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English translation for "本末倒置"

[ běnmòdàozhì ] 
have the order reversed; begin at the wrong end; confuse cause and effect; place the unimportant before the important; put first things last or last things first; put [set] the cart before the horse; put the incidental before the fundamental; put the nonessentials before the essentials; take the branch for the root; take the root for the branch; the first and last turned around; the sauce is better than the fish; turn sth. upside down

Related Translations:
不要本末倒置:  don't put the cart before the horsedon't trouble trouble until trouble troubles you
勿本末倒置:  don't put the cart before the horse
Example Sentences:
1.Your trouble is you have got your priorities back to front !
你因为本末倒置才出了麻烦!
2.Wait until we buy a cart before you build the garage; don't put the cart before the horse .
等我们把汽车买到你再修车库好了;不要本末倒置
3.Once his only importance lay in the fact that he was her husband, but now the position was reversed .
以前,他唯一的尊严在于他是她的丈夫,而如今本末倒置了。
4.Your trouble is you ' ve got your priorities back to front
你因为本末倒置才出了麻烦
5.Don ' t put the cart before the horse
不要把车套在马前头. /不要本末倒置
6.But the world bank may have cause and effect reversed
但是世界银行似乎将事情本末倒置了。
7.Don ' t put the cart before the horse
不要把马车放在马前;勿本末倒置
8.Never put the trivial above the important in doing anything
无论做任何事情切不可本末倒置
9.Caroline : don ' t you think this is putting the cart before the horse
凯罗兰:你不觉得那是本末倒置吗?
10.Don ' t put the cart before the horse
谚勿本末倒置
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