Dec 14, 2021 08:19
2 yrs ago
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English term
China
tripping over dollars
English to Chinese
Tech/Engineering
IT (Information Technology)
CentOS
This starts to look very much like the “running with scissors” scenario that Red Hat tried unsuccessfully to apply to CentOS prior to CentOS Stream. It’s suddenly a silly exercise in “tripping over dollars to save pennies” given that the operating system—the foundation for a company’s applications, databases, etc.—is comparatively cheap compared to enterprise spending higher up the stack.
Proposed translations
(Chinese)
| 4 | 捡了芝麻丢了西瓜 |
Frank Feng
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| 1 | 本末倒置/因小失大 |
Xiaodong Du
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Proposed translations
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Frank Feng
China
China
Native in Chinese
Specializes in field
China
Medical, Financial, Game, IT Translation
Native in: Chinese (Variants: Mandarin, Traditional, Simplified) , Mandarin Chinese 
Works in: English to Chinese, Chinese to English, English to Mandarin Chinese
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捡了芝麻丢了西瓜
trip over的本意是被“绊倒”。
https://www.gymglish.com/en/gymglish/english-translation/tri...：
to trip over something: to fall over, to stumble on, to slip on something
从这里的上下文看，“为了节省1分钱而被1块钱绊倒”，似乎可以翻译成对应的中文俗语
https://www.gymglish.com/en/gymglish/english-translation/tri...：
to trip over something: to fall over, to stumble on, to slip on something
从这里的上下文看，“为了节省1分钱而被1块钱绊倒”，似乎可以翻译成对应的中文俗语
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Xiaodong Du
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Native in: Chinese (Variants: Mandarin, Traditional, Cantonese, Simplified)
Works in: English to Chinese, Chinese to English
本末倒置/因小失大
根据这段文字前面的“ Red Hat tried unsuccessfully to apply to CentOS prior to CentOS Stream”，“tripping over dollars to save pennies” 的意思似是“本末倒置”。
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