Sometimes, by buying something cheap now, you will be costing yourself more in the long run.
有时候你花了很少钱买了便宜货,但它日后可能要花掉更多的钱。
There are even stories of half-trained elephant calves who have refused to feed and pined to death when by some unavoidable circumstance they have been deprived of their own trainer.
训练了一半的小象,由于不可避免的情况与他们的主人分离后,竟拒绝吃食,消瘦至死。