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习语口译技巧 1. 直译法 对结构和意义上完全对应的习语应采用对等直译法。把原语的习俗、比喻移植到译入语中，这样既能确切地表达原意，又能保留原语生动、形象、鲜明的民族色彩。 Again and again 再三 Many and many a time 屡次 By and by 不久以后 Measure and measure 针锋相对 Over and over 再三 Through and through 彻底 Round and round 团团转 Neck and neck 不分上下 Easy come easy go 易得易失去 stony heart / have a heart of stone 铁石心肠 plain sailing 一帆风顺 in black and white 白纸黑字 flesh and blood 亲骨肉；亲人 as firm as a rock 坚如磐石 to be led by the nose 被牵着鼻子走 to show ones cards 摊牌 to be armed to the teeth 武装到牙齿 to turn a deaf ear to… 充耳不闻 to pick bones from an egg 鸡蛋里面挑骨头 Facts speak louder than words. 事实胜于雄辩 Failure is the mother of success. 失败乃成功之母 Honesty is the best policy. 诚实是上策 Children and fools tell the truth. 童愚吐真言 Evil is rewarded with evil. 恶有恶报 Content is happiness. 知足者常乐 Know your own faults before blaming others for theirs. 欲责他人，应先知己过；欲正人，先正己。 One swallow does not make a summer. 一燕难成夏。 引狼入室 to head a wolf into the house 易如反掌 as easy as turning over one’s palm 鼠目寸光 as short-sighted as mice 一心一意 with one heart and one mind 沧海一滴 a drop in the ocean 轻如鸿毛 as light as a feather 实事求是 to seek truth from facts 一见如故　 to feel like old friends at the first meeting 同甘共苦 to share each others joys and hardships 掩耳盗铃 to plug ones ears while stealing a bell 知识就是力量。 Knowledge is power. 一寸光阴一寸金 , 寸金难买寸光阴。 An inch of time is worth an inch of gold ， but an inch of gold cannot purchase an inch of time. 一回生，两回熟。 First meeting, strangers; second meeting, old friends. 一年之计在于春。 The whole years work depends on a good start in spring. 一鸟在手远胜两鸟在林。 A bird in hand is worth two in the bush. 兔子尾巴——长不了。 Like a rabbit tail-----it cannot grow any longer-----it wont last long. 搬起石头砸自己的脚——自作自受 to lift a rock only to drop it on ones own feet-----to suffer from what one has done 鳄鱼掉眼泪——假慈悲 crocodile shedding tears------pretending to be benevolent 借用相似的结构或者大体相同的形象比喻。 as blind as a bat 有眼无珠 as timid as a hare 胆小如鼠 on pins and needles 如坐针毡 as poor as a church mouse 一贫如洗 to kill two birds