penny-wise

单词penny-wise

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。