英汉类同成语的翻译-2

（5）fish in troubled waters混水摸鱼，乘人之危。

He's always been good at fishing in troubled waters; he made a lot of money by buying houses that were bombed in the war.他总是善于乘人之危大捞一把，他靠购买在战争中遭过轰炸的房屋而赚了大量的钱财。

（6）fish out of water离水之鱼，不得其所。

She felt like a fish of water at the evening party because she knew no one. 她在晚会上感到很局促，因为她一个人也不认识。

（7）gives someone an inch and he will take an ell得寸进尺。

If you give those people an inch，they'll take an ell；we told them they might use our side path to reach their garden，now they have fenced¹ in the path so that we cannot use it ourselves.那些人就是得寸进尺；我们对他们说，他们可以经过我们的小道进他们的花园，现在他们已在小道上修起了篱笆，以致我们自己也无法走这条小路过去了。

（8）go west上西天，死，失败。

Poor John was one of those who went west in the explosion².可怜的约翰是在这次爆炸中魂归西天的人物之一。

1 fenced   

v.围以栅栏( fence的过去式和过去分词 )；搪塞；支吾；回避

参考例句：

• His property is fenced with barbed wire. 他的房地产四周围有带刺的铁丝网。
• All employees can access the parts of the Intranet that are not ring-fenced. 所有雇员都可进入内联网中无使用权限制的部分。

2 explosion   

n.爆发，发出，爆炸

参考例句：

• The police arrived right at the moment of the explosion.警察就在爆炸的那个时候赶到了。
• The shock of the explosion was felt far away.爆炸引起的震动很远都可感觉到。