典故英文(英語中常用的典故)
1.英語中常用的典故
1. Practice makes perfect.熟能生巧。
2. God helps those who help themselves.天助自助者
3. Easier said than done.說起來容易做起來難。
4. Slow and steady wins the race.穩(wěn)扎穩(wěn)打無往而不勝。
5. A fall into the pit, a gain in your wit.吃一塹，長一智。
6. Where there is a will,there is a way.有志者事竟成。
7. One false step will make a great difference.失之毫厘，謬之千里。
8. It's never too old to learn.活到老，學(xué)到老。
9. All that glitters is not gold.閃光的未必都是金子。
10. Experience is the mother of wisdom.實(shí)踐出真知。
11. All work and no play makes jack a dull boy.只工作不休息，聰明孩子也變傻。
12. Beauty without virtue is a rose without fragrance.無德之美猶如沒有香味的玫瑰，徒有其表。
13. More hasty,less speed.欲速則不達(dá)。
14. Rome was not built in a day.偉業(yè)非一日之功。
15. Great minds think alike.英雄所見略同。
16. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.千里之行始于足下。
17. Look before you leap.三思而后行。
18. Facts speak plainer than words.事實(shí)勝于雄辯。
19. Call back white and white back.顛倒黑白。
20. well begun,half done.好的開始等于成功的一半。
21. It is hard to please all.眾口難調(diào)。
22. Ill news travels fast.壞事傳千里。
23. Out of sight,out of mind.眼不見，心不念。
24. Beauty will buy no beef.漂亮不能當(dāng)飯吃。
25. Like and like make good friends.趣味相投。
26. First things first.凡事有輕重緩急。
27. A friend in need is a friend indeed.患難見真情。
28. To live is to learn,to learn is to better live.活著為了學(xué)習(xí)，學(xué)習(xí)為了更好的活著。
29. live not to eat,but eat to live.活著不是為了吃飯，吃飯為了活著。
30. Action speaks louder than words.行動(dòng)勝過語言。
31. East or west,home is the best.金窩銀窩不如自家草窩。
32. It's not the gay coat that makes the gentleman.君子在德不在衣。
33. An idle youth,a needy age.少壯不努力，老大徒傷悲。
34. As the tree,so the fruit.種瓜得瓜，種豆得豆。
35. The older, the wiser.姜是老的辣。
2.請(qǐng)教一句帶有典故的英文句子的意思
我是這樣理解，希望也能幫助你理解。
他們沒有一位像伊俄拉俄斯這樣的朋友來用燒紅的烙鐵來切斷九頭蛇的頭的根部，所以只能眼睜睜看著它一個(gè)頭被粉碎，又迅速長出另一個(gè)頭來。
burn with a hot iron the root of the hydra's head 其實(shí)就是
burn the root of the hydra's head with a hot iron用燒紅的烙鐵來切斷九頭蛇的頭的根部
這樣說你應(yīng)該能理解吧？
理解這個(gè)句子需要知道點(diǎn)典故哦，順便說下吧
九頭蛇在希臘神話中的名稱是九頭蛇許德拉，許德拉是堤豐和厄喀德那所生的女兒。她是在阿耳哥利斯的勒那沼澤地里長大的，常常爬到岸上，糟蹋莊稼，危害牲畜。她兇猛異常，身軀碩大無比，是個(gè)九頭的蛇怪，其中八個(gè)頭可以殺死，而第九個(gè)頭，即中間直立的一個(gè)卻是殺不死的。這個(gè)畜生最后也是被英雄赫拉克勒斯所殺，英雄的助手伊俄拉俄斯在戰(zhàn)斗中用熊熊燃燒的樹枝灼燒被英雄砍下來但是又剛長出來的蛇頭，不讓它長大，赫拉克勒斯則乘機(jī)砍下許德拉的那顆不死的頭，將它埋在路旁，上面壓著一塊沉重的石頭。接著，他又把蛇身劈作兩段，并把箭浸泡在有毒的蛇血里。從此以后，中了他箭的敵人再也無藥可醫(yī)。
3.15個(gè)英語小故事（含中文 越短越好
1.The Ox and the Dog An ox and a dog serve for the same farmer.One day the dog arrogantly says: “How grand I am! In the daytime, I watch out for the cattle in the meadows; at night, I guard the house. But you…” “Me? How about me ?” the ox says “You can only plough or draw a cart,” the dog slightly says. “Yes. It's true,” the ox says. “But if I don't plough, what do you guard？” 一頭牛和一只狗同時(shí)為一個(gè)農(nóng)夫工作。
狗驕傲地說著；'我是多么重要?。“滋煳以谀翀?chǎng)看護(hù)家群，晚上我看家。而你呢…..？” “我？我怎么啦？“ 牛反問。
“你只會(huì)犁地或是拉扯。”狗不懈地說。
“是的。你說得沒有錯(cuò)，”?；卮鸬?。
“但是如果沒有我犁地，你看護(hù)什么呢？”2. A Good Boy Little Robert asked his mother for two cents. "What did you do with the money I gave you yesterday?" "I gave it to a poor old woman," he answered. "You're a good boy," said the mother proudly. "Here are two cents more. But why are you so interested in the old woman?" "She is the one who sells the candy." 【中文譯文】 好孩子 小羅伯特向媽媽要兩分錢。“昨天給你的錢干什么了？” “我給了一個(gè)可憐的老太婆，”他回答說。
“你真是個(gè)好孩子，”媽媽驕傲地說?！霸俳o你兩分錢。
可你為什么對(duì)那位老太太那么感興趣呢？” “她是個(gè)賣糖果的?！?.tooth extraction “I'm sorry ,Madam ,but I shall have to charge you twenty dollars for pulling your boy's tooth .” “Twenty d ollars! Why ,I understand you to say that you charged only four dollars for such work!” “Yes,but this youngster yelled so terribly that he scared four other patients out of the office .” 拔牙 “對(duì)不起，夫人，為您孩子拔牙我要收取20美元。”
