中国有很多谚语说的很棒，言简意赅，其实在英语中也有很多表达，跟这些谚语有异曲同工之处。下面我们就来看几句英汉相当的谚语，学习一下吧。
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n1.World is but a little place, after all. 天涯原咫尺，到处可逢君。
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nExplanation: 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.
n当一个人在一个地方非常意外地碰到熟人的时候就可以用这句话，看下面的例子：
nExample: 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.
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n2. When in Rome, do as the Romans do. 入乡随俗
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nExplanation: Conform to the manners and customs of those amongst whom you live.
nExample: 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.
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n3. What you lose on the swings you get back on the roundabouts. 失之东隅，收之桑榆
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nExplanation: 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.
nExample: He may always possess merits which make up for everything; if he loses on the swings, he may win on the roundabouts.
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n4.What are the odds so long as you are happy. 知足者常乐
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nExplanation: What does anything else matter if a person is happy.
nExample: You complain so much, but you have a good family, parents, health, and money. What's the odd so long as you're happy.
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n5．Entertain an angel unawares. 有眼不识泰山
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nExplanation: To receive a great personage as a guest without knowing his merits.
nExample: 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.
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n6.Every dog has his day. 是人皆有出头日
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nExplanation: Fortune comes to each in turn.
nExample: They say that every dog has his day; but mine seems a very long time coming.
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n7.Every potter praises his own pot. 王婆卖瓜，自卖自夸
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nExplanation: people are loath to refer to defects in their possessions or their family members
nExample: he said that his teacher considered his work brilliant, but I would rather hear it from his teacher’s own mouth. Every potter praises his own pot.
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n　　举了这么例子，大家也来试着翻译几个谚语吧
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nhit the nail on the head
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nhave an iron hand in a velvet glove
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ngreat minds think alike
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ngood wine needs no bush
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nGive him enough rope and he will hang himself.
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nEvil does not always come to injure.
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nA fool may give a wise man counsel.