中国成语翻译学习31

南辕北辙 cross purposes：The salesmen were working at cross purposes with their supervisor.

病从口入祸从口出 Illness comes in by mouth and comes out by it.

笑里藏刀 a smile to hide one's hate

留得青山在，不怕没柴烧 Where there's life there's hope

海底捞月 to fish in the air

海底捞针 to look for a needle in a bundle of hay

差之毫厘失之千里 A miss is as good as a mile

既往不咎 Let the dead bury their dead.

杀身成仁 to sacrifice one's life to preserve one's virtue complete

杀鸡焉用牛刀 Take not a musket to kill a butterfly 

小Car笔记：
a bundle of：一捆(一扎，一包)
as good as：和 ... 几乎一样
virtue：德行，贞操，美德 【常用短语】①public virtue 公德 ②make a virtue of necessity 把非做不可的事装成出于好心才做的  ③of easy virtue 不贞节的，水性扬花的