迷你對話學地道口語第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。

地道表達

fight fire with fire

1. 解詞釋義

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. 拓展例句

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。

Ps：paper：論文 not... at all：根本就沒有...... take it easy：不要着急

Ps 2：denounce的意思是“give information (to the authorities) against sb”，譯爲：向（當局）告發。固定的搭配模式是：denounce sb. to sb. as sth.。

The informer denounced him to the police as a terrorist. 檢舉人已向警方告發他是恐怖分子。