英语词汇“cut one's losses”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

cut one's losses

Abandon an enterprise or course of action that is clearly going to be unprofitable or unsuccessful before one suffers more loss or harm: an inner voice was urging her to cut her losses and go back to England...

They simply cannot learn to cut their losses, abandon issues they can't win, and get on with it.
Now my parents have had their share of stormy weather and I know that at times they have both wanted to abandon ship, cut their losses and move on but they stuck with it as they promised each other they would do the day they married.
Still, if the space station is in such bad shape - much costlier than planned, much later than planned, much smaller than planned - why shouldn't we just cut our losses and abandon it now?

See parent entry: cut

单词	cut one's losses
释义	cut one's losses Abandon an enterprise or course of action that is clearly going to be unprofitable or unsuccessful before one suffers more loss or harm: an inner voice was urging her to cut her losses and go back to England... They simply cannot learn to cut their losses, abandon issues they can't win, and get on with it. Now my parents have had their share of stormy weather and I know that at times they have both wanted to abandon ship, cut their losses and move on but they stuck with it as they promised each other they would do the day they married. Still, if the space station is in such bad shape - much costlier than planned, much later than planned, much smaller than planned - why shouldn't we just cut our losses and abandon it now? See parent entry: cut
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