劳民伤财

[láo mín shāng cái]

基础释义

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释义
be a sheer waste of energy and money; harass the people and waste money; exhaust the people and drain the treasury; spend blood and treasure

更新时间：2024-12-30 11:32:58

近/反义词

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反义词

劳师动众 mobilize too many troops;belabour the people;drag in lots of people ;
因小失大 lose a great deal through trying to save a little;lose the greater for the less;lose the main goal because of small gains;lose the sheep [ship;spoil the ship for a halfpennyworth of tar ;
杀鸡取卵 kill the goose that lays the golden eggs ;
舍本逐末 attend to trifles to the neglect of essentials;attend to the superficials and neglect the essentials;attend to the trivialities and neglect the fundamentals;barter the runk for the branches ;
得不偿失 The loss outweighs the gain.;Gains cannot make up for losses.;lose more than gain;more kicks than halfpence;be not worth the candle ;
事倍功半 get half the results with double [twice] the effort;labour hard to little avail;mountain in labour;The mountains have brought forth a mouse. ;

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Can say, these this should not happen again already past and present to the efforts, it is a kind of constantly costly.

可以说，这些本不应该发生的已过去的和现在又要作出的努力，是一种不断地劳民伤财。
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2、

Proponents of the abolition bills describe the death penalty as an expensive programme with few benefits.

拥护废除死刑方案的人们认为死刑实在是劳民伤财且根本没有丝毫益处。
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3、

"A lot of what we did came from these touchy, feely meetings, " he says.

“我们过去做的很多事，都源自于这些让人上火、又劳民伤财的会议，”他表示。
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4、

A president wage a hefty war at the cost of the people due to personal enmity seems to be incredible isn't it?

一个总统为了个人恩怨而发动一场劳民伤财的大战听起来真是有一点不可思议，是不是？
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5、

Critics say the dams are ecologically unsound white elephants .

批评者说，大坝劳民伤财，又不利于生态环境。
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6、

Whatever else it may be, the Great Wall is a marvel of brutal construction.

无论怎样，长城是劳民伤财的建筑奇迹。
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7、

It shows that Tunipah is a kind of expensive boondoggles.

这说明图尼帕是个劳民伤财的玩意儿。
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8、

China's investments in U. S. securities in 2006 proved to be a huge costly mistake.

中国2006年对美国保险业的投资已经被证明是一个劳民伤财的错误。
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9、

It would be like climbing Mount Everest in order to pick a few berries.

其实猎食人类就像是辛辛苦苦攀上珠穆朗玛却只为摘些果子一样大材小用，劳民伤财。
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The war is indeed a grotesque waste of resources, which will place huge long-run burdens on the American public.

伊拉克战争的确是劳民伤财，而且非常可笑。这将会是美国人民需要背负许多年的包袱。
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