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

• We can let our fears get the better of us.
  我们会被我们的忧虑打败我们。
• These verbs mean to get the better of an adversary.
  这些动词都表示战胜对手的意思。
• Don't let relatives get the better of you.
  不要让亲戚占你的便宜。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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；
• 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 must never lose another move to the enemy; On the contrary, we must make full use of this move, political mobilization, to get the better of him.
  决不可以再输敌人一着，相反，要大大地发挥这一着去制胜敌人。