Английские пословицы про семью. Английские пословицы о семье
Семейные отношения одни из самых интересных и сложных. Существует множество выражений, характеризующих членов семьи, их поведение, характер.
Давайте рассмотрим некоторые идиомы так или иначе связанные с семьей, семейными отношениями.
The black sheep (досл. черная овца)
Данная сразу наводит на мысль о русской «паршивой овце», но в английском языке the black sheep не несет отрицательного значения. To be the black sheep – означает быть не таким как все, отличаться, как правило, от родственников. Поэтому the black sheep корректнее будет перевести как – белая ворона .
My younger brother is the black sheep. He is different from the rest of the family.
Мой младший брат – белая ворона. Он отличается от всех членов нашей семьи.
To see eye to eye (досл. смотреть глазом в глаз)
Когда люди могут смотреть в глаза друг друга? Англичане полагают, что тогда, когда люди полностью соглашаются друг с другом, смотрят на ситуацию одними глазами, т.е. сходятся во взглядах.
They split up because they didn’t see eye to eye.
Они развелись, так полностью не совпадали во взглядах (т.к. не сошлись характерами).
To be not on speaking terms (досл. не быть на разговорных условиях)
Само выражение говорит за себя, а именно то: что кто-то не разговаривают друг с другом; объявить бойкот.
The atmosphere is a bit tense right now as my two sisters aren’t on speaking terms.
Сейчас в семье напряженная атмосфера, т.к. сестры не разговаривают друг с другом.
Get-together
Глагол to get имеет множество значений, одни из них – получать, доставать, собирать.
Сама идиома get-together означает собираться вместе.
We’re having a family get-together to celebrate my dad’s 80th birthday.
Вся наша семья соберется на празднование 80-ти летнего празднование юбилея деда.
To wear the trousers (досл. носить брюки)
По логике вещей изначально носить брюки могли только мужчины, и испокон веков мужчина в семье являлся главой, кормильцем.
Но в современном мире и женщина может быть главой семьи ; о таких вот дамах и идет речь, о «генералах в юбках».
My sister wears the trousers in that marriage! She makes the decisions and tells her husband what to do.
Моя сестра верховодит в своем браке. Она принимает все решения и говорит мужу, что ему делать.
It runs in the family (досл. это бегает/передвигается в семье)
Так говорят о том, что передается в семье из поколения в поколение , например: зеленый цвет глаз или рождение близнецов.
I only want one more child, but twins run in our family.
Я бы хотела еще одного ребенка, но в нашем роду рождаются двойни (близнецы).
To have a skeleton in the cupboard (досл. иметь скелет в шкафу )
Данная идиома полностью совпадает с русским выражением и применяется для описания каких-то семейных «скелетов», т.е. секретов, тайн, малоизвестных и неприятных вещах.
Most families have a skeleton in the cupboard. Something happened in the past that they would prefer to keep secret.
Большинство семей имеют свои секреты. События из прошлого, о которых не хотелось бы рассказывать (хотелось бы забыть).
Own flesh and blood (досл. собственная (своя) плоть и кровь)
Своей плотью и кровью, конечно, называют своих кровинушек, родниньких деток, родных братьев и сестер, т.е. тех, кто плоть от плоти и кровь от крови.
She’s your sister! How can you say that about your own flesh and blood?
Она твоя сестра! Как ты можешь так отзываться о своей плоти и крови?
