eyes bigger than your stomach

眼大肚子小；眼高手低

Eyes是眼睛；bigger是更大的意思。眼睛比肚子更大，那不正好和中国的俗语“眼大肚子小”一模一样吗？明明已经吃不了还一味的死撑，那就是眼大肚子小。不过英语的这句习惯用语除了有眼大肚子小的含义以外，更有了延伸的意义。举例来说。查里本来已经开了两家餐馆了，他还贪心要开再开一个新店。看看他的结果吧.

例句: It turned out that Charlie’s eyes were bigger than his stomach; he ended up working much longer hours, seven days a week, but losing money with his new place and had to close it down after a year of trying.

到头来查里眼高手低，结果是不但一个星期工作七天，每天的工作时间更长。新店反倒赔钱。于是，在试过一年以后，最后只好关门大吉.