| 释义 |
舍本逐末 [- běn zhú mò]attend to trifles to the neglect of essentials; attend to the superficials and neglect the essentials; attend to the trivialities and neglect the fundamentals; barter the runk for the branches; grasp the shadow instead of the essence; lose the substance for the shadow; run after the less important things, forgetting the important |