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英语口语练习小对话第565期:以牙还牙,以眼还眼

2014-04-21来源:和谐英语

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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。

1. 解释

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. 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。