Action or procedure used to defend oneself or get the better of sb in a struggle or contest

(在斗争中或竞争中)自卫的或克敌制胜的行动或手段

属类：综合句库-典型例句-

…(thought if passion should get the better of the public,and in its blind fury they should do the traducer bodily injury, it is but too obvious that no jury could convict and no court punish the perpetrators of the deed)

…(不过,公众如果义愤填膺,盲目行动起来,竟对诽谤者施以人身伤害,显然,对于肇事者,陪审员不可能判罪,法庭也不可加以惩处)。

属类：综合句库--

If Miss Rebecca can get the better of him, and at her first entrance into life, she is a young person of no ordinary cleverness

初出茅庐的利蓓卡小姐如果能够驾驭这样一位先生,真算得上出人头地的聪明了。

属类：综合句库--

And besides, if he failed to get the better of Chao Po-tao in the matter of government bonds, his rival would be in a position to throw a spanner in the works of the Yi Chung Company ...

而且不从公债上打倒赵伯韬,将来益中的业务会受他破坏!…

属类：综合句库--

And the chiefs of the Philistines came up to her, and said to her, Make use of your power over him and see what is the secret of his great strength, and how we may get the better of him, and put bands on him, so that we may make him feeble; and every one of us will give you eleven hundred shekels of silver.

非利士人的首领上去见那妇人,对她说,求你诓哄参孙,探探他因何有这么大的力气,我们用何法能胜他,捆绑克制他。我们就每人给你一千一百舍客勒银子。

属类：无分类双语句库-Jug-16.05

And Haman gave his wife Zeresh and all his friends an account of what had taken place. Then his wise men and his wife Zeresh said to him, If Mordecai, who is starting to get the better of you, is of the seed of the Jews, you will not be able to do anything against him, but you will certainly go down before him.

将所遇的一切事,详细说给他的妻细利斯,和他的众朋友听。他的智慧人,和他的妻细利斯对他说,你在末底改面前始而败落,他如果是犹大人,你必不能胜他,终必在他面前败落。

属类：无分类双语句库-Est-6.13

I have been pained by her manner this morning, and can't get the better of it.

她今天早晨的态度使我感到痛苦,我不能平静下去。

属类：综合句库-典型例句-

You always get the better of me at chess.

你下国际象棋总是赢我.

属类：综合句库-典型例句-

And Saul said, Then say to David, The king has no desire for any bride-price, but only for the private parts of a hundred Philistines so that the king may get the better of his haters. But it was in Saul's mind that David might come to his end by the hands of the Philistines.

扫罗说,你们要对大卫这样说,王不要什么聘礼,只要一百非利士人的阳皮,好在王的仇敌身上报仇。扫罗的意思要使大卫丧在非利士人的手里。

属类：无分类双语句库-1Sa-18.25

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。

属类：习语名句-英语成语-

For numbers of them say evil secretly in my hearing (there is fear on every side): they say, Come, let us give witness against him; all my nearest friends, who are watching for my fall, say, It may be that he will be taken by deceit, and we will get the better of him and give him punishment.

我听见了许多人的谗谤,四围都是惊吓。就是我知己的朋友也都窥探我,愿我跌倒,说,告他吧,我们也要告他。或者他被引诱,我们就能胜他,在他身上报仇。

属类：无分类双语句库-Jer-20.10

To outdo or get the better of by devious means.

赢得通过不正当的方法胜过或优于

属类：综合句库--

and he said, If the aramaeans are stronger and get the better of me, then come to my help; and if the children of ammon get the better of you, I will come to your help.

约押对亚比筛说,亚兰人若强过我,你就来帮助我。亚扪人若强过你,我就去帮助你。

属类：经籍句库-1Ch-19.12

and he said, If the aramaeans are stronger and get the better of me, then you are to come to my help; but if the children of ammon get the better of you, I will come to your help.

约押对亚比筛说,亚兰人若强过我,你就来帮助我。亚扪人若强过你,我就去帮助你。

属类：经籍句库-2Sa-10.11

To get the better of ,especially by deceitful cleverness;outwit.

诈骗以奸诈取胜于…,尤指以狡诈;智胜

属类：综合句库--

One has only to see how quick-witted, keen-eyed, and sharp-tongued your two sisters-in-law are.I could never get the better of them, nor have I any interest in trying.Let them be little filial daughters-in-law

只要看你两位弟媳妇训练得多少头尖眼快--嘴利,我真斗不过她们,也没有心思跟她们斗,让她们去做孝顺媳妇罢。

属类：综合句库--

1:Detroit’s financial problems have been building up for decades.2:City revenues have been hit by the collapse of manufacturing, declining property values and the flight of better-off people to the suburbs.3:At the same time, the cost of servicing a still-sprawling city has not shrunk in proportion.4:Like many of America’s struggling municipalities, Detroit is paying pensions, entitlements and salaries far larger than it can afford.

1:冰冻三尺非一日之寒，底特律的财政问题是数十年来累积的结果。2:制造产业的崩塌，房地产衰退加上小康家庭蜂拥搬到郊区，使市政收入大幅缩水。3:但于此同时，民政服务开销却随着城区不断扩大而日益增长。4:同美国许多不断挣扎市政府一样，底特律将要支付的退休金，补贴和薪水已远超过其所能承受的范围。

属类：时事政治-经济学人双语版-汽车城熄火抛锚(1)

1: His proudest achievement, however, was to start environmental awareness in China. 2: Where FON led, some 3,000 NGOs have followed. 3: His “Project Hope” sends out buses, painted with an antelope, to rural villages, to teach schoolchildren to treasure flowers, streams and woods. 4: His bird-spotting book encourages residents of Beijing to look out, through the still-smoggy air, for egrets and kestrels. 5: “Mr Liang’s heart, very sensitive, very soft,” wrote a sad Chinese blogger after his death. 6: All hearts should be so soft, he would have said, the better to plant green seeds in.

