经典谚语:道德与思想-P

Pain is the price that God puts upon all things.
［译］辛劳是上帝给所有东西加上的价格。
Patience is a flower that grows not in everyone's garden.
［注解］比喻忍耐并非人人都能做到。
［译］忍耐是朵花，并非人人园中都种它。
Patience is a plaster for all sores.
［注解］plaster膏药。比喻忍耐能减轻一切痛苦。
［译］忍耐是治疗一切伤痛的药膏。
Patience is a virtue.
［译］耐心是一种美德。
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
［注解］语出Jean Jacques Rousseau，法国思想家卢梭。
［译］忍耐是痛苦的，但它的果实是甜蜜的。
Patience is the best remedy (or medicine).
［译］忍耐是最好的药物。
Patience overcomes all things.
［译］忍耐能征服一切。
People learn from one another, just as iron sharpens iron.
［注解］语出《圣经·箴言》第27章第17节。
［译］铁磨铁，磨出刃来，人们互相学习，也是如此。
People who are proud will soon be disgraced. It is wiser to be modest.
［注解］语出《圣经·箴言》第11章第2节。disgrace丢脸，耻辱。
［译］骄傲来，羞耻也来，谦虚才是明智之举。
Personality is to man what perfume is to a flower.
［译］人格之于人如同芳香之于花。
Pride and grace dwell never in one place.
［译］傲慢和温文尔雅决不会共处在一起；骄傲与高雅永远不融洽。
Pride goes before a fall. (or Pride will have never left his master without a fall.)
［注解］在莎士比亚的戏剧《查理二世》第5幕第5场中有：Would he not stumble? Would he not fall down? —Since pride must have a fall. 他不会踉跄吗？他不会失足倒地吗？骄傲必会遭到倾覆。（朱生豪译）
［译］骄傲之后要摔跤；骄者必败。
Pride must be pinched.
［注解］pinch这里表示“使……萎缩”。
［译］骄傲必须收敛。
Prosperity discovers vices and adversity virtues.
［译］顺境显邪恶，逆境见善德。