雅思写作高分干货：35个成语的英文表达（下）

36. 强龙难压地头蛇

Even a dragon(from the outside)finds it hard to control a snake in its old haunt-Powerful outsiders can hardly afford to neglect local bullies

37. 强强联手

win-win co-operation

38. 瑞雪兆丰年

A timely snow promises a good harvest

39. 人之初性本善

Man's nature at birth is good

40. 人逢喜事精神爽

Joy puts heart into a man

41. 人海战术

huge-crowd strategy

42. 世上无难事只要肯攀登

Where there is a will,there is a way

43. 世外桃源

a fictitious land of peace away from the turmoil of the world;

44. 死而后已

until my heart stops beating

45. 岁岁平安

Peace all year round

46. 上有天堂下有苏杭

Just as there is paradise in heaven,there are Suzhou and Hangzhou on earth

47. 塞翁失马焉知非福

Misfortune may be an actual blessing

48. 三十而立

A man should be independent at the age of thirty At thirty,a man should be able to think for himself

49. 升级换代

updating and upgrading(of products)

50. 四十不惑

Life begins at forty

51. 谁言寸草心报得三春晖

Such kindness of warm sun,can't be repaid by grass

52. 水涨船高

When the river rises,the boat floats high

53. 时不我待

Time and tide wait for no man

54. 杀鸡用牛刀

break a butterfly on the wheel

55. 实事求是

seek truth from facts;be practical and realistic;be true to facts

56. 说曹操,曹操到

Talk of the devil and he comes

57. 实话实说

speak the plain truth;call a spade a spade;tell it as it is

58. 实践是检验真理的唯一标准

Practice is the sole criterion for testing truth

59. 山不在高，有仙则名

No matter how high the mountain is,its name will spread far and wide if there is a fairy

60. 韬光养晦

hide one's capacities and bide one's time

61. 糖衣炮弹

sugar-coated bullets

62. 天有不测风云

Anything unexpected may happen a bolt from the blue

63. 团结就是力量

Unity is strength

64. "跳进黄河洗不清"

'eve if one jumped into the Yellow River,one can not wash oneself clean--there's nothing one can do to clear one's name'

65. 歪风邪气

unhealthy practices and evil phenomena

66. 物以类聚，人以群分

Birds of a feather flock together

67. 往事如风

The past has vanished(from memory)like wind;What in past,is pas

68. 望子成龙

hold high hopes for one's child

69. 屋漏又逢连阴雨

Misfortunes never come singly When it rains it pours

70. 无源之水,无本之木

water without a source,and a tree wiithout roots