penny wise and pound foolish

penny wise and pound foolish

美 　英

• na.撿了芝麻丟了西瓜；因小失大；得不償失
• 網絡小事聰明，大事糊涂；小處精明；小處精明，大處浪費

英漢解釋

na.	1. 撿了芝麻丟了西瓜;因小失大;得不償失

英英解釋

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 .

禁止在辦公室打私人電話其實不能減少多少開支；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.

布朗先生為省錢買了一輛便宜卡車，但車太舊了不能搞長途運輸，他丟了西瓜揀了芝麻。

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

倘若患者盲目自診自醫，往往會因小失大，造成不可避免的“麻煩”。

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

在我們制造車間新近的擴建工程中，我們可不能過份吝嗇，因小失大。

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

公共教育是對我們未來的一項投資，削減教育預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.

你最好把你倒了的柵欄修好，否則你會被偷的，不要貪小失大。

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。那種鞋穿不久的。

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 .

史密斯先生的木板圍墻由腐爛而倒塌，都是因為他怕花錢油漆。他真是大處不算小處算。

Some might say he is penny wise and pound foolish.

有些人也許會說他小事聰明，大事糊涂。

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

如果工會認為這件事會對他們有利，那他們就是在耍小聰明，大事糊涂。