英文词汇“投鼠忌器”的读音、释义、例句、中文翻译及雅思托福GRE难词速记-英汉词典

hesitate to pelt a rat for fear of smashing the dishes—hold back from taking action against an evildoer for fear of involving or harming good people
❍ 其父内存爱犊之思，外作搏牛之势，投鼠奚遑忌器，打鸭末免惊鸳； …… (鲁迅《中国小说史略》218) The father,concerned at heart for his son,behaves outwardly in an overbearing manner.One who strikes at a rat does not care if a vessel is broken; one who chases a duck may frighten lovebirds as well.
❍ 第一，他们见我们快要当家了，以为我们很怕破坏，老鼠蹲在花瓶上，投鼠要忌器。(《周恩来选集》上—324) First,seeing that we are going to take over the country,they think that we are afraid of further destruction and that we are prepared to “spare the rat to save the vase on which it sits”./玄德曰： “我于此时亦 ‘～’ 耳。” (《三国演义》368) “But，” saidXuande，“on that day it was ‘beware of damage when pelting rats’.”

投鼠忌器tou shu ji qi

hesitate to pelt a rat for fear of smashing the dishes (beside it)—refrain from taking action against an evildoer for fear of harming good people

投鼠忌器

hesitate to pelt a rat for fear of smashing the dishes—hold back from taking action against an evildoer for fear of harming good people

投鼠忌器tóu shǔ jì qì

要扔东西打老鼠，又担心砸坏了老鼠旁边的器物。比喻做事有所顾忌，不敢大胆地做。hold back from taking action against an evildoer from fear of involving good people, Burn not your house to rid it of the mouse.