1、No pains, no gains.
一份耕耘，一份收获
2、You ain't seen nothing yet.
你还没看过更好（烂）的；好戏还在后头
3、To give a rain check.
改天的`邀请
4、That's what friends are for.
这就是好朋友啊
5、It's a pain in the neck.
很讨厌而难避免
6、It's the thought that counts.
心意最重要；重在情意
7、The tip for the iceberg.
冰山一角；危险的细微的征兆
8、Jump down someone's throat.
粗暴地回答某人；无理地打断某人的话
9、Save something for a rainy day.
以备不时之需
10、Behind the scenes.
在幕后；在黑暗中
11、By the skin of one's teeth.
刚好，勉强，侥幸
12、Don't rock the boat.
不要破坏现状、捣乱
13、Worth its weight in gold.
很有价值的
14、Speak for the devil.
说曹操曹操到
1、 He gave me a piece of mind,"Don't shift responsibility onto others."
他责备道：“不要把责任推卸到别人身上。”
2、 You look neat and fresh.
你看起来很清纯。
3、 Don't worry.you'll get use to it soon.
别担心，很快你就会习惯的。
4、 Mum is always as busy as a bee in the moring.
妈妈每天早上都忙得不可开交。
5、 It was most careless ofme.
我太粗心了。
6、 It was love at frist sight.
一见钟情。
7、 You are coming alone well.
你做得挺顺利。
8、 all in all.
总的说来;最心爱的东西。
9、 Well,this sort of talk is above me.
我不懂你们在讲什么。
10、 Wisdom in the mind is better than money in the hand.
脑中的知识比手中的金钱更重要。
11、 She is all dressed up and nowhere to go.
她打扮得整整齐却无处炫耀。
12、 She is well-build.
她的身材真棒。
13、 Glad,it is all over.
这事全部结束了，好得很。
14、 Money is a good servant but a bad master.
要做金钱的主人，莫做金钱的奴隶。
15、 I saw something deeply disturbing.
深感事情不妙。
16、 They went all out.
他们鼓足了干劲。
17、 all dressed up.
打扮得整整齐齐
18、 I konw how you feel.
我明白你的感受。
19、 I hope you will excuse me if i make any mistake.
如有任何错误，请你原谅。
20、 You have a beautiful personality.
你的气质很好。
21、 as busy as a bee.
非常忙
22、 Every family has a black sheep.
家家有本难念的经。
23、 When you tell Mary some gossip,she is all ears.
跟Mary讲一些小道消息，她会听地仔仔细细。
24、 He is all set for an early morning start.
他已做好清晨出发的一切准备。
25、 What are you trying to say?
你到底想说什么?
26、 You win some.you lose some.
胜败乃兵家常事。
27、 Do you have anyone in mind?
你有心上人吗?
28、 Never say die.it's a piece of cake.
别泄气，那只是小菜一碟。
29、 It isn't the way I hoped it would be.
这不是我所盼望的。
30、 The husband and his wife are always quarrelling,and they are leading a cat and dog life.
这对夫妇老是吵架，相互之间水火不容。
31、 It was quite by accident.
真是始料不及。
32、 How long have you known her?
你认识她多久了?
33、 Don't bury your head in the sand.
不要逃避现实。
34、 at one's fingertips.
了如指掌。
35、 Don't ask him.It is also at his wit's end.
不要问他了，他也不知道。
36、 I didn't expect you to such a good job.
我没想到你干得这么好。
37、 You two go ahead to the movie without me,i don't want to be a third wheel.
你们两个自己去看电影吧，我不想当电灯泡。
38、 The thief was caught of red-handed and beaten black and blue.
那个小偷当场被抓住并被打得青一块紫一块的。
39、 I am not available.
我正忙着。
40、 I'd bettle hit the books.
我要复习功课啦。
41、 I wish i had all the time i'd ever wasted,so i could waste it all over again.
我希望所有被我浪费的时间重新回来，让我再浪费一遍。
42、 The man lived a dog's life.
这个人生活潦倒。
43、 How to get at that little island is at his fingertips.
他知道怎么去那个小岛。
44、 You should be slow to judge others.
你不应该随意评论别人。
45、 a piece of one's mind.
直言不讳
46、 You flatter me immensely.
你过奖啦。
47、 You'll be all the better for a holiday.
