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Meaning of 投鼠忌器

Lookup via: Pinyin | Radicals
投 tóu 鼠 shǔ 忌 jì 器 qì
lit. to refrain from shooting at the rat for fear of breaking the vases (idiom); to not act against an evil so as to prevent harm to innocents
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Example Sentences
1
即便伊朗研制出了核武器
,
以色列的库存也要略胜一筹
,
但是伊朗不会因此投鼠忌器
。
Even if Iran did get the bomb, it would probably not use it for fear of Israel' s bigger, existing stockpile.
2
但是
,
尽管政府出于经济的考虑而
“
投鼠忌器
”
,
投资者也有足够的理由为未来的资产价格走势担忧
。
But even if governments judge that the risks posed by raising rates now outweighs that of keeping them low, investors still have plenty of reasons to worry.
3
我好改呀
,
说点具体的
,
我要反思一下
,
我在轰炸骗子的时候
,
是否
“
投鼠忌器
”
方面不够
,
是否伤及无辜了
。
I good change ah, said some specific, I want to think, I bombing in the crook, whether "glass house should not throw stones. " not enough, whether injury and innocent.
4
一想到发生战争就有可能出现金氏政权垮台
,
然后政治秩序混乱的可怕局面
,
这些邻邦国家便投鼠忌器
,
只能谨小慎微的处理与朝鲜的关系
。
The grim specter of the potential chaos associated with the collapse of the Kim regime in the event of war has led neighboring countries to treat it with kid gloves.
5
“
这倒不是因为宗教无关紧要
,
”
耶鲁大学心理学家
PaulBloom
解释道
,
“
而是因为这个话题具有令人投鼠忌器的本质
,
所以这方面一直进展甚微
。
”
"It's not that religion is not important, " says Paul Bloom, a psychologist at Yale University, "it's that the taboo nature of the topic has meant there has been little progress."