more haste, less speed

短语

欲速则不达

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释义与例句

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    When one is in a hurry, one often ends up having less success and completing a task more slowly.

    欲速则不达

词源

The word speed is used here in the dated sense of “success, luck”, though probably with a pun on the sense “velocity”. Compare the same in Low German je gröter Hast, je minder Spood.

来源：wiktionary