get the better of
英 [ɡet ðə ˈbetə(r) ɒv]
美 [ɡet ðə ˈbetər əv]
(在比赛、打斗或争论中)战胜,打败; (嫉妒、好奇心、愤怒等感情)使不能自制
英英释义
verb
- win a victory over
- You must overcome all difficulties
- defeat your enemies
- He overcame his shyness
- He overcame his infirmity
- Her anger got the better of her and she blew up
双语例句
- If you work hard, you will get the better of your classmates.
如果你努力学习,你将会超过你的同学。 - You can't get the better of him in an argument. he's a lawyer.
在辩论中你是赢不了他的。他是个律师。 - He beat me in the first game but I managed to get the better of him in the second, so now we are quits.
他在第一局的比赛中胜了我,但第二局我设法胜了他,现在我们是一比一打平。 - With competitive Mars in your sign, does anyone seriously think they can get the better of you?
由于火星当前在狮子座,还真的有人认为他们可以战胜你? - She looks as if her soul have get the better of her. Nature has her animating spirit as well as man who is nature's child.
她看来象是被她自己的灵魂打垮了似的。大自然就象它的孩子――人类一样,有活生生的灵魂。 - I kept an eye on Armand, for I was afraid that his sensations, which he was visibly repressing, might get the better of him at any moment;
我一直在观察阿尔芒,时刻担心他那明显克制着的感情会把他压垮; - Since then, I have encountered situations that make me want to stand still but I've learned that I only hurt myself when I let those feelings get the better of me.
从那以后我遇到过各种让我想停下的情况,可我已懂得让这种感觉战胜自己只会伤害到自己。 - These verbs mean to get the better of an adversary.
这些动词都表示战胜对手的意思。 - But peer pressure and the age-old fear of public speaking tend to get the better of us.
但是同伴压力以及由来已久的对公众演讲的恐惧常常会支配我们的行为。 - Don't you never ever let your prejudice get the better of you.
不要让自己受到偏见的影响。