太少。 I would rather be a poor man in a garret with plenty of good books to read than a king who did not love reading ［译］宁为穷汉住阁楼，拥有好书任我读，不愿身居帝王位，纵有好书不爱读。 If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. ［注解］语出Franklin（富兰克林）。 ［译］如果一个人倾其所有钱财求学问，那么所求的学问谁也拿不走。 If you do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old. ［译］年轻不求知，年老无福享。 If you want knowledge, you must toil for it. ［译］要想求知，就得吃苦。 Imagination is more important than knowledge. ［注解］语出Albert Einstein，美国科学家爱因斯坦。 ［译］想像力比知识更重要。 Imagination is sometimes more vivid than reality. ［译］想像有时比现实生动得多。 It is a silly goose that comes to the fox's sermon. ［注解］sermon布道，说教。 ［译］只有呆鹅才去听狐狸说教。 It is a wise father that knows his own child. ［注解］语出莎士比亚《威尼斯商人》第2幕第2场。这是一句比较古老的谚语。莎士比亚时代的用法，和现代英语的用法不同，它不是强调结构。不能照字面译。 中国虽有“知子莫若父”的古话，但莎翁这句英文的意思却适得其反。 ［译］无论怎样聪明的父亲也不见得知道他自己的儿子。（钱歌川译） It is a wise man that never makes mistakes. ［译］智者千虑，必有一失。 It is absurd to ape our betters. ［注解］语出伊索寓言《猴子和骆驼》。Betters（人和事物）较好者，较优越者。ape模仿。此句似含有“东施效颦”之意。 ［译］天生笨拙者硬要模仿机灵人的行动，实在太愚蠢。 It is wisdom sometimes to seem fool. ［译］有时糊涂是智慧的表示；大智若愚；难得糊涂。 Know something of everything and everything of something. ［注解］意指一个人既要有一般常识，又要有专业知识。 ［译］通百艺而精于一；通百艺而专一长。 Knowledge advances by steps and not by leaps. ［译］知识的获取应循序渐进，不能跃进。 Knowledge comes from experience alone. ［译］知识来自实践；实践才能出真知。 Knowledge in youth is wisdom in age. ［译］少时有知识，老来有智慧。 Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it. ［译］知识是宝库，实践是钥匙。 Knowledge is folly, except grace guide it. ［译］除非有良好的指导，否则知识就会胡闹。 Knowledge is more than equivalent to force. ［译］知识的力量远远超过武力。 Knowledge is no burden. ［译］知识并非负担：知识再多不压身。 Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. ［注解］语出英国诗人、评论家Samuel Johnson（约翰逊）。 ［译］知识有两种：我们通晓某一科目，或者我们晓得在什么地方能找到有关某一科目的知识。 Knowledge is power. ［注解］语出Bacon（培根）。 ［译］知识就是力量。 Knowledge is the antidote to fear. ［注解］antidote 解毒药。 ［译］知识是恐惧的解药。 Knowledge makes humble, ignorance makes proud. ［译］博学使人谦逊，无知使人骄傲。 Knowledge makes one laugh, but wealth makes one dance. ［译］知识使人欢笑，财富使人舞蹈。 Knowledge without practice makes but half an artist. ［译］未经实践的知识，只能成为半个行家；光学不实践，知识不全面。 Learn young, learn fair. ［译］学习趁年轻，既学就学好。 Learning without thought is labour lost; thought without learning is perilous. ［注解］语出孔子。 ［译］学而不思则罔，思而不学则殆。 Life is short, art is long. ［译］人生短暂，而学问无穷。 Listen to what is wise and try to understand it. ［注解］语出《圣经·箴言》第2章第2节。 ［译］侧耳听智慧，专心求聪明。 Live and learn. (or We live and learn. or We are to learn as long as we live. or It is never too old to learn.) ［注解］指人的一生可以学到许多有用或令人惊奇的东西；经验是良师，活得愈久，学得愈多。活着总有可学的东西。 ［译］活到老，学到老；学无止境。 Live to learn and learn to live. ［译］生而学之，学而生之。 Money spent on the brain is never spent in vain. ［注解］in vain 徒劳，白费。指智力投资绝非浪费。 ［译］智力投资，决非虚掷。 No man (or one) is born wise or learned, it's his upbringing that counts. ［译］人非生而知之，乃学而知之。 Nothing is so necessary for travelers as languages. ［译］外出旅行，语言最要紧。 Nurture is above nature. ［注解］nurture教育，养育。 ［译］教育胜过天赋。 Proverbs are the wisdom of the ages. ［译］谚语是时代的智慧。 Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. ［译］读书养神，锻炼健身。 