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spoil the ship for a ha'porth o'tar
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Comprehensive English-Chinese Dictionary

spoil the ship for a ha'porth o'tar
  1. 1. [proverb] [proverb] [proverb] [proverb] 因小失大

Examples

to spoil o.s.
犒劳自己 spoil
the elements conspired to spoil our picnic conspire
spare the rod, spoil the child spare
this gold ring was part of the spoil spoil
The caterpillar is the larva of the butterfly, the tadpole is the larva of the frog.
毛虫是蝴蝶的幼虫;蝌蚪是青蛙的幼体。 caterpillar
The Chinese mainland faces the Bohai Sea, the Yellow Sea, the East China Sea and the South China Sea on the east and south.
中国大陆的东部和南部濒临的海域有渤海,黄海,东海和南海。
The People's Republic of China is situated in the eastern part of the Asian continent on the western coast of the Pacific.
中华人民共和国位于亚洲东部、太平洋西岸。
In the movie, the man was thirsty for the blood of the boss.
电影里那个男人非常希望能杀了自己的老板。 thirsty
A sentence is in the active form when the action stated by the verb is performed by the subject.
如果动词描述的动作是由主语发出的,这句话就是主动语态。 active
As I was smoking near the window, the wind blew away all the ash around the room.
我在窗边吸烟时,风吹走了屋子里所有的烟灰。 ash

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