A family in harmony will prosper in everything. ~ Chinese Proverb
It is easy to govern a kingdom but difficult to rule one’s family .~ Chinese Proverb
A man can’t get rich if he takes proper care of his family .~ Navajo Proverb
Even the maid has a family .~ South African Proverb
The family is like the forest: if you are outside, it is dense; if you are inside, you see that each tree has its own position. ~ Ghanaian Proverbs
None but a mule denies his family . ~ Arabian Proverb
If you want a place in the sun, you must leave the shade of the family tree.~ Osage Proverb
Dine with a stranger but save your love for your family .~ Ethiopian Proverb
In a good family the husband is deaf and the wife blind.~ French Proverb
Look for the good, not the evil, in the conduct of members of the family .~ Jewish Proverbs
A dog shows affection even to a poor family . ~ Chinese Proverb
The family that prays together stays together. ~ Traditional Proverb
A family with an old person has a living treasure of gold. ~ Chinese Proverb
If the family is together, the soul is in the right place.~ Russian Proverbs
The one who first shuts up in an argument is from a good family . ~ Slovak Proverbs
You can eat and drink with your family but not count and measure. ~ German Proverbs
When you return from a trip, bring back something for your family — even if it is only a stone. ~ Lebanese Proverb
Man is the head of the family , woman the neck that turns the head.~ Chinese Proverb
Govern a family as you would cook a small fish, very gently.~ Chinese Proverb
In every family’s cooking pot is one black spot.~ Chinese Proverb
Quotations about Family
Where can a person be better than in the bosom of their family.~ Marmontel Gretry
In that family where the husband is pleased with his wife, and the wife with her husband, happiness will assuredly be lasting. ~ Brahma
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.~ Sir John Bowring
Christmas is a holiday that we celebrate not as individuals nor as a nation, but as a human family. ~ Ronald Reagan Quotes
In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents. ~ Honore de Balzac
Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life! ~ Albert Einstein Quotes
Family: Life’s greatest blessing, family is what grounds you. ~ Angelina Jolie
The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other. ~ Mario Puzo
The family is the first essential cell of human society. ~ Pope John XXIII
Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family. ~ Anthony Brandt
The family is both the fundamental unit of society as well as the root of culture. It … is a perpetual source of encouragement, advocacy, assurance, and emotional refueling that empowers a child to venture with confidence into the greater world and to become all that he can be. ~ Marianne E. Neifert
Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family. ~ George Bernard Shaw
All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning. ~ Henry David Thoreau
At the end of the day, a loving family should find everything forgivable. ~ Mark V. Olsen and Will Sheffer
A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another.~ Buddha
Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one. ~ Jane Howard
To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there. ~ Barbara Bush
The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family. ~ Lee Iacocca
You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family. ~ Anita Baker
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof. ~ Richard Bach
To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others. ~ Pope John Paul II
The family is a haven in a heartless world. ~ Christopher Lasch
My family begins with me, your family ends with you. ~ Author Unknown
The trouble with the family is that children grow out of childhood, but parents never grow out of parenthood. ~ Evan Esar
The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes
Every family should have a plan for work that touches the life of each family member so that this eternal principle will be ingrained in their lives. ~ M. Russell Ballard
No matter what you’ve done for yourself or for humanity, if you can’t look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished? ~ Lee Iacocca
A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.~ Karl Wilhelm Friedrich
The family is the nucleus of civilization.~ William J. Durant
Friends are the family we choose for ourselves.~ Edna Buchanan
Nothing purchased can come close to the renewed sense of gratitude for having family and friends. ~ Courtland Milloy
I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family - and I don’t think I could ask for anything more than that, actually. ~ Frank Sinatra
To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right. ~ Confucius Quotes
God created the family to provide the maximum love and support and morality and example that one can imagine. ~ Jerry Falwell
If we abandon marriage, we abandon the family.~ Michael Enzi
I believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other.~ Jet Li
Having a place to go — is a home. Having someone to love — is a family. Having both — is a blessing. ~ Donna Hedges
The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family. ~ Thomas Jefferson Quotes
The whole world is one family.~ Sun Yat-sen
The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society’s most basic values. ~ Charles Caleb Colton
Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family. ~ Barbara Bush Quotes
The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family. ~ Clare Boothe Luce
I would rather start a family than finish one.~ Don Marquis
The family is the school of duties… founded on love.~ Felix Adler
I don’t care how poor a man is; if he has family, he’s rich. ~ Dan Wilcox and Thad Mumford
My family really does come first. It always did and always will. ~ Meryl Streep
The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself. ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
A family needs to work as a team, supporting each other’s individual aims and aspirations. ~ Buzz Aldrin
Family means putting your arms around each other and being there.~ Barbara Bush
Love makes a family. ~ Florence Nightingale
The presidency is temporary but the family is permanent.~ Yvonne De Gaulle
The family unit plays a critical role in our society and in the training of the generation to come. ~ Sandra Day O’Connor
He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too. ~ Benjamin Franklin Quotes
A woman can take care of the family. It takes a man to provide structure. To provide stability. Not that a woman can’t provide stability, I’m not saying that… It does take a father, though. ~ Tom Delay
Family is the most important thing in the world.~ Princess Diana Quotes
Family is not an important thing, it’s everything.~ Michael J. Fox
If you don’t believe in ghosts, you’ve never been to a family reunion. ~ Ashleigh Brilliant
Marriage is to family what legs are to a table. ~ Betty Jane Wylie
Where there is lasting love, there is a family.~ Shere Hite
Children keep a family together, especially when one can’t get a babysitter. ~ Frederick Shepperd
Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice. ~ Reinhold Niebuhr
You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them. ~ Desmond Tutu
Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.~ Richard Bach
Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don’t wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it’s at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored. ~ Earl Nightingale
A man cannot leave a better legacy to the world than a well-educated family.~ Thomas Scott
My family is my strength and my weakness.~ Aishwarya Rai
The angel of the Family is Woman. Mother, wife, or sister . ~ Giuseppe Mazzini
In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth. ~ V. S. Pritchett
Family is just accident…. They don’t mean to get on your nerves. They don’t even mean to be your family, they just are. ~ Marsha Norman
Disorder in the society is the result of disorder in the family.~ Elizabeth Ann Seton
The family is the association established by nature for the supply of man’s everyday wants. ~ Aristotle Quotes
A family is a tyranny ruled over by it’s weakest member. ~ George Bernard Shaw Quotes
A man should never neglect his family for business. ~ Walt Disney
Family life is the source of the greatest human happiness.~ Robert J. Havighurst
Calamities are of two kinds. Misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
«Бедствия бывают двух сортов: неудачи, которые терпим мы и удачи, которые сопутствуют другим.»