Reading makes a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. ［注解］这是培根的一句名言。 ［译］读书使人充实，交谈使人机敏，写作使人严谨。 Repetition is the mother of knowledge. ［译］反复学习是知识之源。 Some are wise and some are otherwise. ［译］有些人聪明，有些人则不然。 Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. ［注解］语出Francis Bacon Of Studies 弗郎西斯·培根《论读书》。 ［译］书有可浅尝者，有可吞食者，少数则须咀嚼消化。 Someone who is sure of himself does not talk all time. People who stay calm have real insight. ［注解］语出《圣经·箴言》第17章第27节。 ［译］寡言少语的有知识，性情温良的有智慧。 Studies serve for delight, for ornament and, for ability. ［注解］语出Francis Bacon Of Studies 弗郎西斯·培根《论读书》。 ［译］读书足以怡情，足以博彩，足以长才。 Study to be what you wish to seem. ［译］学习可使你成为自己所理想的人。 Take a pain for a pleasure all wise men can. ［译］智者能视苦为乐。 The ass waggeth his ears. ［注解］waggeth = wags. ［译］驴子摇耳朵，傻瓜装聪明。 The devil knows many things because he is old. ［译］老马识途。 The eye is blind if the mind is absent. ［译］心不专则眼不明。 The fool talks, and the wise man thinks. ［译］蠢人嘴巴讲，聪明人用心想。 The German's wit is in his fingers. ［译］德国人的智慧体现在手指上。 The greatest clerks are not the wisest men. ［注解］出自拉丁语。clerk职员，办事员。在此句中意为scholar，学者。 ［译］最伟大的学者不一定都是最精明的人；学问最多未必智慧也最多。 The less wit a man has, the less he knows that he wants it. ［译］头脑越无知，越不懂得自己缺少才智。 The love of money and the love of learning rarely meet. ［译］勤学与贪财，两者合不来；贪财不爱学，勤学不贪财。 The lowly are most intelligent; the elite are most ignorant. ［注解］lowly作形容词，前面加the指卑贱、低下的人。the elite 高贵者。 ［译］卑贱者最聪明，高贵者最愚蠢。 The more a man learns, the more he sees his ignorance. ［注解］出自中国《礼记》。 ［译］学然后知不足。 The pen is mightier than the sword. ［注解］指文字要比武力具有更大的威力。 ［译］笔比剑更锋利；文能胜武。 The readers need never know lonely hours so long as they have books around them, and the better the books the more delightful the company. ［译］只要手头有书，读书人就从来不知寂寞。书越好，读来越是津津有味。 The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way, but the folly of fools is deceit. ［注解］语出《圣经·箴言》第14章第8节。prudent谨慎的，深谋远虑的。deceit欺诈。 ［译］通达人的智慧，在乎明白己道；愚昧人的愚妄，乃是诡诈。 The wise get all the knowledge they can, but when fools speak, trouble is not far off. ［注解］语出《圣经·箴言》第10章第14节。 ［译］智慧人积存知识，愚妄人的口速致败坏。 The wise head doth not all that the foolish mouth speaks. ［译］巧手不按蠢嘴说的办。 The wise man draws more advantage from his enemies than a fool from his friends. ［译］智者从敌人身上得到的利益比愚者向朋友学到的要多。 The wise man is always a good listener. ［译］智者善听人言。 The wise man knows he knows nothing, the fool thinks he knows all. ［译］清者自清，浊者自浊。 The wise man must carry the fool on his shoulders. ［译］聪明人必须把傻子扛在肩上；蠢人是智者的负担。 The wiser head gives in. ［译］聪明人懂得退让。 There is no royal road to learning. ［注解］the royal road指国王经过的路——御道总是修得特别平坦好走，畅通无阻。所以a royal road to anything意为做成某事的皇家大道，指不费劲又无阻力的道路；而知识必须靠苦学才能获得，并无一蹴而就的捷径或坦途可走。 ［译］书山有路勤为径，学海无涯苦作舟。 Through wisdom is a house built, and by understanding it is established. ［注解］语出《圣经·箴言》第24章第3节。 ［译］房屋因智慧建造，又因聪明立稳。 To a wise man one word is enough.(or A word is enough to the wise.) ［注解］出自拉丁语。 ［译］智者一言已足；明理人不用细说。 To listen is to learn, and to understand is to inspire. ［译］聆听就是学习，理解就能激发灵感。 