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- Английские пословицы и поговорки
- East or West, home is best
- God helps those who help themselves
- God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb
- Homer sometimes nods
- Jack of all trades and master of none
- Rome was not built in a day
- a bad penny always turns up
- a bird in hand is worth two in the bush
- a cat has nine lives
- a cat in gloves catches no mice
- a chain is no stronger than its weakest link
- a fool and his money are soon parted
- a fox smells his own hole
- a friend in need is a friend indeed
- a little goes a long way
- a man is known by the company he keeps
- a new broom sweeps clean
- a watched pot never boils
- absence makes the heart grow fonder
- actions speak louder than words
- all cats are grey in the dark
- all is fish that comes to his net
- all is grist that comes to the mill
- all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
- all's fair in love and war
- an apple a day keeps the doctor away
- an empty vessel makes the greatest sound
- apples do not fall far from their trees
- art is long life is short
- as you make your bed, so you must lie in it
- as you sow, so shall you reap
- bad news has wings
- be careful what you wish for, lest it come true
- beauty is only skin deep
- beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder
- beggars can't be choosers
- better by far a widow be than a wife whose man's away at sea
- better late than never
- better one-eyed than stone-blind
- better the devil you know
- better the foot slip than the tongue
- between the devil and the deep blue sea
- between two evils it is not worth choosing
- blessing in disguise
- blood is thicker than water
- brevity is the soul of wit
- bull in a china shop
- can the leopard change his spots?
- can't see beyond the end of one's nose
- can't see the forest for the trees
- cast pearls before swine
- cast the first stone
- catch more flies with honey than with vinegar
- change horses in the middle of a stream
- clothes make the man
- come hell or high water
- cross the bridge when one comes to it
- crumbs from a rich man's table
- cut your coat according to your cloth
- diamond cuts diamond
- die is cast
- divide and conquer
- do not change horses in midstream
- do not trouble trouble until trouble troubles you
- do unto others as you would have them do unto you
- don't carry coals to Newcastle
- don't count your chickens before they hatch
- don't cry before you are hurt
- don't kill the goose that lays golden eggs
- don't let grass grow under one's feet
- don't lock the barn door after the horse is gone
- draw not your bow till your arrow is fixed
- easier said than done
- easy come, easy go
- eat one's cake and have it too
- every bullet has its billet
- every cloud has a silver lining
- every dog has his day
- every man has a fool in his sleeve
- every man to his trade
- extremes meet
- eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth
- fiddle while Rome burns
- fifth wheel of the coach
- fight fire with fire
- finders keepers, loosers weepers
- first time lucky
- flog a dead horse
- fly in the ointment
- forewarned is forearmed
- fortune favours fools
- from the sublime to the ridiculous
- give someone an inch and they will take a mile
- go through the mill
- good health is above wealth
- grass is always greener
- great barkers are no biters
- great oaks grow from little acorns
- hasty climbers have sudden falls
- he laughs best who laughs last
- he who excuses, accuses himself
- hindsight is always twenty-twenty
- if the mountain won't come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the mountain
- ignorance is bliss
- in for a penny, in for a pound
- it is a long lane that has no turning
- it takes one to know one
- it's dogged that does it
- it's not over till the fat lady sings
- life is no bed of roses
- like a fish needs a bicycle
- like cures like
- little and often fills the purse
- live and let live
- loose lips sink ships
- love can't be forced
- make hay while the sun shines
- man's home is his castle
- many a little makes a mickle
- many are called but few are chosen
- many words hurt more than swords
- marriages are made in heavens
- might makes right
- money has no smell
- money talks
- more haste less speed
- mountain has brought forth a mouse
- much cry and little wool
- murder will out
- nature abhors a vacuum
- necessity is the mother of invention
- never put off until tomorrow what you can do today
- no fool like an old fool
- no guts, no glory
- no news is good news
- no pain, no gain
- no sweet without sweat
- not worth powder and shot
- nothing succeeds like success
- old habits die hard
- one man's meat is another man's poison
- out of sight, out of mind
- out of the frying pan and into the fire
- out of the mouths of babes and sucklings
- people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones
- poverty is no vice
- pride comes before a fall
- put the cart before the horse
- put your money where your mouth is
- rob Peter to pay Paul
- rolling stones gather no moss
- run with the hare and hunt with the hounds
- silence gives consent
- six of one and half a dozen of the other
- small rain lays great dust
- sticks and stones can break my bones
- store is no sore
- stretch your legs according to your coverlet
- take each day as it comes
- take it one day at a time
- the best is the enemy of the good
- the devil is not so black as he is painted
- the early bird catches/gets the worm
- the end justifies the means
- the game's not worth the candle
- the goose that lays golden eggs
- the law is an ass
- the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing
- the mills of God grind slowly
- the road to hell is paved with good intentions
- the sky is the limit
- the tallest poppy takes the chop
- the world is my oyster
- the сobbler should stick to his last
- there are plenty more fish in the sea
- there is no good deed that goes unpunished
- there is no place like home
- there's safety in numbers
- there's small choice in rotten apples
- third time's the charm
- time flies when you're having fun
- too many cooks spoil the broth
- truth is stranger than fiction
- two wrongs don't make a right
- two's company, three's a crowd
- united we stand, divided we fall
- variety is the spice of life
- velvet paws hide sharp claws
- walls have ears
- what goes around comes around
- what is done cannot be undone
- what is worth doing at all is worth doing well
- when in Rome, do as Romans do
- where there's a will there's a way
- wit once bought is worth twice taught
- you can't make an omelet without breaking eggs
- you don't keep a dog and bark yourself
- you have to be cruel to be kind
- you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours
- zeal without knowledge is a run away horse
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a watched pot never boils
Ср, 2009-02-04 23:32 — yurokan
A watched pot never boils — (Кажется, что события, которых с нетерпением ожидаешь, долго не наступают; когда ждешь, время тянется бесконечно долго).
С.С. Кузьмин предлагает в качестве перевода русскую поговорку «Ждать да догонять – нет хуже»* или «Хуже нет – ждать и догонять». Можно предложить варианты: «Не стой над душой», «Ожидание вредит делу», «Ждать - тосковать», «Ждать - время терять». Каждый вариант имеет свои смысловые акценты, которым можно отдавать предпочтение в зависимости от контекста.
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* *С.С. Кузьмин «Русско-английский словарь переводчика», М, 2001, с.5
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