penny-wise

美 　英 ['pen?'wa?z]

• adj.省小錢的
• 網(wǎng)絡(luò)因小失大；精打細(xì)算的

英漢解釋

adj.

1. 省小錢的

英英解釋

adj.	1. extremely careful about spending even small amounts of money

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(shí)不能減少多少開(kāi)支；反而是因小失大。

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

但他們卻忽視了這一點(diǎn)，因小失大，尤其是忽視了人心的作用。

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.

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

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

這種小聰明大糊涂的舉動(dòng)實(shí)在讓人難以置信。

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

倘若患者盲目自診自醫(yī)，往往會(huì)因小失大，造成不可避免的“麻煩”。

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

許多女性都有過(guò)這種因小失大的經(jīng)歷，但痛心疾首后卻屢教不改。

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(kuò)建工程中，我們可不能過(guò)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(duì)我們未來(lái)的一項(xiàng)投資，削減教育預(yù)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?yàn)?/c>覺(jué)得代價(jià)過(guò)于昂貴而拒絕救援金融體系，是典型的“貪小便宜吃大虧”。

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

她不肯花錢修屋頂，現(xiàn)在房子漏了，家具毀了一半—這是因小失大再明顯不過(guò)的例子。

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(huì)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?yàn)?/c>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(huì)說(shuō)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(huì)認(rèn)為這件事會(huì)對(duì)他們有利，那他們就是在耍小聰明，大事糊涂。