“20美元！為什么？不是說好只要4美元。” “是的，但是你的孩子大喊大叫，把另外四個(gè)病人嚇跑了。”
4. One morning a fox saw a cock.He thought,"This is my breakfast.'' He came up to the cock and said,"I know you can sing very well.Can you sing for me?''The cock was glad.He closes his eyes and began to sing.The fox saw that and caught him in his mouth and carried him away. The people in the field saw the fox.They cried,"Look,look!The fox is carrying the cock away.'' The cock said to the fox,"Mr Fox,do you understand?The people say you are carrying their cock away.Tell them it is yours.Not theirs.'' The fox opened his mouth and said,"The cock is mine,not yours.''Just then the cock ran away from the fox and fled into the tree. 一天早上，一只狐貍看到了一只公雞。他想：這是我的早餐。
他朝公雞走來，對(duì)他說：“我知道，你能唱得非常好聽，你能唱給我聽么？”公雞很高興。他閉上眼睛開始唱歌。
狐貍看到這些抓住它放到自己的嘴里走了。 在田地里的人們看到了狐貍。
大喊大叫：“看，看！狐貍抓住公雞逃走了?！惫u對(duì)狐貍說：“狐貍先生，你能理解么？人們認(rèn)為你叼走了公雞。
告訴他們這是你的，不是他們的?！? 狐貍張開她的嘴說：“公雞是我的，不是你們的。”
就在那時(shí)，公雞逃離了狐貍的嘴巴，跑到了樹底下。5. Making His Mark “刻舟求劍” A man from the state of Chu was taking a boat across a river when he dropped his sword into the water carelessly. Immediately he made a mark on the side of the boat where the sword dropped, hoping to find it later. When the boat stopped moving, he went into the water to search for his sword at the place where he had marked the boat. As we know, the boat had moved but the sword had not. Isn't this a very foolish way to look for a sword？楚國有個(gè)人坐船渡江時(shí)，他不小心把自己的一把寶劍掉落江中。
他馬上掏出一把小刀，在寶劍落水的船舷上刻上一個(gè)記號(hào)。船靠岸后，那楚人立即從船上刻記號(hào)的地方跳下水去撈取掉落的寶劍。
他怎么找得到 寶劍呢？船繼續(xù)行駛，而寶劍卻不會(huì)再移動(dòng)。像他這樣去找劍，真是太愚蠢可笑了。
6. 狗屋 The Dog' House 英語小故事大道理：It's easy to put off today what can be done tomorrow. 人們總是今天吧今天應(yīng)做的事拖到明天 In the wintertime, a Dog curled up in as small a space as possible on account of the cold, determined to make himself a house. However when the summer returned again, he lay asleep stretched at his full length and appeared to himself to be of a great size. Now he considered that it would be neither an easy nor a necessary work to make himself such a house as would accommodate him.英語小故事帶翻譯： 冬天時(shí)，有一只狗由于寒冷，盡可能地把身子蜷成一團(tuán)，他下決心一定要為自己建一所房子?？墒窍奶斓絹淼臅r(shí)候，狗伸直了身子躺著睡覺，把身體盡可能伸展開。
現(xiàn)在 他覺得為自己建個(gè)適合自己的房子來住實(shí)在不容易，也沒有那個(gè)必要。7.Sleeping Pills Bob was having trouble getting to sleep at night. He went to see his doctor, who prescribed some extra-strong sleeping pills. Sunday night Bob 。
4.簡(jiǎn)潔的成語故事（英文版）
A man from the State of Zheng bought shoes)Once upon a time , a man in the State of Zheng went to the market to buy a pair of shoes. Before he left for the market, he had measured his feet with a piece me straw. However , he couldn't find the measurement because he had left it at home . So he had to say sorry to the owner that he had to go home for it, which confused the owner why he didn't try the shoes on with his own feet . The man smiled to the owner , " I would rather believe in the measuremens than my own feet."。
5.哪里有關(guān)于英語典故的文章
The Dog in the Manger出自《伊索寓言》（Aesop's Fables），有一篇狗站馬槽的故事，說的是一頭狗躺在堆滿稻草的馬槽里，狗是不吃草的動(dòng)物，而當(dāng)馬或牛一走進(jìn)稻草時(shí)，這頭狗卻朝著馬，牛狂哮，不準(zhǔn)食草動(dòng)物享用。
因此，“狗站馬槽”就成了一個(gè)家喻戶曉的成語而進(jìn)入英語中，常用來比喻a person who prevents others from enjoying sth that is useless to himself; a churlish fellow who will neither use a thing himself nor let others use it，諷刺那些占據(jù)說職位或某些物質(zhì)卻不做事的人。
