penny wise and pound foolish

penny wise and pound foolish

美 　英

• na.捡了芝麻丢了西瓜；因小失大；得不偿失
• 网络小事聪明，大事糊涂；小处精明；小处精明，大处浪费

英汉解释

na.	1. 捡了芝麻丢了西瓜;因小失大;得不偿失

英英解释

na.	1. economical with regard to small items of expenditure but extravagant with regard to large items

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。