throw away a brick in order to get a gem; (serve as) a modest spur to induce someone to come forward with his valuable contributions; break the ice; cast a brick to attract jade -- offer a few commonplace remarks by way of introduction so that others may come up with valuable opinions; cast away a brick and attract a jadestone; give a thing with a view of getting sth. better in return; throw [fling away] a sprat to catch a mackerel [a whale]; throw out a brick so as to draw pieces of jade; throw out a minnow to catch a whale
引玉之磚 a mere common brick to draw others into throwing in their pieces of jade; a modest spur to induce others to come forward with valuable contributions of their own; i presume to be the first speaker by way of breaking the ice.; the expression of one's crude remarks may draw forth others by abler men.; throw stones in order to bring back jade
The aim of the paper is to urge the m & a of chinese company to develop more healthy and more quickly 本書的介紹旨在拋磚引玉,以促使中國的企業并購能夠健康、快速的發展。
I wish this thesis can provide some assistance in building the data warehouse architecture for gfmis 本論文希望對在金財工程中實現完整的數據倉庫體系,起到拋磚引玉的作用。
Ask thoughtful questions . a good listener asks good questions to draw out the other person 提出一些較為成熟的問題。一個好的聆聽者會提出一些有意義的問題,以便起到拋磚引玉的作用。
Here is a short comparison of old and new technology that makes the case for building a better trap 本文對傳統技術和新技術進行了簡要比較,以便對構建更好的觸發器起到拋磚引玉的作用。
Secondary vocational education is a thorny problem in our country . hope this article will cast a brick to attract jade 中職教育是我國目前面臨的棘手問題,本文希望能起拋磚引玉作用。
I sometimes volunteer to sweep up the dead leaves in the small park near the temple housing the village deity 社區六站土地公廟旁的小公園無人清理,我也只能偶而清掃,希望收拋磚引玉之效。
It was hoped that this paper will serve as a pioneer in this field and bring better works to the chinese visual communication research 希望此論文在中國視覺傳播研究領域起到拋磚引玉的作用。
It is of importance to solve the problem of poverty among minority nationality college students in yunnan province 因此,本文成果將對促進高校貧困生問題研究起到拋磚引玉、填補空白的雙重作用。
We expect that academic field in our country pay the high attention to this tendency and do deep research for family economy 本文僅為拋磚引玉之作,我們期待著學界對此問題的高度關注和深入探討。
The purpose of this paper is to perfect the civil retrial procedure of our country by guiding others come up with valuable opinions 希望能夠拋磚引玉,為完善我國的民事再審程序盡一份綿薄之力。