英語口語練習小對話 第565期:以牙還牙,以眼還眼
Subject:You can fight fire with fire.
迷你對話
A: Jim denounce me to the teacher for copying other’s paper. But I did not copy at tall.
Jim想老師告發我,說我的論文是抄襲的,但是根本就不是的。
B: Take it easy. You can fight fire with fire.
不要着急,你可以以其人之道還置其人之身。
1. 解釋
我們漢語中有句話時“以牙還牙,以眼還眼。”在英文中則是“to fight fire with fire”。字面意思是“用火來攻火”,比喻爲“用別人對待你的方式來對待他”,即“以其人之道還治其人之身”。
2. 例句
e.g. Kurosawa' s peasants decided to fight fire with fire.
黑澤明電影中的農民決定以其之道還治其身。
we had fought fire with fire, we would have suffered a great many casualties.
如果硬鬥硬,我們傷亡會很大。