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Chinese translation for "投鼠忌器"

[ tóushǔjìqì ] 
spare the rat to save the dishes -- to hold back from taking action against an evildoer for fear of involving good people; beware of damages when pelting rats!; burn not your house to rid it of the mouse.; hesitate to pelt a rat for fear of smashing the vase [dishes] beside it; one who strikes at a rat cares if a vessel would be broken.; throw sth. at a rat, but afraid to break the vase -- caution in taking action; when you throw stones at a rat, beware of the vase
Example Sentences:
1.L ' ll keep you to bargain with . the postman is weak that way
我会留你一条命用来谈判要让邮差投鼠忌器
2.L ' ll keep you to bargain with . the postman is weak that way
我会留你一条命用来谈判要让邮差投鼠忌器
3.Army has to make a controversial decision to bomb the religiously significant monastery where the germans are entrenched
德军更进占一极具宗教意义的古代修道院,令美军投鼠忌器. .
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