迷你对话学地道口语第565期:以牙还牙,以眼还眼
日期:2014-03-13 05:24

(单词翻译:单击)

Subject:You can fight fire with fire.

迷你对话

A: Jim denounce me to the teacher for copying other’s paper. But I did not copy at tall.

Jim想老师告发我,说我的论文是抄袭的,但是根本就不是的。

B: Take it easy. You can fight fire with fire.

不要着急,你可以以其人之道还置其人之身。

地道表达

fight fire with fire

1. 解词释义

我们汉语中有句话时“以牙还牙,以眼还眼。”在英文中则是“to fight fire with fire”。字面意思是“用火来攻火”,比喻为“用别人对待你的方式来对待他”,即“以其人之道还治其人之身”。

2. 拓展例句

e.g. Kurosawa' s peasants decided to fight fire with fire.

黑泽明电影中的农民决定以其之道还治其身。

e.g.If we had fought fire with fire, we would have suffered a great many casualties.

如果硬斗硬,我们伤亡会很大。

Ps:paper:论文 not... at all:根本就没有...... take it easy:不要着急

Ps 2:denounce的意思是“give information (to the authorities) against sb”,译为:向(当局)告发。固定的搭配模式是:denounce sb. to sb. as sth.。

The informer denounced him to the police as a terrorist. 检举人已向警方告发他是恐怖分子。

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