很好的学习材料。我这里有一些类似的初级版的英文谚语、成语

www.amazon.com/The-First-Dictionary-Cultural-Literacy/dp/0618408533

年初买了这本书，以后跟孩子一起学。我们不是土生土长在这里，英语文化知识相对欠缺。

第一部分是Proverb，花点时间自己敲了一遍，也算是学习一下。

Actions speak louder than words

All for one and one for all           人人为我，我为人人

All's well that ends well

An apple a day keeps the doctor away

April showers bring May flower

Beauty is only skin deep                              
 

Beggars can't be choosers

The best-laid plans of mice and men oft go awry

Better late than never

Better safe than sorry

The bigger they are, the harder they fall

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush

Birds of a feather flock together
Count your blessings

Curiosity killed the cat

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you    己所不欲，勿施于人（《论语·颜渊》）

A dog is man's best friend

Don't count your chicken before they hatch

Don't cry over spilt milk

Don't cut off your nose to spite your face
Don't judge a book by its cover

Don't lock the stable door after the horse is stolen

Don't look a gift horse in the mouth
 

Don't put all your eggs in one basket

Don't put the cart before the horse

The early bird catches the worm

Early to bed and early to rise/Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise

Every cloud has a silver lining

Fish out of water
 

A fool and his money are soon parted

A friend in need is a friend indeed

God helps those who help themselves

The grass is always greener on the other side

Great oaks from little acorns grow

Half a loaf is better than none
Haste makes waste                     欲速则不达
 

He who hesitates is lost

He who laughs last laughs best

Hitch your wagon to a star

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again

If the shoe fits, waer it

If wishes were horses, then beggars would ride

Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone
 

A leopard cannot change his spots

Let bygones be bygones

Lighting never stikes twice in the same place

Little stokes fell great oaks

Live and learn

Live and let live

Look before you leap
Make hay while the sun shine

Many hands make light work              人多力量大 
 

Mind your p's and q's

A miss is as good as a mile

Money is the root of all evil

The more the merrier

Necessity is the mother of invention

It's never over till it's over

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today  今日事今日毕
 

It's never too late to mend

Nothing will come of nothing

Once bitten, twice shy                           一朝被蛇咬 十年怕井绳 

One rotten apple spoils the whole barrel         一粒老鼠屎坏一锅汤

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure

A penny saved is a penny earned

A picture is worth a thousand words
 

A place for everything and everything in its place

Practice makes perfect

Practice what you preach                  表里如一

Procrastination is the thief of time

The proof of the pudding is in the eating

The road to hell is paved with good intentions

Rome wasn't built in a day

Seeing is believing
 

The show must go on

A stitch in time saves nine

Strike while the iron is hot

There's more than one way to skin a cat

There's no place like home

Time heals all wounds

Truth is stranger than fiction

Two heads are better than one                  三个臭皮匠 顶个诸葛亮
 

Two wrongs don't make a right

Waste out, want not

A watched pot never boils

Well begun is half done

What will be, will be

When in Rome, do as the Romans do           入乡随俗 
 

When it rains, it pours

Where there is a will, there is a way

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink

You can't teach an old dog new tricks


第二部分是idiom，也是属于最基本的。

aka. also known as
as the crow flies
back to the drawing board
his bark is worse than his bite
beat around the bush
bee in his bonnet
Between a rock and a hard place 进退维谷

birthday suit   一丝不挂
bite the dust
bite the hand that feed you (上次有个美国教授形容山东瞎子陈光诚时，用了这个成语)
blow hot and cold 反复无常
break the ice
bull in a china shop (瓷器店里来一头公牛，结果可想而知了)

bury the hatchet
can't hold a candle to
catch-as-catch-can
chip on one's shoulder
clean bill of health
cold feet
the cold shoulder

crocodile tears
easier said than done
eat crow
eat someone out of house and home
eleventh hour
Eureka!
a feather in your cap

few and far between
first come, first served
follow your nose
for the birds
forgive and forget
forty winks
get a taste of one's own medicine 以其人之道还治其人之身

get up on the wrong side of the bed
give the devil his due 公平对待,平心而论
go to pot
hit the nail on the head 一针见血
in hot water 陷入困境
keep your fingers crossed
kill two birds with one stone 一箭双雕

