exhaust the people and drain the treasury
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兴修这样的工程,简直就是劳民伤财.
This project will end only in a mere waste of labour and money.
帝王不惜劳民伤财地为自己建造生圹.
Emperors spared no efforts in constructing tombs for themselves while they were still alive.
综上来看，解放金融部门、摒弃劳民伤财的能源补贴会是个不错的开端。
Liberalising financial sectors and scrapping wasteful fuel subsidies would be good ways to begin.
可以说，这些本不应该产生的已从前的和当初又要作出的尽力，是一种不断地劳民伤财。
Can say, these this should not happen again already past and present to the efforts, it is a kind of constantly costly.
劳民伤财
劳民伤财，汉语成语，指的是既使百姓劳苦，又耗费大量财物。相关例句为“进口了机器，却放着不用，烂成了废铁，真是劳民伤财。” 相关古文为“不伤财，不害民。”出自《周易·节》。
