目光短浅

I mean, first, some people think that my attention span's too short...

我的意思是，首先，一些人认为作为常务经理我的目光短浅

I could buy short-sightedness and selfishness as 'human nature' but only in the context of the four boldface words above.

只有在上述黑体字的篇章中，我才相信目光短浅，自私自利是人类的本性。

Our competitors tend to put the cross hairs on where we are now, and by the time they come up with a product that tries to match where we are now, we're beyond them.

我们的竞争对手总是只顾眼前利益，目光短浅。当他们终于发布出能够赶上我们的产品时，我们早已远远领先。

I think we are short-sighted in not exploiting our own coal.

我认为没有开发利用我们自己的煤矿是目光短浅的。

I think we are very short-sighted in not exploiting our own coal.

我以为没有开发利用自己的煤矿是目光短浅的行为。

The left have tried to foist on her the image of a limited suburban reactionary.

左派人士曾经试图把一个目光短浅，见识不广的反动分子的形象强加在她身上。

Although his theory has its realistic importance: it alarms those shortsighted men who blindly stress the interest of man. Maybe we think his theory is a hypercorrection but we must admit it can sober man up.

尽管如此，罗尔斯顿的理论仍然有其意义：在人们目光短浅地一味强调人类利益的时候，它为人们敲响了警钟，虽有矫枉过正之嫌，仍不失为一剂清醒剂。

Land could not be sold without permission of the government but the leasing of it was encouraged. This policy was put into effect to guard the people against their own improvidence, as prior to annexation they had alienated much of their property and it was felt, in time would have sold it all.

推行这一政策的目的是防止土地主因目光短浅而浪费自己的土地资源，因为在英国殖民统治之前，斐济的土地主已经将他们的许多土地转让出去，长此以往，他们将可能让渡所有的土地。

Land could not be sold without permissionof the government but the leasing of it was encouraged. This policy was put into effect to guard the people against their own improvidence, as prior to annexation they had alienated much of their property and it was felt, in time would have sold it all.

推行这一政策的目的是防止土地主因目光短浅而浪费自己的土地资源，因为在英国殖民统治之前，斐济的土地主已经将他们的许多土地转让出去，长此以往，他们将可能让渡所有的土地。

It was the old tragedy of insularity trying to serve as mentor to the universal.

这是一个古老的悲剧：目光短浅者偏要充当胸襟辽阔者的导师。

We have no common name for a mime of Sophron or Xenarchus and a Socratic Conversation; and we should still be without one even if the imitation in the two instances were in trimeters or elegiacs or some other kind of verse--though it is the way with people to tack on 'poet' to the name of a metre, and talk of elegiac-poets and epic-poets, thinking that they call them poets not by reason of the imitative nature of their work, but indiscriminately by reason of the metre they write in.

索夫农 、森那库斯和苏格拉底式的对话采用的模仿没有一个公共的名称；三音步诗、挽歌体或其他类型的诗的模仿也没有——人们把&诗人&这一名词和格律名称结合到一起，称之为挽歌体诗人或者史诗诗人，他们被称为诗人，似乎只是因为遵守格律写作，而非他们作品的模仿本质。

The relationship between communicative competence and grammar teaching should be that of the ends and the means.

交际能力和语法的关系应该是目标与途径的关系。