Too much knowledge makes the head bald. ［译］学问太多催人老。 True wisdom is know what is best worth knowing, and to do what is best worth doing. ［译］真正的智慧是知道最值得知道的事情和做最值得做的事情。 Two heads are better than one. ［注解］指集思广益。 ［译］三个臭皮匠，赛过诸葛亮。 Want is the whetstone of wit. ［译］贫穷是智慧的磨刀石。 Want of wit is worse than want of wealth (or gear). ［译］没有智慧比贫穷更糟；宁可贫穷，不可无知。 We learn not at school, but in life. ［注解］出自拉丁语。 ［译］我们不在学校中学习，但须在生活中学习。 What is learnt in the cradle lasts (or is carried) to the grave. ［译］儿时所学，终生难忘。 What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul. ［注解］sculpture雕刻。 ［译］教育对于心灵，犹如雕刻之于大理石。 What the fool does in the end, the wise man does at the beginning. ［注解］指愚者总把必须做的事拖延到最后才做，而智者一开始就认真干，直到完成。 ［译］智者一开始就认真做，愚者磨磨蹭蹭往后拖。 What we first learn, we best know. ［译］少年所学，记忆最佳。 When a nation sins, it will have one ruler after another. But a nation will be strong and endure when it has intelligent, sensible leaders. ［注解］语出《圣经·箴言》第28章第2节。 ［译］邦国因有罪过，君王就多更换；国有聪明灵敏的人，国必长存。 When a wise man cheats someone, he is acting like a fool. If you take bribe, you ruin your character. ［注解］语出《圣经·传道书》第7章第7节。 ［译］勒索使聪明人变得愚妄；贿赂能败坏人的德行。 When the moon's in the full, then wit's in the wane. ［注解］wane减少，衰弱。in the wane减少中。 ［译］月儿圆圆智慧短。 Who learneth young forgets not when he is old. ［译］少小所学，到老不忘。 Who knows most says (or speaks ) least. ［译］懂得多者说得少；智者寡言。 Wine can of their wits the wise beguile, make the sage frolic, and the serious smile. ［注解］beguile诱惑。sage贤人，哲人。frolic（古）嬉戏的，快乐的。serious严肃的，认真的。语出英国著名古典主义诗人亚历山大·薄柏。 ［译］智者饮酒才智来，贤人哲士尽开颜。 Wisdom is a fountain of life to the wise, but trying to educate stupid people is a waste of time. ［注解］语出《圣经·箴言》第16章第22节。 ［译］人有智慧就有生命的源泉，企图教育愚昧人是浪费时间。 Wisdom is more valuable than jewels; nothing you could want can compare with it. ［注解］语出《圣经·箴言》第3章第5节。 ［译］智慧比珍珠宝贵，你一切所喜爱的，都不足以与它比较。 Wisdom is only found in truth. ［译］惟有在真理中才能找到智慧。 Wisdom sometimes walks in clouted shoes. ［注解］wisdom知识，学问，哲人。clouted有补丁的，（鞋等）打了铁掌的。 ［译］贤人哲士求学问，穿鞋还得打补丁；行万里路，破万卷书。 Wise men are caught with wiles. ［注解］指世上没有足智多谋到不受欺骗的人。wile诡计，奸计。 ［译］智者也会受蒙骗；智者也有上当时。 Wise men care not for what they cannot have. ［译］智者对自己得不到的东西并不在乎；智者遇事豁达大度，即使有智力局限，也能达观处事。 Wise men have their mouths in their hearts, fools have their hearts in their mouths. ［译］智者嘴在心里，愚者心在嘴里。 Wise men learn by other men's mistakes; fools, by their own. ［注解］出自拉丁语。 ［译］智者能以别人的错误为借鉴；而愚者只吸取自身错误的教训。 Wise men love truth, whereas fools shun it. ［注解］shun回避，躲开。 ［译］智者爱真理，愚者却回避。 Wise men propose, and fools determine. ［注解］determine（古）按规定目标行事。 ［译］智者出谋划策，愚者照章办事。 Wise men will gain an honourable reputation, but stupid men will only add to their own disgrace. ［注解］语出《圣经·箴言》第3章第35节。 ［译］智慧人必承受尊荣，愚昧人高升也成为羞辱。 Wit once bought is worth twice taught. (or Wit bought is better than wit taught.) ［译］付出代价长一智，胜过别人教两次；亲身体验胜过老师教导。 Without wisdom, wealth is worthless. ［译］人若无智慧，财产如粪土。 Zeal without knowledge is fire without light. ［译］热情而无知，犹如有火不发光。 Zeal without knowledge is the sister of folly. ［译］无知的热情近乎愚蠢。 1 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $$