中华文化博大精深，成语和俗语都是智慧结晶，但翻译成英文，如果表达不当，却容易引起误解。所以，学习并掌握常见的成语或俗语的英译很有必要哦！
Time and tide wait for no man.Use a steam-hammer to crack nuts.Seek truth from facts; be practical and realistic; be true to facts.Speak the plain truth; call a spade a spade; tell it as it is.Practice is the sole criterion for testing truth.Hide one's capacities and bide one's time.Anything unexpected may happen. a bolt from the blue.Even if one jumped into the Yellow River, one can not wash oneself clean - there's nothing one can do to clear one's name.Unhealthy trends and vulgar practices.Birds of a feather flock together.Hold high hopes for one's child.Seek nothing but profits; be blind to all but one's own interests.A sheer fabrication out of nothing; fabricate rumors out of thin air.There are no waves without wind. Nothing comes of nothing.Twist the law to suit one's own purpose.A new broom sweeps clean.Accumulate strength for a take-off.May all your wish come true.Have a tacit understanding; thoroughly understand each other, without having exchanged a word of explanation.First impressions are firmly entrenched.He who strikes first gains the advantage.The best defense is offense.Warn people by taking oneself as an example.Pour oil on troubled waters; patch up a quarrel and reconcile the parties concerned.Proceed in an orderly way and step by step; advance gradually in due order.Be strict with oneself and lenient with others.Jack shall have Jill, all shall be well.Money makes the mare go./ Money talks.Separated as we are thousands of miles apart, we come together as if by predestination.Keep pace with the times.Teach students according to their aptitude.To ascend another storey to see a thousand miles further; Ascend further, were you to look farther.Better make friends than make enemies.Cases in which people were unjustly, falsely or wrongly charged or sentenced; unjust, false or wrong cases.A real man never goes back on his words.Bring in wealth and treasure.Target of public criticism.Be an armchair strategist.You can't wrap fire in paper.What's done by night appears by day.Caught in a dilemma; between the devil and the deep blue sea.
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