fiddle while Rome burns 对大事漠不关心；只顾小事；不看大局

【例句】
Meanwhile, plans are going forward for a new Opera House and an enormous sports stadium and swimming pool in a city where over half the population are inadequately or insanitarily housed. This is fiddling while Rome burns.
眼下，城里建造新歌剧院、大体育馆和游泳池的计划正在进行，而这里半数以上的居民住房短缺，卫生条件差。这是对人民的疾苦漠不关心。

It was time he got back to Elderson, and what was to be done now, and left this fiddling while Rome burned.
现在该是他回爱特逊和打算怎么办的时候了，别在罗马付之一炬时还在弹琴作乐。