1.
Great oaks from little acorns grow.
〔谚语〕万丈高楼平地起。
2.
As great oak trees grow form tiny acorns, so many great people or things grew from a small and unimportant beginning, so the patient.
好汉不怕出生贱；万丈高楼平地起；从小而大。
3.
A High Building,A Low Foundation--Occurrence of China Foundational Democratic Politics;
万丈高楼平地起——中国基层民主政治的发生
4.
Having looked on the precondition, we can pay close attention to system design better, seem that there are grounds, the lofty tower can just level the land and get up.
当具备了前提条件,我们就可以更好地关注制度设计,就是好像有了地基,万丈高楼才可平地而起。
5.
A tree cannot grow high without roots. A flower cannot rise without a stalk. The highest building begins at the ground. An emperor has no glory without subjects.
树高万丈不离根，花开千朵不离心；耸云高楼不离地，万乘之尊不离民。
6.
All-pervasive termites have vast destroy on house and buildings.A lot of the high buildings and large mansions and the solid dam and dyke ruin fuom termite infestation.
无孔不入的白蚊对建筑物的破坏极大，有多少高楼大厦，万丈大堤毁于一旦就是它们的杰作。
7.
On Li Shangyin s Poem of "Anding Tower";
“一生襟抱未尝开,空负凌云万丈才”——谈李商隐《安定城楼》一诗
8.
"The autumn wildgeese have a long wind for escort As I face them from this villa, drinking my wine."
长风万里送秋雁, 对此可以酣高楼。
9.
[Profound distress overhead. ]
（楼上的情绪一落千丈。）
10.
In the Soviet Union, those who once extolled Stalin to the skies have now in one swoop consigned him to purgatory.
苏联过去把斯大林捧得一万丈高的人，现在一下子把他贬到地下九千丈。
11.
What we could make out in the dusk, though, was a mazing -- about three hundred feet up the cliff, high above the water, was a cluster of houses on stilts.
但在黄昏里看来如一种奇迹的，却是两岸高处去水已三十丈上下的吊脚楼。
12.
That tower block, which cost 5 million dollars to build, has been empty for five years .
花了五百万美元建造的那座高层大楼，已经空了五年。
13.
The woman in the2 nd floor screamed her head off when she quarreled with her husband.
二楼的女人一同丈夫吵架，就拚命喊叫。
14.
Rough and narrow was the road. In places it wound around the foot of some towering rock; in places it skirted the edge of some bottomless chasm
这条路既崎岖又狭窄，有些地方，蜿蜓在高耸入云的岩下；有些地方，刚沿着万丈深渊的边缘。
15.
Now his staff could reach up to heaven and down into hell.
猴王弄得欢喜，跳出洞外使个神通，身子就长得高比万丈，那棒也上抵三十三天，下至十八层地狱。
16.
"While the priest climbs a post, the devil climbs ten"
道高一尺,魔高一丈
17.
While the priest climb a post, the devil climb ten.
道高一尺，魔高一丈。
18.
The storm heaved the sea into mountainous waves.
风暴在海面上掀起万丈波涛。