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penny-wise

penny-wise什么意思,penny-wise翻译

基本解释

adj.: 省小钱的
网络: 因小失大;精打细算的

英汉解释

  • 省小钱的

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。

  • But they have overlooked this point, penny wise and pound, especially ignored the exciting action.

    但他们却忽视了这一点,因小失大,尤其是忽视了人心的作用。

  • 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。

  • This kind of penny-wise , pound - poor behaviour was just unbelievable.

    这种小聪明大糊涂的举动实在让人难以置信。

  • 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”。

  • Many women have been penny wise and pound this experience, but hate bitterly later recidivism .

    许多女性都有过这种因小失大的经历,但痛心疾首后却屡教不改。

  • 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。

  • Refusing to rescue financial systems because it looks too expensive is a classic case of being "penny wise, pound foolish" .

    因为觉得代价过于昂贵而拒绝救援金融体系,是典型的“贪小便宜吃大亏”。

  • money in repairing the roof, and now the rain has ruined half her furniture- a plain example of penny wise.

    她不肯花钱修屋顶,现在房子漏了,家具毁了一半—这是因小失大再明显不过的例子。

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