有相当一部分成语可以用英语直接翻译出来，这样非常方便我们记忆。
（1）bad egg坏蛋，歹徒。
Trust him nothing；he is a bad egg。别信他，他是个坏蛋。
（2）crocodile tears鳄鱼的眼泪，假慈悲。
Don’t weep crocodile tears with his misfortune. I know you have always
detested him and are only too happy to see him get into trouble。别假惺惺地为他的不幸难过了，我知道你一直讨厌他，看到他倒霉，心里可高兴哩！
（3）cry wolf呼喊“狼来了”，发假情报。
That politician cries wolf in every speech he makes。那个政治家在他的每篇演说中都发假警报。
（4） （that is） easier said than done说起来容易做起来难。
Easier said than done，let’s pay more attention to practice.
说起来容易做起来难，让我们多注意些实践吧！
（5）fish in troubled waters混水摸鱼，乘人之危。
He’s always been good at fishing in troubled waters; he made a lot
of money by buying houses that were bombed in the war.他总是善于乘人之危大捞一把，他靠购买在战争中遭过轰炸的房屋而赚了大量的钱财。
（6）fish out of water离水之鱼，不得其所。
She felt like a fish of water at the evening party because she knew
no one. 她在晚会上感到很局促，因为她一个人也不认识。
（7）gives someone an inch and he will take an ell得寸进尺。
If you give those people an inch，they’ll take an ell；we told them they
might use our side path to reach their garden，now they have fenced in the
path so that we cannot use it ourselves.那些人就是得寸进尺；我们对他们说，他们可以经过我们的小道进他们的花园，现在他们已在小道上修起了篱笆，以致我们自己也无法走这条小路过去了。
（8）go west上西天，死，失败。
Poor John was one of those who went west in the explosion.可怜的约翰是在这次爆炸中魂归西天的人物之一。
（9）in a word一句话，简而言之
I have no time to tell you the whole story, in a word, they become
hostile to each other。我没时间把全部经过告诉你，一句话，他们相互成了仇敌。
（10）lose face丢脸；失面子。
Certain country often loses face in regard to its relations with small
weak countries on account of its dirty tricks某个国家在与弱小国家交往中因其使用卑鄙手段而总是丢脸。
（11）odds and ends零零碎碎。
What shall we do with all those odds and ends？我们用那些残余的东西可做什么呢？
（12）play with fire玩火，作无谓而危险的事。
He who plays with fire gets burned．玩火者必自焚。
（13）strike while the iron is hot趁热打铁。
Father is in a good mood at the moment．Strike while the iron is hot
and ask him to let you go to the circus.这时父亲的情绪很好，乘此机会求他让你去看马戏。
（14）there’s no smoke without fire无火不冒烟；无风不起浪。
The story is all over the town. It is being spread by someone or by
some people. There’s no smoke without fire.这个传说遍及全城，有人或有些人还在散布。真是无火不冒烟。
（15）a thorn in the flesh （side）肉中刺；棘手的事，不断使某人烦恼的根源。
（l6）The memory of this act will be a thorn in the flesh for the rest
of your life，my boy.这种行动会使你不断引起回忆。使你终生烦恼，我的朋友。
1.铁石心肠cruel and unrelenting
2.置死地于后生a vigorous and manly exertion
3.千秋功业 a great undertaking of lasting importance
4.安居乐业 live in peace and work happily
5.骨肉分离 family separation
6.各得其所 be properly provided for
7.众议纷纭 disagree on
8.岁月不居，来日苦短 Time does not stay as brief as the day.
9.夜长梦多 A long delay may mean trouble.
10.时不我与 Time and tide wait for no man.
11.依时顺势 keep up with the tide
12.日渐没落 being pushed out of business
13.鹬蚌相争 play A off against B
14.浩然之气 noble spirit
15.凤毛麟角 a rarity of the rarities
16.望而生畏 stand in awe before
17.敬而远之 keep respectfully aloof from
18.众矢之的 in the dock
19.毫无瓜葛 be divorced from
20.尔虞我诈 sheer cunning and falsehood
21.备受推崇 be rewarded and respected
22.善有善报，恶有恶报 the good inevitably is successful and the bad inevitably punished
23.其乐融融 sweetness and light
24.义无反顾 feel obliged to
25.物美价廉 attractive in price and quality
26.源源不断 keep flowing in a steady stream
27.滚滚不息 pour into
28.福祉 well-being
29.精华 quintessence
30.阴霾 specter
31.势不两立 pit sth against sth
32.打折扣 wear thin / water down
33.大展宏图 score big points
34.重整旗鼓 shock sth back to life
35.不谋而合 coincide with
36.染指 dip one’s finger in
37.博大精深 both extensive and profound
38.源远流长 long-standing and well-established
39.诸子百家 the masters’ hundred schools
40.天下为公 All under heaven are equal.
41.天下兴亡，匹夫有责 Everybody is responsible for the fate of his country.
