經(jīng)典諺語:道德與思想-P

Pain is the price that God puts upon all things.
［譯］辛勞是上帝給所有東西加上的價格。
Patience is a flower that grows not in everyone's garden.
［注解］比喻忍耐并非人人都能做到。
［譯］忍耐是朵花，并非人人園中都種它。
Patience is a plaster for all sores.
［注解］plaster膏藥。比喻忍耐能減輕一切痛苦。
［譯］忍耐是治療一切傷痛的藥膏。
Patience is a virtue.
［譯］耐心是一種美德。
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
［注解］語出Jean Jacques Rousseau，法國思想家盧梭。
［譯］忍耐是痛苦的，但它的果實是甜蜜的。
Patience is the best remedy (or medicine).
［譯］忍耐是最好的藥物。
Patience overcomes all things.
［譯］忍耐能征服一切。
People learn from one another, just as iron sharpens iron.
［注解］語出《圣經(jīng)·箴言》第27章第17節(jié)。
［譯］鐵磨鐵，磨出刃來，人們互相學習，也是如此。
People who are proud will soon be disgraced. It is wiser to be modest.
［注解］語出《圣經(jīng)·箴言》第11章第2節(jié)。disgrace丟臉，恥辱。
［譯］驕傲來，羞恥也來，謙虛才是明智之舉。
Personality is to man what perfume is to a flower.
［譯］人格之于人如同芳香之于花。
Pride and grace dwell never in one place.
［譯］傲慢和溫文爾雅決不會共處在一起；驕傲與高雅永遠不融洽。
Pride goes before a fall. (or Pride will have never left his master without a fall.)
［注解］在莎士比亞的戲劇《查理二世》第5幕第5場中有：Would he not stumble? Would he not fall down? —Since pride must have a fall. 他不會踉蹌嗎？他不會失足倒地嗎？驕傲必會遭到傾覆。（朱生豪譯）
［譯］驕傲之后要摔跤；驕者必敗。
Pride must be pinched.
［注解］pinch這里表示“使……萎縮”。
［譯］驕傲必須收斂。
Prosperity discovers vices and adversity virtues.
［譯］順境顯邪惡，逆境見善德。