get the better of

常見例句

That deal exposed the kind of faulty logic that allows a money-losing internet firm to get the better of a profitable media giant.
這場并購傳播了錯誤的邏輯，即讓虧錢的網絡公司勝過了賺錢的媒體巨頭。
It is easy to blame investors for blindly trusting the agencies; many let greed or naivety get the better of them.
指責投資者盲目信任評級機構很容易，許多人被貪婪或天真所打敗。
The 'auld enemy' to the north, Scotland, were actually the first team to get the better of England at Wembley, which they did the second time the two sides met there in 1928.
事實上，北部的老對手蘇格蘭是第一支在溫布利球場戰(zhàn)勝英格蘭的隊伍，那是1928年兩隊的在這座球場的第二次交鋒，留下了一個難堪的比分，5：1。

To get a better sense of the modern name game, we stopped some families out on the National Mall here in Washington,D.C.
Plato wrote the dialogues as a kind of learning device, as a tool to help the reader get better at doing philosophy.
柏拉圖寫下這些對話錄,是為了將其作為一種助學方法,作為一種幫助讀者,更好的掌握哲學的工具
耶魯公開課 - 死亡課程節(jié)選
I'm much better having an exception get handled at the time of input than to let that prop -- that value rather propagate through a whole bunch of code until eventually it hits an error 17 calls later, and you have no clue where it came from.
不是我期望的格式,這時我最好有一個異常處理,而不是讓其傳下去,這個值傳到代碼的整個分支,最終會導致一個錯誤17調用的發(fā)生，并且你不知道這個錯誤是哪里來的。
麻省理工公開課 - 計算機科學及編程導論課程節(jié)選

First, women in charge of such a crucial negotiation would not let testosterone get the better of them.
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From this vantage point, Clinton seemed to get the better of the exchange on health care, Obama on Iraq.
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