1 | You're merely robbing Peter to pay Paul. | |
2 | "It is just a case of substituting one problem for another, " he said. | |
3 | Taking money from your company would be like taking from Peter to pay Paul. | |
4 | This is digging out the meat fill sore and borrow, build a damaging another. | |
5 | Their efforts are in vain, for they're only robbing Peter to pay Paul. | |
6 | 上周我们曾戏称国会此举无异于拆东墙补西墙。
Last week we called this a Congressional comb-over. | |
7 | 要在这节课里补那节课的内容是拆东墙补西墙。
Learing the knowledge of other classes in this one is robbing peter to play paul. | |
8 | 在一节课中读另一节课的功课等于是拆东墙补西墙。
Trying to study a lesson for one class during another class is like robbing Peter to pay Paul. | |
9 | 你跟我借钱去还银行的贷款,这无异于拆东墙补西墙。
It' nothing but robbing Peter to pay Paul that you want to borrow money from me to pay the loan back to the bank. | |
10 | 这是不折不扣的挖肉补疮和拆东墙补西墙,建一处破坏另一处。
This is digging out the meat fill sore and borrow, build a damaging another. | |
11 | 这是拆东墙补西墙。如果你以一种方式减少热量但以另外一种方式增加他们,你不可能减肥。
That's robbing Peter to pay Paul. You can't lose weight if you reduce calories in one way but increase them in another. | |
12 | 奥巴马先生称为投资的东西,在我们看来无非是拆东墙补西墙。
They said that what Obama called investment, they call borrowing and spending. | |
13 | 他用交房租的钱去付煤气费账单,那样只不过是拆东墙补西墙。
He paid the gas bill with the rent money, which was just robbing peter to pay paul. | |
14 | 这些拆东墙补西墙的举措需要穿越大片农田,至少要挖掘650公里的水渠。
These measures - essentially robbing Peter to pay Paul - will require at least 400 miles of channels to be dug through farmland. | |
15 | 但是依靠人口增加和荒漠化来延长冰川的寿命,将会无异于拆东墙补西墙。
But relying upon population growth and desertification to prolong their lives would be robbing Peter to pay Paul. | |
16 | 很多大学拆东墙补西墙,借新账还旧账,极大的阻碍了大学的发展,刘力云说道。
Many universities are forced to borrow money every year to pay back their old debts, which encumbers the development of the universities, Liu said. | |
17 | 如果饭店为了招揽更多的顾客而降低食品价格,同时又降低员工薪水来减少成本,那真是拆东墙补西墙了。
If the restaurant reduces price for food in order to get more customers, but in the meanwhile reduces staff's salaries in order to cut cost, it is just robbing Peter to pay Paul. | |
18 | 中国可以采取同现在的程度相比更大的随收随付的代际庞氏计划(译者注:俗话说的“拆东墙补西墙”):把资源从年轻的储蓄者转移给年老的消费者。
China could adopt, to a much greater extent than is now the case, pay-as-you-go intergenerational Ponzi schemes, which transfer resources from young savers to old spenders. |