penny wise and pound foolish

penny wise and pound foolish什么意思,penny wise and pound foolish翻译

基本解释

na.: 捡了芝麻丢了西瓜；因小失大；得不偿失

英汉解释

• 捡了芝麻丢了西瓜;因小失大;得不偿失

例句

• Forbidding private phone calls in the office cannot really reduce the company"s expenses; it"s just being penny wise and pound foolish .

  禁止在办公室打私人电话其实不能减少多少开支；反而是因小失大。

• Mr. Brown bought a cheap truck to make money, but it was too old for long-distance transportation. He was penny wise and pound foolish.

  布朗先生为省钱买了一辆便宜卡车，但车太旧了不能搞长途运输，他丢了西瓜拣了芝麻。

• If patient from examines blindly from the medicine, will often be penny-wise and pound foolish, will create inevitably "troublesome" .

  倘若患者盲目自诊自医，往往会因小失大，造成不可避免的“麻烦”。

• Let"s not be penny-wise and pound-foolish in the new expansion of our production plant.

  在我们制造车间新近的扩建工程中，我们可不能过份吝啬，因小失大。

• Education budgets cuts are penny wise and pound foolish since public education is an investment in our future.

  公共教育是对我们未来的一项投资，削减教育预算的做法真是因小失大。

• You"d better mend your fence falling down, or you will be stolen, don"t be penny wise and pound foolish.

  你最好把你倒了的栅栏修好，否则你会被偷的，不要贪小失大。

• I know, but don"t be penny wise and pound foolish. They won"t last long.

  我知道，但是不要因小失大。那种鞋穿不久的。

• Mr. Smith"s fence is rotting and falling down because he wouldn"t spend money to paint it . He is penny wise and pound foolish .

  史密斯先生的木板围墙由腐烂而倒塌，都是因为他怕花钱油漆。他真是大处不算小处算。

• Some might say he is penny wise and pound foolish.

  有些人也许会说他小事聪明，大事糊涂。

• If Unions think this is beneficial to them, they are being penny-wise and pound foolish.

  如果工会认为这件事会对他们有利，那他们就是在耍小聪明，大事糊涂。