Don't hesitate lose a battle if it helps the war.

Your will spoil the ship for a halfpennyworth of tar if you swayed by your emotions.

感情用事往往会因小失大.

Spoil ( or Lose ) the ship for half penny worth of tar.

因小失大.

Burn not your house to get rid of the mouse.

不可焚屋驱鼠,不可因小失大.

Separate must they remain or my career will die.

否则就会顾此失彼.

While you were busy a deal, the dog a peace of veal.

忙谈生意时, 狗已叼走了肉;顾此失彼.

It makes no sense to have one with out another.

顾此失彼是不明智的.

This is very important to them, but looks have it both ways.

这一不面差他们来说出格次要, 但是看起来又很难顾此失彼.

General use of antibacterial drugs often balanced, the rule of this kind of governance can not.

一般用的抗菌消炎药常顾此失彼, 治了这种菌治不了那种菌.

The devil is suBtle, yet weaves a weB.

魔鬼巧心计, 织网却不密(弄巧成拙).

Telling the interviewer more than he needs to know could be a fatal mistake.

告诉面试官太多有时可能会弄巧成拙.

Badly designed policies can be self-defeating.

错误的决策反倒会弄巧成拙.

A great thing has happened in our favor. Nobody must spoil it.

既然出了件对我们有利的大事,不要弄巧成拙.

The difference is that the hiring methods do this indirectly, and probably clumsily.

区别是,这种招聘方法较为间接, 甚至可能会弄巧成拙.

Disagreements threatened to wreck the peace talks, but the president's intervention saved the situation.

讲和谈判因意见分歧危如累卵, 而会长从中斡旋方转危为安.

I fall and am swept to safety by a sudden whirlwind.

我摔下来时被突然刮来的一阵旋风托住,转危为安.

I'm on the same building; I fall and am swept a sudden whirlwind.

我还是在那座楼顶上, 摔下来时被一阵突然刮来的旋风托住,转危为安.

He was very ill but careful nursing brought him through.

他病得很厉害,但精心的护理使他转危为安.

Whatever risks Jim takes , he always seems to fall on his feet.

吉姆无论有什么危险, 似乎总能转危为安.

The manager's secretary is always bossing us around, secure in the knowledge that she has backing.

经理的秘书总是对我们指手画脚, 因为她有恃无恐.

Think of me, think of me waking, silent and resigned.

想想我, 想著我醒著时, 缄默不语且逆来顺受的.