出处：按学科分类—语言、文字 中国对外翻译出版公司《汉英成语词典》第154页（202字）
指过分的宽恕，就会无形中助长奸恶，例你这种姑息养奸的做法，不但无法纠正他的错误，反而会使其变本加厉。
The way you tolerate and appease him does not teach him a lesson but only abets him to do more wrong．