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。
8. A bad thing never dies. 壞事傳千年。
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. 達成的協(xié)議不可撕毀。
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(diào)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。