The Dog in the Manger is a fable attributed to Aesop, concerning a dog who one afternoon lay down to sleep in the manger. On being awoken, he ferociously kept the cattle in the farm from eating the hay on which he chose to sleep, even though he was unable to eat it himself, leading an ox to mutter the moral of the fable:
People often begrudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.
The phrase is proverbial, referring to people who prevent others from having something that they themselves have no use for. A typical example is the child who discards a toy — until a sibling tries to play with it. Then the first child becomes possessive about something they no longer wanted.
A twist on the story was used by Charles Schulz in a "Peanuts" strip, in which Lucy van Pelt acquires a baseball card of Charlie Brown's favorite player, and she refuses to give it to him. After he leaves disconsolately, she decides she doesn't really like the card that well, and throws it away.
In Spanish, the story is called El Perro del Hortelano, or The Vegetable Gardener's Dog.
The metaphor is also attributed to Jesus in The Gospel of Thomas by comparing the dog with the Pharisees.
e a Helen of Troy in her family. Because of this she and her husband quarreled for a long time.4.The Trojan horse: the hidden danger; the covert wreckers; to engage in underhand activitiesThe superpowers are always sending the Trojan Horses to many countries in the world.They are defeated only because of the Trojan horse to many countries in the world.They are defeated only because of the Trojan horse in their country.5.Greek Gifts:a gift with some sinister purpose of the enemy. A gift sent in order to murder somebody. = when the fox preaches, take care of your geese.1.he is always buying you expensive clothes, I'm afraid they are Greek gifts for you.2.Comrades, be on guard against the Greek gifts.6.A Penelope's web, the web of Penelope:a chaste woman, a Penelope's web, the tactics of delaying sth on purpose; the task that can never be finished.1. Mr. Jones made a long speech at the meeting. Everyone else though it a Penelope's web.7.Swan Song: black swan. A last or fare well appearance; the last work before death.1. all the tickets have been sold for the singer's performance in London this week----the public clearly believes that this will be her swan song.2. The Tempest was Shakespeare's swan song in 1612.3. before turning over the gavel, he delivered the swan song as chairman of the board.4. this building turned out to be the swan song of Victorian architecture.8.Win/gain laurels: to win reputation; to acquire honor.9.To look to one's laurels: to beware of losing one's reputation; to keep one's record from being beaten by others. 衛(wèi)冕。
7.古代歷史故事 英文70詞
Hou-yi Shoots the Suns.
In the Hsia period,there was once 10 suns in the sky.A hunter named Hou-yi shot down 9 suns with arrows,hence relieving people of the misery.Thus there is only 1 sun left. He then became the ruler,but he soon became a tyrant obssessed with immortality. His wife Chang-Er,out of concern of for the people, ate the elixir of everlasting life,to prevent him from doing so..because she knew an immortal Hou-yi would mean hardship for the people, After taking it, she flew to the moon & stayed there to become the moon fairy goddess-princess & this is a folk myth which praises her kindness & virtues.It is the origin of the Mid-Autumm Festival,that includes the worshipping of the moon & eating mooncakes.It's also believed that she had a jade rabbit as companion & later fell in love with the woodcutter god Wu Gang who was sent to the moon & made to cut trees which can never be chopped off forever.They lived happily ever after.