land of Nod
the last straw （压垮骆驼的）最后一根稻草，或者（最后一根）救命稻草
let the cat out of the bag 不小心泄漏秘密
lock, stock, and barrel
make a mountain out of a molehill
make ends meet 收支相抵、维持生计
money burning a hole in your pocket 留不住钱，急于花钱
nose out of joint

off the cuff
old hat
on its last legs
on tenterhooks 提心吊胆；焦虑不安；如坐针毡
on the warpath
once in a blue moon
out of the frying pan into the fire
the pot calling the kettle black 五十步笑百步

raining cats and dogs
read between the lines 言外之意; 弦外之音
rule of thumb
rule the roost 大权独揽
run-of-the-mill
shipshape
sit on the fence 骑墙

sour grape
steal someone's thunder
take the bull by the horns
tempest in a teapot
tenderfoot
through thick and thin 同甘共苦，风雨同舟

till the cow come home
Timbuktu
tit for tat
Tom, Dick, and Harry 张三、李四、王二麻子
touch and go
turn over a new leaf
wolf in sheep's clothing

English 语言、语法

 

abbreviation

adjective

adverb

agreement

alliteration

antonyms

apostrophe

article

auxiliary verb

bibiliograpgy

capital letter

clause

colon

comma

conjunction

consonants

contraction

declarative sentence

definite article

dependent clause

direct object

exclaimation

exclaimation point

grammar

helping verb

homonyms

imperative sentence

indefinite artivle

independent clause

indirect object

interjection

interrogative sentence

irregular verb

italics

linking verb

lower case

modifier

nominative case

noun

object

objective case

onomatopoeia   拟声(法)构词, 象声词

paragraph

parentheses

part of speech

period

person

personal pronoun

phrase

plural

possessive

predicate

prefix

preposition

prepositional phrase

pronoun

proper noun

punctuation marks

question mark

quotation marks

regular verb

semicolon

sentence

singular

style

subject

suffix

syllable

synonyms

tense

topic sentence

uppercase letter

verb

vowels

 

 

Literature  文学 
 

act

Aesop's fables

Aladin's Lamp

Alcott, Louisa May

Alger, Horatio

Ali Baba

Alice in Wonderland

"All the world's a stage"

Andersen, Hans Christian

Androcles and the Lion

Angelou, Maya

Animal Farm

Arabian Nights

Austen, Jane

autobiography

"Baa, Baa, Black Sheep"

Babar

Baldwin, James

"Beauty and the Beast"

Big bad Wolf

biography

"The Blind Men and the Elephant"

"The Boy Who Cried Wolf"

Brer Rabbit

Brontë, Charlotte and Emily

Camelot

Captain Hook

Carroll, Lewis

"Casey at the Bat"

The Catcher in the Rye

Cervantes, Miguel de 

character

Charlotte's Web

Cheshire Cat

Chicken Little

A Child's Garden of Verses

A Christmas Carol

"Cinderella"

comedy

couplet

Crane, Ichabod

Cullen, Countee

David Copperfield

Dickens, Charles

Dickinson, Emily

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Don Quixote

Dracula

Dunbar, paul laurence

elf

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

"The Emperor's New Clothes"

epic

essay

Excalibur

fable

fairy

fairy tale

Faulkner, William

fiction

folk tale

"The Fox anf the Grapes"

Frankenstein

free verse

frog prince

Frost, Robert

Galahad, Sir

"Georgie Porgie"

Globe Theater

"God bless us, every one!"

"Goldolocks and the Three Bears"

Gone with the Wind

"The Goose That Laid the Golden Eggs"

Grimm Brothers

Grinch

Guinevere

Gulliver's Travels

Hamlet

"Hansel and Gretel"

The Hare and the Tortoise"

Harlem Renaissance

Harry Potter

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Headless Horseman

Hemingway, Ernest

hero

heroine

"Hey Diddle Diddle"

Hiawaths

"Hickory, Dickory, Dock"

Homer

"Hot Cross Buns"

"The House That Jack Built"

Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of

Hughes, Langston

"Humpty Dumpty"

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Hurston, Zora Neale

"I think I can, I think I can"

Iliad

imagery

Invisible Man

Ivanhoe

"Jabberwocky"

"Jack and Jill"

"Jack and the Beanstalk"

"Jack Be Nimble"

"Jack Sprat"

Jekyll and Hyde

Johnson, James Weldon

Julius Caesar

King Arthur

Kipling, Rudyard

Knights of the Round Table

Lady of the Lake

"Ladybug, Ladybug, Fly Away Home"

Lancelot

"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"

