英語作文如何引用諺語

在英語寫作中適當地引用一些諺語，會讓老師眼前一亮。下面是小編整理的英語作文如何引用諺語的方法,一起來看看吧。

　　英語作文如何引用諺語的方法

衆所周知，諺語乃是一種語言的精華，寓意深刻，表達雋永。在英語寫作中如能適當地引用一些英語諺語，可以爲文章增輝添彩。在寫作時如何把平時積累的諺語恰當地引用到文章中去呢?以下總結了英語中常見的'引用諺語的地道表達法，供同學們寫作時模仿使用。

諺語在英語中叫proverb，引用時經常會在其前面酌情加上old, Chinese, English, Russian之類的形容詞;動詞一般用go, say, state, has it, put it等，在這些動詞後面用逗號或冒號皆可。諺語可加雙引號(這時諺語的第一個字母要大寫)，也可不加雙引號(這時第一個字母一般不大寫)。引用諺語的表達方式常見的有如下幾種：

(1) A proverb goes / says, ……

As a / the proverb goes / says, ……

A Yiddish proverb goes, “Better to lose with a wise man than win with a fool.”

有一句依地語諺語說得好，“寧輸智者，不贏傻子。”

A proverb says, “Medicine cures the man who is fated not to die.”

有一句諺語說，“命不該死有藥救。”

As a Chinese proverb goes, “Don’t climb a tree to look for fish.”

正如中國的一句諺語所說，“不要緣木求魚。”

As the old Chinese proverb says, “If you do not enter a tiger’s den, you cannot get her cubs.”

正如中國的一句諺語所說，“不入虎穴，焉得虎子。”

(2) As a / the proverb has it / puts it,……

A proverb has it that ……

As a Spanish proverb has it, “Flies don’t enter a closed mouth.”

正如一句西班牙諺語所說，“禍從口入。”

As a Navajo proverb puts it, “What comes around goes around.”

正如納瓦霍族的一句諺語所說，“一報還一報。”

As a local proverb here in Chad puts it: A woman who is pregnant has one foot in the grave.

正如乍得當地的一句諺語所說：女人懷寶寶，鬼門關上走一遭。

An old proverb has it that “if the thorn doesn't scratch when it first emerge, it will never scratch.”

有一句古老的諺語說，“如果荊棘剛長出時不扎手，那麼它就永遠不扎手。”

(3) There is a proverb: ……

There is a / the proverb that goes / states, ……

There’s an African proverb: “Educate a boy, and educate an individual. Educate a girl, and you educate a community.” 有一句非洲的諺語說：“教育好一個男孩，僅教育好一人。教育好一個女孩，則教育好一羣人。” There’s a Russian proverb that goes: you must support the most talented people because untalented people will support themselves.

有一句俄羅斯諺語說，你須擁戴賢人，庸者僅會自顧。

There is an old Jewish proverb that states: “A Shekel is always better in my pocket than in yours.”

有一句古老的猶太諺語說：“金幣在我口袋裏總比在你口袋裏強。”

(4) ……, a / the proverb goes, ……

……, goes a / the proverb, ……

“A river is deep,” an old African proverb goes, “because of its source.”

有一句古老的非洲諺語說，河有源泉水才深。

To kill a snake, goes an old African proverb, you must first crush the head.

有一句古老的非洲諺語說，打蛇先打頭。

(5) …… have a proverb that goes, ……

There exists a proverb. It goes, ……

The Arabs have a proverb that goes, “When the sultan’s dog died, everyone marched in his funeral. But when the sultan himself died, no one marched at all.”

阿拉伯人有一句諺語是這樣說的，“當蘇丹的狗死了，人人都爲之送葬。而當蘇丹死了，卻無人爲之送葬。”

諺語作爲羣衆集體智慧的結晶，多具有鮮明的民族性和地域特色。由於中西文化的差異，一些在漢語中人們耳熟能詳的諺語卻未必爲西方人所理解。所以在引用漢語諺語時，如果中國特色過於濃厚，則可舍其形而取其意，寫成英語中與之意思對等的西方諺語。例如，有的同學想表達這個意思：本性難移，於是寫道：As a Chinese proverb goes, a dog cannot change its habit of eating shit. 這樣寫不但失之粗鄙，還會讓愛犬的西方人大惑不解。所以，這個意思宜寫成A leopard cannot change its spots. 或者A fox may grow gray, but never good.