有相当一部分英语成语和汉语里的成语或词组相通，其使用方法和表达方法几乎完全一样，可以逐词对译出来。这种成语很容易同意，特别合适于初涉英语成语的学员学习，大家搜集整理了一部分。

1. bad egg 坏蛋，歹徒

Trust him nothing；he is a bad egg。别信他，他是个坏蛋。

2. crocodile tears 鳄鱼的眼泪，假慈悲

Don't weep crocodile tears with his misfortune. I know you have always detested him and are only too happy to see him get into trouble。别假惺惺地为他的不幸难过了，我了解你一直讨厌他，看到他倒霉，心里可开心哩！

3. cry wolf 呼喊“狼来了”，发假情报

That politician cries wolf in every speech he makes。那个政治家在他的每篇演说中都发假警报。

4. easier said than done说起来容易做起来难

Easier said than done，let抯 pay more attention to practice.说起来容易做起来难，让大家多注意些实践吧！

5. fish in troubled waters 混水摸鱼，乘人之危

He抯 always been good at fishing in troubled waters; he made a lot of money by buying houses that were bombed in the war. 他一直擅长乘人之危大捞一把，他靠购买在战争中遭过轰炸的房子而赚了很多的钱财。

6. fish out of water 离水之鱼，不能其所

She felt like a fish out of water at the evening party because she knew no one. 她在晚会上感到非常局促，由于她一个人也不认识。

7. gives someone an inch and he will take an ell 得寸进尺

If you give those people an inch，they抣l take an ell；we told them they might use our side path to reach their garden，now they have fenced in the path so that we cannot use it ourselves. 那些人就是得寸进尺；大家对他们说，他们可以经过大家的小道进他们的花园，目前他们已在小道上修起了篱笆，以致大家自己也没办法走这条小路过去了。

8. go west 上西天，死，失败

Poor John was one of those who went west in the explosion. 可怜的约翰是在这次爆炸中魂归西天的人之一。

9. in a word 一句话，简而言之

I have no time to tell you the whole story, in a word, they become hostile to each other。我没时间把全部经过对你说，一句话，他们相互成了仇敌。

10. lose face 丢脸；失面子

Certain country often loses face in regard to its relations with small weak countries on account of its dirty tricks. 某个国家在与弱小国家交往中因其用卑鄙方法而一直丢脸。

11. odds and ends 零零碎碎

What shall we do with all those odds and ends？大家用那些残余的东西可干什么呢？

12. play with fire 玩火，做无谓而危险的事

He who plays with fire gets burned．玩火者必自焚。

13. strike while the iron is hot 趁热打铁

Father is in a good mood at the moment．Strike while the iron is hot and ask him to let you go to the circus.这个时候爸爸的情绪非常不错，乘此机会求他叫你去看马戏。

14. there isno smoke without fire无火不冒烟；无风不起浪

The story is all over the town. It is being spread by someone or by some people. There抯 no smoke without fire.这个传闻遍及全城，有人或有的人还在散布。真是无火不冒烟。

15. a thorn in the flesh （side） 肉中刺；棘手的事，不断使某人烦恼的根源

The memory of this act will be a thorn in the flesh for the rest of your life，my boy. 这种行动会使你不断引起回忆。使你终生烦恼，我的朋友。