Lilliput

Limerick

"Little Bo-peep"

"Little Boy Blue"

"The Little Engine That Could"

"Little Jack Horner"

"Little Miss Muffet"

Little Red Hen

"Little Red Riding Hood"

Little Women

Longfellow, Herry Wadsworth

Lord of the Files

Macbeth

magic carpet

"Mary had a Little Lamb"

"Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary"

Melville, Herman

Merlin

metaphor

meter

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

"Mirror, mirror, on the wall"

Moby Dick

moral

Morrison, Toni

Mother Goose

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

narrator

Never-Never land

night before Chistmas, "Twas the

nonfiction

novel

"Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep"

nursery rhyme

Odyssey

"Old King Cole"

"Old Mother Hubband"

Oliver Twist

"One, Two, Buckle Me Shoe"

One if by land, and two if by sea

"Open, Sesame"

Othello

"The Owl and the Pussycat"

"Paul River's Ride"

Pecos Bill

pen name

personification

Peter Pan

Peter Rabbit, The Tale of

"The Pied Piper of Hamelin"

Pinocchio

play

playwright

plot

Po, Edgar, Allan

poem

peotry

Pollyanna

"The princess and the Pea"

prose

Pulitzer Prizes

"Puss-in-Boots"

"Rain, Rain, Go Away"

"Rapuuzel"

"The Raven"

rhyme

rhyme scheme

"Rip Van Wrinkle"

Robin Hood

Robinson Crusoe

"Rock-a-Bye Baby"

Romeo and Juliet

Rose are red

"Rub-a-Dub-Dub"

"Rumpelstiltskin"

Sancho Panza

Sandburg, Carl

scene

Scrooge

The Secret Garden

setting

Seuss, Dr.

Seven Dwarfs

Shakespeare, William

Sherlock Holmes

Sherwood Forest

short story

Silverstein, Shel

simile

"Simple Simon"

Sinbad the Sailor

"Sing a Song of Sixpence"

"Sleeping Beauty"

"Snow White and the Seven Dwarf"

stanza

"Star Light, Star Bright"

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Superman

tall tale

Tarzan

There is no joy in Mudville

There was a little girl

"There Was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe"

"Thirty Days Hath September"

This little piggy went to market

Thoreau, Henry David

"The Three Bears"

"Three Blind Mice"

"Three Lillte Kittens"

"The Three Little Pigs"

Tinker Bell

Tolkein, J.R.R.

Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of

Tom Thumb

"The Tortoise and the Hare"

tragedy

Treasure Island

Twin, Mark

Tweedledum and Tweedledee

"Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star"

"The Ugly Duckling"

Uncle Remus

Uncle Tom's Cabin

verse

"The Village Blacksmith"

Virgil

Walker, Alice

Welty, Eudora

Wheatley, Phillis

Whitman, Walt

Wilder, Laura Ingalls

William Tell

The Wind in the Willow

Winnie-the-Pooh

Wizard of Oz, The Wonderful

Wordsworth, William

Wright, Richard

 

Mythology  神话 

 

Achilles

Adonis

Agamemnom

Amazons

Aphrodite

Apollo

Ares

Artemis

Asgard

Athena

Atlas

Bacchus

Balder

Batman

Bunyan, Paul

centarus

Cerberus

Ceres

chimera

Cupid

Cyclops

Daedalus

Daphne

Delphic oracle

Demeter

Diana

Dionysus

Dragon

Echo

Eros

Eurydice

Fates

Freya

Frigg

Furies

Golden Fleece

Gordian knot

Hades

Hector

Hel

Helen of Troy

Hephaestus

Hera

Hercules

Hermes

Icarus

Jason and the Golden Fleece

Juno

Jupiter

Labyrinth

leprechaun

Loch Ness Monster

Loki

Mars

Medusa

Mercury

Midas

Minerva

Monotaur

Narcissus

Neptune

nymph

Odin

Odysseus

Oedipus

Olympus

Orpheus

Pan

Pandora's Box

Paris

Pegasus

Penelope

Persephone

phonix

Pluto

Poseidon

Prometheus

Proserpina

Psyche

Pygmalion

Romulus and Romus

Saturn

Sirens

Sphinx

Styx

Tell, William

Thor

Titans

Trojan horse

Trojan War

troll

Troy

Ulysses

unicorn

Valhalla

Venus

Vulcan

Zeus

zodiac

后面还有圣经、历史、地理等常识。