Chinese Vocabulary
偷工减料
to cut corners
tōu gōng jiǎn liào
Usage
To cut corners; literally 'steal labor, reduce materials.' Beyond HSK4. Every corner-cutter, the episode argues, steals a little from the public good called trust.
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偷工减料 appears in 1 podcast episode at natural native speed, with full Chinese script, pinyin, and line-by-line English translation.