jerry-built 偷工减料
分类: 英语学习方法
“偷工减料”,汉语成语,意思是“暗中掺假或削减工序和用料(cheat on labour and materials)”,也比喻做事敷衍了事,贪图省力。与英文习语“jerry-built”意思相近,表示“badly or hastily built with materials of poor quality”。
例句:
偷工减料建成的房子
jerry-built houses
如果我们开始在质量上偷工减料,我们的客户会大量流失。
If we start cutting corners on quality, our customers will leave in droves.