English Dictionary

pave the road to hell

動詞

慣用表現

(idiomatic) To lead to a disaster by acting with good intentions.

日本語の意味

善意から始まった行動が、結果的に災厄や破滅を招く道を開くこと / 好意的な意図があっても、最終的には大きな失敗や災いに繋がる様子を示す

By ignoring expert warnings and insisting on shortcuts, they helped pave the road to hell.

専門家の警告を無視して近道に固執したことで、彼らの善意による行動は結局災いを招くことになった。

意味（1）

(idiomatic) To lead to a disaster by acting with good intentions.

In the other direction, treatments that were decried in their time as paving the road to hell, including vaccination, transfusions, anesthesia, artificial insemination, organ transplants, and in-vitro fertilization, have become unexceptional boons to human well-being.

paves the road to hell （ present singular third-person ）

paving the road to hell （ participle present ）

paved the road to hell （ participle past ）

paved the road to hell （ past ）