英译: Chinese Idioms ( From: qiuqiu04 及众网友 )

最近qiuqiu04 问了很多很好的中国成语及俗语,我作了一个总结,以便于大家查阅.

一个和尚挑水喝,两个和尚担水喝,三个和尚没水喝
One boy is a boy, two boys half a boy, three boys no boy.

冰冻三尺,非一日之寒
Ice three feet thick is not due to one day's cold.
Rome was not built in one day.

忠言逆耳利于行，良药苦口利于病
Unpleasant advice, like bitter medicine, has wholesome effect.
A sincere advice which jars on the ear benefits one's conduct; a good medicine which tastes bitter cures the disease.

脱了裤子放屁--多此一举
Pants down to（let forth a）fart——trouble for nothing.

别占着茅坑不拉屎
Don't occupy the stool,but not to shit （or without shitting）。

和尚打伞，无法无天
I'm above the law.
I take the law into my own hands.

得了便宜还卖乖
Take one's undeserved gain for granted

得寸进尺
贪得无厌
gained but still demanding

上梁不正下梁歪
If the upper beam is not in the right position, the lower ones will be inclined to one side

三天打鱼，两天晒网
Go fishing for three days and dry the nets for two .
lack of perseverance

祸从口出，言多必失
A misfortune (or trouble) comes from a careless talk (mouth).
Mistakes come out of too much talking.

天生我才必有用
I was born to be useful .
A diamond hiding in the earth will surely be discovered one day.

死猪不怕开水烫
Dead pigs do not suffer in boiling water .

千里之行，始于足下
A journey of a thousand miles starts from the very first step .

这山望着那山高
The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence .

烫手的土豆
Hot potato

他说话酸溜溜的
He is very sarcastic.

掌上明珠
the apple of one's eyes

尖酸刻薄
sharp tongue

小心眼儿
narrow minded

螳螂扑蝉，黄雀在后
The preying mantis catches the cicada, without notice of the canary behind

闻过则喜
Criticism is highly welcomed

玩物丧志
Indulgence in a hobby ruins the will

机关算尽太聪明，反误了卿卿性命
Trying to be too smart in the political trickery, you have adversely ended in a fatal loss.

With all your clever calculation and intrigues, you have brought about nothing but your own doom.