意大利语综合考试辅导复习资料17

　　i suonatori ma la musica è sempre quella.

　　English translation: The melody's changed but the song remains the same.

　　Cane che abbaia non morde.

　　English translation: The dog that barks doesn't bite.

　　Idiomatic meaning: His bark is worse than his bite.

　　Casa senza fimmina 'mpuvirisci. (Sicilian proverb)

　　English translation: How poor is a home without a woman!

　　Chi ben comincia è a metà dell'opera.

　　English translation: A good start is half the battle

　　Chi cento ne fa, una ne aspetti.

　　English translation: What goes around comes around.

　　Chi cerca trova.

　　English translation: Seek and you shall find.

　　Chi di spada ferisce di spada perisce.

　　English translation: He who lives by the sword dies by the sword.

　　Chi dorme non piglia pesci.

　　English translation: Who sleeps doesn't catch fishes.

　　Idiomatic meaning: The early bird catches the worm.

　　Chi è causa del suo male piange se stesso.

　　English translation: He who has created his own evil cries over the same.

　　Idiomatic meaning: He who has made his bed must lie in it.

　　Chi fa da sé, fa per tre.

　　English translation: He who works by himself does the work of three (people).

　　Idiomatic meaning: Do it yourself if you want it done right.

　　Chi fa falla, e chi non fa sfarfalla.

　　English translation: Those who act make mistakes; and those who do nothing really blunder.

　　Chi ha avuto ha avuto e chi ha dato ha dato.

　　English translation: What's done is done.

　　Chi ha fretta vada piano.

　　English translation: Make haste slowly.

　　Chi ha moglie ha doglie.

　　English translation: A wife means pains.

　　Chi lava il capo all'asino perde il ranno e il sapone.

　　English translation: He who scrubs the head of an ass wastes his time and efforts.

　　Chi non fa, non falla.

　　English translation: Those who do nothing, make no mistakes.

　　Chi non ha moglie non ha padrone.

　　English translation: A man without a wife is a man without a master.

　　Chi non risica, non rosica.

　　English translation: Nothing ventured nothing gained.

　　Chi pecora si fa, il lupo se la mangia.

　　English translation: Those who make themselves sheep will be eaten by the wolf.

　　Chi più sa, meno crede.

　　English translation: The more one knows, the less one believes.

　　Chi prima non pensa in ultimo sospira.

　　English translation: He who first does not think breathes his last.

　　Idiomatic meaning: Look before you leap.

　　Chi sa fa e chi non sa insegna.

　　English translation: Those who know, do, and those who don't, teach.

　　Chi s'aiuta, Dio l'aiuta.

　　English translation: God helps those who help themselves.

　　Chi tace acconsente.

　　English translation: Silence gives consent.

　　Chi tardi arriva male alloggia.

　　English translation: Those who arrive late lodge poorly.

　　Chi trova un amico trova un tesoro.

　　English translation: He who finds a friend, finds a treasure.

　　Chi va piano, va sano; chi va sano, va lontano.

　　English translation: He who goes softly, goes safely; he who goes safely, goes far.

　　Idiomatic meaning: Slowly but surely.

　　Chi vince ha sempre ragione.

　　English translation: Might makes right.

　　Con niente non si fa niente.

　　English translation: You can't make something from nothing.