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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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 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。
• 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；
• No one can get the better of the in an argument.
  辩论起来没人能辩过她。
• Don't let relatives get the better of you.
  不要让亲戚占你的便宜。
• 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。
• 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。