pound-foolish
adj.
省小钱吃大亏的，大事情上糊涂的；
英英释义
pound-foolish[ 'paund'fu:liʃ ]
adj.unwise in dealing with large sums
权威例句
Pound foolishPound Foolish
Pound foolish?
Penny-wise and pound-foolish: the impact of measurement error on sample size requirements in clinical trials
Competence to respond to floral inductive signals requires the homeobox genes PENNYWISE and POUND-FOOLISH.
Copayments for Ambulatory Care: Penny-Wise and Pound-Foolish.
Neutropenia-wise and pound-foolish: safe and effective chemotherapy in massively obese patients.
The role of PENNYWISE and POUND-FOOLISH in the maintenance of the shoot apical meristem in Arabidopsis.
A novel role of BELL1-like homeobox genes, PENNYWISE and POUND-FOOLISH, in floral patterning.
Weight Loss for the Obese: Panacea or Pound-Foolish?
Cost-effectiveness analysis for priority setting in health: penny-wise but pound-foolish
Comment on "copayments for ambulatory care: penny-wise and pound-foolish"
Penny-wise, pound-foolish: the costs of cost-related medication restriction.
1. People of Shanghai are pennywise but pound-foolish.
上海人精明而不聪明。
youdao
2. 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。
youdao
3. You're nothing more than penny wise and pound-foolish if you pass up an amazing new career opportunity to keep an extra little bit of income.
如果你为了保持额外多那么一点点的收入而错过了一个极好的工作机会，那么你就跟那些“捡了芝麻，丢了西瓜”的人没有多大区别。
youdao
4. He is penny-wise and pound-foolish to drive for two hours to buy 1 kilo potatos which are 3 fen a kilo cheaper than those in the market nearby.
他开了两小时车就为了买二斤土豆，每公斤比附近的市场便宜三分钱。
youdao
5. Asking the workers not to make private phone calls from the office is not likely to reduce the firm's losses, it is just being penny wise and pound-foolish.
要工作人员不在办公室打私人电话不大可能减少企业的亏损，那只是打小段盘而忽略大处。
youdao
6. Don't be penny wise and pound foolish.
不要小钱精明，大钱愚蠢。
youdao
7. Some might say he is penny wise and pound foolish.
有些人可能会说他是因小失大。
youdao
8. She is always penny wise and pound foolish.
她老是小事聪明，大事糊涂（小处精明，大处浪费）。
youdao
9. 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。
youdao
10. 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。
youdao
11. You'd better mend your fence falling down, or you will be stolen, don't be penny and pound foolish.
你最好把你倒了的栅栏修好，否则你会被偷的，不要。
youdao
12. You can't afford accumulated a variety of extra burden penny-wise and pound foolish.
你付不起贪小失大所累积的种种额外负担。
youdao
13. You can't afford accumulated a variety of extra burden penny-wise and pound foolish.
你付不起贪小失大所累积的种种额外负担。
youdao
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