经典谚语:爱情与幸福-L

Labour is light where love doth pay.
［译］爱情作酬报，劳苦必轻松。
Leave virtue and kindness to your children instead of property. Only this can bring happiness to them. This is my experience.
［译］留给你的孩子美德和仁慈，而不是财产。只有这样才能给他们带来幸福，这是我的经验。
Let beggars match with beggars.
［译］龙配龙，凤配凤。
Life is a flower of which love is the honey.
［译］人生是花朵，爱情是花蜜。
Life is ten percent what you make it and ninety percent how you take it.
［译］生活有10％在于你如何塑造它，有90％在于你如何对待它。
Love all, trust a few, be false to none.
［译］要爱一切人，相信少数人，不要负于任何人。
Love alone can release the power of the atom so it will work for man and not against him.
［译］只有爱才能使原子的力量造福人类，而非危害人类。
Love and business teach eloquence.
［译］恋情和经商能培养人的口才。
Love and cough cannot be hid.
［译］爱情和咳嗽是不能掩饰的。
Love asks faith, and faith asks firmness.
［译］爱情要求忠诚，而忠诚要求坚贞。
Love begets love.
［注解］源于拉丁语。
［译］情生情，爱生爱；爱爱相生。
Love can turn the cottage into a golden palace.
［译］爱情可使茅屋成为金碧辉煌的宫殿。
Love cannot be forced.
［译］爱情不能强求。
Love fears no danger.
［译］爱情不怕危险。
Love is a sweet torment.
［注解］torment痛苦，烦恼。
［译］爱情是一种甜蜜的折磨。
Love is a sweet tyranny, because the lover endures his torment willingly.
［注解］tyranny暴政，暴虐。
［译］爱情是甜蜜的暴政，情人心甘情愿地忍受它的折磨。
Love is blind.
［注解］罗马神话中爱神丘比特，携带着弓箭，谁中他的箭就会发生爱情，指爱情使人对缺点视而不见。
［译］爱情是盲目的。
Love is frail at birth, but it grows stronger with age if it is properly fed.
［译］爱在起始阶段是脆弱的，但如果悉心呵护，它会随着时间的推移而牢固起来。
Love is full of trouble.
［译］爱情多烦恼。
Love is like the moon; when it does not increase it decreases.
［译］爱情像月亮，不盈即亏。
Love is never without jealousy.
［译］有爱情就有忌妒。
Love is not to be found in the market.
［译］爱情在市场上是找不到的。
Love is stronger than death.
［译］爱的力量大于死亡。
Love is sweet in the beginning but sour in the ending.
［译］爱情开始甜丝丝，爱情结束酸溜溜。
Love is the active concern for the life and the growth of that which we love.
［译］爱是对那些为我们所爱的人或物的生活、成长积极主动的关心。
Love is the touchstone of virtue.
［译］爱情是美德的试金石。
Love is the true price of love.
［译］爱是爱情的真正代价；爱情只能用爱情来报答。
Love is without reason.
［译］爱情无理智。
Love laughs at locksmiths.
［注解］指爱情锁不住。
［译］爱情嘲笑锁匠。
Love lives in cottages as well as in courts.
［译］爱情无贵贱，贫富皆有之。
Love looks with telescope; envy with microscope.
［译］爱情大处着眼，忌妒吹毛求疵。
Love makes all hard hearts gentle.
［译］爱情把一切冷酷的心变得温柔。
Love makes obedience easy.
［译］爱情使服从变为易事。
Love makes one fit for any work.
［译］爱情使人适合干任何工作；有了爱情，干什么活儿都顺心。
Love me little and love me long.
［注解］这是对“爱得太过分或对人一见如故，热情非凡，转眼即厌烦”的人们的劝告。喻指不求情意浓，但愿情意长。
［译］细水长流，淡交长久。
Love me, love my dog.
［注解］源于拉丁语。喻指爱屋及乌。
［译］如果你爱我，也要爱我的狗；爱屋及乌。
Love needs no teaching.
［译］爱情无需教导。
Love not at the first look.
［译］切莫一见钟情。
Love rules his kingdom without a sword.
［译］维持爱情，不用强力；爱情的王国不用刀剑统治。
Love should not be all on one side.
［译］爱情不应是单方面的。
Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.
［译］追求而得的爱情固然美好，但不经追求而得的爱情更为美好。
Love thy neighbours as thyself.
［注解］thy相当于“你的”。thyself“你自己”。
［译］爱邻如爱己。
Love will find a way.
［译］真情所至，金石为开。
Lovers live by love, as larks live by leeks.
［译］情侣靠爱情生活，就像云雀靠韭葱生活一样。