Labour is light where love doth pay.
[譯]愛(ài)情作酬報(bào),勞苦必輕松。
Leave virtue and kindness to your children instead of property. Only this can bring happiness to them. This is my experience.
[譯]留給你的孩子美德和仁慈,而不是財(cái)產(chǎn)。只有這樣才能給他們帶來(lái)幸福,這是我的經(jīng)驗(yàn)。
Let beggars match with beggars.
[譯]龍配龍,鳳配鳳。
Life is a flower of which love is the honey.
[譯]人生是花朵,愛(ài)情是花蜜。
Life is ten percent what you make it and ninety percent how you take it.
[譯]生活有10%在于你如何塑造它,有90%在于你如何對(duì)待它。
Love all, trust a few, be false to none.
[譯]要愛(ài)一切人,相信少數(shù)人,不要負(fù)于任何人。
Love alone can release the power of the atom so it will work for man and not against him.
[譯]只有愛(ài)才能使原子的力量造福人類,而非危害人類。
Love and business teach eloquence.
[譯]戀情和經(jīng)商能培養(yǎng)人的口才。
Love and cough cannot be hid.
[譯]愛(ài)情和咳嗽是不能掩飾的。
Love asks faith, and faith asks firmness.
[譯]愛(ài)情要求忠誠(chéng),而忠誠(chéng)要求堅(jiān)貞。
Love begets love.
[注解]源于拉丁語(yǔ)。
[譯]情生情,愛(ài)生愛(ài);愛(ài)愛(ài)相生。
Love can turn the cottage into a golden palace.
[譯]愛(ài)情可使茅屋成為金碧輝煌的宮殿。
Love cannot be forced.
[譯]愛(ài)情不能強(qiáng)求。
Love fears no danger.
[譯]愛(ài)情不怕危險(xiǎn)。
Love is a sweet torment.
[注解]torment痛苦,煩惱。
[譯]愛(ài)情是一種甜蜜的折磨。
Love is a sweet tyranny, because the lover endures his torment willingly.
[注解]tyranny暴政,暴虐。
[譯]愛(ài)情是甜蜜的暴政,情人心甘情愿地忍受它的折磨。
Love is blind.
[注解]羅馬神話中愛(ài)神丘比特,攜帶著弓箭,誰(shuí)中他的箭就會(huì)發(fā)生愛(ài)情,指愛(ài)情使人對(duì)缺點(diǎn)視而不見。
[譯]愛(ài)情是盲目的。
Love is frail at birth, but it grows stronger with age if it is properly fed.
[譯]愛(ài)在起始階段是脆弱的,但如果悉心呵護(hù),它會(huì)隨著時(shí)間的推移而牢固起來(lái)。
Love is full of trouble.
[譯]愛(ài)情多煩惱。
Love is like the moon; when it does not increase it decreases.
[譯]愛(ài)情像月亮,不盈即虧。
Love is never without jealousy.
[譯]有愛(ài)情就有忌妒。
Love is not to be found in the market.
[譯]愛(ài)情在市場(chǎng)上是找不到的。
Love is stronger than death.
[譯]愛(ài)的力量大于死亡。
Love is sweet in the beginning but sour in the ending.
[譯]愛(ài)情開始甜絲絲,愛(ài)情結(jié)束酸溜溜。
Love is the active concern for the life and the growth of that which we love.
[譯]愛(ài)是對(duì)那些為我們所愛(ài)的人或物的生活、成長(zhǎng)積極主動(dòng)的關(guān)心。
Love is the touchstone of virtue.
[譯]愛(ài)情是美德的試金石。
Love is the true price of love.
[譯]愛(ài)是愛(ài)情的真正代價(jià);愛(ài)情只能用愛(ài)情來(lái)報(bào)答。
Love is without reason.
[譯]愛(ài)情無(wú)理智。
Love laughs at locksmiths.
[注解]指愛(ài)情鎖不住。
[譯]愛(ài)情嘲笑鎖匠。
Love lives in cottages as well as in courts.
[譯]愛(ài)情無(wú)貴賤,貧富皆有之。
Love looks with telescope; envy with microscope.
[譯]愛(ài)情大處著眼,忌妒吹毛求疵。
Love makes all hard hearts gentle.
[譯]愛(ài)情把一切冷酷的心變得溫柔。
Love makes obedience easy.
[譯]愛(ài)情使服從變?yōu)橐资隆?br />
Love makes one fit for any work.
[譯]愛(ài)情使人適合干任何工作;有了愛(ài)情,干什么活兒都順心。
Love me little and love me long.
[注解]這是對(duì)“愛(ài)得太過(guò)分或?qū)θ艘灰娙绻剩瑹崆榉欠?,轉(zhuǎn)眼即厭煩”的人們的勸告。喻指不求情意濃,但愿情意長(zhǎng)。
[譯]細(xì)水長(zhǎng)流,淡交長(zhǎng)久。
Love me, love my dog.
[注解]源于拉丁語(yǔ)。喻指愛(ài)屋及烏。
[譯]如果你愛(ài)我,也要愛(ài)我的狗;愛(ài)屋及烏。
Love needs no teaching.
[譯]愛(ài)情無(wú)需教導(dǎo)。
Love not at the first look.
[譯]切莫一見鐘情。
Love rules his kingdom without a sword.
[譯]維持愛(ài)情,不用強(qiáng)力;愛(ài)情的王國(guó)不用刀劍統(tǒng)治。
Love should not be all on one side.
[譯]愛(ài)情不應(yīng)是單方面的。
Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.
[譯]追求而得的愛(ài)情固然美好,但不經(jīng)追求而得的愛(ài)情更為美好。
Love thy neighbours as thyself.
[注解]thy相當(dāng)于“你的”。thyself“你自己”。
[譯]愛(ài)鄰如愛(ài)己。
Love will find a way.
[譯]真情所至,金石為開。
Lovers live by love, as larks live by leeks.
[譯]情侶靠愛(ài)情生活,就像云雀靠韭蔥生活一樣。