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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• It's gonna get the better of you.
  戒烟对你身体才是好的。
• When moods and emotions get the better of you when they begin to interfere with your career or personal relationships it's time to make a change.
  当情绪和情感得到更好的你，当他们开始干扰你的职业或个人关系的时间来做出改变。
• 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。