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。
• If you work hard, you will get the better of your classmates.
  如果你努力学习，你将会超过你的同学。
• 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'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。
• 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。
• Don't you never ever let your prejudice get the better of you.
  不要让自己受到偏见的影响。
• She didn't allow her emotions to get the better of her.
  她没有感情用事。
• 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。
• 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；
• 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。