经典谚语:道德与思想-E

Early mistakes are the seeds of future trouble.
［译］早期的错误可以酿成日后的麻烦。
Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.
［译］培养上流人士从教育入手，经过社交使之日趋完美。
Education has for its object the formation of character.
［注解］语出Herbert Spencer，英国哲学家斯宾塞。
［译］教育的目的在于培养品德。
Envy has no holidays.
［注解］语出Francis Bacon，英国哲学家培根。
［译］忌妒无假日。
Envy is a most terrible thing, and would spoil anyone's nature.
［注解］语出Oscar Wilde（王尔德），爱尔兰作家。
［译］嫉妒是最可怕的东西，它会损坏人的天性。
Envy never enriched any man.
［译］嫉妒从不使人得益。
Every bean has its black. (or Every man has his faults. or Every man has his weak side.)
［注解］颗颗豆子有黑嘴；比喻每人都有自己的弱点。
［译］人孰无过；金无足赤，人无完人。
Every one's faults are not written on their foreheads.
［注解］语出英国自然主义作家John Ray（雷伊）。受人责备时常用此谚语反驳，暗示对方也有过错，只是没写在脑门上，不被人知。Every (all) ... not这种结构表示部分否定。
［译］人的错误并不都写在脑门上。
Example is better than precept. (or Example is more powerful than precept.)
［注解］实例优于口训，本谚语指以身作则胜于口头训诲。
［译］身教重于言教；喊破嗓子不如做出样子。
Extremes meet.
［注解］相对的事物通常是可互通的，比如说否极泰来。任何品德、信仰、感情趋于极端就会走向反面。
［译］两极相通，物极必反。