迷你对话学地道口语第565期:以牙还牙,以眼还眼

　　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。
地道表达
fight fire with fire
1. 解词释义
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. 拓展例句
e.g. Kurosawa' s peasants decided¹ 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。
Ps：paper：论文 not... at all：根本就没有...... take it easy：不要着急
Ps 2：denounce的意思是“give information (to the authorities) against sb”，译为：向（当局）告发。固定的搭配模式是：denounce sb. to sb. as sth.。
The informer denounced him to the police as a terrorist. 检举人已向警方告发他是恐怖分子。

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adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。