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.