度一次假，对你会更有好处。
48、 Don't be silly.
别胡闹了。
49、 The daughter is all in all to him.
女儿是他的无价宝。
50、 I'm wet all over.
我浑身都湿了。
1. Can you can a can as a canner can can a can?
你能够像罐头工人一样装罐头吗？
2. I wish to wish the wish you wish to wish, but if you wish the wish the witch wishes, I won't wish the wish you wish to wish.
我希望梦想着你梦想中的梦想，但是如果你梦想着女巫的梦想，我就不想梦想着你梦想中的梦想。
3. I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice-cream!
我叫喊，你叫喊，我们都喊着要冰淇淋!
4. How many cookies could a good cook cook if a good cook could cook cookies?
A good cook could cook as many cookies as a good cook who could cook cookies.
如果一个好的厨师能做小甜饼，那么他能做多少小甜饼呢？一个好的厨师能做出和其它好厨师 一样多的小甜饼。
5. The driver was drunk and drove the doctor's car directly into the deep ditch.
这个司机喝醉了，他把医生的车开进了一个大深沟里。
6. Whether the weather be fine or whether the weather be not.
Whether the weather be cold or whether the weather be hot.
We'll weather the weather whether we like it or not.
无论是晴天或是阴天。
无论是冷或是暖，
不管喜欢与否，我们都要经受风霜雨露。
7. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked.
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,
Where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?
彼德派柏捏起一撮泡菜。
彼德派柏捏起的是一撮泡菜。
那么彼德派捏起的泡菜在哪儿？
8. I thought a thought. But the thought I thought wasn't the thought I thought I thought.
If the thought I thought I thought had been the thought I thought, I wouldn't have thought so much.
我有一种想法，但是我的这种想法不是我曾经想到的那种想法。如果这种想法是我曾经想到的想法，我就不会想那么多了。
9. Amid the mists and coldest frosts,
With barest wrists and stoutest boasts,
He thrusts his fists against the posts,
And still insists he sees the ghosts.
雾蒙蒙，冰霜冻，
手腕儿空空，话儿涌，
只见他猛所拳头往柱子上砸，
直说自己把鬼碰。
10. Badmin was able to beat Bill at billiards, but Bill always beat Badmin badly at badminton.
巴德明在台球上能够打败比尔，但是打羽毛球比尔常常大败巴德明。
11. Betty beat a bit of butter to make a better butter.
贝蒂敲打一小块黄油要做一块更好的奶油面。
12. Rita repeated what Reardon recited when Reardon read the remarks.
当里尔登读评论时，丽塔重复里尔登背诵的东西。
13. Few free fruit flies fly from flames.
没有几只果蝇从火焰中飞过去。
14. Fifty-five flags freely flutter from the floating frigate.
五十五面旗子在轻轻漂浮的战舰上自由的飘扬。
15. There is no need to light a night light on a light night like tonight, for a bright
night light is just like a slight light.
像今夜这样明亮的夜晚，就不需要点一盏夜灯，因为明亮的夜灯也会变得微弱。
17. A pleasant peasant keeps a pleasant pheasant and both the peasant and the pheasant are having a pleasant time together.
一位和气的农民养了一只伶俐的野鸡，而且这位和气的农民和这只伶俐的野鸡在一起度过了一段很美好的时光。
18. How many sheets could a sheet slitter slit if a sheet slitter could slit sheets?
如果裁纸机能裁纸的话，一个裁纸机能裁多少张纸呢？
19. Mr. See owned a saw and Mr. Soar owned a seesaw. Now See's saw sawed Soar's seesaw before Soar saw See.
西先生有一个锯，萨先生有一个秋千。现在在萨先生看见西先生之前，西先生的锯锯断了萨先生的秋千。
20. If you're keen on stunning kites and cunning stunts, buy a cunning stunning stunt kite.
如果你非常相要好的风筝和精彩的表演，就去买一只漂亮的，灵巧的风筝吧。
21. Ted sent Fred ten hens yesterday so Fred's fresh bread is ready already.
特德昨天给弗莱德送去了十只母鸡，所以弗莱德的新鲜面包已经准备好了。
22. A Finnish fisher named Fisher failed to fish any fish one Friday afternoon and finally he found out a big fissure in his fishing net.