Destroy what destroys you.
«Уничтожь, то что уничтожает тебя.»
Do not squander time – this is stuff life is made of.
«Не тратьте время зря – из него состоит жизнь.»
Enjoy every moment.
«Наслаждайся каждым моментом.»
Everyone is the creator of one’s own fate.
«Каждый сам творец своей судьбы.»
Remember who you are.
«Помни, кто ты есть.»
Stretching his hand out to catch the stars, he forgets the flowers at his feet.
«Вытягивая руку, чтобы поймать звёзды, он забывает о цветах у себя под ногами.»
Success is not in what you have, but who you are.
«Успех не в том, что имеешь, а в том, что ты из себя представляешь.»
The more you give the more you love
«Чем больше ты отдаешь, тем больше любишь.»
You can’t make your heart feel something it won’t.
«Ты не можешь заставить свое сердце чувствовать то, что оно не чувствует.»
Your life is not a problem to be solved but a gift to be opened.
«Твоя жизнь – это не проблема, которую нужно решить, а подарок, который нужно раскрыть.»
Live without regrets.
«Живи без сожалений.»
Lost time is never found again.
«Потерянное время никогда не вернётся.»
Love is my religion.
«Любовь – это моя религия.»
Love is not finding someone to live with, its finding someone you can’t live without.
«Любовь — это найти того, без кого вы не сможете жить.»
Money often costs too much
«Часто деньги стоят слишком дорого.»
Never look back.
«Никогда не смотри назад.»
Never stop dreaming.
«Никогда не переставай мечтать.»
Everyone sees the world in one’s own way
«Каждый видит мир по-своему.»
Everyone underwent something that changed him.
«Каждый прошел через что-то, что изменило его.»
Failure does not mean I have disgraced; It does mean I have dared to try
«Неудача не означает, что я опозорен; Она означает, я имел смелость рискнуть»
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
«Малейшей капли надежды достаточно для рождения любви.»
All we need is love.
«Все что нам нужно - это любовь.»
Be careful with your thoughts – they are the beginning of deeds.
«Будьте внимательны к своим мыслям — они начало поступков.»
Be loyal to the one who is loyal to you.
«Будь верен тому, кто верен тебе.»
Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
«Красота — это дар, к которому мало кто испытывает презрение, за исключением тех, кому в этом даре отказано.»
Beauty is only skin deep, but it’s a valuable asset if you are poor or haven’t any sense.
«Красота обманчива, но она ценное качество, если Вы бедны или не очень умны.»
Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.
«Красота — это сила, и улыбка — ее меч.»
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted
«Доброта, даже самая маленькая, никогда не пропадает даром.»
No man or woman is worth your tears, and the one who is, would not make you cry.
«Ни один человек не заслуживает твоих слез, а те, кто заслуживают, не заставят тебя плакать.»
Not the power to remember, but it’s very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.
«Не способность помнить, а совсем наоборот способность забывать — необходимое условие нашего существования.»
Nothing is beautiful from every point of view.
«Ничто не может быть красиво со всех точек зрения.»
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
«Одно слово освобождает нас от всех тяжестей и болей жизни: это слово — любовь.»
Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
«Кто не может изменить свои воззрения, не может изменить ничего.»
To get anywhere, strike out for somewhere, or you will get nowhere
«Чтобы попасть куда-либо, двигайся в каком-нибудь направлении или не попадешь никуда.»
We do not remember days, we remember moments.
«Мы не помним дни, мы помним моменты.»
When in doubt, tell the truth
«Когда сомневаешься, говори правду.»
While I’m breathing - I love and believe.
«Пока дышу - люблю и верю.»
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
«Проще простить врага, чем друга.»
A life is a moment.
«Одна жизнь - одно мгновение.»
Fall down seven times, stand up eight.
«Упасть семь раз, встать восемь.»
Fools grow without watering
«Дураки растут без полива.»
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
«Счастье - это не цель, а образ жизни.»
Have no fear of perfection; you’ll never reach it