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单词 fiddle while Rome burns
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fiddle while Rome burns

Be concerned with relatively trivial matters while ignoring the serious or disastrous events going on around one.To ignore the internal threat is to fiddle while Rome burns....
  • Concentrating on the minutiae of a single procedural issue, rather than on developing the fundamental aims of planning and on the effective delivery of these aims, is merely fiddling while Rome burns.
  • Environmentalists, no doubt, will accuse Americans of fiddling while Rome burns.
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