try first to make their mistake sound less serious and then

用法例句

As long as you have them, you will be able to turn a big problem into a small one and a small one into nothing.

有关系、有人情，就会大事化小，小事化了。

A clever man turn great trouble into little one, and little one into none at all.

聪明人大事化小，小事化了。

Since I knew Gauleiter Sturtz of Brandenburg quite well, I was able to quash the affair.

由于我熟识勃兰登堡大区区长施蒂茨，才使大事化小，小事化了。

They would not stir up trouble initiatively, and tend to reduce a big problem into a small one and a small one into nothing, i.e., making concessions to avoid trouble.

中国人一般不会主动挑起事端，而且喜欢大事化小，小事化了，也就是息事宁人。

reduce major issues to minor ones and minor ones to nothing

大事化小,小事化了

It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter.

先生，大事化小，小事化无的做法无济于事。

Stirring up or Settling down the Dispute:A Reading on a Piece of Tribunal Record of Civil Mediation in Qing Dynasty;

小事闹大与大事化小:解读一份清代民事调解的法庭记录

Popular Culture and the Novel s Narration During the New Period;

大众文化与新时期小说的通俗化叙事

The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents， and none of the incidents as disasters.

婚姻成功的最大秘诀是:将大事化小，不要将小事变大。

Witness great events and bagatelle of mold industry, we try to make most professional magazine.

见证模具工业的大事小事，做专业化的杂志。

Just two small matters bothered him.

只有两件小事梗在心里消化不了。

A penny soul never comes to twopence.

小气鬼成不了大事。

A penny soul never came to two penny.

志小者成不了大事./胸狭窄,一事无成.

The Atomization of the Grand Narrative in Postcolonial Metafiction;

后殖民超小说中宏大叙事的碎片化(英文)

Things changed greatly.

事情发生了很大变化。

Penny wise and pound foolish.

小事聪明，大事糊涂。

Pound Wise and Penny Foolish

大事聪明 小事糊涂

Penny wise, pound foolish.

小事精明，大事糊涂。