worth the candle

I've decided to give up my job because it is so poorly paid that the game's not worth the candle.

我已决定辞职，因为这工作薪水太低，不值得干。

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We began to wonder whether the game was worth the candle.

我们开始怀疑这件事究竟是否值得做。

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This innovation and reform must make the benefit more than the cost; otherwise it is not worth the candle.

这种创新和改革必须使得其实施的收益大于成本，否则是得不偿失的。

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These discoveries are not worth the candle.

这些发现毫无价值.

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However, it is the quick rise of bad loan ratio in the non-state-owned banks that increases the control cost of the non-state-owned banks. When control right of the non-state-owned banks is not worth the candle, local government cannot but exit from the local banking institutions.

但是地方政府干预下的非国有银行机构的不良资产率飙升，意味着地方政府对非国有银行的控制成本上升，当控制成本大于控制收益时，地方政府必然要从地方性银行机构退出。

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They should've realised long ago that the game isn't worth the candle.

他们本该早就意识到那个游戏根本不值什么。

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In association with the semi-rigid connection of track rollers of conventional bulldozers, the analysis concluded that the use of single shoe with high grouser is not worth the candle.

结合常规推土机支重轮半刚性连接的特点，经分析，得出的结论是：使用此种形式的履带板得不偿失。

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Your plan is not worth the candle.

你的计划不值得实施。

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Definitely the future of Chinese animation market is flourishing, since we do Chinese style, then make a real market acceptance of products, or is playing with words, not worth the candle.

未来的中国动漫市场肯定是要百花齐放的，我们既然要做中国风，那就真正做出市场认可的产品，否则就是玩文字游戏，得不偿失。

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Result, have become abnormal psychology and personality, and words and deeds have become rude, how much is immune to change, not worth the candle.

结果，心理和性格都变得异常了，言行变得无礼了，花多少钱都难改变，得不偿失。

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Developing the OA system in the traditional way of custom will be not worth the candle, and the whole development process will be in the situation that the partial change is often indeed affect the body, because the demand of users change frequently.

若按传统的方式定做开发办自动化系统，则会得不偿失，整个开发过程将会是牵一发而动全身，因为企业用户的需求会经常发生变化。

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However, the abuse of anti-dumping would spread its' influence on other trade areas or areas beyond trade, and even affect the normal Sino-US trade and even bilateral political relations, which are not worth the candle for both sides.

由于反倾销的滥用影响会波及到其他贸易领域或者是贸易以外的领域，影响到中美贸易的正常进行，甚至可能会破坏中美两国的政治关系，这对于双方而言都是得不偿失的。

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