众所周知，谚语乃是一种语言的精华，寓意深刻，表达隽永。在考研写作中如能适当地引用一些谚语，可以为文章增辉添彩。一些同学在平时的学习中积累了一些谚语，但在写作时不知道该如何将它们恰当地引用到文章中去，本文拟根据近年来《纽约时报》引用谚语的情况，总结出英语中常见的引用谚语的地道表达法，供同学们写作时模仿使用。
谚语在英语中叫proverb，引用时经常会在其前面酌情加上old, Chinese, English, Russian之类的形容词;动词一般用go, say, state, has it, put it等，在这些动词后面用逗号或冒号皆可。谚语可加双引号(这时谚语的第一个字母要大写)，也可不加双引号(这时第一个字母一般不大写)。引用谚语的表达方式常见的有如下十种：
1) A proverb goes / says, ---
2) As a / the proverb goes / says, ---
A Yiddish proverb goes, “Better to lose with a wise man than win with a fool.”
有一句依地语谚语说得好，“宁输智者，不赢傻子。”(August 14, 2000)
A proverb says, “Medicine cures the man who is fated not to die.
有一句谚语说，“命不该死有药救。”(July 16, 2009)
As a Chinese proverb goes, “Don’t climb a tree to look for fish.”
正如中国的一句谚语所说，“不要缘木求鱼。”(April 24, 2000)
As the old Chinese proverb says, “If you do not enter a tiger’s den, you cannot get her cubs.”
正如中国的一句谚语所说，“不入虎穴，焉得虎子。”(November 15, 1993)
3) As a / the proverb has it / puts it,
4) A proverb has it that ---
As a Spanish proverb has it, “Flies don’t enter a closed mouth.”
正如一句西班牙谚语所说，“祸从口入。”(July 26, 1992)
As a Navajo proverb puts it, “What comes around goes around.”
正如纳瓦霍族的一句谚语所说，“一报还一报。”(May 28, 1987)
As a local proverb here in Chad puts it: A woman who is pregnant has one foot in the grave.
正如乍得当地的一句谚语所说：女人怀宝宝，鬼门关上走一遭。(March 20, 2004)
An old proverb has it that “if the thorn doesn’t scratch when it first emerge, it will never scratch.”
有一句古老的谚语说，“如果荆棘刚长出时不扎手，那么它就永远不扎手。”(March 26, 2006)
5) There is a proverb: ---
6) There is a / the proverb that goes / states, ---
There’s an African proverb: “Educate a boy, and educate an individual. Educate a girl, and you educate a community.”
有一句非洲的谚语说：“教育好一个男孩，仅教育好一人。教育好一个女孩，则教育好一群人。”(August 19, 2009)
There’s a Russian proverb that goes: you must support the most talented people because untalented people will support themselves.
有一句俄罗斯谚语说，你须拥戴贤人，庸者仅会自顾。(December 31, 1995)
There is an old Jewish proverb that states: “A Shekel is always better in my pocket than in yours. “
有一句古老的犹太谚语说：“金币在我口袋里总比在你口袋里强。”(August 10, 2009)
7) ---, a / the proverb goes, ---
8) ---, goes a / the proverb, ---
“A river is deep,” an old African proverb goes, “because of its source.”
有一句古老的.非洲谚语说，河有源泉水才深。(September 24, 2008)
To kill a snake, goes an old African proverb, you must first crush the head.
有一句古老的非洲谚语说，打蛇先打头。(September 22, 1985)
9) --- have a proverb that goes, ---
10) There exists a proverb. It goes, ---
The Arabs have a proverb that goes, “When the sultan’s dog died, everyone marched in his funeral. But when the sultan himself died, no one marched at all. “
阿拉伯人有一句谚语是这样说的，“当苏丹的狗死了，人人都为之送葬。而当苏丹死了，却无人为之送葬。”(November 27, 1983)
There exists an old Soviet proverb. It goes, “In the monastery, you don’t offer your own view.”
有一个古老的俄罗斯谚语说，“。”(May 17, 1984)
谚语作为群众集体智慧的结晶，多具有鲜明的民族性和地域特色。由于中西文化的差异，一些在汉语中人们耳熟能详的谚语却未必为西方人所理解。所以在引用汉语谚语时，如果中国特色过于浓厚，则可舍其形而取其意，写成英语中与之意思对等的西方谚语。例如，有的同学想表达这个意思：本性难移，于是写道：As a Chinese proverb goes, a dog cannot change its habit of eating shit. 这样写不但失之粗鄙，还会让爱犬的西方人大惑不解。所以，这个意思宜写成A leopard cannot change its spots. 或者A fox may grow gray, but never good.
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⑴考研英语写作标点符号用法：句号
句号，通常表示一句话已经说完了，这个阶段告一段落了，所以它的英文是period.句号通常用于以下情况：. Semicolon分号
①陈述句后;
②语气缓和的祈使句;
③间接问句后;
④省略词后一般用句号，此时的句号叫缩写符，如Mr. Dr.，这时这个缩写符是要加的;但是像U.K.不加”.”也是可以的。
⑵考研英语写作标点符号用法：逗号
当一句话还没有说完时，可以使用逗号表示停顿。但是在英语中，绝不能用逗号连接两个句子，要想连接一定要使用连词才可以。逗号常用于以下情形：
①并列句中，连词前面用逗号。但只有逗号，没有单词是不可以的。如：
When I open the door, I find some food on the table.
②状语从句或短语，放在主句的'主语前面时，要用逗号。如：
To catch the bus, I get up early.
③插入语前后应用逗号，如：
She, I think, is a beautiful lady.
④日期当中使用逗号，英文的日期表达顺序和中文不一样，中文通常是从大到小，而英文通常是从小到大。如：月，日，年 May 1,2016;日，月，年 1 May, 2016-7-6
⑤非限制性定语从句中，也需要用逗号将主句和从句分隔开。如：
As is known, the moon goes around the earth.
⑶考研英语写作标点符号用法：顿号
英文中无顿号，想要表示停顿，只能使用逗号，这是中文和英文差距非常大的地方。
⑷考研英语写作标点符号用法：问号
问号是表示提问的。通常在疑问句后用问号，若疑问句被改为间接引语的话，就不用问号。
⑸考研英语写作标点符号用法：感叹号
感叹号在考研英语写作中要少用。因为通常感叹句、祈使句后感叹号比较多。而考研英语
⑹考研英语写作标点符号用法：引号
引号，主要出现在引语中。当引用别人的话的时候，可以使用这个符号。
以上这些标点符号是我们在考研英语写作中会经常用到的，虽然较为简单，但不能轻视，须知“千里之堤，毁于蚁穴”，只有充分掌握，才能不出现一系列的因果性问题。老师祝“天下有志者，终成硕士!”
