每种语言都有一些生动有趣的词汇，用以形容人的不同特性。在英语中，许多单词都可以表示一个意思，但用法却有不同。
美国的成语或俗语和其他语言一样同生活中的各个方面有关，如果不记清楚他们的用法，生活中难免会遇到些让你意想不到的尴尬与笑话。
所以今天，藤麦就来盘点一下，那些常用的美国谚语/短句list，快快学起来吧~
短句
- It’s up in the air
- 悬而未决
- For old times sake
- 看在旧日关系的面子上
- Knock it off
- 少来这一套
- That will be the day
- 好透了，求之不得
- Over my dead body!
- 休想
- I got a big kick out of it.
- 令人过瘾
- Are you pulling my leg?
- 你在开我玩笑么？
- Neck and neck
- 不分上下
- If I were in your shoes
- 异地而处
- Time will tell
- 事情终将明朗化的
- Let’s play it by ear
- 见机行事
- I’m up to my ears in work
- 忙的不可开交
俗语
- Children should be seen but not be heard.
- 大人说话，小孩别插嘴。
- A tale never loses in telling.
- 故事越传越长。
- Do not quarrel with your bread and butter.
- 不要自砸饭碗。
- The cheap buyer takes bad meat.
- 便宜没好货。
- Short pleasure, long lament.
- 痛快一时，痛苦一世。
- Ill news flies apace.
- 恶事传千里。
- When one will not, two cannot quarrel.
- 一个巴掌拍不响。
- When wine sinks, words swim.
- 美酒一下肚，话匣关不住。
- Money is the root of all evil.
- 金钱是万恶之源。
- Merry meet, merry part.
- 好聚好散。
- He that begins many things, finishes but few.
- 贪多嚼不烂。
- A still tongue makes a wise head.
- 寡言为智。
- Fortune favours fools.
- 傻人有傻福。
- Among the blinds the one-eyed man is king.
- 山中无老虎，猴子称大王。
- Let bygones be bygones.
- 多一事不如少一事。
谚语
- A straw will show which way the wind blows.
- 草动知风向。
- Lookers-on see most of the game.
- 旁观者清，当局者迷。
- Every bean hath its black.
- 人孰无过？
- Diamond cut diamond.
- 棋逢对手，将遇良才。
- He that travels far knows much.
- 远行者，见识广。
- If a man once fall, all will tread on him.
- 人倒众人踩。
- A fair death honours the whole life.
- 死得其所，流芳百世。
- Grasp all, lose all.
- 欲尽得，必尽失。
- The day has eyes, the night has ears.
- 若要人不知，除非己莫为。
- Go while the going is good.
- 此时不走，更待何时？
- The fox may grow grey, but never good.
- 江山易改，本性难移。
- Love me, love my dog.
- 爱屋及乌。
- Misfortunes never come singly.
- 祸不单行。
- Practice makes perfect.
- 熟能生巧。
- Hedge have eyes and walls have ears.
- 篱笆有眼，墙壁长耳。
- What is done by night appears by day.
- 若要人不知，除非己莫为。
多多了解英语里各种常见的idiom，俗语和谚语，不仅能帮助大家真正的融入英语文化，运用得当的话，也能使得自己的英文更地道更“本土化”！
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