常见中国俗语的英译方法
俚语和谚语是英语学习中的一大绊脚石。我们不明白这些俗语的含义，是因为我们和英语国家的文化背景不同。如果能在汉语中为这些俗语找到对应的说法，问题就解决了。我们向你介绍一些英汉合璧的俚语和谚语，帮助你的英语学习更上一层楼。
1.After meat, mustard; after death, doctor .
雨后送伞
Explanation: this describes a situation where assistance or comfort is given when it is too late.
学习啦在线学习网 Example: just as I had cancelled my application to go abroad, I had a promise of money for my fare. It was a case of after death, the doctor.
2. After praising the wine they sell us vinegar.
挂羊头卖狗肉
Explanation: to offer to give or sell something that is inferior to what you claim it to be.
Example: that fellow completely misled us about what he was capable of doing. After praising the wine, he sold us vinegar.
3. All is over but the shouting.
大势已去
Explanation: finally decided or won; brought to the end; not able to be changed.
学习啦在线学习网 Example: after Bill’s touch down, the game is all over but shouting.
学习啦在线学习网 4. All lay load on the willing horse.
人善被人欺，马善被人骑
Explanation: a willing horse is someone who is always doing things for others. Very often the implication is that others impose on him.
Examples: the trouble is you’re too good-natured and people take advantage of it. all lay load on the willing horse. You will have to learn to refuse people who ask too much.
5.Anger and haste hinder good counsel.
小不忍则乱大谋
学习啦在线学习网 Explanation: one can not act wisely when one is angry or in a hurry.
学习啦在线学习网 Example: you should calm down before you decide the next move. Anger and haste hinder good counsel.
6. As poor as a church mouse
一贫如洗
学习啦在线学习网 Explanation: to be exceedingly poor, having barely to live upon.
学习啦在线学习网 Example: he has a large family, and is poor as a church mouse.
Note: a church is one of the few buildings that contain no food.
学习啦在线学习网 7. A word spoken is past recalling.
学习啦在线学习网 一言既出，驷马难追
学习啦在线学习网 Explanation: the harm done by a careless word can not easily undo.
学习啦在线学习网 Example: for the rest of his life he regretted what he had said, but a word spoken is past recalling and he knew he could never repair the damage of that moment of harshness.
8. World is but a little place, after all.
学习啦在线学习网 天涯原咫尺，到处可逢君
Explanation: it is used when a person meets someone he knows or is in someway connected with him in a place where he would never have expected to do so.
Example: Who would have thought I would bump into an old schoolmate on a trek up Mount Tai. The world is but a little place after all.
学习啦在线学习网 9. When in Rome, do as the Romans do.
入乡随俗
学习啦在线学习网 Explanation: conform to the manners and customs of those amongst whom you live.
学习啦在线学习网 Example: I know you have egg and bacon for breakfast at home, but now you are on the Continent you will do as the Romans do and take coffee and rolls.
10. What you lose on the swings you get back on the roundabouts.
失之东隅，收之桑榆
学习啦在线学习网 Explanation: a rough way of starting a law of average; if you have bad luck on one day you have good on another; if one venture results in loss try a fresh one---it may succeed.
Example: he may always possess merits which make up for everything; if he loses on the swings, he may win on the roundabouts.
学习啦在线学习网 11. What are the odds so long as you are happy.
知足者常乐
Explanation: what does anything else matter if a person is happy.
学习啦在线学习网 Example: you complain so much, but you have a good family, parents, health, and money. What’s the odd so long as you’re happy.
学习啦在线学习网 12.Entertain an angel unawares.
有眼不识泰山
Explanation: to receive a great personage as a guest without knowing his merits.
Example: in the course of evening someone informed her that she was entertaining an angel unawares, in the shape of a composer of the greatest promise
学习啦在线学习网 13. Every dog has his day .
是人皆有出头日
Explanation: fortune comes to each in turn
Example: they say that every dog has his day; but mine seems a very long time coming.
学习啦在线学习网 14. Every potter praises his own pot.
学习啦在线学习网 王婆买瓜，自卖自夸
学习啦在线学习网 Explanation: people are loath to refer to defects in their possessions or their family members