诺言好似馅饼皮，做来便是为咬碎。
Promise is debt.
许愿要还，欠债要清；许愿如欠债，欠了便要还。
Public money is like holy water, every one helps himself to it.
公款如圣水，人人都要尝一嘴。
Quietness is best.
宁静最好。
Rain before seven: fine before eleven.
早雨不过午。
Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man,and writing an exact man.
阅读使人渊博，会谈使人机敏，写作使人严谨。
Remember thou art but a man.
记住：你只不过是个“人”而已。
Revolutions are not made with rosewater.
革命不是玫瑰香水做成的（指：革命不能采用温和的办法）。
Satan reproves sin.
魔鬼责人之罪（责备他人有罪过，自己同样有过失）。
Scanderbeg's sword must have Scanderbeg's arm.
斯坎德培（阿尔巴尼亚15世纪的民族英雄）的剑，必须要有斯坎德培的臂才能举；宝剑须由烈士擎。
Shallow streams make most din.
浅流水声响。
Short pleasure, long lament.
眼前片刻欢，日后长悲痛。
Silence gives consent.
沉默表示同意。
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
技能和信心是无敌的军队。
Something is better than nothing.
有总比没有强。
Soon ripe, soon rotten.
早熟早烂；早慧早夭。
Sorrow comes unsent for.
悲哀来时不须邀。
Sport is sweetest when there be no spectators.
旁边无观众，运动最轻松。
Still waters run deep.
静水流深。
Straws show which way the wind blows.
草动示风向。
Talk of the devil, and he is sure to appear.
讲着某人，某人就到；说起曹操，曹操就到。
Teach your grandmother to suck eggs.
班门弄斧。
Temperance is the best physic.
节欲是最好的药品。
The best (greatest) fish keep (swim near) the bottom.
好鱼游水底（指：有价值之物不能轻易得到）。
The best is oftentimes the enemy of the good.
要求过高，反难成功。
The mountains have brought forth a mouse.
大山生小鼠（指：费力大而收效小）。
The pot calls the kettle black.
锅子嫌罐黑；责人严而责己宽；自己有过失而申斥他人。
There are two sides to every question.
每个问题都有两个方面。
There is a crook(=affliction,trial) in the lot of every one.
人生总有倒楣事；人生总有不如意处。
The swan sings when death comes.
死期来到，天鹅歌声美妙。
The thread breaks where it is weakest.
线断常在最细处。
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