生吞活剥

生吞活剥 [shēng tūn huó bō]

1. ■ skin and eat ... alive; flayed and swallowed alive; force an interpretation of text without (real) understanding; gulp ... down uncritically; interpret text [passage] crudely; learn (sth.) mechanically; mechanically to take ...; read without real understanding; swallow sth. raw and whole -- accept sth. uncritically; try to memorize books without thinking; without real understanding:

决不可生吞活剥地搬用外国的经验。 It's no good taking over the experience of foreign countries uncritically.