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
- 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。 - He made a mistake by allowing his anger to get the better of him.
他的错误是没有能够克制住自己的愤怒。 - 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。 - 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。 - You always get the better of me at chess. He is young and he plays very well. He may be a chess champion in the bud.
你下国际象棋总是赢我.他年轻，棋下得好，有可能会成长为一名象棋冠军。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - We can let our fears get the better of us.
我们会被我们的忧虑打败我们。