每日學(xué)英語(yǔ):Fiddle while Rome burns 對(duì)大事漠不關(guān)心
2024-02-19 15:28:15 每日學(xué)英語(yǔ)
fiddle while Rome burns 對(duì)大事漠不關(guān)心;只顧小事;不看大局
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Meanwhile, plans are going forward for a new Opera House and an enormous sports stadium and swimming pool in a city where over half the population are inadequately or insanitarily housed. This is fiddling while Rome burns.
眼下,城里建造新歌劇院、大體育館和游泳池的計(jì)劃正在進(jìn)行,而這里半數(shù)以上的居民住房短缺,衛(wèi)生條件差。這是對(duì)人民的疾苦漠不關(guān)心。
It was time he got back to Elderson, and what was to be done now, and left this fiddling while Rome burned.
現(xiàn)在該是他回愛(ài)特遜和打算怎么辦的時(shí)候了,別在羅馬付之一炬時(shí)還在彈琴作樂(lè)。