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
  1. You must overcome all difficulties
  2. defeat your enemies
  3. He overcame his shyness
  4. He overcame his infirmity
  5. Her anger got the better of her and she blew up
  Synonym:overcomedefeat

双语例句

• 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。
• He's really a law-down dirty shame. He would even say that he likes other guys to get the better of his own wife.
  他真是个不知羞耻的家伙，竟然说他喜欢人家占他老婆的便宜。
• We can let our fears get the better of us.
  我们会被我们的忧虑打败我们。
• Mark does have a habit of allowing his temperament to get the better of him
  马克的确经常由着自己的性子来。
• Your temper may get the better of you if a colleague has tried to ruin your reputation.
  可能会有同事想抵毁你的声誉，不用怕，这正是你磨炼意志的好机会。
• I knew I could not let the ghost get the better of me.
  我知道自己不能让鬼魂占上风。
• Self-deception is likely to get the better of you this week.
  自欺欺人只会弄得自己遍体鳞伤。
• I don't trust that man. He tries to get the better of his customers.
  我不相信那个人，他想欺骗他的顾客。
• 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。
• 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。