1. Learn and live 活着，为了学习。

1. Live and learn.

2. It is better to give than to receive 给予比索取好。

2. It is better to give than to receive: Giving is better than receiving.

3. A man without ambition is like a blind man who has lost his way.

3. A man without ambition is like a blind man who has lost his way.

4. 批注：另译，罗马不是一天建成的;冰冻三尺非一日之寒。

4. Annotation: An alternative translation: Rome was not built in a day; it takes more than one cold day to freeze three feet of ice.

5. Laugh three times a day and you'll get well if you're ill

5. Laugh three times a day, and if you're ill, you'll get well.

6. Look before you leap; see before you go

6. Look before you leap; see before you go.

7. Yellow seedlings lack fertilizer, yellow people are sick

7. Yellow seedlings lack fertilizer; yellow people are sick.

8. Beauty without virtue is a rose without fragrance

8. Beauty without virtue is like a rose without fragrance.

9. Take a hundred steps after meals and never go to the pharmacy

9. Take a hundred steps after meals and never go to the pharmacy.

10. prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them

10. Prosperity makes friends, adversity tests them.

11. 人无志向，和迷途的盲人一样。

11. A person without ambition is like a blind man lost in the wilderness.

12. The idle call cold, the busy call hot

12. The idle call is cold, the busy call is hot.

13. Sow a melon, grow a bean, get a bean

13. Sow a melon, grow a bean, get a bean.

14. Straight trees have crooked roots

14. Straight trees have crooked roots

15. Joy is mixed with sorrow

15. Joy is mingled with sorrow

16. 批注：mother是经典的表示“原因”的比喻，is the mother of也是一个经典句型。比如failure is the mother ofsuccess

16. Annotation: "Mother" is a classic metaphor for "cause," and "is the mother of" is also a classic phrase. For example, "failure is the mother of success."

17. A good man sleeps like a sick man, but a sick man sleeps like a dead man

17. A good man sleeps like a sick man, but a sick man sleeps like a dead man.

18. 这里，我列出我整理的中学生最常用的30条谚语，希望对你有所帮助。

18. Here, I list the 30 most commonly used proverbs among middle school students that I have compiled, hoping they will be helpful to you.

19. Dragon can't live without clouds, fish can't live without water

19. A dragon cannot live without clouds, a fish cannot live without water.

20. 批注：those who也是一种替换people的表示“人”的写法;比如:Those who break thelaw should be brought tojustice(违法必究)

20. Annotation: "those who" is also a way to express "people" as a substitute for "人"; for example: "Those who break the law should be brought to justice" (punishment for breaking the law).

21. Life is measured by thought and action, not by time

21. Life is measured by thought and action, not by time.

22. Lies have short legs 谎言是站不住脚的。

22. Lies have short legs - Lies are unsustainable.

23. There are no tigers in the mountains Monkeys are called kings

23. There are no tigers in the mountains; monkeys are called kings.

24. A fool and his money are soon parted

24. A fool and his money are soon parted.

25. 批注：经典能流传下来的语言总是朗朗上口的。注意in need和indeed的押韵。

25. Annotation: The language that classic works have passed down is always easy to pronounce. Note the rhyme between "in need" and "indeed."

26. Constant dripping wears away a stone 水滴石穿，绳锯木断。

26. Constant dripping wears away a stone; with a rope sawing wood will break. (Translation: The steady drop of water carves through stone, and the constant sawing with a rope can cut through wood.)

27. A three-legged cat has no legs

27. A three-legged cat has no legs.

28. If you don't eat, you will be hungry; if you don't read, you will be foolish

28. If you don't eat, you will be hungry; if you don't read, you will be foolish.

29. Humility often benefits more than pride

29. Humility often benefits more than pride.

30. One enemy is too many

30. One enemy is too many

31. Action speaks louder than words 行动胜于语言。

31. Action speaks louder than words. (Action is more powerful than words.)

32. The finest diamond must be cut 玉不琢，不成器。

32. The finest diamond must be cut. As the saying goes, "Jade is not polished, and it does not become a utensil."

33. Long tarrying takes all the thanks away

33. Long delay takes all the thanks away

34. Frozen to death in windward station, hungry to death without bending down

34. Frozen to death at the windward station, starved to death without stooping down.

35. Good sales do not need to greet, greeting does not have good goods

35. Good sales do not need to greet; greeting does not guarantee good goods.

36. Mosquitoes bite strangely and the weather will get worse

36. Mosquitoes bite strangely and the weather is going to get worse.

37. 只要真正渴求知识，都能得到，这是知识的特点。

37. As long as there is a genuine thirst for knowledge, it can be obtained, which is a characteristic of knowledge.

38. Don't forget the farmer when you eat, but the man who drinks water wants to dig a well

38. Don't forget the farmer when you eat, but the man who drinks water wants to dig a well.

39. Failure is the mother of success 失败乃成功之母。

39. Failure is the mother of success.

40. 英语中的谚语有很多，就好像中文中的成语一样的。所以想要都列出来，不太可能，你可以去当当、京东或者卓越上搜索英语谚语书，比如这样的：

40. There are many proverbs in English, just like the idioms in Chinese. So it's not very likely to list them all. You can search for English proverbs books on platforms like Dangdang, JD.com, or ZUOYUE, such as:

41. Iron is to be fought， but man is to be practiced.

41. Iron should be fought, but man should be studied.

42. There is more trouble in having nothing to do than in having many things to do

42. There is more trouble in having nothing to do than in having many things to do.

43. Adversity makes a man wise, not rich

43. Adversity makes a man wise, not rich.

44. Like cures like

44. Like cures like.