■Paddle your own canoe. 自力更生;自食其力。 ■Pain is forgotten where gain follows. 好了伤疤忘了痛。 ■Pardoning the bad is injuring the good. 饶了坏人便伤了好人。 ■Patience and application will carry us through. 忍耐和努力会使我们度过难关。 ■Patience is a flower that grows not in everyone’s garden. 忍耐是朵花,并非人人园中都开发。 ■Patience is a plaster for all sores. 忍耐是治疗一切伤痛的药膏。 ■Patience is a virtue. 忍耐是一种美德。 ■Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. 忍耐是苦痛的,但它的果实是甜蜜的。 ■Patience is the best remedy (or medicine). 忍耐是最好的药物。 ■Patience, time, and money overcome everything. 耐心,时间和金钱可以征服一切。 ■Pay somebody back in his own coin. 一报还一报。 ■Peace on earth and good will towards men. 愿世界得太平,人间持善意。 ■Peace with sword in hand, ‘tis safest making. 居安思危,此乃万全之策。 ■Pen and ink is wit’s plough. 笔墨是才智之犁。 ■Penny and penny laid up will be many. 积少成多。 ■Penny wise and pound foolish. 小事聪明,大事糊涂。 ■People do not lack strength; they lack will. 人们不缺力量,缺的是决心。 ■Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth. 失败十九次,坚持而不动,待到二十次,大事就成功。 ■Perseverance is vital to success. 不屈不挠是成功之本。 ■Pitchers/Walls have ears. 隔墙有耳。 ■Pity is akin to love. 怜悯近乎爱情。 ■Plants of learning must be watered with the rain of tears. 知识的幼苗要用泪雨来浇灌。 ■Pleasant hours fly fast. 欢乐的时间过得快。 ■Pleasing everybody is pleasing nobody. 讨好每个人,人人不讨好。 ■Pleasure has a sting in its tail. 乐中必有苦。 ■Plenty is no plague. 富裕绝非灾祸。 ■Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive and widely effective mode of saying things, and hence its importance. 诗歌只不过是最美丽、最感人、最有力的说话方式,这也就是诗歌的价值。 ■Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. 诗人是世上没有得到承认的立法者。 ■Politeness costs nothing and gains everything. 礼貌不费分文而可赢得一切。 ■Politeness is to do and say the kindest thing in the kindest way. 文雅就是善良地做事,和善地说话。 ■Poor men’s words have little weight. 人微言轻。 ■Poverty breeds strife. 贫穷引起斗争。 ■Poverty is a pain, but no disgrace. 贫困是痛苦,但不是耻辱。 ■Poverty is no shame, laziness is. 贫穷不害羞,懒惰才可耻。 ■Poverty is no sin. 贫穷不是罪恶。 ■Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is. 贫非耻,耻贫乃耻。 ■Poverty is not a sufficient cause of disgrace, but poverty without resolution to help oneself is a disgrace. 贫穷并不可耻,穷而不争气才可耻。 ■Poverty is the mother of all arts. 贫困乃一切艺术之源。 ■Poverty is the mother of health. 缺乏是健康之母。 ■Poverty is the reward of idleness. 贫穷是游手好闲的报应。 ■Poverty is the root of all evils. 穷困是万恶之源。 ■Poverty on an old man’s back is a heavy burden. 老而贫穷,负担沈重。 ■Poverty shows us who are our friends and who are our enemies. 贫困才能显出敌和友。