To try to stop boiling water by adding more hot water; a metaphor for using an ineffective method that only addresses the symptoms, not the root cause, thus providing no fundamental solution.
我们不能只顾眼前利益，对深层问题视而不见，那无异于以汤止沸。
We cannot only focus on immediate benefits and ignore deeper problems; that would be no different from trying to stop boiling water with hot water.
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