一个名叫费希尔的芬兰渔民在一个星期五的下午未能捕捉到任何鱼，结果他民现他的渔网上有一个大裂口。
23. Franc's father is frying French fries for his five fire-fighter friends after they finished a fire-fighting in a factory.
在结束对一家工厂的灭火战斗以后，弗兰克的父亲在为他的五个消防队员朋友炸制法式土豆(炸薯条)
24. A bitter biting bittern bit a better brother bittern, and the bitter better bittern bit the bitter bittern back. And the bitter bittern, bitten, by the better bitten bittern, said: ”I’m a bitter biter bit, alack!”
一只沮丧而尖刻的麻鹊咬了它兄弟一口，而没有它那么沮丧的兄弟又咬它一口。那只被咬的沮丧麻鹊对它的兄弟说：“我是一只充满怨恨的麻鹊！我害人终害己了！”
25. A flea and a fly flew up in a flue. Said the flea, “Let us fly!” Said the fly, “Let us flee!” So they flew through a flaw in the flue.
一只跳蚤和一只苍蝇飞进烟道里。跳蚤说：“让我们飞吧！”苍蝇说：“让我们逃跑吧！”就这样，它们就飞越了烟道里的一条裂纹。
26. A tidy tiger tied a tie tighter to tidy her tiny tail.
一只老虎将领带系紧，清洁它的尾巴。
27. A big black bug bit a big black bear, made the big black bear bleed blood.
大黑虫咬大黑熊，大黑熊流血了！
28. A bloke’s back bike brake block broke.
一个家伙的脚踏车后制动器坏了。
29. A tutor who tooted a flute tried to tutor two tooters to toot. Said the two to their tutor, “Is it harder to toot or to tutor two tooters to toot?”
一个吹笛的导师尝试教两个吹笛者吹笛。那两个学吹笛的问导师：“吹笛难，还是教两个学吹笛的人吹笛难呢？”
30. All I want is a proper cup of coffee made in a proper copper coffee pot, you can believe it or not, but I just want a cup of coffee in a proper coffee pot. Tin coffee pots or iron coffee pots are of no use to me. If I can’t have a proper cup of coffee in a proper copper coffee pot, I’ll have a cup of tea!
我只想要一杯用真正铜制的咖啡壶煮的正统咖啡。信不信由你，我只想要一杯用真正铜制的咖啡壶煮的正统咖啡。锡制的咖啡壶和铁制的咖啡壶对我而言也是没用的。假如我不能要一杯用真正铜制的咖啡壶煮的正统咖啡，那我就要一杯茶吧！
31. How much dew would a dewdrop drop if a dewdrop could drop dew?
如果一颗露珠会掉下露水，那么一颗露珠会掉下多少露水呢？
32. A snow-white swan swam swiftly to catch a slowly-swimming snake in a lake。
湖中一只雪白的天鹅快速地游动着去追赶一条慢慢游动的蛇。
33. A skunk sat on a stump. The skunk thought the stump stunk, and the stump thought the skunk stunk。
一只臭鼬坐在树墩上，臭鼬认为树墩发臭，而树墩又认为臭鼬发臭。
34. Sandy sniffed sweet smelling sunflower seeds while sitting beside a swift stream.
桑迪坐在湍急的小溪边尽情地品味着葵花子的香味。
35. A pleasant peasant keeps a pleasant pheasant and both the peasant and the pheasant are having a pleasant time together.
一位和气的农民养了一只伶俐的野鸡，而且这位和气的农民和这只伶俐的野鸡在一起度过了一段很美好的时光。
36. She sells sea shells by the sea shore.
The shells she sells are surely seashells.
If she sells shells on the seashore,
I’m sure she sells seashore shells.
37. The throng of thermometers from the Thuringian Thermometer Folks arrived on Thursday. There were a thousand & thirty-three thick thermometers though, instead of a thousand and thirty-six thin thermometers, which was three thermometers fewer than the thousand and thirty-six we were expecting, not to mention that they were thick ones rather than thin ones. We thoroughly thought that we had ordered a thousand thirty-six, not a thousand and thirty three thermometers, and asked the Thuringian Thermometer Folks to reship the thermometers; thin, not thick. They apologized for sending only a thousand and thirty three thermometers rather than a thousand and thirty six and promised to replace the thick thermometers with thin ones.
