To “tell a yarn” means to tell a story, especially a long and tall one, one that is exaggerated, one that is imagined or at any rate one that is not entirely true. That’s the idea being conveyed in ...
Hence, the local government is considered penny wise but pound foolish, wise and clever in saving small numbers of money but unwise (foolish) and wasteful with large sums. In Chinese, we use a similar ...
据国家知识产权局2025年1月15日介绍,截至2024年底,我国国内发明专利有效量达到475.6万件,成为世界上首个突破400万件的国家。其中国内高价值发明专利拥有量达到197.8万件,同比增长18.8%。 By the end of 2024, China had approximately 4.76 million valid domestic invention patents ...