不要从字面翻译,从句子的意思翻译,试试看
1．比如说"事实胜于雄辩",如果翻译成Facts are better than words,就显得很平乏,并且意思也不明确．因此要翻为Actions（facts) speaks louder than words.
2．比如说”欲速则不达”,如果翻成If you want speed,you will not arrive,别人听是听得懂,只是太烦琐,因此要翻为haste makes waste(haste :n.[U] 急忙,迅速)
当然有些常用的成语或谚语是要靠背的．我下面给你几个,多背背,自然会找到灵感．
条条道路通罗马 All roads lead to Rome
笑里藏刀 The bait hides the hook
物以类聚 Birds of a feather flock together
患难之中见真情 A friend in need is a friend indeed
人人平等 A cat may look at a king
逆境出人才 Adversity makes a man wise,not rich
吃一堑,长一智 A fall into a pit,a gain in your wit
良药苦口 A good medicine tastes bitter
海纳百川 All rivers run into sea.
失之毫厘,差之千里 A miss is as good as a mile
一日之计在于晨 An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening.
76.A word spoken is past recalling.一言既出,驷马难追.
77.A year's plan starts with spring.一年之计在于春.
78.A young idler,an old beggar.少壮不努力,老大徒伤悲.
79.Bad news has wings.好事不出门,坏事传千里.
80.Barking dogs seldom bite.吠犬不咬人.
81.Beauty lies in the love's eyes.情人眼里出西施.
82.Be swift to hear,slow to speak.听宜敏捷,言宜缓行.
83.Better late than never.不怕慢,单怕站.
84.Better to ask the way than go astray.问路总比迷路好.
85.Between friends all is common.朋友之间不分彼此.
86.Birds of a feather flock together.物以类聚,人以群分.
87.Blood is thicker than water.血浓于水.
88.Blood will have blood.血债血偿.
89.Books and friends should be few but good.读书如交友,应求少而精.
90.Business is business.公事公办.
106.Creep before you walk.循序渐进.
107.Cry for the moon.海底捞月.
108.Custom is a second nature.习惯是后天养成的.
109.Custom makes all things easy.有个好习惯,事事皆不难.
110.Diamond cuts diamond.强中自有强中手.
111.Do as the Romans do.入乡随俗.
112.Do as you would be done by.己所不欲,勿施于人.
113.Doing is better than saying.与其挂在嘴上,不如落实在行动上.
114.Do it now.机不可失,时不再来.
115.Do nothing by halves.凡事不可半途而废.
116.Don't claim to know what you don't know.不要不懂装懂.
117.Don't have too many irons in the fire.不要揽事过多.
118.Don't make a mountain out of a molehill.不要小题大做.
119.Don't put off till tomorrow what should be done today.今日事,今日毕.
120.Don't put the cart before the horse.不要本末倒置.
121.Don't trouble trouble until trouble troubles you.不要自找麻烦.
122.Don't try to teach your grandmother to suck eggs.不要班门弄斧.
123.Do well and have well.善有善报.
124.Each bird love to hear himself sing.孤芳自赏.
131.Even Homer sometimes nods.智者千虑,必有一失.
132.Even reckoning makes long friends.亲兄弟,明算账.
133.Every advantage has its disadvantage.有利必有弊.
134.Everybody's business is nobody's business.人人负责,等于没人负责.
135.Every day is not Sunday.好景不常在.
136.Every dog has his day.谁都有得意的时候.
137.Every door may be shut,but death's door.人生在世,唯死难逃.
138.Every heart has its own sorrow.各人有各人的苦恼.
139.Every little helps a mickle.聚沙成塔,集腋成裘.
140.Every man for himself,and the devil takes the hindmost.
人不为己,天诛地灭.
141.Every man has his faults.金无足赤,人无完人.
142.Every man has his hobbyhorse.萝卜青菜,各有所爱.
143.Every man has his weak side.人人都有弱点.
144.Every man is the architect of his own fortune.自己的命运自己掌握.
145.Every minute counts.分秒必争.
146.Every mother's child is handsome.孩子是自己的好.
147.Every potter praises hit pot.王婆卖瓜,自卖自夸.
148.Everything is good when new,but friends when old.东西是新的好,朋友是老的亲.
149.Example is better then percept.说一遍,不如做一遍.
150.Experience is the father of wisdom and memory the mother.经验是智慧之父,记忆是智慧之
母.
151.Experience must be bought.吃一堑,长一智.
152.Fact speak louder than words.事实胜于雄辩.
153.Failure is the mother of success.失败是成功之母.
154.False friends are worse than bitter enemies.明枪易躲,暗箭难防.
155.Far from eye,far from heart.眼不见,心不烦
三番五次 Over and over again
引狼入室 Lets a wolf into the fold
狼吞虎咽 Wolfs down
马马虎虎 Careless
遍体鳞伤 Cut and bruised