1:不过，中国由此萌发了环保意识让他最感自豪。2:在中国，以“自然之友”为先导，相继有约3,000个相应组织得以建立。3:他的“希望工程”乘上画着藏羚羊的巴士出发，来到乡村，告诉学童们要珍爱花草、溪流和树林。4:他的观鸟著作使北京居民透过仍旧烟雾弥漫的天空，找寻白鹭和红隼。5:他去世后，一位悲伤的中国博主写到“梁先生的心地非常细腻温柔”。6:如果梁先生在天有灵，他一定会说：所有人的心地都应该是温柔的，在温柔的心地上播撒绿色的种子是再好不过的了。

属类：时事政治-经济学人双语版-中国首位环保人士梁从诫

1: Globally, the damage from price increases to date is likely to be modest. 2: A rule of thumb is that a sustained 10% rise in the price of oil shaves around 0.2% off global growth in the first year, largely because dearer oil shifts income from oil consumers to producers, who tend to spend less. 3: For now any impact is almost certainly outweighed by improvements elsewhere, particularly in the easing of the euro crisis. 4: Despite dearer oil, the prospects for global growth are still better than they were at the beginning of the year.

1:从全球角度来看，油价上涨带来的危害可能要小点。2:根据经验，油价持续上升１０％在第一年会削掉全球增长的０．２％，这主要是因为油老大把收益从消费者转移到了生产者，而生产者倾向于消费少点。3:对于现在，任何影响几乎都超过了其他方面的改善，尤其在欧债危机缓解上面。4:撇开油老大，全球经济前景还是比年初时候的好一些。

属类：时事政治-经济学人双语版-加勒个油 The New Grease?

1: Depopulation of ghettos, rather than integration of them, has also contributed to the decline in segregation. 2: Thanks to better access to credit, there has been a movement out of the cities to the suburbs, particularly in sunnier states. 3: “The biggest drop in segregation over the past decade has been in places that had the most subprime lending”, notes Jacob Vidgor, the report’s co-author.

1:与社区融合不同，一些黑人社区的消亡，也成为社会隔离程度降低的因素之一。2:由于获得贷款变得更加容易，从城市向郊区迁移已经成为一种趋势，而这种趋势在美国阳光地带各州尤其明显。3: 雅各布?威格（Jacob Vidgor）是这份报告的作者之一，他说：“过去十年间，隔离程度降低最为明显的地方正是提供次级贷款最多的地方。”

属类：时事政治-经济学人双语版-梦想愈来愈近

1: Until recently he split his time between conservative Charlotte, North Carolina, and liberal Washington, DC. 2: His wife, Lisa Renstrom, used to manage hotels inherited from her father, a prosperous Republican businessman. Now she campaigns on climate change and backs Wealth for the Common Good, a group of rich people who back Occupy Wall Street. 3: Her father used to give his occupation as “capitalist”. 4: “I grew up believing that [capitalists] were making the world a better place,” she says. “The capitalism we have has left us with degraded infrastructure, threats to our health, and global warming.”

1:直到最近他一直都在两个地方生活：保守的北卡罗来纳州夏洛特市和开放的华盛顿特区。2: 他的妻子丽莎?恩斯曾经管理过继承自其父亲（也是一位成功的共和党商 人）的一家旅馆，现在她正为气候变化奔走呼号，参加一个名为“财富为大家”的支持华尔街运动的富人团体。 3:她的父亲曾称自己为一名“资本家”。4: “在我的成长历 程中，我一直相信资本家使这个世界更美好，”她说。“我们的资本主义留给我们的是破败的基础设施、对我们健康的威胁和全球变暖。”

属类：时事政治-经济学人双语版-最富1%们究竟何许人也

Don't let your stubborn nature get the better of you.

不要让倔强的个性掌控你。

属类：英汉句库-www.hjenglish.com-

Maybe, as a former Goldman Sachs chief executive, he did let his prejudice against Fuld get the better of him.

或许，作为高盛（GoldmanSachs）前首席执行官，他未能克制住自己对富尔德的偏见。

属类：英汉句库-www.ftchinese.com-

You don't have to let anxiety and depression the get the better of you.

你不必非得让焦虑和抑郁占了你的上风。

属类：中国大陆-bbs.chinadaily.com.cn-

But they need not have taken any extraordinary pains to get the better of me.

其实他们没有必要这样煞费苦心，占我上风。

属类：英汉句库-article.yeeyan.org-

We were driven out this very evening by a disappointment about a green goose, which he could not get the better of .

我们今晚就是因为看不惯才出来的。一只鹅做嫩了，不合他的意。

属类：综合句库--

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。

属类：英汉句库-www.ebigear.com-

Those of us who need structure can still be highly creative as long as we don't allow our fears to get the better of us.

也就是说，只要不让我们的害怕盖过我们自己，那么即使是高结构需求者，依旧能具备创造力。

属类：英汉句库-article.yeeyan.org-

That deal exposed the kind of faulty logic that allows a money-losing internet firm to get the better of a profitable media giant.

这场并购传播了错误的逻辑，即让亏钱的网络公司胜过了赚钱的媒体巨头。

属类：英汉句库-www.ecocn.org-