1. A bad beginning makes a bad ending.
惡其始者必惡其終。

2. A bad bush is better than the open field.
有勝于無。

3. A bad compromise is better than a good lawsuit.
吃虧的和解也比勝訴強。

4. A bad conscience is a snake in one's heart.
做賊心虛。

5. A bad custom is like a good cake， better broken than kept.
壞習慣像鮮餡餅，分食要比保存好。

6. A bad padlock invites a picklock.
開門揖盜。 ?

7.A change of work is as good as a rest.
調換一下工作是很好的休息。

8. A bad thing never dies.
遺臭萬年。 ?

9. A bad workman quarrels with his tools.
拙匠常怨工具差（人笨怨刀鈍）。 ?

10. A bargain is a bargain.
君子一言，駟馬難追。 ?

11. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
雙鳥在林不如一鳥在手。 ?

12. A beggar's purse is bottomless.
乞丐的錢袋是無底洞。 ?

13. A bird is known by its note，and a man by his talk.
聞其歌知其鳥，聽其言知其人。 ?

14. A bird may be known by its song.
什么鳥唱什么歌。

15. A bit in the morning is better than nothing all day.
略有勝于全無。

16. A blind man who leans against a wall imagines that it's the boundary of the world.
坐井觀天。

17. A blind man will not thank you for a looking-glass.
秋波送盲，白費癡情。

18. A book is the same today as it always was and it will never change.
一本好書今天如此，將來也如此，永不改變。

19. A book that remains shut is but a block.
有書閉卷不閱讀，無異是一塊木頭。

20. A borrowed cloak does not keep one warm.
借來的斗篷不暖身。 ?

21. Absence sharpens love， presence strengthens it.
相聚愛益切，離別情更深。

22. A burden of one's choice is not felt.
自己選的擔子不嫌重。

23. A burnt child dreads the fire.
一朝被蛇咬，十年怕井繩。

24. A candle lights others and consumes itself.
蠟燭焚自身，光亮照別人。 ?

25. A cat may look at a king.
貓也有權晉見國王。

26. A cat has nine lives.
貓有九條命。 ?

27. Accidents will happen.
天有不測風云。

28. A chain is no stronger than its weakest link.
鏈條的堅固程度取決于它最薄弱的環(huán)節(jié)。

29. A change of work is as good as a rest.
調換一下工作是很好的休息。

30. A cheerful wife is the joy of life.
快樂的妻子是生活的樂事。