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

• 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；
• I don't trust that man. He tries to get the better of his customers.
  我不相信那个人，他想欺骗他的顾客。
• He made a mistake by allowing his anger to get the better of him.
  他的错误是没有能够克制住自己的愤怒。
• 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。
• 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。
• No one can get the better of the in an argument.
  辩论起来没人能辩过她。
• Since then, I have encountered situations that make me want to stand still but I've learned that I only hurt myself when I let those feelings get the better of me.
  从那以后我遇到过各种让我想停下的情况，可我已懂得让这种感觉战胜自己只会伤害到自己。
• 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。
• These verbs mean to get the better of an adversary.
  这些动词都表示战胜对手的意思。
• Hexing's unique "standardized production model" is duplicable, which enables the company to enter a new market agilely and get the better of its competitors.
  合兴独有的“标准化”生产模式具有可复制性，使得公司能快速切入新市场，提升竞争优势。