詞語:penny-wise
penny-wise的解釋
penny-wise['peni'waiz]adj. 惜分文的;省小錢的
penny-wise的意思
penny-wise 省小錢的;因小失大;惜分文的;Penny-Wise and Pound-Foolish 因 小失大;撿了芝麻丟了西瓜;
penny-wise的參考例句
1.I'm not the only penny-wise pound-foolish cheapskate out there. 我發現這世上像我這樣省小錢吃大虧的小氣鬼到處都是。
2.A few of these leave part of the sentence unstated but understood: "No fool like an old fool, " "Penny-wise and pound foolish, " etc. 另有一些全句式諺語卻不把話說完,但意思一目瞭然如「再傻也傻不過老傻瓜」,「小事精明,大事糊塗」等。
3.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」。