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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• No one can get the better of the in an argument.
  辩论起来没人能辩过她。
• Because Warlocks were the first who managed to get the better of Black Dragons using magic.
  因为妖术士使第一个学会用魔法打败黑龙的职业。
• 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。
• 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；
• 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. The worst of all deceptions is self-deception.
  巨蟹：自欺欺人只会弄得自己遍体鳞伤。所有的欺骗中最糟糕的是自欺。