42.吃苦耐劳 bear hardships
43.勤俭持家 frugality in household management
44.尊师重教 respect teachers and value education
45.当务之急 highest priority
46.遭受重创 take a heavy toll
47.先见之明 prescient move
48.奇园古宅 exotic gardens and old mansions
49.衣食住行 clothing, food, shelter and transportation
50.信誓旦旦 be poised to
1繁荣昌盛thriving and prosperous
2爱不释手fondle admiringly
3爱财如命skin a flea for its hide
4爱屋及乌love me, love my dog.
He that loves the tree loves the branch
(恨屋及乌： He who hates Peter hates his dog.)
5安居乐业live and work in peace and contentment
6白手起家build up from nothing / build up from scratch /start from scratch
7百里挑一one in a hundred / the cream of the crop
8百折不挠be indomitable
9半途而废give up halfway leave sth. Unfinished
9包罗万象all-embracing all-inclusive
10饱经风霜weather-beaten
11卑躬屈膝bow and scrape cringe
12悲欢离合vicissitudes of life
13背道而驰run counter to run in the opposite direction
14本末倒置put the cart before the horse
14笨鸟先飞the slow need to start early
15必由之路the only way
16闭关自守close the country to international intercourse
17变本加厉be further intensified
18变化无常chop and change fantasticality
19别开生面having sth. New
20别有用心have ulterior motives
21彬彬有礼refined and courteous urbane
22兵不厌诈in war nothing is too deceitful
23博古通今erudite and informed
24不败之地invincible position
25不耻下问feel not ashamed to learn from one’s subordinates
26不可救药be past praying for beyond redemption
27不劳而获reap where one has not sown
28不屈不挠fortitude indefatigability perseverance persevere tenacity
29不速之客crasher uninvited guest
30不同凡响outstanding
31不言而喻speak for itself tell its own story tell its own tale went without saying
32不遗余力spare no effort spare no pains
33不以为然not approve object to
34不义之财filthy lucre/filthy pelf the mammon of unrighteousness
35不亦乐乎extremely
36不远千里go to the trouble of travelling a long distance
37不约而同happen to coincide
38不择手段by any kind of means/by hook or crook/play hard by fair means or foul
39不知所措be at a loss/be all adrift/lose one’s head out of one’s wits
40才疏学浅have little talent and learning
41惨绝人寰extremely cruel
42沧海桑田time brings a great change to the worlds
43沧海一粟/九牛一毛a drop in the bucket
44草木皆兵a state of extreme nervousness
45层出不穷emerge in endlessly
46层峦迭嶂peaks over peaks
47察言观色carefully watch what sb. is doing and saying
48姹紫嫣红very beautiful flowers
49畅行无阻checkless
50车水马龙heavy traffic
51沉默寡言taciturnity
52称心如意well-content
53趁热打铁strike while iron is hot Hold a wolf the iron is hot
54成群结队gang horde
55诚惶诚恐with reverence and awe
56诚心诚意sincere desire
57承上启下a connecting link between the preceding and the following
58吃苦耐劳tough
59吃里扒外live on sb. while helping others secretly
60痴心妄想、胡思乱想wishful thinking
61持之以恒preserve
62叱咤风云ride the whirlwind
63愁眉苦脸pull a long face snoot
64愁眉苦脸的，愁眉苦脸地woebegone 、morosely
65臭名远扬，臭名昭著flagrancy， notorious
66出乎意料unexpected
67出口成章have an outstanding eloquence
68出类拔萃，鹤立鸡群fill the bill supereminence
69出谋划策give counsel suggest
70出奇制胜defeat sb. by a surprise action
71出生入死go through fire and water
72触类旁通comprehend by analogy
73垂头丧气，无精打采 down in the mouth lose one’s spirits with the tail between the legs
74垂头丧气的blue about the gills crestfallen downhearted
75绰绰有余more than sufficient
76此起彼伏as one falls,another rises
77从容不迫go easy take one’s time
78从容不迫的leisured unhurried
79从容不迫地by easy stages
80粗枝大叶careless slapdash sloppy
81粗枝大叶的broad-brush
82措手不及unaware unprepared
83错综复杂、扑朔迷离 anfractuosity
84错综复杂的anfractuous daedal reticula sinuous
85打草惊蛇act rashly and alert the enemy
86大材小用waste one’s talent on a petty job
87大公无私selfless
88大海捞针look for a needle in a bottle of hay
89大惑不解be extremely puzzled
90大惊小怪a storm in a teacup 、foofaraw 、fuss 、like a hen with one chicken
91大惊小怪的spoffish
92大快人心affording general satisfaction
93大名鼎鼎famous well known
94大器晚成great minds mature slowly
95大千世界the boundless universe
96大失所望greatly disappointed
97大同小异largely identical but with minor differences
98大显身手、大显神通strut one’s stuff
99大言不惭、夸夸其谈fanfaronade rodomontade
100大义凛然inspiring awe by upholding justice
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